Eddie Howe - Granted Freedom of Newcastle

[Away Toon]

We are linked with Tierney who would be an upgrade but not a huge one and that's before getting into his fitness record.

[jonny1403]

28 minutes ago, Away Toon said:

You think Burn "is having a blinding season". He's a reasonable left sided CH but is an extremely limited LB who offers nothing going forward. Targett is not a particularly good LB either but somebody gave the ok to buy him and presumably not to be back up to Dan Burn.

Correct, he's a crucial part of the best defence in the league  Extremely limited ffs 

[Sempiternal]

Botman only got one start for Ajax in a friendly before he moved to hereenveen, he played for Jong Ajax mostly. Haven’t maths checked his age but he would have been around 19/20

[Scotty66]

From what I've seen from West Ham fans Ashby has real potential and should have been getting games for the first team. For some reason they say Moyes just doesn't trust the kids and hardly plays many of them or give them much of a chance. 

 

This is why Ashby wanted out as he said himself he wasn't getting a chance there. 

 

For us I think we rate him highly but we need to get him up to match practice and fitness that the PL demands. I've seen very few videos of him but what I have seen has been that he's very energetic and has a very good free kick ability. 

 

He does seem like the perfect protege for Trippier, and I'm excited to see him in our first team which will definitely happen once he's ready. 

[cubaricho]

I’m sure Howe told Ashby exactly what his plan was for him and he agreed and signed on that basis. He’ll be totally fine. 

[The Prophet]

4 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

I’m sure Howe told Ashby exactly what his plan was for him and he agreed and signed on that basis. He’ll be totally fine. 

 

That sounds reasonable.  Where is your sense of worry?

[cubaricho]

33 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

That sounds reasonable.  Where is your sense of worry?

 

[LV]

7 hours ago, jack j said:

Hope Eddie isn't a victim of his earlier success this season. Even if we completely drop off the end of this season he deserves full support which am sure the board will give him

Pretty sure the board will give him it. Some of our fans though, I’m not so sure. 

[Danh1]

8 hours ago, jack j said:

Hope Eddie isn't a victim of his earlier success this season. Even if we completely drop off the end of this season he deserves full support which am sure the board will give him

My worry too, already clueless morons saying shit like “he can’t take us to the next level” after the Liverpool game. Wonder if Bournemouth fans said that after a defeat when they were in League 2?

[Minhosa]

7 hours ago, Away Toon said:

We are linked with Tierney who would be an upgrade but not a huge one and that's before getting into his fitness record.

A fit Tierney is a HUGE upgrade imho.

[jack j]

46 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

My worry too, already clueless morons saying shit like “he can’t take us to the next level” after the Liverpool game. Wonder if Bournemouth fans said that after a defeat when they were in League 2?

Too nice is the new favourite expression for the twittercunts

[Danh1]

1 minute ago, jack j said:

Too nice is the new favourite expression for the twittercunts

Let’s get Stevie G the disciplinarian in. Fucking idiots. 

[Kimbo]

30 minutes ago, Minhosa said:

A fit Tierney is a HUGE upgrade imho.

But if that existed Arsenal wouldn’t be looking to get rid. But yes he’d be ideal.

 

 

Edited February 27, 2023 by Kimbo

[gbandit]

These “too nice” dickheads all probably think the world’s gone too soft and that everything’s too woke. Just angry people who want to see people like themselves leading things 

[wormy]

The really stupid thing about the whole 'too nice' argument is he's already been proven able to make tough decisions a lot of other managers wouldn't have done, such as shifting Lascelles to the bench first chance he got, seemingly shifting Fraser to the reserves due to some sort of bust up (I can't see him making that kind of move for the sake of it), everyone being terrified he'd rely on Ritchie due to their history yet reducing his minutes first chance he got.

 

Hasn't it been well established one of Tindall's roles is being the nice guy for the players to counteract Howe's more stoic approach? 

 

It seems idiots love to throw 'too nice' around for no other reason than he's unfailingly polite and keeps his emotions in check in front of the public.

[Shadow Puppets]

We have a tonne of brain dead angry twats in our fanbase… that’s basically it.

[Kid Icarus]

Canny funny that we're apparently both king shithousers and have a manager who's too nice.

[elbee909]

Next up - Keegan was too nice, and Dalglish wasn't nice enough.

[OverThere]

Sourness definitely wasn't nice and he was shite

[elbee909]

Observation, i.e. noticing 'something', doesn't equal insight. But we see it all the time after things don't go swimmingly and it's really just guesswork.

 

'Oh, Howe seems nice, maybe that's the problem'.

 

No. Next?

[Infatuation Junkie]

Too nice.

 

No manager is too nice when forcing the players to train 5/6 days a week and be at the training ground before 6am. 
 

Rough was the 80s approach. It doesn’t work any more

[TheBrownBottle]

4 hours ago, OverThere said:

Sourness definitely wasn't nice and he was shite

Yep.  The reason given for Souness’s appointment was literally that he wasn’t ‘too nice’.  That he’d ‘put a rocket up them’.  He was a ‘winner’.

 

It’s boring middle-aged dad patter.  It can fuck off. 

[TheBrownBottle]

I can’t remember which football book I read it in, but there was a quote in it which asked ‘how do you discipline a bunch of millionaires?’   I think it’s a perfect question for the modern game - and I doubt that hairdryers work unless there is complete buy-in for a manager who has a long and proven track record (and even then I doubt it’s efficacy). 

[Guest]

In the long run, the last two months will probably turn out to be a good thing. It's highlighted a few weaknesses, shown who the players are who are top level and which ones were performing above themselves. 

 

I'd be very surprised if we don't sign 4-5 quality first-team players over the next 2 windows to add to the likes of Pope, Botman, Trippier, Bruno and Isak. The likes of Burn, Almiron, Schar, Willock, Longstaff etc will all be important to the squad but shouldn't really be starting 30 plus league games each from next season. Might still be 1-2 of those if certain positions aren't available in the summer but we're going to get there eventually.

 

 

Edited February 28, 2023 by Optimistic Nut

[r0cafella]

20 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

In the long run, the last two months will probably turn out to be a good thing. It's highlighted a few weaknesses, shown who the players are who are top level and which ones were performing above themselves. 

 

I'd be very surprised if we don't sign 4-5 quality first-team players over the next 2 windows to add to the likes of Pope, Botman, Trippier, Bruno and Isak. The likes of Burn, Almiron, Schar, Willock, Longstaff etc will all be important to the squad but shouldn't really be starting 30 plus league games each from next season. Might still be 1-2 of those if certain positions aren't available in the summer but we're going to get there eventually.

 

 

 

This is what I anticipate as well. This summer should be really interesting as we are building grim a better base than last summer with hopefully more commercial revenue to help us Invest with even more ambition.