Colocinni and Tiote return - Game On! Newcastle v Swansea

Just a brief 'Game On' article for you all today, thanks mainly to a bit of a plumbing emergency but anyway...

Welcome one and all to the fantabulous, majestic 'Game on' article which will take you through every twist and turn of the match against Swansea today.

Of course today gives us another chance to pay our respects to Gary Speed as the memorial planned originally for the Chelsea game will go ahead with Gary Speed's wife, Louise, in attendance at St James' Park. Welsh hymn 'Bread of Heaven' will be sung and black and white cards depicting the number 11 will be held aloft by fans in the East Stand. It's also fitting that the visitors today are from Speed's homeland of Wales and I'm sure both sets of fans will combine to make it a fitting tribute to the man.

Moving on to the match itself... Team news will be supplied at the bottom of this article as and when it becomes available. However in the meantime why not take a look at Shamrock's most excellent match preview here or for a look at a compendium of stats with regard to Swansea courtesy of nufc_stats then why not look here.

That just about sums it up from me and it really is 'Game on' time. Newcastle will be looking to pick up their first win in four whilst Swansea will be looking for their first away win of the season (I hate stats like that!) and with both sides capable of producing good football we could be in for a pre-Christmas cracker at St James' Park.

Howay the lads!

Newcastle: Tim Krul; Danny Simpson, James Perch, Fabricio Coloccini (c), Davide Santon; Gabriel Obertan, Yohan Cabaye, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez; Leon Best, Demba Ba.

Subs: Steve Harper, Mike Williamson, Mehdi Abeid, Haris Vuckic, Hatem Ben Arfa, Sammy Ameobi, Shola Ameobi

Swansea: Vorm, Richards, Williams, Caulker, Taylor, Routledge, Gower, Britton, Sinclair, Allen, Graham

Subs: Tremmel, Monk, Dyer, Augustien, Lita, Dobbie, Moore