Sitting top of the league, Newcastle welcome Peterborough United to the newly-named, sportsdirect@ St James' Park, hoping they can gain another three points to firmly establish a lead in the Championship table.
Toon manager Chris Hughton looks set to welcome back defender Steven Taylor who has been out injured for a number of weeks with a hamstring injury. It proves a timely boost with Zurab Khizanishvili unavailable due to suspension.
Although after Newcastle's solid display in Sheffield on Monday night, they may not need Taylor so urgently. Young defender Tamas Kadar looked very comfortable alongside Argentine centre-back Fabricio Coloccini, the pair put in a strong performance against a physical Sheff Utd team. And I can't see Peterborough casing their black and white opposition too many problems, especially as they have only scored five goals away from home so far this season.
Shola Ameobi and Joey Barton are still long term absentee's for the magpies, whilst the Posh are missing striker Craig Mackail-Smith.
These two teams have already played each other once before this season, Darren Ferguson's Peterborough side were victorious with a 2-0 scoreline in the Carling Cup, but with Newcastle looking settled in the league with a steady line-up they will be favourites to win.
Toon fans get to the ground early, (no not in protest to the re branding of the stadium) it is to see Newcastle midfielder Kevin Nolan be presented with the Player of the Month award for October.
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