Hughes WILL fight off Competition

By Matthew Jones
May 29 2003

One of Newcastle United's most experienced defenders, Aaron Hughes, is hoping to see off any competition for a place in Sir Bobby Robson's Newcastle side. http://www.4thegame.com Reported:

Newcastle defender Aaron Hughes has quietly gone about the business of establishing himself as one of the club's most experienced players.

At the age of 23, the Northern Ireland international is just one game short of 150 in the Premiership and five away from a double century of appearances for the club he joined as a trainee.

Only Alan Shearer, Shay Given, Gary Speed and Nolberto Solano of the current crop can boast better Magpies records than that, but Hughes is not about to rest on his laurels.

"It's nice to get as many games as you can and next season I'd like to add a few more," he said.

"Hopefully, I'll have a good pre-season and reach 200. I've been in competition with Andy Griffin on the right and Olivier Bernard on the left. Between the three of us, we've been moved around a bit and there's always competition. I just enjoyed getting the games that I did."

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