If they are happy to stick with what we’ve got come the summer, then they are both idiots that know nothing about football and we had better start planning away days to Sheffield Wednesday.

Steve McClaren says Coloccini stays, he wants to build his team around Sissoko and admits he is desperate for better defenders.

The two players who have put in the best performances at centre-half this season…the obvious names are Daryl Janmaat and Paul Dummett.

The Newcastle defence is in crisis but the worst part of all is that this is happening season after season when looking at the stats.

John Carver has refused to answer why Newcastle United failed to strengthen the defence in January.

Sam Hepworth finds: ‘No defence for the…Newcastle defence?’