Shay Given Returning

I think its pretty much guaranteed that Shay Given will come back to St James and be totally inspired into a 10 out of 10, out of his skin performance on Sunday.

So do you reckon the fans should give him a hostile reception to hopefully put him off?

Whats the point being gracious to him if its just going to make him play better and stop us from scoring?

....we can always be nice afterwards...

 

I would be amazed if he got anything else other than cheers.

He was amazing for us for a decade.

I'm quite happy that we have a new goalkeeping hero in the making with Tim Krul - Shay Given is a Toon legend and should be treated thus.

 

don't boo him, lets be honest Demba is unstoppable anyway. Good luck Shay, you will need it

 

I wont be booing him but some will. Hopefully there will be nothing to bad aimed at him to lower his opinion of the club that he did so well for.

 

he plays for the worst fans in the world so cant have that low opinion of us

 

Creating a pantomime atmosphere wont be too harsh though will it....we do it for every other ex-player.

Cheer his name before the game....his first touch, boooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

Be nice to him, he might look to do us a favour

 

A legend for us. Absolute legend. Great keeper in his time with us and an ever present till his last 1-2 years. Shame he left in jan but he's nothing but good words for us and our club and I'll always have a soft spot for him. As for the pantomine atmosphere cheering before first touch booo yeah why not? He'll understand

 

Hope no one boos him, although remember in the last match he put in a great save against cabaye.

 

Got to give him a good reception we would have gone down a good 5 years earlier.

 

Can't see any real fans booing Shay, we all remember him as a great keeper and I for one wouldn't dream of booing him.

 

Anyone who boo's him, in my opinion, is an idiot. He did great for us in his time here and left to get silverware which never happened, but he was a great servant to the club and deserves applause, rather than boo's.

 

No boos - give him a good reception - he deserves it. A goal keeping coach in the future ?

 

If I remember rightly, at Villa Park in September, Given defended the goal at our end in the second half. He came out early for the second half and we all sang 'There's only one Shay Given' whilst he applauded us, we then boo'ed every touch.

 

Doing it that way would probably give him a chuckle but doing it for real in an unfriendly way would go against the grain for almost all of us.

 

Just read Shay Given on twitter saying 'Nice to be back in the Toon. Looking forward to the game 2morra @St James Park, nice to know he makes a point of proving that he refers to the ground as its rightful name St James Park and not whatever name Mike Ashley calls it. Hope he does well as long as Newcastle win tomorrow.

 

Hope he gets a good reception

 

Think he will, though it does worry me that some of the idiot brigade will boo him.

 

Theres going to be a few idiots, especially the young 12-13 year olds that dont really remember him.

 

He'll get a good reception from the true Toon fans who remember what he did for us. Anybody booing will be drowned out by those applauding and cheering.