Newcastle United proving doubters wrong as they climb Premier League table We also went to Man United and played a very different game and got our reward, so this team is becoming one that can handle different platforms. If we can beat Stoke [on Boxing Day], the Arsenal game will be really, really interesting for a lot of people. There were plenty of doubters around Newcastle at the start of the season as an unhappy Cabaye looked for a way out, dressing room harmony seemed off key and Pardew was contending with the controversial arrival of Kinnear. Pardew said: "I know we've had some strange opinions about us from the outside but we are working well together. The owner is really pleased. I am really pleased, and more importantly the players are really pleased. Newcastle's players would also have been delighted to find Palace so vulnerable, especially down the home side's left flank where overlapping full-back Debuchy and Moussa Sissoko roamed to devastating effect. The pair ran the dreadfully exposed Dean Moxey so ragged that he had to be replaced at half-time but by then the damage was done. Sissoko cut in to feed Cabaye who drove in Newcastle's 25th minute opener, and then Debuchy's tantalising low cross was turned into his own net by Danny Gabbidon. Hatem Ben Arfa crowned Newcastle's dominance with an emphatically driven late penalty after Shola Ameobi had been brought down by Moxey's replacement, Jonathan Parr. We gifted them two goals and it took the steam out of us. We'll have days when we have downers and we just have to deal with it," said Pulis, who will use the forthcoming transfer window to strengthen his squad. Pardew also has a plan. We've talked about players. I think that's where we're at. We are making sure we don't miss what might be a key signing," he said. You look at the last two January windows and we've done good business. So Graham Carr [head scout], Joe, myself and the owner are very much on the ball for this window. He had special praise for Kinnear's role. That is the committee for transfers and with Joe's knowledge of football he knows the manager needs certain things and that has helped. I don't really want to say any more than that but I think it gives you a little bit of insight into it.