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Sacked!

Amazing decision ..... Crazy!

that is a farce.

Keegan in!!

Shearer?

What a stupid decision by Newcastle. Even their fans warmed to him.

WTF?? Ashley really is a grade A knob, isn't he?

Calderwood was holding their management together, as soon as he left for Hibs it fell apart.

A very poor decision by the board, but then again they have a track record of poor choices.

It beggars belief - his replacement will be sacked before the end of the season (or it'll Joe Kinnear)

Since calderwood took over at hibs newcastle have won at west ham and arsenal, drew with chelsea and dicked sunderland 5-1. I'd suggest calderwoods presence made fuck all difference

Fookin ridiculous decision...  :no:

Ha ha. That's ace. Mid table in the Prem after going up and they sack Hughton. They really are fucking deluded aren't they? They had a bit of stability and he was doing a decent job. It will be interesting to see who gets the job - any decent manager shouldn't go anywhere near it.

Hopefully they'll give it to Poyet

They want someone with more experience apparently

If thats the case why appoint the cunt in the first place?

My comment was more based upon the fact that with Calderwood there they had never let in more than 3 in a game, since he left they let in 4 at home to the Arse and let in 5 at Bolton.

But they did score 5 at home to Sunderland, which was a fantastic result in all honesty.

Madness.

Did the board expect them to be challenging the top 4? Hughton has done a great job.

Gotta be more to it than just results.

Hope they go down now. That'll teach them.

Betting has been suspended on Pardew.

mr hughton, the team have re-grouped,got promotion,and look a stable prem outfit.so now you're sacked.....

been bubbling away for a bit has this one.ashley has just been waiting to bomb him out it would seem

Ashley really doesnt want the fans to like him.

fucking shocking. he's done a great job at that club and has them sat in 11th place. 4 points off 6th (also 4 points off 3rd bottom).

i really hope they get relegated now. they certainly will with Pardew in charge if thats who they choose

Pardew......you're having a laff!

Alan Pardew who recentley got sacked from a league one team. Oh dear.

Martin O'Neill will get that job.

Surely he's got more sense?

Whereas Pardew clearly hasn't :)

The same Martin O'Neill that left Villa because they would not invest any money in new players and insisted he sell players to break even, can't see Newcastle exactly appealling as they are the same as Villa but invest even less in players.

If Ashley wants to appease the fans then he is the only choice, if however he wishes to totally piss off the fans the it will be Pardew.

I just have a sneaky feeling he will break the bank and go for O'Neill and give him the funds he wants too.

Shocking decision. He's done a great job up there.

http://www.nufc-forum.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=35649.0

They are not happy!

Hope they get Shearer-they deserve him.

Lordy, they ain't happy. I'd be a bit peeved myself.

Sunrise, sunset.

Good to see Sol Campbell not afraid to voice his opinion on the decision.

Expect he probably be released as a result of him going public with his views.

What on earth makes you think that?

Ashley must be running out of feet to shoot himself in.

Mad decision. Stick by him when the fans didn't want him, they finally warm to the guy and then he sacks him? Fucking mental, Ashley wouldn't act any differently if he was deliberately trying to antagonize the fans.

If Pardew gets the job I'll be even more convinced: This is a man who decided that Hayden Mullins and Marlon Harewood should play ahead of Mascherano and Tevez...

Okay Paul, I stated the obvious, I get it!

I heard they were after chris wilder

Fixed it for you. He was so bad yesterday it was embarrassing, reminded me of when we had that Marhsy fella warming up with the players

Beggars belief.

We can only hope. Might just be the last we see of him as a pundit then.

keegan!!

Meh. Not bothered by this at all. Who the fuck cares about what the Geordies do.

Martin Jol just left Ajax...

That might explain that then.

beat me to it nemo

apparently betfair have just reinstated pardew as fave though.

Ashley wouldn't pay enough to afford Jol. Houghton was probably the worst paid manager in the PL.

to be honest ashely has spent a bit of cash this summer so i think he would pay for jol

On who? (Genuine question, I didn't think Newcastle had brought anyone in much apart from the aged crock Campbell)

Think they spent a million on james perch from nottingham forest in the summer

Out of his depth, like a fish out of water...

2mil for the loan of ben arfa (with an agreed 5mil fee at end of season) not sure where it stands now with his injury
3.5mil on cheik tiote
1.2 mil on perch
1.8 mil on mike williamson
1.5 mil on leon best
750k on danny simpson
1mil on wayne routledge

Im not saying these were good signing but it shows that he is willing to give a bit of money out.

