Surely common sense would tell you the poorer the opposition the more likely you're to get a win?
If this were the case then Norwich wouldn't have won yesterday. Football isn't as simple as that or we'd all be millionaires by now?
The fact remains that this season, we have 8 points having played Arsenal, Man City, Swansea & W Ham away earning 3 points with 3 draws and a loss and Liverpool, Wigan & yourselves at home earning 5 points, winning 1 and drawing 2.
Newcastle have 10 points having played Chelsea, Everton, Reading and Sunderland away, drawing 3 and losing 1 and Spurs, Norwich, Man Utd and Villa at home with 2 wins, 1 draw and a loss.
If we win our game in hand, we'd be above your lot, despite the fact we have not played well really in any games so far this season.
Both clubs have had injury/suspension problems with us losing Brown, Johnson, Bardsley, and Cattermole in our 7 games and your lot have lost Coloccini, Taylor and Tiote.
We have a GFD of -2; your lot -3.
We are into the last 16 of the League cup; your lot are not. (you are in the UEFA League for which we did not qualify)
There isnt a *** paper between the 2 clubs but to read some of the bollocks being written on this site and others tonight you would think Newcastle were akin to Barcelona and we were Shotton Colliery Welfare.
Neither club have got going yet and neither club are playing well and there is still 31 games to play yet.
There is a lot of season to go yet and a lot of points to play for. Bragging rights are still on hold for now for either set of fans.