John tolan Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 7 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said: Internet comment sections aren’t always the best place to look, met family before Christmas of various different stripes (mainly Man United and Liverpool) and all of them were pretty glowing in their praise of us and Howe in particular. Agree 100% on that! Used to be pub crak back in ye olde times , some certifiable folk out there with access to a computer 🤯 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieDazzler Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Man United could win both their games in hand and still be a point behind us? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 52 minutes ago, RodneyCisse said: Ive got a brother in law who’s a Liverpool fan and he seems to think we’ll be lucky to finish 7th and our luck will run out!? It’s not luck that has got us second though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Let the daft sods keep believing it's all down to luck, for me. People are absolutely clueless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King HTT III Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 What is so evident now under Howe is how difficult we are to play against. We are tough to play through, tough to play over the top against and even tougher to play across whether that’s from up front, in midfield and especially at the back. We mop up attacks pretty easily at times and we are clearly a nightmare on and off the ball to face. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 2 hours ago, GeordieDazzler said: Internet comment sections aren’t always the best place to look, met family before Christmas of various different stripes (mainly Man United and Liverpool) and all of them were pretty glowing in their praise of us and Howe in particular. Agree with this. Most fans I speak to seem to be more positive about our chances than I am and are all massively praising Howe and the likes of Almiron, Joelinton, Bruno, Botman etc. You do get the odd twat that links it all to money. But you can shut that argument down in less than a minute and they don’t really have any comeback. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 never mind a statue at the ground, there's an erection in my pants for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 2 goals conceded first half in 16 games. Incredible. Shows how organised we are. Howe is mint. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWN Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 49 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said: Agree with this. Most fans I speak to seem to be more positive about our chances than I am and are all massively praising Howe and the likes of Almiron, Joelinton, Bruno, Botman etc. You do get the odd twat that links it all to money. But you can shut that argument down in less than a minute and they don’t really have any comeback. Nah it’s bollocks this , according to our rivals we are hated by all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King HTT III Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 8 minutes ago, samptime29 said: 2 goals conceded first half in 16 games. Incredible. Shows how organised we are. Howe is mint. Defence or conceding goals was always his weak point at Bournemouth, now it’s his strength and he’s stitching that together with attack which was always his greatest strength to great effect and the results show that, the goals scored, the clean sheets, the solidity on and off the ball. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Says a lot that Keegan has the best record out of English managers in the modern era in the PL, despite getting out of the game early. Will always be gutted for him and us that we didn’t get silverware under him. Local hero Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Keegan and Evans would have had more games too, due to both the WC being played mid-season and 93/94 and 94/95 being 42 game seasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Another fucking bonkers stat; this calendar year we've only conceded 5 league goals at SJP from open play. 1 v Watford in January. 1 v Liverpool in April. 2 v Manchester City in August. 1 v Bournemouth in September. All the others have been set piece goals. The last opposition player to score against us at SJP this season was Ivan Toney's pen for Brentford. The World Cup break skews this a bit but still, fucking hell. Especially given the absolute mess we were in 2021. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 1 hour ago, HaydnNUFC said: Another fucking bonkers stat; this calendar year we've only conceded 5 league goals at SJP from open play. 1 v Watford in January. 1 v Liverpool in April. 2 v Manchester City in August. 1 v Bournemouth in September. All the others have been set piece goals. The last opposition player to score against us at SJP this season was Ivan Toney's pen for Brentford. The World Cup break skews this a bit but still, fucking hell. Especially given the absolute mess we were in 2021. Mad to think that as well as we're doing, Chelsea conceded just 15 in a season once. I'd totally forgotten that and still held in my head that Arsenal's 17 conceded was the record. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 2 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said: Another fucking bonkers stat; this calendar year we've only conceded 5 league goals at SJP from open play. 1 v Watford in January. 1 v Liverpool in April. 2 v Manchester City in August. 1 v Bournemouth in September. All the others have been set piece goals. The last opposition player to score against us at SJP this season was Ivan Toney's pen for Brentford. The World Cup break skews this a bit but still, fucking hell. Especially given the absolute mess we were in 2021. What's even madder is to think about where we were and how we felt when Joao Pedro knocked that header in. If you'd said we'd finish the calendar year in second people would've thought you meant the Championship. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Make him the highest paid member of the squad. He sits at the very top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) 22 hours ago, Rich said: Let the daft sods keep believing it's all down to luck, for me. People are absolutely clueless. Only 3 of our 9 wins were by 1 goal. 2 of those were against Spurs (away) and Chelsea. A sign of a legit team is hammering the bad teams, IMO. Edited December 28, 2022 by Dr Venkman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 On 26/12/2022 at 17:28, Ikon said: How Howe? How! (In a non barking sound of a dog) You start it off, I’ll defo join in 😉 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Great thing for me is that we're this good now, yet there's 3-4 areas that could easily be ungraded over the next two windows that shouldn't really disrupt how we play. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ste Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Optimistic Nut Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) Sure I read that the only other English managers to do it in the Premier League era are Keegan twice with us and Roy Evans at Liverpool once. Edited December 28, 2022 by Optimistic Nut Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 His ability to improve a player has left me wondering what he could have done with someone like Viana or Luque or other obviously talented but flawed players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmesy Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Rafa had Almiron looking effective, Eddie has turned him into a world class performer. He’s some coach! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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