Welcome to this week's Ale l'erooge for Anfield Extra for the Liverpool Echo

and I'm joined today by special guests Stephen Monaghan, fresh back from his Moscow trip and his

meeting, an unofficial meeting with Jose Marino and a Moscow hotel, regular guest Keith Colvin and also very pleased to be joined

by Ian Byrne who was involved in the Food Bank Initiative at Newcastle a week-glass Sunday. So anyway, Newcastle's Spartak,

over all the games, I think, were disappointing disappointing we're in a disaster but even though we we

dominated both games I think everyone was disappointed that we didn't win those

games those games were there to be won.

And really I think it highlights our lack of fire power.

If we're not keeping clean sheets, which it doesn't look like we're going to, it's the lack of

firepower isn't it?

And we're not clinical enough now.

Would people see that as a bit of a crisis or thinking that we're going to put those chances

away one day and we're going to put those chances away one day and we're going to absolutely destroy

teams when we do that.

Keith, I think that's obviously the manager's philosophy that we'll have score teams because obviously defensive

we're not that fairly good and I think a blind man can see that but it's obviously

for on flat on its face at the moment because that that's part has my score side

for instance you know mono winter game I didn't go

what on the side it was probably one of the ways it seems I've seen play loophole in

Yoda for the long time and they were there to be taken to the cleaners and if

nothing else it sort of emphasizes what was mentioned a couple of

podcasts ago by John Coleman about the fact that we haven't basically got a

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