Survey comments - Q1: Has Kinnear done enough to be kept on?

Nov 28 2008 The Journal

Who else would take the job!

IT'S UNLIKELY A BUYER WOULD COMPLETE A SALE BEFORE THE END OF THE SEASON, IF AT ALL

To change now could be a disaster, the players are behind him, thats important

If we are not selt then he will stay

He is not the long term answer but he has brought some steadiness to NUFC

All depends on whether Ashley is going.

It is acknowledged that NUFC have too small a squad. JK and every manager preceding him has reiterated this fact. There will always be a problem in attracting top drawer players to Newcastle who fixate on London and Manchester as the only destinations worthy of their talent.

Joe has done very well

Joe Kinnear from a team point of view has done a reasonable job but his statements re the sale of the club, players who would definetly come in the transfer window but suddenly now less than a week later won't makes him a bit of a joke let's be honest he is another Ashley puppet to join Wise,Llambas etc we need a totally new management structure though unfortunately this won't happen till club is sold.

Until the end of the season, yes. Longer than that, too early to tell.

He is only doing a PR stunt for Mike Ashley. All I have heard is how MA wishes how he could be at the match! etc etc etc.

Joe has done a good job under the very difficult circumstances of NUFC

Stability is needed but new owners need to have their man in charge

Would provide some much needed stability

We are going into division one the way things are at St james Park...

It would seem that there will be no alternative.

I think he is doing a steady the ship job especially when no one else wanted the job

Joe has to stay until the end of the season. He will get the best out of the players we have and will have come january.

It is still possibily a little bit early but on latest results  without any new signings, then i think it would be fair to say " Joe has done a very good job"

But we should ALL support whoever is the manager. Nothing against JK just don't think he is the right man for the job.

No good having another manger until next season

He's got the club together, fighting as a team.

Should be kept on for this season then start again next season with a new man getting a full pre season and at leat 3 years. Promoting caretaker managers full time has never worked at newcastle and its been proven.

He's got points when we probably should'nt have got them (Chelsea, Everton away) but really lost points which I feel we should have comfortabley won, (Wigan, Man City home, Fulham & the rotten men away

When Joe Kinnear was apointed I was amazed to say the least and not at all happy. However tghe guy has come in and done amore than reasonable job in the circumstances. His tirade against the gutter press ( nothing to do with the journal ) was a joy to behold and woth gettting the jog for that reason alone. Apart  from anything else this club needs stabilitty and I would go further than offer him the job to the end of the season by bringing in a top class coach to work alongside Joe.

The team are poor he is a second rate manager

New owners, if they arrive, may have their own ideas. He has had a mixed bag of results and at times has fielded teams that appear to have little idea what is needed to win or indeed survive in the EPL. If he lasts till all/ most of the squad is fit we should get a better idea of his managerial skills.

Still a very real relegation threat need to pick up points and get some kind of consistency

No one could have done any better trying to get us out of the mess we;re in.

Just two wins is not enough. Too indecisive for my liking. Shouldn't have lost at fulham, should have stuffed wigan.

The honey moon is truly over. Where was the battling the last two matches,  I have supported my team for58 years and to be honest we have seen some bad managers and allthough not the worst he hasnt made our football look any better

Tactically inept

I believe that JFK can, with 2-3 decent battling loan signings, keep the club up this season.  It would give us some sense of stability.  Until we get the ownership resolved, there will be   no chance of long term planning - and who in their right mind would come to work for Ashley.  Can't see a Sale going through until the new year.

Kinnear is an average out of work manager who seeminly had no interest in football after his last job. Now he sees himself as the Manager of NUFC. The man is a joke, and so is his style of football. He also states he wants to spend £20m where was that when KK needed and will Denise the mence Wise agree with the players he wants; if not will JFK walk !!! I doubt it

Joe is certainly a surprise act. He should be on the TC series "Life on Mars". He is a 70s man through and through. But, so far, too many draws, and some iffy decisions, and Sir Righteous Micheal Owen seems to be too unsettled. He is capable of being our top scorer and a talisman to help us reach a decent league position. Joe is good a upsetting the press, which reminds me of Brian Clough. So far, 6 out of ten on the field, after an appalling set of decisions by Ashley. We are lucky to have Joe cos he is not conventional and doesn't mind a bit of bother. However, there are still many questionmarks.

He's very much steadied a sinking ship. and He should get the job untill the end of the season he's doing a decent job.

Some odd team sheets, some strange tactics.

Kinnear will not contribute to the stability so desparately needed at this crucial time in the history of N.U.F.C.

Performances deteriorate when a caretaker is given the job full time and our performances have been no more than average under JK anyway

The club is in free fall i think we will go down

One of JFKs luck was that his arrival coincided with the return to fitness of jonas, barton, martins and Beye. He therefore found a better team than the one Houghton struggled to work with. He  has been reluctant to remove ameobi and duff from the first eleven, despite the fact that there are far too superior options in terms of delivery and scoring. He seems to lack the required tactical awareness, which would have prevented the loss at fulham, the wigan draw or even the socond half nightmare against west brom. His substitutions are mediocre to say the least and he needs to know that Jonas is by far our most creative force!

Yes but only if a new owner does not come in before the end of the season

Joe's a terrible manager. The results we have gotten under him have been due to the quality in our squad, not Kinnear.

He's a dinosaur, a complete embarrassment.

Performances have not been great (Bar Villa), and the table doesn't lie - however getting rid would throw the club into even greater disarray, so whilst I don't advocate keeping him, he is no long-term answer.

He has managed to motivate a listless set of players into a decent outfit, but tactically he seems out of his depth.

We need to progress and appoint a permanent manager under any regime that owns the club and sack Dennis Wise

He has the support of the players, and we don't need more instability.

It depends on the situation regarding the sale of the club.  It would be stupid changing manager again if we could be sold during the season and a new owner came in wanting his own manager.

Too inconsistant I'm afraid.

What has he done? not exactly in the top 6 are we!!

he is the only one under these circumstances that is willing to do the job

He's done a good job in difficult circumstances. Good to see him speaking his mind and telling it how it is.

Remember the state of the team he took over

never in the game

Out of the game to long and too old

although we have had a few good results ....... he just is not the man for the job

He will always be a stop-gap, regardless of the final results.