Eddie Howe - Granted Freedom of Newcastle

[Yorkie]

7 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

Ropey? It was pretty much unanimous across the board we needed to start this season very well. We’ve been mostly an awful disorganised mess and you know it.

 

Were the coaching staff incompetent imbeciles when we were one of the very best sides in the country and taking points off Europe's best in the CL?

[Menace]

I can see Ronaldo's posting has ten folded in the last few weeks, wonder why

 

Eddie Howe, a man everyone describes as a workaholic and someone who focuses on intricate detail has hired someone to be his number 2 who can only wind up opposition - right.

 

 

Edited October 29, 2024 by Menace

[Kanj]

There is one thing to be upset about the performances and the results, but to name call Tindall or any of our coaches for that matter... is going way too far. 

[Menace]

8 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

Were the coaching staff incompetent imbeciles when we were one of the very best sides in the country and taking points off Europe's best in the CL?

 

The absolute disrespect to the coaching team that have given us some of the best times in the last 20 or so years is honestly disgusting.  Lower league wind up merchant ffs.

[Ronaldo]

15 minutes ago, Menace said:

I can see Ronaldo's posting has ten folded in the last few weeks, wonder why

 

Eddie Howe, a man everyone describes as a workaholic and someone who focuses on intricate detail has hired someone to be his number 2 who can only wind up opposition - right.

 

 

 

I love Eddie, not disputing he’s a workaholic but the set pieces are a joke and we’re way behind the clubs who actually use a specialist for them. We can’t just keep ignoring it and hoping it gets better when there’s very little to suggest it will without massive change.

[The College Dropout]

The average/mean quality of coaching in the PL has increased exponentially over the last 5 years.  
 

The division doesn’t have many Steve Bruce’s anymore.  
 

Removing the promoted sides - who are the worst 3 managers? I’d argue someone that managed Real Madrid and Spain in the last 10 years, maybe Dyche, O’Neil, Glasner, Maresca perhaps. It’s a far cry from yesteryear. These are all decent coaches and fairly tactically astute. 
 

I always thought Eddie’s strengths was motivating players, giving them confidence, and putting them in positions to succeed. We don’t look a super motivated team either. 

[Groundhog63]

28 minutes ago, Menace said:

I can see Ronaldo's posting has ten folded in the last few weeks, wonder why

 

Eddie Howe, a man everyone describes as a workaholic and someone who focuses on intricate detail has hired someone to be his number 2 who can only wind up opposition - right.

 

 

 

Ah but you're forgetting Eddie's turned shit, doesn't do tactics, won't sell players to clubs that don't even want them and......checks notes......can't motivate the players anymore. 

[Lotus]

I think the jump in results and performances from when Howe took over to our stellar season seems largely based on physicality. We were so fit and our players had that underdog mentality and they bought into the notion that we could overrun teams. It largely worked and they derived a lot of confidence from it. We could force and pressure players to f**k up and we’d be there, all over them like a rash getting in good positions with their defences all over the place and we’d get good opportunities. Wilson was in good form and we did well.

It was a tremendous effort though for the players to completely empty the tank week after week.

I was expecting us to use that confidence to develop a style that was sustainable (because flogging your players each and every week is not). It looked like there may have been the green shoots of a stylistic change at the start of last season. Specifically post the 1st Milan game. For whatever reason it didn't seem to stick and I think the mentality of players like Bruno, Gordon and Isak feels reluctant to run themselves to the point of injury again. The style of the squad has not progressed into something yet workable. It will need to or the top players are going to start thinking about playing elsewhere. 
At the same time we’ve not built a squad that Howe is comfortable interchanging and we’re in a limbo. Not really effective at anything right now. Not enough ballers to keep the ball and not enough runners to keep everyone fresh. 

[Lotus]

We’ve had some ropey runs in the past and subsequently put in some excellent performances so we’ve been here before. Obvs hope this time is like last time.

[Dancing Brave]

55 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

Were the coaching staff incompetent imbeciles when we were one of the very best sides in the country and taking points off Europe's best in the CL?

 

46 minutes ago, Menace said:

 

The absolute disrespect to the coaching team that have given us some of the best times in the last 20 or so years is honestly disgusting.  Lower league wind up merchant ffs.

 

100% spot on !

[HaydnNUFC]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdxv9degk8qo

 

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Howe was asked why Newcastle are struggling to score from corners this season: "I think we've had a lot of chances. I hate to use xG, but our xG from set plays isn't too bad. It's competitive, we should have scored at least one. We are missing a few key corner takers, and missing a bit of the height and strength we've had previously. We will have to evolve again."

 

 

When 6 of Tonali's 11 assists for Milan in his final season there come from set pieces I've no idea why he hardly ever seems to take them. Remember him only taking 2, one at the end at Fulham and one against Man City.

