Eddie Howe

[WillingtonMag]

Got to be very excited for next season, if he'd been here all this season we'd have been comfortably top half maybe pushing European places so what can he do when we spend some more money in the summer?

[Menace]

I respect him for dropping people like Ritchie & Lascelles. It takes some absolute balls to drop your captain. I hope he doesn't change the CB pairing, they've been relatively comfortable.

[Guest]

 

Seems a small thing, but just the fact he took those signs down to Brentford and stuck them up in the away changing rooms.

[Yorkie]

Absolutely love these changing room pics. Seems like an extremely happy camp atm. 

[Ikon]

Watching that photo makes me proud and happy ? 

[toon25]

Beats having the Chinese takeaway menu that the bacon fiddler used to put up.

 

'Get wuh's order in lads. Clem is phownin a'ead at half tiym'

[WillingtonMag]

Trippier with his crutches and moon boot man ??

[Guest]

We’ve always wondered ‘what if’ with if Bobby had taken over from Keegan. This isn’t as big but if we could have convinced Howe after Benitez instead of Steve twatting Bruce, I think we’d have been an upper mid-table team now. Probably one big transfer window from a top 6 contender.

[SUPERTOON]

They must be making Burn stand next to Fraser all the time on purpose ?

[Cronky]

He's been helped greatly by the new signings - particularly Dan Burn - but even allowing for that, I've been surprised by the transformation. He's taken the fear out of our game. 

 

After the last five years of defensive football, I was very unconfident as to whether his more positive approach would work with the squad. I went to West Ham, expecting a defend and counter attack strategy. The game kicked off and West Ham didn't touch the ball for the first five minutes. We had 53% possession playing away to a team that was 4th in the league.

 

He's made some ballsy decisions - committing Joelinton to a three man midfield, keeping Willock in the side and not rushing Bruno in - and they've come off. 

 

I was actually quite moved by the recent interviews with Willock and Fraser. And by that photo. Perhaps nice guys don't always come last.

[Shearergol]

Almiron taking a stint on the cajon?

[christ]

4 minutes ago, Cronky said:

He's been helped greatly by the new signings - particularly Dan Burn - but even allowing for that, I've been surprised by the transformation. He's taken the fear out of our game. 

 

After the last five years of defensive football, I was very unconfident as to whether his more positive approach would work with the squad. I went to West Ham, expecting a defend and counter attack strategy. The game kicked off and West Ham didn't touch the ball for the first five minutes. We had 53% possession playing away to a team that was 4th in the league.

 

He's made some ballsy decisions - committing Joelinton to a three man midfield, keeping Willock in the side and not rushing Bruno in - and they've come off. 

 

I was actually quite moved by the recent interviews with Willock and Fraser. And by that photo. Perhaps nice guys don't always come last.

Big asterisk next to yesterday as a result of the early red card, but when was the last time we had the most possession in two consecutive games?
 

EDIT: Two consecutive games away from home too.

 

 

Edited February 27, 2022 by christ

[toon25]

With regards to player fitness, I'm always left wondering what the fuck went on in training prior to EH coming in. We've had snippets, but I'd love someone to blow the lid on Bruce and co.

[Tiresias]

1 minute ago, toon25 said:

With regards to player fitness, I'm always left wondering what the fuck went on in training prior to EH coming in. We've had snippets, but I'd love someone to blow the lid on Bruce and co.

 

[Wullie]

I'm so delighted for him. Used to really push my buttons hard when he'd get described as a bog average manager, or worse, as if getting a club from League 2 to the Premier League and keeping them there was something any old clown could do. Makes me wish we'd not banned that twerp Gallowgate End/"Rafa Facts".

 

"But he got relegated!"

 

Aye well he's not this season or for the foreseeable so get to fuck.

[TheGuv]

Called it back in November. He’ll be the new Keegan.

 

The parallels are uncanny. Young manager of 43 (Keegan was 41 when he took us over), with the task of keeping us in the division. Wants to play attacking football and seems to be a real man manager. There’s a long long way to go, but it certainly feels like he ‘gets it’, in much the same way as Keegan did, SBR did and to a lesser extend Hughton and Rafa. 
 

The next few years or going to be a wild ride. I just need to work out how I’m getting this season ticket back 

[Chris_R]

2 hours ago, Menace said:

I respect him for dropping people like Ritchie & Lascelles. It takes some absolute balls to drop your captain. I hope he doesn't change the CB pairing, they've been relatively comfortable.

 

Small point, but I've seen a lot of people say this. Lascelles isn't his captain, he's Bruce's. He hasn't dropped 'his' captain.

[mofo]

Manager of the month??

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, mofo said:

Manager of the month??

Has to be. Technically they could give it to Klopp since they had a 100% record, but I think 3 wins and an away draw at West Ham will do it.

[gjohnson]

3 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Seems a small thing, but just the fact he took those signs down to Brentford and stuck them up in the away changing rooms.

Trippier in there shows how influential he's been

[Dr Venkman]

13 hours ago, Chris_R said:

I've lived in Bournemouth for over a decade after leaving the North East, and he's a legend down here.

 

I've wanted him to get a chance to manage Newcastle for a long time, before Bournemouth even got to the PL, and I'm delighted that he is now our manager.

 

I'm also very pleased that he's doing so well, however I will say that I'm not remotely surprised. I've seen first hand what Howe can do to a club.

 

Anecdote time: In October 2014, toward the end of Alan Pardew's reign of horror, I got into a massive argument with a guy in a bar overseas in Fujairah, who mocked me for wanting rid of him. He was asking who we could possibly get who was better, I guess he hoped I'd name someone unrealistic and he could then mock me for being deluded but straight away I said Howe, even though Bournemouth were in the Championship at the time, because I knew he was a rising star. He'd never heard of Howe, which I guess was fair enough, but he still laughed and said I was being stupid and we should keep Pardew and intimated that because he'd never heard of Howe he must be crap and worse than Pardew. I hope he remembers that conversation now.

Needless to say, you had the last laugh.

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The tactical ploy worked perfectly, with Willock revealing it was the result of some pre-prepared work in training over the last few weeks, with Howe setting up a range of different scenarios, one of which required his players to attack against ten men.

“The manager’s installed that in us,” said Willock, who claimed Newcastle’s second goal at the end of a lightning-sharp counter-attacking move. “We create those scenarios in training every day.

“We try to work on different scenarios, and the manager has installed in us that when something like that happens, we need to get it wide, get crosses in the box and finish our chances. I thought we did that, and could have got a few more goals, but we’re happy to have got the clean sheet and another three points.”

[HaydnNUFC]

Our games since he come in with the upcoming games.

 

[Mike]

1 hour ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Our games since he come in with the upcoming games.

 

 

Spin: Howe is unbeaten in winnable games?

[STM]

Said ages ago that the Leicester game was our only bad game under Howe because Leicester were in terrible form.

 

We also had 3 bits of terrible refereeing in Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool games. Should have had 3 penalties IIRC.

 

You could argue that its astonishing how badly Bruce did, given Howes results.