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Fans Of A Classless Club
There were some good points made in the mailbox this morning. Of course, the appointment of a proven, experienced manager will be considered a good thing, how could it not? But that does not change what has happened. I guess a large part of the collective anger of Newcastle fans is about the image and class of the club. We can now consider ourselves fans of a classless club and it will have repercussions.

Hughton took on a thankless task. A job nobody really wanted that he wasn't really given, there were just no viable alternatives. However, he turned the team around and earned the position full time and took us comfortably back to promotion and was building a decent team to compete in the Premier League. He was neither sensational nor abject but he was good and always improving in his first managerial role. After performing above and beyond what was expected of him, he has been unceremoniously dumped in favour of someone learned as opposed to learning. We are not adrift in the relegation zone. We have had some good and bad performances. Carroll is looking a real prospect. But all this was worthless in the eyes of the owner. And that will resonate.

Potential managers and signings will see us as a club without patience, that does not recognise progress and as a club without class in all its dealings. It was a tag that stuck after our shameful dismissal of Uncle Bobby and it will stick again. This will be the cost of Hughton's sacking, regardless of who succeeds him and that is why every fan should be angry at the treatment of Hughton.
Kev (Still angry)