Ben arfa and possibly simpson aside, I don't think you can call any of them good signings. At least not for the money they've paid

umm, i know, i said that.
And also cheik tiote has been superb

Tiote has been brilliant. Williamson and Routledge have been good- especially for the money paid for them.

1.5 mill for Leon Best? Has even kicked a ball for them? That's stupid money.

Yeh he's shit. No goals in 13 games. Rangers better.

I never said they were good signings, just showing that there mike ashley is not as much of a tight arse has he has been in the past

Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Wayne Routledge and Leon Best were all signed start of the year and not in the summer with the view to helping them get promoted.

So based on your intial list they signed 2 permanent signings (Perch and Tiote) for a total of £4.7 million and a loan signing (Ben Arfa) at £2 million.  So a total of £6.7 million to keep a squad of championship players in the premiership, the job Chris Hughton was doing was excellent and Mike Ashley has made a crazy decision sacking him.

think you have got the wrong end of the stick, if you read the thread i am in no way supporting mike ashleys decision, im just stating that there will be some money made available to the next manager

But the original post was not saying they wouldn't give Jol any money (although if they do, it's a bit bloody much as they told Hughton there wouldn't be any available to him) but that they couldn't (or wouldn't) afford to pay him what he'd want, never mind anyone he might want to sign

Unlucky apparently phil brown is in the frame as he has experience keeping a tram in the premier league! Hmmm ok

Why would they want to keep a tram in the Premier League? This could go badly off the rails

Mike Ashley.

Team!!!

Well the atmosphere at St James Park is electric.

you should never trust a chairman who wears a replica shirt.

Fact.

phil browns applied for the aberdeen job

Has to be Jol then - the Dutch have a really good reputation with trams

If it does, will the footage be as good as the ultra realistic special effects that blessed the Corrie tram crash? In no way did it look like a Hornby model spliced into the scene.

Calderwood was on the radio yesterday suggesting they had one of the lowest budgets in the league to work with, and that Ashley was a nice enough bloke but nobody knows where they stand or knows what he expects because he changes his mind all the time and is tough to get hold of to answer questions etc.

Perhaps Mark McGhee should take over at Newcastle - I think him & Ashley deserve each other

Alan pardew

Haaaaahahahahahahahahahaha

He'll be celebrating that one like a win.

I bet the geordies feel stupid for worrying about who was to be the replacement now. They could have appointed a hasbeen and been the laughing stock of the premier league.

According to media reports (Telegraph Sports) Newcastle are prepared to offer Pardew a simply
ridiculous contract offer....

"It is understood that a five-and-a-half year deal is on the table for the 49 year-old Pardew who has been out of work since he was sacked by League One side Southampton and will have his work cut out to win over fans and players alike judging by the reaction to Hughton's sacking".

The Newcastle soap opera continues unabated.

If that's true then you couldn't blame Pardew for taking the job! 5 1/2 years pay would make it well worth while...

66 months pay for being sacked after 18 if he doesn't live up to expectations? Can't be bad surely!

Apparently,Newcastle Chairman Derek Llambias is a good friend of Pardew,so i suppose it isn't
such a great surprise.

With the Mike Ashley regime still in place,someone like Martin O'Neill wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole.

5 and a half years for a manager who's level is probably half way up the Championship?

Hughton put a really exciting side together and walked the Championship last season. Loads of goals in their team.

Proof that they dont have a clue. Love to see them get relegated now.

Pardew? 5 and a half year contract? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Apparently Ashley and Pardew know eachother from a casino run by Llambias.

Sometimes, satire just has to give up and go home.

You're right. You couldn't make it up.

This remains very amusing.

Obviously working Gateshead, I work with loads of Newcastle fans.

They are mental for Newcastle United and talk a good game but what strikes me the most about the overwhelming majority of Newcastle fans I've encountered while living up here is how little they know about other football clubs (other than what Sky Sports News tell them).

Surely this is a joke? Alan Pardew? I would be gutted if he joined us as manager - and we're a half-arsed tinpot set up.

To be honest I think Pardew is a reasonable manager, who was really unlucky to be shafted by the board at Southampton. However, what I can't understand is how Ashley judges him to be a significant enough step up in quality Hughton. I would have placed them as roughly on a par.

I believe you'll find it was Pardew who was doing the shafting at Southampton

I think Pardew is a good manager but not premiership quality though

5 and a half years?! Fucking hell!!

Jackpot, Mr Pardew - well played sir.

An incredible sideways appointment. I doubt my Geordie friends will allow this to have a happy ending.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall when those negotiations were taking place.  5½ years?!  Extraordinary.

I'd just like to reiterate my absolute hatred of Pardew... i believe i've mentioned it many times before...

