Eddie mainly had all the interviews and stories written about him and our success.
But JT has been part of that success as well, but what has Eddie’s ‘silent parter‘ contributed towards our success?
You don’t hear many interviews with Jason either.
Now JT is odds on favourite with the bookies to replace Eddie I had a quick look to see what has been said about his part of the successful partnership and found these two old articles.
Behind the scenes, assistant manager Tindall, who is also 38, has played a major part.
Howe said: “He has been pivotal. At first, I didn’t know how it would work. Jason had retired like me and we coached together and it fitted straight away.
“He is the only person who really gets my philosophy, or now it is our philosophy.
“We are very, very different. I am the one who looks at things negatively to get a positive response. Jason is always positive. He is very good with people.
“We argue a lot. He is very stubborn and if I could change that I would. Actually, we are both stubborn.
“I always said when we started, ‘I don’t want you to agree with me if you don’t’. I now regret saying that!
“We go at it here in this office with our disagreements. People hear it down the corridors and say, ‘Oh, they’re having a tiff’.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/foot...-he-is-to-be-touted-as-a-future-england-boss/
The Howe and Tindall double act has been an integral part of Bournemouth’s story. Aged 40 and born 14 days apart, they have spent the past 10 years virtually living in one another’s pockets. They share an office at the training ground and occupy the same space in the technical area. “I don’t really see that at many other clubs,” Tindall says. “I’d say I’m up with Ed on the touchline more so than probably any other assistant. We’re constantly talking to each other – it’s the way we’ve always been.”
Tindall is also known for being in someone else’s ear quite a lot. “I know where this is going,” he says, laughing. “I like to think that I get on well with fourth officials. I think I’ve got better with the way I approach them, being respectful. There’s been times as well, don’t you worry about that, where Ed says, ‘Go on, get into them’, so it’s not all my own doing!”
As former Bournemouth teammates who played alongside one another in central defence, the natural assumption is that Howe and Tindall were an obvious partnership. Yet they were never close off the field as players and, in the words of Howe, “didn’t really have a relationship”. When Howe left to join Portsmouth in 2002, they never stayed in touch. Asked whether they socialised together during their playing days, Tindall chuckles as he says: “Only at the Christmas party. And I won’t tell you the outfits he dressed up in.”
As a management duo, however, they clicked straight away. Tindall had been No 2 to Jimmy Quinn, who was sacked on New Year’s Eve in 2008, and he remained in that role when Howe took over. At the time they were the youngest management team in the Football League and not everyone warmed to the sight of two blokes in their early 30s winning matches. “You look across and there’s someone who has managed 300-400 games, you’re 10 or 12 games in and you can tell they’re thinking: ‘Who the hell do you think you are?’”
Those days knocking around League Two provide a frame of reference for Bournemouth’s position now, off as well as on the field. After a summer when they paid a club-record £25m for Jefferson Lerma of Colombia, it seems remarkable to think Howe and Tindall were once putting their hands in their own pockets to cover the cost of a fitness coach and a masseur. “We did that a few times, not just with staffing,” Tindall says. “The money wouldn’t have been there at the club at the time. It set us back a bit but looking back, it was worth it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...rnemouth-assistant-manager-eddie-howe-burnley
