Nolan's return to the Reebok

[FaninOz]

Will it be a happy return or one that he will hope to forget??? I hope that its the latter as we should be able to beat Newcastle with the way that we have played in recent games. They are su unpredictable though and can beat anyone on their day, so will it be Jekyll or Hyde that turns up next weekend to play us???

Interesting that they are resting Carroll from the England games just so that he will be available to play against us!!!

[hisroyalgingerness]

Is it his first time back as well? Guessing he will get a decent reception.

This is a game that no matter what your ambitions are in the Premier League you have to win. A newly promoted team, at home, with two key players missing.

Would be nice for this to be our first clean sheet since Fulham, but 3 points must be the only priority in this

[ebby]

obviously hope it's unhappy for him in the sense that we win but i will giving him a good cheer, put a good few years hard work and quality at this club and deserves a good reception for that

[Eire_Trotter]

obviously hope it's unhappy for him in the sense that we win but i will giving him a good cheer, put a good few years hard work and quality at this club and deserves a good reception for that

Agree with this. Want us to win but would never boo KN as he was a great servant to us.

Funny story actually.

The year Nolan signed for Newcastle my friends dad met him in newcastle airport and asked him why he left Bolton for Newcastle and he replied, and I quote " I thought Bolton would be relegated and I didn't wanna be playing championship football".

Funny that this happened in June when Newcastle were already relegated .

[hisroyalgingerness]

It was good business for all parties really. Good servant, good times and a good price.

Interestingly Big Sam was pundit at one of their games recently and when asked to comment on Nolan pointedly said "great player in the box, as good as any, average outside it"

[TANGODANCER]

obviously hope it's unhappy for him in the sense that we win but i will giving him a good cheer, put a good few years hard work and quality at this club and deserves a good reception for that

Agree with this. Want us to win but would never boo KN as he was a great servant to us.
Funny story actually.
The year Nolan signed for Newcastle my friends dad met him in newcastle airport and asked him why he left Bolton for Newcastle and he replied, and I quote " I thought Bolton would be relegated and I didn't wanna be playing championship football".
Funny that this happened in June when Newcastle were already relegated .

Strange. Must have been taking the mick. The story goes that he knew nothing about the transfer till it came off. He was always happy at Bolton and one of the best clubmen we had.

[FaninOz]

obviously hope it's unhappy for him in the sense that we win but i will giving him a good cheer, put a good few years hard work and quality at this club and deserves a good reception for that

Agree with this. Want us to win but would never boo KN as he was a great servant to us.
Funny story actually.
The year Nolan signed for Newcastle my friends dad met him in newcastle airport and asked him why he left Bolton for Newcastle and he replied, and I quote " I thought Bolton would be relegated and I didn't wanna be playing championship football".
Funny that this happened in June when Newcastle were already relegated .

Strange. Must have been taking the mick. The story goes that he knew nothing about the transfer till it came off. He was always happy at Bolton and one of the best clubmen we had.

Does that make him worth booing then? I doubt it somehow! Unless he scores a hattrick that is!

[William the White]

I'll welcome him back.

Newcastle have one of the very best away records in the League so far this season, and have scored a lot of goals. It will be a tough game and Kevin will be up for it.

Looking forward to it.

[seanworth]

All should welcome him back with open arms, mind you he should still be on the losing end which is more important.

[Eire_Trotter]

obviously hope it's unhappy for him in the sense that we win but i will giving him a good cheer, put a good few years hard work and quality at this club and deserves a good reception for that

Agree with this. Want us to win but would never boo KN as he was a great servant to us.
Funny story actually.
The year Nolan signed for Newcastle my friends dad met him in newcastle airport and asked him why he left Bolton for Newcastle and he replied, and I quote " I thought Bolton would be relegated and I didn't wanna be playing championship football".
Funny that this happened in June when Newcastle were already relegated .

Strange. Must have been taking the mick. The story goes that he knew nothing about the transfer till it came off. He was always happy at Bolton and one of the best clubmen we had.

I thought this awel but I'm just giving the story I was told.

[TKIZ!]

I never wanted Nobby to go, gutted he went to the Toon and will welcome him back but hopefully he'll be on the losing side.

[Bruce Rioja]

It was good business for all parties really. Good servant, good times and a good price.

