Eddie Howe

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38 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

Can anyone provide any evidence of any club in the entire history of, let's make it easy and narrow it down to just English, football where a manager has stood down for cup games and let "the guys" do them? 

 

?

 

Even by N-O standards, that's Whacky af 

"Do them"? Think it's pretty well established Alex Ferguson had his (often changing) assistant managers handle huge amounts of his tactics and training for matches. Whereas I'm under the impression Eddie, fundamentally, closely controls what goes into readying for each match.

 

This isn't about who stands on the sidelines for the actual match. But I'm disputing that you can meticulously prepare for each individual opponent if you're playing a game every three days, plus international travel, for several months.

[TRon]

17 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

After having 6th in our hands for a while now being out of any sort of Europe next season feels like a bit of a failure to me. Maybe harsh given the assortment of problems we've had across this season but that's how I feel at this current moment in time.

 

This version of NUFC have to consistently play European football of some form imo, to raise the profile of the club, attract players, keep hold of our best players. Not achieving that given our position as recent as last week feels like a step back. And I don't even think missing out is a positive. Howe, the squad; bloody hell the club as a whole and I'm including the supporters in that need to get used to us playing 3 games a week at a decent level if we want to compete with the elite teams in this league. Congestion of fixtures has been labelled an obstacle of ours this season; successful/elite clubs play the most matches regularly. And the Conference League (as much as I wanted Europa League) is perfect for getting used to and learning how to manage a squad for minutes and fitness. What's to say we miss our on Europe altogether this season, we finish 4th or 3rd next season, that 2025-26 isn't a carbon copy of this? Probably a reach, but how I feel.

 

 

This is it for me as well. Two games ago we had people thinking we could snatch 5th, now we are left hanging on other results to get any sort of European competition. I'd have been happy with conference even before now tbh, but I think missing out on Europe might have a few players getting their heads turned.

[Jilted Generator]

1 hour ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

'In anyway' is my personal hell. Think it's just Geordies who do that. 

‘In anyways’ is definitely used a lot by local inner city Dublin folk and I for one am I prick for using it a lot especially when I’m pissed up 

[rutland]

17 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said:

After having 6th in our hands for a while now being out of any sort of Europe next season feels like a bit of a failure to me. Maybe harsh given the assortment of problems we've had across this season but that's how I feel at this current moment in time

This

 

[HaydnNUFC]

4 hours ago, Cronky said:

 

Even if we have better luck with injuries, I don't think our squad is strong enough to deal with that sort of workload successfully. Particularly when you consider how travel time in Europe eats into the availability for training and indeed appropriate rest.

 

The example of Villa gets cited, but in terms of their individual players, I think both their first team and their squad is that bit better than ours. Eddie is continuing to get more from our players than we have a right to expect.

 

Which is an issue that needs to be addressed in the summer; our RW hasn't been good enough really for a couple years now and we have a permacrock in Wilson as our secondary striker to Isak. 

 

If we get Conference League and in October we're having to field Isak against Vaduz or Dynamo Eastern Bloc Shithole as well as PL matches then we've reapt what we've sown in the summer. 

 

 

Edited May 17, 2024 by HaydnNUFC

[Yorkie]

Some of the names people come up with are funny I must admit but I'd love an embargo on the dissing of clubs who aren't among the higher echelons of European football. It comes across a bit 'Western'.

 

Put some respect on Zimbru Chisinau's name, dammit.

[HaydnNUFC]

8 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Some of the names people come up with are funny I must admit but I'd love an embargo on the dissing of clubs who aren't among the higher echelons of European football. It comes across a bit 'Western'.

 

Put some respect on Zimbru Chisinau's name, dammit.

 

If I get the time, money and ticket(s) without the club thinking I'm an Untermensch for wanting to support Newcastle United away from home, I'd absolutely love to do Dinamo Tbilisi away.

 

Until then, the disrespect for the likes of Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag will continue. 

 

 

Edited May 17, 2024 by HaydnNUFC

[Displayname]

3 hours ago, Shearergol said:

Dunno why but people constantly saying "loosing" instead of "losing" really winds me up. Only loosers do it.

As someone who doesnt have english as a primary language, loosing feels natural to write. Probably made the mistake before myself. Lose/loose pretty much sounds the same. English is in many ways a nonsensical language. A bunch of germanics trying to sound french. Dont hate us for not being able to keep up with your nonsense every time.

 

 

Edited May 17, 2024 by Displayname

[Shearergol]

4 minutes ago, Displayname said:

As someone who doesnt have english as a primary language, loosing feels natural to write. Probably made the mistake before myself. Lose/loose pretty much sounds the same. English is in many ways a nonsensical language. A bunch of germanics trying to sound french. Dont hate us for not being able to keep up with your nonsense every time.

 

 

 

 

Looze / Luice

 

Depends on accent and dialect I guess, but I disagree with that part in bold.

[TheBrownBottle]

4 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

 

Looze / Luice

 

Depends on accent and dialect I guess, but I disagree with that part in bold.

Do it in a Mackem accent.  Definitely homophones in that part of the world

[PauloGeordio]

 

 

[relámpago blanco]

5 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

Which is an issue that needs to be addressed in the summer; our RW hasn't been good enough really for a couple years now and we have a permacrock in Wilson as our secondary striker to Isak. 

