Newcastle 2-1 Hull

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Newcastle ended Hull's unbeaten Premier League return in their fifth match, earning Jaissle's first home Premier League win in the process.

We were made to sweat for the points, however, in the proverbial game of two halves.

Newcastle raced into a two goal lead inside seven minutes, Harvey Barnes twice the provider as Willock and Hall both score excellent goals.

The first was a close range finish leathered past the keeper following great movement from the rejuvenated Willock.

The second was started and finished by Hall, who won the ball back on the halfway line before receiving it back from Barnes on the corner of the box and drilling it through a defender's legs and into the far bottom corner.

Newcastle kept the pressure on and had further chances to increase the lead, whereas Hull's best chance came from a complete brainfart from Hornicek, attempting a Cruyff turn that was never on and losing the ball on the corner of the six yard box.

Thankfully, he showed sharp reflexes to recover and throw himself in front of the shot.

And Newcastle had a golden opportunity to finish the game off in the third minute of first half stoppage time, awarded a penalty as a defender stumbled and grabbed Jacob Murphy's ankle.

Murphy felt the contact and went down but then appeared to think better of it, getting back up and carrying on his run, but the referee immediately blew for the penalty amid bafflement from the Hull defender.

Wissa, however, went for placement, and though his effort was low and close to the corner, the visiting keeper pushed the ball wide of the post.

This didn't immediately seem to trigger the second half collapse that some may have feared - that had to wait until Hull pulled one back with a third of the game remaining.

That was the cue for total Newcastle headloss and 25 minutes of absolute nail-biting carnage as we lost all composure.

This extended to the final third, Thiaw getting forward and finding himself on the corner of the six yard box with Wissa open and screaming for the ball.

Inexplicably, Thiaw took a couple of touches then pinged a high cross over everybody's head, and the Hull onslaught continued.

The most important thing is that we managed to see out the game with the three points, leaving us on a respectable eight points from five games.

That puts us midtable (eighth before the Sunday games) which feels a reasonably fair reflection of this team.

A return of nine goals is healthy, though we don't feel like a free-flowing team, but the nine conceded is a worry, mainly because we could have conceded far, far more based on performance.

Hull have been impressive on their return to the Premier League, but we shouldn't expect to give up 21 shots at home to anybody really.

Luckily, Hull only managed to get four of those on target, or we may have been going into the endless international break talking about another alarming collapse.

The three week enforced break will hopefully let some of our nine injured players return, and give Jaissle some valuable training time with those remaining at the club.

This is a season in transition, as the manager rightfully keeps pointing out, and a young squad of high potential rather than the finished article.

However, with the league seemingly in a real state of flux, and several of the Sky Six clubs floundering (lol Spurs), it feels like a real opportunity for any club that can put together a run.