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Mackem res (h) Premier Reserve League North
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Date: Monday
3rd April 2006, 7pm Venue: Kingston
Park |
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Newcastle United |
3 - 2 | mackems |
| Half time: | 2 - 1 | |
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| Score Sheet: | ||
Finnigan (36)
Carroll (38)
Smylie (58) |
Miller (3)
Le Tallec (79) |
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| Teams | ||
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Harper Baxter Cave Edgar Huntington Farman Brittain Gate O'Brien Finnigan Smylie |
Murphy |
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| Substitutes: | ||
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Carroll for Farman
(31) Marshall for Brittain (63) Atkin for Cave (90) |
Hartley for Graham (55) K.Smith for Dennehy (70) |
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| Subs not used: | ||
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Cook Shanks |
Carson Martin |
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| Bookings: | ||
| None | Bassila | |
| Dismissals: | ||
| None | Bassila (2nd yellow) | |
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| Referee: tbc | ||
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Attendance: 992. The small band of travellers from mackemland took plenty of stick from the younger element of the home support - their inability to read the Metro timetable seeing them arrive after their side's opening goal..... Special mention to the Toon fan who turned up with a "Murray In" banner, while mackem caretaker Kevin Ball endured some taunts in the second half with good grace, as he came pitchside to watch his rabble. |
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Goals |
3mins Miller
deflected shot 0-1
36mins Finnigan header 1-1
38mins Carroll
header 2-1
Half time: Newcastle 2 mackems
1
58mins Smylie
shot 3-1
79mins Le Tallec shot 3-2
Full time: Newcastle 3 mackems
2
We Said |
Tommy Craig said:
"The challenge is certainly there and to be honest nobody was really aware that we were unbeaten at home until recently.
"Now it has come to people's attention, it adds more pressure to the players and that is something extra they have to deal with. But if they can remain unbeaten this season it would be a real feather in their hat.
"It was a good game to watch and we overcame a more experienced side by working hard but also playing some good football on a bad pitch. At times we had to use the long ball but there was some good passing as well and that is something that is near and dear to my heart.
"Everybody knew they had done well against Sunderland and I told them that.
"I am always quick to tell them when they have done badly but also when we do well.
"If we finished the season unbeaten then won the Northumberland Senior Cup, it would be a big bonus for us."
Waffle |
Newcastle's second string emulated the first team and Academy side on Monday night, winning on Tyneside to complete a home clean sweep against the red and whites.
However they had to come from a goal down to maintain their season-long unbeaten record at Kingston Park, after the visitors grabbed a fortuitous early lead.
There were barely three minutes on the clock when midfielder Tommy Miller's shot looped over his fellow Easington native Steve Harper in the home goal - thanks in part to a hefty deflection from the boot of United's David Edgar.
With the pitch having cut up badly as a consequence of the weekend's Falcons rugby match, we struggled to get into the game - Edgar making a timely intervention to deny Billy Dennehy on seven minutes.
The appearance of Academy forward Andy Carroll on the field just after the half hour though boosted us and the change was to pay an immediate dividend.
We got back on level terms on 36 minutes when Alan O'Brien found space on the left flank to send over a fine cross that was asking to be headed - Carl Finnigan obliging to net his 13th of the season.
And
two minutes later Newcastle were in front, Daryl Smylie shooting from inside the
box only for shot to graze the crossbar and fall for O'Brien.
The winger again provided the perfect cross, this time Andy Carroll getting in
front of a defender to head home for his first-ever goal at reserve team level.
With the mackem defence looking suspect every time we drove forward, more goals
looked on the cards - Carroll somehow putting his close-range effort over the
bar on 42 minutes, before O'Brien miscued a header from Martin Brittain's cross
with a minute remaining.
A rare
counter-attack on the stroke of half-time almost paid dividends for the visitors
though, Neil Collins' shot from the edge of the box skimming off the top of the
bar.
Things started slowly in the second half, with little of note before we extended
our lead just before the hour mark.
There may have been the hint of a deflection, but there was no doubting that it
was Daryl Smylie's shot from distance that flew past mackem 'keeper Joe Murphy.
That was the third successive home game that the Northern Ireland U21
international midfielder has found the target and he was mobbed by his jubilant
team mates.
Two goals to the good and with the mackems resorting to their tried and tested
technique of kicking people, the game gradually tailed off - but not before
referee Haywood played his part.
A tackle from Christian Bassila more suited to the oval ball game saw him
curtail Carl Finnigan's run at goal on 75 minutes, but the official incurred the
wrath of the crowd by showing only a yellow card.
However justice was done with a minute of normal time remaining, when the same
lumbering Gallic carthorse impeded Finnigan again - and received a second yellow
for his trouble.
By then the mackems had pulled one goal back, when Liverpool loanee Anthony Le
Tallec took a knockdown from Collins to steer a curling shot past Harper from
just inside the box with eleven minutes to play.
They never looked remotely like snatching a point from this game though - and
emulating our last-gasp leveller in the corresponding game at Durham last year.
Biffa