Eddie Howe

[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. 

[Stifler]

13 minutes ago, Heron said:

Teams change and evolve, generally.

 

Whilst we didn't execute it perfectly, it was absolutely the plan to hit these on the counter and it absolutely worked.

We got the win, and the plan may have worked. I’m not arguing it didn’t, but there were still poor performances in that match, and I suspect poor fitness levels.

[nufc4eva]

Can only work with what we have but Bruno and Tonali as a 2 with Almiron or big Joe ahead might help link with Barnes, Gordon and Isak and help the press 

[TRon]

6 minutes ago, 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. 

 

I thought Kelly looked very tidy on the ball. Considering he's a CB by trade.

[Lush Vlad]

If there is a rift in the camp and the body language experts are all correct. Then the players are consummate professionals. As they all looked like they’d die for the manager and the club today  

[Ben]

Hall looked shaky again

[Abacus]

I have been wondering, what is so wrong with an "outdated" football model which would allow the likes of a Ferguson, a Wenger, or even a Klopp to run the club, instead of running everything by a committee.

 

If we have to think outside the box then, just maybe, we have found ours. We didn't play well in spells, but found a way. It's what all the best ones do.

[Dr Venkman]

54 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.

This man knows ball.

[Matt1892]

We look like Man Utd under Ten Hag, where they dig out points from games they were outplayed in and don’t appear to be playing with any tactics.

 

7 out of a possible 9 and the next round of the cup is an excellent tally for this point in the season, you get the feeling we will be on the end of a pasting if we don’t sort out our tactics soon.

[Shak]

7 points and through in the cup is definitely more than a bit fortuitous based on how we've played so far but I do think Eddie deserves a bit of luck, given what a poor job those in charge of recruitment did to help him going into the new season.

 

Obviously the performances haven't been great but worth remembering that we started fairly slow the year we came 4th too. Won the first game but then went almost two months before we won another league game.

 

There were some fairly abject performances in there too, Brighton away we were poor and lucky to get a point, needed a last minute wonder goal to get a draw at Wolves too. Then at home we drew with Bournemouth and Palace, only managing one goal from a penalty over those two games.

 

There were a couple of good performances against Liverpool and City in there too but it was a fairly slow start, all in all.

 

I think the style of play we want to utilize just might need some ramping up to, frankly. A number of our players are visibly off the pace starting the season and I just don't know if we can go out there and give it the full press mentalists approach that we look our best at.

 

Think winning today will be huge for the mood around the place. Get Tonali bedded in and starting every game, get Bruno, Isak and Gordon all firing on all cylinders and get Schar back and there's plenty of reason to believe we'll kick into high gear sooner rather than later.

[The Prophet]

We look thr exact opposite of last season. Compact and defensively solid, but disjointed and wateful going forward.