Players were magnificent against Doncaster, says Hughton.
Posted on October 26th, 2009 | 9 Comments |
Rumours suggested that Hughton would be appointed as permanent manager before the game but there’s been no official confirmation of that, possibly because Ashley is still considering Barry Moat’s latest offer for the club.
Hughton – presumably still in the role of caretaker manager – said of the game:
“We’ve been through everything but credit to the players, they were magnificent and we got the win we deserved.”
I didn’t see the match personally but according to our match report I think ‘magnificent’ might be stretching things a bit. Although to be fair we did have 57% of the possession, 10 on-target shots to their 3 and 8 off-target shots to their 3.
Hughton goes on to say:
“We’ve been through all the emotions so to end the game like that was incredible,” said the Toon boss after his boys climbed back to the top of the Championship.
“It was a poor start and I was disappointed with the first-half performance.
“But credit to the lads, the second-half was much better and we got an excellent equaliser through Andy Carroll.
“They then get a penalty and you think it’s not going to be your day.
“But that feeling of relief when they miss gave us a huge lift.
“Zurab’s sending off I’ll have to have another look at, but after that you’re thinking the game is heading for a draw.
“But what a feeling it was to see Kevin Nolan’s goal and I was delighted for the boys; they were magnificent and deserved the win.”
Newcastle are also considering appealing against the sending off of Zurab Khizanishvili. Hughton said:
“It’s one that we’ll look at and scrutinise, my first reaction was that I couldn’t believe it.
“It seemed to be a skirmish that will happen in every game at some stage where you won’t see a red card.
“I wouldn’t rule out an appeal. The correct procedure is to have a good look at it and make sure we have got all our facts right.”
From what I can gather Khizanishvili, in an attempt to calm things down, grabbed Billy Sharp’s throat, which seems to me to be the sort of thing that would do anything but calm things down and would be a big no-no as far as the ref is concerned.
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Magnificent?? the man’s delusional. Tactically Houghton comes up short every time. Doncaster played five in midfield and swamped us for most of the first half. What were Houghton’s tactics, hump the ball directly over midfield to two strikers, one who wasn’t particularly interested and the other who still has the bad habit of not raising his head and therefore does not see people around him.
We had absolutely no width on Saturday, we have no pace in midfield and certainly no guile.
If Hughton thinks that we will get out of this league with route one football then he is even more delusional than I thought. Send the donkey back to Villa post haste. Give Ranger a decent run in the side. Remember the time and opportunity given to Amadonkey, Ranger deserves the same time he has the ability.
Houghton is and always will be only an assistant not a decision maker, again we will end up with a team of favourites and not horses for courses.