When Liverpool arrive at SJP and Klopp shakes hands with Tufty this is what I'll be thinking ...... please log in to view this image I remember Klopp, and other top managers, being touted by the Mags in their polls as the next Messiah. Now they've ended up with Tufty ......... they haven't started the protests and booing because Ashley ran rings round them with his 'end of term' speech. He may as well have said, "Right you mugs, stop all this shyte and I'll promise you a trophy." Worked a treat They're so quietly fed up with Tufty that they're considering even Bruce ffs! I remember when Bobby Robson was shuffled out of SJP that the manager's job, at SJP, was seriously described by the club as 'one of the top jobs in world football ....... the Geordie Nation lapped it up. So, I wonder who they'll get when Tufty is told to leave and take his brolly with him
The one mag I've spoken to wants him out this week. Who they'd get instead is anyone's guess mind! They still turn up and buy the shirts though. Until they stop that they'll never get Fat Mike's attention...
Would any manager put the fear of god into you? I doubt it. They always expect too much as a fan base. Now we know there's moderates among them who don't but on the whole, they'll run anybody out of town who doesn't exceed every expectation. Chris Houghton, to my mind, is the only manager they've ever backed fully since the daft ****brick Keegan and that's only because he brought them back from the dead and won a derby.
Next Permanent Newcastle Manager Next Permanent Manager David Moyes 4/1 Nigel Pearson 6/1 Brendan Rodgers 8/1 Tim Sherwood 12/1 Harry Redknapp 12/1 Michael Laudrup 16/1 Chistophe Galtier 16/1 Chris Hughton 16/1 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 20/1 Sean Dyche 20/1 Frank De Boer 20/1 Roberto Di Matteo 25/1 Mark Warburton 25/1 Alan Pardew 25/1 Patrick Kluivert 25/1 Patrick Vieira 25/1 Gary Rowett 33/1 Peter Beardsley 33/1 Alan Curbishley 33/1 Alan Shearer 50/1 John Carver 50/1 Kevin Keegan 50/1 – – Out of that list only really Moyes & De Boer really jump out. The rest look a bit of a train wreck to me.
The warm glow of this is they're in exactly the same sort of trouble as we were in when they started getting that warm glow.
Aye we're not out of woods by any means but the mags have taken their poor squad and joined us a a liability now that the poison and lack of confidence has well and truly set in. Not a nice feeling, they've got the bed sheets out for so much less, it's going to kick off soon, I might even get a seasonal linen stall to pop up next the Christmas shops in Newcastle.
Nowhere near out of the woods as you say but the feeling coming from the club is much more positive, needless to say 6 points have helped immensely. The problem they've got is that McClaren is useless, but looking at that list there's not much better out there who would realistically join a team/club on a massive downer at the moment.
9 points from 15. None to shabby. I think Tuffty is just one of many problems that squad has got. Between the poor squad and poisonous characters to the unforgiving short fused fan base and ****e transfer blueprint. I think they're riddled with problems.
That's the most overused statement in football, and I always wonder why people think that... who would turn down a job managing in the EPL aside from the top 10 managers in the world? Nobody. Being sacked by Newcastle doesn't sour your CV, just look at Hughton, Allardyce, Pardew (although he never got sacked, essentially he was hounded out)... the rest of Ashley's appointments were complete clowns.
What I mean is on the list posted above, how many of those realistically are better than current? Certainly not the likes of Curbishley who's been out of Football for however long. Say he gets sacked around Xmas - could you see De Boer leaving Ajax to go to Newcastle if they're still in bottom 3? The risk that a new manager would possibly have is that they won't be a PL club for much longer and they might be labelled as the manager that took them down. Flip side is obviously that a new manager saves them and is labelled the new Messiah all part of the risk.
Curbishley is linked with every job, he's been out of work for years, he's the new Howard Wilkinson. I'd say De Boer would walk into that job, if he was offered good money. Managing Ajax to league titles when your biggest rival has been stripped of it's two best assets, is not gonna net you the Real Madrid job. Even if Newcastle have 10 points at Christmas, they still have around 20 games to get 27ish points, it's not the sort of task you'd look at and think it was impossible. I don't think he'll get the job mind, he's not the type of person Ashley goes for... all this season has proved is that they've implemented a model that has no chance of success, a ****ing board of directors consisting of a solicitor, a scout and a 'head coach'. It's a circus. Until it's run like a proper football club and not a branch of his cheap **** sports shops, they'll be a laughing stock.
Changing the theme slightly I see McLaren has recalled that superb defender Mike Williamson from his loan spell at Wolves as Lacelles has done his hamstring, Coloccini and Williamson are a formidable centre half pairing....NOT.
As a neutral though mate, I'd sooner have them in the league than some no-mark **** house like Middlesbrough or some ****ing Welsh team.
I'm not sure about those odds on Pardew, I don't think he'd ever go back there. They should get Pearson, he's a delusional ball bag so he'd be a perfect match for them.
I agree with all your points apart from the short-fused fanbase. That comment can only be in relation to Pardew or McClaren and I doubt you'd be one to defend either of those muppets?
