Shearer didn’t have a great record but you need to understand he took over a team who were losing every week anyway, confidence is a massive factor in any sport and our team lacked any what so ever by the time Shearer came in and it would of been hard for any manager to get that team, plagued by injuries and suspensions, back to full confidence in 8 games. Whether you want Shearer in or not I was trying to point out the fact Ashley said it was the ‘best decision hes made since being owner of the club’ so it begs the question why he didn’t give him the job full time if he felt making him caretaker manager was so great.

To Wizard of Oz:

I agree with your comments on Hughton, if the form does start to dip then he doesn’t seem like he’d have the charisma to get the team back on track, i’m pretty sure no Newcastle fan at the moment could dislike Hughton after the job he has done, but it is the same situation with any club that the fans want a manager who they can believe in and think has the passion to get things back on track if they start going wrong. All credit if Hughton can do it, but I just don’t feel he can, i’m happy for him to keep his position as caretaker for as long as possible but to commit to giving him the full time job is a bit risky as he doesn’t have the sort of connection that Shearer has with the fans. The difference is that people will get on Hughton’s back if things start turning sour, whereas the fans will be more patient with Shearer due to his history with Newcastle.

to UTD111:

Apologies for the mix up of chairman and owner, was just an honest mistake. Although with some of Ashley’s awful decision making you’d think he was really the chairman and llambas just a puppet! And thank you for pointing out the PR exercise, its my first article and i suppose I just ended up more trying to point out the whole youtube fiasco and got a bit carried away

David Cresswell:

It was starting to get late haha

Girly Mag:

I do kind of address in the final point that the Newcastle fans don’t really know what is going on any more. I can understand that a lot is said about the club in the press these days and we don’t know if it is true or not, particularly with the sale of the club. But I tried to use some relevant press articles to get my point across, i’d like to know where you found a problem with the article?

The other point I would make is, you’ve omitted the biggest transgression of the lot. This barrowboy and his cronies openly admitted to the Sir Kevin tribunal that they had repeatedly LIED to the fans – but that it was OK because it was just a “public relations exercise”

Beggars belief

Cheers
UTD111