The chance was there, 14 Europa League fixtures, and the Newcastle squad down to it's bare arse, and he rarely stepped up to the plate.
Another player from the Academy hyped up to justify the £5million spent on it in the last couple of years.
But in reality, where are these wonder kids we used to produce by the bucket full?
Where is the next Lee Clark, Robbie Elliott, Steve Howey, Alan Thompson, etc.
And I won't even go into the world-beaters - Shearer, Gazza, Waddle and Beardsley.
Shane Ferguson went to Birmingham City, and even Lee Clark cannot see a future in him in the Championship.
He hasn’t featured in recent weeks, despite being fit, and playing in a side struggling to fight off relegation.
As we have said many times on this website, the lad (he's not a kid anymore) isn't Premiership quality.
Alan Pardew: “Of the players who have gone out on loan at the moment, Curtis and Mehdi have done very well, and so have Tav and Haris at Rotherham.
“Some of the others need to get going. I’ve not heard a lot of Ferguson at Birmingham – he’s not been featuring.
“He needs to get back in that team. Those guys are very important to us.
“Curtis Good has done well.
“We sent him up there (Dundee United) to play, as he wasn’t going to get many opportunities here. He’s done really well.”