Eddie Howe

[Kid Icarus]

20 minutes ago, Charlies said:

Thoughts? 
 

 

He lacks them. There are people who you disagree with but still understand football to a certain level and can cite examples etc. He genuinely doesn't know anything, his level of knowledge on us and our history is embarrassing. 

 

 

Edited December 1, 2024 by Kid Icarus

[Myleftboot]

19 minutes ago, Charlies said:

Thoughts? 
 

 

 

[Andy]

2 hours ago, Whitley mag said:

Opposition who will park the bus and expose our gaps in midfield on the break.

 

Teams that transition from back to front quickly are our kryptonite. Unfortunately a lot of the league are built that way now. 

 

I feel just as in danger when we have a corner as I do when the opposition have a corner. 

[STM]

5 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

He lacks them. There are people who you disagree with but still understand football to a certain level and can cite examples etc. He genuinely doesn't know anything, his level of knowledge on us and our history is embarrassing. 

 

 

 

 

Was watching something where he said "who's that guy" and he was one of our recent ex players and TG had never heard of him. From that second I knew it wasn't the place for any actual football content.... or indeed any intelligent content whatsoever for that matter.

[SUPERTOON]

5 minutes ago, Andy said:

 

Teams that transition from back to front quickly are our kryptonite. Unfortunately a lot of the league are built that way now. 

 

I feel just as in danger when we have a corner as I do when the opposition have a corner. 

Doesn’t help that our corners are absolutely shit mind.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

8 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

Not in decline? Seriously what are you watching?

 

FYI, I don’t agree that he should be sacked anytime *very* soon - unless someone elite wants the job.

Decline IMO means steadily getting worse, which I wouldn’t say we are. This season has been poor and inconsistent but we’re not steadily getting worse. We’re just struggling to get consistently better. 
 

Fairly depressing bar to be arguing over mind

[Astroblack]

38 minutes ago, Charlies said:

Thoughts? 
 

 

This little fuck is the biggest snake going. Soon as the mega bucks came in, he said fuck us and created that Kick Off shite centered around ‘the big six’. 
 

Say what you want about that Expressions guy but week in, week out, it’s Spurs. Win, lose or draw. Spurs. 

 

 

Edited December 1, 2024 by Astroblack

[Erikse]

35 minutes ago, Charlies said:

Thoughts? 
 

 

 

Didn't that guy manage to piss off Andrew Tate with an inappropriate comment on him converting to Islam, and then he had to make shitty apology videos etc?

[JonBez comesock]

Huge overreaction as always 

 

We are probably paying 7th/8th highest wages in the premier league. 

 

I think we will finish 6th or 7th 

 

We still have some very average squad players.

 

Dont know why people can’t see this.

Only absolute astute scouting / signings will get us back into the top 4/5.

 

It’s going to be a super slow build.

 

i am enjoying us at least being competitive again and have ambitious owners willing to put money in.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 1, 2024 by JonBez comesock

[DiddyLevine]

53 minutes ago, Charlies said:

Thoughts? 
 

 

Whats it got to do with him ?

[TRon]

7 minutes ago, JonBez comesock said:

Huge overreaction as always 

 

We are probably paying 7th/8th highest wages in the premier league. 

 

I think we will finish 6th or 7th 

 

We still have some very average squad players.

 

Dont know why people can’t see this.

Only absolute astute scouting / signings will get us back into the top 4/5.

 

It’s going to be a super slow build.

 

i am enjoying us at least being competitive again and have ambitious owners willing to put money in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't think anyone could complain if we finished 6th/7th tbh. After the Arsenal game I even thought 4th wasn't out of the question. But that run of 3 games has been a blip so far this season, our current position of 10th looks pretty fair to me.

[1892er]

20 minutes ago, Erikse said:

 

Didn't that guy manage to piss off Andrew Tate with an inappropriate comment on him converting to Islam, and then he had to make shitty apology videos etc?

The worst one for me was when he was trying to justify the leaked DMs about asking a lass to shit on his chest. 

[Fak]

2 minutes ago, 1892er said:

The worst one for me was when he was trying to justify the leaked DMs about asking a lass to shit on his chest. 

Women. Are. Dirty. 