 

 

Edited October 29, 2024 by HaydnNUFC

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Aye, I don’t understand the Tonali set piece thing, maybe he has another role at set pieces which means he’s not considered for taking them. 

[SUPERTOON]

Just now, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Aye, I don’t understand the Tonali set piece thing, maybe he has another role at set pieces which means he’s not considered for taking them. 

Whatever it is, it isn’t working. Surely he’s got to be worth a go. We can’t get worse at them.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Hall should be good at them as well, in theory. 
 

Obvs it’s not just about the kicker. 

[PauloGeordio]

8 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Hall should be good at them as well, in theory. 
 

Obvs it’s not just about the kicker. 

I can’t remember Schär taking any? Presume he would be good if he did 

[Nepharite]

4 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

I can’t remember Schär taking any? Presume he would be good if he did 

The one he took on Saturday was shit.

[andycap]

Why Do the press let him get away with answers like that man? 

Tonali is our specialist setpiece taker in the squad yet howe has Gordon Trippier Longstaff taking them. 

Before we bought tonali fair enough but now he should be our mainstay on them. 

It's like having beckham in your team and letting Luke chadwick and Gary neville take them. 

[PauloGeordio]

28 minutes ago, Nepharite said:

The one he took on Saturday was shit.

Easily forgotten then 

[DiddyLevine]

1 hour ago, Lotus said:

I think the jump in results and performances from when Howe took over to our stellar season seems largely based on physicality. We were so fit and our players had that underdog mentality and they bought into the notion that we could overrun teams. It largely worked and they derived a lot of confidence from it. We could force and pressure players to f**k up and we’d be there, all over them like a rash getting in good positions with their defences all over the place and we’d get good opportunities. Wilson was in good form and we did well.

It was a tremendous effort though for the players to completely empty the tank week after week.

I was expecting us to use that confidence to develop a style that was sustainable (because flogging your players each and every week is not). It looked like there may have been the green shoots of a stylistic change at the start of last season. Specifically post the 1st Milan game. For whatever reason it didn't seem to stick and I think the mentality of players like Bruno, Gordon and Isak feels reluctant to run themselves to the point of injury again. The style of the squad has not progressed into something yet workable. It will need to or the top players are going to start thinking about playing elsewhere. 
At the same time we’ve not built a squad that Howe is comfortable interchanging and we’re in a limbo. Not really effective at anything right now. Not enough ballers to keep the ball and not enough runners to keep everyone fresh. 

This ...

4 3 3 is athletics not football 

 

[Hovagod]

It’s difficult to articulate but it does sometimes feel like Howe has, not hijacked…but used our takeover to his own advantage. Meaning that he acted as though the upward momentum was because of him and that he and his good (if not spectacular) management was not, as it actually was, a symptom of the cub’s changing direction instead of a driving force. Put another way: Where would he be if we still had Ashley but Howe as well? Probably about where we were. 

[andycap]

If we extend Longstaffs contract he'll most likely be on higher wages than he is now. 

So that's burn with an extention,miggy extention Wilson extension just waiting for Murphy now and we will never get rid of them. Time to blood the bairns in and discard these goodlads. 

Mitchell has already talked about moving players on and bringing through two to three youth players every year into the first team squad. 

We cannot keep dishing out contracts to players who are average at best. 

[TheBrownBottle]

3 minutes ago, Hovagod said:

It’s difficult to articulate but it does sometimes feel like Howe has, not hijacked…but used our takeover to his own advantage. Meaning that he acted as though the upward momentum was because of him and that he and his good (if not spectacular) management was not, as it actually was, a symptom of the cub’s changing direction instead of a driving force. Put another way: Where would he be if we still had Ashley but Howe as well? Probably about where we were. 

I think if Staveley had managed to spend a short time not briefing the press re Emery we’d much further ahead than we are.  I agree generally re momentum, but I still think Howe has done a good job.  

[KetsbaiaIsBald]

2 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Emery we’d much further ahead than we are

If Emery had come in we might have gone down. Everything clicked perfectly for Howe in the first 18 months.  What Howe did after Christmas in his first reason was superb.  Emery is doing an outstanding job and I’d take him over Howe right now. But I don’t think it’s a given that we’d have stayed up with him.  

[Whitley mag]

Feel the next 2 games tell us a lot about where this is heading, I still don’t see there being any appetite to remove him, but go out of the cup and tumble further down the league and even his most ardent supporters will be having doubts.

 

 

[timeEd32]

32 minutes ago, DiddyLevine said:

This ...

4 3 3 is athletics not football 

 

 

You keep saying this and I know what you mean, but one of the best teams in the history of the league played this way.