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Not surprised Pardew has moved on, Newcastle are in the top half of the table which is about as high as Ashley wants to go. My guess is he's asked the question about the Jan transfer window & been told which of his key players are about to get sold out from under him & who might be coming in if he's lucky. Happily for him Crystal Palace have come along just at the right time.....
Big loss IMO, tough boots to fill.
He's wrung the best out of a pretty mediocre set of players on a slim budget, deflected no end of crap from fans with laughable expectations of success in the circumstances, and put an end to the farce that was the management merry-go-round.
I'd be surprised if the management merry-go-round rubbish doesn't start again.
He's wrung the best out of a pretty mediocre set of players on a slim budget, deflected no end of crap from fans with laughable expectations of success in the circumstances, and put an end to the farce that was the management merry-go-round.
I'd be surprised if the management merry-go-round rubbish doesn't start again.
Stu R said:
Big loss IMO, tough boots to fill.
He's wrung the best out of a pretty mediocre set of players on a slim budget, deflected no end of crap from fans with laughable expectations of success in the circumstances, and put an end to the farce that was the management merry-go-round.
I'd be surprised if the management merry-go-round rubbish doesn't start again.
I agree and a good point about the management merry-go-round.He's wrung the best out of a pretty mediocre set of players on a slim budget, deflected no end of crap from fans with laughable expectations of success in the circumstances, and put an end to the farce that was the management merry-go-round.
I'd be surprised if the management merry-go-round rubbish doesn't start again.
I would put money on the next manager not lasting more than 10 months.
I have seen and heard several of the interviews with Steve Bruce on the supposed NUFC vacancy. Considering what he has had to work with, I have always admired Bruce's management style and am even more impressed by the way he has discussed the possibility of the NUFC job in very recent interviews.
The man is class and all those associated with Hull should be grateful they have him on their side and look like keeping things that way for quite a while yet.
The man is class and all those associated with Hull should be grateful they have him on their side and look like keeping things that way for quite a while yet.
MGJohn said:
I have seen and heard several of the interviews with Steve Bruce on the supposed NUFC vacancy. Considering what he has had to work with, I have always admired Bruce's management style and am even more impressed by the way he has discussed the possibility of the NUFC job in very recent interviews.
The man is class and all those associated with Hull should be grateful they have him on their side and look like keeping things that way for quite a while yet.
I aren't concerned about Bruce leaving us, I also don't think he will get sacked by the current owners either. He has achieved a lot since joining and taking us to an FA Cup final is something that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. The man is class and all those associated with Hull should be grateful they have him on their side and look like keeping things that way for quite a while yet.
Watching the highlights on BBC 1, appears that goal was incorrectly disallowed. Game changer wrong decision disappointments like that for both the team and supporters have become far too frequent in recent years. The players and whole team time and again seem to react negatively to such unfair setbacks despite the officials best efforts to be fair. Understandable demotivation which few are able to quickly shake off and recover successfully. Often under that scenario the other team are able to score. Thus, instead of rightly being a goal up, they are a goal down. Been more than several such incidents over the past week or so creating what to my eyes are false final scoreline results.
For sometime now I have been increasingly becoming in favour of video referees double checking and letting goals stand where wrongly given offside or vice versa.
Same with poor decisions on fouls or diving with yellow or red cards wrongly given time and again. Again many are game changers given a false final result. The blatant holding in the penalty area now infests the game at every level. This should be penalised with a penalty spot kick decision even if it means initially ten penalties a match until the penny drops and players and their coaches change their ways.
Maybe I'm too much a purist where the beautiful game is involved. The games I see are far from that ... Ugly even. No doubt in my mind certain managers obviously coached their players to question, crowd and intimidate match officials at every opportunity. OK, that rarely gets them to change a decision but it most certainly persuades them to turn a blind eye to the next incident which merits firm action. Seen that time and again.
The media are not free of prejudice either.
Whilst I do not know what behind closed doors decisions were made which brought about Alan Pardew finally quitting the post at Newcastle, if as I suspect he was the main mover here, telling them to stick the job in the nicest and most legal possible way, then good for him. I think he was treated very badly by many of the Toon fans.
Far too much of this sort of thing in the "Sack the manager" misery go round Premiership in recent years. Even the media chomping on the bit to exacerbate things in the self interest of a negative story. That's all too frequent now. Not nice and another negative facet of the ever more "Ugly Game" scenario rendering the beautiful game an endangered species.
For sometime now I have been increasingly becoming in favour of video referees double checking and letting goals stand where wrongly given offside or vice versa.
Same with poor decisions on fouls or diving with yellow or red cards wrongly given time and again. Again many are game changers given a false final result. The blatant holding in the penalty area now infests the game at every level. This should be penalised with a penalty spot kick decision even if it means initially ten penalties a match until the penny drops and players and their coaches change their ways.
Maybe I'm too much a purist where the beautiful game is involved. The games I see are far from that ... Ugly even. No doubt in my mind certain managers obviously coached their players to question, crowd and intimidate match officials at every opportunity. OK, that rarely gets them to change a decision but it most certainly persuades them to turn a blind eye to the next incident which merits firm action. Seen that time and again.
The media are not free of prejudice either.
Whilst I do not know what behind closed doors decisions were made which brought about Alan Pardew finally quitting the post at Newcastle, if as I suspect he was the main mover here, telling them to stick the job in the nicest and most legal possible way, then good for him. I think he was treated very badly by many of the Toon fans.
Far too much of this sort of thing in the "Sack the manager" misery go round Premiership in recent years. Even the media chomping on the bit to exacerbate things in the self interest of a negative story. That's all too frequent now. Not nice and another negative facet of the ever more "Ugly Game" scenario rendering the beautiful game an endangered species.
Ketsbaia latest to be linked.
Loved his passion when he played for us.
Would certainly be an interesting choice as manager.
Seems to have a pretty decent track record...
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/foot...
Loved his passion when he played for us.
Would certainly be an interesting choice as manager.
Seems to have a pretty decent track record...
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/foot...
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