Hughton.....Players support me SSN

[Christmas Tree 4711]

Newcastle United caretaker coach Chris Hughton is 'convinced' he still has the 100 per cent of the players.

 

Hughton is currently in temporary control of the first team, along with Colin Calderwood, while Joe Kinnear recovers from the heart surgery he underwent last month.

 

During Kinnear's absence the Magpies have slipped into the Premier League relegation zone and reports have claimed the players feel Hughton and Calderwood lack the necessary experience to keep the club up.

 

Terry Venables has been mooted as a stop-gap appointment, but Hughton is confident that there are no dissenting voices within the St James' Park camp.

 

"I am convinced I still have the dressing room behind me 100 per cent," said Hughton in the Northern Echo. "It doesn't worry me in the slightest that a player has supposedly said these things.

 

"I think the only thing that you can react to are facts. And at the moment there is no fact to anything that's been written or from the sources that it's supposedly coming from.

 

"To be honest with you I just dismiss it."

 

React to reality

He added: "I have got a job to be getting on with, just as everybody else at the club has their own job.

 

"In these times you're going to get differences of opinion, hear stories that you don't like, get reactions you don't like. I think that if you take notice of what you hear or read then you're not going to be able to do your job to the best of your ability.

 

"All I can react to is reality. We're not winning enough football matches.

 

"Morale is good on the training ground and I'm comfortable with the mood in the camp

Edited March 25, 2009 by Christmas Tree

[JawD 99]

So is that him giving himself a vote of confidence is the absence of one coming from fuck face?

 

[Park Life 71]

They clearly have no idea what his tactical meanderings are and are playing from memory.

[Big Onion 0]

It's not his fault he's been put in this position but the bloke is never a leader in a million years. There's a number of reasons for us being in the shit we're in, but one almost entirely avoidable one that might be what tips the scales is leaving Hughton in charge for two prolonged spells.

 

As Director of Football, presumably this must be Dennis Wise's decision, or at the very least one taken on his advice.

[ewerk 30369]

"I think the only thing that you can react to are facts.

 

Here's a fact for you Chris, we're third from fucking bottom. Do something about it.

[Guest alex]

As David Brent would say: Chris, why don't you fuck off?