Six points required!

Fabricio Coloccini has been talking of the impending relegation doom surrounding NUFC at the minute, and has said that he believes that six points will be enough to avoid the dreaded drop.

Newcastle United are currently sitting on 36 points and are flying a bit too close to the relegation zone after seeing the gap between themselves and 18th place cut to just four points. In the interests of balance, and for the benefit of those who wish to look up, it's also worth pointing out that we are only four points away from seventh place at the same time as being threatened with becoming involved in the relegation scrap.

The nerves are starting to jangle a bit to be fair, which is understandable given that the memory of two years ago is still fresh in the minds of many. At the moment though, everything is in our own hands and we control our own destiny so to speak.

A win against Wolves would go some way to removing the fears of us getting dragged into the relegation mix, but Fabricio Coloccini believes that the team have enough to get the points required and has even set a target of fiver or six points needed for survival.

"The table has become very close and the Wolves game is a very important game for us now," Coloccini told The Journal. "I think we need two more wins to make sure we are safe. Looking at the table, five or six more points will probably do it, so we still need two wins."

"There are plenty of games to get them from but it would be a massive help if we could get one of those wins against Wolves. If we could get the points quickly it would calm everybody's nerves. Our only job is to make sure we keep ourselves safe."

Those are some wise words from Colo to be honest, especially the 'our only job is to make sure we keep ourselves safe' bit. That was the goal at the start of the season, and whilst we have done better than expected on occasion the goal should never really have changed.

It was easy to talk of a cheeky place in Europe whilst we were up there in the league, but in reality the number one aim always has been assuring Premier League survival. Yes we are in a run of poor from at the moment, but did anyone ever expect us to not go through a bad patch of results upon our return to the Premier League? It doesn't make it any less frustrating of course, but it was always going to happen at some point.

The key is to somehow get through this run of form and get the win on the board as soon as possible. We are fortunate to have players that have been here before so that experience will hopefully stand the squad in good stead and we won't see the impotent collapse that we witnessed when we had the megastar players like Michael Owen 'fighting' for our Premier League life.

Six points would just about do it in my opinion. That would give us 42 points which would make us the joint most unfortunate Premier League team in history, along with West Ham, if we were to be relegated on that points total.

Do you think 42 points will be enough?