[Groundhog63]

11 minutes ago, Fak said:

Women. Of. A. Certain. Age. Are. Dirty. 

[JonBez comesock]

20 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

 

Don't think anyone could complain if we finished 6th/7th tbh. After the Arsenal game I even thought 4th wasn't out of the question. But that run of 3 games has been a blip so far this season, our current position of 10th looks pretty fair to me.

Yeah we’ve been very good in patches and very poor in others.

 

Think that matches our squad strength  (we have a decent 11/12 players ) 

[Dr Jinx]

Its consistency or lack of that will be his downfall. We could turn up next two games and play very well, but then it’ll all fall flat again and it’s been this way for last 2 seasons.

 

He had excuses last year with injuries and suspensions but he’s exposed this year and he’s been found wanting.

 

Other clubs around us have changed things up and have improved and it feels like we’ve stagnated on that side.

[Kanj]

There is a major issue with short term ism in football. I do not want that to be our club. Unless we’re flirting with bottom 14th place it’s really hard to blame Eddie for all of the worlds problems when we haven’t made a single major signing in 2 transfer windows to improve our starting 11.  Is he deserving of criticism? Yes. All of those involved with the club need some of it. We seem to have lost the momentum this summer when we should have pushed on. But good, it’s time we all grew up a bit. Shit Halle s man. And anyone sitting here spending time arguing otherwise need to chill. I’m backing Eddie who deserves all of that whilst we have armchair experts on the internet (me included) thinking we have all the solutions. Fuck knows how to solve it. I   assume the experts at our club will sort it out. Players need to be held accountable too. 

 

and for the millionth fucking time, it’s not always the manager, if we lose it always seems to be his and only his fault but if we win it’s a toss up between the individual player or him. Perhaps it’s both, perhaps it’s execution of the plan? Context matters. Patience too.

 

Fearing exits of our gems when we don’t make Europe misses the key point, those gems are failing us and they aren’t executing. As adult humans with brains here surely you can see that part too?

 

 

Edited December 1, 2024 by Kanj

[gjohnson]

10 hours ago, Heron said:

70m we spent on Vlachadimos?

 

That sounds like a load of bollocks to me like, sorry.

 

Also, £15m for a young striker who he believes has the talent to develop into a more regular starter isn't all that bad to be fair. Lewis Hall cost more and he's developed him well - he's been our best player this season.

Guess you missed how vlachadimos fee goes up every time he's mentioned?

[Astroblack]

1 minute ago, Dr Jinx said:

Its consistency or lack of that will be his downfall. We could turn up next two games and play very well, but then it’ll all fall flat again and it’s been this way for last 2 seasons.

 

He had excuses last year with injuries and suspensions but he’s exposed this year and he’s been found wanting.

 

Other clubs around us have changed things up and have improved and it feels like we’ve stagnated on that side.

Exposed? He wasn’t allowed to refresh his squad in the summer, he’s lost a big character and our main creative base in Trippier and we’ve fluffed our lines a few times - Gordon’s penalty miss at Everton. Think we’ve been more unlucky than anything tbh. 

[Ronaldo]

I think we’re rather lucky to be on 19 points personally.

[Gawalls]

3 minutes ago, Astroblack said:

Exposed? He wasn’t allowed to refresh his squad in the summer, he’s lost a big character and our main creative base in Trippier and we’ve fluffed our lines a few times - Gordon’s penalty miss at Everton. Think we’ve been more unlucky than anything tbh. 

We’ve also only mustered two shots in target in the last two games, two teams that are both sitting in the bottom six. You’re right - if that penalty had gone in then things would be different but I don’t think the season as a whole could be classed as unlucky as a few of us were saying “I’ll take those three points after that performance” at times. I’d say we’ve rode our luck quite a few times to be honest.

[Gawalls]

2 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

I think we’re rather lucky to be on 19 points personally.

You said the same as me but in a lot less words 😂

[huss9]

think its time to sacrifice a purple.

squad needs refreshing.

[Fak]

3 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

I think we’re rather lucky to be on 19 points personally.

You haven’t given that impression off. 

[TRon]

3 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

I think we’re rather lucky to be on 19 points personally.

 

 

Yep, no complaints from me on that score. To think we were within grabbing another 3 points from yesterday's game is insane. A lot of our early games were like that.