acrossthepond 724 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 The Legends have been discussing this and promoting the idea of an open top buss parade through Newcastle City Centre. I was waiting for the anti brigade to burn the lines up but virtually every caller backed the idea. If relegation was, as you say, just a blip, then why would we want an open top parade? Surely parades are for something you want to celebrate. Why would we celebrate the correction of a blip? There should be nothing to commemorate promotion and nothing more than a perfunctory party to celebrate winning the title. We are only back where we started, after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Lazaru 0 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 I can't believe anyone would even consider a parade, it would be embarassing. Celebrating geting back to where we should never have been relegated from if run properly and when we go up it will be to a level below the last time we were there! I was definitely in favour for the Keegan promotion season, he'd taken a club on its arse, transformed it out of sight and we were flyign up to the prem in style and full of confidence for the future, but this time a walk round the pitch last home game of the season is more than enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6321 Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 It's not something to celebrate - a wrong has been righted. Celebrate when we've actually moved forward under Ashley - a long way to go yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg 6 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 I think we'll win it at Plymouth, can see us getting turned over at Reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4005 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 The Legends have been discussing this and promoting the idea of an open top buss parade through Newcastle City Centre. I was waiting for the anti brigade to burn the lines up but virtually every caller backed the idea. If relegation was, as you say, just a blip, then why would we want an open top parade? Surely parades are for something you want to celebrate. Why would we celebrate the correction of a blip? There should be nothing to commemorate promotion and nothing more than a perfunctory party to celebrate winning the title. We are only back where we started, after all. I don't disagree but that's not what the legends or callers wanted. There tack was more why should younger supporters miss out on such an occasion. Personally a lap of honour at the last home game seems right to me. They were also saying theirs thousand of fans that don't get to games and it was for them aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4005 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Hughton plans head start for Premier League campaign Simon Bird Chris Hughton will NOT celebrate Newcastle's promotion with a bus parade through the city. Newcastle have decided they are now back where they want to be, in the Premier League, and rather than be triumphalist, they will be a more humble lap of honour at the last home game. Instead, Hughton has cracked the whip with his squad and demanded they set new targets, including winning the division, and looking at setting a new points record for the club. Hughton's decision echoes Roy Keane's when he led Sunderland back to the Premier League and said he wanted no part in trumpeting the first step in a long hard journey. He has also vowed to take advantage of Newcastle's "head start" in re-establishing themselves as a top-flight club - and ensure a summer of stability rather than doubt. Hughton will meet with owner Mike Ashley and md Derek Llambias next week for opening talks about who to buy in the summer, and who goes. The United boss says no-one will leave against his will, even if there is interest from abroad in Jose Enrique and Fabricio Coloccini. Hughton was at the helm last summer when there was drift and doubt over the ownership, managerial situation and which players would leave. He says that won't happen this time around, as he gets a month extra time to dangle certain top-flight football in front of transfer targets. Hughton has denied that he wants Spurs right-back Alan Hutton, after Harry Redknapp claimed Newcastle had "been talking" to the defender on loan at Sunderland. He added: "The fact that we now know which division we're going to be in does give us a head start. Any head start is always welcome. "It gives us a chance to avoid the uncertainty that we had last summer. "At the moment we have a squad that has been really competitive all season. What will happen over a period of time will be decisions on if we need to strengthen and where, but the most important thing is that we've had real competition for places. "The agents have started already. That is their job. The first possible chance they will see to push players on you and make you aware their players are available is when you get promotion. "The only conversation I have had with Mike and Derek is about the good feeling and congratulations that we've got promotion. "Everything else apart from that is immaterial. What will happen over a period of time is that I will sit down with Mike, and perhaps more so with Derek, and plan for the forthcoming season. "The players want to be here. We have a group of lads who have wanted to be at this club. " I saw something from Gutierrez talking about whether it would have been better for him to be somewhere else with the World Cup coming up. "He made a conscious decision to stay here. What we have had is players who wanted to be here. "The fact that we have now enabled them to get to where they wanted to be, the Premier League, means I wouldn't anticipate anyone wanting to leave." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12903 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Nice to see he's looking toward the summer. I imagine most of these agents are from Pompey players desparately trying to get off that ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 We always have a lap of honour pretty much don't we? Didn't last season for obvious reasons. I remember going to Blackburn at home a couple of seasons ago for our last home match and they might as well have not even bothered. A few half-hearted waves from the players but most fans didn't bother to stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyshinton 59 Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 I think we'll win it at Plymouth, can see us getting turned over at Reading. hope you are right, just booked the digs. not the getting turned over bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 I'd rather seal it at Reading as I'll be there. I'll be at Plymouth too but with the home fans. Might well be the day their relegation is confirmed. Talk about awkward... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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