We got very close to 100% proof that Ian Cathro will indeed be part of Steve McClaren’s coaching staff that will be getting together this week to prepare for the players arriving back at Newcastle for the start of pre-season training.
And it seems like Steve had brought off a bit of a coup for the 28 year-old Scottish coach, who is extremely well though of and his interview in the Sun today has said that Newcastle indeed are a club that now wants to push itself once again after eight years of almost being asleep under Mike Ashley.
Ian Cathro – wants to help build Newcastle into top team
It’s also clear from Ian’s words that he is very impressed with Steve McClaren who seems to get the respect of an awful lot of people in football.
Ian isn’t just a good coach but a good man – and he certainly has good leadership and man-management skills which is so important in coaching when you are trying to get the very best of the players you have.
This again is Ian’s interview today:
“Joining Newcastle is something that can only prepare me even better for when the time comes to become a manager/head coach.¨
“I am incredibly excited by it and I just want to help out in any way I can. I wanted the challenge of working in a different league and English football is very different from Spanish football.”
“I am also looking forward to working at a club which genuinely wants to push itself and grow, to get back to a real level of competition.”
“Steve McClaren has worked abroad himself and he is an incredibly experienced coach and manager, an impressive man generally – I know I will learn a lot from him.”
Ian also talked about his philosophy of coaching in general, and this is what he said in a previous interview this year:
“You project forward to the types of job you want to do. I want to fill a stadium and make people excited about coming, feeling that as an enjoyable thing to watch and embrace.”
¨That’s whilst being able to do something of significance at a club that leaves a structure and a system, so that it continues to profit from beyond my period of time.”
“That’s the types of jobs that are more appealing and more natural to me. You’re paid a lot of money, football gives you a lot of good things, and it’s the club’s position in society that gives you that.¨
¨It’s important that the club gets its value from you.”
Those are really good words from one who is still young to be in the coaching business.
It will be good when we get to see Ian’s first interview after he becomes a coach at Newcastle, and we’re still not sure whether Ian or Paul Simpson will be Steve McClaren’s number two at the club.
After having poor coaching this year with John Carver and Steve Stone, it looks like Newcastle will have a (very) strong coaching squad this season, who hopefully can get the very best out of the playing squad we have – helped by up to six new players coming in.
So yes – we hope the playing staff is as good as the coaching staff seems to be.
That sounds good.
Comments welcome.
57 comments so far
YouCouldn'tMakeItUp
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:47 PM
Comment #41TFL
Even though they have somehow managed to get the same pattern on the mobile site, that is not the original youngmagpiefromburnley. Either that or he has hacked the account. It’s clearly the same troll from the weekend.
Ibizatoon
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:48 PM
Comment #42Mark…I assumed thats what you meant? Or was it typing too fast? That might make more sense 🙂
Now, can we stop this general lack of respect for the English language? Lovely.
Now, quick proof read…any mistakes… Seems okay…what the hell, I’m in good company, what’s the worst that could happen?
nut meg
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:48 PM
Comment #43interesting …..season tickets article from the mag.
http://www.themag.co.uk/2015/06/boycott-bites-mike-ashley-nufc-season-ticket-sales-revealed/?
Vask
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:48 PM
Comment #44RPG – There does seem to be an apparent ‘messaiah culture’ within our fan base which can sometimes be to the detriment of the clubs success/progress.
I like the sound of him. He talks a good game but he is, like you say, a mere component of the holistic being that is a football club. We can hope that the noises made about him have a foundation in truth and that he can influence the club positively.
ToonFromLeeds
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:48 PM
Comment #45Can someone please explain what is going on?
is it wum/troll day today?
Tsunki
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:49 PM
Comment #46This is what we were talking about earlier. Enjoy.
ToonFromLeeds
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:49 PM
Comment #47thank you YCMIU
Spellcheck
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:50 PM
Comment #48I wish I was the phantom raspberry blower. I could live with that. Too many conspiracies and judges on here. Just allow Ed to be judge & jury. ????
1949BH PROUDTOBEAGEORDIE
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:52 PM
Comment #49jayphoto ncle agreed adeal with bastia for thauvin for 2 .5 mill with him being loaned for the rest of the season back . he turned it down saying he did not want to leavethe country. he signed for lille and then refused to play for them and then went to marseille .not nufc fault. i would be quite happy if we dont sign any more french players.
BandB
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:52 PM
Comment #50Tsunki,
Well, no-one can say we brought it on ourselves by not talking about football. The thread was respectfully right on topic when it started.
ToonFromLeeds
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:53 PM
Comment #51So am I correct in Saying YoungMagpie has been hacked and spellcheck is a wum?
YoungMagpieFromBurnley
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:54 PM
Comment #52Right, I’m not a wum. (just searched it up)
This was just an experiment, on my short time on here I have come to realise, quickly, that the wum’s on here are the ones most commonly replied too!
I will spend some time on here, maybe sometimes most of the day with decent football discussion(at least I would hope) yet it is almost always ignored, I try with discussion further but I get the same result. I understand that there are friendships on here but half the time I see them only respond to each other. I will get over this and it doesn’t affect my life at all it just annoys me that I put the time in too offer discussion on NUFC( WHICH THIS BLOG IS ABOUT) yet nothing. Then people who troll and wums get all the time of day, yet they contribute nothing.
I don’t expect replies all the time, but I expect my stuff to be replied to instead of a wum being replied too. If that makes sense!
Sorry JFA by the way, pretending to be a wum was tough and that sentence was the most common thing I saw on here.
Spellcheck
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:55 PM
Comment #53I ain’t no wum. Get a grip.
toonincheek
Jun 29, 2015 at 4:47 PM
Comment #54Speelcheck –
Double negative – subtle way to hide the truth?
lesh
Jun 29, 2015 at 5:02 PM
Comment #55I like Cathro’s language – he sounds just like the great man himself – John Carver!
Jib
Jun 29, 2015 at 9:23 PM
Comment #56Looks like it’s not just Charlie Austin that we are buying from QPR
Mauricio Isla the Chilean wingback , as well , may be coming (another wingback!) according to calciomercato (they were the only website to forecast Janmaat last Summer )
http://calciomercato-juve.it/calciomercato-juventus-isla-in-inghilterra
Sav
Jun 30, 2015 at 1:53 AM
Comment #57Cathro sounds like a breath of fresh air and hasn’t yet picked up the cliche-ridden baloney we’re used to. Don’t know anything about him except what has been written in the last few days but seems like a good signing. On the other hand, we wouldn’t be discussing a novice coach if we had actually signed a player yet. I give Cathro 6 months before Mashley and his chinless sidekick drain the youthful enthusiasm out of him like a butchered chicken.