Eddie Howe

[Rod]

3 minutes ago, Lhfm said:

What I don't understand is, when Murphy scored why didn't we take to 

West Ham. A team in their situation is 

the perfect example of stepping on their necks but we just stood around and kept passing it to each.

Totally agree. We stood off and looked like we were "posing" for "posing" sake. Passing around and trying to look individually great. We are a TEAM. Eddie will sort it no doubt. I honestly think there are already at least TWO BAD APPLES that need weeded out........... no I'm not saying.

[sparkzter]

It’s hard to see where we go from here. Our away performances are actually getting worse somehow. Howe definitely has problems, today was as bad as it’s been under him and it didn’t look like he knew how to fix it. 
We’ve been fairly bad for a while, I’m unconvinced we signed the right players in the window to fix things. Elanga being one for example. We will undoubtedly looks better when hall/tino return but at the moment in the league it’s hard to see where the wins come from. Especially away. 

 

 

Edited November 2, 2025 by sparkzter
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[McDog]

36 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

 

 

 

He's a mole. No, not this kind of @Mole.

[Geogaddi]

24 minutes ago, El Prontonise said:

 

So you can't critique the manager?

Of course you can but when the best manager we have had in all of all of our lifetimes has a few bad results he deserves a lot of leaway.

[Yorkie]

10 minutes ago, Lhfm said:

What I don't understand is, when Murphy scored why didn't we take to 

West Ham. A team in their situation is 

the perfect example of stepping on their necks but we just stood around and kept passing it to each.

 

The game pretty much pivoted on the decision to do this, which surely was deliberate and presumably done so to manage the load on the players. We sat back immediately, but because we were so poor on the ball, we dug ourselves into a hole and couldn't get any control whatsoever, and they capitalised. 

 

One of the most joyful things about Howe's Newcastle, at it's best, is that ability to step on necks - like you say. Scoring twice quickly. But it ain't happening when the goal is to passively defend a lead.

 

Just feels like we're saving ourselves for the cup ties at the expense of playing with any intensity at all in the league, and it's really harming us. 

 

Managing the four competition season pretty poorly so far.

[El Prontonise]

1 minute ago, Geogaddi said:

Of course you can but when the best manager we have had in all of all of our lifetimes has a few bad results he deserves a lot of leaway.

 

Of course he does, I've only read of one daft cunt questioning his position?

[Mole]

14 minutes ago, McDog said:

 

 

He's a mole. No, not this kind of @Mole.

I'm the not a moron for attention kind.

 

10/10 can recommend.

[Heron]

12 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

The game pretty much pivoted on the decision to do this, which surely was deliberate and presumably done so to manage the load on the players. We sat back immediately, but because we were so poor on the ball, we dug ourselves into a hole and couldn't get any control whatsoever, and they capitalised. 

 

One of the most joyful things about Howe's Newcastle, at it's best, is that ability to step on necks - like you say. Scoring twice quickly. But it ain't happening when the goal is to passively defend a lead.

 

Just feels like we're saving ourselves for the cup ties at the expense of playing with any intensity at all in the league, and it's really harming us. 

 

Managing the four competition season pretty poorly so far.

I mean you say that but we're still comfortably in all 4 competitions and looking likely to progress and we still have 28 league games to go...

[Jesse Pinkman]

That was Eddie Howe’s worst performance since he came here.

 

We changed formation 4/5 times during the game. Players playing out of position. 4/5 different RBs. 4 CBs playing across the backline.  Poor players playing 90 mins. 
 

That was a complete and utter mess and rivals anything under Bruce. That said, it should be a one off and hopefully he gets his act together.

 

 

Edited November 2, 2025 by Jesse Pinkman

[Vinny Green Balls]

Just now, Jesse Pinkman said:

That was Eddie Howe’s worst performance since he came here.

 

We changed formation 4/5 times during the game. Players playing out of position. 4/5 different RBs. 4 CBs playing across the backline. 
 

That was a complete mess. 

It was. Actually was the sort of things I'd expect one or two posters who are constasntly calling for changes would do. Just seemed like a kneejerk reaction from him because he was pissed off at how the half ended.

[Yorkie]

Just now, Heron said:

14 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Managing the four competition season pretty poorly so far.

I mean you say that but we're still comfortably in all 4 competitions and looking likely to progress and we still have 28 league games to go...

