Eddie Howe

[The Prophet]

We conceded the most goals in a calender year, for a Premier League side last year. 

[DahnSahf]

4 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

It's a common thing that happens and I wouldn't completely rule it out if it was after Rafa, but after Steve Bruce? Presumably they didn't check out how successful that 'defensive mentality' was 

 

Tbf someone did point out to him our goals conceded record over the last few years.

The guy obviously made the mistake of assuming Brewcie being defensive meant we were actually any fucking good at it.

[brummie]

I think what he's done this last year is nothing short of phenomenal.

 

Yes, you've spent a bit of money but not really that much, not Man City levels.

What you are is extremely well coached, but I think it is also the huge amount of confidence that you play with that makes a massive difference.

 

Really impressive.

[Paullow]

 

As many points as Everton and Southampton have combined in 2022, and Everton have played 2 games more. We've basically been class for pretty much a full season. We drew Watford in the first match of 2022, so it's 64 from the last 32, and exactly 2 point per game over a long long period - insane.

[Facundo Ferreyra]

I'd do disgusting things to Eddie, man. What a fucking bloke. 

[LV]

2 hours ago, mikejaxer said:

 

Didn't know he even went on a podcast recently. 

Just exploding with pride with this club and team at the moment. This guy is an absolute inspiration.

 

Dare I say it, he’s approaching Keegan for me. Never thought I’d ever say that about anyone. 

[Yorkie]

Can't believe we're gonna have to listen to Darren Fletcher and Steve McManaman every other week next season.

[Klaus]

We have only 10 fewer points than Man City this calendar year!? Holy shit

[Guest]

Only 3 points fewer and with 5 games in hand over our second 2nd placed finish.

[midds]

And it's even more incredible to think of what's happened when you consider the utter shambles he walked into. Bruce had fucking mangled the squad, destroyed the organisation, morale was at an all-time low and there was zero belief or confidence in the entire club. From staring relegation in the face to legitimately dreaming of CL in 12 months. Yes, the money has helped but the transformation is so massive that to hang it all on "yeah, but they spent loads" is glib and dim-witted as fuck.

[Big River]

 lov u eddie

[Pilko]

We've just spent extremely well is all. Look at when Everton went and spent in the 2017/18 season:

 

Sigurdsson £40m 

Klaassen £25m (7 appearances )

Pickford £30m

M Keane £25m

Sandro Martinez £5m

Vlasic £8m

Onyekuru £7m

Bowler £2m

Gibson £1m

Tosun £27m (Jan)

Walcott £20m (Jan)

(Plus a bunch of other "undisclosed" fees for youngsters, as well as wages for Rooney who came on a free.)

 

At least £190m there, probably £200m plus purely in transfer fees with the other handful of undisclosed youngsters. 

 

Nobody bats an eyelid or mentions that expenditure because it's extremely poor and Koeman made an arse of it - it's an extremely similar amount as what we've spent across two windows and suddenly we've spent our way into 3rd place. Proper lazy journalism and even when you point out the fact that 5-6 of the regular starting team were pre-takeover buys the "spending" rhetoric still flies about.

[STM]

35 minutes ago, brummie said:

I think what he's done this last year is nothing short of phenomenal.

 

Yes, you've spent a bit of money but not really that much, not Man City levels.

What you are is extremely well coached, but I think it is also the huge amount of confidence that you play with that makes a massive difference.

 

Really impressive.

 

And I mean this, I hope Villa with Emery can start upsetting some of the cartel too. It doesn't benefit anyone having certain clubs constantly pulling up the ladder.

 

Obviously I don't want you to beat Newcastle but if Villa made top 6 in the next couple of seasons, at the expense of Spurs or Chelsea or whoever, we would all benefit. I also quite like Emery.

 

It's time for a change at the top of this league and it starts with Newcastle and it doesn't have to end there.

[STM]

6 minutes ago, Pilko said:

We've just spent extremely well is all. Look at when Everton went and spent in the 2017/18 season:

 

Sigurdsson £40m 

Klaassen £25m (7 appearances )

Pickford £30m

M Keane £25m

Sandro Martinez £5m

Vlasic £8m

Onyekuru £7m

Bowler £2m

Gibson £1m

Tosun £27m (Jan)

Walcott £20m (Jan)

(Plus a bunch of other "undisclosed" fees for youngsters, as well as wages for Rooney who came on a free.)

 

At least £190m there, probably £200m plus purely in transfer fees with the other handful of undisclosed youngsters. 

 

Nobody bats an eyelid or mentions that expenditure because it's extremely poor and Koeman made an arse of it - it's an extremely similar amount as what we've spent across two windows and suddenly we've spent our way into 3rd place. Proper lazy journalism and even when you point out the fact that 5-6 of the regular starting team were pre-takeover buys the "spending" rhetoric still flies about.

