Eddie Howe

[Ronaldo]

We’re not good at killing games. That’s for certain but a lot of it comes back to a real lack of composure and control in midfield. If this was American Football you’d take Joelinton off the second you get a lead. 

 

 

Edited December 2, 2025 by Ronaldo

[Yorkie]

Couple new votes for Yes  

Surprised tonight would be the straw that broke the camel's back, like.

[The Butcher]

Be absolutely mental to even talk about sacking him.

 

But things will have to improve sooner rather than later plz.

[Whitley mag]

Feels like he spent a lot of money and we’ve got more questions than answers.

 

Return of Wissa is huge but defensive frailties and weak mentality in winning positions needs sorting.

[Vinny Green Balls]

1 minute ago, Nobody said:

So much this btw. We win tonight if a fit Wissa comes on even for the stoppage time IMO. Maybe even an Osula could have been enough tbh. 

We've been lucky that Woltemade has acquitted himself so well, but I wonder where we'd be at if Wissa didn't get injured. Certainly someone who plays to our traditional strengths, and may have been some difference in blowing leads.

[Vinny Green Balls]

2 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Couple new votes for Yes  

Surprised tonight would be the straw that broke the camel's back, like.

that straw is every time we don't win

[Andy84]

2 minutes ago, The Butcher said:

Be absolutely mental to even talk about sacking him.

 

But things will have to improve sooner rather than later plz.

Have they not from Brentford and West Ham? 7 points from 9 in the league 

 

 

Edited December 2, 2025 by Andy84

[The Prophet]

Always felt this season would require patience. There's definitely some issues to address, but we still look like a side in transition trying to find it's feet. The last four have been encouraging, even though we haven't always come away with three points.

[The Butcher]

1 minute ago, Andy84 said:

Have they not from Brentford and West Ham? 7 points from 9 in the league 

 

 

 

Aye, but then you add Marseille into the mix. Stop start stop start. Can't get any momentum going at all.

[Lucky]

Not the worst performance of the season by a long shot, but could see Spurs made tactical changes as the game went on that nullified us for long spells and we didn’t react as well as we should have been.

 

Maybe tiredness setting in a bit, but no getting away from the fact that both of ther goals could/should have been defended better.

 

Ramsdale should have saved that. Can’t really put that on the manager.

[Yorkie]

1 minute ago, The Butcher said:

Aye, but then you add Marseille into the mix. Stop start stop start. Can't get any momentum going at all.

 

Wouldn't necessarily describe this as 'stop'. It's not the worst point, just frustrating in how it's come about.

[Vinny Green Balls]

I do have a sneaking suspicion that this is a game we would have somehow lost a month ago. And we may well have if it wasn't for a dubious penalty.

 

 

Edited December 2, 2025 by Vinny Green Balls

[Lush Vlad]

Bit of a worry that we’ve gone from usually converting leads into wins under Howe. To losing 11 points from

winning positions in the league already this season. 
 

4-6 points more and we’d be top 4 or 5. Needs sorting out. Not sure how we have become fragile. It’s like we mentally switch off. 
 

How many late goals have we conceded in stoppage time now? Liverpool, Arsenal, West Ham, Brentford and Spurs? Late’ish at Brighton and all. 

[Vinny Green Balls]

1 minute ago, Lush Vlad said:

Bit of a worry that we’ve gone from usually converting leads into wins under Howe. To losing 11 points from

winning positions in the league already this season. 
 

4-6 points more and we’d be top 4 or 5. Needs sorting out. Not sure how we have become fragile. It’s like we mentally switch off. 
 

How many late goals have we conceded in stoppage time now? Liverpool, Arsenal, West Ham, Brentford and Spurs? Late’ish at Brighton and all. 

And I was certainly expecting us to concede late against City. Minor miracle that we held on given our form in stoppage time.

[J7]

It was bad game management again and it needs to stop. Spurs were terrible tonight, but are always dangerous and have players that can hurt you. It’s ridiculous to sit back again especially when we keep getting punished doing it. 

[Lucky]

24 minutes ago, Pilko said:

 

In isolation, I agree. But the pattern of conceding late goals which has now meant we've dropped the most points in the league at the death surely has to rest collectively with manager and players. It's a pattern he needs to reverse quickly.

The 11 points we’ve dropped from winning positions would have us on the same points as Arsenal. Needs to sort out that mentality quickly.

[Infinitely Content]

I haven't really got any issues with Howe after that, we displayed most of the positive traits we associate with his teams when functioning, and I think he if had the option to bring on Wissa with half an hour to go, we win that game by a couple of goals.

[J7]

1 minute ago, Lucky said:

The 11 points we’ve dropped from winning positions would have us on the same points as Arsenal. Needs to sort out that mentality quickly.

We’ve been ahead in every game since Brighton, 10 matches. 

[Vinny Green Balls]

1 minute ago, J7 said:

We’ve been ahead in every game since Brighton, 10 matches. 

and we've gone 6-1-3.

[Lotus]

Could easily see our performance dropped around the hour mark. Should’ve made changes then. No issue with the wide players but JL7 should’ve come off too.

No blame in starting Miley, got to sooner of later. Not Eddie’s fault Miley was a bit of a non event as it turned out.

Spurs were braver than us at the end. Thought at the time going 5 at the back would give them too much opportunity. Oh well. Poo.

[duo]

Eddie wasn't to blame tonight - got Subs spot on in 2nd half which gave us momentum to get the goal. Was slack defending/poor keeping which cost us.

[Magpie Mover]

Might as well post it in here as it’s Eddie”s problem to solve. 
 

Just as against Liverpool in August and Arsenal in September, Newcastle conceded a stoppage-time sucker punch against a member of the established order at home.

No other side have thrown away more points - 11 - from winning positions in the Premier League this season than Eddie Howe's team.

Football is never so simple, of course, but Newcastle would be a lot higher than 13th place in the table had they managed to get over the line after taking the lead against Spurs - let alone against Brentford, West Ham and Arsenal.

Remarkably, Newcastle would be top if they had they seen out those four games - instead they sit 11 points behind leaders Arsenal, who they gave up three points to.

 

So we are officially champions of the bottle jobs, at least we might win something this season.

[RS]

Still competing in Europe and cup competition despite losing a world class centre forward, and the PL trying their best to limit our chances of success by implementing rules specifically against us to reduce our capability to financially compete with the big six. He’s some manager like. 

[Sibierski]

8 hours ago, Kid Icarus said:

He really needs to sort out this mentality issue when we score, it's fucking insane like. It really looked like we'd planted the seeds for it against Everton, so to go and then do that at home to a side that offered nothing other than their 2 shots is just mental.

I mean, even in the Everton game we sat off away after scoring early on, then had a spell where thankfully Pickford palmed in Miley back pass and we then ramped it up for the kill. 
 

We struggle to take momentum from scoring 1st to 2nd this season. Just always dialling it back, like we want to be a counter attacking side. It’s as if we’re caught between two minds of how we want to play. 

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

We really struggle to manage games, our "Dark arts" have virtually disappeared, we are winging it & opposition teams kind of know this, we have developed a soft underbelly, clearly a bit of a freak end to game however we do panic in these situations more times than we used to do.