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Makes sense to me for him to go to Celtic a great chunk of the current team are out of a contact or on loan so it’s a chance to rebuild a giant of a club whilst implementing his brand of play vs taking over a mid table prem team eg Palace where he would have to be parking the bus for a larger...

Really interesting insight, but surely that's an imposter Eddie only has a plan A :D

You did my apologies Long term I think this is some way down to the way we play by the players who are asked to play it and the risk vs reward involved , do I want that changed absolutely no way , entertainment value is through the roof compared to other teams I watched while working in other...

“ significantly worse” than those , just how are we quantifying that fact ? Did you see Burnley’s first choice defence on the weekend ? If you don’t expect them to compete , why critique having just played 2 of those 3 in 7 days ??

Is his analysis really a surprise . Eddie Howe has coached what are technically L1 or Championship defenders to survive in the Premier League, by hard individual work & getting 110% out of them week in week out both in games and training , the physical toll of that shows at times with our injury...

Mepham and Smith has Sterling up against them , arguably the most potent player at attacking space in behind , I suspect the left side may have been exposed by his pace too .

I like it . The round of applause and 20 brief seconds of chanting and board banging after the announcements was as rousing as it got before regardless of the opponents and that quickly dissipated This is has given an audible improvement since . Maybe there is a better song but in the meantime...

What atmosphere was there before , ever ? That brief 15 seconds the North stand kinda chant and clap after the announcer goes ‘round the ground’ then it goes quite !! I like Sweet Caroline certainly it’s better than the above .

Remember the championship second season and Derby signing Bent & Ince , mayhem hit this board , Eddie and our recruitment policy got hammered . Wash and repeat , season in season out

Arsenal are admittedly not at their best but still had a team of internationals , we made Chelsea and Man U look poor for significant periods of those games away from home . We were poor against Liverpool and shot ourselves-in the foot away at City but this season we have looked generally better...

Neil . No your opening points to this thread quotes Souness fairly gushingly and certainly alludes to the fact we should listen to him due to his history. Anyone can make a point but if someone champions it , surely we can offer counter arguments ? For me the bottom line is this we are...

Agree ^^^ Souness, Merson, Thompson even Neville have all had a shot at management and come up woefully short . Fair play that they are thick skinned enough to take easy money to spout advise at vastly more successful managers than themselves but let’s not buy in like some cult like star struck...

Ok taking the fact Souness was totally inept as a manager , sacked within 2 years at most clubs , aside . Looking at the Brighton 2nd goal as an example . Francis has split wide to receive the ball, something common these days for ‘footballing’ teams he had Ibe 12 yards diagonally infield...

This is Graeme Souness who as a manager guided Liverpool to an all time high of 6th, Newcastle 16 th and with Blackburn avoided relegation by 1 place right ? All with comparatively big budgets I’m all ears ! How would he guide us to being a mighty force ???

Lewis Cook is not our only creative influence, very very odd that we still managed 7 , yes 7 very good breaks/opportunities after he had left the pitch, unfortunately a combination of poor touch, good goalkeeping and final balls thwarted us! Lewis cook is an excellent player with great...