REACTION: ‘NO FIGHT’, ‘SINKING SHIP’, ‘CLUELESS’ & ‘EMBARRASSING’
“I look at that group of players and I wouldn’t be confident about them winning another game. If that’s their attitude to a game that was winnable for them, against a team they’re fighting with against relegation, and they just didn’t show any appetite for a real fight tonight.”
FORMER NEWCASTLE BOSS GRAEME SOUNESS ON SATURDAY “This evening’s result has presented Mike Ashley and the club’s management with an opportunity to justifiably sack an underachieving coach captaining a sinking ship, that is heading straight for the Championship. If history has taught Ashley one thing, it’s that acting too late in these circumstances results in one thing, relegation. We implore the club to remove Steve Bruce as coach immediately and appoint an ambitious manager ahead of the international break, who has the capability of keeping Newcastle United in the Premier League.”
SUPPORTER GROUP TOON FOR CHANGE, WHICH HAS 1,000 MEMBERS, ON SATURDAY NIGHT “I’m very surprised SB has not yet been sacked by the club.
“He calls himself a Geordie and it’s his boyhood club.
“If this was the case and he cared one bit about the club he would listen to the fans, hold his hands up and admit he is not the right man to take our club forward.”
TWEET FROM FORMER NEWCASTLE
STRIKER MICHAEL CHOPRA “Graham Potter with the Newcastle squad the way Brighton play. I reckon G Potter would have Newcastle 11th- 13th.”
DON HUTCHISON, A BOYHOOD NEWCASTLE FAN BORN IN GATESHEAD, ON TWITTER “That was bad tonight. Like really bad. 9 games left, I just hope @nufc survive and rebuild next season from top to bottom.”
TWEET FROM FORMER NEWCASTLE PLAYER RYAN TAYLOR ON SATURDAY “I do not use the word lightly but the man is clueless. By his own admission he does not understand tactics. His team selections and use of substitutes are incomprehensible, his TV interviews embarrassing, and his injury management decisions downright dangerous for the players concerned.”
FAN D MACBREW IN AN OPEN LETTER TO MIKE ASHLEY ON THE
MAG WEBSITE “When you think about what was riding on the game, their third win in a calendar year, you’ve got to go there and make yourself known. Newcastle have been ghosts tonight. That wasn’t good enough. If they continue to play like that, there is only one outcome come the end of the season.”
FORMER NEWCASTLE MIDFIELDER KEVIN NOLAN ON SATURDAY NIGHT