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Had those three players stayed in their previous teams, there would be no way they would all start the match today for England right now. A huge credit goes to Eddie Howe. 
 

I think this should attract many high potential youngsters to come and develop under this man. He will set them in the right path. 

 

 

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  On 22/11/2024 at 13:17, Coffee_Johnny said:

Given the links we had with Gallagher and Guehi, could have been five NUFC players in a row in that pic.  Not that much wrong with our pre Mitchell scouting perhaps. 

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International caps aren’t the mark of top quality players though. Not saying those lads aren’t but it isn’t a reason to sign someone imo.

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I don't understand why we never really rotate based on opposition, isn't that a quite normal thing to do when you have the players to do so? We've improved our squad depth last season, but we're not really taking full advantage of it imo. For example Burn automatically playing at LB every single game over Tino, even when he was bound to get bullied by a fast winger. We're playing Longstaff over Tonali in games where we're likely to have the ball quite a lot. What is the tactical reasoning behind that?

 

 

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  On 25/11/2024 at 21:47, Erikse said:

I don't understand why we never really rotate based on opposition, isn't that a quite normal thing to do when you have the players to do so? We've improved our squad depth last season, but we're not really taking full advantage of it imo. For example Burn automatically playing at LB every single game over Tino, even when he was bound to get bullied by a fast winger. We're playing Longstaff over Tonali in games where we're likely to have the ball quite a lot. What is the tactical reasoning behind that?

 

 

 

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Doesn't like to change an undefeated team. 

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I think in many ways he was let down tonight by individual errors similar to the Chelsea game. Kelly a catastrophe.

 

But the second half was a train wreck with long spells of players not looking like they knew what position they were meant to be playing. 

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That wasn't great, at all. Can't put it all on Eddie of course but it turned into an absolute muddle after about 50 minutes and was still very much salvageable even at 0-2, but it was a proper mess. Created nowt of note other than the pen shout in the second half, not enough quality or goal threat at all. A shit show of a second half, so many passes over or under hit.

 

In a display with hardly any quality from us whatsoever, centre half and right wing looked absolutely minging in particular and just highlighted our pathetic summer window not for the first time this season. Doesn't help himself by holding back Tonali, like. Corners and set pieces routinely awful from an attacking perspective yet again. Whatever work is being done on these through the week isn't effective enough.

 

Free transfer or not, if Lloyd Kelly is Howe's man it only strengths the argument that he shouldn't have the keys to the kingdom and needs to work in the structure we're setting up.

 

We can't afford to fuck up too many more of these home games after this and Brighton. You'll get the odd result like this or shitty draw but if we start losing to the non-top-6 teams too often we'll be looking at another lower midtable finish again.

 

Hopefully one to forget about quickly and a reality check we can use to propel us into the next few games, but it was really shit and Eddie should rightly be fuming with some aspects of it, and take some of the flak for it also.

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Same old, same old with Howe.

 

  On 28/09/2024 at 13:47, Beren said:

Good performance, good result. I want to see if this sticks.

 

Think it's a bit easier in some ways to show that kind of intensity against Man City. Want to see it vs a Fulham or an Everton.

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Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City - you'll see performances to be proud of most of the time.

 

There's more Everton, Fulham and West Ham fixtures in the season though. Had hoped the Forest game was a turning-the-corner moment. Alas, two steps forward...

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