Newcastle head coach John Carver is refusing to throw in the towel despite the Magpies being sucked into the Premier League survival fight.
The Tyneside club are just five points clear of the drop zone after a 3-2 home defeat by Swansea -- their seventh league loss in succession, the first time they have suffered such a run in the Premier League.
They head for in-form Leicester next weekend desperately needing to deny Nigel Pearson's rejuvenated side a fifth win on the trot as they try to ease clear of the mire beneath them.
Carver said: "It was a huge disappointment, a huge disappointment -- but we are not ready to quit, not ready to pack it in, not ready to thrown in the towel. That is very important, and that applies to me and the rest of my staff.
"Yes, I am getting stick from the crowd and I can take all that. I'll take that on the chin, I'll explain to people why I do things, I don't have a problem with that. If anybody wants to talk to me about it, I will talk to them about it. But I won't give up on it, and I will fight to the end."
Carver's disappointment was compounded by the fact that Newcastle took a 20th-minute lead at St James' Park when striker Ayoze Perez claimed his first goal since Dec. 28.
However, they conceded -- as they had looked like doing for some time -- from a set play when Nelson Oliveira headed home his first Swansea goal in first-half injury-time, and the visitors never looked back as Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jack Cork increased their lead before substitute Siem de Jong's late consolation.
Asked about what lies ahead, Carver said: "I have got to try and make those guys feel 10ft tall, as much as I can. Sometimes it is quite difficult, but it is my job and my responsibility to try and pick them up and do that."