James Tavernier, Gael Bigirimana, Haris Vuckic, Curtis Good and Adam Campbell are unlikely to see much first team football this season, so we would expect Alan Pardew to send these players out on loan, but we haven’t seen that yet, apart from a short loan spell at Shrewsbury Town by Tavernier for a couple of games, before he was injured and returned to Newcastle.
Gael Bigirimana – needs first team games
These players will play in the Newcastle U21 side, but Paul Dummett showed the way to quickly progress is by playing first team football out on loan, and both he and Conor Newton excelled at St. Mirren, and Conor is back there getting more first team games north of the border.
Conor has 20 games for St, Mirren And has eight so far this season.
Shane Ferguson is out on loan at Birmingham City for the season, and he’s so far played 11 times there, after playing for them 11 times on loan last season.
Midfielder Mehdi Abeid is at Panathinaikos for the season, and so far he has fives games for the Greek side with one goal.
Romain Amalfitano never came through last season, and the Frenchman is on loan at second division French club Dijon FCO, although his older brother Morgan is playing well for West Brom this season, on loan from Marseilles.
So if James Tavernier, Gael Bigirimana, Haris Vuckic, Curtis Good and Adam Campbell are to quickly progress, surely the best thing is for them to go out on loan.
Australian Curtis Good had a good spell at Bradford City last season, and played 9 times there and even at Wembley against Swansea in the Capital Cup final, and this season in the Capital One Cup 3rd round tie at Morecambe, he made his first team debut for Newcastle.
Sammy Ameobi and Paul Dummett are too close to the first team to be sent out on loan, and both players can do a job for the Newcastle first team this season.
But for the other five – they need first team games – somewhere.
What do you think?
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48 comments so far
Laurent Robert 32
Oct 8, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Comment #41Cyprus, thanks 😉
Playing better and or being successful is obviously welcome for him as it would be for anyone. However, the limits of minimal outlay, signing then persisting with a cheap and proven to be incapable manager tell me he’s quite happy for things to be as they are, that is clear.
He thought it was satisfactory to take the beatings we did last year and awful performances and narrowly miss relegation. How do we know this? Because he didn’t sign any more players permanently or employ a capable and proven manager.
He has the power to change that if he really wants… but he doesn’t. That is my point. It is of a satisfactory state to continue with what we have. That is not ambition, that is something else entirely.
Something else, is his money making, and that alone.
JackButler
Oct 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM
Comment #42cyprus
Maybe Pardew is now under serious pressure to deliver, but the fans, for the most part don’t have the confidence that Ashley would make the right appointment even if he were to cut him loose and it’s thats fear, fear of the like’s of Kinnear or someone of equally poor credentials taking over that gets some fans to want to stick with Pardew
Partizan
Oct 8, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Comment #43Laurent Robert 32….Daglish had 1 good season and he won the league can you imagine….but we’re talking about Poyet who CONSTANTLY makes his team play amazing football year after year and not just for 1 season.
My number 1 pick at the end of last season was Rudy Garcia but i’m so glad he went to Roma so he doesnt have to put up with this misery surrounding this club.
SeanNufc87
Oct 8, 2013 at 2:04 PM
Comment #44Rotonda
You love picking and choosing from pardews career to support your argument dont you?
Reading: relegation bound, almost got promoted in 01, got promoted in 02 to division 1, finished 4th in the first season in division 1. Left for west ham.
West ham: 1st season division 1 playoff final defeat, 2nd season promoted to prem after playoffs 3rd season (06) 9th in the prem and an FA cup final defeat (on pens to Liverpool) in 07 he had a terrible run (worst in 70 years) and was fired.
Charlton: … he was absolutely terrible, relegation after a promising start then 11th in the championship before leaving on mutual concent.
Southampton: 2010, almost got to the playoffs despite a 10 point deduction, won the JPT. Was fired 5 months later after falling out with the chairman.
I wont post the Newcastle stuff as I would assume you know it.
But that list has more positives than negatives in my view, not saying hes the right man for us, just saying its ignorant to state he has done nothing apart from finish 5th in the prem once.
jimmysmith
Oct 8, 2013 at 2:07 PM
Comment #45Surely we can take heart from the patches of excellent form we’ve shown. Who knows, but it seems to me we might be on the verge of coming good, and I haven’t felt like that in ages, not even the season we finished fifth, where I just thought the good run would surely finish sooner rather than later and very surprisingly didn’t. Sort out the defense, which looks like its a shape issue as well as a horses for courses one and get Cisse back in form and I think we can still make top 6. It’s still early doors in a long season.
Laurent Robert 32
Oct 8, 2013 at 2:14 PM
Comment #46On the points that we can win or lose by a couple of goals, I agree with that too.
My thoughts on it are that the team itself is full of capable players. Capable enough to get call-ups for their countries. At various points, their collective skill irrespective of managerial input will be able to achieve results.
Management and coaching is over the long haul though, and we are continuously poor at fundamental movements and patterns in our play, that includes Pardew’s much heralded 5th season, which was based on a lot of men behind the ball and individual goals.
Like jack just said, which is where we’re at now.
Remy solo goals, Ben Arfa solo goal, Cabaye pot shot from distance. That is what we’re basing our points tally on. It cannot last. We need the brilliance of individuals, but our bread and butter should be the team and team goals. We don’t have that.
HOGC
Oct 9, 2013 at 2:24 AM
Comment #47@ Jimmysmith, the times we played well, i believe its because the players were too sick and tired of pardew’s instructions that they decide to do things their way. I’m fully a believer of this theory.
LEROI
Oct 9, 2013 at 2:29 AM
Comment #48Vuckic has lets say less than impressed me in any game I’ve seen him, campbell has done nowt as well looks like a toddler trying to understand what the big boys are kicking that roundy white thing for when he comes on. bigi is canny good but easily 5 choice at cm behind cabs,toite,sisso& nanita.