Steve McClaren sacked as Newcastle United 'Head Coach' (Manager)

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As easy as Newcastle United were to completely pull apart, it was hard to know decide was worse about Saturdays destruction at Selhurst Park - the hapless performance of the players at Crystal Palace on Saturday, or Steve McClarens deeply unimpressive attempt to talk around the logistics of a 5-1 battering that could have been even more humiliating.

 

Either way, it was all so unconvincing.

 

The players didnt seem to know their jobs on the pitch, and McClaren didnt seem to know what to say - but still said an awful lot of it.

 

Eyebrow-raising statements flowed from his mouth as freely as the pacy Crystal Palace attack flowed through Newcastles dismal backline. He was initially trying to front up and talk about their errors honestly, only to increasingly wrap himself in confusing riddles.

 

Take the question over whether his players lose heart in adversity, since they have not claimed a point from a losing position since the opening day of the season.

 

Its one of those things you can see, McClaren said, again furrowing his brow.

 

Im not making excuses. Its not rocket science, and everybody can see. Thats whats happening. Were getting setbacks and not reacting well enough from that setback, and thats what we need to turn around.

 

When asked how hed plan to do this, howd solve the key issue that will define the clubs season, McClaren offered this.

 

That comes through the players, their own individual motivation. We have to draw that out, we have stay calm, we have to keep doing the right things, and keep delivering the right messages, and keep saying youve got to do this, youve got to do that.

 

We lose, and we stop our doing our jobs when some disappointment hits us. That was especially after three goals and especially after four. You cant have that. Youve got to keep, keep, keep, keep, keep doing your job. Thats what we have to force, and keep forcing away.

 

Given the fact that McClaren said the word keep five times in close proximity to the word job, youd be forgiven for thinking there was something subconscious going on here.

 

There are probably already grounds for the former England manager to be sacked on the basis of badly hes doing that job, and internal pressure is known to be building ahead of a likely January review.

 

He just doesn't give the impression he knows how to address this, and there's a fragile limpness about his entire demeanour. It's all so evidently lacking his substance, despite his constant attempts to massage a public image.

 

At the same time, hapless as McClaren has been so far, he is really just one problem of many.

 

Almost as big a problem is players like your notional defensive leader Fabio Collocini frantically trying to cover every gap only to make each of them wider, or Vurnon Anita regularly being left for dust in the middle of the pitch.

 

The way in which the fans sang youre not fit to wear the shirt at the squad reflected a deep dissatisfaction with a long-term lack of commitment, and there appears to be something broken within the culture of the team.

 

It all adds up to a fundamentally broken team itself. The stats emphasise it. You name it, and Newcastle are probably doing it badly.

 

They have the second fewest shots per game in the Premier League, with their 9.4 only better than West Brom (8.9), but have conceded the most amount of efforts at the other end at 16.9.

 

In other words, they dont create much and dont stop the other team creating much either, nor do they have much of a discernible plan themselves. Newcastle have the fourth lowest possession in the division at 45.8%, but win the second lowest amount of aerial duels at 12.4 per game.

 

They are obviously fairly simplistic contrasts, but it begins to point to a side who dont really play a passing game, dont try and hit teams aerially and generally dont seem to have much of a plan.

 

Both on the pitch and in the numbers, Newcastle look like what they are: a shapeless mess.

 

McClaren pointed to his experience between 2001 and 2006 at Middlesbrough, who he got to a Europa League final after a poor start, saying that something similar can happen at Newcastle.

 

Kind of every job I have started has been difficult at the beginning," McClaren said. "From my first experience at Middlesbrough where we lost the first four games. We were pointless and clueless as we were called then and it took a good six, seven months to get through that. Really bad times. Then, second year we built a bit of belief. But the first 18 months were very, very difficult. We expect the same here. But thats what I can draw on.

 

It's getting back to work. Youve just got to do the right things. While everyone else around you is losing their heads, youve got to keep yours. Youve got to keep calm, perspective."

 

Right now, Newcastle dont look good from any perspective.

[ewerk 29491]

Nice to see him not go ott after the match today, unlike a certain former manager might have done.

[Dr Gloom 21302]

Yeah, good to see him not fanking Mike, or himself for that matter.

 

I like McClaren. He's not a bull shit artist or overly full of himself like Pardew or Allarydyce. Seems a decent bloke. I'm pleased for him. Hope he does well.

[Howay 12496]

Yeah, good to see him not fanking Mike, or himself for that matter.

 

I like McClaren. He's not a bull shit artist or overly full of himself like Pardew or Allarydyce. Seems a decent bloke. I'm pleased for him. Hope he does well.

Aye and truth be told he's probably the best we can hope for under Ashley, if he was to leave the replacement would be someone like Sherwood.

[Happy Face 29]

Pardew only beat our current run of 13 points from 8 games in 4 (maybe 5 ) distinct runs over 4 years.

 

[Kitman 2204]

Do we need someone to sign off on the x axis?