[bobo the clown]

It was good business for all parties really. Good servant, good times and a good price.

Ditto.

Before he left, during that long, quite barren spell, I said that I felt a move might do him, us and any new club well & it seems that this happened.

We'll never know why, maybe he tried too hard, but he had 18-24 months when it just didn't work for him ... & so the team.

He's rekindled his career & this is excellent.

He never stopped trying, never complained, never showed it was getting to him. I'm pleased it's turned around. I will applaud him on ... & off ... & hope he has an absolute stinker.

[BWFC_Insane]

All this "this is a game we must win stuff" is a bit OTT. Toon are good away from home. Very good in fact. They won at Everton for example.

They will be tough opponents as will Blackpool.

On paper before the season started you'd be looking at 6 from these two but with how its gone and how well we've started and how well those two have started 4 would be very decent. Even 3 would put us in a strong position.

[LeeRoyBrown]

obviously hope it's unhappy for him in the sense that we win but i will giving him a good cheer, put a good few years hard work and quality at this club and deserves a good reception for that

Agree with this. Want us to win but would never boo KN as he was a great servant to us.

Funny story actually.

The year Nolan signed for Newcastle my friends dad met him in newcastle airport and asked him why he left Bolton for Newcastle and he replied, and I quote " I thought Bolton would be relegated and I didn't wanna be playing championship football".

Funny that this happened in June when Newcastle were already relegated .

Sounds like Nolans sense of humour coming through, that does.

[hisroyalgingerness]

All this "this is a game we must win stuff" is a bit OTT. Toon are good away from home. Very good in fact. They won at Everton for example.

They will be tough opponents as will Blackpool.

On paper before the season started you'd be looking at 6 from these two but with how its gone and how well we've started and how well those two have started 4 would be very decent. Even 3 would put us in a strong position.

Even Derby County's record points low would have included a banked 3 points at home against these boys. They're missing Barton, who has been the best player arguably, so I'm told. They might be missing Carroll too.

We're the home team, we've top-half of the table ambitions. You are allowed to expect a win here.

[BWFC_Insane]

All this "this is a game we must win stuff" is a bit OTT. Toon are good away from home. Very good in fact. They won at Everton for example.

They will be tough opponents as will Blackpool.

On paper before the season started you'd be looking at 6 from these two but with how its gone and how well we've started and how well those two have started 4 would be very decent. Even 3 would put us in a strong position.

Even Derby County's record points low would have included a banked 3 points at home against these boys. They're missing Barton, who has been the best player arguably, so I'm told. They might be missing Carroll too.

We're the home team, we've top-half of the table ambitions. You are allowed to expect a win here.

Think that is possibly the most irrelvant thing I've heard. Different side, different manager (wonder why he never made it at a big club? go and watch that game), different era even.

I think we'll go in looking to win and so we should. But I think its a tough game and with Nolan returning who knows?

I'll take 4 from the next 2 and be very very happy. 6 would be dreamland. I know what you're saying but we have a little leeway given our results to date.

[hisroyalgingerness]

Tut. You are a humourless nice person at times

[Lord Kangana]

Toon and Blackpool are the kind of games we've fecked up in the past. Both quite decent sides. I'd be ecstatic with 4 points, not displeased with 3.

Nolan deserves a good reception. Though I hope he has a shit game.

[Wandering Willy]

Nolan has made a good start to the season in terms of goals scored. Most of the goals have come from poaching in the box and in games where he has been played directly behind Carrol. The rest of his play is poor. For some reason Newcastle have since dropped him further back and have played somone else behind/with Carrol and Nolan is much less effective. It's also worth noting that 5 of his goals have come in 2 games, Villa and Sunderland, both of whom failed to show up for their games at St. James.

If we keep this game tight, and pick him up in the box he'll give us no problem - Newcastle are good in an open game. Should they play him deeper, as in recent games, I suspect we'll see the Nolan we watched 2 years ago. He'll get nothing out of our midfield.

I do not subscribe to this misty eyed reminiscence of Nolan. He was abjectly shite for at least the last 2 1/2 years with us, during which he was paid many millions of pounds as a "servant"'.

I will, however, welcome his return to the Reebok, though I suspect for different reasons to others. I have nothing personal against him - I would just rather see him on the other side.