Hallelujah! Sean Longstaff puts in a tackle and wins the ball! Once. Done fuck all else. Sublime finish from Isak. Poor 'keeping for their goal and Sven Botman looking more of a liability than an asset. That is all... so far.
(11-03-2024, 09:53 PM)Eeeeen Wrote: [ -> ]Hallelujah! Sean Longstaff puts in a tackle and wins the ball! Once. Done fuck all else. Sublime finish from Isak. Poor 'keeping for their goal and Sven Botman looking more of a liability than an asset. That is all... so far.
Aye bit of a strange game this - below par performances in quite a few of our lot.
If Eddie can put a rocket up them at half time, we could take this.
Can’t help thinking that won’t happen and we’re gona lose 2-1 to another dodgy goal
Was just coming on to post, summed it up really. Gordon looked unfit from the start, Botman continues to look like a liability which makes me think he isn't over his injury, Dubravka doing Dubravka things, like letting in shots that I don't think any other keeper in the league doesn't save. We are playing the worst Chelsea team I can remember, who are absolutely there for the taking, and yet despite the ball being in their half a lot, we have done nothing with it. We continue to struggle to get the best out of Isak, when he shows time and time again what quality he has when you get the ball into this feet, I don't understand why we don't play to his strengths.
We do seem to come out stronger in the 2nd half, this crowd is flat and ready to turn and there are 3 points absolutely up for grabs here.
2 - 1 Chelsea. Been coming. Newcastle must have had Horlicks at half-time 'cos they look ready for their beds. Players may be coming back from injury, but little has changed.
Has Longstaff been sent off?
3 - 1 Chelsea. Hardly surprising. Eddie Howe may have learned a lot of things during his hiatus, but he seems incapable of learning anything while he's in the job. Oh, and has Longstaff been sent off?
A club in disarray, looking at this. Unfortunately too few people, particularly in the media, have the guts to call Eddie Howe out about it. This really isn't good enough. He's shown us what he can do with this squad. The question needs to be asked of him why he can't do it again. Or was it all just a fluke and is Eddie Howe really just the AFC Bournemouth manager of old?
Y'see all the people who whine about Murphy don't see that he can address a football almost perfectly. And that's worth something.
Crap
What’s going on Eddie??
Starting with the laughable, have you ever seen a shitter game of football that had 5 goals in it? Two sides with no identity, no confidence, two managers leading their team to mid table mediocrity, what a game... Got to admit, when the Chelsea fans started cheering every pass they made, after Mudryk, one of the worst footballers the league has ever seen had just managed to score in successive games against us, I laughed, what else can you do.
We have lost our pressing identity, we have a squad full of tired looking players, injured players, players who look like they want away. Every single one of these has it's own set of troubling questions behind it. The worst thing though is that having lost our identity, Howe is incapable of carving out another one, even one where we sit a bit deeper, say 10 yards but compact, and play on the counter, just something you could hang your hat on and see that we are trying to navigate a shit season by playing a different way. What we just watched there was any trash Newcastle performance in the last 20 years, managed by any trash managed that we have had to endure where the players look like they haven't seen each other before, let alone trained all week together. We are turning more and more into the Newcastle of old and Howe seems not only incapable of halting the rot, he seems to be actively accelerating it by leaving a shaky, nervous defence, with a shit goalkeeper behind it, continually exposed, and then when we get on the ball, there is fuck all movement for the player on the ball so we end up going no where with it.
Imagine Isak and Bruno tonight, as if players of that calibre are going to want to stick around and play for Bournemouth 1.2.
Imagine the state of that City game next week, I'd happily forfeit it now just so I don't have to sit and watch this utter fucking trash play out another week. They will demolish us.