Eddie Howe

[Vinny Green Balls]

4 minutes ago, andycap said:

But glasner done it with palace who were massive underdogs and not expected to get champions league on there budget. 

they haven't gotten CL yet.

[NWMag]

1 hour ago, duo said:

Get back to our pressing game / intensity.  

Not saying this to defend Howe, but saw someone ask the question on Twitter and it’s worth discussing - how much of our drop in intensity is down to Bunce?

 

he came in after our last CL campaign when we had the massive injury crisis, is Howe simply being restricted in the intensity levels he can ask the players to go to?

[Lucky]

1 minute ago, TRon said:

 

Why would Emery come here now? The best choice without a doubt, but it's not happening when they are flying high. 

Villa are legitimately challenging for the league this season. Not a chance he would come now, or even in the summer when they are playing Champions League.

[Kid Icarus]

5 minutes ago, Dan said:

"Who would you bring in then if Eddie is sacked?" 

 

How many of you had heard of Iraola, Glasner, Silva, Hürzeler etc?

 

There will be loads of decent candidates across Europe. It's all about having the nous at boardroom level to find them.

Any sane person would look at the last 4 years and have Howe on that same list, ahead of all of them.

[nufc123]

16 minutes ago, Shadow Puppets said:

Match day threads are an absolute embarrassment. 

Match thread is a vent, dont be so dramatic..Christ.

[Andy]

18 minutes ago, duo said:

Eddie's win % at Newcastle - 

50.25%

 

Glasner at Palce-

47%

 

Nuff said.

 

To be fair it's not a fair comparison given the money spent by each. They've both done a fantastic job overall; Glasner winning the FA Cup at Palace and turning them into a strong team isn't to be sniffed at.  

 

If Eddie left, he'd be the ideal replacement for me. Just to clarify, this isn't me asking for Eddie to be sacked. Nobody quote me calling me a snowflake please. 

[Bimpy474]

I suppose this is what side of the fence you now sit on.

 

I'm on the side of, Eddie deserves the right to get us out of the poor form. I don't think we should sack him at the first real crisis, if it even is one.

[Vinny Green Balls]

5 minutes ago, Wandy said:

If he’s going to be replaced then PIF need to show they mean business and throw the kitchen sink at getting Emery. It’s the only appointment that would guarantee progress from the current management team. Anything else would be a gamble.

Way too much of a gamble to try to get him. If he wants to stay at Villa, then god forbid who we'd end up with.

[Geordie Ahmed]

On 12/11/2025 at 03:19, Lucky said:

If things don’t massively improve I can see us only getting another 3-5 points before the end of 2025. We have a tough run of games after the break. Burnley at home is the only one I’m looking at thinking we have a chance there.

 

Maybe Wissa will change the dynamic completely but I just think, where is the service going to come from if the rest of the side doesn’t transform.

 

If we don’t sort it out this could be a likely set of results.

 

City (h) - L

Everton (a) - L

Spurs (h) - D

Burnley (h) - W

Mackems (a) - D

Chelsea (h) - L

Man Utd (a) - L

Burnley (a) - L

 

@Lucky

 

5 points from 8 you predicted 

 

Yet we have taken 10 points from 5, still 3 more games left and you want to boast about being right? Jog on

[Reilly]

Will Howe take us to the next level.

[andycap]

2 minutes ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

they haven't gotten CL yet.

Never said they had 😂 

[Pilko]

Is anyone else not bored of us being mediocre to crap for four months of every season? I'm not sure I can stick another one of these where it takes til late December/January for us to play well in more than a couple of games.

 

It's not even a guarantee we'll do that this year, that todaywas the absolute pits and arguably the shittest of the lot and 2026 is a couple of games away.

[TRon]

1 minute ago, Rod said:

I'm Eddie's biggest fan but today's selection and formation were wrong. sunderland are a poor to average team. Get at them and we would have steam rollered them. Sitting back against mighty sunderland was just wrong. Let's hope he knows this and things improve. I'm so gutted!

 

Yeah that was the gutter for me. I was convinced before the game we would press them and force their players into mistakes with their shite ball control, but we just sat off them for 90 mins. The players looked like they didn't believe in whatever they were doing either. 

[sempuki]

From .com:

 

After the game Eddie Howe said:

"That will sting for a long time. We know our performance was off what we needed to to be. Not defensively, we defended well. It was a game of few chances. Unfortunately, the one big moment goes against us, it was a bizarre moment. But we weren’t good enough to open them up. I am disappointed for the supporters and sorry for our performance, for a lack of goalmouth action and clinical attacking. It certainly wasn’t a lack of effort.

