Varadi

Spot on. Just chucked a bit in the pot too, absolutely top forum.

One guess for who the 1 was too.

From Lee Ryder's ratings: Chancel MBEMBA 6 Started off quite well at left-back but is clearly much more effective in the middle and ended the game frustrated after booking for a bad foul. Was he even at the game??

Problem being good players are less likely to want to play for a club deep in relegation trouble while selling clubs know they have us by the balls. Shame there's just no way any of this could've been predicted....

Aye, it's not a difficult concept, he wasn't a bad signing in isolation, it was the fact he was our only striker signing that's the problem.

If we had paid the asking price, offered him decent wages and the number 9 I'm pretty sure we could've signed Austin in the summer. That 15 million will look like peanuts if we go down.

Worryingly Shola was actually scoring more regularly at his age, and often just from the bench.

"Winnable" home games left against WBA, mackems, Swansea, Bournemouth and Palace - given our away form we probably need to win them all.

4 defeats in a row, aggregate score 11-2 - that's more like the Pardew I remember.

Rest of the transfer window dictates our fate I reckon, if we don't get a goalscorer in we're probably going down.

Norwich's defence man

It is just me or is that penalty spot nowhere near the middle of the goal??

Love a good backheel - cracking finish!

Aye, Haidara too. Basically all our LB options.

He's quick and can hold the ball up, probably an OK option as a late sub when we're looking to break but that's about it I reckon.

The Watford game is huge, another good performance with 3 points and we can actually start looking upwards, another dire defeat and we'll be right in it until the end imo.

Probably a bit scared of him tbf

I had been assuming that Swansea would get out of it but it seems they might be set on imploding. The mackems will probably get to play a couple more games against 10 men so could sneak out again so my current picks to go are Villa, Swansea and Norwich.

Quite optimistic than McClaren is well aware of Colback's limitations and has only been playing him so much due to lack of options...

Loads of comments about the sleeves being too short, obviously a dodgy batch!

11 points from our last 8 now, replicate that over the remaining 16 games gives us 43 points. Looks like we might be OK.

Thought we were actually pretty comfortable at 2-1, there's always the usual toon paranoia but they only really had 1 good chance that Elliot saved well while we could easily have scored another couple on the break, Mitro in particular had a few good chances to kill them off.

92% pass completion, with 60% of them going forward: http://www.squawka.com/news/92-pass-acc-how-shelvey-starred-on-newcastle-debut-against-west-ham/575014?

It was an absolute beauty like, hit at pace as well, not floated over - long time since we've seen one that good at SJP that I can recall.

That first half was one of the best toon performances I've seen in a long time, and against a very good, in form side. Very encouraging signs that he might finally be getting his shit together.