IF Huddersfield won both and Newcastle lost to Preston, they'd still be 1 point (effectively 2) behind them.
That late Derby goal has saved Newcastle's top 2 finish IMO.
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Huddersfield to catch Newcastle
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IF Huddersfield won both and Newcastle lost to Preston, they'd still be 1 point (effectively 2) behind them.
That late Derby goal has saved Newcastle's top 2 finish IMO.
Huddersfield is one of my all time favourite away days. Fantastic for pubs and big noisy away end.
Bold Seagull
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I stand to be corrected, but I don't think Newcastle have ever gone straight back down after a promotion in their history? Their recent cycle is go down, rebuild, go up, get momentum and feel good factor, spend money on some quality players, do well for a while, start sacking managers, selling players without replacing.
i.e. they won the Championship with 102 pts in 2010. Their next PL finishes were 12th, 5th, before the slide started to 16th, 10th, 15th, relegation.
They've been out of the top flight for just 5 years of the last 30 years. I think there is every likelihood there is more chance of them staying up than Huddersfield (or dare I say it, us even...).
Oh yes, you are right. I forgot Derby equalised
Still, it's not over yet, and if those games go Huddersfield's way it could be a tight finish.
RandyWanger
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Horton's halftime iceberg
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This "great away day" argument is a poor one - it will affect about 1,000 of us, 1,500 tops and probably about 700 if we end up playing them on a Monday night. That said, I honestly believe Newcastle are no more likely to stay up than Huddersfield should both go up. Of course Newcastle are a bigger club, but f*king things up is in their DNA.
And as for who finishes second, I just think it would be HILARIO if they Huddersfield in. I don't really have anything against Wagner but I do remember that Newcastle muppet who wrote that open letter on Twitter "apologising" for being too good for the rest of the league. Here it is:
http://www.themag.co.uk/2016/11/ope...-not-rubbish-newcastle-fans-newcastle-united/
No apology needed. Not to us anyway, and hopefully not to Huddersfield either.
Sort of somehow sums up their arogance in a article I assume is trying to be witty - big club mentallity without the sucess
Newcastle 4 Preston 1..............end of thread?
I sincerely hope not.
Why's that?
Well done to Newcastle.
Tonight Huddersfield have their infamous game in hand which had been a lingering worry for an eternity. Now I couldn't care less about it
Am I right in thinking that this was postponed due to Hudds' FA cup run? If they'd played it a month earlier they could have put a lot more pressure on us and NUFC....thankfully we lost to Lincoln!
To lose to the other Massive in the play offs who go on to lose at Wembley again this time to Tinpot or Fulham .
BBassic
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Just interactions I had with some of the fans at the start of the season saying they'd walk the league and have it sown up by March.
It only took them ONE set of fixtures more than us
Yep but I honestly never expected us to be at the top end of the table, let alone having the chance to win it. That we did it before them makes it even funnier for me.
Why does our success impact yours, when yours is likely to outshine ours? It's like Usain Bolt being happy that Justin Gatlin finished 2nd outside his PB, rather than being happy he won the Gold.
Bold Seagull
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It doesn't feel like it due to the tension, but haven't both sides 'walked' to promotion with 3 games to spare? That is how history will look at it I think. The gap between 2nd and 3rd will be what people remember.
Newcastle have a huge fanbase, of course there will be fans saying all sorts of things, I spoke to loads who said they'd mess it up because that is what they do.
BBassic
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Of course it doesn't. It's just something I've found funny over the course of the season. Much like the utter hilarity of Leeds fans chanting that we'd f**k it up only to then find themselves in 7th.
It's not intended as a dig, just something that tickled me.