It is alleged that Pardew was caught taters deep in someone????

Apparently Gazza turned up at Mike Ashley's office Monday
morning with a can of beer, some chicken and a
fishing rod to try and stop him before he
did something stupid...

Yeh im shocked.

Getting rid of Hughton was right as he has fuck all experience and Newcastle would probably have been fighting out in the relegation places come the end of the season.

However Pardew is one of the worst managers about.  Couldnt even get Saints into the playoffs with a team who should easily have got their

Think Newcastle are a good bet to go down now

???

Of course he isn't. To be fair, Southampton would have made the play offs if it wasn't for the 10 point deduction.

Bizzare apppointment though, 5 year contract?! Ashley doesn't have a clue.

Imagine the compensation they'll have to pay out on that if they get rid of him after hes taken them back down to the championship.

I guess there's some rationale for it. Ashley has, it's claimed, decided that there needs to be a long term strategy for the development of the club, with a decent youth set-up, and intent to bring through their own players. If that's the case you need to give the manager the reassurance that he's not about to get binned off, to stop him from acting in ways just to get short term results so he doesn't get sacked.

He'll still sack him within 18 months mind 'cause he's a twat.

2 or 3 of the Saints boys wives, apparently including Lambert's bit of stuff.

Pardew = lad.

Now thats funny... made my day.. :D :D

I would suspect that there are some quite serious clauses in the contract that allow them to get rid of him for very little if they want to!

The more I read about Ashley the more it is obvious that there must be someone very clever in the background at Sports Direct to make all the money - he doesnt seem to have the brains to run a bath on his own!

He managed to ruin Charlton.

I cant stand him. Full of shit.

I would have thought the blame for that was more Iain Dowies. Getting relegated from the Prem, and the massive exodus of players that resulted was what screwed them, and they were on the brink of that by the time Pardew took over at the end December. 12 points by Christmas has relegation written all over it.

He's only ever achieved moderate success when allowed to spend massive amounts of money by chairmen.

He had a rediculous budget to get Reading out of League 1 and really struggled. Coppell had about the same budget and made them runnaway champions of the 2nd tier.

He's had big budgets at Reading and Southampton and under performed massively.  At Charlton he did nothing, but was shown up by Phil Parkinson after he left.

Let's remember he spent neatly a million on Fonte and Lambert last year, plus money on Barnard and Puncheon - and still couldn't get them up.  How much did we spend when we laboured our way to Wembley??

Pardew isn't the worst manager on the planet but he offers very little more and possibly more importantly, doesn't enthuse the fanbase.

It's like sacking Danny Wilson to appoint Mark McGhee.

liverpool to turn them over today.double your money bet

Oh dear, sorry arriba. All hail the new messiah. Chris Hu?

3-1!

fucking shit day for me betting wise.lumped on 2 horses which both came second.plus liverpool and west brom too.
sob.

A few beers will cheer you up. No such thing as a poor bookie

What were you on?

celestial halo and petit robin.

Celestial Halo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been a sack of shit for at least 12 months, each to their own though.

(It wasn't 2nd either)

Fuck me Arriba, it was about the only Paul Nicholls horse that didn't win today!!!

3rd.my mistake.
thought it would do alright back over the fences.

Must have been a few losers betting on league 1 as well with Southampton, Bournemouth and Carlisle all losing at home.

i backed the other fucker too.siliviaco conti.
small stake though

Thing for me with CH is they've got nowhere to go - it can't jump a fence, and is never going to beat Big Bucks over staying hurdles races.

Never mind, I was given a tip yesterday (Lush Life, won 8/1), and managed to back the wrong horse in the wrong fucking race.

I backed Monetary fund and the bastard was 4th.

Same trainer, same jockey, wrong race and wrong horse. What a Cunt!!

I don't know whether you're misrepresenting things to support your argument, or just genuinely don't know what you're talking about, but his record at Reading was:
Play off final loser (Old 3rd Div what ever it was called that year)
Automatic promotion (Old 3rd Div what ever it was called that year)
4th place - lost in play off semi (Old 2nd Div / 1st Div / Championship)

At West Ham:
Play off final defeat
Play off winner
9th in the Prem & FA Cup finalists

I'd take that sort of struggling at Town frankly

And he didn't have stupid money to spend at either. Madjewski never spent stupid money, and the biscuit man waited 'til Curbishly was in charge to flush his cash down the toilet.

He did get to spend a good wedge on Butler from what I remember, but it was hardly a mad multi million pound spending spree.

redeemed myself today as i had pavlychenko(spelling) to score first.

Glad your more cheerful today arriba