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It does really. I think others have said Jones looks like a good coach who struggles a bit with the bigger picture. And the ultra defensive approach smacks a little bit of someone either lacking a bit in ideas or confidence perhaps. But you can see where he’s coming from, ie if we’re hard to beat, we’ve got a chance. He’s picked up as many points as you could probably have hoped for in those games in charge and the last 30 minutes gives us something to work with. Definitely time for the few man to cone in and inject some new ideas and impetus but, like you say, he’s done better than the managerial legend he’s taken over from.

In the same thread they repeatedly refer to the Saudi Arabians as terrorists. Nice to see that they’re still a classy group of supporters, bit surprising that casual racism is still classy but there we are.

Knocked out of the FA Cup in the 1st (FIRST) round at home to Mansfield.

Refused to turn his head when the rocket was coming for him.

It's amazing how the opposition suddenly looks ordinary once you start giving them less space.

Fucking Shelvey man, you can’t knock the confidence he has in himself the way he waves everyone off for every set piece then puts in some of the shittest balls you’ll ever see. I just imagine his missus getting an electrician in to fix the wiring in their house and he struts over waving him away before burning the house down due to making a pigs ear of the wiring.

Did Hope offer Alex Bruce out for a straightener in the same tweet?

THE ONLY WAY IS UP! BAYBEH! - Yazz and the Plastic Population

So it's come to this. Hanging on the words of Luke Edwards and feeling grateful when they arrive.

Yeah. Sting’s already been on loads of records.

There's not enough red wine in the world for that to happen, plus he'd be stumbling in, not stepping.

I need a ruling here. And not from MF who only has one ruling in these situations.

BUJ7 to win it.

Shelvey’s tackling sub him off and tell him to keep walking until he submerges into the sea

Yeah, I much preferred Bruce’s sculpted jawline.

Fucking Conesy man

Colin Wanker got the boot from the Smoggies.

You think that's bad? We had a kid on here once who had to hide behind the settee as the triads were going to knack him.

[ ]Never liked the baby faced cunt anyway [ ] Really looking forward to giving a forward looking young coach a chance Delete as appropriate

here you go.... How incoming Newcastle boss Eddie Howe was set on the road to Tyneside by Diego Simeone With Newcastle appointment imminent, Howe must quickly demonstrate his unquestionable managerial skills and lessons learned from Bournemouth It is not a perfect metric but the adage that you can best measure a manager’s worth by the state of a club at the beginning and end of their tenure remains as reliable as any. And when Eddie Howe became Bournemouth manager in January 2009, they were 23rd in League Two, 10 points adrift of safety and fighting not just for their Football League survival but their very existence as a club. When he left 11 years later, Bournemouth were exiting the Premier League following five straight seasons in the top-flight, three promotions and easily the greatest era in the club’s history. Yes, the fairy tale did not have the ending he wanted, but the bottom line is that Newcastle United would be getting a 43-year-old manager of vast, if often understated, substance. His use of the 15 months since leaving Bournemouth has been instructive. There have been no media interviews. No self-promotion. No getting his name linked with any enticing vacancy. Howe has instead utilised his first sustained break from playing or managing for a combination of family time – his eldest boys Harry and Rocky are budding footballers – and the chance to prepare for his managerial return. This has meant looking back as well as forward. And so Howe has spent a sizable part of the past year reflecting on what he did right and what he did wrong at Bournemouth, particularly in that painful final season. That has meant re-watching their matches and reassessing the training sessions, of which all were carefully logged, to better understand how his players reacted to what he had been trying to achieve. Howe has his own football philosophy document and, in also watching plenty of football, often live with his two boys, he has been constantly updating his own attacking vision for the game. He has taken time to visit other clubs and understand how they work, notably Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid. The Argentine coach has proved himself one of the masters of adaptation, taking on the big two in Spain with a distinctive style of play that has yielded great success, including two league titles. Howe also visited another Madrid club, Rayo Vallecano, who were promoted last season to La Liga. At Vallecano he has encountered a different kind of coach, albeit one whose journey is similar to his own. When Howe left Bournemouth they were exiting the Premier League following five straight seasons in the top flight CREDIT: PA Andoni Iraola, 39, briefly a Spain international in his playing days, not only has got Vallecano promoted from the second tier but the club, who have spent more time out of the first tier over their history, are currently sixth in Liga – vastly outperforming their budget. Two days were also spent at Liverpool including a meeting with the architect of the club’s golden recruitment era, technical director Michael Edwards. Howe recognises that recruitment will be critical for Newcastle, especially when the club try to navigate this next January transfer window, and he will also know that it was an area which faltered to some extent towards the end of his Bournemouth tenure. At Liverpool he also met Alex Inglethorpe, the club’s academy director. He wanted to understand how the club have overhauled their structure over the past decade to a level that is allowing them to overcome the financial disadvantages and compete so consistently with Manchester City. He has already spent long hours assessing the Newcastle players and there would be immediate familiar faces in Callum Wilson, Ryan Fraser and Matt Ritchie, three players whose careers he has already influenced hugely. There would be risks, of course, on all sides. Howe’s only previous job outside of Dorset – just under two years at Burnley – was not the failure that is occasionally presented but certainly a time when he struggled to inspire the sort of improvement that Bournemouth fans had come to expect. The wider backdrop was also the most difficult personal period of his life following the death of his mother Anne. He felt a need to return to Dorset in 2012 and the people he knew best.Yet the legacy he left at Burnley was strong. He signed Ben Mee, now club captain and one of the most important Burnley players of the Sean Dyche era. Also from Manchester City’s development teams, Howe signed Kieran Trippier, now an England regular and occasional England captain. The combined cost of those two was around £600,000. Another future England international, Danny Ings, arrived from Bournemouth for just £1 million. His next club would be Liverpool. Back at Bournemouth he was able to shape the club almost completely in his own image, right down to the messaging around the stadium to the surface of the training pitches and the shape of the dining tables. The staff around him, headed by his assistant Jason Tindall – often a more demonstrative touchline presence – and numerous other ex-team-mates were hand-picked. Some will follow him to Newcastle. Callum Wilson will once again be under the guidance of former boss Eddie Howe at Newcastle CREDIT: Shutterstock Harry Redknapp would say that football fandom got progressively more laid-back as you travelled along the south-coast between Portsmouth and Bournemouth via Southampton and there can be no doubt that Howe would be operating under a scrutiny at Newcastle that he has never previously known. He is said to be excited by the prospect and would certainly attempt to deal with all the outside noise by simply focussing on improving the team. The experience of working previously with Maxim Demin at Bournemouth, hardly a conventional owner, would also stand him in good stead for what might follow. The hope must be that Newcastle’s new Saudi Arabian owners, represented in England by Amanda Staveley, now give him the autonomy to shape the club in his image and the time for change to take hold. Howe has often spoken about how his mother instilled in him a work ethic that, even by the obsessional standards of football managers, is all-consuming and that he thinks about her before every game. He has an eclectic range of influences and can talk with as much passion about what he learnt in a dressing-room with Tony Pulis and Sean O’Driscoll at Bournemouth as time spent studying managers like Brendan Rodgers and Arsene Wenger, or the legendary basketball coach John Wooden. Like Wooden, Howe is most fascinated by the process and the compound impact of relentlessly high-quality training and preparation. “There’s a lot of worry in the world,” he once said. “The reality is that it’s all about the preparation. You hope then that the result takes care of itself in the knowledge that you have done everything in your power to produce the best performance.

