Location – The Valley   Kick Off – 1.30pm   Date – Sunday 18th of March 2006   Tickets - On General Sale
Coverage – BBC Radio Newcastle 95.4FM  Referee – Dermot Gallagher.

After Thursday’s complete debacle it seems that our season has ground to an unscheduled halt. We are of course still fighting for a modicum of pride in the league with the possibility of another summer of Intertoo Bob football heading our way if we’re very lucky. It’s time to move on a focus on finish as high up the league as possible.

After the end to end thriller.. Ahem.. that revealed a nil, nil draw at SJP we cannot afford any more poor performances this season if we have any aspirations. We take with us on a bleary eyed Sunday morning to the big smoke an unenviable statistic that we haven’t scored in he premiership in over 200 minutes of football and the last goal we scored was a penalty from Nobby against the bin-dippers. Charlton are not bringing the most attractive football to the table on Sunday but as the club are still six points away from safety they will be looking to us to at the very least continue our poor run of not scoring. We must walk into this game with renewed passion and confidence or we will see an unwanted slide down the premiership that will see us not only lacking in support and money next season but also an excuse from the fat fella at the top for not spending big during the summer.

So without further ado it’s time to stand up and be counted Mr Roeder… you have two choices of standing proud and shoulder to shoulder with the players and fight for Europe or just make the fat controllers summer a lot easier when it comes to releasing funds.. Like the fella of, of Blind Date “Glenn the choice is yours”

Last Season:

Home – (D) 0 – 0

Away – (L) 1 – 3 (D Bent, Boothroyd & Bowyer OG) (Parker)

This Season:

Home - 0 – 0

Likely Squads:

Addicks - Carson, Sankofa, El Karkouri, Fortune, Young, Ambrose, Holland, Song, Thomas, Rommedahl, Hasselbaink, Zheng-Zhi, D Bent, M Bent, Randolph, Faye, Lisbie.

Man to Watch – Ambrose – This ex-Toon will have plenty to prove.

Fitness News – Reid, Thatcher & Hassailbaink out and there is a late fitness test for D Bent.

NUFC - Given, Harper, Solano, Edgar, Taylor, Bramble, Onyewu, Moore, Huntington, Parker, Milner, Duff, Emre, N'Zogbia, Pattison, Troisi, Martins, Dyer, Sibierski, Luque, Carroll, LuaLua.

Man to Watch – Dyer – Needs a good shift to put Thursday behind him.

Fitness News – Ramage, Owen, Ameobi, Butt – Banned, Babayoyo, Carr

Late Fitness Tests – Emre & Duff

”Reasons to be Cheerful” – The B&Q sales have started & Roeder has finally realize our defence just isn’t good enough. And maybe he isn’t either.

Keep On, Keepin’ On …

Ewan Stephenson