Eddie Howe

[Heron]

2 minutes ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

 

FFS do you ever feel joy?

[nufc123]

Hope they train a little bit more with the ball, because our ball play is really concerning

[Dokko]

He needed that result and got it. 2 weeks to address a few festering issues, even if he gets 2 or 3 sorted then it should be enough to kick start the season. Priority is sort Gordon's head out. 

[LiquidAK]

1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

Murphy sub was the perfect tactical change. He was ropey when he first came on but sticking him at RWB with freedom to get forward won us the game. 

 

Shutting down the noise and moving onwards and upwards. 

Yup, individually he was quite poor but it was the correct decision tactically and got us the winner 

[The College Dropout]

Just now, nufc123 said:

Hope they train a little bit more with the ball, because our ball play is really concerning

Lads don’t have the ability. 
 

Schar return and Tonali back will help.  But Joe, Kelly, Burn aren’t possession based players in the pl

[Zero]

3 minutes ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

 

FFS do you ever feel joy?

what da fug are you on? I am defending Howe!

[The College Dropout]

Murphy did great for the goal. And that got us the points. 
 

He was largely awful though.  Super bad. 

[Gallowgate Toon]

Didn't everyone want him to be less tactically predictable last season? 

 

Seems like he's managing a few things that stop us from trying plan a, so we've gone for something else. 

[STM]

1 minute ago, LiquidAK said:

Yup, individually he was quite poor but it was the correct decision tactically and got us the winner 

 

Someone suggested it in the match thread I think.

[mighty__mag]

International break, then three away games before our next home game vs City.

 

Eddie needs to galvanise the group, bring back nasty Newcastle, the aggressive pressure, pressing in your face, the team winning photos, smiles on everyone's faces, big energy. 

 

 

 

 

[nufc123]

Just now, The College Dropout said:

Lads don’t have the ability. 
 

Schar return and Tonali back will help.  But Joe, Kelly, Burn aren’t possession based players in the pl

It was Isak and Gordon a lot also. But Trippier, Tonali and Schar in will help. Kelly should not have any problem in possession really.

[Kid Icarus]

Needs must at the moment I think. Really missing the CB partnership to press high, but we're showing our steel again 

[The College Dropout]

Just now, nufc123 said:

It was Isak and Gordon a lot also. But Trippier, Tonali and Schar in will help. Kelly should not have any problem in possession really.

Agreed on the first point. 
 

Kelly did great for the opening goal. But he doesn’t look particularly impressive on the ball. 

[STM]

We seem more conservative, which has made the defence look slightly less exposed (until that spell today) but I think the attack has suffered.

 

As Rafa always said, it's about balance.

[Yorkie]

1 minute ago, The College Dropout said:

Murphy did great for the goal. And that got us the points. 
 

He was largely awful though.  Super bad. 

 

No he wasn't. Lost it a couple of times early on but then got a good assist and put in a great shift defensively. Usual canny option off the bench for us.

[nufc123]

Just now, The College Dropout said:

Agreed on the first point. 
 

Kelly did great for the opening goal. But he doesn’t look particularly impressive on the ball. 

Bournemouth fans say hes decent on the ball.

[midds]

7/9 and through to the next round of the cup - can't see anyone who wouldn't have taken that a month ago. There are issues mind, we've looked decidedly off colour in all 4 games and we're nowhere near clicking. But we've now got a little time to have a bit of a reset and tweak a few things before we're right back into our groove. 

 

Got every faith he can put the shite window (and all of the storm it's created) behind him and get us playing a little better

[STM]

Just now, Yorkie said:

 

No he wasn't. Lost it a couple of times early on but then got a good assist and put in a great shift defensively. Usual canny option off the bench for us.

 

He lost the ball 3 times in a row, which was shocking. On the other hand, he did what he always does and offers pace, professionalism and energy.

[nufc123]

2 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

Really missing the CB partnership to press high

We will look different with Schar and hopefully Botman in later.

[Holloway]

Murphy was just Murphy, tbh 

[Zero]

5 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Then how do we regularly win football games? 
 

Sit deep and hit teams on the counter? Build from the back in a possession based system?

Im happy we won. and the points return. 

 

 

 

If that’s Howe’s intention (preventing injuries) then we can only hope to have a few more lucky wins for the first half of the season. Try to sneak 1-2 goals in first half and then defend deeply in 2nd half seems to be his new plan

 

If we successfully keep our starting eleven healthy for the whole season, we might be able to gain a lot of points after Mar, thus end up more points than last season

 

I don’t know whether it’s called “lesson learnt”, but we have to trust Howe. You can also say we have no choice lol

 

[Kid Icarus]

Murphy was very good after the assist. Before that he was really poor.

[Aiston]

3 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

No he wasn't. Lost it a couple of times early on but then got a good assist and put in a great shift defensively. Usual canny option off the bench for us.

 

Half his passes didn't go to a Newcastle player. He was our worst outfield player at retaining possession.

 

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

1 minute ago, Kid Icarus said:

Murphy was very good after the assist. Before that he was really poor.

I’d just finished saying how bad the sub was when he raced through and created the winner

[nufc4eva]

We might need a change in formation to try and find that balance, maybe a 2 in centre mid and 1 in front to link up better or 3 at the back with Hall/Livramento as wing backs. Just need to find ways to retain more of the ball and create space for ourselves further up pitch as constantly run into trouble and too static. Was evident when occasional midfield triangle it created space between Spurs mid and Defence.