Newcastle United continue to confuse this season. Indeed, Newcastle have won games in which they’ve played poorly, while they lost a game they largely dominated against Brighton on Saturday. Still, to suggest the Seagulls weren’t totally worthy of their win would perhaps be too much. While it’s true that they seemed there for the taking in the opening 35 minutes at St James’ Park, some pretty toothless finishing slammed by Alan Shearer let them off the hook. After that, Newcastle didn’t even look like scoring – even when pressing for a leveller following Danny Welbeck’s opener. Nothing about t…