I just don't think the squad is strong enough to deliver on four fronts. Not a fan of rotation, as the consistant changes doesn't allow a team to build together, but I understand the need too with european football, one of Hall and Livermento constantly missing hurts us a lot.

To add to that, our much heralded midfield trio, don't seem to have any influence away from home.

Only one left back in the squad, I'm not convinced Ramsey is any better than Longstaff, I'm also not convinced Elanga is better that Murphy, so yes I agree we are suffering for having no DoF over the summer. However, Burn was struggling the whole game and we seem to have wingers who don't help out.

I still have a piece of newspaper from that day (Chronicle, I believe) of Supermac standing on the sidelines with the Newcastle fans behind him, reason I still have this is because a very young me is in that crowd behind him

My original intention for Twitter was to just use it for football and music purposes, but then I find myself being drawn into political stuff, and somedays I'm not even sure I even like social media.

Oh come on, next you'll be saying The Guns of Navarone isn't a Christmas movie, madness!

All the best Michael, look forward to reading more of your excellent weekly blog beyond Christmas and into the New Year.

Well if this keeps up then we will have a answer to if they do or not.

I'm wondering what the owners will be thinking.

It's good to see.

Today is not about him, it's about our top players not imposing themselves on the game.