CHRIS HUGHTON - manager of the month in the Coca-Cola Championship.

[Tom 14013]

And the nominees are

 

Coca-Cola Championship

Alan Irvine - Preston North End

Roberto Di Matteo - West Bromwich Albion

Kevin Blackwell - Sheffield United

Chris Hughton - Newcastle United

 

Coca-Cola League 1

 

Andy Scott - Brentford

Simon Grayson - Leeds United

Paul Ince - MK Dons

Phil Parkinson - Charlton Athletic

 

Coca-Cola League 2

 

Ian Hendon - Barnet

Mark Robins - Rotherham

Eddie Howe - Bournemouth

John Still - Dagenham & Redbridge

[The Fish 10963]

But he's not our manager !

[Tom 14013]

He's our Interim Manager .

 

Or at the end of the day he's the man making the decisions.

[Fop 1]

If it aint broke dont fix it. Houghton will do until we start sliding. I agree with the comments that with the big time charlies gone, a lot of the players have realised that maybe they dont carry the same stock and thus have to graft to get out of the league theyre in to prove to other clubs in the Prem that theyre worth it.

 

Perhaps that's why Hughton's done well - because we've got shot of a lot of the ego's and there are now more players that respect him.

 

That's the question, would anyone have done well anyway?

[Guest Stevie]

How much is it to do with Hughton, though ? After all, he can only pick his strongest team at any one point; it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out who they are each game, such are the lack of numbers.

 

Maybe the results are actually due to the remaining players getting their act together for once?

 

Or maybe it's just that our players are actually better than any of the rest in The Championship, as knaccaspacca says ?

 

Not having a go at Hughton, just putting some 'feelers' out.

 

One thing Hughton deserves major, major credit for is hanging around this joke of a club whilst all this shit is going on.

The thing is when he was in charge and we were losing, a big part of it according to a majority of fans was "Hughton's not a manager, he hasn't got any motivational skills, Calderwood might as well be working in a distellery, Hughton couldn't motivate a reception class...", so when he finally gets some good results we can't have it both ways that this is by chance, when the time he's doing shit is partly due to his inexperience/lack of presence.

[Ketsbaia 0]

How much is it to do with Hughton, though ? After all, he can only pick his strongest team at any one point; it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out who they are each game, such are the lack of numbers.

 

Maybe the results are actually due to the remaining players getting their act together for once?

 

Or maybe it's just that our players are actually better than any of the rest in The Championship, as knaccaspacca says ?

 

Not having a go at Hughton, just putting some 'feelers' out.

 

One thing Hughton deserves major, major credit for is hanging around this joke of a club whilst all this shit is going on.

The thing is when he was in charge and we were losing, a big part of it according to a majority of fans was "Hughton's not a manager, he hasn't got any motivational skills, Calderwood might as well be working in a distellery, Hughton couldn't motivate a reception class...", so when he finally gets some good results we can't have it both ways that this is by chance, when the time he's doing shit is partly due to his inexperience/lack of presence.

 

And when we were losing under Shearer it was a chorus of "The players aren't interested", "Big Al is doing all he can", "He needs time to build his own side" etc.

[Sima 0]

Fully deserved imo.

 

Kept his head down, not got involved with the politics.

[Jimbo 175]

Fully deserved imo.

 

Kept his head down, not got involved with the politics.

 

This.

[Happy Face 29]

All thanks to #1 on his speed dial being Gerry Francis.

[Park Life 71]

Fully deserved imo.

 

Kept his head down, not got involved with the politics.

[maggiespaws 0]

We'd have found it hard to get anyone else in that could have done such a good job in what is shit times. Hes obviously got a good rapport with the squad and between him and Calderwood have worked hard to get us where we are.

 

More importantly hes done it all with dignity, I think hes more than aware of his own failings and isnt comfortable being in the role he is yet hes got on with it and worked hard

 

This for me.

 

Having said that, when I consider that players might have been playing for the shop window, my optimism for Sunday falters. It could be argued that our start to the season has been down to players playing well to engineer a move; rather than Hughton's influence.

 

Still, I'm inclined to bellive he's been working hard and it's paying off. Fair play to him.

[Christmas Tree 4827]

CHRIS HUGHTON has been crowned manager of the month in the Coca-Cola Championship.

 

And former Newcastle United’s skipper Bob Moncur feels that Hughton’s achievements so far this season have been nothing short of “sensational” given the difficult circumstances at St James’s Park.

 

After pipping his second tier managerial counterparts Roberto Di Matteo of West Brom, former Toon coach Alan Irvine and Sheffield United chief Kevin Blackwell to the first monthly prize of the season, Hughton heads to Cardiff City on a real high but the Toon boss is set to dedicate the award to his players after they took United to the top of the pile in the Championship.

