When ball number 14 was drawn, fans couldn't believe it - the FA Cup fifth-round draw set up Newcastle and Manchester City to meet in yet another cup tie.
It's the fifth time in six years the teams have faced up in a domestic cup - most recently, City bested Newcastle over two legs to deny the Magpies a place in the final of the Carabao Cup.
In March, the teams will meet again at St James' Park for a place in the quarter-finals of the oldest cup competition in the world.
So, what do fans make of the draw? Yawn-worthy, or the chance for a dramatic rematch?
Let's hear what our fan writers think...
Charlotte Robson of the True Faith: Newcastle United Podcast
We joked in all our group chats that, after comprehensively beating Aston Villa we'd end up with Manchester City away in the FA Cup. It was just supposed to be a joke, not a premonition! I rang my dad's house just after the draw was announced and heard wailing in the background. Here we go again!
OK, we drew them at home, so there's a small concession made. But honestly. How many times can two teams play each other in one season? At this rate, I am pretty sure the footballing powers that be will have invented a new way for us to play them at least a couple more times before the season is out.
I know that to win silverware you have to beat the best. I know that. Those of us in the chat with fistfuls of straws can point to November, when a Harvey Barnes double saw us beat City at St James' Park. Those more pessimistic might point to the other two times we've played them so far this season, and the ease with which they dealt with us.
This weekend we visit the Etihad, for what seems to be our now bi-monthly Manchester City match. Let's spin this. Saturday represents another opportunity for Eddie Howe to assess how they are so effective, and to start making a plan.
I keep coming back to the fact it's a home tie. St James' Park will be LOUD. The players will be up for it.
It's the FA Cup - anything could happen.
Emily Brobyn is a regular on BBC Radio Manchester - find all their Man City audio here
"I'm sick of the sight of them," was my reaction when Joe Cole and Karen Carney paired Manchester City with Newcastle.
Don't get me wrong, St James' Park is one of my favourite away days. Despite the infamous 14 flights of stairs, Newcastle is a city that is completely and utterly obsessed with football.
It's all most of their residents talk about as they're walking around the city. It's always a cracking away trip. The draw will be the talk of the toon – but I'm not so sure they'll be too happy about it either.
But despite having just been beaten by Pep Guardiola's men in the Carabao Cup semi-final, in both legs and by an aggregate score of 5-1, Newcastle will be buoyed by the fact this tie will have home advantage.
Eddie Howe has never won a game with Newcastle at Etihad Stadium. The stats make for dismal reading. But the Magpies beat City in the league back in November - 2-1 on home turf - and St James' will be rocking, with Howe looking to seek revenge for the battering his side so recently took in the League Cup.
Make no mistake, it could have been a tougher draw for City, but I doubt Pep will be relishing the prospect of travelling up to Tyneside for the third time in five months.
The Blues have the quality to come away with a place in the FA Cup quarter finals, but there's a feeling Newcastle won't be ready to accept being knocked out of two domestic cups in consecutive months at the hands of City.
Which probably makes the game even more of a tantalising prospect – for the neutral at least!
Emily Brobyn is a regular on BBC Radio Manchester - find all their Man City audio here
