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Mr. Griffin, i had underestimated you sir. now if the boys can just hold on for the remaining 28 minutes...

[CrewToon]

The lads hold on and keep their UEFA Cup hopes alive.

[greenie]

Yeah! Well, YEAH!

From the sounds of things they really took it to Juve.

[Bellars183]

Get up the Geordies, great to see my hometown club, showing their class. Lets see them win their remaining two games and qualify for the last 16.
Griffin I salute you, Shearer you are god, as for the rest, top effort lads!
Howay the lads!

[rokstedy]

Just saw the highlight of Griffin's goal on uefa.com and what a bizarre goal it was, but it gave the lads the points, so I'll take it. Plus I can stick it to my Juve buddy.

[sinner78]

If you beat kiev next week you're right back in the hunt for a place in the next round...
Dont give up just yet...
it aint over ....

[Toony]

YES YES YES !

This is the best ive seen them scrap for a long long time...

Short on technichal wizardry , but throught sheer guts & determination , we got there.....Even Robert was getting stuck in & tackling .... Bit of an uneasy start for both harper & Bramble , but they settled down & managed to keep Juve at bay for most of the match...


Now all we hav to do is beat both Kiev & feyenoord to have a good chance of qualifying for the next round.....

HOWAY THE LADS!

[CrewToon]

Our hero!

[Wide Boy]

Originally posted by CrewToon
The lads hold on and keep their UEFA Cup hopes alive.

I am much more optimistic, CT. If we beat Kiev and Feyenoord do not win in Turin then we will be in with a good shout for the second round.

I reckon that if Feyenoord draw with Juve we will have to win in Rotterdam, but if Juve beat Feyenoord a draw will be enough, provided that we beat Kiev by more than two goals and Juve do no worse than draw with Kiev. (Simple, isn't it?)

Last night really was a good performance - everyone played well (I suppose you could be hyper-critical of Robert).

After a few early misunderstandings Harper sorted himself out and Bramble really did look a good defender.

There was of course a lot of luck about the goal and we survived the hit bar. It was nice to see us get the luck after having none against Feyenoord or in Turin.

[CrewToon]

Wide,

The reason for the UEFA Cup comment: It means the lads would still get lots of Euros to pass on to those on the club who are truly are worthy - Mssrs. Hall and Shepherd.