Eddie Howe

[Aiston]

Need a new manager, for the substitutions only.

[Smal]

don’t really think he bears any responsibility for the second half to be honest. There is a lack of leadership on the field and the players were so complacent. Whole half was just passing the ball to Forest and jogging around  

[Ellis H]

A wins a win etc but we actually had a decent bench today so it’s hard to defend that second half.

[David Edgar]

Would be good to have a proper discussion on our failings this season. To what extent it is Howe's game management or the players themselves. Probably just gonna be loads of factors coming together.

[TRon]

1 minute ago, Smal said:

don’t really think he bears any responsibility for the second half to be honest. There is a lack of leadership on the field and the players were so complacent. Whole half was just passing the ball to Forest and jogging around  

 

If it's the players then he needs to learn how to change things quicker and more effectively.

[Aiston]

2 minutes ago, Smal said:

don’t really think he bears any responsibility for the second half to be honest. There is a lack of leadership on the field and the players were so complacent. Whole half was just passing the ball to Forest and jogging around  

 

His job to sort out the players mind.

[SiLvOR]

We need to learn how to actually kill games off instead of inviting wave after wave of pressure. Eddie needs to learn to make more subs as well, if only to break up the opposition's patterns of play.

 

Quite ludicrous how bad that second half was, particularly with how good the first was. I get needing to conserve energy but again, there's a better way to do that. Positive subs to get fresh legs on and keep the momentum going, not dawdling on the ball and inviting increasing pressure. Really can't believe what we just saw tbh, as bad a half of football as we've served up under Howe.

[Ronaldo]

To be fair we’ve had a fair few second halves like that this season - maybe not quite as bad as that. It’s bizarre.

[Newcastle Fan]

That was one of the most unprofessional half of football that I've seen us play, and like mentioned above we've had a few of them this season, they say the second half is the manager's half eh?

 

He needs to study what's happening, it's not a lack of quality players or bench that is the problem.

 

[dave s]

we do have frustrating games or patches where we know we can be far better. but fuck me, 5th and a cup final. howay eddie lad! 

[arnonel]

1 minute ago, Newcastle Fan said:

That was one of the most unprofessional half of football that I've seen us play, and like mentioned above we've had a few of them this season, they say the second half is the manager's half eh?

 

He needs to study what's happening, it's not a lack of quality players or bench that is the problem.

 

Seriously 

 

What could a manager possibly say or do to make a team play like that? 

 

Too many football manager experts thinking you can remotely turn a dial and magic happens

[cubaricho]

7 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

To be fair we’ve had a fair few second halves like that this season - maybe not quite as bad as that. It’s bizarre.

Last season we threw away so many points by having second halves like that. It was so frustrating. We/he should know better than to just sit back and try to defend for 20-45 minutes. 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by cubaricho

[christ]

4 minutes ago, Newcastle Fan said:

That was one of the most unprofessional half of football that I've seen us play, and like mentioned above we've had a few of them this season, they say the second half is the manager's half eh?

 

He needs to study what's happening, it's not a lack of quality players or bench that is the problem.

 

You can’t have watched us much then.

[ExiledGeordie]

47 minutes ago, SiLvOR said:

We need to learn how to actually kill games off instead of inviting wave after wave of pressure. Eddie needs to learn to make more subs as well, if only to break up the opposition's patterns of play.

 

Quite ludicrous how bad that second half was, particularly with how good the first was. I get needing to conserve energy but again, there's a better way to do that. Positive subs to get fresh legs on and keep the momentum going, not dawdling on the ball and inviting increasing pressure. Really can't believe what we just saw tbh, as bad a half of football as we've served up under Howe.

Yeah that second half was mental 

[Ronson333]

 

[Sima]

If hypothetically we were 3-0 up at Wembley with 20 minutes to go, I wouldn’t be confident of us seeing it out.

 

Game management is a concern.

[Nine]

We have a mentality issue, and it’s nothing new. 

[1964]

14 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

To be fair we’ve had a fair few second halves like that this season - maybe not quite as bad as that. It’s bizarre.

We'll have 2 second half's on Wednesday

[SUPERTOON]

Just now, 1964 said:

We'll have 2 second half's on Wednesday

[Rod]

58 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

If it's the players then he needs to learn how to change things quicker and more effectively.

But you can't substitute Bruno.  It's against most people's opinion on here.  Untouchable.  😉

[MagMal]

We often have a dodgy win before he goes on one of his patented Eddie Howes winning runs, fingers crossed this kicks off another up turn in form.

[Yorkie]

We've taken the lead in 24 matches this season, in all competitions. We've only failed to win three of those fixtures (Palace, Liverpool, Fulham).

 

I don't think there's a fundamental issue with us holding a lead. Today, and in others, we achieved it by virtue of being so far in front to begin with. Other times it's through steely defensive performances. 

 

Feels very bog standard to lament a missing player - particularly one who hasn't been great this season - but we missed Big Joe today. His short passing has been off this season but I think he holds it up and takes the pressure off well enough for us to ultimately be in credit when he's in the side. We drop the points without him at Spurs, for instance, imo.

[The College Dropout]

1 hour ago, Smal said:

don’t really think he bears any responsibility for the second half to be honest. There is a lack of leadership on the field and the players were so complacent. Whole half was just passing the ball to Forest and jogging around  

He’s the manager. It’s his job to motivate the team. He’s the o my one to problem. Especially as it happens repeatedly. 
 

[The College Dropout]

The issue isn’t defending a lead. We are usually good at that. Too many bad often we are off the pace.  

[Myleftboot]

He would have wanted to put in a good overall performance in front of the chief today.