Eddie Howe

[Anderson]

Just now, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Maybe, but even if we knew that it's not sackable.

 

It's not far off for me at the minute.

[et tu brute]

23 minutes ago, Minhosa said:

 

But…………..that was wholly unacceptable today and his words post match weren’t much better. 

The fact that his captain came out with exactly what the manager should have been saying was not a good look. Actually trying to say there was positive things within that performance was a joke. Doesn't help either when you have a set of journalists who will not ask the hard questions.

 

 

Edited December 14, 2025 by et tu brute

[Heron]

1 minute ago, sparkzter said:

I’m not a Howe out - yet. But I do think our owners will be looking for progression. None of that this season and there may well be a change is what I mean. 

You may not be wrong that owners might be looking for it. But a( that doesn't mean we have to and b) who replaces him?

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I don't think one poor season would ever be enough to get rid of him, unless you've got Pep interested or something. 

[sparkzter]

2 minutes ago, Heron said:

You may not be wrong that owners might be looking for it. But a( that doesn't mean we have to and b) who replaces him?

and that’s what may well keep him in a job - who does replace him!? 

[Mikky]

1 minute ago, Heron said:

One in how many sorry?

I do think with EH - had we a CEO and DoF say in April etc things would have looked so much different - the mental strain that the summer has put on EH can’t be underestimated imo - months of work on transfers and I am guessing the ones he wanted didn’t arrive - we scrambled around here there and everywhere - it was a complete and utter mess - that’s not on EH and he didn’t deserve that - that’s on the club - the summer clearly hurt EH and it’s showing 

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

We have to give him a full summer, hopefully one without all the chaos of the last one. 

 

That said, if we have a really disastrous season it will be followed by a very difficult summer if some of our better players start wanting out. But I don't expect that to happen. 

 

 

Edited December 14, 2025 by AyeDubbleYoo

[Heron]

3 minutes ago, sparkzter said:

and that’s what may well keep him in a job - who does replace him!? 

There aren't many (if any) better options.

 

People are smoking crack if they think they just pluck a "better than Eddie Howe" out of thin air.

 

Eddie Howe man. The fucking king. Long love the fucking king.

 

 

Edited December 14, 2025 by Heron

[TheBrownBottle]

31 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

We have to give him a full summer, hopefully one without all the chaos of the last one. 

 

That said, if we have a really disastrous season it will be followed by a very difficult summer if some of our better players start wanting out. But I don't expect that to happen. 

 

 

 

He’s had several.  And we won’t have the money next summer that we had this summer.  If this continues he shouldn’t be given funds to do it all again next summer. 

[Jonas]

Wont make any difference long term to replace him though everything is just stale this season and there's an arguement for freshening up. We'll still have the same spending restrictions and furthermore Howe has proven he can win cups and edge us into the CL - which is all we can realistically aim for, that's where were at.

So why replace someone that can provenly achieve what you want a manager to achieve. All we could ask of anybody else is to do exactly the same. Any less and we'll be having polls about them too.

[Heron]

7 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

He’s had several.  And we won’t have the money next summer that we had this summer.  If this continues he shouldn’t be given funds to do it all again next summer. 

Sorry...several...disastrous summers?

[r0cafella]

Im not advocating for Eddie out here just a bit confused. Why do people think changing the manager would make no difference? If that's the case why didn't we keep Bruce? I know he wanted to be off watching the cricket but might as well have no bothered. 

 

Changing the manager will change something. (To repeat I'm not saying we should, as we shouldn't at this moment in time). 

[Heron]

1 minute ago, r0cafella said:

Im not advocating for Eddie out here just a bit confused. Why do people think changing the manager would make no difference? If that's the case why didn't we keep Bruce? I know he wanted to be off watching the cricket but might as well have no bothered. 

 

Changing the manager will change something. (To repeat I'm not saying we should, as we shouldn't at this moment in time). 

There's change and positive change tbf mate. Are there tangible options out there that evolve our current status? Not much (if any). Bruce was a fat fucking waster and a lazy cunt to boot.

 

 

Edited December 15, 2025 by Heron

[r0cafella]

Just now, Heron said:

There's change and positive change tbf mate. Are there tangible options out there that evolve our current status? Not much (if any). Bruce was a fat fucking waster and a lazy cunt to boot.

 

 

 

Of course, plenty of managers out there who can come in and enact positive change. You watch us and you know what you've witnessed this season has been poor. 

 

Eddie is currently eating his credit but no matter what transpires in the future I'll always be grateful for him and he will go down as a club legend. 

[astraguy]

our biggest worry and has been all season, our wingers offer jack shit.. wtf has happened to Elanga gordon etc?

