The Mark Ellis Blog

I blogged back in February about the poor state of Newcastle United, so on the eve of another dismal looking home fixture against Hull City, it's time to take stock of where we are now. The summer seemed quite a positive time.  For once, we did what I'd wanted us to do for a long time and sign our players in good time to let them have a good pre-season.  We signed what I thought where some good players and for once, I was quite looking forward to the start of the season.  Now that was unusual as over the past couple of seasons I'd just not had any confidence that we would do anything.  I wasn't stupid enough to expect that we'd be heading for Champions League places or anything that daft ahead of this season, but I did thing that we had the fixtures and the team to have a really good start. Sadly though, I couldn't have been more wrong as I'd neglected to remember that we still had Alan Pardew as a Manager.  From having read my blog back from February ag...