 

Moncur, who managed Plymouth, Hearts and Carlisle United earlier in his career, told the Chronicle today: “I actually felt sorry for Chris at the start of the season.

 

“I think he only had a rough idea what was going on in the boardroom.

 

“He probably felt isolated and that is always hard as a manager - I can vouch for that because I’ve been there!

 

“Chris inherited a lot of problems when he came in again in the summer but he has managed to turn it all around and Colin Calderwood and all the backroom team deserve a lot of credit for that.”

 

Indeed at times Hughton has been powerless in the transfer market, and he only discovered he had lost David Edgar to Burnley when he saw the Canadian paraded on TV in a Clarets shirt on the first day of pre-season training.

 

After coming in on July 1, he only got the green light to draw up a shortlist of player targets after the 1-1 draw at West Brom on August 8.

 

United’s efforts to bring in his targets proved a fruitless affair, with only loan signing Danny Simpson and free agent Peter Lovenkrands arriving at St James’s Park.

 

Moncur added: "When Chris came in he was dealing with a lot of players whose minds were elsewhere.

 

"A lot of them went, but he still had to motivate them.

 

"He’s deserved the credit all the way along. Nobody deserved the award for manager of the month more than Chris."

 

Meanwhile, Hughton is understood to be considering bringing in Stoke City defender Leon Cort on loan as central defensive cover.

 

Cort is the younger brother of ex-Toon striker Carl and has starred for Hull City, Crystal Palace and Southend.

[Tom 14013]

[Monkeys Fist 43067]

CHRIS HUGHTON has been crowned manager of the month in the Coca-Cola Championship.

.

Thats us fucked for the next few games then

Deserves it mind

Edited September 10, 2009 by Monkeys Fist

[2bias 3]

Excellent

[Sonatine 11542]

Well deserved, but that's us jinxed for a good few games

[Fatty 0]

Met him once he is a really nice guy, very very pleased for him

[Tom 14013]

He's a very down to earth hard working guy by the look of it.

 

Interested in getting the job done, not self promotion like Kinnear...

[Norbert Colon 0]

He's a very down to earth hard working guy by the look of it.

 

Interested in getting the job done, not self promotion like Kinnear...

 

Thats a really good point - Fuckin Kinnear standing at the doors of SJP milking the adulation was a real eye opener - it was more about the ego than the football.

 

Fair play to hughton he has acheived the art of management (in any business) - be like a bird swimming on the lake - look calm and serene above water but paddling like fuck under it

[accadacca 0]

We'd have found it hard to get anyone else in that could have done such a good job in what is shit times. Hes obviously got a good rapport with the squad and between him and Calderwood have worked hard to get us where we are.

 

More importantly hes done it all with dignity, I think hes more than aware of his own failings and isnt comfortable being in the role he is yet hes got on with it and worked hard

 

This for me.

 

Having said that, when I consider that players might have been playing for the shop window, my optimism for Sunday falters. It could be argued that our start to the season has been down to players playing well to engineer a move; rather than Hughton's influence.

 

Still, I'm inclined to bellive he's been working hard and it's paying off. Fair play to him.

 

 

how negative are you ffs ?

 

''playing for the shop window'' - why is it that no one seems to accept that the group of players left, are determined to atone for relegation last season ?

 

it is so easy to brand all players as uncaring, greedy etc - some might just have a semblance of pride and dignity and want to repay the fans for the support that they got in the bad times. why not try and believe that or is that just too ''positive'' for you ??

[Christmas Tree 4827]

Guardian

 

 

Newcastle's caretaker manager Chris Hughton addressing his players during training, has made a great start to the season. Photograph: Ian Horrocks/Newcastle Utd via Getty Images

 

Newcastle United visit Cardiff City with their somewhat astonished fans "walking in a Chrissy Hughton Wonderland". After opening the League campaign by unexpectedly leading his side to the Championship summit courtesy of four wins and a draw, Hughton arrives in South Wales as the division's newly anointed manager of the month.

 

Considering he is merely in caretaker charge of a Newcastle team which dropped out of the Premier League so supinely last May that represents a decent achievement. Throw in the elephant in the room – otherwise known as Alan Shearer – and it is nothing less than stunning.

 

While there have been a few, slightly diffident, chants of "Only One Chris Hughton" from some Toon Army foot soldiers, the former long-serving Tottenham Hotspur right-back and coach still frequently conducts his choreography against a soundtrack of "Shearer, Shearer".

 

Indeed if the Tyneside property developer Barry Moat finally succeeds in a long-running quest to buy the club from Mike Ashley, Hughton will be instantly returned to the backroom shadows and Shearer re-appointed in his stead.

