And a team that finished its first season 12th in the PL!!! IMO - we're going to have to agree to disagree on whether or not we'll see a significant change in how we approach games until next season and if we don't - then I won't be going to all of the home games against teams I would hope we can beat - eg the 3 promoted teams plus Fulham, Sunderland, Villa and Newcastle.
Err, What? he got sacked for getting them promoted and scoring loads of goals?????? I think you'll find that wasn't the reason! This will be my last comment on this thread, as I've asked you some questions most of which you've chosen to ignore! So there's no point in going on with it. I'm happy to agree to disagree if you are?
A blog from Phil McNulty at the time: "Chris Hughton has brought dignity, stability and a respectable Premier League placing to Newcastle United - so it should be no surprise that his reward from owner Mike Ashley is the sack" Says it all.
Despite saying I wasn't going to contribute any more to this debate, since both ILD and redruth have now posted replies to me ............ @ILD All my posts on this thread have been concerned specifically with the question of what kind of football we can expect in future from Chris Hughton's Norwich side. My response to your asking why he was sacked at Newcastle -- that it was NOT for putting out sides that played dire defensive football -- may not have addressed your question as such, but did make a point pertinent to the issue under discussion. As regards why he was sacked, the answer is nobody (apart presumably from Mike Ashley and perhaps Alan Pardew), really knows. The official statement at the time said it was because they wanted a more experienced manager. True or not, it did at least correctly describe CH; he is relatively inexperienced as a manager, though hugely experienced as a coach and player. Whether that is really why he was sacked, or just plausible cover for another Ashley idiosyncrasy -- like later announcing that Pardew had been given an 8 year contract but not that it included a clause that he would get only 1 year's compensation if sacked -- nobody can say, I know of no statement by Newcastle however which has remotely suggested any unhappiness with the style of football favoured by CH while in charge at St James' Park. The respect and affection in which CH is held by the generality of Toon supporters also reflects well on CH's favoured style of play. @ redruth I wasn't drawing any sort of analogy between Hughton's Championship-winning team and any other. I was (as before) addressing the view that what we have seen from our team this season represents Hughton-style football and bodes ill for our future. That Newcastle team was a team managed by Chris Hughton which played in a way I presume all of us would be pretty happy to see reproduced here: potent attacking football from a solid defensive base. Yes, it was a team with plenty of quality, made up of players with whom CH was already familiar (as they with him from his having coached them in previous seasons), and yes they played that season in the Championship, and yes he had a great scouting network headed by Graham Carr behind him, etc., etc. But rather than trying to find reasons to pooh pooh his achievement with that team (a team of Premier League players playing in the Championship against, um yes, for example Barnsley ........), we should see it as telling us good things about CH, the style of football he aspires to have his teams play, and what we can expect as his spell with us progresses and he shapes a City squad with similar attributes. We can, in short, expect him now to bring in better quality players and continue the process of moulding a team which will be good to watch, potent in attack and defensively solid. That's it as far as I'm concerned. Finis
I don't think anyone is going to hold this season against Hughton (even me), providing he changes how we play next year. That's been the real issue this season, the bad run just made it more obvious.
