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I think Ashley has got to take a lot of the blame for the relegation, even the mess he made of the managers position was probably the difference between staying up and going down.
He takes a portion of the blame, yes. As do the players, coaching staff, various managers (who Ashley appointed) etc.
The appointment of Kinnear was a big WTF moment, but I'm not even too sure he did that bad a job, and who else was going to come in on an interim basis with the club in turmoil?
FWIW, he picked up 25 points in 26 games, which is far from convincing, but it would have kept us up if we'd done the same for the other 12.
However, for the last 3/4 years we've been terrible and flirted with relegation pretty much every year. Ever since SBR left and was replaced by Graeme Souness, we've been on a downhill spiral with only one outcome ever likely to happen.
We were mis-managed well before Ashley came in.
£80m for Newcastle is a bargain IMO, there will never be a better time to go to the support and preach patience, and start doing things the right way. And when they do go back up, without the highly paid wasters, and the marquee names that'll never live up to their pricetag that £80m is starting to look very cheap
Yet if we don't sign any big name players or 'marquee' names, the fans complain that we're not being ambitious enough.