I don't like how some fans are thinking we are going to win by 3 or 4 goals and assuming this is a forgone conclusion. Newcastle are bang in form with 5 wins out of the last 6 and that was a narrow defeat to the dippers. They have had a full week's rest and have nothing to lose today, Eddie Howe has them playing some good football and they have the tools needed to cause us a lot of problems.
A number of our players look to be understandably very tired at the moment and carrying knocks.
I would like to see us come out and be at their throats from the first minute but I just can't see it.
I'd take a scrappy 1:0 win now.
It's not a foregone conclusion that we win today or any of the others. But we need to have goal difference in mind now as it could come down to it if we do slip up somewhere.