Ryan Taylor Hopes His Toon Mates Have Off Day

Last updated : 09 June 2012 By Footy Mad - Editor

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Ryan Taylor: I'm looking forward to Euro 2012 to be honest with having two boys in the first game from Newcastle.

"Hopefully they both have bad games. But I'm looking forward to it.

"We are a very close bunch of lads at Newcastle - the spirit is great.

"We go out for meals. We go paint balling. We play golf together.

"It's not just we go into training and we go our separate ways. We have a lot of days we spend together.

"I think that helps. It also helps to have a good manager and a good bunch of staff behind them.

"I'd like a few new players to come in just to help boost the squad for Europe.

"You're playing every Thursday to Sunday. You're flying from different countries during the week and it can take it's toll on you.

"So hopefully we can get a few in to get the squad a bit bigger."

EURO 2012

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GROUP STAGES

 Friday June 8 

Poland 1 Greece 1
POLAND: Szczesny, Piszczek, Wasilewski, Perquis, Boenisch, Murawski, Polanski, Blaszczykowski, Obraniak, Rybus (Tyton 69), Lewandowski.
Goal: Lewandowski 17.
GREECE: Chalkias, Torosidis, Papastathopoulos, Avraam Papadopoulos (Kyriakos Papadopoulos 36), Holebas, Maniatis, Katsouranis, Karagounis, Ninis (Salpingidis 46), Gekas (Fortounis 68), Samaras.
Goal: Salpingidis 51.

Russia 4 Czech Republic 1
RUSSIA: Malafeev, Aniukov, Berezutsky, Ignashevich, Zhirkov, Shirokov, Denisov, Zyryanov, Dzagoev (Kokorin 84), Kerzhakov (Pavlyuchenko 73), Arshavin.
Goals: Dzagoev 15, Shirokov 24, Dzagoev 79, Pavlyuchenko 82.
CZECH REP: Cech, Gebre Selassie, Hubnik, Sivok, Kadlec, Plasil, Jiracek (Petrzela 75), Pilar, Rosicky, Rezek (Hubschman 46), Baros (Lafata 85).
Goal: Pilar 52.

 Saturday June 9
Kharkiv, Group B: Holland v Denmark (1700)
Lviv, Group B: Germany v Portugal (1945)

 Sunday June 10
Gdansk, Group C: Spain v Italy (1700)
Poznan, Group C: Republic of Ireland v Croatia (1945)

 Monday June 11
Donetsk, Group D: France v England (1700)
Kiev, Group D: Ukraine v Sweden (1945)

 Tuesday June 12
Wroclaw, Group A: Greece v Czech Republic (1700)
Warsaw, Group A: Poland v Russia (1945)

 Wednesday June 13
Lviv, Group B: Denmark v Portugal (1700)
Kharkiv, Group B: Holland v Germany (1945)

 Thursday June 14
Poznan, Group C: Italy v Croatia (1700)
Gdansk, Group C: Spain v Republic of Ireland (1945)

 Friday June 15
Donetsk, Group D: Ukraine v France (1700)
Kiev, Group D: Sweden v England (1945)

 Saturday June 16
Wroclaw, Group A: Czech Republic v Poland (1945)
Warsaw, Group A: Greece v Russia (1945)

 Sunday June 17
Kharkiv, Group B: Portugal v Holland (1945)
Lviv, Group B: Denmark v Germany (1945)

 Monday June 18
Gdansk, Group C: Croatia v Spain (1945)
Poznan, Group C: Italy v Republic of Ireland (1945)

 Tuesday June 19
Donetsk, Group D: England v Ukraine (1945)
Kiev, Group D: Sweden v France (1945)

 QUARTER-FINALS

 Thursday June 21
Warsaw, QF1: Winner A v Runner-up B (1945)

 Friday June 22
Gdansk, QF2: Winner B v Runner-up A (1945)

 Saturday June 23
Donetsk, QF3: Winner C v Runner-up D (1945)

 Sunday June 24
Kiev, QF4: Winner D v Runner-up C (1945)

 SEMI-FINALS

 Wednesday June 27
Donetsk, SF1: Winner QF1 v Winner QF3 (1945)

 Thursday June 28
Warsaw, SF2: Winner QF2 v Winner QF4 (1945)

 FINAL

 Sunday July 1
Kiev: Winner SF1 v Winner SF2 (1945)