Newport County will give manager Graham Westley two games to save his job following a board meeting according to the BBC site. Both away games.

That's pretty tough.

Ouch.......hope they lose both and still drift further from safety.

Not a fan of Westley, so from my perspective, it couldn't be happening to a nicer person

The lovely, lovely man.

I used to work with a lass who went out with a player who played for Stevenage when they were in the Conference and he said he was an absolute cock. Apparently one day he said to the players 'I'm a winner and one day I'll be managing Man United'.

Confident fella and clearly a man who can motivate.

So do I.

1 win in 20.

Who fook where that one team by the way they must be shite

Hopefully his last league club, odious little rat.

They couldn't wait......he's sacked!!

They forgot to tell him it was any football game, not just one involving Newport.

he,s one person who gives a rat a bad name. more like maggie thatchers love child.

Supposedly given two games to save his job and now gone. Probably streamlining for life below next season - again. Will Newport County change "The Exiles" bit?

Cant be easy playing on a ploughed field, chairman has to take a portion of blame, greed over league status, bin the egg chasers, plant some grass and get back in the league.

The football club pays rent to the rugby club. Rodney Parade has been a rugby ground since 1877. They should look to move back to Newport Stadium if they get relegated, which is a tidy ground, but it's likely they are tied into a long lease at RP.

Newport are typical of a lower league club. They were languishing in lower reaches of non league when a sugar daddy, a supporter who won a hundred and odd millions on the lottery, came in and poured money into the club. As soon as he pulled out they have sunk just like Rushden,Maidstone and a few others. I expect Fleetwood to go the same way these money people will not keep pouring money into clubs. We found this out with IOR enjoy it, while you can. Just look at Wigan and Blackburn their rich benefactors pulled out and down they went.

I don't get the Pools, Wigan or Blackburn comparisons either for what it's worth, Wigan for example have been owned by the same bloke for 32 years and even as a Championship club are way above the level they were in 1995.

Darlo is about right and the problems setting my up again without a permanent home, then in the future the issues trying to play football at a Rugby ground can bring.

Newport only clawed there way back when the supporter who won the millions put his money into the club. He withdrew last year and as a result they are back to normal.

All I am saying they were treading water until the supporter put his money into the club then they got out of the conference on the back of that. Now he has pulled out they are struggling again. Probably not the amount of money Griggs put in but he took them from nowhere to the first division and what happened when he pulled out?

Or IOR put into Pools

They could still play at Somerton Park though Chip. They'd just have to play in one of the roads and use jumpers for goalposts. Only problem I can see is finding room for the hundreds of supporters. They'd just have to hang round in peoples front gardens. Or pay a bit more to watch out of the bedroom windows.

Wasn't there a dog track or speedway track around the old ground.
Newport were just a parallel of Pools, a struggling lower league club.

Has the groundsman had any warnings yet....?

It is probably too far back for most but Gateshead ground had a dog track around the pitch. Gateshead were kicked out of the league at virtually their first time of applying for re-election when league teams were virtually always re-elected (Pools for eg) Some say that was because in those days teams shared the gate money and Gateshead was poorly supported but Gateshead made their money from the greyhounds to subsidise the football. True I don't know, but certainly had some mileage in it.

It was ex-Pools manager Len Ashurst who was in charge of them when they had their purple patch. "They were promoted to the Third Division in the 1979–80 season and won the Welsh Cup, entitling them to play in the 1980–81 season European Cup Winners' Cup, reaching the quarter finals. Ashurst was sacked by Newport County in February 1982 and Addison returned as team manager. The team, largely assembled by Ashurst, attained Newport County's highest post-war finish in the 1982–83 season, 4th in the Third Division, narrowly missing out on promotion".

someone had to make way for peterborough at the time. don,t remember who the other 3 sides were in the re-election places. heard the gateshead directors had had enough also.

Ashington's old Ground had a dog track around it. I think that may be now a Supermarket.