An Open Letter to Mike Ashley

Mr. Ashley,

We, the fans of Newcastle United, are writing to implore you to intervene to stop the freefall currently afflicting Newcastle United.

We believe that Alan Pardew's management has run its course, and that his tactical depth has been exposed as insufficicent.

We have suffered our greatest home defeat in 88 years to Liverpool, and our biggest home derby defeat since the 1970s.

Furthermore, it is clear that Alan Pardew has lost the dressing room, and the players look hurt, lost and confused.  

We have assembled an excellent squad of international players who have the potential and ability to excite the crowd, and get the fans to their feet.

But their talents and abilities are being wasted under this manager, whose exhaustive list of excuses has now run dry, and shockingly, the players look as if they've never met.  They have had their flair and confiedence coached out of them.

We are concerned that failure to remove Alan Pardew now that he has lost the dressing room will result in these magnificent players leaving the club for rivals in the Premier League with a manager who can get the best out of their talents.  None of us want to see the good work done erased even further.

We cannot see where the next point is going to come from, if we continue to perform this badly - and let's face it, we've not played more than about 100 minutes of really good football all season, in all competitions.

This is not a knee-jerk reaction, or a recent blip, our form and tactics have been nothing short of appalling all season.

We must replace Alan Pardew with the right manager, and that may take until the summer to find, but Mr. Pardew is taking the most talented squad ever to be threatened with relegation straight towards the Championship.  And now that he has lost the players, he cannot go on.

We implore you to swallow your pride after the 8 year contract awarded this season, and do the right thing for the club.

Alan Pardew must go, before our players start to throw in transfer requests as a result of a manager in whom they have no faith.  And who could blame them?

We, the undersigned, the fans of Newcastle United.