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Originally Posted by Matty_
Not really the manager i was refering to, allthough i don`t think old Al is management material tactics wise. Since the whole Mike Ashley cockney barrow boy crew took charge everything seems to have gone to pot...
I also think Newcastle fans think they have a divine right to be a top club just because they have a huge fan base. We all know that`s not the case.
Wonder who the next "night in shining armour" will be?
My money`s on the dream team of Shearer, Hanson and Lineker  |
I agree, Ashley had a perfectly good manager in Allardyce who could have turned them around but impatience forced him out, he wouldn't have got them relegated though.
Keegan coming back was a joke, the guy did nothing much in his first spell apart from spending money, and did nothing at Fulham or England another manager could have, and then repeated his cheque book at Man City... been out of the game for ages, but brought back to put smiles on the faces of fans, until he was exposed as crap again... that said, the board didn't help bringing in Wise (who has done what?) to oversee transfers and buying players the manager doesn't want.
No-one would work in that situation so Kinnear was probably the only choice to take it on - on paper a good appointment, did well with Wimbledon although that was long in the past, got Luton promotion and survived relegation in his first season with Forest, experienced head who keeps it simple and stabilises things - not a long term thing but fine as a caretaker. Personally I think had Kinnear not been taken ill then they would have stayed up, they were 13th after the WBA game. Hughton had no experience and Calderwood was new to the Championship - and was sacked for being in the relegation zone with us, having taken two attempts to get promotion, and having never managed in the Premiership - clearly only appointed because of his connections with Hughton and Wise. Shearer was a gamble - the hope that a total novice would lift the place enough to get momentum... In the end, Calderwood contributed to one relegation and but for Billy Davies, would have been two.
Be quite funny to see the pundits get it though, after they always go on about tactics and how the managers get it wrong.
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Just some stats...
http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...081005,00.html after Kinnear's first game NUFC were 18th with 5p from 7 games
http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...090207,00.html after the WBA game, the day Kinnear was hospitalised - 13th with 27p from 25
http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...090321,00.html after Hughton/Calderwood's last game - 18th with 29p from 30
Ending position 18th, 34 from 38
Keegan - average ppg 0.71, 27 points per season
Kinnear - average ppg 1.22, 46 points per season
Hughton/Calderwood - average ppg 0.40, 15 points per season
Shearer - average ppg 0.63, 24 points per season
Only Kinnear would have kept them up on PPG basis. Derby got 11 points last season, H/C were almost as bad.