Messiah is Kevin Keegan. Eddie H is King Edward of St James'

Toon fan here, saw some naysayers criticising him for the spending breaches at Bournemouth. What happened with that? Was it Howe's doing or the owners?

@@Tarks_Coady_EFC exactly, saw a comment somewhere saying that Bournemouth had some financial irregularities during their rise through the divisions. I know they did have a very wealthy owner. So I've found that they were fined 35k for anti-doping breach, basically they made some inaccurate claims in their finances, basically sounds like the owners were putting more money in than they should. 35k fine seems ridiculous for that though so it must have been very minor. Also...not sure how involved in that Howe is so it shouldn't sour the achievements he had there.

@@Tarks_Coady_EFC ok found something else, where were you searching cos if you google 'Bournemouth fined breach' it all comes up. They were fined 7.6m for breaching FFP. They basically reported a loss that was more than twice their turnover when they won the Championship with Howe. Not quite City levels deviation but clearly either worked out that the gamble was worth it if it got them promoted (7m fine is a drop in the ocean if you get promoted) or they just completely fudged their numbers and miscalculated how much they spent.

@@dddgtsd tbf i was searching online but i had my vpn on and showed results for wrong country.

Just came on here to make this exact same point. You saved me the trouble . 😅

Gordon is actually objectively bad at dribbling when you look at his stats. From what i’ve seen he works better as an inverted winger that gets involved in the intricate play (see bournmeouth (A) and west ham (H) games). I didn’t like the signing but hope he comes good for us

@@Ogaphysio Wait until Eddie has a pre-season with him

Genuinely very excited to see what Eddie can do with Gordon. Thinking about doing a video on him over the summer actually, as I don't think we've really seen anything like what he's capable of yet.

@@PaulO-mv6ku yh i’ll give him a chance. Didn’t like him for footballing reasons, i dont care about the attitude stuff personally. 100% Trust in Howe and the backroom staff

Thanks Andrew!

Actually we very rarely see BDB staying back to allow that change in shape these days. If anything we're so comfortable in possession now that Eddie's happy for Bruno to just sit deep and allow Schar and Botman to push up alongside him on the off chance they (although mostly Schar) can get on the ball and be an extra man.

Yeah it's astonishing to me how rare this sort of philosophical flexibility is. Even the managers you think of as quite innovative tend to have really rigid ideas of how they want their teams to play. It's understandable to a degree because on the training ground it must be a *lot* easier to work on one approach and hope that gets you through, but I guess that's just how the job is changing.

@@adamcleryFFT true but I do think a lot of the top managers do a lot of tinkering that we don't see, just because they're not changing the formation, or system completely, people like Pep, Klopp, ETH, Arteta will be making minor adjustmens much like Howe. Howe has had to do them on a more obvious scale though with the lack of talent he was working with at times. I love the bloke's commitment though, top manager.

I left a whole chunk of this out in the editing, but we're actually still defending really really well. It's more that we faced a lot of *very* wasteful teams in the early part of the season and those crazy GC numbers were never going to continue.

If you think that's funny, wait until you find out that I'd slept in that top lol

@@adamcleryFFT we've all been there, at least you actually slept 😂

LISBON! What a shout

Cheers Jonathan 🤝

Thanks Sarah!

Cheers Jeff!

Thank you!

Time will tell! I agree though, I think he can be excellent out wide if there's space for him to get into.

Zagreb 🤝

I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Murphy and have been delighted to see him turn his career around here. As for Almiron, he's got everything in his locker to be really important for us next season, but how we use him will largely have to depend on what we're coming up against. Leicester were just showing him outside or forcing him to run into a massively congested edge of the box and there's very little he can do in that situation.

@@adamcleryFFT yeah its why Almiron looked great against Brighton as they were wide open but ineffective against a parked bus in Leicester Can see him doing well in a champions league game where its wide open and he can press teams who will play it out from the back

I would have loved to! Just didn't have the hours in the week and I'd just covered Brighton's system a few days before. Hopefully if we keep growing the channel we'll be able to expand the team to the point we can do little breakdowns after pretty much every game. Or the interesting ones at least lol

@@adamcleryFFT ok matey, I get it:) What do you make of Eddies decision to stick with the high press? I get the idea about not trying to do something brand new in a knee jerk stylee - But to seemingly do exactly what BHA are absolutely devoted to defeating AND winning easily has me totally beaten!

