John Carver has equaled the six game losing streak he helped to set last year at this time, when he was the touchline manager after Alan Pardew had been banned for seven games, and Newcastle for the first time ever in the Premier League lost six games in a row.
John Carver – very poor record at Newcastle
And since John Carver was given the head coach job through the end of the season, he is now on another six game losing streak, we have lost seven of the last eight games, and Newcastle have taken only 9 points from the 42 available this year,
Newcastle have won only two games of the 15 games played this year – and we are now in a relegation struggle after being 9th top after 19 games with 26 points, when John took over at the start of the year.
With other Premier League clubs that would just not be good enough, but at Newcastle we are told the top brass are impressed with John, and he is in line to be the head coach of the club at the end of May.
Go figure.
Newcastle are in danger of setting a new record against Swansea on Saturday of seven defeats in a row in the Premier League.
We hope that doesn’t happen.
105 comments so far
Sav
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:44 AM
Comment #41The question is not ‘Should you support the boycott or support the team?’ but ‘Would you rather go all out for the remaining 5 matches of this total write-off of a season or face the likelihood of another whole season of shame, drudgery and incompetence under Cardew or McLaren?’
The way things are at Newcastle now, any player worth his salt will want out. Surely that is a fact everyone can accept? Unless something is done and quickly, we will be left adding to the dregs from the free transfer circular. If you aren’t prepared to put up with that, act now.
lesh
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:44 AM
Comment #42What a state of affairs.
The Chron has it that the HC job’s down to McClaren or Carver and even McClaren’s got a chance to say no thanks.
I believe it’s always been the intention too give Carver the post.
Injuries and suspensions have made life difficult for him this time round have they? What about the last time he had six weeks in the dug-out?
Were they the reasons we collected so few points or is he just a crap coach!
Ashley seems to have it in his skull that just because Carver’s got his coaching badges he’s therefore an adequate coach? Does it not occur to the tw@ that passing a driving test doesn’t make a world champion F1 driver?
And we read in the Guardian that as Wonger’s brand in ‘toxic’ [its word] that Wonger may well change its name.
And add to Wonga, Blackpool FC and Karl Oyston what do we see?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-31081462
What a coincidence eh, Ashley plus Wonga results in football failure…….
What id it with Oyston and Ashley? Is there something wrong with their personality wiring? Could they share DNA?
What a state of affairs.
An HC who’s putting himself in a situation where he’s despised by his fellow NUFC fans, a Geordie despised by thousands of Geordies….. where’s Carver planning to live after he’s pinned his colours to the mast of Ashley’s ship?
What a clown.
Sav
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:45 AM
Comment #43If Cardew was an animal, he’d be a turtle.
lesh
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:47 AM
Comment #44If memory serves we well, a certain poster who seems to be getting up peoples’ noses used to post sensible comments, years ago.
Is the Blackley and Brownlie who’s posting now the same Blackley and Brownlie of years ago that used to contribute rather than provoke posters?
Slank
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:48 AM
Comment #45Blackley and Brownlie @ 35
How many SD stores will you target ?
I believe there are nearly 500 in the UK.
What about the stores in Austria, Iceland, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Cyprus and a few other European countries ? Also what about targeting those in United Arab Emerites ?
lesh
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:49 AM
Comment #46Sav
If Cardew was an animal, he’d be a Lemming!
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:49 AM
Comment #47Funny you should say that Tuff, good chap. A clutch has gone on one of my motors and I’ve had an RAC gentleman out this morning. But because it is a 4 wheel drive he can’t tow it. I’m expecting his mate with a full uplift in the next hour. I have other cars so it’s not a problem but it would be awfully nice of you if you could let me have the use of one of your chauffeurs for the day.
Ibizatoon
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:50 AM
Comment #48Jay…It’s not a phrase I like to use anymore, I used it for for too long, but we shall have to wait and see.
He shouldn’t get the job. As I said though, he shouldn’t have got this job in the first place.
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:51 AM
Comment #49Lesh
Give me one example of a comment that’s not sensible (other than one that returns the ball over the net in response to stupid comments).
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:54 AM
Comment #50Slank
You’re the ones, not me, who wants Ashley out with no one to take over. I can’t see the sense in an Ashley Out campaign with no one with big pockets wanting to take over.
Jeff from Benwell
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:59 AM
Comment #51Jail for Ashley
It was a RADIO station in Poland not a train station
The atackers were concentration camp inmates dressed in Polish uniforms (and all killed)
It was known as the Sender Gleiwitz incident
William Shirer as correspondent of the Chicago Tribune was invited by the German press corps along with many other foreign journalists to inspect the corpses and was hurried away from the site when he picked up one of the “Polish” rifles and found the ammo clip empty.
