Newcastle Promoted

[dww]

I think an 18 month deal was about right, there was no guarantee of success under Hughton and the last thing they needed was another big compensation payout.

He should be rewarded with a new deal though.

He only got it in December so I think he had more than earned a longer run then. I'd also guess that he isn't that highly paid and the payout/off would be comparatively reasonable.

[-V-]

Hughton won't cut it in the prem ...... different ball game all together .....this is when you need to take the team to the next level new manager better players

Don't agree at all. He is the right man for them clearly, the thing that matters is respect and he has earned that. The players are performing for him, obviously they need to improve their team but the manager is fine. Bringing in an over-complicated foreign coach doesn't always work in the premier league. Just look at our tactics and approach in the league this season

[lickedlollipop]

NUFC

[Vermilion]

So then.....Has Ashley put Newcastle back on the market.....Yet ?

[CJ]

was it ever off?

[cadmium]

[Chazza]

Don't agree at all. He is the right man for them clearly, the thing that matters is respect and he has earned that. The players are performing for him, obviously they need to improve their team but the manager is fine. Bringing in an over-complicated foreign coach doesn't always work in the premier league. Just look at our tactics and approach in the league this season

They suffered a bit form not having another wide player to work the opposite side to Gutierrez, he brought in Routledge and has got them playing a solid 442 with pace on both sides and some strikers who can score goals. Exactly what is needed to get out of the division.

Be interesting to see who they can bring in to strengthen and try and keep them up.

Hughton might get one record, if they dont lose the next 3 home games it will be the first time since the 1906-1907 season they have gone unbeaten at home.

[dww]

Hughton won't cut it in the prem ...... different ball game all together .....this is when you need to take the team to the next level new manager better players

Don't agree at all. He is the right man for them clearly, the thing that matters is respect and he has earned that. The players are performing for him, obviously they need to improve their team but the manager is fine. Bringing in an over-complicated foreign coach doesn't always work in the premier league. Just look at our tactics and approach in the league this season

It is an interesting one - plenty of managers have struggled in the PL having been very successful in the lower leagues and the exceptions are not all that easy to predict - Jewell, Bruce, Coyle (I suppose this one is questionable), Alladyce and Curbishley are all very different types of manager but done well. There have also been notable failures of foreign managers who didn't adapt no matter what success they had elsewhere - Gross and Ramos spring to mind.

Hughton clearly has the respect of a better group of players than most come up with. He will however have to buy well to ensure survival and adapt the way he has set the team up. I don't see why he should be thought of as a worse bet than anyone else they would likely be able to attract though.

[Leyton388]

Glad to see them back up. How we could have used those six points this season

[Matt]

NEWCASTLE FANS TO RESUME INEXPLICABLE SELF-CONFIDENCE

NEWCASTLE United fans resumed their adorable self-confidence last night by insisting their team was on course to win the Premier League next year without conceding a single goal.

The Magpies clinched promotion yesterday after the rest of the Championship allowed them to be promoted just to see how funny it will be when they go straight back down.

Nottingham Forest manager, Billy Davies, said: "We had a meeting last August and agreed it was worth sacrificing a promotion spot just to see the looks on their fat little faces when they lose 7-0 at home to Birmingham."

But Wayne Hayes, secretary of the Newcastle United Supporter’s Club, said: "It's been a long hard year of not being able to make ridiculously confident predictions based on nothing.

"But that's the price you pay when you give your heart and soul to the biggest and most successful football club that's ever existed."

He added: "I've told my local tattooist to order in a big bucket of black ink so I can have 'Champions Of Europe 2011' etched into my stomach next week."

Meanwhile owner Mike Ashley has thanked manager Chris Houghton for winning promotion by immediately firing him and scouting for a household name who will be utterly useless.

Ashley said: "We're already in talks with Cheryl Cole's people and I've asked that actor who played Brian Clough to be her assistant."

He added: "Wait a minute - what about Nelson Mandela?"

[The Erectile Banana]

Newcastle to win next season's CL.

You heard it here first.

[Exiled_red]

[tsb]

Good news. Guaranteed 6 points next season for us.

haha came into this thread to post exactly this

[MrsB]

[lickedlollipop]

champs of what? championship