TRC Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 2 minutes ago, The Butcher said: Yes. He can't survive two poor seasons in a row. Even though I don’t rate him, I think we have to let him have this season as there aren’t many replacements about right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave s Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago (edited) I’m confident he will pull it round. If the forward line knew where the goal was like last season we would have been 2 up by half time and a very different game. We know they have it in them, just need to find it again, last season Isak and Gordon would have buried one each Edited 2 hours ago by dave s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 13 minutes ago, black_n_white said: I’ll judge him at the end of the season. As much as I love Eddie people said that last season. I just see regression. Players who once bought into the togetherness of the squad and intangibility of us versus the PL now almost accepting of the fact they’re playing within a setup that’ll never help them reach their ambitions. I know it’s just one game but my instincts are it was a bit of a watershed moment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty66 Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago Poor result but my boy is still capable of smashing a result away at Chelsea, bringing them back up here then smashing them again sending them out of the cup. Before welcoming Arteta to St.James' smashing him as well, and sending him back home to his place of non-time wasting , non-back pushing and ball still in play place outside of his own technical area. Eddie knows we're shit at the moment but he'll sort it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonalis Bookie Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago Not worried about strikers, that will turn around with some more quality and composure., the inability to fix a defence , pick a consistent left back or cut out being so easy to play through for 12 months is the worry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitley mag Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 1 minute ago, TRC said: Even though I don’t rate him, I think we have to let him have this season as there aren’t many replacements about right now. I’d give Howe till after xmas period if where out the league cup and hovering mid table, I’d make discreet enquiries whether Ruben Amorim would take the job, if he would I’d press the button before he goes elsewhere. There was always the risk that you go backwards when you don’t spend in the summer, but ultimately he seemed to have tunnel vision on Guehi and the less said about wanting Elanga the better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago We've got no data on how vulnerable Howe is at the moment - he's the only managerial appointment the current ownership has made. Oddly enough I thought we looked poor at the start of the season and were grinding out results, now we're playing better and dropping points. I wasn't expecting us to pick up points today, which is probably a bit troubling. We're 8th after eight games, which I think is ok - and I do think that serious questions should only get asked after another ten games or so; half a season will be enough to tell if we've stalled in a bad way. The squad seems stagnant though - I'm one of those who wouldn't have been at all troubled by seeing a 'purple' or two leave in the summer, provided the FFP headroom was actually used. I'm not at all convinced that simply clinging onto your best players at the time and not adding to them is a policy likely to result in real success. All players are ultimately sellable. My biggest concerns with Howe at the moment would be whether or not he actually has a plan B (beyond 'intensity is our identity', which made us so vulnerable to the injury problems of last season) and whether or not he's cutthroat enough to become an elite manager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Hamstrung by corrupt PL and their favoured clubs. He’ll have his day soon enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Just now, RS said: Hamstrung by corrupt PL and their favoured clubs. He’ll have his day soon enough. Sort of - but the Tonali / Livramento / Hall / Barnes summer does raise the question of whether or not we'd actually bring in the right players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiemag Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago I think Hall was a good signing. Livramento was necessary, though his performances this year are a concern. He should have kicked on. Barnes shouldn’t have been a RW signing. Tonali ate up too much of the budget. The jury is still out as to whether he justifies such a large fee. There are signs. Could have had Tielemans for free. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) 40 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said: Sort of - but the Tonali / Livramento / Hall / Barnes summer does raise the question of whether or not we'd actually bring in the right players. I see a lot of people saying this (and I agree) but then the same people get defensive about Mitchell’s comments about how we were operating. I have faith in us getting it right moving forward in terms of recruitment, but I have concerns about Howe. Purely for the reasons you mentioned in your first post. Edited 1 hour ago by Danh1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 2 minutes ago, aussiemag said: I think Hall was a good signing. Livramento was necessary, though his performances this year are a concern. He should have kicked on. Barnes shouldn’t have been a RW signing. Tonali ate up too much of the budget. The jury is still out as to whether he justifies such a large fee. There are signs. Could have had Tielemans for free. It’s not even the fee for Barnes. It’s more why we signed him. Was it an opportunist signing rather than a strategic one? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty__mag Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) Naa he's just too afraid to upset Gordon. You could see the benefit when we used to rotate Isak and Wilson a few seasons back, with Gordon and Barnes Howe seems reluctan, forcing us to use weaker players, a right side of Murphy and the current Livramento form is easy to play against, teams will know we only carry a threat on one side of the pitch. Edited 59 minutes ago by mighty__mag Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted 56 minutes ago Share Posted 56 minutes ago I've lost an absolute ton of faith in him, personally. Almost all of it. This next stage of this whole thing under PIF, I don't think he's the man for it. I'm absolutely gutted about that, but I can't shake the feelings that I'm given from what I'm watching. It's stale as fuck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancing Brave Posted 42 minutes ago Share Posted 42 minutes ago The state of the absolute bed wetters on this site tonight ! We are 8 games into the Premier league season FFS ! Get a grip FFS. Embarrassing stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted 39 minutes ago Share Posted 39 minutes ago 14 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said: I've lost an absolute ton of faith in him, personally. Almost all of it. This next stage of this whole thing under PIF, I don't think he's the man for it. I'm absolutely gutted about that, but I can't shake the feelings that I'm given from what I'm watching. It's stale as fuck. Today was very different, IMO. The players didn't step up. Isak should be ashamed of himself for the performance he served up. This relentlessly negative Haydn is the pits, btw. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamesmcc222 Posted 36 minutes ago Share Posted 36 minutes ago I honestly think if you write down the top 10 teams in the league by player ours would be about 7th or 8th. BDB, young fullbacks, Murphy. Hell even Gordon was an unknown 1 year ago. I think Eddie over achieved massively first 18 months and now we are about where we should be unless we have increased investment. Chelsea are suddenly doing incredibly well after literally spending an Austin Powers ransom amount. I believe in Eddie. Don’t let him be a victim of his own success. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted 31 minutes ago Share Posted 31 minutes ago 1 minute ago, NEEJ said: Today was very different, IMO. The players didn't step up. Isak should be ashamed of himself for the performance he served up. This relentlessly negative Haydn is the pits, btw. Perhaps true, yet at the same time we're seeing a continuation of absolutely useless set pieces and hopeless decision making in the final third. No clear patterns of play in possession that enable us to break the opposition down. Its not just one match, either. And I'm sorry about that. But I'm either positive or negative regarding what I see on the pitch with my own eyes in a narrow and broader context and I just can't see a reason to be positive or a reasonable counter argument (for want of a better term) for that to suggest that things are going to improve as they are. I expect us to go to Chelsea and be terrible and get beat because we usually are away against top sides and there's nothing to suggest that we won't be outside of blind faith. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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