Kid Icarus

aye, but people make plans. If my boss tells me on Tuesday that I've got Thursday morning off and then I'm told the next day that actually I have to come in I'm saying too bad, I've made plans.

Is it not just that it was scheduled that way for Emery coming in and they didn't want to muck the players about again changing the training time at late notice?

Nah, it's nigh on always because of the way Bournemouth play. All of them can't stand Bruce, Allardyce, and shudder at the prospect of Dyche etc.

FWIW in my experience Howe is a popular choice with a lot of the very much not online older generation. Lost count of the amount of times I've heard "I don't know why we don't go for Eddie Howe!?" from my great uncle, uncles, father in law, and the woman at work.

I would totally agree with the whole world's richest club thing if we weren't 6 points from safety and 10 games from the transfer window. It's these games from now until then that will define everything, including the players who will want to come, and what make it a big risk for him. As someone else said though, it's high risk, high reward. This job could make or break him. At this stage considering the other jobs he's turned down, I don't see him taking it, but we'll see.

I have no problem whatsoever with Bournemouth being relegated with him as manager, or the bad run of form really. I'm sure there's more context to it with injuries etc. It's the consistent shipping of goals throughout all of Bournemouth's seasons that worries me. I'm hoping that rather than going the Emery or Rafa route of sorting the defense out and being compact and hard to break down, Howe can just offset the poor defense with a much better attack.

The quality of the squad, the position the club's in, the lack of enthusiasm from fans, the long term expectation, knowing you're second choice, knowing unless you pull off something incredible you're going to be replaced fairly quickly. Considering the jobs he's supposedly turned down, I don't understand why that ^ would be what you were looking for.

This is what I can't get my head around. If he's turned down numerous jobs so that he can get the right opportunity, why would this situation be the right opportunity for him? It doesn't really make any sense.

Has Ritchie really dropped off that much that he can't cross? Genuinely asking because I didn't watch anything under Bruce. I thought Ritchie's crossing was pretty consistently decent under Rafa

Oh boy

Didn't he get a tune out of Fraser as well?

Just putting it out there now that I'd prefer Allardyce or Hodgson in the short term than us going anywhere near Martinez. Will be really surprised if Howe takes the job now.

Watching that mic'd up session with Howe, he's the type of coach you'd have loved to have as a kid, tons of encouragement and confidence boosting.

Wasn't Howe as close to becoming Celtic manager as Emery was to being our manager? I'm not convinced he'll come like, I've seen Martinez's name too often and it feels like it'll end up being him purely because I can't stand him

You could say that Emery being put off by a leak is a red flag and that he wasn't the right person because of that, but you could probably also say that he might have seen the leak as a red flag and that Newcastle wasn't the right club for him. Both would be right as well. Shame, the drop off in calibre after him on the list is pretty huge.

Would have understood 2 yellows but a straight red for dissent is ott

Ref doing to Atletico what should have been done years ago, but it might mean he ends up sending them all off

I don't think going to Newcastle who have a team that's 6 points from safety and hasn't been improved in the few years since multiple trophy winner Rafa Benitez struggled to keep us in the league is the draw some people think it is. Particularly when most going in now will know that it's not a long-term thing for them. Emery would have been ideal in the same way that Rafa could have been because you'd think that they could do the short and the long-term.

Fonseca sounds desperate to manage anyone in the Premier League

I just can't see Howe taking it for some reason.

Ban this sick filth

Really surprised I haven't seen AVB's name thrown around in all of this actually.

I mentioned on here last week about how if Newcastle is anything like Neom and The Line then a lot of people are in for a rude awakening. Huge fantastical promises and more money than sense.

People are saying this episode has been a shitshow, which it has been. Nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade.

He went to the same Lyle Lanley School of Football Manager PR that Pardew went to.