Time for Ashley to build a bridge?

Good luck Chris!
Just over six months ago Mike Ashley surprisingly sacked manager Chris Hughton, a move which angered many supporters as they felt that Chris was doing as good a job as possible in his first season back in the Premier League.

Anyway that was then, this is now. Newcastle have moved on now and finally Chris has been given the chance to move on at his new club Birmingham City and I’m sure all supporters would love to wish Chris all the best in his new role.

I will be giving Chris some support as, living in Birmingham, I’ll be going to watch a few of the friendlies at St Andrews and show some respect to a man who held us together during rather turbulent times. It will also of course relieve my withdrawal symptoms that I’ve suffered since the end of last season and I can’t wait to watch some football again!

Many of us Newcastle supporters felt that Mike Ashley was rather disgraceful in his treatment of Chris Hughton, but maybe now that Chris has a new job Mike could help out the man that done such a great job for him?

Birmingham City find themselves in the Championship after a mixed season in which they won the League Cup but ended up relegated on the final day of the season. Many of their better players are rumoured to be moving on to pastures new which will leave them with a thin squad and I personally would like to see our club help out the man who got us out of the Championship at the first time of asking.

I think it would be a great move for all concerned if we were to send some of our fringe players on loan to gain some valuable first team experience. If players like Haris Vuckic, Shane Ferguson and Phil Airey go on loan to Birmingham, I’m sure they will get a lot of playing time at quite a competitive level and who knows, they may even be able to gain some European experience.

I still think that Mike Ashley owes Chris Hughton big time, but will his ego allow him to help his former manager who showed nothing but respect to the club and its supporters through some miserable times?

Personally I would love to see Chris Hughton do a great job at Birmingham City and get them back into the Premier League at the first time of asking. And if some of our young players can help them achieve this, I think it will be smiles all around.

So is this a plan with no drawbacks? It certainly looks like one too me, as these young players will not get much playing time at our club yet, but maybe after a good season and plenty of time on the pitch, we might get to see what these players are really capable of and is young Haris as good as what we are lead to believe? Only time will tell.

Good luck Hooters!

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339 thoughts on “Time for Ashley to build a bridge?

  1. DAVE you still never picked that product for birds you cannot get hear,you will want it at a later date,was invented by vets owr your end,it comes in small glass files and cheap as chips,but worth a bomb to breeder with old birds 😉

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  2. Well actually it’s Bolton on dearne, near wath/goldthorpe?

    What the frigg is army doing jobey? Who is he on Twitter so I can follow?

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  3. Ashley only has one fckin bridge to build, and that’s with the supporters.

    Fck Hughton and fck Birmingham, he should be concentrating on bringing better players to the Toon and not just fckin freebies!

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  4. DAVE the product is called feritgel its for **** birds that have stopped filling there eggs because of age,the pigeon lads use it hear for old stock birds it makes them fill em,but they have found to give it to hens as well works better,see all this imfo and i havent charged you a thing :grin 😀
    now divent gan round buying cheap old birds to make money,its a one to keep under you hat mind 😉

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  5. Hoots did a decent job but I also wish we could move on. We don’t seem to be able to as a collective, and that’s football fans in general.

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  6. Batty – I’m sick of everyone skirting round the fact that we’ve brought in a couple of freebies with the excuse of ‘it doesn’t matter how much you spend, its the quality that matters’ bullshit.

    Apparently we’ve been interested in this player and that player but we’ve actually been nowhere near getting them ie Gervinho and Gamiero. They must think we’re thick.

    By the time Barton, Enrique, Best, Routledge, Smith Ranger and probably Guthrie have all left we’ll have no better a squad but we’ll have a few mil in the bank just to keep the muppets happy.

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  7. Ice I think a guy that I tattooed a while ago keeps pigeons and was telling me about stuff that he uses he said it was viagra for birds 😆

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  8. not far tbh, i just looked on google maps, and I can get to hoyland in about 20minutes in a car.

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  9. stu i sed that the other night aboot the squad ,we have spent zilch upto yet and i dont think we have a chance of signing the likes of sturrige or charlie

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  10. STUART by the reports gervinho has had talks with toon at sjp.a while ago,but pardew pulled the plug as he didnt like his attitude,
    more likely fat man pulled the plug imo

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  11. Jobey – Were Heskey and Henderson the only other players available like? Was it a choice between them?

    Ice – bang on!

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  12. Stuart – Just saying, who would you rather have out of the 4 i mentioned?

    Spencer – 😉 😉 😀 😀 😀

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  13. Jury’s out until the window shuts for me, then it’ll be me Burberry cap on and bedsheets oot if I’m not happy 😈

    Have you lot been winding Army up then?

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  14. I think Ferguson will gain more staying with us. He has a role to play with the first team. He IMHO is our own Bale in the making.

    You live in Birmingham? I’m moving from Aus to Coventry in September, will need a fellow toon supporter! Can’t wait to see my first nufc match. Pumped.

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  15. Ur Jammy spence – cos of my job we live near to the outlaws. I’m from Durham and my rents still live there and I’d love to move back but won’t be for a while I suspect. 20 mins ain’t bad, so what u moving for job or get back to homeland where they speak normally?!

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  16. Richie – 194 😆 😆 😆 😆

    And nah, Something about something about telly. he could have said f*ck of you c*nt and i’d have still been happy 😆 😆

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  17. Raffo, I’m 17 mate 😆

    But my dads offices that we’re in leeds have been moved to smoggie land, he works from home 90% of the time anyway, but me my dad and my brother want to gan home. Then youve got my mum whos a southerner so know one listens to her 😆

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  18. Dave….is it actually him and whats he been up to, other than what’s been posted on here? and what started it?

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  19. Still jobey, he could have answerd your question, I was one I wanted to know the answer to. 😆

    Dave, why has he wound you up? Hes just a illiterate little child.

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  20. “Hes just a illiterate little child.”

    Possibly one of the funniest thing’s I’ve read here.

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  21. Big Dave
    Posted June 27, 2011 at 11:10 PM
    Richie Army is a fuking Tool and it takes alot to wind me up, but he has

    army who???

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  22. @jay jay- I still think he is taking the **** still 😆

    @ryan-What was so funny aboot it? 😆

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  23. 😆 havent got twitter mara!! ive been on the fone to the docs me 13 day old son isnt well 🙁

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  24. @SpencerTheToon

    “Hes just a(n) illiterate little child.”

    Correction as stated. It was ironically funny. Maybe being an ex english teacher, i pick up on these things an chortle to myself.

    /laughingbymyself

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