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Newcastle Manager Situation

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Keawyeds said:
Bollocks.
Their confidence is shot to shit.
Rafa will have to perform some kind of miracle to get them working as a team, let alone a team that can win a match
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Let's see a Magpie has one life on the other hand a Blackcat has nine lives.....the only bounce that Newcastle will have is to the Championship.....
 
GBSAFC said:
I'm probably being naive but can you imagine the meltdown if he rejects.... Forget chernobyl...
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There'll be a huge steaming crater where the open sewer used to be. It'll tidy the place up a bit at least.
 
This week has been a total shambles for them with a farcical preparation for the game at Leicester on Monday...if they are still negotiating with Benitez or whoever and suffer another hammering I can see no-one touching the job.
 
Howard the Duck said:
You don't share my belief that Newcastle are drillable into being a more effective unit then they've displayed so far though. I was saying that on the basis that Benitez had been appointed - I don't think Newcastle will win there under McClaren.
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I'd have been more worried if they got in Pearson or someone a bit like Pullis, Big Sam or even Moyes or Keane - those sorts of managers seem like the type to get a reaction. I just don't see how Rafa is supposed to be a manager for a real relegation dogfight - he has zero experience of ever being in one to start off with - and Newcastle just seem to lack any backbone - can Rafa really give them one?

Reiver said:
Well ...... as Newcastle have lost every away game, this year, and Leicester haven't lost, at home, since September ......... not that winnable :confused:
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Er yes - if you were Leicester, is there any team in the Prem (apart from Villa) you'd rather play?
 
Howard the Duck said:
You don't share my belief that Newcastle are drillable into being a more effective unit then they've displayed so far though. I was saying that on the basis that Benitez had been appointed - I don't think Newcastle will win there under McClaren.
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I do, but not by a huge amount.

They just don't have enough defenders capable of playing well in the PL and the keeper isn't good enough.

Taylor, Coloccini, Colback shouldn't need drilling ....... they've played in those positions enough times.

He also can't drill strikers to score goals and Newcastle are poor in attack, no one can deny that.

andymcnish said:
Er yes - if you were Leicester, is there any team in the Prem (apart from Villa) you'd rather play?
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Newcastle are simply terrible away from home at the moment ....... they average around 2/3 shots on target per game.
 
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GBSAFC said:
Looks it looks a done deal or an advancing one but.... Something doesn't add up.... Benitez must be mental and could come to his senses before its too late
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Hopefully someone close to him can explain he's got a better chance of survival playing Russian roulette with all six loaded.
 
daventry cat said:
Yes he can try to organise them a little better but he can't make them better footballers in such a limited time nor can he instill enough passion into enough of the ones drifting through games.... He simply doesn't have the tools to work with
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He will also hopefully have to get them over being ripped to shreds at the King Power 5 days before the Derby :)
Marhez and Vardy are fast and tricky - whose for a red card or two too :)
 
Any bloke who wins la liga twice and isn't in charge of Barcelona or R.Madrid should be taken seriously. The team he built in his first 3 years at Liverpool was excellent.
 
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