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Strawberry

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  1. 28 minutes ago, Ronson333 said:

    Keegan took the shitest team you could imagine from about to get relegated to league one, to challenging for the PL title within four and half seasons…

    Keegans biggest assets replacing any player with a better one doesn't work for Howe he is too loyal to individuals and he doesn't like to disturb squad balance.

     

    Hence he will never be a better one.

  2. 3 hours ago, Big Jow said:

    The excuses of injuries, fatigue, suspensions, the schedule, the time our flight takes off are not actually as strong as people believed. They never have been.

     

    This crap performance yesterday wasn’t down to any of those things. Our away form all season has mainly been due to these bizarre tactics we’ve put in place away from home. It first appeared at AC Milan and I wonder if the fact Howe thinks it ‘worked’ (depending on whether you view clinging on for 90 minutes for a draw is a good result) has been the reason he has persisted with it.

     

    The reality is, it hasn’t worked, ever. We rode our luck in Milan and in other variations of it at Liverpool, Dortmund, PSG, Tottenham, Everton, Bournemouth have all shown it’s a disaster waiting to happen.

     

    You only need to look at the games we’ve been successful in away from home like Villa where we took the game to them to realise even more what a crap plan it is.

     

    Yes, we’ve had injuries and several other issues but we didn’t in Milan. This approach has been designed for us from the beginning.

     

    Today we had what? Tonali, Big Joe & Pope missing out of the first 11 (assuming the former two start ahead of Little Joe). Are we so depleted we had to play the whole first 45 minutes on our goal line? 

     

    We’ve had much worse starting 11s against much better Arsenal 11s in this fixture before (with much worse managers too) without resorting to that and it was criminal to set up in the way we did.

     

    Howe was absolutely sensational last season and gave me some of my best memories as a Newcastle fan, last season his plan worked to some extent, although towards the end teams worked out how to play against us and we started to struggle.

     

    Refusing to change formation, refusing to change tactics, refusing to address the gigantic gap between defence and midfield, refusing to take Burn out the 11 until today, refusing to play Hall, refusing to bring others on to rest players towards the end of games have all played a significant factor in terms of how this season have panned out. That said a lot of ‘elite’ managers are stubborn.

     

    People continue to say “but what else can he do”, all of the above is the answer, because time and time again this season, what he has done hasn’t worked so he should maybe consider something else.

     

    PSG for example, hoofing balls up to Isak for the last 45 minutes when he could barely walk, I don’t care if we had Riviere on the bench, bring him on for the last 10-15 minutes as he’ll at least be able to run and potentially keep hold of the ball. 

     

    The only thing that I can’t work out, is if he’s as stubborn as above, why have we had a total U-turn this season with tactics from last? I can only assume he did this to try and conserve energy with the extra games.

     

    We’re a dream to play against. The opposing manager and teams know exactly who will be playing and how we’ll set up.

     

    The best situation is Howe reacts and changes, because I’d love for him to progress as we do, as he’s earned it. But sadly, this has striking similarities as to why he got relegated with Bournemouth, he was too stubborn to change. Not that we’ll get relegated, but we’ll be inconsistent and finish 8-12th every year under him imo. I’d love to be wrong though.

     

    We’ll not improve this season by sacking Howe at this stage, he also has credit in the bank, but no idea if I’d look to replace him this summer or let him have one final crack at the whip with a blank sheet next year. We’re all in on the FA Cup this season and he needs to get that right.

    The old HTT type of post great analysis. Everything he said here is so true. We cant suck him. My hope is Southgate flops and England come calling for him. Lets hope thats the case.

  3. 18 minutes ago, toon25 said:

    I couldn't see us winning the cup against the likes of Arsenal and City anyway tbh

    Arsenal is not in the cup.

  4. 21 hours ago, Newcastle Fan said:

     

    I've mentioned this before but Dan Ashworth takes more blame than Eddie; Eddie had a team made mostly out of Steve Bruce's players beat psg 4-1 in the champions league; our recuritment and prepration for this  season have been terrible and the DOF takes the blame for that.

    I couldn't agree more also if he wants out let him leave.

  5. He can loss all the games this season and l still back him to be our manager. We need to sack the director of Football and the scouting team not Eddie.

  6. Sorry to say this but how unlucky we are when we lose so many players through injury he keep on stay fit?

     

    I would swap him with any of our players injury wise.

  7. 8 hours ago, TBG said:

     

    But say we didn't have an injury crisis, were sat 2nd in the league and there wasn't any noise about him leaving.

     

    Would we be giving him the credit? 

     

    What pathetic analogy. Are we trying to sympathies with one block who thinks of himself high or our dire situation?

  8. If Ashworth leaves it would be good for the football club. He made us timid. All the takeover euphoria is vanished with his l know it all approach. 

     

    He was at WBA, England, Brighton three sides with one big fat 0 trophy. Granted he bought and sold some average players at Brighton but as the richest club in the world making profit by selling players shouldn't be a thing to aim for.

     

    We need a Micheal Edwards or someone sound from Europe. The German director of football at Westham is doing wonders. 

     

    I would fire him let alone giving time for him to jump the ship. With club did a lot without him in Jan 2022 than he did with three transfer windows it is tellig how on earth he got the tag he is good operator blah blah

  9. 53 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

    Where do we go in the meantime?  Newcastle isn’t surrounded by close places with big grounds.  A temporary stadium of requisite size will be a no-go.  There isn’t the room on Barrack Road to do what Spurs did.

    Share the stadium with the smoggies.

  10. St James didn't look like it looks like this in the 1980 or even more in the 1970. The place is scared but the shape of the stadium always use to be refurbished to give it the current look.

     

    Hence I do like us to build perhaps the biggest and the most expensive stadium on the current lot we have. Make construction work as quick and as swift as possible and try to finsh it in a season or two.

  11. 2 hours ago, Jonas said:

    I was fully expecting a PSG 2nd and a a brutal last few minutes at 3-1.

    Were in the exact same position in the group now too. With the seemingly weakest team ahead PSV/Dortmund.

    Cue two Dalglishianly pointlessly negative performances against them.

    I was expecting the same. I also thought it was written in stars but Schar and the boys have different ideas.

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