Eddie Howe - Granted Freedom of Newcastle

[The Butcher]

Not good enough this season. 

 

He must shake up his coaching staff and hire a set penis coach.

 

Still reckon this will be his last season here regardless.

[SUPERTOON]

Still poor when plan A doesn’t work.

[matta]

The last year we seem to throw away all chances against opposition we should atleast challenge at home.

 

Top 10 is not progression.

[Erikse]

I don't understand why we never really rotate based on opposition, isn't that a quite normal thing to do when you have the players to do so? We've improved our squad depth last season, but we're not really taking full advantage of it imo. For example Burn automatically playing at LB every single game over Tino, even when he was bound to get bullied by a fast winger. We're playing Longstaff over Tonali in games where we're likely to have the ball quite a lot. What is the tactical reasoning behind that?

 

 

Edited November 25, 2024 by Erikse

[Newcastle Fan]

First half you can say it was 50/50 and we could've scored for a few chances but second half was fucking amateur hour coaching, even the players looked confused with the changes and we haven't had a single shot on target,

[nufc123]

Full of praise last game. Second half here has been a mess.

[Dokko]

1 minute ago, Erikse said:

I don't understand why we never really rotate based on opposition, isn't that a quite normal thing to do when you have the players to do so? We've improved our squad depth last season, but we're not really taking full advantage of it imo. For example Burn automatically playing at LB every single game over Tino, even when he was bound to get bullied by a fast winger. We're playing Longstaff over Tonali in games where we're likely to have the ball quite a lot. What is the tactical reasoning behind that?

 

 

 

 

Doesn't like to change an undefeated team. 

[Decky]

I'd honestly rather a throw-in on the half way line than a corner. Why are we like this? 

[Jordan]

All over the shop tonight. 

[timeEd32]

I think in many ways he was let down tonight by individual errors similar to the Chelsea game. Kelly a catastrophe.

 

But the second half was a train wreck with long spells of players not looking like they knew what position they were meant to be playing. 

[mighty__mag]

Feel Eddie needs to look at an alternative formation that enables Tonali, Joelinton, and Bruno to play further up to affect games.

 

Just feel playing Bruno deep is so pointless to what he actually offers as a technical player.

[Pilko]

That wasn't great, at all. Can't put it all on Eddie of course but it turned into an absolute muddle after about 50 minutes and was still very much salvageable even at 0-2, but it was a proper mess. Created nowt of note other than the pen shout in the second half, not enough quality or goal threat at all. A shit show of a second half, so many passes over or under hit.

 

In a display with hardly any quality from us whatsoever, centre half and right wing looked absolutely minging in particular and just highlighted our pathetic summer window not for the first time this season. Doesn't help himself by holding back Tonali, like. Corners and set pieces routinely awful from an attacking perspective yet again. Whatever work is being done on these through the week isn't effective enough.

 

Free transfer or not, if Lloyd Kelly is Howe's man it only strengths the argument that he shouldn't have the keys to the kingdom and needs to work in the structure we're setting up.

 

We can't afford to fuck up too many more of these home games after this and Brighton. You'll get the odd result like this or shitty draw but if we start losing to the non-top-6 teams too often we'll be looking at another lower midtable finish again.

 

Hopefully one to forget about quickly and a reality check we can use to propel us into the next few games, but it was really shit and Eddie should rightly be fuming with some aspects of it, and take some of the flak for it also.

[Smal]

Second half has been one of his worst. Made loads of changes and none of them worked.

[Beren]

Same old, same old with Howe.

 

On 28/09/2024 at 14:47, Beren said:

Good performance, good result. I want to see if this sticks.

 

Think it's a bit easier in some ways to show that kind of intensity against Man City. Want to see it vs a Fulham or an Everton.

 

Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City - you'll see performances to be proud of most of the time.

 

There's more Everton, Fulham and West Ham fixtures in the season though. Had hoped the Forest game was a turning-the-corner moment. Alas, two steps forward...

[David Edgar]

1 minute ago, Smal said:

Second half has been one of his worst. Made loads of changes and none of them worked.

 

He made a mess. Subs and system swaps. Keeping a wank Gordon on and shifting him all over the pitch. 

[SUPERTOON]

His subs have always been questionable tbh, tonight even more so. The decision to move Joelinton into CM was maddening. The decision to just throw on all our attacking players was PFM worthy.

[Maggies]

4 minutes ago, nufc123 said:

Full of praise last game. Second half here has been a mess.

Second half has been Bruce-esque management. Just chuck players on without a clear formation and expect something to happen.

[The Butcher]

Just too limited. Plan A is the only plan. It's great when it works. More or less useless when it doesn't.

 

Reckon the board and Mitchell will have a list of potential replacements drawn up?

[Ikon]

We’re just not very good at all if there ain’t a lot of transitions in the game overall. Not too surprising when you consider the players we’ve signed. 

[Skeletor]

When he first came one of his biggest strengths was that he'd studied the modern game with Atletico and really seemed to have his finger on the button with regards to the gegenpress. But football has evolved in the last two seasons. Every top team has a number 10 and can open up teams that play a low block (which is anyone we play who isn't one of the top teams). He doesn't seem to be evolving this time.

[Aiston]

Disasterclass from Howe tonight, right up there with a 2nd half Bruce would be proud of.

 

Starting to be really fucking annoying he isn't bothering to try fix our set piece problems.

[SUPERTOON]

1 minute ago, The Butcher said:

Just too limited. Plan A is the only plan. It's great when it works. More or less useless when it doesn't.

 

Reckon the board and Mitchell will have a list of potential replacements drawn up?

No, I don’t think we are a that proactive tbh. Not that it’s time to start talking about him getting sacked.

[Erikse]

13 minutes ago, Dokko said:

 

Doesn't like to change an undefeated team. 

 

Seems like it, but the whole Burn thing was every game regardless of result and performance. Will be interesting to see whether we make a change for the next one. Generally I'd like the lineups to be a little more proactive.

 

 

Edited November 25, 2024 by Erikse

[El Prontonise]

Should take responsibility for that 2nd half, his changes were awful.

[SUPERTOON]

Just now, Erikse said:

 

Seems like it, but the whole Burn thing was every game regardless of result and performance. Will be interesting to see if we make a change for the next one.

Would imagine it will be the usual Barnes for Willock and Tonali for Longstaff.