 

If we get Conference League and in October we're having to field Isak against Vaduz or Dynamo Eastern Bloc Shithole as well as PL matches then we've reapt what we've sown in the summer. 

 

 

 

Wood is out of contract, canny goal haul this season

[Checko]

5 hours ago, Displayname said:

As someone who doesnt have english as a primary language, loosing feels natural to write. Probably made the mistake before myself. Lose/loose pretty much sounds the same. English is in many ways a nonsensical language. A bunch of germanics trying to sound french. Dont hate us for not being able to keep up with your nonsense every time.

 

 

 

It's pretty simple to be honest:

 

'Loose' sounds like: juice, bruce, deuce, mousse or use [when a noun].

 

'Lose' sounds like: Lewes, loos, Lou's, chews, Hughes, blues and two's.

 

Don't understand why this is so hard for non-native speakers.

 

 

Edited May 17, 2024 by Checko

[Skeletor]

3 minutes ago, Checko said:

It's pretty simple to be honest:

 

'Loose' sounds like: juice, bruce, deuce, mousse or use [when a noun].

 

'Lose' sounds like: Lewes, loos, Lou's, chews, Hughes, blues and two's.

 

Don't understand why this is so hard for non-native speakers.

 

 

 

 

Exactly. I've no doubt English is complicated to non-native speakers but don't create battles where they don't exist. The two words are spelled differently to reflect the difference in pronunciation.

[Checko]

3 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

 

Exactly. I've no doubt English is complicated to non-native speakers but don't create battles where they don't exist. The two words are spelled differently to reflect the difference in pronunciation.

Agreed. I mite right a peace four the Sunderland Echo a bow tit.

 

 

Edited May 17, 2024 by Checko

[Displayname]

2 hours ago, Checko said:

It's pretty simple to be honest:

 

'Loose' sounds like: juice, bruce, deuce, mousse or use [when a noun].

 

'Lose' sounds like: Lewes, loos, Lou's, chews, Hughes, blues and two's.

 

Don't understand why this is so hard for non-native speakers.

 

 

 

I dont know, maybe its just me. But in my head all these words have very similar pronounciation. The voice in my head is more american rather than english though, dont know if that makes a difference.

 

But the fact that you can write the same pronounciation in so many different ways, even if we just look at the ones you listed together, kinda emphasizes my point thats its not exactly a straight forward language

 

 

 

 

Edited May 17, 2024 by Displayname

[Pata]

13 hours ago, Cronky said:

The example of Villa gets cited, but in terms of their individual players, I think both their first team and their squad is that bit better than ours. Eddie is continuing to get more from our players than we have a right to expect.

 

Yet we are now eight points ahead of Villa in expected points, in a season with an unprecedented injury crisis. Eddie has been dealt a bad hand in so many different ways this season.

 

 

Edited May 17, 2024 by Pata

[greydos]

10 hours ago, Groundhog63 said:

Can anyone provide any evidence of any club in the entire history of, let's make it easy and narrow it down to just English, football where a manager has stood down for cup games and let "the guys" do them? 

 

?

 

Even by N-O standards, that's Whacky af 

Stephen Big-Dog Bruce used to do it for league games!

[ryanegg]

2 hours ago, Checko said:

It's pretty simple to be honest:

 

'Loose' sounds like: juice, bruce, deuce, mousse or use [when a noun].

 

'Lose' sounds like: Lewes, loos, Lou's, chews, Hughes, blues and two's.

 

Don't understand why this is so hard for non-native speakers.

 

 

 

It seems hard enough for many native speakers, let alone non-natives.

[ffs]

2 hours ago, Checko said:

It's pretty simple to be honest:

 

'Loose' sounds like: juice, bruce, deuce, mousse or use [when a noun].

 

'Lose' sounds like: Lewes, loos, Lou's, chews, Hughes, blues and two's.

 

Don't understand why this is so hard for non-native speakers.

 

 

 

'Lose' doesn't sound like Lewes. Lewes sounds like Lewis.

[ryanegg]

1 hour ago, ffs said:

'Lose' doesn't sound like Lewes. Lewes sounds like Lewis.

But does Louis sound like Louis? ?

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, ryanegg said:

But does Louis sound like Louis? ?

Lewis Miley seems to be pronounced Lou-ee despite his name not being Louis.

[ryanegg]

Just now, TheBrownBottle said:

Lewis Miley seems to be pronounced Lou-ee despite his name not being Louis.

I actually didn’t know that? they’re even fucking with the native speakers now.

[Rod]

4 hours ago, Checko said:

It's pretty simple to be honest:

 

'Loose' sounds like: juice, bruce, deuce, mousse or use [when a noun].

 

'Lose' sounds like: Lewes, loos, Lou's, chews, Hughes, blues and two's.

 

Don't understand why this is so hard for non-native speakers.

 

 

 

Love it.  Well explained.

[Rod]

2 hours ago, Displayname said:

I dont know, maybe its just me. But in my head all these words have very similar pronounciation. The voice in my head is more american rather than english though, dont know if that makes a difference.

 

But the fact that you can write the same pronounciation in so many different ways, even if we just look at the ones you listed together, kinda emphasizes my point thats its not exactly a straight forward language

 

 

 

 

 

Eh?