[Vinny Green Balls]

4 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Im not advocating for Eddie out here just a bit confused. Why do people think changing the manager would make no difference? If that's the case why didn't we keep Bruce? I know he wanted to be off watching the cricket but might as well have no bothered. 

 

Changing the manager will change something. (To repeat I'm not saying we should, as we shouldn't at this moment in time). 

There’s obviously a massive chasm between firing Bruce and firing Eddie. You wood have served your argument better by not picking that clown.

[Gawalls]

53 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

 

Maybe, but even if we knew that it's not sackable. Elanga could well have been expected to perform much better than he has so far. So would Ramsey. And I'm sure the idea was to rely much more on the proven Wissa and less on Woltemade. 

Yet everyone I work with in Nottingham told me as soon as we were linked with him that he was overrated and would do nothing for us. Literally every single Notts forrest fan I work with, none we're gutted to lose him 

 

 

Edited December 15, 2025 by Gawalls

[Heron]

4 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Of course, plenty of managers out there who can come in and enact positive change. You watch us and you know what you've witnessed this season has been poor. 

 

Eddie is currently eating his credit but no matter what transpires in the future I'll always be grateful for him and he will go down as a club legend. 

I'm sorry mate but I don't agree. I think you're in a very small pool of managers who could evolve us and even less so those whom are available.

 

We haven't clicked at times, probably more often than not, but I have absolute faith in Howe like.

 

 

Edited December 15, 2025 by Heron

[Heron]

2 minutes ago, astraguy said:

our biggest worry and has been all season, our wingers offer jack shit.. wtf has happened to Elanga gordon etc?

This is where I am at

[r0cafella]

Just now, Vinny Green Balls said:

There’s obviously a massive chasm between firing Bruce and firing Eddie. You wood have served your argument better by not picking that clown.

I'm not making an argument my friend, I'm stating facts. 

 

Heron is a canny lad one of my favourite posters despite often having a differing view, we had a canny back and forth awhile back and I shall not argue with such a canny lad. We post our views respect each others takes that's it

[Heron]

All opinions.

 

 

Just all mine are right.

[Vinny Green Balls]

Just now, r0cafella said:

I'm not making an argument my friend, I'm stating facts. 

 

Heron is a canny lad one of my favourite posters despite often having a differing view, we had a canny back and forth awhile back and I shall not argue with such a canny lad. We post our views respect each others takes that's it

Nah man you didn’t say anything crazy, but Bruce has been a fucking abysmal manager for 1000+ games and Howe just won us a cup and got us into the CL twice, and has one of our highest winning percentages in the PL era. Getting rid of either of them is not apples and apples at all.

 

As you well know. we should only replace a manager if it’s in that very very small pool that can take us to the next level. If we can’t get the likes of Emery or Guardiola, then there’s no point in even countenancing a change until this season is much further along.

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

Nah man you didn’t say anything crazy, but Bruce has been a fucking abysmal manager for 1000+ games and Howe just won us a cup and got us into the CL twice, and has one of our highest winning percentages in the PL era. Getting rid of either of them is not apples and apples at all.

 

As you well know. we should only replace a manager if it’s in that very very small pool that can take us to the next level. If we can’t get the likes of Emery or Guardiola, then there’s no point in even countenancing a change until this season is much further along.

Of course he has, he's an awful manager. The point being is if we hired Bruce tomorrow for example things would change as in they'd get worst. My overall point was changing the manager changes something, because if it didn't why would anyone bother. 

 

To add additional clarity to the overall point, Eddie as good as he is represents more risk to us as a club than most over modern managers because he is a control freak who wants control over everything. If I can hire a best in class director of football and a manager as good as Eddie, at a logical level this is the smarter play as im spreading my risk. Ultimately as I've pointed out previously we are all in on this project having backed it to the hilt with club record spend and reinforcing his position by having his nephew on board ( ) and letting him have a hand in who should be the sporting director. 

[et tu brute]

Just now, astraguy said:

our biggest worry and has been all season, our wingers offer jack shit.. wtf has happened to Elanga gordon etc?

Which is what our whole game plan this season is based on, as the press has disappeared totally months ago.
 

Today though was just a totally cowardly set up in every way, and to then be told as if we're stupid, that there were positive things, is both insulting to the support and embarrassing. His captain made him look stupid today. He absolutely shit himself today and played right into the mackem's hands. 

[madras]

12 minutes ago, astraguy said:

our biggest worry and has been all season, our wingers offer jack shit.. wtf has happened to Elanga gordon etc?

Our biggest issue is that we are so disjointed. A CF who's needs CMs to play off him and no CMs who get close to that.