HaydnNUFC Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Says a lot that Keegan has the best record out of English managers in the modern era in the PL, despite getting out of the game early. Will always be gutted for him and us that we didn’t get silverware under him. Local hero Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Keegan and Evans would have had more games too, due to both the WC being played mid-season and 93/94 and 94/95 being 42 game seasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Another fucking bonkers stat; this calendar year we've only conceded 5 league goals at SJP from open play. 1 v Watford in January. 1 v Liverpool in April. 2 v Manchester City in August. 1 v Bournemouth in September. All the others have been set piece goals. The last opposition player to score against us at SJP this season was Ivan Toney's pen for Brentford. The World Cup break skews this a bit but still, fucking hell. Especially given the absolute mess we were in 2021. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 1 hour ago, HaydnNUFC said: Another fucking bonkers stat; this calendar year we've only conceded 5 league goals at SJP from open play. 1 v Watford in January. 1 v Liverpool in April. 2 v Manchester City in August. 1 v Bournemouth in September. All the others have been set piece goals. The last opposition player to score against us at SJP this season was Ivan Toney's pen for Brentford. The World Cup break skews this a bit but still, fucking hell. Especially given the absolute mess we were in 2021. Mad to think that as well as we're doing, Chelsea conceded just 15 in a season once. I'd totally forgotten that and still held in my head that Arsenal's 17 conceded was the record. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 2 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said: Another fucking bonkers stat; this calendar year we've only conceded 5 league goals at SJP from open play. 1 v Watford in January. 1 v Liverpool in April. 2 v Manchester City in August. 1 v Bournemouth in September. All the others have been set piece goals. The last opposition player to score against us at SJP this season was Ivan Toney's pen for Brentford. The World Cup break skews this a bit but still, fucking hell. Especially given the absolute mess we were in 2021. What's even madder is to think about where we were and how we felt when Joao Pedro knocked that header in. If you'd said we'd finish the calendar year in second people would've thought you meant the Championship. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Make him the highest paid member of the squad. He sits at the very top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) 22 hours ago, Rich said: Let the daft sods keep believing it's all down to luck, for me. People are absolutely clueless. Only 3 of our 9 wins were by 1 goal. 2 of those were against Spurs (away) and Chelsea. A sign of a legit team is hammering the bad teams, IMO. Edited December 28, 2022 by Dr Venkman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 On 26/12/2022 at 17:28, Ikon said: How Howe? How! (In a non barking sound of a dog) You start it off, I’ll defo join in ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Great thing for me is that we're this good now, yet there's 3-4 areas that could easily be ungraded over the next two windows that shouldn't really disrupt how we play. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ste Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) Sure I read that the only other English managers to do it in the Premier League era are Keegan twice with us and Roy Evans at Liverpool once. Edited December 28, 2022 by Optimistic Nut Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 His ability to improve a player has left me wondering what he could have done with someone like Viana or Luque or other obviously talented but flawed players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmesy Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Rafa had Almiron looking effective, Eddie has turned him into a world class performer. He’s some coach! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 18 minutes ago, James said: His ability to improve a player has left me wondering what he could have done with someone like Viana or Luque or other obviously talented but flawed players. Imagine what he could have done with someone like Ben Arfa, we'd be talking about him like Messi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 1 hour ago, 54 said: Imagine what he could have done with someone like Ben Arfa, we'd be talking about him like Messi People said the same about Sir Bob and Ben Arfa but others said he wouldn't have bought him. I dont think Eddie would either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 James Perch would have been on at least three ballon d’ors by now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Ayoze Perez for me. He'd have been exceptional under Howe I reckon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty66 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Merino under Howe would be pitch porn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWMag Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Howe goes up in my estimations more each day Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 28 minutes ago, Scotty66 said: Merino under Howe would be pitch porn. I’d love it if we went in for him again. Always had nice things to say about Newcastle after he left. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikejaxer Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 9 minutes ago, NWMag said: Howe goes up in my estimations more each day Aye I think Isaac Hayden said the same thing, about Howe ringing him up checking up on him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 11 minutes ago, cubaricho said: I’d love it if we went in for him again. Always had nice things to say about Newcastle after he left. All very well saying nice things, but the fact is he pushed to leave because he was homesick. Appreciate he was young but he strikes me as someone who’ll stay at Sociedad, or around that area, until he retires at about 33/34. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) He never once talks negatively about players. He talks highly of players that are just squad players and it must be so important for them because we'll need the likes of Lascelles at some point during this season We've struck gold having a manager who is excelling at improving players but is also brilliant as a man manager Edited December 28, 2022 by joeyt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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