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If you don't understand the role he was playing, why not just ask someone to explain it to you?

I think you'd have to be really blind to the bigger picture not to see Ashworth's role in our success this season.

All fair points - ultimately, we won't know but the proof of the pudding will be in the tasting. I really like the look of the football operations at the club but squad progression is the real challenge and I'm interested to see what business we do in the next window.

My concern with David Weir is that it's a very different job from what he was doing before and it might take a window for him to get familiar with the role and we also shouldn't overlook that he might just not be as good as Ashworth or go in a very different direction. West Brom really suffered...

I completely agree with this assessment. I think he's been lucky with the club he's inherited here, all the tools were in place for him to be successful. Dan Ashworth leaving puts a big dent in our infrastructure though and I would have no issue arguing he was more important than any manager we...

Which is exactly what they require and should have done years previously.

Personally, I think we can already see his impact and we'll continue to see it for two or three years as more and more players are promoted through the squads internally to the club. We've got players out on loan and in our u23s who will become first team players and we've got squad players who...

He's the right appointment for Newcastle, given what their plan is. It's a brilliant opportunity for him, blood money or not - there's money to spend there and there's the realistic chance of building a winning team. I can understand the criticism of him leaving given he's going to be banking...

I think he's done an excellent job in developing the squad and ensuring a progression path into the first team for the younger players. I don't think he's irreplaceable though and if he wants to take the opportunity in Newcastle then good luck to the man. I've no doubt we know someone else to...