Eddie Howe

[Dan Gleebals]

JT looks like he is about to kill someone 

[ScottishMagpie]

1 minute ago, Dan Gleebals said:

JT looks like he is about to kill someone 

 

Was just about to say that!    If he says you're running laps you're fucking running laps!!  

[Ste]

Worst player in training on the day has to spend the rest of the afternoon in Tan UK with Tindall.

[South-Cheshire-Toon]

6 minutes ago, LFEE said:

 

 

Caption time - 

 

JT (Shouts out loudly in no specific direction) - 'I'm coming for you boy.'

 

ASM (Not making eye contact) - Says to himself -  'If I slowly walk away in this direction he'll go for someone else'

 

 

[54]

5 minutes ago, Dan Gleebals said:

JT looks like he is about to kill someone 

Probably just seen Shelvey being lazy for the hundredth time of the session  

[54]

Inside Eddie Howe's first week as Newcastle boss, as told by Callum Wilson (The Chronicle)

 

Don't be fooled by incoming Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe's nice-guy persona - the current crop of Toon players have already witnessed major changes in training at Benton in his first week in charge.

 

Too often during the Magpies' miserable win-less, the United defence parted like the Red Sea in Premier League defeats only for some players to walk straight back into the starting line-up the next week.

 

That's not likely to happen under Howe and while the former AFC Bournemouth boss wants players to enjoy their work, they will know exactly where they stand.

A blast of Howe's whistle on day one of training last week halted a session when the 43-year-old spotted something he didn't like before he assertively informed the players: "That's not a criticism, it's just a different type of training."

 

Players were spotted taking an extra gasp of air as the new reality of the Howe era kicked in while some were pre-warned not to be spotted sitting on balls or trying to take a cheeky breather!

 

A beep test had taken place before that in what looked like a scene from pre-season, Newcastle's season has essentially been rebooted during the international break.

A weekend off during the World Cup qualifiers was scrapped too as players reported to St James' Park to get into the zone a week early for this weekend's clash with Brentford.

 

The new regime may come as a surprise to some but with a new back-room line-up of Howe, Jason Tindall, Stephen Purches, Simon Weatherstone and sports science supremo Dan Hodges now on board, it was back into the swing of things for others like Callum Wilson, Matt Ritchie and Ryan Fraser.

 

Not least hotshot Wilson who told Chronicle Live in an exclusive interview: "The test that we did, the bleep test, was just a six-minute one.

 

"But that was to gauge where our fitness levels are.

 

"We are obviously training with a lot more intensity now."

 

From Saturday, Newcastle fans are set to see a new-look United team to an extent - one that will be on the front-foot again.

 

For many Geordies, who have watched their team set up in defensive manner for what seems like an eternity now, that will be a sight for sore eyes.

 

But Wilson knows the daily grind at Benton had to change in order for the new system to work.

 

Wilson said: "To play a certain style of play you have to cope with the demands of that training.

 

"And we want to play attacking football.

 

"There will be a lot more pressure on the ball and we will be further up the pitch.

 

"To do that, you need to train this way (intensely) and to train that way you have to improve your fitness levels.

 

"For us, we have had a style of play where we have not had much of the ball and sat back more.

 

"So you get to a certain level of fitness.

 

"All of a sudden if you aren't working on that, week in, week out, day in, day out - you are going to drop off a little bit slightly.

 

"For us, this has been a good time now to get some more high speed runs into our legs and more intensity into our legs.

 

"Hopefully that will stand us in good stead for when the games start coming thick and fast."

 

This has been a strange time for Newcastle players.

 

From the moment the takeover went through to the conclusion of Steve Bruce's two-year stint in charge to rumours of Unai Emery, Roberto Martinez and Steven Gerrard.

 

Ultimately, though, the job was handed to Howe, so how did Wilson feel when he was told it was his old manager?

 

He said: "It was a good moment.

 

"In football, you try to focus on your job but you do hear people talking about different managers coming in or getting messages from people saying: 'You could be getting reunited here'.

 

"Things like that do get said on the circuit.

 

"But you try to focus on your job.

 

"Right now though the new owners see him as the perfect fit and it's been a great week.

 

"The transition has been great with the new manager.

 

"Training has a lot more intensity."

 

Understandably, Wilson has much faith in Howe and can be described as a disciple to the man Bournemouth fans look to in the same way Man United fans view Sir Alex Ferguson or Liverpool supporters regard Bill Shankly.

 

For Howe started it all at Bournemouth and the sweet taste of success in the Premier League was spearheaded by him.