[Happy Face 29]

[Howay 12496]

Nice to see him not go ott after the match today, unlike a certain former manager might have done.

Aye, just saw a short one with him where he talked about the players talking at half time about how they were a goal down and everyone will expect them to fold now so they fought back, if that's true it's positive stuff as it's about time the squad had a bit of pride about them and stopped being okay with taking hammerings.

Just hope we see more of the same effort against Villa, hopefully with some more shots on goal.

[scoobos 297]

The axis are good, as it's relevant to Pardew and doesn't make claims to cover periods longer than what it is actually covering.

 

Signed off. End Of.

[Haydnator 45]

Review of the season so far game by game.

 

Southampton (h) D 2-2 - Gallant draw from our point of view. Players looked up for it and we played decent stuff. Still were evidently suspect defensively. Mitrovic looks mental.

 

Swansea (a) L 2-0 - Janmaat got himself sent off for being an absolute spastic. Ten men, what can you do. Could have been 3 or 4. Mitrovic kicks off. Gets booked, again.

 

Manchester United (a) D 0-0 - Defended excellently. Mitrovic hit the bar, Perez came close and Thauvin almost nicked it. Great performance.

 

Northampton (LC) (h) W 4-1 - An untroubled dispatching of lower league opposition. Never managed that under Pardew.

 

Arsenal (h) L 0-1 - A debatable sending off of Mitrovic in the 16th minute had us backs to the wall. Defended excellently. Brilliant cohesion. A change in the way we approached games perhaps?

 

West Ham (a) L 2-0 - Was it fuck. A Pardew/Carveresque performance. Shite.

 

Watford (h) L 1-2 - See above.

 

Sheffield Wednesday (LC) (h) L 0-1 - An absolute shower of shite. Worst performance for a very long time. It was against their reserve side as well. A change in approach to cups eh? Fuck off.

 

Chelsea (h) D 2-2 - Were excellent. Should have won had Sissoko not been a headless chicken and give away a needless free kick. Mitrovic looks the real deal.

 

Manchester City (a) L 6-1 - Were brilliant in the first half. Had an offside goal wrongly disallowed and could of been 1-3 or 1-4 at half time. What the fuck happened in the second half? Don't want to talk about it.

 

Norwich (h) W 6-2 - Only Newcastle United could do this: concede 6 previous game then score 6 next game. Was a flattering scoreline tbh. Both teams' defences were shitstorms.

 

mackems (a) L 3-0 - Best we've approached a derby in years. Disgraceful red card handed them the game. Should have won, but worryingly no taking any of our half a dozen chances.

 

Stoke (h) D 0-0 - Would have won 2-0 or 3-0 had Butland not been so brilliant. Poor result from our point of view.

 

Bournemouth (a) W 0-1 - How the fuck did we win this? We were fucking shocking yet somehow won. Take it anyway though.

 

Leicester (h) L 0-3 - Words cannot describe how utter shite and pathetic we were. Worse than the Sheffield Wednesday debacle. Almost as bad as the 0-6 vs Liverpool under Pardew a few years ago imo.

 

Crystal Palace (a) L 5-1 - Showed everything wrong with the current state of Newcastle United Football Club.

 

Liverpool (h) W 2-0 - This club... No real threat from either team first half, but the effort throughout the match was something we've hardly ever seen in recent years. Deserved win.

 

Spurs (a) W 1-2 - Unbelievable. This must have a massive effect on morale now, beating two top, in form teams. One in their own backyard who haven't lost since the opening day. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? We'll have to wait and see.

 

Aston Villa (h) D 1-1 - Two points dropped big time. We've GOT to be beating teams like Villa at home. Very frustrating. Apart from a 20-25 minute spell in the second half, we were pretty untroubled, but in that spell we could have lost the game. We missed sitters. But if someone offered me 7 points from the next 3 games before the Liverpool game I would have snapped their hands off. On we go.

Updated this.

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Who has?

 

[Haydnator 45]

Who has?

 

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

He should have had the nous to change it against Villa from the start. I wasn't impressed.

[StoneColdStephenIreland 74]

Just sack him. Already sick of his shit tactics and selections. Were gifting points to every team around us and don't look like winning never mind 2-3 on the bounce.

[Gemmill 42666]

No point. They won't replace him with better.

[ewerk 29491]

Half way through the season and we're in the relegation zone. That's all you need to judge him on.

[Howmanheyman 31623]

Just sack him. Already sick of his shit tactics and selections. Were gifting points to every team around us and don't look like winning never mind 2-3 on the bounce.

Yep. We're down if he stays, he's making things worse, I shudder to think of us not getting those wins at Bournemouth and Tottenham.

[OTF 7113]

The mentality flows down from the top, it's a shit environment that doesn't encourage endeavour, just a sales target of whatever the TV money is these days. No ambition, no support, it doesn't matter who the figurehead for our tactical failings is. Until there is a heart this club is just making up numbers.