I'm not sure I even agree that they were coached poorly last year to be honest. That first half at Barcelona was some of the best football I've seen a Newcastle side play.
Against Chelsea at home we absolutely battered them. Liverpool and Arsenal we played well. Man United. There are loads of games last season where, for the first half, or even the first hour in some cases, we were absolutely fine.
The players themselves have even come out and lay the blame at their own door and not Eddie's.
We may have been fragile mentally, we may have been tactically out done in later stages of games and been predictable, we may have been unmotivated, but poorly coached is one thing they're not, in my opinion (of course).