Eddie Howe

[dcmk]

The crying is back I see.

 

Everyone knew this would be a difficult game.  

[Sibierski]

There's difficult game, and then there's no showing.

[clintdempsey]

Most games in the PL are difficult. That’s kind of the challenge? And what we’ve prepared for? The least challenging game would probably be Southampton at home which we managed to make difficult enough last week. 

[Theregulars]

He’s had one of his worst games for a while today. Needless formation change and weird over-emphasis on defence.

[Ben]

Craig Hope on Talksport this morning seem to suggest Howe might walk if he doesn't get his transfer targets in by friday

[TBG]

We established yesterday Everton won't be relegated off the back of yesterday's result, this result will however define our season.

 

 

[Theregulars]

To be fair to him his last set of changes worked well.

[Dr. TC]

2 minutes ago, Theregulars said:

To be fair to him his last set of changes worked well.

Yes. Surprisingly positive. Surely Barnes and Gordon have to start together next Premier league match. 

[Dokko]

Shit line up. Wasn't working, made subs and even if we get beat from here kat least we fought for it. Wasn't the case either end of HT. 

[ATB]

Saved a point in the end (with some luck). But need to step it up if he wants to keep the job. not good enough.

[mouldy_uk]

Early days, but can’t keep starting games so poorly. He’s lucky the injury curse has lifted (so far), but that’s also his main excuse gone. Hopefully we can find our groove.

 

p.s please ditch Longstaff 

[thomas]

Can't see him lasting past christmas if we're outside the top 6 by then.

[Smal]

we looked better when we stopped the 4-4-2 stuff.

 

Trippier also understands the position and role in the team far more than Livramento at the moment. Makes a big difference.

[KingArthur]

2 minutes ago, thomas said:

Can't see him lasting past christmas if we're outside the top 6 by then.

Of course he will last. We are still behind top6  in terms of quality and money. It requires us to overperform and at least one of them (ManU or Chelsea most likely) to fuck it up.

[Wandy]

Call it kneejerk all you want but my gut feeling is that he won’t be manager this time next season.

[Newcastle Fan]

We look like we've hardly been coached in the last two games, everything that was good about our play seemed to have gone away.

[Andy]

2 minutes ago, Smal said:

we looked better when we stopped the 4-4-2 stuff.

 

Trippier also understands the position and role in the team far more than Livramento at the moment. Makes a big difference.

 

Aye, I said similar in the match thread. Tino is really reluctant to overlap, he stays so deep. Kelly obviously the same on the other side too. 

 

So important in modern football for at least one of your fullbacks to be pushing the opposition back. 

[Kimbo]

I think our style of play is predictable and only really works when we’re 100%. We need to work towards a more possession based game and this should really have been addressed in the transfer market over the last 3 months. It feels like we just try to force things every time we have ball and we just end up losing it quickly.

[Smal]

Just now, Andy said:

 

Aye, I said similar in the match thread. Tino is really reluctant to overlap, he stays so deep. Kelly obviously the same on the other side too. 

 

So important in modern football for at least one of your fullbacks to be pushing the opposition back. 

I really like Tino but he was poor in all of the pre-season games I watched and has offered zero offensively in the first two games. We could really do with hanging on to Tripps this season.

[Vinny Green Balls]

3 minutes ago, Wandy said:

Call it kneejerk all you want but my gut feeling is that he won’t be manager this time next season.

Good thing your gut feeling has been a bit shit.

[cubaricho]

5 minutes ago, Smal said:

we looked better when we stopped the 4-4-2 stuff.

 

Trippier also understands the position and role in the team far more than Livramento at the moment. Makes a big difference.

 

Howe was having Tino cut waaay inside for the first half. When Tripps came on Howe had him stay wide. Changed the game and not entirely Tino's fault.

[Gallowgate Toon]

Appreciate we're managing returns to fitness etc. but he's paid the price of a very poor starting setup.

 

Whatever he's doing with Gordon needs to stop - he's a menace in space, don't plonk him in packed areas. If he's not fit enough to do the yards out left then don't start him.

[Wolfcastle]

Any manager would still have to play the players Howe has to play. That's our biggest problem by far. 

Don't think anybody can move us forward until we see the back of regularly using some of the names we all know

[Dr Jinx]

Well we were shit for very long spells last season. Lots of excuses why which I’ll reluctantly accept.

 

But so far this season we have played extremely poorly in both games, somehow managing to collect 4 points but that luck won’t last forever if we keep playing like that.

 

Are we far enough away from the days of Steve Bruce to just be able to judge a downward slide?

 

Aside from a few at the back, that was mostly a strong side out there today. We look afraid of the ball, unable to play against teams who press, no plan b seemingly. Don’t even know our best 11.

 

Last summer and this summers windows have been poor. I’ll put an asterisk on Tonali because he can be quality but 80m collectively on Tino and Hall doesn’t look like money well spent right now.

 

We’ve also splashed out 15m on someone who’s sat in the bench for 2 games when it’s been screaming out for a bit of pace and hustle.

 

I’m not screaming for his job but for fuck sake Eddie, time to do better.

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Dr Jinx

[dcmk]

We were too direct first half. Looking for killer balls all the time and then having to spend the next 5 minutes in a low block, with no pressure on the ball.

 

Once Joelinton was able to turn and run through their midfield with the ball, we created decent chances.

 

They dropped off massively, maybe their fitness wasn't as good as ours, but felt we dominated second half barring one or two spells from them.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by dcmk