NUFC vs Bournemouth

[toptoon]

It?s a good discussion, this and it deserves a thread of its own. Big problems currently, no doubt, but when you step back and look at things in the cold light of day you see, not just the cup but the improvement he has made in most players at the club. This seemed to stop when our fixture list exploded and there was less training time. We then made poor signings for our attack - Wissa and Elanga are just sh*t and Nick is a square peg in a round hole.
This man has so much credit at the club and I think back to the regret when Sir Bobby left.
I hope he?s here at the start of next season, after a good window and we go again.

[OwdBillCook]

This man has so much credit at the club and I think back to the regret when Sir Bobby left.
I hope he?s here at the start of next season, after a good window and we go again.

Aye, totally agree about his credit, and Sir Bobby.
But, did Eddie's success stop because our fixture list exploded? Or did it stop coincident with our fixture list exploding? I'm not sure.
As I said on another thread, I started to worry (OK, only a wee bit at first) that things didn't seem quite right after Amanda and Mehrdad left.
Then, more recently, the bonkers pressure that Hopkinson put on Eddie by saying that we should be in the mix with the world's top teams by 2030.
Surely he knew that financial constraints make this all but impossible? Why the hell did he say that??
For me, the implication was that Newcastle had to qualify for the Champions League every year, without fail, up to 2030. If not, we had failed in our objective. Did he say that, at the time he did, because he wanted Eddie to fail??????

I hate conspiracy theories as much as I hate VAR. But I have to wonder.......

[Marat18]

For me, the implication was that Newcastle had to qualify for the Champions League every year, without fail, up to 2030. If not, we had failed in our objective. Did he say that, at the time he did, because he wanted Eddie to fail??????

I hate conspiracy theories as much as I hate VAR. But I have to wonder.......

If we go that road then Eddie is get out of jail card for Hopkinson.
he can always claim his share of success and blame everything on previous setup