Eddie Howe

[Wullie]

9 minutes ago, Stifler said:

Fucking disgusting how we never put in a performance against them or Everton.

Fucking getting sick of it.

Play well against teams we who we do well to punch our weight against, then have these performances man. 4-1 at home to Bournemouth, 3-1 against Fulham, 2-0 against West Ham, 4-2 against Brentford. It’s fucking disgusting and it needs to fucking stop.

 

What an absolute whopper

[Joe1984]

1 minute ago, Cf said:

 

Spot on. 

 

Even if we do make Europe this season it will be forever tainted because we didn't beat Palace and Bournemouth. 

Behave. 🤣

 

 

[The Prophet]

1 minute ago, Stifler said:

Couldn’t give a fuck, look at the games we have failed in man, we’ve let teams like Palace look like the better team against us this season.

I don’t care if we won 20 games in a row, letting Bournemouth come to SJP and not only be better than us, but beat us 4-1 is shambolic and disgraceful.

 

They're a good side, who played very well today. They'd have given most teams a run for their money.

 

On the flip side we were terrible. So many of our better players (Hall, Bruno, Gordon, Isak) had absolute shockers. Hopefully it serves as a kick up the arse.

 

Bournemouth are European contenders by the way, putting them in the same bracket as Palace isn't particularly accurate.

[Yorkie]

There is no reason for this thread to be even open at this point. There should be nowt to discuss. 

[LiquidAK]

3 minutes ago, Stifler said:

I’m not dummy spitting though. Take that result and performance aside from our run and it’s fucking shocking and needs to be called out. All I’m saying is that we have seen it too often against teams who we should be beating.

 

I can handle losing if we try, but that was fucking disgusting and it’s happened too often.

We did try. You don't appear to be handling it well. Curious.

[nemtizz]

The signs were there against Wolves but wasn't expecting us to be that bad.

[Gallowgate Toon]

Thought the strategy second half was poor but it's somewhat immaterial when you've got 8 players insisting on playing relentless hospital balls.

[Zero]

I am fine with Howe today, I just worry that the fatigue problem strikes again. 

[nufc123]

Just now, Yorkie said:

There should be nowt to discuss. 

Well there is. How we get outplayed by Bournemouth every time.

[SiLvOR]

My one criticism which I put in the match thread was that I'd have had Osula on for Gordon much earlier, as the latter was pretty shit all afternoon. But then there's absolutely no guarantee that works either, so not even a criticism really, just a specific personal preference. Can't really say he did much wrong, our lack of options off the bench kills us when we've got Barnes out and a very ineffectual Willock

[wormy]

5 minutes ago, Stifler said:

I’m not dummy spitting though. Take that result and performance aside from our run and it’s fucking shocking and needs to be called out. All I’m saying is that we have seen it too often against teams who we should be beating.

 

I can handle losing if we try, but that was fucking disgusting and it’s happened too often.

 

I'll never argue that it was a shit day and Bournemouth deserved their win. We lacked cohesion, looked lost at times and like strangers, with lots of our players seeming to regress to the worst version of themselves.

 

But it's lazy as fuck to just go straight to a raging 'we didn't even try!!!' just because we got outclassed by an unfancied team. They're a good team, and they were on their top form while we were off ours. I'm not happy about it but these days happen.

[LionOfGosforth]

Thought it might be fun and games in here after that

 

Very poor performance obviously, horrible sickening result. Bournemouth are excellent at what they do. He'll pick the bones out of it i'm sure and we'll get on another run soon, don't see the point in having an aneurysm over it. Must admit, my recent policy of refusing to get too high over a win or too low over a bad loss is being tested today. Bad days at the office happen, especially against well-coached sides when you're off it yourselves. Wish he'd review his substitute policy mind, one of his only blind spots to me. Barnes injury didn't help but not sure what difference he would have made anyway.

[Gallowgate Toon]

Just now, SiLvOR said:

My one criticism which I put in the match thread was that I'd have had Osula on for Gordon much earlier, as the latter was pretty shit all afternoon. But then there's absolutely no guarantee that works either, so not even a criticism really, just a specific personal preference. Can't really say he did much wrong, our lack of options off the bench kills us when we've got Barnes out and a very ineffectual Willock

Same. Gordon is weird in his choices. Up against a CM at RB but 90% of the time keeps cutting in.

[Bondedcrown]

11 minutes ago, Stifler said:

Couldn’t give a fuck, look at the games we have failed in man, we’ve let teams like Palace look like the better team against us this season.

I don’t care if we won 20 games in a row, letting Bournemouth come to SJP and not only be better than us, but beat us 4-1 is shambolic and disgraceful.

Stick to American football you big cry baby!

[Yorkie]

1 minute ago, nufc123 said:

Well there is. How we get outplayed by Bournemouth every time.

 

I mean, we don't, but what's your point? Is his legendary status there sabotaging us or something? They're just a good side. 

[Weezertron]

The squad can only cope with one game a week without our batteries getting depleted.

 

Eddie's stance on keeping the same 11 everygame when possible will always result in an eventual lull, and its completely worth it if we go one decent runs. Just need to get some rest somehow. Re-energise. 

[Shearergol]

Of course we tried, we were just a bit shit today. It happens.

[nufc123]

1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

 

I mean, we don't, but what's your point? Is his legendary status there sabotaging us or something? They're just a good side. 

Got nothing on Howe today. Been superb for over a month. Doesnt mean there is nothing to discuss

[Mike]

Eddie being unable to beat Bournemouth is my favorite "little thing in football" at the moment. That's the pitch where we played PSG off the grass but we can't get fucking near AFC Bournemouth no matter how often we play them.

[Smal]

Iraola does seem to have his number, like. Looked wrong from the get-go for us today. 

[ponsaelius]

2 minutes ago, Weezertron said:

The squad can only cope with one game a week without our batteries getting depleted.

 

Eddie's stance on keeping the same 11 everygame when possible will always result in an eventual lull, and its completely worth it if we go one decent runs. Just need to get some rest somehow. Re-energise. 

 

I don't blame him for not wanting to rotate though tbf. Our squad players are a bit hopeless for various reasons. We desperately need to refresh things with 1 or 2.

[thomas]

[Yorkie]

1 minute ago, nufc123 said:

Got nothing on Howe today. Been superb for over a month. Doesnt mean there is nothing to discuss

 

I suppose that scenario only applies when we win. 

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, Smal said:

Iraola does seem to have his number, like. Looked wrong from the get-go for us today. 

Probably didn't expect them to come to us and be so aggressive. The way they played is massively risky but unfortunately for us it paid off for them. 

[LionOfGosforth]

2 minutes ago, Mike said:

Eddie being unable to beat Bournemouth is my favorite "little thing in football" at the moment. That's the pitch where we played PSG off the grass but we can't get fucking near AFC Bournemouth no matter how often we play them.

 

To be fair, it's been a poor performance and a scrappy draw in most of the recent games. Today was a bit mental.