Eddie Howe

[GideonShandy]

From BBC Sport today

 

What a feeling two years on.

 

"On this day two years ago, Newcastle needed a saviour. The Saudi-backed takeover had happened a month earlier, but under Steve Bruce the performances had nosedived and the Magpies were making up the numbers in the Premier League.

Check out the standings on 8 November 2021. With no wins from their opening 11 games, even at this early stage, relegation was starting to look like it might be a formality. Enter 43-year-old Eddie Howe, fresh from a year away from management after some outstanding work at Bournemouth. Could he replicate what he had achieved on the south coast at a much bigger club with a far more intense level of scrutiny? In short, yes.

The current Premier League table, again after 11 games, underlines the level of progress masterminded by Howe in such a short time. Sure, they are not currently in the Champions League places as per last season, but Liverpool and Tottenham have bounced back this time around and Howe’s players have been placed under much greater stress with European games against heavyweights such as Borussia Dortmund, Paris St-Germain and AC Milan to contend with. To be in the top six – after beating Arsenal last weekend no less - is and will remain a remarkable achievement.

They are also the second highest scorers in the division so far this season with that goal difference of +16, far more palatable than the grotty days of shipping goals and struggling to create that Bruce oversaw.

Two years on, Howe has been an unimaginable success in the Newcastle hotseat.

His next challenge is to finally break that devastatingly long wait for silverware on Tyneside."

 

Joe Bradshaw, BBC Sport

[PauloGeordio]

 

[jack j]

No defeatist attitude, excuses or feeling sorry for himself as usual from the main man

 

[Lish007]

He's just brilliant. Such a pro. 

[BonesJones]

 

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

Time for a change ? 

[Krabbe2]

Not falling for it. This team had struggled against wankership teams today.

[Newcastle Fan]

Even with factoring the injuries this was the worst performance i've seen under him.

[The College Dropout]

Thought he got his first team selection wrong. But tbh we weren’t at it from the start.

[54]

Just now, The College Dropout said:

Thought he got his first team selection wrong. But tbh we weren’t at it from the start.

Other than Livramento, what was he meant to do like?

[ExiledGeordie]

The bedwetters are on their way ?

[LiquidAK]

Genuinely starting to hate elements of the fan base 

[gbandit]

Feel sorry for Eddie. He had no choices really with his lineup, minimal at best. Worse than that though, the players who did get fielded were either broken from too many minutes or from not being match fit

[ExiledGeordie]

1 minute ago, LiquidAK said:

Genuinely starting to hate elements of the fan base 

It’s the quick fix fickle brigade who won’t accept losing under any circumstances. Injuries have caught us with us, we looked knackered but they’ll conveniently look past this. 
 

 

[Pilko]

Do admire the way he's refusing to use the injuries as an excuse as previous managers of ours loved to do. Fingers crossed the lads get a breather over the next two weeks and we can get Isak & Wilson back as well as having Bruno again after his ban.

 

Tank looked empty today and sadly Bournemouth looked bang at it. The first goal the ball fell nicely for them (just like it did for Dortmund) and it does feel like absolutely nowt will drop for us at the minute as well as the injuries continuing with Almiron.

 

The second goal however was absolutely shite defending whether you've got 11 players injured or not and incredibly disappointing to watch.

 

The positive thing was the goal difference didn't take a heavy hammering cos I think a team with better finishers would have stuck 4+ past us there.

[gbandit]

He looked pretty livid at the end there, not I think at the players but maybe more so at the situation we’ve ended up in 

[HaydnNUFC]

He had/has no options so critique of the team selection in hilarious.

 

But I'm unsure why he persevered with Joelinton as the 9 for so long. The bloke cannot play there and proved thst when Bruce was playing him there for 2 years. (he was terrible regardless of position, like)

[Guest]

If I had to be critical, perhaps this is the kind of 'poor' 1-0 win teams with more European experience would have pulled out of the bag. Away from home after an away trip in Europe, I can imagine they'd have set up to defend and hit on the break. Today we tried to keep the press going, but no one was up for it. 

[The College Dropout]

6 minutes ago, 54 said:

Other than Livramento, what was he meant to do like?

Aye start Livra. He’s been our best player recently. Would’ve liked to have seen Hall in midfield. Wouldn’t have had Joe at 9.  Gordon’s shown flashes there at times. 
 

But the worst thing is the performance was awful. 
 

The Tonali suspension and our lack of options in forward areas is really hurting us.  This season always had the potential for mounting injuries and not being able to play in our preferred style.  And here it is. 
 

 

Need bodies back refreshed after the IB

 

 

Edited November 11, 2023 by The College Dropout

[Myleftboot]

1 minute ago, gbandit said:

Feel sorry for Eddie. He had no choices really with his lineup, minimal at best. Worse than that though, the players who did get fielded were either broken from too many minutes or from not being match fit

Thing is though he still had lascelles,Joelinton,Longstaff,trippier,pope,shar,Gordon,Willock,Almiron. That’s still a good team and these blokes are athletes who should able to play twice a week. 

[Bally21]

We had limited choices in terms of selection, not sure what else Eddie could have done in terms of starting 11 bar livramento, players looked knackered, Bournemouth pressed us to death which was spot on tactically bearing in mind our fatigue, missing players, etc.

[The College Dropout]

1 minute ago, Myleftboot said:

Thing is though he still had lascelles,Joelinton,Longstaff,trippier,pope,shar,Gordon,Willock,Almiron. That’s still a good team and these blokes are athletes who should able to play twice a week. 

Our style is so hard running though. If we can’t out run the other team - what do we have? Considering the injuries.  

 

 

Edited November 11, 2023 by The College Dropout

[thomas]

Just now, HaydnNUFC said:

He had/has no options so critique of the team selection in hilarious.

 

A lot of people throughout the season have been perplexed at his relative lack of rotation. Obviously no way of knowing what kind of injury list we'd be looking at if more had been given time, etc .. but I think we're reaping some small bit of what he sowed now.

[gbandit]

Just now, Myleftboot said:

Thing is though he still had lascelles,Joelinton,Longstaff,trippier,pope,shar,Gordon,Willock,Almiron. That’s still a good team and these blokes are athletes who should able to play twice a week. 

Howay man, that’s just nonsense. Joelinton and Willock have had injuries and probably aren’t absolutely match fit, certainly not for multiple games a week at highest intensity. Almiron runs himself into the ground every game and we saw that he can’t sustain that today without an injury. Trippier is clearly absolutely shattered, both physically and mentally. He has played the most minutes while also going away on international duty. Gordon has done the most sprints out of anyone in the league I’m sure. This idea that athletes can be robots is utter shite 

[Geogaddi]

Would appear not many have learned after that Brighton game .