Your claim that Keegan was hired deliberately to sack is as absurd as Josef Goebbels claims in 1939.
jayphoto
Apr 22, 2015 at 11:59 AM
Comment #52funny thing is, even if someone with big pockets comes in, chances are Ashley doesn’t want to sell! As far as business goes we’re an easy little earner that probably cause him less headaches than his other businesses! Lets be honest he doesn’t blink an eye at our protests.
Can’t understand why he sits throught the dross of watching us play most weeks though….
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:02 PM
Comment #53I can’t see the sense in an Ashley Out campaign that targets NUFC and not SD. Not only is SD’s gains from NUFC one of the biggest, if not the biggest, criticism but also targeting SD is Ashley’s soft underbelly. It’s no secret that Ashley is unpopular with many SD shareholders.
optimistic prime
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:03 PM
Comment #54Tuff
Get in, glad you did. Obvs you mentioned it, I hadn’t realised you’d informed them.
Slank
What about the share holders?
I’ve never heard them complaining about SD practises.
The obviously don’t care about NUFC and care less about how they make a few quid.
I’d be happy to target any of the companies who get free ads.
If someone’s happy to make money off the misery of others why should I care if they lose a cpl quid?
And I’m not just talking about the misery of NUFC fans, how about the USC staff etc etc.
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM
Comment #55Jayphoto
Ashley may or may not want to sell if or when a reasonable offer comes in. But if the fans see a man with a plan and big pockets, and Ashley preventing him from taking over, that’s when I and I suspect the vast majority would be sympathetic to protests and even join in. At the moment, a plan to get Ashley out is not credible with no realistic purchaser. As it stands, Ashley, if pushed, could just asset strip, repay his loan, liquidate the club and it would be NUFC no more.
Jail for Ashley
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:09 PM
Comment #56Jeffrey,
You get my jist, I never googled my information.
lesh/sav
If Cardue was an animal he’d be a brown tongued ostrich.
Jeff from Benwell
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:11 PM
Comment #57Blackley and Brownlie
Be careful they are all queueing up on here to cause you pain.
http://viz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-26-at-18.05.40.png
Slank
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:11 PM
Comment #58Blackley and Brownlie @ 50
Find me a quote where I have said I want Ashley out.
What I try and do is point out some of the practicalities involved.
For example, targeting SD shops in Newcastle is not going to hurt Ashley because SD is a multinational company with perhaps up to 1000 outlets worldwide. Ashley could close the Newcastle shops and it wouldn’t affect SD or Ashley but it would mean local employees losing their jobs.
For example, those who say ‘Ashley Out’ . He needs a buyer. Would he be bothered who it was I doubt it. Would it be a mega rich hard nosed businessman like himself, probably. However the one thing that he can do by himself is close the club down. That’s not something i and I’m sure you don’t want. Could anybody stop him, probably not.
Jeff from Benwell
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:13 PM
Comment #59The word is gist
I believe jist is the past tense for the contents of your handkerchief
Jail for Ashley
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:13 PM
Comment #60Jennifer and Blackley the Bonnie and Clyde outlaws of .co.uk Deadwood in the true sense.
Ron Knee
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:13 PM
Comment #61I calculate that Carver’s got the remaining matches of the season to beat Dinnis’s 10 consecutive league defeats.
Jail for Ashley
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:16 PM
Comment #62Well Jeffrey it’s often misspelled and without google you wouldn’t have had a clue !
Sav
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:18 PM
Comment #63Lesh@46 – at least lemmings do the decent thing when the numbers are stacked against them so I still say Cardew is a turtle – he’s even got the wrinkles and the turned up collar.
Ibizatoon
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:21 PM
Comment #64Seems we could use a little musical interlude.
I’m a big fan of the White Stripes. This isn’t one of their best, but the lyrics…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWckYfZhbA&spfreload=10
“And if there’s one of these unavoidable laws. It’s that you can’t just take the effect and make it the cause”
“Well you can’t take the effect
And make it the cause
I didn’t rob a bank
because you made up the law
Blame me for robbing Peter
But don’t you blame Paul
Can’t take the effect
And make it the cause”
Ron Knee
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:23 PM
Comment #65Ibiza
What about The Doors: ‘The future’s uncertain and the end is always near.’
Slank
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:23 PM
Comment #66optimistic @ 54
My understanding is that most of the other shareholders of SD are investment and asset companies who are investing probably some of the Toon fans employee pension funds.
