Eddie Howe

[gbandit]

8 minutes ago, The Bonk said:

Man, Bruno was soooooo pumped. Love that it happened in front of the away fans. I thoroughly enjoyed him walking away to our supporters chanting "BRUNO! BRUNO!" and he gives the double thumbs to his name like "that's me muthafuckas!".  

I interpreted that as respect to his dad about the taxi he used to drive 

[The Bonk]

 exuberance at it's finest. 

[Geordie Ahmed]

Absolutely chuffed to bits for Howe, took him a little while to rid us off the stench of Bruce but the signs were there early doors.

 

The way he's galvanised the squad and improved a number of individuals is nothing short of remarkable. 

 

He's shut a lot of people up, including a number of our own fans who were absurdly talking about the possibility of him being sacked. 

 

I'm intrigued to see how far he can go, hopefully he is the man to get us challenging for trophies in a few years.  

[Chicken Dancer]

There’s nothing quite as magic is when the entire fan base is completely connected with a manager. When they come around it’s fucking amazing.
 

City feels alive and bouncing for the first time in a long, long time. 
 

[Dancing Brave]

1 minute ago, Chicken Dancer said:

There’s nothing quite as magic is when the entire fan base is completely connected with a manager. When they come around it’s fucking amazing.
 

City feels alive and bouncing for the first time in a long, long time. 
 

Absolutely this, you nailed it.

[LV]

1 hour ago, Chicken Dancer said:

There’s nothing quite as magic is when the entire fan base is completely connected with a manager. When they come around it’s fucking amazing.
 

City feels alive and bouncing for the first time in a long, long time. 
 

For sure. But I think even more than that, the whole club and fans are aligned from owners to fans. It’s exciting times ahead for sure. 

[wormy]

3 hours ago, ManDoon said:

Willock falling over and and Wood’s reaction is very funny to me:

 

 

 

I think even as and when we upgrade I want to keep Wood just for morale. He seems great. 

[Bowie]

9 hours ago, PauloGeordio said:

United 

 

 

 

 

Absolutely man! I've never felt like this towards the club tbh. My whole adult life up until now had been Ashley era. I find myself welling up all the time tbh.

 

Usually over shite like this: 

 

 

[Bowie]

...ah and me current socks are somewhat similar to your fam's!

 

imgur.com/a/ECUXJQd

 

UNITED

 

 

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[Bowie]

Christ. How the fuck do you embed an image on this new space-age N-O?! Over 2mb nee good and trusty IMGUR absolutely obsolete.

 

This owld millennial mug is off to kip. Goodneet x

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

Geet up BO.

[Bowie]

Areet fatha. Is your patter any better since the takeover?

 

 

 

I hope it's still shite tbh.

[Thiago]

Eddie talking about going away over the international break - citing the trip to Saudi as a good bonding experience. 

 

That reminded me that the highlight of that trip was Ciaran Clark chinning some lad on the pitch.  

[Gawalls]

18 hours ago, HTT II said:

Well deserved and I personally love the after photos when we win and any other post match stuff, makes me feel part of it and shows a United club, anyone who takes offence at that is a sad sack!

I think it’s bigger than that, I reckon it’s also giving the players a chance to fall in love with the sport and being a footballer again.

[Guest HTT II]

13 minutes ago, Gawalls said:

I think it’s bigger than that, I reckon it’s also giving the players a chance to fall in love with the sport and being a footballer again.

Kids are loving it too. My boy through my fault was never into NUFC, he loves it all now though. It’s like the KK days when fans were more involved through the club, manager and players actively involving the fans.

[Guest HTT II]

15 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

I'll give it a go.

 

Looking back to the start of this season, when Ashley and Bruce were still here and how toxic the club was mainly in around September I was screaming for Howe to take over from Bruce. Looking back I thought he may have taken the job even with Ashley, but given how he looked for the right job after his time out of work I doubt he would've done. I've always rated him, his achievements at Bournemouth are so vastly underrated. What he did there is something you'd probably only see on Football Manager: taking a club from administration in League 2 (granted he left then came back when they were in League 1) to the Premier League and keeping them in the Premier League for 5 seasons playing attacking football is as good an achievement as winning a bit of silverware for me. But given this country's media and supporters' myopic view of managers where only the final outcomes are looked at rather than the whole context he was never going to be given credit that he probably deserved. He oversaw the greatest period in Bournemouth's history and that's the bottom line. And to achieve what he did there is some doing; building multiple squads for various leagues, improving players, maintaining their attacking identity, it's all the hallmarks of a fantastic coach. 

 

Now Bournemouth imo were always going to go down eventually and that's no fault of Howe's. Given the size of that club without meaning disrespect there was always going to be a ceiling in terms of revenue, the type of player they could attract et cetera. Even still, they would've stayed up had they not had so many injuries over the 2019-20 season and/or the goal line technology was switched on at Villa Park. 

