Eddie Howe

[Oregon_Geordie]

Keeping the faith with Eddie. We need to give him some better tools to use.

When I say Tools, I mean the worthwhile type.

[Jackie Broon]

7 hours ago, Decky said:

Can't see how this is Howe's fault. He put out a near full strength side. The players are dreadful and spineless, no amount of management can change that. These players need fucked off for some proper players and then we can start judging Howe. Guardiola couldn't motivate the wankers we have at the club right now. 

 

Whilst yes, we need to judge him when we have more new players in, it is worrying how little the results and performances have improved under him.

 

Motivating players to get the most out of what you have is the definition of good management, you see it all the time in football where a team can look spineless under one manager then committed and organised under another.

 

 

Edited January 9, 2022 by Jackie Broon

[Klaus]

Just now, Big Geordie said:

As I said in the match thread - these players will see us relegated. Too many don't care/have given up and I'm not sure Howe can sort this out between now and the end of the season. Needs a huge clearout come what may.

 

A lot of the plodders know their time is up. Shelvey, Richie, Longstaff should have been shown the door years ago.

[Decky]

Just now, David Edgar said:

 

Eh?  Are we not allowed to call a shit managerial performance a shit managerialism performance?

 

Those aren't the comments I'm talking about. 

[Dr Jinx]

He’s going to have to gut this squad.
 

Would not surprise me if there was some sort of players committee, the dregs worried about being replaced and they are sticking together to try and keep standards low.

[loki679]

19 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Win the FA Cup and stay up, job’s a good ‘un. 

 

Is there a plan B?

[Shearergol]

I feel quite a few of our players have realised they’re not wanted. It’s gonna be a huge positive to get them away from the club now.

[Menace]

No idea what the plan was for second half, they dealt with us very comfortably. The players still seem to have the same defeated attitude they had prior. I'm very worried.

[toon25]

4 minutes ago, neesy111 said:

 

I was happy with his appointment, but I'm getting concerned I have to say.

 

Saying it's the squad only this result is making excuses for him today.  We looked very predictable for most of that match.

Spot on.

[Thumbheed]

Don't think there's an issue with how Eddie is training and managing the team tbh but as I've said before, if he doesn't recognise the strengths of his attacking players sooner rather than later he's gonna bomb. 

 

Even trying to play Joelinton further up the pitch was the wrong decision, and yet inspite of watching him absolutely excel in a deeper position he still managed to end up upfront. That's inexcusable imo.

 

 

[MrRaspberryJam]

2 minutes ago, loki679 said:

 

Is there a plan B?

 

Spend spend spend. 

[Ronaldo]

I haven’t liked his team selections since he came in, must admit. I’m happy to defer judgment till we’ve made a few signings this window. 

[Ben]

100% agree with people letting off steam but personally I'm not blaming anyone who joined the club over the last few months 

[Ste]

As soon as Eddie Howe said in his press conference that he'd been hammering it home all week that this game was must win, I was worried. 

 

These players cannot deal with expectation. They have no drive or standard that they strive to meet. Most are here because they were offered a contract and they knew the club would, at worst, yo-yo between the top two divisions.

 

No disrespect intended to Cambridge whatsoever, but you'd be fuming about this result as a bottom half Championship side, never mind a team that is supposed to be fighting for their future.

 

 

[Jaqen]

Regardless of the selection or tactics it's kind of irrelevant when most of the players our there looked like they'd never controlled or passed a ball before. The amount of bad touches and overhit balls was like a Sunday league team. 

[nufcjb]

I hope for his sake, PIF are not like Watford's owners. We haven't seen what PIF can or may do but if they are anything like the Watford owners, Eddie should be getting worried he won't last long here with shit results like this today. He better hope PIF can tolerate and be patient.

[Amir_9]

Second half totally out of ideas and he did fuck all of worth to change anything about it

 

Eddie, if you weren't already fucking aware, Willock and Almiron are not players who you can rely on to score you goals and the sooner you fucking stop playing them altogether, the better.

 

What an embarrassing result, abysmal.

[Lush Vlad]

8 minutes ago, WarrenBartonCentrePartin said:

Got to agree here. He didn’t seem to see the biggest problem was we had no out-and-out striker

He took Murphy off who had actually looked alright through the middle. Much better than ASM, anyway. 
 

Not saying it was purely down to that. But after that double sub. We looked clueless. I thought we were ok enough up to that point. 

[nemtizz]

Just now, Jaqen said:

Regardless of the selection or tactics it's kind of irrelevant when most of the players our there looked like they'd never controlled or passed a ball before. The amount of bad touches and overhit balls was like a Sunday league team. 

Surely confidence and cohesion stems from the manager? Admittedly I don't like any of our current squad (Tripps aside).

[Klaus]

Just now, Lush Vlad said:

He took Murphy off who had actually looked alright through the middle. Much better than ASM, anyway. 
 

Not saying it was purely down to that. But after that double sub. We looked clueless. I thought we were ok enough up to that point. 

 

I didnt get this at all. Longstaff was having a mare and should have been off.

[TheGuv]

Must say I was disappointed that he didn’t start or bring on Anderson and the other kids. I’m sure they’d have put up a better fight 

[Thiago]

I think he's shown today that he won't be the manager if/when the team is pushing for big things. 

 

The bloke simply can't coach in a proactive way. It's easy to put out nice patterns when your opponent is coming on to you and they leave spaces, but Cambridge (rightly) did not do that. From the moment the goal went in we passed it around the perimeter like a frustrated basketball team before throwing it in against three massive defenders. 

 

He';; get a pass to a certain degree for as long as we have the Ashley era shite in the team, but the awful part of my brain keeps whispering that it would have been better under a Rafa type.

[ATF]

I think people are always free to make comments on a manager for his selection, setup and subs. But it seems clear to me that a result like this is not "on him" at this stage. The actual ire seems merited elsewhere, even if you make the case that he too had a poor game.

[Ken Boon]

1 minute ago, TheGuv said:

Must say I was disappointed that he didn’t start or bring on Anderson and the other kids. I’m sure they’d have put up a better fight 

 

this f*ckin club doesn't do blooding new talent

[matta]

Signings need to come asap zulu for this to go. VAR errors or not, losing here is embarrassing.

 

Time to step up.