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Hasn't been anyone like him in England for years before or after until Carroll.

Ashton was one of the brightest striking talents in a generation as far as I'm concerned. Inevitable he earned praise having gone through a spell of fitness, no managerial achievement there. Just a shame he was genuinely made of glass. Incidentally, I support the club, and good servants of our club past and present. As it is, our club has been hijacked - our club isn't going to be a winner in the forseeable future, it's been put into a deep sleep by hostile actors, so I wish those who've previously done it a good turn well in their future careers wherever that means they have to go.

As I've said before, my only realistic hope with him would be that he impregnates Ashley's daughter. And sons.

Really tempted to be apathetic, but that's how I used to be before the last year or so under Hughton. Him and the players restored my fondness of and pride in the club and I feel like I owe it to myself and them to not let the cunts get me down and stay angry instead.

I'm glad (as much as it's possible at this point in time) that basically everyone in football agrees over this. Ashley is a c***. The only problem is those fans agreeing with us then go on to say "I hope Newcastle get relegated now". Least we're not getting the usual, "The fans forced him out" diatribe though. Pavlov's dogs, I'm still expecting it to happen. Might have to wait 6 months and then history can be re-written or something.

Thought he deserved his own thread, his departure is worth a bit of attention itself. Sacked or resigned? Been here for three years, is highly rated by Given, Harper and has brought through Krul and Forster, he's a loss. We now have how many backroom staff?

Llambias will make the decisions, all he'll do is go to Ashley to get his OK. His role is being massively underestimated in this thread.

Presumably why Llambias and Ashley sacked him.

The best new manager this club's had since SBR. The fools have disgraced themselves and will only lose more of their money.

I don't respect this place enough, was expecting to come on here and be controversial when I said he was no good. He was pretty excellent against Chelsea, though - I can see him being good against slower build-up style teams and worse when stretched due, as has been said, to his agility I suppose. Maybe Collocini playing a more intelligent version of Taylor's mad-arsed role could see Campbell play better in these kinds of matches.

I can see Ben Arfa's future being not dissimilar to his past - a floating position within the team, put where he's needed when he's needed (replacing any one of Jonas (when more quality's needed), Ameobi (obvious enough), Barton (when more attacking directness is required) or Nolan (guy needs a rest, sometimes...)) and withdrawn when he sometimes isn't. Not sure how he'll like that... But if he's maturing, which is plausible, his overall qualities might improve and negate the others' advantages meaning he can play more (tracking back, consistency etc.), and/or he might buy into our musketeer routine and appreciate the team's success and what role he has in it, so it could work out. Either that or... Reinvent the 3-5-2..? Willoccini+Enrique, Enrique drifting left to assist Jonas' semi-wingback duties while Barton is entrusted even more with his measured wingback role, as was particularly the case at Arsenal (his tenacity and medium-long passing skills brought to the fore ahead of his lack of pace/trickery). Meanwhile, Tiote squeezes all the wanker 4-1-3-2 formations, and Nolan and Ben Arfa develop an understanding and do what they see fit in defence and attack... the latter probably more often drifting wide when attacking to make up for our reduced wing presence. And still got both the blunderbusses up front to wreck havoc, pressing from the front - one or the other also floating back and forth, switching positions with Nolan and/or Ben Arfa as has already been happening lately (we haven't really been playing a 4-4-2 lately by conventional standards). Thing with unconventional tactics is they need great team spirit, communication, organisation and a certain amount of intelligence to be successfully implemented... which we actually have. Well, there isn't enough creative thought in the world sometimes...

hahahahahaha! Fuck off you! You of all people.

Could see England skipping corrupt dog-features and going for Hughton...

Supporter. Doesn't matter what it used to refer to, fan mean's hat-wearing children to me now.

And Nolan. For years, England and Newcastle have been synonomous with squads of gutless tossers. Nolan helped change that with us, I reckon he could do it for his country too and is worth a spot in the 22. Would back him to come on and win the game against any team in the world ahead of someone like Milner in the last 15 minutes of a deadlocked quarter final, too...

tbf it's very easy to say that now To be fair, they've said it repeatedly all season that they believe all games are to be won.

Looks like he's frightening a trick or treating 8 year old off his front garden

No messing around. That said, if one of them happened to get injured, it would be interesting to see what Campbell did. But no unnecessary messing, central defenders generally live and breathe as a unit.

Imagine there's a nelson ha ha picture here. Comolli was a dead weight on Tottenham, I hope he hasn't retired from politics since he left them.

Fuck off man don't be daft.

http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20101101/hughton-lads-needed-no-motivation_2281670_2204040 Quality.

I know you've been working out but come on. The guy's 21 years old. Wow.

Played his part. Not a day for criticism, but I can definitely say he played his part in today. And only his second proper game back after a major injury, too.