John Carver is still hoping he’s done enough this year to be offered the head coach position on a permanent basis, and he expects he will know within 48 hours after the final whistle blows to end the season on May 24th when we are at home to West Ham.
It’s been another awful season for Newcastle fans, and we have brought a lot of this on ourselves this year – which make it even more difficult to take.
John Carver – hope to get job on permanent basis
The 50 year-old was pointedly asked if he thought he would not get the head coach position now, because the club has plunged down the table under his short reign.
This is what John said:
“No, because I have the job.” “They have to take it off me now!” “But there has been nothing discussed. We have just focused on these two games.”
“I am going away on holiday on the Wednesday after the West Ham game so I would like to know where I am by then.” “But I want no discussions from now until the West Ham game is finished.”
“I don’ t think it’s right, I think it’s important we have to keep all our focus on these games.” “Because of the circumstances I would love to see how anyone else would react.”
“I spoke to Tony Pulis after the game on Saturday and he said it was quite incredible what I’d had to put up with regarding injuries and suspensions.” ‘That is bad luck. It is not mismanagement by the club.”
“I had enough players. At one stage I had a full team missing. Our squad of 26 is not a bad size – not many people have 11 players missing at one time.” “But my pride has been hurt by the run of results. I want to do something about it in these last two games.”
The club was mismanaged in January by Mike Ashley and Lee Charnley, and Newcastle should not have allowed the squad to become even weaker – which is what happened.
Newcastle should have strengthened the side but we didn’t, and while it’s true we have had lots of injuries coupled with some stupid suspensions picked up by the indiscipline of our players – the squad was paper-thin to start with.
We’d be very surprised if John Carver gets the job full time, but Newcastle have made so many weird and illogical decisions in the last six months – we don’t know what they will do – and we know that Lee Charnley, Mike Ashley and Graham Carr all like Carver.
But the fans will hardly be pleased if a coach who has just two wins in 18 games and has plunged Newcastle into a relegation fight, gets the job full time.
But with this Newcastle club owned by Mike Ashley – you just never know what will happen – logic doesn’t seem to come into their decision-making sometimes.
John Carver has had a tough time of it this year, and we are just hoping he can keep Newcastle in the Premier League with at least 4 points in our final two games, and that will certainly help him regain some of his pride.
And John’s done his very best this year – we know that.
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53 comments so far
jesperfuglsang - capt'n awesome of the lemon crew
May 15, 2015 at 7:44 AM
Comment #41hobbit… 😉
jesperfuglsang - capt'n awesome of the lemon crew
May 15, 2015 at 7:56 AM
Comment #42The blog is a bit dead this morning
cestriasteve
May 15, 2015 at 8:07 AM
Comment #43Of topic but I saw Tim Krull yesterday, what a mess of a shiner he had, eyeball completely red, must have hurt that like!!
On above I agree Thump, just shut up John you self centred so and so.
lochinvar
May 15, 2015 at 8:12 AM
Comment #44Carvers on a par with the Lollipop man just sacked for stopping a Fire Engine on call.
You couldn’t make it up.
They have to take the job off me ?
Did they ever give it to you in the first place ?
Just as well next weeks club End of Season Awards Ceremony has been cancelled – wouldn’t want you getting ” Manager of The Decade ” before the seasons ended would we ?
jayphoto
May 15, 2015 at 8:14 AM
Comment #45Can’t work out if Carver is delusional or hes been assured things from above…
Either way got to stop starting my day with toon news! Sets you up for a right miserable morning
sing in the corner
May 15, 2015 at 8:14 AM
Comment #46I don’t have a new angle bt can I just join in the general catharsis session…
Hello everyone, My name’s sing and i’m a Newcastle united fan…
Its got me in its grip and i can’t give it up, but I know it’s evil and its ruining my life.
Carver man, please stop. Its already shameful to admit affiliation to this club but you just heap on the embarrassment every time you speak.
I can easily see Ashley appointing this cross between a lame duck and a loose cannon. Because he works out what will irk the fans most and does it, time and time again.
Keep the reasons to protest foremost in your minds and keep applying pressure.
HWTF
firebug666
May 15, 2015 at 8:17 AM
Comment #47When you listen to the rubbish that pours out of Carvers gob, you can then realise why our team never has a game plan, nobody has a clue what the idiot is on about.
Our players aren’t great to start with, but now we can see that following instructions from Carver leaves them confused, especially the foreign players.
I wonder if that’s why their performance was a little better last week after they had a team meeting without Carver and his coaching staff?
lesh
May 15, 2015 at 8:19 AM
Comment #48Jail for Ashley
Managers are like actors – always complimentary about oneanother – never criticial!
lesh
May 15, 2015 at 8:22 AM
Comment #49firebug666
I’ll have you know that Carver’s a well-qualified guy – he has a qualification in English as an Other Language’!
scout
May 15, 2015 at 8:30 AM
Comment #50CARVER ARE YOU A TOTAL IDIOT?
Its not mismanagemen???? They’ve sold the players and not replaced them and sold the manager and replaced him with you. A ten year old would have a better go.
firebug666
May 15, 2015 at 8:45 AM
Comment #51lesh
Aye and his use of English is very good.
I can imagine a player saying,”I don’t understand boss, you want me to bomb forward down the wing, but stay back in defence” and JC’s reply “Just dee wat a tell ya lad an afta the game we can gan fer a pint an sort it oot”. To which the player looks blankly at his interpreter who in turn returns the same look.
Oh yes all is good at NUFC.
lesh
May 15, 2015 at 8:51 AM
Comment #52Toon-Prodigy
Carver’s job was to keep us in the Prem was it?
If he does, he’ll have done it big style eh with a success rate second only to errrr, errr
He’s done nowt more than pi$$ players and fans off!
lochinvar
May 15, 2015 at 6:53 PM
Comment #53And going on holiday after the West Ham game ?
Having a laugh at everyone’s expense – unless a decision has already been made about the next Manager/Coaches then the “Management” shouldn’t go anywhere until the whole sorry mess is sorted out.
Another shocking example of incompetence and deceit.