 

Scott Parker may be in charge now, but fans on the South Coast credit their table topping Championship status back to the Howe era in many ways due to the solid foundations of the club.

 

Wilson was signed by Howe for just £3million from Coventry City and his 23 goal haul in the 2014/15 season helped seal the title.

 

Wilson remains indebted to Howe and said: "It's been really good to be reunited.

 

"When somebody has helped you so much in your career and gave you the platform in the past to go out and showcase your talent and perform you are grateful.

 

"We have such a good relationship anyway, but strange things happen in football.

 

"Our paths have crossed again.

 

"And I am sure there will be more success as there was with Bournemouth.

 

"With the manager, having worked with him in the past, when you are working together, you go on a journey.

 

"In my experience with him you start somewhere and you work a certain way."

 

The 29-year-old Newcastle number 9 went from an EFL striker to an England international under Howe.

 

The Cherries legend speaks highly of the Howe effect, and why Newcastle fans have the right to be excited.

 

Wilson said: "You get initial success, and then it is a positive spiral effect.

 

"That leads on to everybody buying into that style of play, buying into the work ethic and buying into the culture.

 

"Then it breeds more success.

 

"That is what the manager has come up here to do."

 

Training ground spats at Newcastle never seem to go unnoticed on Tyneside and while they have often been embellished, Wilson doesn't see his old boss putting up with any nonsense.

 

Wilson added: "He will clamp down on any discipline and anything that needs to be done.

 

"He will demand high standards and professionalism - all the things that you need to be to compete in the Premier League week in, week out.

 

"If we have that it will ultimately bring a togetherness.

 

"You go on to the pitch and you are running for each other, working for the manager and the team-mates.

 

"That is the environment they are trying to create here.

 

"It's not just each individual.

 

"We are a team, a club and all United together."

[Rich]

Thanks for that @54, just tidied it up and added a credit at the top. Hope that's alreet! Decent read.

 

"We are obviously training with a lot more intensity now."

 

"Training has a lot more intensity."

 

BRB, off to grief Alex Bruce a bit more on Twitter.

[54]

Just now, Rich said:

Thanks for that @54, just tidied it up and added a credit at the top. Hope that's alreet! Decent read.

 

"We are obviously training with a lot more intensity now."

 

"Training has a lot more intensity."

 

BRB, off to grief Alex Bruce a bit more on Twitter.

How very much dare you make this place look all tidy and pretty  

[RS]

If Bruce had seen his contact out the squad would have been obese and in the 3rd division. 
If any proof was needed that he was only here for the money and not the “boyhood club” rubbish. 
 

The managerial equivalent of Michael Owen’s mentality. 

[Yorkie]

Staggering how an elite football operation, in as precarious a situation as ours, wasn't fucking training. Incredible how much that 'manager' was just phoning it in. 

[Lazarus]

51 minutes ago, Rich said:

Thanks for that @54, just tidied it up and added a credit at the top. Hope that's alreet! Decent read.

 

"We are obviously training with a lot more intensity now."

 

"Training has a lot more intensity."

 

BRB, off to grief Alex Bruce a bit more on Twitter.

 

Oh god hes editing posts now...

 

 

Edited November 17, 2021 by Lazarus

[Dan Gleebals]

46 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Staggering how an elite football operation, in as precarious a situation as ours, wasn't fucking training. Incredible how much that 'manager' was just phoning it in. 

 

Even more stagggering that the so called professionals in the game, particularly his old mates in the media, would say he did a great job - when it was completely obvious it was anything but.

[xLiaaamx]

 

"Don't be fooled by outgoing Newcastle United head coach Steve Bruce's nice-guy persona" 

 

Fixed that for the chronicle. 

[Dokko]

13 minutes ago, Lazarus said:

 

Oh god hes editing posts now...

 

 

 

He's fully back, like. All in. ?

[Smal]

Think it’ll take a while to see big changes in style. To play with a press or intensity requires a lot of fitness and our players aren’t going to be able to go from 0 to 100 in the space of a couple of weeks.

 

Trying not to go into the Brentford game with high expectations basically. Wouldn’t be surprised to see the likes of Shelvey and Ritchie starting etc.

 

 

Edited November 17, 2021 by Smal

[Dokko]

1 minute ago, Smal said:

Think it’ll take a while to see big changes in style. To play with a press or intensity requires a lot of fitness and our players aren’t going to be able to go from 0 to 100 in the space of a couple of weeks.

 

Trying not to go into the Brentford game with high expectations basically. Wouldn’t be surprised to see the likes of Shelvey and Ritchie starting etc.

