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25 minutes ago, GavMcEl said:

I'll be the 1st to hold my hands up, and admit I wasn't overjoyed  when he was appointed manager.... 24 hours before it was looking like emery was gonna get the job, and a manager  of  his calibre, record experience etc was the type of manager  I wanted, (thought  we needed) however when Howe took over i was willing to give get behind him, what a fool I was for having doubts.....

the turn around since January is astonishing,  not in a month of Sundays would i ever predicted us finishing  11th, the turnaround in players, shelvey, Joelinton, Fraser....

and the signings, what gems have Burn and target  have been, and of course Trippier and Bruno...

but most importantly, for me its the way he handles himself, always dignified, professional and humble....

and in his press conferences when the media bombard him with shite about the ownership, his responses are always  intelligent.... 

I cant thank him enough 

 

There goes Eddie Howe, I must remember... 

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I don't know about anyone else, but I'm already camped outside the training ground ready to greet him at 4am. 

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I couldn't really understand his decision to bring Murphy on in place of Joelinton today, I thought it left us light in midfield, but maybe he just wanted to test out other positions to see who could cut it?

 

Anyway, after Count Dracula turned us down, I backed Eddie to the hilt. The guy is the best of the current breed of English managers, and I love every day I know he won't make us look stupid as a club.

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The ticking time cunt that is Steve Bruce woke up and thought "Where's the bacon and what utter tripe can I say today"

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Not sure if it was noticeable on TV, but at the end of the match as he approached the away end, there was a bit of a chorus of “you laughed at us” being aimed at the Burnley fans. 
 

He made a bit of a gesture for that to stop. Didn’t make a big show of it or anything, but it did have a (partial) effect. 
 

He then followed it up with a much more pronounced fist pump in celebration.

 

He’s absolute class.

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31 minutes ago, TRon said:

I couldn't really understand his decision to bring Murphy on in place of Joelinton today, I thought it left us light in midfield, but maybe he just wanted to test out other positions to see who could cut it?

 

Anyway, after Count Dracula turned us down, I backed Eddie to the hilt. The guy is the best of the current breed of English managers, and I love every day I know he won't make us look stupid as a club.

We didn’t have a central midfielder on the bench. Moving to a 4231 and Almiron into the 10 position was the only option really. 

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I don't think it's a given that we're top 6 next season and I hope people relax and give him some time. It may not click straight when next year starts and the other teams around us will also be looking to improve.

There's a lot needs doing to upgrade the whole club let alone the 1st 11. It may take a bit of time to get right. We might also go through a couple of sticky patches. That happens. I'm sure EH will keep working as smartly as he has been though and, inshallah we'll have made some palpable progress by the time the season ends.

There's so many variables I think it's unfair to set a minimum league place now. There might be a horrendous injury blight or 3 or 4 games on the trot where opponents score off every deflected shot. EH looks like a man who can keep perspective and adhere to the system he thinks will yield the best performances in the long run.

Performances are more important that results imo. Performance will always eventually lead to the right results over time where as you can have a string of very lucky wins your efforts just don't deserve (see Pardew - 5th). It will catch up with you, though.

 

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55 minutes ago, SteV said:

Not sure if it was noticeable on TV, but at the end of the match as he approached the away end, there was a bit of a chorus of “you laughed at us” being aimed at the Burnley fans. 
 

He made a bit of a gesture for that to stop. Didn’t make a big show of it or anything, but it did have a (partial) effect. 
 

He then followed it up with a much more pronounced fist pump in celebration.

 

He’s absolute class.

 

Good to see you haven't been banned after your last comment, Joeyt just made a cryface. I think that's progress.

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Second half of the season. Two things:

 

1. We need more goals next season.

 

2. Shipping 5 against both Spurs and Man City kind of skews the numbers a bit. We’ve been excellent defensively. We’ve not conceded more than one in any of the other 17 games! Priority has to be forwards (and Targett) in the summer.

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38 points in half a season :lol: What an absolutely absurd job he's done. 

 

There's a Sky Sports Premier League Great Escapes video that doesn't even feature us from this season, presumably Howe having us moonwalk out of the jaws of death a month early means that it can't even be considered an escape. 

 

 

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It's crazy because as much as you made accomodations for Bruce making players worse I still looked at squad last november and thought none of these lot are good enough to do out in this division there's no hope

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It's irritating the fuck out of me seeing people on social media saying us spending £90m in January has bought our 2022 form. There's way more to the story than to distill it down to money = staying up.

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The other 19 teams bought their form in the summer, we were just catching up in January.

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1 minute ago, hakka said:

It's irritating the fuck out of me seeing people on social media saying us spending £90m in January has bought our 2022 form. There's way more to the story than to distill it down to money = staying up.

 

Just ignore it man. It's a cesspit of shit takes and bad faith.

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7 minutes ago, hakka said:

It's irritating the fuck out of me seeing people on social media saying us spending £90m in January has bought our 2022 form. There's way more to the story than to distill it down to money = staying up.

 

It's one of the most boring narratives going and anyone trying to make such a point should also have to explain what a shrewd piece of business it was spending more than a quarter of that on Chris Wood. They won't and can't.

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13 minutes ago, hakka said:

It's irritating the fuck out of me seeing people on social media saying us spending £90m in January has bought our 2022 form. There's way more to the story than to distill it down to money = staying up.

you're going to be well irritated this time next year when they are saying £200m bought NUFC, a top 7 position.    Going to be delicious

 

Disclaimer:   all amounts quoted are for illustrative purposes only and do not constitute a commitment or guarantee that this amount will be spent!

 

 

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