 

That's probably fair.

 

What I'm getting at is that we're doing well in the cups possibly at the expense of our league form. The worst performance I've ever seen from us under Howe came in the league, four days after we delivered a brilliant one in the cup, in which we absolutely bullied a much better team than today's opponents. 

 

We're Cup Team-ariffic atm. It's a nice throwback in a way. To my granddad's era like, but still.

[Mattoon]

2 minutes ago, Heron said:

I mean you say that but we're still comfortably in all 4 competitions and looking likely to progress and we still have 28 league games to go...

 

It's pretty obvious that after the nuclear levels of injuries we suffered in our last Champions League season that Howe has us conserving energy instead of turning up the tempo when we have the lead, our incessant pressing in the previous campaign has devastating effects on the squad. 

[SUPERTOON]

5 minutes ago, Mattoon said:

 

It's pretty obvious that after the nuclear levels of injuries we suffered in our last Champions League season that Howe has us conserving energy instead of turning up the tempo when we have the lead, our incessant pressing in the previous campaign has devastating effects on the squad. 

We haven’t  fully pressed since that season tbh. We didn’t fully commit to it last season either. Makes some of the signings a bit strange imo, if we aren’t going to go full on with the press, we should have targeted a different profile imo.

 

 

Edited November 2, 2025 by SUPERTOON

[tgarve]

25 minutes ago, Rod said:

Totally agree. We stood off and looked like we were "posing" for "posing" sake. Passing around and trying to look individually great. We are a TEAM. Eddie will sort it no doubt. I honestly think there are already at least TWO BAD APPLES that need weeded out........... no I'm not saying.

Who??

[Heron]

20 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

That's probably fair.

 

What I'm getting at is that we're doing well in the cups possibly at the expense of our league form. The worst performance I've ever seen from us under Howe came in the league, four days after we delivered a brilliant one in the cup, in which we absolutely bullied a much better team than today's opponents. 

 

We're Cup Team-ariffic atm. It's a nice throwback in a way. To my granddad's era like, but still.

Oh and you're not wrong in that regard. We're only 6 points away from the top 4 though and there's a long way to go though.

 

FWIW though, I'm personally not expecting us to reach CL again not if we progress in all the cups up until the FA Cup, which is looking likely.

 

I think we're developing strength in depth but given the injuries to our two key full backs it's left us as a bit exposed in terms of attacking (cover) threat from full back which is turns out, seems pretty pivotal for us. Both there and at CF.

 

We really need Tino, Hall and Wissa back and we may become a different animal.

[Heron]

22 minutes ago, tgarve said:

Who??

I can think of two that Rod may be alluding to. One won't come as a surprise to most of you given my stance on him but the other is a bit left field.

[OpenC]

£20 says the lads who wished Isak well on social media

[Kimbo]

56 minutes ago, Lhfm said:

What I don't understand is, when Murphy scored why didn't we take to 

West Ham. A team in their situation is 

the perfect example of stepping on their necks but we just stood around and kept passing it to each.

They pressed us and we couldn’t handle it, every time we got the ball we would lose it quickly, so we ended up not having a choice but to get behind the ball. Same problem we’ve had for the last couple of years.

[OCOCOL]

1 minute ago, OpenC said:

£20 says the lads who wished Isak well on social media

Was that Kraft and Willock ? Im

not really on much SM

[HaydnNUFC]

52 minutes ago, Rod said:

Totally agree. We stood off and looked like we were "posing" for "posing" sake. Passing around and trying to look individually great. We are a TEAM. Eddie will sort it no doubt. I honestly think there are already at least TWO BAD APPLES that need weeded out........... no I'm not saying.

You can’t say this and not spill the beans.  

[Vinny Green Balls]

Doubt anyone thinks Krafth is a bad apple.

[Heron]

Just now, Vinny Green Balls said:

Doubt anyone thinks Krafth is a bad apple.

He's fucking mint he does nowt daft.

[McDog]

The bad apple headed west to Liverpool.

[OCOCOL]

I put those forward as a lad who said he worked at the academy that I was chatting to at Leeds away said those two were the only players being supportive of Isak. 

[80]

3 minutes ago, OCOCOL said:

Was that Kraft and Willock ? Im

not really on much SM

Gordon and Botman.