The Robbie Savage and Chris Sutton double act may just be giving Richard Keys and Andy Gray a run for their money and, no, that is not a compliment.
The pair, who host a live phone-in on BBC Radio 5 Live, seem to get a kick out of goading Newcastle United supporters on Twitter and Saturday night was a prime example.
Little more than half an hour after referee Graham Scott blew his whistle for full-time at St James' Park, following the Magpies' uninspiring draw against Fulham, Savage piped up on Twitter.
Savage simply posted a screengrab of the Premier League table and there were Newcastle in 12th place on 18 points. The caption? 'Newcastle 6 points off a Champions League spot after 13 games'.
Savage, to be fair, was merely stating a fact if you were to take him at face value but the Welshman, who played under Steve Bruce at Birmingham, has never been shy when it comes to stirring the pot in the past.
The added shoulder shrug emoji at the end of Savage's tweet naturally irked Newcastle supporters. In other words Newcastle fans, why are you complaining?
This is the problem. Those outsiders who do not watch the black-and-whites every week seem to struggle to get their head around the fact that supporters might just want a little more than a slog of a journey to reach that 'magic' 40-point mark. Or worse still, deep down, they see the fans' point of view but are merely whipping up a frenzy on social media for their own pleasure.
By hook or by crook, Bruce has amassed more points at this stage of the campaign than in any of Newcastle's previous four seasons in the top-flight and the Magpies are just one win away from reaching their first League Cup semi-final since 1976. When you put it like that, it doesn't sound half bad but football is not played on paper, is it?
Bruce stressed on Friday that 'progress was always going to be slow' because he could not 'just transform the way we want to go overnight' but to see the Magpies torn apart by Leeds in the closing stages at Elland and then play so passively against Fulham a few days later was disspiriting.
These two games against newly-promoted sides felt like decent opportunities to lay down a top 10 marker ahead of a brutal run of fixtures against Man City, Liverpool and Leicester over the festive period, but Newcastle struggled against two very different opponents.
Whereas Leeds' high energy ultimately caused Newcastle problems on Wednesday night, the passive black-and-whites gave 17th-placed Fulham the freedom to dominate possession and territory at St James' Park on Saturday night.
Both the newly-promoted sides' identities under Marcelo Bielsa and Scott Parker shone through and the same cannot be said of Newcastle's approach, particularly against Fulham.
Of course, it is worth pointing out that the Magpies have been affected by a COVID-19 outbreak - a handful of players are still absent and have been vomiting and suffering with sores, mouth ulcers and fatigue - but Bruce has never wanted that to be an excuse and rightly so.
It is not outreagous to expect a little more.
