Eddie Howe

[La Parka]

11 hours ago, elbee909 said:

One loss to Sunderland and a bunch of votes yes. What a bunch of wazzocks.

Look at the away form. 

 

Look at the state of the summer business. 

 

Look at the failing mentality late in gabes. 

 

I'm not saying he deserves the sack but have some perspective. It's not knee jerk. The whole season so far has been underwhelming. It's just theres discontent growing. 

[magorific]

23 minutes ago, et tu brute said:

He was a coward on Sunday and today. I've never rowed back on anything you melt 

Your words. 
If any of us have misinterpreted them, it’s down to you being such a foaming mess that you didn’t bother (or aren’t capable of) explaining yourself in a coherent way.

Only one melt here.

[Shearergol]

9 minutes ago, et tu brute said:

Thanks for confirming that the super grass stalker was talking about me. I knew he would be 

[et tu brute]

7 minutes ago, jack j said:

Do you mean that?

 

You strike me as the type of bloke who'd rather see us lose so you could say I told you so

I've been to a lot more games and supporting the team a lot more years than what you have I bet. Difference is the team is all that matters to me as that is what we all support, or should do. Managers, players come and go, NUFC is always there though

[et tu brute]

1 minute ago, magorific said:

Your words. 
If any of us have misinterpreted them, it’s down to you being such a foaming mess that you didn’t bother (or aren’t capable of) explaining yourself in a coherent way.

Only one melt here.

Yes exactly, what a melt go and play with some Lego man

[jack j]

Just now, et tu brute said:

I've been to a lot more games and supporting the team a lot more years than what you have I bet.

 

You reckon?

[Shearergol]

[El Prontonise]

[gbandit]

This is quite the head loss like. I know there wasn’t a lot of head to begin with but still 

[et tu brute]

6 minutes ago, jack j said:

 

You reckon?

Yes I do since I didn't miss a home game in 45 years from 73, when I got my first season ticket with the opening of the East stand and went to about two thirds of the away games in that time also

 

 

Edited December 16, 2025 by et tu brute

[magorific]

3 minutes ago, et tu brute said:

Yes exactly, what a melt go and play with some Lego man

Pitiful, this.

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

Heed tha ball. 

[Zero]

I don’t think whether Howe is a coward matters much, and likely he isn’t.

 

I find it much more concerning that he openly admit that days of “intensity is our indentity” has gone.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I would've though the vitriol would've peaked on Sunday

[Kimbo]

People in football are always getting called cowards for poor performances when 99% of the time it’s just incompetence.

[SUPERTOON]

3 minutes ago, Zero said:

I don’t think whether Howe is a coward matters much, and likely he isn’t.

 

I find it much more concerning that he openly admit that days of “intensity is our indentity” has gone.

Has he said that ?

[The Prophet]

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

Has he said that ?

 

He said that we can't do it every game due to the schedule and need to protect certain players.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Just now, The Prophet said:

He said that we can't do it every game due to the schedule and need to protect certain players.

 

Which we knew was the case since we've changed our approach very clearly. 

[CallumG6]

Late to the party, but that write-up was a class read @Pilko, cheers for putting together!

[The College Dropout]

56 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Bad atmosphere? What? Why would whos larping around the boardroom effect the squad? 

 

Squad is better than average like, average clubs would have your hands off for a Tino, Hall Bruno etc. 

it’s human nature it just does. If you’re company is struggling, leadership struggles it will eventually make its way to people that have never spoken to or met the leadership and impact morale and performance. A big part of our early success was the atmosphere and optimism Staveley created. It’s reflected in the calibre of player we were attracting - Trippier and Bruno in the relegation battle, Isak and then Tonali.  We’ve not signed anyone of that pedigree and calibre since she’s left. 
 

We have the weakest squad of the PL teams in the CL.  The next weakest squad in the PL is one place above us.  
 

I said it last season. This new CL format is gruelling. For a squad like ours it’s -6 to -9 points.  We needed a great summer just to get back to 66 points. We didn’t do it and we’ll fall short.  
 

Villa finished 6th last season with a considerably better squad imo.  You think our squad is as good as the one they ended the season with Kamara, Onana, McGinn, Tielemans, Barkley, Rashford, Malen, Asensio, Rogers, Bailey & Ramsey (lol) for 6 starting positions. 
 

Crystal Palace have good players. Sunderland have good players. Fulham have good players.  Bournemouth have good players.  Man United have good players.  We also have good players but the margins are fine in the PL. A world class striker and no CL can be the difference between 5th and midtable.  If Man U had won the Europa League Amorim would’ve been sacked by now. They would be doing even worse.  

[Zero]

4 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

He said that we can't do it every game due to the schedule and need to protect certain players.

which I would rather he picked the players that can execute the pressing game plan, instead of changing the approach.

 

we aren’t a team with gifted technical ability.

[Coffee_Johnny]

45 minutes ago, magorific said:

You said he's a coward, full stop. You've since rowed back on that. Which is ironic...

Wouldn’t take it too literally just seems to be  @et tu brute’s favourite condemnation (am I right?). Just wondering, is Eddie Howe now Caesar in our nice little post ‘event’ debriefing drama? 🤔 

[samptime29]

29 minutes ago, La Parka said:

Look at the away form. 

 

Look at the state of the summer business. 

 

Look at the failing mentality late in gabes. 

 

I'm not saying he deserves the sack but have some perspective. It's not knee jerk. The whole season so far has been underwhelming. It's just theres discontent growing. 

 

11 wins 5 draws 8 losses. Yeah there are problems - away form is an issue but it's hardly a disaster considering we've had 1 striker basically all season (who is more of a number 10).

 

Howe has so much credit in the bank with me. The lack of support he gets from some our "fans" is embarrassing tbh. We used to be the best club in the country at "supporting" the team. How times have changed.

 

 

Edited December 16, 2025 by samptime29

[Ben]

5 minutes ago, samptime29 said:

 

11 wins 5 draws 8 losses. Yeah there are problems - away form is an issue but it's hardly a disaster considering we've had 1 striker basically all season (who is more of a number 10).

 

Howe has so much credit in the bank with me. The lack of support he gets from some our "fans" is embarrassing tbh. We used to be the best club in the country at "supporting" the team. How times have changed.

 

 

 

 

I still think the vast majority support Howe, personally I think he should get at least until the season ends, maybe my feelings will change if we get knocked out of both cups and have a poor Christmas 

[et tu brute]

9 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

Wouldn’t take it too literally just seems to be  @et tu brute’s favourite condemnation (am I right?). Just wondering, is Eddie Howe now Caesar in our nice little post ‘event’ debriefing drama? 🤔 

If you act like a coward I will call it out and Sunday and today's press conference were cowardly in my opinion. Doesn't mean I don't want him not to lead the team to every victory he can mind. NUFC as a team is the be all and end all for me. As I said before, managers, players and owners come and go