It probably is, but I'll not be chipping in to pay Edwards

“The 25-year-old was jailed two years ago for posting a picture on social media of himself shirtless and wearing leopard-print shorts.” In fairness to the Saudis, that is fucking criminal

Not as long as the day Alwaleed_Saudi is about to have.

Shh everyone, the poor lad's clearly trying to have a sly night out in a drag bar without them finding out back home.

Depressingly that second half was arguably our best of the season as shit as it was, I struggle to remember one better this season. At least we had some passages of play where our players completed passes to one another. As bleak as it’s looking we still have 27 games and the added benefit that we have money to spend and improve the team in January. If we can keep within 6 points of 17th by January we will be safe come the end of the season as I’d back Howe with a big transfer budget to better the shite sides in those spots by 2 wins over the rest of the season.

You’d have taken that at half time I suppose. Still feels like an opportunity missed

And Shelvey floats a ball straight to a Brighton defender. Thick as fucking champ.

Looked lively to me… well, alive, which is always a bonus.

Well said.

BUJ7 to win it.

Newcastle United Defensive Tactics: 1. Jog nearish to an opposing player

i just dont like eddie howes face

HOWE KLAXON

Remember this Prince Charming. This is an extract from a Fish thread called "For those of you not in a relationship" where he laments the fact that a mentally ill friend of his seems to have fallen for him, and wonders how best to let her down gently. It was a different time...

Norwich won't have more points than us at the end of the season. CT's got fiiiive on it.

in less than 48 hours he's gone from being in the dug out, to being in the stands, to being at home with his feet up 90 mile along the coast.

I think at this point, I will just wait until the game and see if Howe is there. It could all just be clickbait from the Mirror so pointless in effing and blinding at Howe before it's been confirmed.

I reckon the four of them have got a 10+ year game of D&D going and Dungeon Master Howe is too hooked to give it up.

Actually darling it's Seaton Sluice.

Tbf I’d rather watch us win 4-3 than 1-0.

ps..... you can get round the telegraph's paywall on your phone by touching on refresh then before it finishes refreshing stopping it by touching on the 'x' sometimes takes a few attempts, but persevere and you get there in the end! doesn't seem to work for all paywalls though, never managed it with times.

The Oil Tanker. You guys ought to get more involved in the match threads, full of foreigners, old folk and acronyms - they're a joy to behold.