Another connection with SD is the Australian company Mysale Group. Will Toon fans in Oz be targeting them ? Nearer home SD have arrangements, the nature of which I don’t know, with Bolton and Huddesfield. Will Yorkshire Toon fans begin to target them ?
Ibizatoon
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Comment #67Ron… That works too 🙂
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:29 PM
Comment #68Sav
You say “act now”.
Unless a new owner comes in, how’s it going to change? Ashley will run the club as he sees fit.
You might be arguing not for Ashley out but just for him to change to please the fans. If you were Ashley, and it was your money at risk, would you not want to do it your way?
And if you listened to the fans, which fans would you listen to? All fans have many and different opinions on the next manager and how much should be spent on players etc. You’d never keep them happy. The best you can hope for is to keep them quiet.
That’s probably why there’s no one desperately wanting to buy the club. Why would they want the hassle of fans who boycott clubs when the owner doesn’t run the club as they want?
If everyone boycotts every game from now on in, Ashley will say there’s no buyer and no point. Liquidate the club. The club can start again like Rangers.
optimistic prime
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:29 PM
Comment #69Slank
There’s a quite a few fans from areas other than Newcastle who’ve said they’d target SD in their area.
I can’t really comment on what others are prepared to do, that’s their choice.
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:34 PM
Comment #70Jail
As that the best you can come up with? Bonnie and Clyde. Like Farage says, you know you’ve won the argument when all people can do is misrepresent what you say or insult you. You will recall he called Miliband a liar on tv this week and Miliband said nowt.
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:36 PM
Comment #71Ibiza
I see you have ignored my challenge to you. That’s another tactic of someone who has lost the argument.
jayphoto
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:48 PM
Comment #72blackley – Ibiza don’t seem the type to ignore stuff mate, he’s probably just off doing something
Slank
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:48 PM
Comment #7369optimistic prime // Apr 22, 2015 at 12:29 PM
Optimistic
‘…quite a few fans from areas other than Newcastle who’ve said they’d target SD in their area.’
‘I can’t really comment on what others are prepared to do, that’s their choice.’
That’s why a boycott of SD will not work if the objective is to inflict financial damage on SD and Mike Ashley because Toon fans outside of the North East are so few and not organised and SD is so widespread and organised.
Would Toon fans be a welcome sight by the locals at (say) Bolton or any other town in the UK which could mean that, at its very worst, the local employees losing their jobs ?
dok - the horrid colonial
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:51 PM
Comment #74gmorning all…
except for the wum blackley, whos starting in early..
wouldn’t piss on your gums if your mouth was on fire…
optimistic prime
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:52 PM
Comment #75Hahahahahaga
I’ve just wet myself, describing himself to a T and making out it’s others who act in that way.
You couldn’t make it up!
Hahahahahajaha
When do the Hitler quotes start?
Let me change my under wear first.
Hahahaha.
Slank
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:56 PM
Comment #7668Blackley and Brownlie @ 68
I agree with your realistic assessment.
On the Sunday Supplement when asked Martin Samuels (I think it was) said that the fans have every right to protest but the owner had every right to manage his property as he sees fit.
Toon Tang
Apr 22, 2015 at 1:03 PM
Comment #77Next Monday at 8 on 4, should be worth a look.
‘Dispatches goes undercover to investigate the secrets of Sports Direct’s success.
Reporter Harry Wallop explores the hidden cost of the clothes, shoes and discount gear that have helped the company to buck the trend on the high street, making billions for its elusive owner, Mike Ashley, one of Britain’s richest men’
optimistic prime
Apr 22, 2015 at 1:03 PM
Comment #78Slank
Again I can’t comment on them, are they bothered about our situation?
I’m sure the people in Scotland who’ve just been screwed over would be happy to join in and be just as happy to point out what he’s done to them to the people you’ve mentioned.
They should be made aware of how this man operates, he’d sack everyone tomorrow at the drop of a hat if it was benificial to him. Is that really the sort of person anyone in their right mind would want to work with or for?
15mins notice the USC staff got even though there’d been disscusions for 2 months. Top Guy.
You could go to the bog and come back to find you no longer have a job, not exactly job security.
I wonder what position SD holds in the best company to work for list?
Toon Tang
Apr 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM
Comment #79‘one of Britain’s richest men’
Yet we still cant muster a decent starting 11 with a bit of fight.
Nowt worse than an ultra-tight billionaire eh…
Mint
Apr 22, 2015 at 1:08 PM
Comment #80If Boro go up, and JC gets the job – Im supporting Boro next year. Not even joking.