 

Should such a scenario unfold, any flies on the wall would be guaranteed some compelling drama, especially as, along with Kevin Nolan and Alan Smith, Joey Barton is one of a trio of players tacitly acknowledged as "running the dressing room".

 

Barton, of course, was suspended indefinitely and told he would never play for Newcastle again in the wake of a row with Shearer following his sending-off at Liverpool last spring. Having controversially returned him to the fold, Hughton then demoted Barton to the bench after the midfielder criticised his tactics before last month's opening day draw at West Bromwich Albion. Subsequently, though, the pair have reached a rapprochement and Barton received a standing ovation for his recent home performance against Leicester.

 

Meanwhile Nolan and Smith are also impressing. How ironic then that both could well have been sold had Shearer been granted his wish to overhaul the playing staff.

 

The former England captain cut a commanding public figure during his eight-game managerial tenure at the end of last season but conjured only one win and it has since become apparent that certain players were not overly taken with the input of his influential assistant, Iain Dowie, particularly the stipulation that they took regular ice baths.

 

In mitigation, Shearer and Dowie inherited a deeply-divided dressing room. Significantly, Nolan today revealed being "astounded" by a schism which badly undermined performances after joining from Bolton last January.

 

Assisted by Colin Calderwood, Hughton has cleverly reunited that locker room while working against a backdrop of swingeing financial cuts which have led to nine players departing, thereby more than halving the old annual wage bill of close to £70m.

 

Although such economies have left the squad dangerously thin they have, more positively, fostered new-found harmony among players who have adopted Deacon Blue's Dignity as their new pre-kick-off anthem.

 

"We've built and rebuilt relationships and got tighter and closer as a unit," explained Hughton. "And certainly the senior players, although not necessarily senior age-wise, are now very much to the fore. We've got a few leaders."

 

Hughton said of his manager of the month prize: "I'm delighted but thanks must go to the staff, especially Colin Calderwood and Paul Barron, and most importantly the players. They have been magnificent and this award is for them."

 

This youthful, cinema-loving 50-year-old – surely one of the youngest-looking grandfathers around – has quietly made it clear he would relish managing Newcastle on a permanent basis and has already had his candidature endorsed by several first-teamers including Shola Ameobi and Nolan.

 

"Chrissy has done extremely well because caretakers can't tell awkward players where to go," said someone who knows Hughton well. "He's a very good coach who never did that brilliantly during his previous caretaker spells at Spurs and Newcastle but, this time, he's had a whole pre-season to establish himself and his tactics. Unlike most managers he's not really a political animal but he is an extremely charming man who can use that charm to get people onside and doing what he wants."

 

It may not endure but, right now, that amounts to a recipe for success.

[Tom 14013]

Shola got player of the month!

[trophyshy 7084]

inevitable nod;

 

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/incoming/4...the-season.html

 

By MARTIN HARDY, 12/09/2009

CHRIS HUGHTON has been told by his Newcastle bosses that he will be left in charge for the rest of the season.

 

Sport of the World has learned that Hughton met managing director Derek Llambias on Tuesday and was given the green light to remain as the main man at St James' Park.

 

Toon chiefs held talks with both David O'Leary and Joe Kinnear in August as the protracted takeover dragged on during the summer.

Convinced

 

O'Leary's wage demands and Kinnear's ill-health ruled them out and now Hughton's good start - five wins and a draw from six games - have convinced Mike Ashley to keep faith with the 50-year-old.

 

Hughton picked up August's manager of the month award yesterday as reward for a start that has raised belief that the Toon can make an immediate return to the Premier League.

 

And crucially Llambias has been made aware of support inside the dressing room for the job Hughton and coaches Colin Calderwood and Paul Barron have done.

 

"Chris was called in by the MD at the start of the week and was told the job was his for the season," said a source. "He has impressed Mike Ashley and the board and has been told to continue for the campaign."

Spirit

 

Hughton was powerless as 12 players were off-loaded following relegation. But he has forged a good team spirit and turned to the experienced professionals at the club to restore credibility.

 

However he has been told he will not be given substantial funds to strengthen a first-team squad that has only 18 experienced professionals.

 

He will instead have to rely on loan deals and has been told he can sign at least three during the loan window, which ends next month.

[Tom 14013]

"Chris was called in by the MD at the start of the week and was told the job was his for the season," said a source. "He has impressed Mike Ashley and the board and has been told to continue for the campaign."

 

As far as I'm aware there isn't one.

 

''Well to be honest a lot of these 'insiders' and 'sources' are made up as the articles are often purely speculative and we find an anonymous quote attributed to a fictional character with inside the club adds more weight to the piece'' A News of the World Insider said yesterday...

[Asprilla 96]

Although such economies have left the squad dangerously thin they have, more positively, fostered new-found harmony among players who have adopted Deacon Blue's Dignity as their new pre-kick-off anthem.