 

Now it was mentioned in the discussion of my post about English football and managers post-Guardiola that the young, progressive, modern coaches such as Howe, Potter, many others in the Championship are the complete antithesis of the likes of Bruce, Pardew, Allardyce because they go out of their way to improve themselves rather than just searching for their next pay day. Potter went to Ostersunds in Sweden for his first job: completely unheard of for young English managers to go abroad for their first job. Howe spent his time out watching his training sessions at Bournemouth back, going over to Spain and watching Simeone work at Atleti, watching Andoni Iraola work at Rayo Vallecano who has brought a relatively small club into La Liga and got to the semi finals of the Copa del Rey. Iraola said of Howe;

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10212107/Rayo-Vallecano-coach-Andoni-Iraola-opens-tremendous-Radamel-Falcao-teams-rise-LaLiga.html

 

Amongst that, this is what he also was doing prior to being interviewed and appointed here, remember that it was Al-Rumayyan who was wowed by his knowledge and attention to detail in how he'd improve us.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/11/05/incoming-newcastle-boss-eddie-howe-set-road-tyneside-diego-simeone/

 

Now if you look at how he's improved the team in it's general play, I've included some graphs that are spoilered amongst the fact that Newcastle are unbeaten this year and are sitting at the 'points collected in top 5 leagues this year' table with Liverpool, Barcelona and Sevilla. Above Manchester City.

 

 

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Pre Brighton, this is from the Athletic on Joelinton.

 

From the Athletic on Schar.

 

Such a minute thing, but on the team photos after wins from the Athletic.

 

Out attacking play from out wide from the Brentford (a), clearly coached us to exploit overloads on weaker flanks.


 

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Now this on our passing structure. Look at the mess under Bruce. Then look at the clear structure under Howe, even when it didn't work against Watford.


 

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It's also clear to see that tactically he's good; Leeds (a), West Ham (a), Brentford (a), Brighton (h), Southampton (a). The performances in those games weren't flawless but we picked up 13 points in them. Some of them like Leeds (a) and last night were pure Benitez in terms of picking up those points and grinding out those wins without being swashbuckling. Against good sides too. Brighton had only lost 2 away games before coming to SJP. Southampton had only lost 1 home game before last night. 

 

And we're still away from what he eventually wants us to be; a side that controls possession, scores goals, plays open attacking football that's pleasing on the eye. We'll get there when we get a better quality in player in the transfer market. His work ethic and his demand on the training ground is akin also to peak Benitez but also commands a philosophy more akin to Keegan. Him and Tindall already seem to me to have a Keegan-Terry Mac dynamic. The way he speaks about the supporters and the club is lightyears away from the patronising bell ends of Bruce and Souness and the belittling shite from Pardew. It's more like Keegan, Benitez, SBR, Hughton, Roeder. He has all the traits to be one of a kind here.

 

I'll finish this whole thing on this from .com after Brentford as it sums up his time so far so well. And who knows what the future holds.

 

"What is more than evident though is that he's [Howe] earned the gratitude of the Geordie Nation; restoring a connection with their team and making the matchday experience pleasurable again. For that, we're thankful.

 

I love this post, for a young lad, you’re one of the most knowledgable posters on here with a mind for the mechanics of football way beyond what someone like Bruce who won it all as a player and has over 1000 games as a manager and that’s says it all about him that some young Toon fan knows more about the mechanics of the game than he ever will. Great post 

 

 

Edited March 12, 2022 by HTT II

[NEEJ]

Mental that, like. 

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

I think it's pretty likely he'll get a contract extension in the summer 

[wormy]

23 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

I think it's pretty likely he'll get a contract extension in the summer 

 

I certainly wouldn't complain but it seems the new owners are fairly conservative with their contracts if January was anything to go by. Can see them waiting until the following summer when he's had a full season under his belt. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

On 11/03/2022 at 00:17, Super Duper Branko Strupar said:

20 minutes to Wapner

 

 

 

?  ?

[Coffee_Johnny]

3 hours ago, NEEJ said:

Mental that, like. 

 

Frigging tragic more like.

[PauloGeordio]

14 hours ago, Bowie said:

 

Absolutely man! I've never felt like this towards the club tbh. My whole adult life up until now had been Ashley era. I find myself welling up all the time tbh.

 

Usually over shite like this: 

 

 

[greydos]

6 hours ago, HTT II said:

I love this post, for a young lad, you’re one of the most knowledgable posters on here with a mind for the mechanics of football way beyond what someone like Bruce who won it all as a player and has over 1000 games as a manager and that’s says it all about him that some young Toon fan knows more about the mechanics of the game than he ever will. Great post 

 

 

 

HTT finds the spiritual heir to his essay-posting throne. Beautiful times!

[Guest HTT II]

1 minute ago, greydos said:

HTT finds the spiritual heir to his essay-posting throne. Beautiful times!

@HaydnNUFCis far more wise beyond his years than I was at his age and even now, but he’s a worthy successor to my tl;dr title!

 

 

Edited March 12, 2022 by HTT II

[Shelveys Hair]

 

When Harry met Eddie.. about 20 seconds in Redknapp says "from 92nd in the league, 17 point deduction, you're preparing to play Newcastle tomorrow in the Premier League."

 

Talk about things coming full circle

 

 

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