Miggys First Goal Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Saw bits of his presser. Honestly man, could listen to him talk all day. Absolutely love the bloke. I’m Team Eddie all the way. Are we in a bit of a lull? Yes. Does Eddie know that? Of course. Can he get us out of it? Fuck. Yes. I think we sometimes forget where we were five years ago. Who we had. What we were going through. We have come so far in that time - Champions League, cup finals, cup WINNERS. Thanks to Wor Eddie. He deserves time to course correct. We should give him that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 6 hours ago, andycap said: Yeah just keep him as our manager through defeat after defeat until the end of the season. He hasn't got a scooby how to fix it, players aren't playing for him they seem to have no faith in his ways anymore. I can see a mass exodus in the summer. But what do us lot know as where all thick. 😂 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennyUtd Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 We lucked out getting Eddie when we chased others. He's been nothing short of magnificent for us. Yeah we are poor at the minute but I firmly believe there isn't another coach, who isn't already at a top club, who'd do better with our squad. The season might peter out but he'll be working on summer targets and we'll start again. It's an emotional game and it's understandable that people are frustrated and even angry straight after a poor result but when we calm down we know he's the man to take us forward. As an aside, the man looks desperate for some time off though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Potential to be our best ever manager Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennyUtd Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 4 minutes ago, RS said: Potential to be our best ever manager Absolutely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Bloke has no social life. His own family comes second to the club. He sleeps in his NUFC gear. He’s basically a likeable Adam P. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandrotastico Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) Got to say, watching that you sometimes forget he's human. As ever he's so professional and a credit to the club. He looked almost in tears towards the end of that presser today. Like Keegan you can tell he's fell in love with the club and what it means - While I'm sure that's no reason to keep someone, it would be hard to find someone who is as invested, emotionally and mentally. Really hope he can find a way to get through this season and we get our shit together in the summer in terms of freshening things up and padding out the squad with better depth. I also hope he can evolve his own style to be. a little more varied and find the headspace to feel refreshed himself. He looks shattered. Edited February 9 by Sandrotastico Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fak Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 16 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said: Bloke has no social life. His own family comes second to the club. He sleeps in his NUFC gear. He’s basically a likeable Adam P. @Adam P you gonna stand for that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Eddie takes us to glory in the FA Cup next season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holloway Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Mad dog or Jonesy need to show the players that presser like, they need to fucking step it up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewboy74 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 With all the cheating, corruption, and all-around negativity in the game today, I'm so grateful we've got someone like Eddie. Pure class. Stability and patience is the key. He hasn't fluked the last 4 and a half years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said: Eddie takes us to glory in the FA Cup next season. This seasons FA Cup glory is still on like Edited February 9 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 It's going to be something watching him lift ol' big ears. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) 9 hours ago, andycap said: Yeah just keep him as our manager through defeat after defeat until the end of the season. He hasn't got a scooby how to fix it, players aren't playing for him they seem to have no faith in his ways anymore. I can see a mass exodus in the summer. But what do us lot know as where all thick. 😂 Assuming by 'us lot' you mean yourself... One thing I know as a fact, is that we've had a poor run before under Howe and he's managed us out of it, and I don't just mean once. At the start of February we were still clinging to 4 competitions, anyone who thinks this is a nightmare scenario/he's lost the dressing room/everyone wants to leave is quite frankly an entitled knacker who's lost grip of where we are as a club, a club which is making the small steps we're allowed to make whilst battling against sham rules. Edited February 9 by Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Watching something called The Breakdown that was on TNT. Owen Hargreaves interviewing Wor Eddie. God-fuckin-damn, man. We are SO lucky. We had fucking Cabbage Heed. We’ve gone from one extreme to the other. We went from Netto to Ocado. A fucking Reliant Robin to a Maserati. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 14 minutes ago, The Prophet said: It's going to be something watching him lift ol' big ears. Agreed. Should buy him another month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