 

 

 

I think we'll see 9/11 same player with 7/11 playing in the same positions but 11/11 playing with a different intensity and energy following a totally different game plan.

 

I expect that from the off. It's when we get to difficult periods in the game whether we revert back to old and Howe manages that with subs and touchline interaction. 

 

[Minhosa]

2 hours ago, Rich said:

Thanks for that @54, just tidied it up and added a credit at the top. Hope that's alreet! Decent read.

 

"We are obviously training with a lot more intensity now."

 

"Training has a lot more intensity."

 

BRB, off to grief Alex Bruce a bit more on Twitter.

'It was an international break, what was I supposed to do?' Said Bruce.....

[Happinesstan]

2 minutes ago, Minhosa said:

'It was an international break, what was I supposed to do?' Said Bruce.....

That's the thing with the useless cunt. He remembers Fergie used to 'rest' the squad, on International breaks, but that was because Bruce was the only one that never went on international duty.

 

[South-Cheshire-Toon]

2 hours ago, 54 said:

"For us, we have had a style of play where we have not had much of the ball and sat back more.

 

"So you get to a certain level of fitness.

 

"All of a sudden if you aren't working on that, week in, week out, day in, day out - you are going to drop off a little bit slightly.

 

WTF - "Slightly" drop off - that's like saying the titanic hit a small lump of ice, or Mount Everest is a hill in the Himalayas. - slight over / under exaggeration as to how fucking fat and slow they have all become.

 

FFS -   At least we are seeing and (hopefully) they are feeling the benefits of this new regime.

[Happinesstan]

More than doubled the levels of training, but no injuries. What is this voodoo magic?

[Yorkie]

19 minutes ago, Minhosa said:

'It was an international break, what was I supposed to do?' Said Bruce.....

 

 Meticulous, let me tell you.

 

Embarrassing prick. For all his butthurtery when presented with very valid questions about the team's preparation and performance, he's been totally shown up within a matter of days (hours) of his replacement arriving. 

 

Urgh. Need to get the bloke out of my head. I mean, I enjoy him being embarrassed but fuck, I prefer to just think of him as never having been a Newcastle manager. Like how nations don't recognise microstates as nations or whatever. "Ah sure. 'Newcastle United' 'manager' were you? Cool, whatever you say, Steve."

[AyeDubbleYoo]

2 hours ago, Yorkie said:

Staggering how an elite football operation, in as precarious a situation as ours, wasn't fucking training. Incredible how much that 'manager' was just phoning it in. 

Add it to the ridiculous list of the effects of having a skeleton staff. I’m convinced we went all out for Willock just because we don’t have the phone numbers or contacts to get anyone else. 

[cosmic]

Just like Ashley not spending much on transfers leaving us in a strong FFP position;  we could benefit from the lack of intensity during the Bruce holiday training period as our season just kind of started. Our lot will hopefully still be relatively fresh during the end of season run in whilst other teams may be burnt out by then.

[deejeck]

3 hours ago, 54 said:

Inside Eddie Howe's first week as Newcastle boss, as told by Callum Wilson (The Chronicle)

 

Don't be fooled by incoming Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe's nice-guy persona - the current crop of Toon players have already witnessed major changes in training at Benton in his first week in charge.

 

Too often during the Magpies' miserable win-less, the United defence parted like the Red Sea in Premier League defeats only for some players to walk straight back into the starting line-up the next week.

 

That's not likely to happen under Howe and while the former AFC Bournemouth boss wants players to enjoy their work, they will know exactly where they stand.

A blast of Howe's whistle on day one of training last week halted a session when the 43-year-old spotted something he didn't like before he assertively informed the players: "That's not a criticism, it's just a different type of training."

 

Players were spotted taking an extra gasp of air as the new reality of the Howe era kicked in while some were pre-warned not to be spotted sitting on balls or trying to take a cheeky breather!

 

A beep test had taken place before that in what looked like a scene from pre-season, Newcastle's season has essentially been rebooted during the international break.

A weekend off during the World Cup qualifiers was scrapped too as players reported to St James' Park to get into the zone a week early for this weekend's clash with Brentford.

 

The new regime may come as a surprise to some but with a new back-room line-up of Howe, Jason Tindall, Stephen Purches, Simon Weatherstone and sports science supremo Dan Hodges now on board, it was back into the swing of things for others like Callum Wilson, Matt Ritchie and Ryan Fraser.

 

Not least hotshot Wilson who told Chronicle Live in an exclusive interview: "The test that we did, the bleep test, was just a six-minute one.

