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He's 22 and playing at a big club for the first time in his career. I don't think it's necessarily the "best" course of action to jump on him like a pack of wolves just because he hasn't settled immediately. Probably costs us very little so I don't see the problem with giving him chances from time to time and selling him in the summer if it doesn't work out. It's not as if he's starting every match.

Deserves credit for not making knee-jerk changes and trusting that our quality would come through in the end. Who was he going to bring on anyway, Nicky Butt?

FUCK YOU shit club who thought you were getting the jammy three points. Carroll!

Then again, let's please not go on our usual "OMG we're getting relegated sack Hughton sell all the players" trips if we lose this one. Terrible performance, but we're having horrible luck and I still think we can get back in this.

Stunning how no one's been talking about the actual match for 3~4 pages now

And the fact we won the game. Stifler in "winning is good" shocker!

Could they not be the crowd for: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,68190.0.html ah, now that would be a happy convergence of priorities.

I've always been a bit ambivalent about nust because they seem more attention-seekers than people who genuinely want to represent our interests.

Awesome if we could get a fund together to buy the naming rights and call it Newcatle United stadium or something to that effect

I won't lie, I'm kinda gutted. I want him to be around for me to hate

I would pay a hundred quid a year for this. ...hell, I'd pay two. Or three. Maybe even four...

We stood on the brink of complete implosion. After the relegation, it would have been very easy (and typical) for us to fall apart as a team and flounder in mid table. Many, many long-time Premiership clubs have failed to make the expected quick return and have disappeared into the Football League over the past few years. We have every right to be proud of coming back at first time of asking. (Assuming that it actually happens, of course)

With our luck, I fully expect Ashley to bring in an unknown Uruguayan center-back on emergency loan tomorrow and Hughton to get so offended by it that he walks.

In all honesty.... Probably not.

Don't agree, tbh. We only looked liked scoring when we went 2-1 because they started dropping back. I think bringing on a DM for a striker was the correct move at that time, it's just a shame that the DM we had available was Nicky Butt.

Some people just don't like Hughton and nothing will ever change that. IMO it's got everything to do with the preconception that he's not a "proper" manager (and perhaps some sort of resentment/distrust towards him for appearing to be an Ashley apologist) and nothing to do with what happens on the pitch. No matter what happens in the match, reality will be altered and interpreted to match what they perceive as be the truth.

OEWYREYRW)EUR#@($*)@#(*$)@#$ YEEEESSS FUCK YOU BORO

To be fair we were always going to struggle with that defense we've got out there.

Surely we just bring on Best at this point and go for it the best we can?

I'm guessing the Chris Hughton thread is going to be busy tonight...

It's funny to see my uncanny ability to have all my injuries concentrated on one position on FM carry on to real life, by the way.

Colo off [kneejerk]there goes our season?[/kneejerk]

Playing a decent side away so being on the kosh for a bit is expected. Hopefully we'll play better second half as we usually do. Great shifts as usual from Lovenkrands, Jonas, and Guthrie. A bit poor from the rest.

Guthrie's movement looks positively Gerrard-esque

Depends on how you look at it I suppose. I don't think taking us to eight points clear with a game in hand at the top of the table was particularly easy either considering the shambles we were in pre-season. Forgive me if I'm wrong but weren't you one of the people saying that we could be facing consecutive relegations? And I wasn't saying that Hughton was a better caretaker, just that both were so horrible that there's really no point in comparing.