Newcastle United Face Judgement Day

As I prepare to sit and suffer through Survival Sunday, I am left disconsolate. The demise of Newcastle United over the past 4/5 months has been startling. I feared for them long before now, I citing back in February on twitter I thought they would be lucky to pick up anymore points. 

Now Survival Sunday is here and its brings with it the very real possibility that Newcastle United will be relegated form he Premier League. It is even with a sense of sadness that if they do survive today the fact that I will be celebrating such an achievement goes to show the current state of affairs at the club. 

How Mike Ashley has allowed John Carver to stay in this role for so long and oversee such results I will never know. He never should have been given the job yet alone allowed to stay this long. The fans are castigated by the national press over their treatment of Alan Pardew however upon his departure they wanted a genuine replacement, a new start, not to just have Pardew's backroom staff take over. The club needs to clear out all of the backroom staff and start a fresh in the summer no matter what todays result may be. 

I know the players are poor however there are a couple of very talented players and Carver's inability to motivate or organise them just shows his ineptitude even further. Players inability fans can stomach to an extend but lack of fitness, effort and commitment is unacceptable. As the banner read :

'We don't demand a team that wins, we demand a club that tries'

Nothing could better sums up the overriding feeling of all Newcastle united fans to the club from boardroom to boot-room. 

My hope is that this will happen and Ashley will show some ambition in getting a manager of some pedigree to take the club forward and give him the money to spend on proven players. There is no question the squad is woefully inadequate in many areas and I hope that this is addressed in the summer. Not that I believe that will happen for a second but we can live in hope. 

The following short poem sums up my current feeling towards Newcastle United. Inspired from the proverb - For want of a Nail. There are so many options of how to write this but as of this moment the biggest problem is the management and as such I have dedicated it to that. 

For want of a manager the ambition was lost;

For want of ambition the team was lost;

For want of a team the spirit were lost;

For want of spirit the points were lost;

For want of points, Premier League status is almost lost;

And all for the want of an manager.