Eddie Howe

[Gallowgate Toon]

6 minutes ago, joeyt said:

 

 

 

 

That feels a lot more sensationalised than he actually said it. This is going to trigger a lot of journalists today 

[Scoot]

I hope they do all hate us. It doesn't bother me. All I'm concerned about is us as fans, the players and the club.

 

Get me into St James Park tomorrow.

 

Howsy the lads!

[Nine]

I personally want everyone to hate us, it’s more fun that way 

[PauloGeordio]

3 minutes ago, Gallowgate Toon said:

That feels a lot more sensationalised than he actually said it. This is going to trigger a lot of journalists today 

Clicks breed clicks, that’s  all I’m sayin! 

[Sean]

Fighting talk from Eddie, I like it. Never seen him so strong in his words.

 

Saying the game should have ended earlier, kept referring to Isak's "second goal" as if he thinks it should have stood, other teams "not wanting to be seen to be helping us" transfer wise etc.

[ponsaelius]

Honestly I'd rather he didn't come out with this stuff. I'm not sure it's productive in the long run to be whining - even if it's true.

[elbee909]

I seem to remember Fergie making the most of a siege mentality at Man Utd as a motivating factor for his team. Go for it Eddie.

 

[HawK]

1 minute ago, ponsaelius said:

Honestly I'd rather he didn't come out with this stuff. I'm not sure it's productive in the long run to be whining - even if it's true.

 

I think he's earnt a bit leeway wouldn't you say

[Lazarus]

These comments from his presser? Am watching it now but theres some sort of problem with the audio whereby static comes through really loud

 

Ive nearly shit meself twice now

[Awaymag]

3 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

Honestly I'd rather he didn't come out with this stuff. I'm not sure it's productive in the long run to be whining - even if it's true.

I like it - it builds a siege mentality.  Like it or not - most people dont want NUFC to succeed.   Fuck them all.  what goes around, comes around!

[The Prophet]

4 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

Honestly I'd rather he didn't come out with this stuff. I'm not sure it's productive in the long run to be whining - even if it's true.

 

He wasn't really whining to be fair. Regarding the Liverpool goal he said he'd rather focus on how we managed the game.

 

Regarding other clubs, he was asked "is it fair to say..." and he just more or less confirmed that it was.

[HaydnNUFC]

PL clubs rarely deal with each other especially the top 6. They see us as a threat, its why they didn't want the takeover to happen (like fuck was it on moral grounds), wanted us to go down last season and why they didn't want to negotiate with us. We have to look abroad for our players like most top clubs do which has gotten us Bruno, Isak and Botman.

[Conjo]

I hope it is worded a bit wrong. Of course no PL club wants to do us a favor. Why should they?

[kingxlnc]

I do believe they thought Pulisic/Gallagher was possible (especially since Zakaria) but this suggests Chelsea didn't want to strengthen a competitor. 

I acutally think it was the Bruno transfer that made people take notice, that Sky Sports lady on Twitter said as much, both Liverpool and Man City were shocked by it. 

Isak is another one who most would think would be above our station so confirms to them that we're building something serious and will be a force to reckon within 2 years. 

 

Imagine in 4 more transfer windows time, assuming each window will have 2-3 first team replacements:

 

Imagine Isak/Bruno/Botman level quality in the below positions

 

Schar would have been replaced

Tripper would now be back up

Targett would have been replaced

Almiron replaced

Willock replaced

ASM possibly replaced

Joelinton possible replaced

Pope possibly replaced

 

 

[Lazarus]

Just now, POOT 2.0 said:

 

Is this glitching and including bad audio glitches for anyone else? 

 

Aye - ive nearly filled my strides a dozen times.

[Yorkie]

9 minutes ago, POOT 2.0 said:

 

Is this glitching and including bad audio glitches for anyone else? 

 

Yeah, bloody awful.

[andyman]

Thanks for the warning, guys 

[Disco]

29 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

Honestly I'd rather he didn't come out with this stuff. I'm not sure it's productive in the long run to be whining - even if it's true.

In two minds tbf; quite like the siege mentality thing. Not hard to conjure up why eveyone might be against us either, I certainly would be if I supported someone else.

[TRon]

30 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

Honestly I'd rather he didn't come out with this stuff. I'm not sure it's productive in the long run to be whining - even if it's true.

 

Seems to have been productive enough for uber-whining cunts like Klopp and Mourinho.

[Guest]

I will wait until I can watch the press conference for myself before reading too much into Hope and Edwards

[ponsaelius]

5 minutes ago, Disco said:

In two minds tbf; quite like the siege mentality thing. Not hard to conjure up why eveyone might be against us either, I certainly would be if I supported someone else.

 

Just think it draws unwanted attention while everything he's done so far has been about quietly and confidently getting on with the job with decorum. 

[Sean]

27 minutes ago, Conjo said:

I hope it is worded a bit wrong. Of course no PL club wants to do us a favor. Why should they?

 Think it might have been they didn't want "to be seen to be dealing with us" to be fair.

[LV]

39 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

Honestly I'd rather he didn't come out with this stuff. I'm not sure it's productive in the long run to be whining - even if it's true.

He certainly didn’t sound like he was whining in his press conference 

[Yorkie]

Re the comments about other clubs; it was literally put to him by Edwards (and someone else, who chirped "they see you as a threat") and he basically just agreed. He hardly said anything about it tbh. Wasn't whiny and just reiterated the general idea that we can't have the piss taken out of us fees-wise.

[ponsaelius]

We're already public enemy #1 in the league. The media frenzy after the perceived timewasting and antics this week has fed into that. This just ramps it up further. I don't think a siege mentality helps when we're still 2-3 years away from having a team good enough to compete at the top. 

 

I think we need to be quiet and calm rather than stoking the fires with comments like that - even if it is true. We obviously had interest in Gallagher, Pulisic, Maitland-Niles on loan this week and were basically told where to go. I wouldn't even mention it.