Am I the only one who thinks we will stay up and is looking forward to the challenge. Staying up this season will be like winning the league.
Looks like the keys to the juggernaut have just been handed over. Not long until it fires into life and sets off on a mission!
Yeah, it's kinda super exciting. The irony, of course, that finishing 17th was the height of Ashley's aspiration and drove us ****ing mental, this season if we finish 17th we'll be drunk for 3 months....
And that’s called a different perspective on life. I won’t get the likes this post deserves as most of the people on here are old ***gots buy let’s see what happens.
Really strange take this by Martin Hardy - obviously still upset his mate Cashley had to sell up and is seen as the panto villain of the last 14 years. It's like everything thing at present is currently used to try and flog NUFC like to taking an inexperienced manager like Gerrard on at a totally different club? It's amazing how it's spun round and we're even mentioned. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...fit-Newcastle-blew-chance-appointing-him.html A) - Martin Hardy has no idea if Gerrard was even spoken to by the owners - I'm sure his name cropped up in circles but I doubt he was even approached so whats he waffling about. B) - Gerrard is 2.5 years in to his managerial career having managed one of two in a two team farmers league and everyone is wetting their pants he won an undefeated league title, sorry but beating Celtic twice in a year is not an achievement to be celebrated so highly. What has he done in a "serious" competition like Euorpa League - qualified from the group and then slunk out without a whimper? C) - Villa are taking a massive risk in a lose/lose situation here - he either takes Villa down to the Championship (probably getting sacked and finishing his managerial career in England for a long while) or he keeps them up and goes to a bigger job in 2/3 years time like West Ham or Leicester (before he heads to Liverpool) as he's done with Rangers. D) - He's never, as a player, coach, manager dealt with the pressure of a relegation battle. The closest he has come to that kind of pressure is the infamous "don't let this slip moment" and we all know how that ended...Does Gerrard have the cahoonas for it? We will see but I'm not sure he does tbh. By comparison we've a manager who has saved a club from administration, steered it clear of relegation on many occasions through different leagues, won multiple promotions (if we do go down) taken a club from no where to the top half of the top table. I mean FFS Eddie Howe has as many single digit (9th+) placed finishes in the top league as Newcastle in the last 15 years having come from League 2 in the same time frame. Yet he is the wrong man for the job? Really? Did anyone here want Gerrard? Or know anyone who did? Or say Lampard for that matter? Don't think he even made the list of our "next managers" thread. I'd not even thought about either personally and would have been mortified if our new owners who supposedly know nothing about football had plumped for a manager with very little experience and no understanding of a relegation battle. Not many managers we were linked to cover both of these criteria but Gerrard was certainly one to steer clear of in our current predicament.
****ehawk journos watching the betting odds and putting two and two together mate ! I doubt very much that we even spoke to Gerrard or Lampard. Out of the 3 of them (those two + Howe), I would have chosen Howe every time. Neither Gerrard nor Lampard have the experience for me, the mud on their boots after hanging them up is still not fully dry. Howe on the other hand has his own team whom he has worked with over the years. I actually think that the fact he got relegated in his last season will be a good thing rather than a negative.....he sure as **** won't want two relegations on his CV and it sounds like he's done a ****tonne of homework over the past 18months whilst he's been out of the game so to speak. We're getting a very different Eddie Howe to the one who took Bournemouth down....blank canvasses all round it would seem.
I didn't want Gerrard at all. I thought he might be coming, so tried to make some peace with it, but initial reaction was "no". He was only behind Terry and Lampard in my "please don't appoint him" list. He's done nothing, but he's a media darling from his Liverpool time. Howe achieved far more at Bournemouth - getting up the English leagues with them is considerably more impressive than getting up the Scot leagues with ****ing Rangers!!
Bournemouth were so unlucky to be relegated and from what I remember they had 11 "first team" players out of the squad injured around December just before Covid hit - then no fans for the last third of the season where they could have been their 12 man. Then you have the Villa game where the ball clearly crossed the line and wasn't given, this would have had Bournemouth level on point and goal difference with Villa at the end of the season (plus the morale/confidence factor if Villa had lost that game - that point was huge for them)
He must be drowning in a mixture of salty tears and Gerrard semen. Aston Villa will fail! Our survival becomes easier by the day!! Lampard to Norwich is an awesome move for us!
That's ****in hilarious, how far down his throat is Gerrard's dick? Ooh wow ****in wee he won a title in Scotland, Neil Lennon won them for fun up there but couldn't manage Bolton, Gordon Strachan won the league but only got the Smoggie mid table in the Championship and even Tony ****ing Mowbray won things up there. Yeah who needs a proven Prem manager when we can have the squeaky scouser with only 2 years experience of managing in a mickey mouse dogshit league?
Not once have I said I wanted Gerard. He’s never managed in the PL. His only experience is in a backwater league with 2 teams in it.
Rangers - the team where our useless cast off James Tavernier became a legend, and where Haris Vuckic scored goals for fun. Everything is way behind there, managing in the Prem will be a massive wake up call for him.
It's never really a 2 horse race, it's only ever a 1 horse race, Rangers were dogshit for years and Celtic walked the title, Celtic were ****e last year and Rangers strolled it. When James Tavernier, a defender and a ****e one at that, gets 19 goals last season, you can kinda tell that things ain't that difficult.
