Expectation and Toon Want Shearer Should Put to Bed

As a continuity of an earlier post here about we should say “Enough” and keep moving on Newcastle United re-building process, some of my blog author have found out an article which is I think the most ridiculous of all self judgement from the press.

Sadly, original journalism is not what their readership nor editors expect nowadays. Below are the summary from our forum discussion about the article on the People.

An old pal of mine said that article was the bliddy twin rumours of “expectation” and “Toon want Shearer” were in his opinion something that we should “put to bed”. First off, there are still many Toon Army with their right mind didn’t expect any immediate success.

Steady improvement (or indeed any) would please us the most. Secondly, Shearer was also one of Shepherd choice, in this case, the press told about any “Toon voice” wanted to wash out anyone who is related to Shepperd’s regime. We now have an owner with far greater financial resources and a much better understanding of running a business.

Talksport this morning have been banging on about the undeliverable expectations of the Toon Army - In my honest opinion, the majority of Toon fans are entirely “realistic” in their expectations; they realise how far we have fallen, and they also realise it will be a long way back.

What is the truth about what they want is a sign that we have stopped falling even further, and just a glimmer of hope that we might be finally heading in the right direction. The minimum they expect is that those who pull on the shirt do so with a little pride, and nothing less than 100% committment.

It’s not too bliddy much to ask, is it? If Shearer coming in as Manager, it’s just a small sample, I actually know very few fans who feel this is good idea. Regarding Shearer, a senior source close to Ashley told The News of the World:

“Mike wouldn’t employ an undergraduate fresh out of business school to run one of his companies, so why would he trust Newcastle to a rookie?”

“His view is that you have to trust people. Mike’s not here as a flash in the pan owner, he’s here for the long term, and knows there’s no point creating instability by sacking a manager every five minutes.”

That’s actually one of fair analogy. However, Ashley probably doesn’t stop looking to get a better manager someday. It’s pointless sacking a manager without having a succession plan to improve things.

The first step for Ashley is to decide whether he wants to trust the future of his club in the hands of Allardyce. In this respect he needs to rely largely on Chris Mort to be evaluating how he is doing the job, and whether he is entirely comfortable with Sam’s approach.

If he has decided he is comfortable with the Manager, he must then to a large degree rely on his judgement of the squad and the need for strengthening. He simply has to support him financially, even if not in an open-ended manner.

If he isn’t comfortable with the Manager, he needs to identify a replacement - because he will know it is vital he gets it right. He will know he cannot continue chopping and changing in the way Shep did.

My instinct is that they are still evaluating Big Sam, and haven’t as yet made up their mind as to whether he is the man to take them forward. They may well be looking at alternatives. My concern is that if they take too long to do all this, and get it wrong, we could end up in the deepest dood, and with no time to bring someone else in to rescure the situation.

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