That title might sound decidedly contradictory, but that's kind of the point.
If you take a look at the Magpies scorelines this season, there has been a serious amount of goals, 16 goals in five games to be exact.
But whilst that, alongside namely the Liverpool performance, suggest extreme levels of excitement and entertainment, that hasn't really been the case for Newcastle fans and tonight against Millwall was probably the best example as to why.
And before I get into this, no I'm not writing this to be negative, it's just an observation I've made which probably needs addressing in the near future.
The weird polarisation
Under Matthias Jaissle, transitions and turnovers have been the name of the game so far. Turning the game from defence into attack during phases where the opposition are out of position and shape - that is the bit which has been exciting.
Both goals against Liverpool came from those situations, Barnes' strike against Bournemouth did too and even Elanga's against Spurs was a shining example of that quick play.
But the issue Newcastle have at present is that when it isn't fast-paced and transitions are hard to come by, it couldn't be more slow and lethargic.
That shows up a ridiculous polarisation which seems to be a growing theme that is abundantly dependent on the type of game the Magpies are involved in.
The stark difference between games
There are two types of game that seem to favour Jaissle's men, and two specific types that seem to be causing a lot of problems (so far anyway).
Matches like the Liverpool one, which are more resemblant of a basketball game that a football one, are very fruitful. They allow those gaps and turnovers that the Magpies high, intense and powerful forward play can take advantage off.
Similarly, when facing opposition who wish to have more of the ball, Newcastle are able to soak up pressure and then exploit the gaps that are left by their opponents committing too many men forward, as was the case for most of the Spurs game.
But, If Newcastle face a side like Bournemouth, who come to squeeze and suffocate to prevent progressive build up, the stats tell us that we simply don't know how to navigate that right now.
Similarly, if we face a side like we did this evening, who are happy to let us have the ball for the most part and then try and catch us on the counter, we don't have anything like the line breaking or trickery to create chances and break down the structure - again, as shown by the rather torrid XG statistics so far this season.
The Millwall example
In fact, almost everything I have mentioned there was apparent tonight. For the first 80 minutes we created almost nothing meaningful and struggled to breakthrough. But once Willock scored and the game opened up a little with Millwall needing a goal, we started to see a better attacking impetus which was shown even just through a few half chances.
Ultimately, we got the job done and you can't really complain with that. But it certainly wasn't comfortable and reinforced a lot of the things I have mentioned in this article.
By no means do I think Matthias Jaissle is stupid, he will be able to see better than anyone what needs to improve and what he's happy with and, as we've said all along, we have to understand that it will take time to get it right.
I wrote an article yesterday about how this next period will be massive for Matthias Jaissle, with almost all of the upcoming games putting us up against opposition who will play in ways we haven't been able to solve yet - but that has become even more apparent after watching the game this evening.
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