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...
joeyt Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 I've mentioned it before but Gerrard made a big song and dance about dropping Mings and making him losing the captaincy. We haven't heard a peep from Lascelles about him barely playing despite him being club captain. It sums up Eddie's philosophy of everyone working together perfectly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, joeyt said: I've mentioned it before but Gerrard made a big song and dance about dropping Mings and making him losing the captaincy. We haven't heard a peep from Lascelles about him barely playing despite him being club captain. It sums up Eddie's philosophy of everyone working together perfectly Lascalles has apparently been a very strong and beneficial presence in the dressing room and club leader even when not playing. So has Wood. The players on the whole who were already here when Eddie took over bought into his plan, you can see it in their personal improvements and there's no backbiting in the press etc even when left out the squad. Edited December 28, 2022 by madras Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDog Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) 58 minutes ago, madras said: Lascalles has apparently been a very strong and beneficial presence in the dressing room and club leader even when not playing. So has Wood. The players on the whole who were already here when Eddie took over bought into his plan, you can see it in their personal improvements and there's no backbiting in the press etc even when left out the squad. I completely agree with Joeyt and you as well. It couldn't have been too hard to embrace something new after Cabbage Head. That said, this seems to go WAY beyond just that. Seems like these guys would run through brick walls for this gaffer. Dubs is the only one who seemed to shirk back when he lost his spot but even that was never really out in the press. Eddie has been unreal tbf. Edited December 29, 2022 by McDog Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) You could have thrown another 500m at the squad with a different manager (see Everton, Aston Villa, Man United) and not bettered what Howe's done. Wouldn't swap him for anyone, having that connection with the manager is priceless imo and we love him don't we? And not only that, he's every bit a Newcastle manager. I loved Rafa to bits, but I couldn't have said he was truly a Newcastle manager on the pitch in the way Howe is. Edited December 29, 2022 by Kid Icarus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
et tu brute Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 7 hours ago, 54 said: Imagine what he could have done with someone like Ben Arfa, we'd be talking about him like Messi Not sure mind, we haven't seen a dramatic effect on Maxi, in fact you could argue his performances overall have reduced. There are just some players whose attitude/unwillingness neglects their overall ability. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Think ASM's much better now tbh, he's just not as much of a focal point and has been unlucky with injuries Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Two of Maxi’s best performances for us were under Howe; Everton at home last season and City at home this season. Unplayable. Think the effort he makes to help out defensively now and actually look for ways of passing the ball rather than just running into trouble are a lot different now too. A run in the team and we’d all be saying how much Howe has improved him IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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