Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:37 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

is Pardew really gonna be any better than Hughton

No.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:42 pm  

Mark wrote:

Good point that. How has he taken a treble winning team to 6th in serie a? Is it the owners?

net spend or something.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:00 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

is Pardew really gonna be any better than Hughton

Pardew's win % 48.11, 41.1, 31.46, 53.13

Hughton's win % with Newcastle 55.71

That suggests he isn't.

As others have said, if Newcastle were going to replace Hughton with a Jol or O'Neill, Hughton's sacking would have been a harsh but brave decision.

Sacking Hughton for Pardew though is a joke. Appointing him because he's your casino buddy makes it even worse. There's nothing in Pardew's career that makes him a suitable NUFC manager.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:06 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

Sacking Hughton for Pardew though is a joke. Appointing him because he's your casino buddy makes it even worse. There's nothing in Pardew's career that makes him a suitable NUFC manager.

Quite apt really for Mike Ashley.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:10 pm  

RedTez wrote:

Do you know much about this Defour we seem to be constantly linked with?

I remember Fergie being in touch with him last year whilst he was injured and he had been watching him for about a year before that. Never seen him play though.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:47 pm  

Are there protests outside Newcastle's ground yet? I'm expecting burning effigies.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:56 pm  

Old pals act if ever there was one.

Hughton has been sold down the river big style.

I am gutted. I expect us to be relegated, but we won't even go down in style - we will be relegated playing awful football.

Newcastle must be the hardest club to support in the land.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:49 pm  

Mark wrote:

Kind of taken on Palermo as my italian team through them being on ESPN so often. Like the look of them, and also interested in the history of the Mafia which kinda coincides with the Sicilian outift. The blonde left back look's half decent as well. Was Miccoli as benfica?

They have Liverani, one of my favourite players ever. He's class.

Have you seen that Abel Hernandez? He's hardly been prolific there, but I seen him last year and he looked a tidy player for his age. They have a former youth of ours (Kasami his name is, I think), not sure how good he's turned out, he got good reviews in his time here.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:22 pm  

FC knocked out 0-4 to Brighton in the replay. Brighton played really well, and their professional fitness told in the end, it might have been more interesting had Cotterill converted his penalty. 7k at Gigg Lane tonight, an absolutely mental atmosphere from start to finish, it's been one hell of a journey this year!

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:24 pm  

I've never understood why football clubs/chairmen seem to place so much value on experience in a manager, even if it's consistent experience of failure. It's just a constant merry-go-round of the same blokes getting relegated, getting sacked, getting another job at a club in or around a relegation battle, getting relegated again, on and on. Why?

There's probably a reason the same managers keep getting caught up in relegation battles, so to get rid of someone doing well in favour of one of them makes no sense to me.