 

"But that was to gauge where our fitness levels are.

 

"We are obviously training with a lot more intensity now."

 

From Saturday, Newcastle fans are set to see a new-look United team to an extent - one that will be on the front-foot again.

 

For many Geordies, who have watched their team set up in defensive manner for what seems like an eternity now, that will be a sight for sore eyes.

 

But Wilson knows the daily grind at Benton had to change in order for the new system to work.

 

Wilson said: "To play a certain style of play you have to cope with the demands of that training.

 

"And we want to play attacking football.

 

"There will be a lot more pressure on the ball and we will be further up the pitch.

 

"To do that, you need to train this way (intensely) and to train that way you have to improve your fitness levels.

 

"For us, we have had a style of play where we have not had much of the ball and sat back more.

 

"So you get to a certain level of fitness.

 

"All of a sudden if you aren't working on that, week in, week out, day in, day out - you are going to drop off a little bit slightly.

 

"For us, this has been a good time now to get some more high speed runs into our legs and more intensity into our legs.

 

"Hopefully that will stand us in good stead for when the games start coming thick and fast."

 

This has been a strange time for Newcastle players.

 

From the moment the takeover went through to the conclusion of Steve Bruce's two-year stint in charge to rumours of Unai Emery, Roberto Martinez and Steven Gerrard.

 

Ultimately, though, the job was handed to Howe, so how did Wilson feel when he was told it was his old manager?

 

He said: "It was a good moment.

 

"In football, you try to focus on your job but you do hear people talking about different managers coming in or getting messages from people saying: 'You could be getting reunited here'.

 

"Things like that do get said on the circuit.

 

"But you try to focus on your job.

 

"Right now though the new owners see him as the perfect fit and it's been a great week.

 

"The transition has been great with the new manager.

 

"Training has a lot more intensity."

 

Understandably, Wilson has much faith in Howe and can be described as a disciple to the man Bournemouth fans look to in the same way Man United fans view Sir Alex Ferguson or Liverpool supporters regard Bill Shankly.

 

For Howe started it all at Bournemouth and the sweet taste of success in the Premier League was spearheaded by him.

 

Scott Parker may be in charge now, but fans on the South Coast credit their table topping Championship status back to the Howe era in many ways due to the solid foundations of the club.

 

Wilson was signed by Howe for just £3million from Coventry City and his 23 goal haul in the 2014/15 season helped seal the title.

 

Wilson remains indebted to Howe and said: "It's been really good to be reunited.

 

"When somebody has helped you so much in your career and gave you the platform in the past to go out and showcase your talent and perform you are grateful.

 

"We have such a good relationship anyway, but strange things happen in football.

 

"Our paths have crossed again.

 

"And I am sure there will be more success as there was with Bournemouth.

 

"With the manager, having worked with him in the past, when you are working together, you go on a journey.

 

"In my experience with him you start somewhere and you work a certain way."

 

The 29-year-old Newcastle number 9 went from an EFL striker to an England international under Howe.

 

The Cherries legend speaks highly of the Howe effect, and why Newcastle fans have the right to be excited.

 

Wilson said: "You get initial success, and then it is a positive spiral effect.

 

"That leads on to everybody buying into that style of play, buying into the work ethic and buying into the culture.

 

"Then it breeds more success.

 

"That is what the manager has come up here to do."

 

Training ground spats at Newcastle never seem to go unnoticed on Tyneside and while they have often been embellished, Wilson doesn't see his old boss putting up with any nonsense.

 

Wilson added: "He will clamp down on any discipline and anything that needs to be done.

 

"He will demand high standards and professionalism - all the things that you need to be to compete in the Premier League week in, week out.

 

"If we have that it will ultimately bring a togetherness.

 

"You go on to the pitch and you are running for each other, working for the manager and the team-mates.

 

"That is the environment they are trying to create here.

 

"It's not just each individual.

 

"We are a team, a club and all United together."

Massively ambivalent, reading that.  It's so good to read that structure, organisation and hard work has been implemented and we'll hopefully see the rewards of this very soon.  At the same time, It's just so fucking annoying how much that lazy fat cunt and his band of lackeys stole a living.  The 20% possession is one thing, but surely that's not an excuse to degrade the fitness training.

Four weeks later and he's still annoying as fuck.  I really hope that Howe shows him up quickly for the fraud that he is.

[Chris_R]

The annoying thing (well, one of them :lol:) about Bruce's time here is that effort costs absolutely fucking nothing. The absolute bare minimum you can do is try your hardest. He wouldn't even do that.

 

He was a total fucking disgrace.