 

It's also conveniently forgotten that Chris Wood was a calculated over spend and also Isak distorts that figure massively since he has hardly kicked a ball.

[brummie]

I think you'd struggle to find a club that has wasted more money on shit purchases than Everton, shocking.

 

Our problem wasn't that we'd bought a load of shite, it was that Gerrard didn't get anything like the best out of them.

 

I'll cut him a bit of slack for losing Kamara and Carlos to bad injuries quickly, that was bad luck, but fuck me, if you take out the bad result at your place, Aaron Danks got us a 4-0 demolition of Brentford and Emery has got us 3 points at home to Man United.

 

That's 6 points from the last 9, which is a universe ahead of what Gerrard delivered.

[STM]

1 minute ago, brummie said:

I think you'd struggle to find a club that has wasted more money on shit purchases than Everton, shocking.

 

Our problem wasn't that we'd bought a load of shite, it was that Gerrard didn't get anything like the best out of them.

 

I'll cut him a bit of slack for losing Kamara and Carlos to bad injuries quickly, that was bad luck, but fuck me, if you take out the bad result at your place, Aaron Danks got us a 4-0 demolition of Brentford and Emery has got us 3 points at home to Man United.

 

That's 6 points from the last 9, which is a universe ahead of what Gerrard delivered.

 

It's worth reminding any fan that cares to listen that a bad manager can make the best players look shite. Emery will do wonders for your younger players like Ramsey.

 

I still think Villa should have bought some youth as well as experience and I think Coutinho is a right off.

[54]

2 minutes ago, brummie said:

I think you'd struggle to find a club that has wasted more money on shit purchases than Everton, shocking.

 

Our problem wasn't that we'd bought a load of shite, it was that Gerrard didn't get anything like the best out of them.

 

I'll cut him a bit of slack for losing Kamara and Carlos to bad injuries quickly, that was bad luck, but fuck me, if you take out the bad result at your place, Aaron Danks got us a 4-0 demolition of Brentford and Emery has got us 3 points at home to Man United.

 

That's 6 points from the last 9, which is a universe ahead of what Gerrard delivered.

Out of interest, given Emery only started on Thursday atleast officially, how much influence did he have today? Or do you reckon it was just a general tactical idea, with not much able to be done on the training ground?

[TRon]

32 minutes ago, STM said:

 

And I mean this, I hope Villa with Emery can start upsetting some of the cartel too. It doesn't benefit anyone having certain clubs constantly pulling up the ladder.

 

Obviously I don't want you to beat Newcastle but if Villa made top 6 in the next couple of seasons, at the expense of Spurs or Chelsea or whoever, we would all benefit. I also quite like Emery.

 

It's time for a change at the top of this league and it starts with Newcastle and it doesn't have to end there.

 

Not going to lie, I can't help thinking less of Emery after the way he bottled taking the Newcastle job after initially accepting it. Looks like he's now realised he made a mistake and has taken the next job available in the Premier.

 

That said, it's worked out brilliantly for us, we've ended up with the perfect manager, and I really do think Emery is a decent-ish manager. In other circumstances I would normally wish him well. At least I won't hate Villa like I did under the unsufferable Gerrard though. Before this weird rivalry business which developed in our relegation season, I always liked Villa as a club.

[HaydnNUFC]

5 hours ago, 80 said:

It talked about the first 40 games, so I assume they were Div 2 points!

 

5 hours ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

Just saw a glimpse of it, but I think it was first 40 games in charge. Which pretty sure would mean Keegan’s were in second division and not even sure if Eddie has had 40, from first official game in charge. A fairer comparison would be the 33 or so games in this calendar year. Compared to best calendar year for the others. 

 

Checked it again, it's not, it's PL games only. We finished with 77 points in 1993-94 which was a 42 game season, we took 3 points from the final 2 games so just take that 3 off: 74.

 

[Miggys First Goal]

Podcast is up. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

7 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

 

Checked it again, it's not, it's PL games only. We finished with 77 points in 1993-94 which was a 42 game season, we took 3 points from the final 2 games so just take that 3 off: 74.

 

Good find. Of course it would just be first 40 in the PL. 

[Vinny Green Balls]

I've said it 100 times, but he really is our version of Steve Kerr. a great example of approaching life with optimism.

 

Just love the dude.

[Miggys First Goal]

Could listen to this bloke read the phone book.

[GWN]

I’d let him have a go on me , I like him that much 

 

We are very lucky to have him

[Klaus]

Where is this podcast you speak of?