@@geordiedog1749 More than happy to hold my hands up here and say I have no explanation for how that worked so well beyond 'we're just fucking mint'

@@adamcleryFFT That made me actually LoL (not figuratively). OK, here’s my ten pence….. Eddie Howe (praise be his name) uses a different form of the Gegenpress in that he uses the ‘swarm the bastards’ variant and not the ‘choke the bastards’ type. Choke type is what Citeh do i.e. they choke off the routes the defender can use to play the ball forward. The Toon under Eddie Howe (praise be his name) just close the player down. However……. Against BHA instead of the usual ‘swarm’ press, Eddie Howe (praise etc, etc - you get the idea) used the choker!! Brighton continually played poor, aimless, misplaced balls forward and just handed possession back to Newcastle ……. for us to score! Yay. The fact that BHA had no plan B (first corner - 87 mins) showed how dominated they were. Even when they apparently ‘got back into the game’ they didn’t really - the anxiety was all from us (the fans). BHA actually didn’t really threaten our goal at all. One poor shot on target, I think was all. (Much as I like their manager - I think there’s quite a lot of sunshine getting blown where sunshine isn’t usually found in his case!? He’s not a patch on Eddie Howe - pbhn).

I think it was simply the intensity, duration and speed of the press, Brighton imho are brilliant to watch as they will pass most teams cross eyed. But most teams have a bit of a "soft" press inasmuch as they kind of amble up to a get near to a Brighton player, expecting the lay off. They will do this for three four passes then slack off with a bit of "ok you can keep it". Whereas the NUFC press was intense and at pace and held until the coughed it up, they got right into player after player forcing the erroneous pass which we mopped up. We did that constantly throughout the game denying them time and space. Once the game as such was over we slackened off a little and they then get into their rhythm, getting a goal but it was academic by then.

Thank you!

Cheers man

lol

Cheers man! 🤝

I'd take absolutely any of those, great shouts.

THANKS GORDON

I was sat in the Sir John Hall for it with my mates (I've just realised I've still got my wristband on in the video) and I was howling because we were forcing Leicester to go long nearly perfectly but they just... weren't bothered about trying to push up lol. They'd all just sit on the edge of the box and let the forwards run after it. Fair play like, didn't give us any space in behind, got out with the draw, and could have won it.

Italy is my shout also ✈

well, there's Lazio and possibly Roma

Cheers man!

Well, injured and few goals.. thats a rotten year.. otoh, when he has the ball you can watch just sheer magic.. Can't wait to see him at full strength!

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I stopped reading when you said Dan Burn is good on the hall. He is solid defender but horrible in progressive play. Very uncomfortable on the ball and takes too long to make a predictable pass (most often backwards). We need a significant upgrade at LB. Burn can be 3rd choice CB.

@@sunnyboy1704 “deceivingly good”. People like you think he’s a headless 6’7 donkey, but he’s very reliable. Not an attacking fullback at all but he’s nowhere near as bad on the ball as Wan Bissaka

@@yaeffersmate if u actually watched Man Utd u would know wan bissaka is very good on carrying the ball and dribbling, his passing plays are good it’s just with wan he can’t cross to save his life but even in that department he is so much better this year.

@@utdspiritf1virk758 definitely better, and I agree that he's good at carrying the ball (he used to be a winger). But almost every team they play forces United to play to him because he's a poor passer and doesn't have a good eye for a pass. I feel like because they let him have the ball he looks better. I've watched about ~10 United games this year, but maybe in the other games he's not as bad

Cheers man!

Yeah this is the problem with the team being so "ahead of schedule", it's never been a priority to buy a player who can operate in those spaces against teams who have 11 being the ball. We'll need a few of them pretty soon.

I love him, me

Horses for courses!

I mean in the context of both the season and the rest of the league they've not thrown it around anywhere near as much as fans of other clubs suggest. They've spent the same as Forrest and West Ham this season

Where do you think Newcastles spend (not net spend crap) puts them in the league since the takeover? Cuz i can tell you it aint 1st, 2nd or 3rd

It's definitely not 'genius' in the sense that nobody else could ever have thought of it, but there's also definitely a reason why you so rarely see a team successfully adapt their approach this well over the course of a season. I think he'll 100% have to change it again next year because Leicester have already shown how to counteract it... just don't ever push out lol

I guess it’ll be more of the same but with a few technically gifted players to open up those bus walls. Add to that someone like Kim M-J and Ugarte… oh my, I’m drooling again 🥵

Brucey wouldn’t have thought of it

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Hahahahaha cry boy😢

Altheti in the groups and then Madrid in the final? Works for me.

I would *love* to

It's near the top my list as well (thanks!)

Aww, are you getting worried😂

So the 11 goals he`s scored are worthless then?.

@@toonarmy8524 purple patch one in 4 n half years, consistent product is what's needed .

Calm down. Miggys had a great season

@@nathan113 had a decent scoring spell where he was baron before, not good enough so one footed and ignoring passes on costing us , need upgrades and he's one of them

@@magpies77 he might do it next season as well though . Im being optomistic here :)

it's because he plays as an inside forward/inverted winger being a left footer on the right but he is way too reliant on his left foot, made me laugh when Hinchcliffe said the other day 'he can go on his left and on his right' which isn't necessarily true, like you say always cuts back on his left. Would be interesting to see him play on the left wing but his relationship with Tripps and Bruno down the right is too good.

Madrid. Dortmund

@@5aturnia Both great shouts

Yeah I mention that

Thanks man!