Eddie Howe

[Ronaldo]

Mourinho is toxic. Not the personality we need here to sustainably develop as a club. Tactically brilliant and ruthless with players, which is 2 things I’d like a bit more of, but no thanks. 

 

 

Edited December 13, 2023 by Ronaldo

[astraguy]

Grim as fuck this thread,wor Eddie all the way !

[TRon]

23 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

Moutinho is toxic. Not the personality we need here to sustainably develop as a club. Tactically brilliant and ruthless with players, which is 2 things I’d like a bit more of, but no thanks. 

 

 

 

 

I loved the guy when he was at Chelsea first time round, at the time he was a breath of fresh air. He was surrounded by dinosaurs in the Premier league at the time, now he's become a bit of one himself.

[BShearer]

He will learn from these CL games. but he needs backing next window, Saudi loans need to arrive, 3-4 of them. big names.

[Newcastle Fan]

Absolute disaster of a second half and shows his lack of experience at this level, but he is the one who took us there to begin with and he's got my full support, hopefully he learns and improves.

[Aiston]

Poor subs.

 

He'll get better with them in time though.

[Myleftboot]

We’ve complained about not being able to make subs but I think the subs fucked us tonight.

[Pilko]

Don't get the Trippier sub, subbing him when he was having a decent game with Saturday off to come and yet he left him on when he was gassed to fuck and making mistakes the last two weeks. Gordon going off just as he was coming to the boil felt odd too.

 

Wonder if they were pre-planned subs rather than reactionary but they felt odd at the time and we unravelled soon after.

 

He'll learn from this I'm sure, first European campaign. The overall feeling is that Dortmund away aside, we've played well and competed in all the games and yet finished bottom due to sides with a bit more savvy and nous and experience in Europe edging us, as well as the travesty of a pen at PSG. Same feeling as I had after the Man U final, no disgrace at all just a team full of big-game experience versus one at the start of its journey (Tripps aside).

 

Could do with a humdrum, boring as shit 1-0 win against Fulham just to get the winning feeling back. Good to have a few more bodies and hopefully we can push on this season.

[brummie]

Just now, Pilko said:

Don't get the Trippier sub, subbing him when he was having a decent game with Saturday off to come and yet he left him on when he was gassed to fuck and making mistakes the last two weeks. Gordon going off just as he was coming to the boil felt odd too.

 

 

Just watching at the end there, it looked like Trippier was limping as he walked across the pitch following the final whistle.

[SiLvOR]

Gutted for him. Will have learnt a lot from his first foray into Europe, though. Can imagine him and Tindall will be desperate to get back into the competition  and work their nuts off to make it happen. 

[Guest reefatoon]

3 minutes ago, Myleftboot said:

We’ve complained about not being able to make subs but I think the subs fucked us tonight.

In what way? Trippier was injured, Gordon was breathing out of his arse and Longstaff for Miley made sense for some extra legs in there. Can’t see what was wrong with them.

[Pilko]

If Trippier was indeed injured then that's fair enough, I'll retract my comment about it being odd. 

[54]

Just now, Pilko said:

If Trippier was indeed injured then that's fair enough, I'll retract my comment about it being odd. 

I assumed he was, as he went down two minutes beforehand, and then took a corner which he limped too. 

[Myleftboot]

1 minute ago, reefatoon said:

In what way? Trippier was injured, Gordon was breathing out of his arse and Longstaff for Miley made sense for some extra legs in there. Can’t see what was wrong with them.

Thought miley had more life in him than Longstaff did. Didn’t realise Trippier was injured but we needed his experience and nous in the pitch. 

[mikejaxer]

Yeah Tripps looked like he was limping to me too

[sempuki]

Hope we play the strongest side possible at Chelsea. 

[KDT]

Trippier was injured and Gordon missed training yesterday. 

[gbandit]

Fantastic approach to this game, would have won if we weren’t shagged mentally and physically 

[Ronaldo]

We did not approach that second half fantastically, in fact we got it completely wrong. It’s OK to be behind 100% behind Eddie and also admit his in-game management can be naive. 

[mighty__mag]

Felt like Eddie was alluding to the fact he couldn't utilise the team in this competition that he imagined, judging from what he said, you'd obviously count Tonali, and Barnes here, then the added injuries we accumulated along the way.

 

These extra competitions completely emphasise why you need lots of depth through the squad, all the major sides that make it far in this competition have this. 

 

It's tough on Eddie, he shouldn't really be judged on this outing, it was technically an experimental phase, he will be judged on it though, but to be handed the most challenging group, be robbed of a result, and manage a totally patched up side, competing in all competitions, he couldn't have done more.

 

 

[Pata]

14 hours ago, Miggys First Goal said:

Fuck off. 
 

From the BBC football gossip page. 

I’ve been watching a lot of Roma for the past two seasons and they are honestly one of the most boring sides I’ve ever seen despite having some class players.

Would absolutely hate it if Mourinho ever came here as a manager, he’s done at the top level.

[54]

Just now, Pata said:

I’ve been watching a lot of Roma for the past two seasons and they are honestly one of the most boring sides I’ve ever seen despite having some class players.

Would absolutely hate it if Mourinho ever came here as a manager, he’s done at the top level.

You don't appoint Dan Ashworth if you're not going to have a playing style and philosophy that weaves between managers, so thankfully it's likely bullshit.

[Big Geordie]

Trust in Eddie. He's brought us this far Was always going to be bumps in the road.

[Myleftboot]

Eddie wants to be the best and he wants the team to be the best so I’m sure he’ll look at that second half,analyse it and come back better and stronger.

[duo]

At the end of the day the post, a world class save and an incompetent ref cost us qualification - not Eddie.