Eddie Howe

[Magic Rat]

9 minutes ago, Theregulars said:

For what it’s worth I don’t think the team believes it can win without Isak. 

I think there is a lot of truth in that.  Needs a goalscorer to give them confidence that we will score.  A lot rides on Wissa.

Quite how Howe will play both Woltemade and Wissa I don't know.  He always seemed reluctant to play Rat and Wilson together, although it seemed to work.  He has Gordon, Murphy, Barnes, Elanga and will only have room to start one of them.

[Danh1]

3 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Agreed but he shouldn’t have been allowed totally freedom. 
 

I’m confident a decent transfer committee doesn’t sanction the Elanga transfer 

Does feel like the club gavs him total power after last season, fair enough as he won us a cup and got us into Europe, particularly after a shocking summer above him. 
 

It does mean though that should things continue this way and they want to make a change, that the club is moulded all around Howe and his style. 

[Menace]

3 minutes ago, nemtizz said:

Today was different from the West Ham game. Players gave everything apparently 

 

There's no way he said that  

[et tu brute]

2 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

We aren’t going to catch Chelsea by adopting their approach to managers. 

When we sack multiple managers, then come back again with that comment. You know what I think of your opinions anyway.

[Vinny Green Balls]

2 minutes ago, et tu brute said:

Doesn't matter what you think, I think or anybody thinks, apart from the owners. I disagree that they will accept this over a season. Howe has a massive month and a half coming up. If there has been no improvement in that time, I'll be surprised if they didn't act. Time will tell.

It works two ways. It doesn't matter what you think either. the owners have so far shown some patience and it's paid off. If we has Todd Boehly, we'd be on our sixth manager now.

[aussiemag]

The signings of Elanga, Wissa, Ramsey look to have wasted 140 mill pounds. Other teams don’t waste money on below average talents. 

[nemtizz]

Just now, Menace said:

 

There's no way he said that  

 

Click the video I posted on the last page and scroll back.

[El Prontonise]

The away form issue has been there all calendar year not just this season.

[Menace]

Just now, aussiemag said:

The signings of Elanga, Wissa, Ramsey look to have wasted 140 mill pounds. Other teams don’t waste money on below average talents. 

 

Really?

[nufc123]

We are a long way from Howe out, but he deserves every question he gets, and I hope the media press him with the Burn situation because I have no idea what he was thinking.

[Infinitely Content]

6 minutes ago, Ben said:

Why can't he motivate the team away from home ? The whole side just loses energy when we jump on a bus and leave St James.

Purely psychological imo, and the pressure increases the longer it goes on - and the home form starts to suffer as the crowd attend already frustrated and demanding of an early reaction and thus lose patience. The players are in a difficult place and will have to find answers from within the group. Howe and his team have to work on relieving the pressure and build up of negative energy if anything, as opposed to adding to it.

I remain behind the manager 100% like, he'll turn this around.

[Vinny Green Balls]

Just now, Menace said:

 

Really?

yeah Man United didn't spend a king's ransom on players who failed there.

[pubteam]

"We are missing a few things. We will look at it in depth and try and find a passage. We can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.” You don’t say.
 

 

[The College Dropout]

Just now, Danh1 said:

Does feel like the club gavs him total power after last season, fair enough as he won us a cup and got us into Europe, particularly after a shocking summer above him. 
 

It does mean though that should things continue this way and they want to make a change, that the club is moulded all around Howe and his style. 

It’s never a bright idea giving a manager total control of transfers. And it was apparent early doors that it was a shitshow.  
 

 

[Menace]

Some of the shite I'm reading.  

 

Chelsea spent £100M on a player who missed a drugs test for fuck sake.

[et tu brute]

1 minute ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

It works two ways. It doesn't matter what you think either. the owners have so far shown some patience and it's paid off. If we has Todd Boehly, we'd be on our sixth manager now.

What has Chelsea got to do with us and how we are run. Come back when you have a sensible comment to make.

[Pilko]

Just now, pubteam said:

"We are missing a few things. We will look at it in depth and try and find a passage. We can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.” You don’t say.
 

 

 

No way has he said that

[Magpie Mover]

I'm sure there will be some reactionary posts in here including those suggesting that Eddie should be sacked, this is not one of them.

 

I have always thought that we were a poorly coached team under Eddie in that we pass poorly, aren't comfortable in possession, have no discernable patterns of play, cant break down the low block etc. We aren't Manchester City. We have been for periods a very physical athletic team who have been able to over power opponents when everyone was at the top of their game and physically fit and we had Isak to make the difference. 

 

We have recruited physical athletic players with limited technical ability, Elanga, Gordon, Ramsey among many others.

 

Either the players can't play this way anymore or dont want to. It doesn't leave Eddie with lots of options because the players we have bought haven't shown they have the ability to play a different way and so far haven't been asked to.

 

We do have technically good players, Ramsdale, Hall, Thiaw, Schaar, Tonali, Bruno, Barnes and Wolt, but we dont ask them to keep the ball and often don't play to their strengths. 

 

Not sure what the conclusion is or the answer, but we currently look bad enough to get relegated so something has to change.

[HaydnNUFC]

4 minutes ago, El Prontonise said:

The away form issue has been there all calendar year not just this season.

You can include the whole of 2024 in that as well tbh. Aside from Forest last season, we are incapable of beating half decent sides away from home in the league. 4 league wins all calendar year and 2 of those were against sides who now play in the Championship.

 

 

Edited November 9, 2025 by HaydnNUFC

[Danh1]

Just now, Pilko said:

 

No way has he said that

Bruce level quote if so. 

[SUPERTOON]

The awful away form is rightly being criticised as it’s been bad for a while. However, we haven’t performed well at home for quite some time as well in the league, despite picking up some wins.

[Kid Icarus]

Just now, geordie_b said:

Last year we were hopeless and tactically clueless until we started that run of wins. Not sure when the run started though?

I vividly remember us playing badly at the start despite winning, then having a bad run of results where we played well but couldn't finish chances, then Brentford away was a sort of watershed moment, Howe put a fire up their arses and we started winning. Very hard to see where the run starts from this season, if at all.

[geordie_b]

12 minutes ago, geordie_b said:

Last year we were hopeless and tactically clueless until we started that run of wins. Not sure when the run started though?

Just checked we have 3 points less than this date last year. It was only when we dropped Tonali deeper that things improved. We were dreadful and turned things around on the training pitch. We don’t have the luxury of training pitch time atm which is compounded by the whole team learning a new playing style. 

 

 

Edited November 9, 2025 by geordie_b

[Menace]

Pepe £80M

Ndombele £63M

Matheus Nunes £53M

Antony £80M

Mudryk £100M

 

That's just off the top of my head.

[J7]

10 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

He’s got plenty of good will left however, some of the players aren’t putting the effort in for away league games and he has to make the seemingly obvious substitutions. 
 

He needs to get a bit ruthless and nasty. As much as anything the midfield isn't functioning away from home.

This is nonsense. It’s nothing to do with effort; it’s tactical decisions, player selection and in game management. The credit in the bank is starting to run low.