HaydnNUFC

It'd be a superb job if Hodgson can keep Watford up. Honestly thought them and Norwich wouldn't get to 30 points.

Yep. Its called capitalism.

I know. Just the latest hot take in this topic from the worst website ever was from Glendenning.

Fair enough. Only found a handful of articles from 2018. Nowt since. And on Glendenning, I suppose him being a mackem plays a part in this, given he's not once had a go at Guardiola for working at Man City but is going all out on Howe. https://twitter.com/search?q=Guardiola OR Pep OR UAE OR Man City from%3Abglendenning&src=typed_query&f=live

Understand if this is whataboutery™ but where is the fewm at Guardiola and where are the questions being posed to him about the UAE? He's been at Man City for nigh on 6 years and I can't remember a single question about what goes on in the UAE being asked being put to him.

I'd keep Bruno in personally. Dubravka, Manquillo, Schar, Burn, Targett, Willock, Joelinton, Bruno, Fraser, Wood, ASM. Depending on fitness obviously, especially the midfielders.

It's the constant virtue signalling about fans and supporting a football club that significantly irks me. Sportswashing is painting a putrid regime in a positive light to garner positive attention for said regime in Western societies, I'm not ignorant to that. I know how shocking KSA is with it's laws, practices, geopolitics et cetera. That they bought my football club and are going to bankroll it doesn't make me blind to that, nor will I argue otherwise. "The Saudis do/did x." I'm just like, "aye, they do. Not nice are they". It's the looking down the nose at Newcastle fans since the takeover went through. The celebrations outside SJP on October 7 were celebrations of Ashley going. No matter who was coming in, that was going to be celebrated. But I've seen that being painted as celebrating KSA and now there's the perpetuation that we're all sportswashed fools to these white collar paywall journalists, some of whom have written contradictory stuff on Saudi money in the past. Just fuck off. The suggestion that fans should walk away from supporting they club they always have done. Fuck off. Saying that they would if it was them. Utter virtue signalling nonsense, far easier said than done.

Aye, first goal in this is huge. If we get it I think we'll win the game. By a few if we score early, could turn toxic in there, especially if ASM is taking the piss or our midfield is running the show.

Their defenders are the absolute pits. No wonder ASM ran riot in the reverse fixture. I'd probably start him. Need to keep Bruno in as well for me.

Ball didn't stick to him today. Poor.

He's top class. Champions League quality, easy. Hope he still starts on Thursday.

Clearly shown how up to it he is for me. One worry or concern about him as a manager is how he'd fare tactically against top sides and managers, especially as we gradually improve. Also, on the questions he gets asked about KSA all the time, can't say I'm a fan of constantly making him answer those questions. Does Guardiola always get asked similar shit about the UAE? I understand they need to be asked btw.

A win at Goodison to keep the battle at arm's length would be brilliant.

Take out today's frustrations on this lot please. 0-2.

In terms of any decision tbh; Leeds (h) they should've had a pen Norwich (h) only pen we've had this season Brentford (a) red card for them That's it.

From this season, now with added Chelsea (a) bullshit.

I'm fucking sick of it. How many times have we been fucked over for penalties this season?

Utterly fucking robbed. How can that not be a penalty man, I'm fucking sick of it. How many times this season.

Played well. Howe has us so well drilled. If we can somehow come out of this with a point, mint. Still would see it as a bonus.

Back 3/5.

I'll give it a go. Looking back to the start of this season, when Ashley and Bruce were still here and how toxic the club was mainly in around September I was screaming for Howe to take over from Bruce. Looking back I thought he may have taken the job even with Ashley, but given how he looked for the right job after his time out of work I doubt he would've done. I've always rated him, his achievements at Bournemouth are so vastly underrated. What he did there is something you'd probably only see on Football Manager: taking a club from administration in League 2 (granted he left then came back when they were in League 1) to the Premier League and keeping them in the Premier League for 5 seasons playing attacking football is as good an achievement as winning a bit of silverware for me. But given this country's media and supporters' myopic view of managers where only the final outcomes are looked at rather than the whole context he was never going to be given credit that he probably deserved. He oversaw the greatest period in Bournemouth's history and that's the bottom line. And to achieve what he did there is some doing; building multiple squads for various leagues, improving players, maintaining their attacking identity, it's all the hallmarks of a fantastic coach. Now Bournemouth imo were always going to go down eventually and that's no fault of Howe's. Given the size of that club without meaning disrespect there was always going to be a ceiling in terms of revenue, the type of player they could attract et cetera. Even still, they would've stayed up had they not had so many injuries over the 2019-20 season and/or the goal line technology was switched on at Villa Park. Now it was mentioned in the discussion of my post about English football and managers post-Guardiola that the young, progressive, modern coaches such as Howe, Potter, many others in the Championship are the complete antithesis of the likes of Bruce, Pardew, Allardyce because they go out of their way to improve themselves rather than just searching for their next pay day. Potter went to Ostersunds in Sweden for his first job: completely unheard of for young English managers to go abroad for their first job. Howe spent his time out watching his training sessions at Bournemouth back, going over to Spain and watching Simeone work at Atleti, watching Andoni Iraola work at Rayo Vallecano who has brought a relatively small club into La Liga and got to the semi finals of the Copa del Rey. Iraola said of Howe; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10212107/Rayo-Vallecano-coach-Andoni-Iraola-opens-tremendous-Radamel-Falcao-teams-rise-LaLiga.html Amongst that, this is what he also was doing prior to being interviewed and appointed here, remember that it was Al-Rumayyan who was wowed by his knowledge and attention to detail in how he'd improve us. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/11/05/incoming-newcastle-boss-eddie-howe-set-road-tyneside-diego-simeone/ Now if you look at how he's improved the team in it's general play, I've included some graphs that are spoilered amongst the fact that Newcastle are unbeaten this year and are sitting at the 'points collected in top 5 leagues this year' table with Liverpool, Barcelona and Sevilla. Above Manchester City.

Leeds had to invest in January to back up that squad and supplement the losses of Phillips and Bamford. They didn't and sacked Bielsa instead while that Firpo stinks up the place every week and players are out of position. On their board if they go down imo. Not Bielsa or Marsch.