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I completely missed that. If that’s accurate then yes, best avoided. Although, being pedantic, does a goalie need to concentrate for a full 90?

And what about the sacrifice of attacking intent and pressing which that involves?

If you think Howe is actually inflexible then in my view you’re not watching the games or you don’t understand football beyond surface level. Clearly on Saturday our tactics changed to overloading their right back with hall, Anderson and Barnes and we went all out attack with the fullbacks. One can make tactical changes without fundamentally changing the formation. he sacrificed 2 defensive positions for an offensive overwhelm and he was richly, totally and justly rewarded.

You really must write all this to the manager - I’m genuinely concerned he’s not noticed or thought about it.

DCL will score; it’s that season. Hope we just attack them constantly with no let up as long as we physically can.

I profoundly disagree with you. It’s being miserable and unduly focused on negatives. Either way, as you’ve so eloquently said, your opinion is yours and you’re entitled to it. Have fun with it.

If this is enjoyment for you then I’d love to be a fly on the wall during one of your down days.

I agree, would seem odd to swap back up gig for another, unless we rate him higher than Pope. I reckon they’re about neck and neck, altho rambo better with feet. Perhaps they may go horses for courses?

It’s difficult as I’m not convinced you can read, but, in a nutshell, my arguments are that your interpretations of the match and the manager’s performance and strengths are unrealistic, not supported by evidence, tainted by needless negativity because you don’t have adequate emotional control / cognition and that, all things considered, the manager is doing a good job with heavily depleted resources and an unusually concentrated amount of misfortune / difficult circumstances. If you take the simple fact that the team is literally worse than the one we put out most weeks last year, is it not surprising that we’re not as good as last year? Could it be possible - at all conceivable - that you’re just upset that the team isn’t doing as well and you are taking that out on the one thing you can without any real cost or consequence? It’s painful watching tbh.

Better than all our other options behind Pope.

And, for clarity, my argument is that yours isn’t supported by the facts, you weapons-grade Olympic-standard windowlicker.

Not a functioning mind

Sure; yours is invalid. It isn’t borne out once you test it on reality.

No he just thinks it’s more valid and accurate because reality backs him up.

No issue with different opinions; just those which have no basis in reality but which are persistently rehashed with a misplaced certainty and confidence.

Presumably you’re happy for people to continue pointing out that you’re a problem, then.

It's incredible, right? How can you watch what we were treated to on Saturday and not feel in love?! I don't get it. I was there and it's automatically one of the best experiences I've had as a sports fan at a match in person. I also don't get how you can watch it and think we're in as dire a scenario as some set out: if we scored 6 west Ham couldn't have complained. It's like deliberate avoidance of observable reality to suit a viewpoint which makes you literally feel worse.

My goodness! Like a little doggo with a chew bone. A really unique combination of ignorant, pugnacious and annoying. I’ve clearly responded to the point you made accusing Howe of tactical inflexibility / ineptitude by saying that there are obvious mitigating circumstances that mean he can’t really do much in terms of flexibility. It’s like collecting your weekly shop, finding half of it rotten, and then expecting a greater variety of meals and snacks from the lesser pool. You’re asking for something that isn’t possible. It’s so obvious that you’re butt hurt that Newcastle aren’t as successful as last year and you’re rounding on the manager as you’ve nothing else to focus disappointment on. Tbh your likely joyless existence is probably a fair price to pay for it all. While we’re playing the patronising internet links game, here are some for you: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/projection?amp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://www.psychmechanics.com/signs-of-low-intelligence/

Could it be that it’s not that everyone else is missing the point…?

Bless you. Best fetch myself some orthopaedic shoes.

Howe out

Pardon?! Very much an arguing a point you’ve made. Perhaps just not in a way you understand, bucko

Essentially someone should dilute this thread into a picture of Eddie Howe and a pint glass 284 ml full, and use AI to repeat ad infinitum.

Or maaaaaybe the back ups aren’t very good because the squad isn’t that deeeeeeeep so they’re just not as good the players we’d ideally pick so we’re having to play against both elite opposition and with one hand behind our back and we’re still winning a lot of the games and with a very plausible chance of Europa League and having created some of the best football memories for the club ever including yesterday and I dont recognise grammar as a currency anymore