Steve Bruce: "The one thing we've prided ourselves on at this level is our defence.
"We've made more mistakes today than I've remembered us making in six months. Collectively and individually we've made just basic, bad schoolboy errors.
"We've gifted them three goals in my opinion. When you do that it's always going to be a long afternoon and we rightly got punished.
"I thought we played fantastically well in the first half.
"We've had a great chance, Krul's made two wonderful saves, and within 30 seconds we're 1-0 down.
"Then we've had Jelavic's chance, Elmohamady's chance, Jelavic hits the bar, and then we go and make a mistake (for Newcastle's second goal) like you see on a Sunday morning park pitch. You can't do that at this level.
"It looks like one of those horrible scorelines where we've been well beaten, but anyone who witnessed it knows we haven't."