Eddie Howe puts out a strong side to take on Hull City this afternoon

Newcastle United get their pre-season friendly campaign underway this afternoon with a 2pm kick off at the MKM Stadium in Hull.

While Eddie Howe has far from a full-strength squad available to him thanks to injuries and some players still to return from their summer breaks, the gaffer has managed to put out a relatively strong starting XI to take on the Tigers.

It's pretty tricky to ascertain what kind of system Howe is deploying and who is playing where, especially given that there are four full-backs named on the team sheet.

Lewis Hall, Jamal Lewis, Tino Livramento and Emil Krafth are all starting along with captain Dan Burn, but we highly doubt we're looking at a back five.

We have no idea how that team is going to line up

There's every possibility that either Livramento or Lewis are playing further up field, but with Harvey Barnes starting, we suspect it would be Livramento filling in on the right wing, except Jacob Murphy also starts.

Joelinton is joined by Jamie Miley in the middle with with Alexander Isak, our only fit striker up top.

Your guess is as good as ours, honestly.

Let's hope we see some of the promising youngsters given a shot

The bench is made up of promising youngsters as well as the two new goalkeeping arrivals.

Hopefully, we will get to see a look at Garang Kuol, Trevan Sanusi, Alfie Harrison and Cathal Heffernan at some point.

The match is available to stream via newcastleunited.com and wearehullcity.co.uk for a fee.