Hello and happy Saturday. We’re back on Tyneside with our band of Geordie Samba stars trying to write their names into the history books after last seasons heroics.

Let’s start with a visit from Wolves, shall we?

It’s a good start to this installment and we follow it up with a pleasant trip to Leicester. The home of Walkers crisps and Willie Thorne.

Just to prove we are firing on all cylinders, the Norwegain Flakes aren’t set up for the day.

While its a bright start against Leeds, Gloria Esteban’s injury seems to stifle our efforts somewhat.

League Cup time, and hopes of getting back to the final are still on track, even if it takes a long time against Everton. Ex-boy Valdir threatens to ruin the party but Esnaider can’t be stopped at the moment.

Just as the AI would have it, another ex-Geordie scores against, but even Nobby can’t stop these boys thirst for points.

We finish off our European Group Stage adventures in Armenia of all places

There’s only a goal between us and Barcelona in the end, but I think 15 points for second place should do the trick

But of course

March is a long way away at the moment, so lets keep warm with premier league action and theres no Armenian hangover when Villa come to visit. Southgate goes for an early pizza.

Its the same result and scoreline against Wednesday and things seem to be going pretty well in our chase of Man Utd in the league. Hopefully we can keep it up.

Well this was a bit of a plummet back down to earth. Outlaw Josey and the Romanian Kid put us to the dirt in 3 second half minutes.

Is it a bump or something bigger, like a humpback bridge?

Ok, maybe this is turning into a bit of a crisis. Leeds are no suckers, but they completely destroy us in the FA Cup. Our defence of the old cup is over before it even started. Tino realsiing that somersaults after goals ae a young mans game.

City do for us again in the League Cup. Ricky Otto’s brother captaining the side and dancing on the sand.

It’s all going wrong now. Out of both domestic cups and falling behind in the league.

Zetti goes the same way as Chili before him and gets benched in favour of DIda. It’s not great, but at least it stems the tide. Julios form has fallen off a cliff this season.

What is my solution to a crisis? Change the formation? Shore up the defense?

Not the Newcastle way. I bring in the Animal to spearhead the attack and kick our strikers into shape.

His impact is immediate, but he can’t stop the rot yet.

Eddy inspires the team to better things against 3rd placed Bristol and it’s great to feel the warmth of three points again.

It all feels like a false dawn though as rivals Sunderland grab the bragging rights – again! Gustavo Lopez is another ex-player that only seems to score against us.

I can’t finish this part of the blog on a loss to Sunderland so I play just one more game against Ipswich – thankfully its the result I need right now.

That win drags us back up to third, but we’ve played at least one game more than others and we’re 10 points away from Man Utd in first. Maybe second place is our best bet now.

Our form really is a rollercoaster

Ok, enjoy your weekend people, next week will be the season run in and we’ll learn our league and European fates, it’s going to be great.