black_n_white Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 As bad as things have been it’s nothing compared to most of the Pardew and Bruce era. And that also includes the majority of the times prior to those two. They were desperate times under an ownership with no desire to compete year after year. I’m fully behind Howe and his team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 I think the majority have faith in Eddie and want him to stay. Not sure it'll still be the case if the bad run continues over the next few weeks and we don't beat the mackems as well though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 4 hours ago, Kanj said: Eddie guided our club to that trophy and never once taked about himself, it was never "me" it was the team, the coaches, the support staff, the medical team, the FANS. That is our manager, who has gotten more right than wrong in 4 years working 12+ hour days, 7 days a week to bring out the best in our squad and the club. When the hierarchy failed him, he didn't walk away and he dug in and tried to do it himself. Mistakes happen, but he does it with dignity and respect. He's never dug out the fans despite boos and unrest in various places. I'd take a mid table finish and whatever this season ended out with with that prime example of a man leading our club. Absolutely all of this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 32 minutes ago, The Prophet said: It's going to be something watching him lift ol' big ears. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewboy74 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 2 minutes ago, Decky said: I think the majority have faith in Eddie and want him to stay. Not sure it'll still be the case if the bad run continues over the next few weeks and we don't beat the mackems as well though. We need to stick with him even if the worst happens and we lose against them. Imagine the craic if he gets sacked after that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Just now, Drewboy74 said: We need to stick with him even if the worst happens and we lose against them. Imagine the craic if he gets sacked after that? There would be idiots on here using it as a justification to be fair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 3 minutes ago, Drewboy74 said: We need to stick with him even if the worst happens and we lose against them. Imagine the craic if he gets sacked after that? He deserves a chance to turn it around in the summer for me but you know what the court of public opinion is like, especially with the mackems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffs Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 4 hours ago, Geogaddi said: Out of interest, what would you define as the next level? With PSR as it is the best we can realistically hope to achieve is top 4/5 and maybe a cup run on top of that which is what Eddie has achieved so far. The next level from that would be challenging for the title and the footballers that win you league titles wont play for us as we aren't allowed to pay them the wages they command. That's very well put. The last sentence sums up exactly our predicament. The whole orthodoxy that a team has a bad run, or a bad season, and the manager gets fired, has always seemed kinda nuts to me. In any of our jobs any of us can have better and worse periods, and (most of the time) not get sacked for the bad stuff. Instead we get feedback, learn and improve. If Howe stays then over a long enough time period he'll obviously do better. Right now he and the team are exhausted and it isn't working. It might not improve for a while given the games we've got lined up. But, eventually, it will. He'll figure it out, some of the players who are out of form will improve, it'll be OK. I might feel differently if relegation was a realistic possibility, but it isn't. Sometimes another team has a manager who's an obvious dud. From our perspective we want the other team to keep them for as long as possible. I would always be happy for another prem team to have Ange, for example, or Ten Hag. But Howe's clearly - clearly - not a dud. He has limitations (who doesn't) but is, at least, always trying to address them. He'll be as aware as anyone that he hasn't cracked the two games a week thing yet. All of the supposedly "elite" managers have become that by managing clubs with way more resources than we're currently permitted to deploy. If they came to manage us they'd struggle to keep their elite rep - because as above we aren't allowed to pay the very best players the wages they command. (Which is an outrage, and I hope will change) Why did Emery turn us down? Surely because he was able to see that PSR restricted both clubs but on reflection the stranglehold was looser at Villa because they had a much more valuable existing squad. And he's been proved right. I feel like we'll limp to the end of this season, get knocked out of the FA Cup at Villa, finish mid-table, probably not win the CL (although I have ££ backing us to). And then take stock, do way better next season with no Europe. And then 2027/28 we have a season in which Eddie tries to get the 2 games a week balance right, or righter. That all feels absolutely fine tbh. Yes the football has been a tough watch this season, but we're all big boys, aren't we? To all the Howe Out Now crew (if you're even real), I'm not even saying "who have you got in mind who's better?" (although ..), I'm saying rather "why are you freaking out so hard about this? you don't have to be like every other micropenis yapper out there. you're not aura farming (i hope). just accept that things are sometimes disappointing and that the optimal response to that isn't always to smash the place up. Unless you think that Howe is, or has become, an Ange or a Ten Hag. But the truth is that if Eddie left, fans of other clubs/our hated rivals would be really pleased. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewboy74 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 4 minutes ago, Decky said: He deserves a chance to turn it around in the summer for me but you know what the court of public opinion is like, especially with the mackems. Yeah I know, but for me, long-term stability is more important than a game against them lot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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