Come on chowder, tell your lads to pull their fingers out and give us a game! 
Meh, we’re just toying with you, wait until next season pal then ask the same question.
please God , please
Well, first game today was indicative of the relative abilities of the two teams. WHAT, I ask, are City paying that Brazilian so much for???
The second game displayed a comprehensive dismissal of a team that plays attractive football, but doesn’t quite get the idea that sticking the ball in the back of the net is the ultimate goal, something Chelsea generally understands (and failed to demonstrate any comprehension of during the tie with Barça). That keeper for Arsenal doesn’t exactly impress me, either.
Bad news: Newcastle now have a decent chance of staying up.
Good news: Boro have to be going down. Right?!
The only thing that’s ever happened for Boro that I liked was when the season ticket holder threw his ticket book at Southgate or someone. I hate their uniform, I hate their stadium, I hate their sponsors, and I hate that they’re game-raising bastards half the time they play United.
I know a Newcastle fan who’s a bit giddy, but I warned him that Hull may have a chance against United in 2 weeks. If United get their needed 4 points from Wigan and Arsenal, then with the CL Final just 3 days after the United-Hull match, we might see this line-up:
Kusczak
Neville-Evans-young player-O’Shea
Park-Fletcher-Gibson-Nani
Wellbeck-Macheda
That should be enough for United to win, but I’ll laugh if that line-up gives Hull 3 points and sends Newcastle down (I’d like them to pop right back up, but hopefully it’d be a lesson to their crazy management).
more good news for Hull, they play Bolton next, and we’re playing badly right now, and have nothing much to play for. It ain’t over yet…
Just a few more games to go and it’s all over. 
Then what have we got?
Boring cricket,faggotty tennis, horse racing and other assorted shite sports.
Roll on August 
You forgot golf, the one redeeming sport of the summer.
To which, thankfully, you Brits offer a truly worthwhile contribution in July, I might add…
Golf was covered in other assorted shite sports 
No, no, no. Golf is not able to be covered by a generic four-letter word term. Golf is it’s OWN four-letter word!!!
Who was it that said “Golf is a good walk, ruined?”
He was right whoever it was.
Grown men (and women) trying to hit a ball into a little hole thousands of yards away using an assortment of sticks.
And doing the same for 18 more little holes, madness I tell you, madness.
Mind you I got a hole in one once…on the crazy golf in Benidorm, Spain
I grew up on a farm and spent way, way too much time in my youth chasing cows around pastures. I see no point whatsoever in chasing little white balls around pastures - no challenge if there aren’t cowpies to avoid. Or cranky bulls. Man, there’s something that would make golf interesting.
Newcastle’s likely staying up and Barton’s likely getting canned. Not sure which of those make me giggle more.
Was hoping your boys would do better in the derby, chowder. I’m disappointed in you! You didn’t watch hard enough. Or something.
What do you expect from a game invented by the Scots? :smack: :rolleyes:
A good walk spoiled. Mark Twain.
Really?
I guess there’s no accounting for taste
Ok, so now comes the real question: Which of the two go down: Hull or Newcastle?
My money is that Hull go down. They’ve been awful since they woke up and realized what league they were playing in. And it appears that Newcastle just woke up and realized what league they were NOT going to be playing in. :eek:
The race for the bottom is always more interesting, isn’t it? Sunderland’s last two matches are against Pompey and Chelsea, both of which they’ll likely lose. Newcastle have Fulham and Villa; Hull have Bolton and ManU; Boro have West Ham and Villa; and West Brom have Liverpool and Blackburn.
If my Sunderland prediction is correct (which it probably won’t be, but I think we’ve already established my lack of psychic abilities earlier in this thread) and Newcastle and Hull both manage to pull off a win, Sunderland’s going to drop instead.
Will be an interesting couple of weeks.
I’ll agree with you there chique the ‘race’ for the bottom is allus very interesting.
Unless of course your own team is involved in the race.
Who’s going down?
It’s very difficult to tell with so many teams fighting to escape the dreaded drop, my money’s on
HULL…what DSY said
WBA
NEWCASTLE…they may have woken up but I feel they left it to long
So tell me, Chowder, how 'Boro are going to manage to get ahead of Newcastle?
Have a play around with the BBC’s table predictor. All good fun.
I think Boro and West Brom are as good as gone; both need at least four points (or three and a bucketload of goals) to overhaul Newcastle thanks to their crappy goal difference. That means WBA need at least a point out of Liverpool and to beat Blackburn, while Boro have to beat at least one of Villa and West Ham and draw with the other. I don’t see either scenario happening, and that’s even with the assumption that Newcastle lose both their last matches.
I reckon Hull have the best chance to rescue themselves with their match against Bolton. It’s very hard to see Newcastle getting more than a couple of points out of Villa and Fulham, so a win there would, I think, see them safe. Even a draw might do if Newcastle revert to type.
But really, if I were a betting man I’d say that none of the bottom four are going to get any more points, and that WBA, Boro and Hull are going down.
I keep seeing here and elsewhere this feeling that Newcastle will struggle to get a point against Fulham, and I keep thinking “does not compute.” It’s funny how wild the teams that have been anywhere from 5th to 17th the last few years just fly up and down the table. Never before would I have thought Fulham would be a really difficult match for Newcastle.
For those who say the bottom’s always more exciting than the race at the top, there’s a great exception going on in Germany. Four teams are between 61 and 63 points with 2 to play. I don’t get a channel to watch any Bundesliga, but it’s got to be so much fun for all involved to watch that race.