Newcastle United caretaker boss Graeme Jones wants a show of passion against Crystal Palace.

Jones wants the players to leave everything on the pitch with a performance “off the Richter scale" for 90 minutes to help kick-start their campaign in his first game in charge at Crystal Palace.

"I think the physical stats (of the opening minutes against Tottenham) would be off the Richter scale, it was sustaining it and that was the key," said Jones. “I speak a lot about consistent football behaviour and consistent football performance, so working towards that is the truth.

“Obviously, results don't reflect that at the minute, but I work with the lads day in, day out.

“The lads have got a desire to get that. They are not difficult in any way, they listen, they try to work, we try to put it into practice, it doesn't come overnight.

“We are eight games into the season and it needs to come sooner rather than later.

“If we could bottle it up, I don't think we would be second bottom of the Premier League, we would probably be top."