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The fact that the players seem happy to sign long contract extensions without any assurances over the manager's future would suggest that they don't give a shit whether he stays or goes.

 

Or a deal for Hughton is imminent.

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The fact that the players seem happy to sign long contract extensions without any assurances over the manager's future would suggest that they don't give a s*** whether he stays or goes.

 

a) who said they haven't been given assurances over his future?

b) even if they haven't, how the hell do you make the leap that they couldn't give a toss about Hughton?  You think they are all going to hold off contract talks until he signs his deal?  Maybe Taylor is doing this?  Oh wait, no, he's just a money grabbing twat

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From the Mirror..

"I can tell you categorically 100 per cent that there's only one person here who selects the team and that will be the normal process.

 

"I will select the team. You sometimes confide in your assistants, very much Colin Calderwood when he was here, but certainly with not players. It's an impossibility. If you go down that road, it's a very dangerous road."

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The fact that the players seem happy to sign long contract extensions without any assurances over the manager's future would suggest that they don't give a shit whether he stays or goes.

I can't believe you got people to bite with that :lol:

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From the Mirror..

"I can tell you categorically 100 per cent that there's only one person here who selects the team and that will be the normal process.

 

"I will select the team. You sometimes confide in your assistants, very much Colin Calderwood when he was here, but certainly with not players. It's an impossibility. If you go down that road, it's a very dangerous road."

 

Nolan told him to say that.

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Hughton is the first manager we've had that I haven't been able to make my mind up about for more than a two or three games at a time.  Sometimes I think he'll become a good manager and other times I'm not too sure about him.

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I think he's already proven he's a good manager.  We're obviously going to lose games and have bad runs, you can't always say that means the manager is crap, take Ancelotti as an example at the moment.  On the other hand you could argue the opposite with the good runs but I think Hughton has shown enough in the last year and a half, with our rapid rise, to show he's a good manager.

 

Mick, you seem to be basing your opinion on Hughton's ability entirely down to our results (thinking he's good after and few wins and bad after a few defeats), surely there comes a point where you have to accept that a manager is doing the best with the players he has got.   You could argue Hughton isn't doing this it but that would be difficult IMO.

 

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I get the feeling that we'll turn up for almost every game with Hughton. In recent years, with Roeder, Souness, Kinnear, Fat Sam etc. there were games where you could see from the first minute that we were going to get battered, but this side is different, much down to the work of CH. I don't know what he is doing but this team has so much more fight in it than many of the other Newcastle sides that I've seen. It is going to become incredibly important come the end of the season.

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He's consistently awful with mid game tactical changes and substitutions. Fair enough he recognised Shola was dreadful today and subbed him at half time, but to bring on the flimsy Lovenkrnads with two more fitting replacements sitting on the bench is just crazy.

 

I like Hughton but for every one thing he's done well this year, there's another where he's made a glaring error.

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