"But the first 60 minutes I don’t think we posed a threat at all. It wasn’t the finest day for any of our front players. The openings were there, with a better decision or pass. The quality was not there in that phase of the game. The changes had a positive impact but we didn’t work their goalkeeper anywhere near enough. We didn’t sustain the pressure enough.

"Losing is a horrible feeling and this is painful."

[Holmesy]

I’ve been on the fence for a while now, not in the Eddie out camp but not blindly loyal because of what’s he’s done to-date like many others. 
The summer highlighted an issue with our ability to attract top talent, which I think an elite manager would help with. Obviously I realise the club stature, area and potentially higher wages elsewhere is a big factor too, but ambitious players also want to play for top tier managers.

 

Couple that with our current tactical issues, awful away form, mental weakness, lack of attacking potency and complete inability to unlock a defence, and I’m starting to think a change might be best. 
I don’t think he will go mind, but there must be questions being asked behind the scenes.

 

 

Edited December 14, 2025 by Holmesy

[mouldy_uk]

[Pilko]

Just now, sempuki said:

From .com:

 

After the game Eddie Howe said:

"That will sting for a long time. We know our performance was off what we needed to to be. Not defensively, we defended well. It was a game of few chances. Unfortunately, the one big moment goes against us, it was a bizarre moment. But we weren’t good enough to open them up. I am disappointed for the supporters and sorry for our performance, for a lack of goalmouth action and clinical attacking. It certainly wasn’t a lack of effort.

"But the first 60 minutes I don’t think we posed a threat at all. It wasn’t the finest day for any of our front players. The openings were there, with a better decision or pass. The quality was not there in that phase of the game. The changes had a positive impact but we didn’t work their goalkeeper anywhere near enough. We didn’t sustain the pressure enough.

"Losing is a horrible feeling and this is painful."

 

If he genuinely thinks that, he's on smack. I can remember one decent Bruno ball to Murphy second half that was half a yard heavy and absolutely nothing else you could stick in the column marked "creativity".

[nufcjb]

We are so boring and meek this season. Apart from that 1st half at Everton, I can't remember any other 45 minutes of our games. Just utterly boring. A sharp drop in performance and contrast to how we have played in the past.

 

I said in the pre-match thread hat Eddie had to unlock another of his tactical masterclass from his locker like he did against Arsenal in those two semis. Has he ran out of ideas with these players this season? Because we have been hugely abysmal all season long, or atleast for the majority of it.

[HaydnNUFC]

His words and the players’ mean absolutely fuck all. Heard the same shite after West Ham, Brentford, today. Actions speak louder.

[Kid Icarus]

6 minutes ago, Menace said:

 

...he's won more trophies than Howe with a far less budget and has had to constantly replace his best players

Gigantic elephant in the room.

[Vinny Green Balls]

This has to be our last season's Brentford away. Do what you did then, Eddie.  Major change to pout a ricket up the ass.

[Erikse]

4 minutes ago, Andy said:

 

To be fair it's not a fair comparison given the money spent by each. They've both done a fantastic job overall; Glasner winning the FA Cup at Palace and turning them into a strong team isn't to be sniffed at.  

 

If Eddie left, he'd be the ideal replacement for me. Just to clarify, this isn't me asking for Eddie to be sacked. Nobody quote me calling me a snowflake please. 

 

Not only that, but they've kept losing their best players.

[Numbers]

"It certainly wasn’t a lack of effort." Certainly looked like it to me.

[Vinny Green Balls]

1 minute ago, Pilko said:

 

If he genuinely thinks that, he's on smack. I can remember one decent Bruno ball to Murphy second half that was half a yard heavy and absolutely nothing else you could stick in the column marked "creativity".

he may have meant the movement around the players, and they weren't seeing the openings.

[TRon]

2 minutes ago, sempuki said:

From .com:

 

After the game Eddie Howe said:

 The openings were there, with a better decision or pass. The quality was not there in that phase of the game. The changes had a positive impact but we didn’t work their goalkeeper anywhere near enough. We didn’t sustain the pressure enough.

"Losing is a horrible feeling and this is painful."

 

 

Story of our season. At some point you come to the conclusion we don't find a better decision or pass, is because we've bought workhorses and not thoroughbreds.