- Nov 11, 2009
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Howe saying he needs a break, so looks like Palace are stuck with Grandad.
Not sure he would take palace with that squad.
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[Football] Smug Eddie
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Howe saying he needs a break, so looks like Palace are stuck with Grandad.
Not sure he would take palace with that squad.
pornomagboy
wake me up before you gogo who needs potter when
he likes to play football on the ground he will need a new starting 11 if he took palace job
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Bruntburger
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Didn’t have a clue at Burnley. Useless outside his cosy Bournemouth crib.
Please go to Palace and take them down!
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OzMike
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He will take over at Watford.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Only a desperate man or someone who is looking for a short term job would touch Watford with a barge pole imo. No way will Smug end up there. Having wished for Bournemouth to go down and Smug to leave, now it’s happened I do feel for their fans.
https://youtu.be/bbaXmUXhU-g
Billy the Fish
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This has become one of football's accepted myths, up there with the special atmosphere at Anfield!
He built a good counter attacking team that relied heavily on 2 or 3 players going forward. Nobody ever talks about how dirty and cynical they are without the ball. Proper shithousers and they seemed to get away with it.
No Plan B. Add to that a squad that had little depth and was funded extremely dubiously. Some of those signings as well. They paid more for Billings than we did for Mooy and as for Solanke. Badly let down by Ryan Fraser who didn’t have the stomach for the fight and was their main source of assists at various times.
Lockdown football and their games with us showed this in a nutshell. A good side when you let them play (Leicester) they were clueless if you shut them down first and then got after them (Newcastle). Our home win over them was one of the easiest games of the season, our defeat there our worst performance.
He’ll need to go somewhere with good young players, a big budget and a chairman who doesn’t mind the odd 3-0 defat to start off with in order to gain 4-2 wins later on. I don’t know that club. Bournemouth were uniquely him, and him them. The reputation he built though will mean someone will take a punt. We could be hailing Plucky Little Someone Else on these pages in a year or so or laughing at another Burnley style car crash.
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Lockdown football and their games with us showed this in a nutshell. A good side when you let them play (Leicester) they were clueless if you shut them down first and then got after them (Newcastle). Our home win over them was one of the easiest games of the season, our defeat there our worst performance.
He’ll need to go somewhere with good young players, a big budget and a chairman who doesn’t mind the odd 3-0 defat to start off with in order to gain 4-2 wins later on. I don’t know that club. Bournemouth were uniquely him, and him them. The reputation he built though will mean someone will take a punt. We could be hailing Plucky Little Someone Else on these pages in a year or so or laughing at another Burnley style car crash.
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Interestingly, they looked at the amount of goals B’Muff concede every year in the Premier League on MOTD. They were big numbers! Eddie is very much from the Keegan school of ‘We’ll score more than you’.
They were always very good at finding the net but generally poor in the defence. But when your team stop scoring, you’re in a lot of trouble with that philosophy.
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Bristol City?
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I'm not sure why you would, nobody died they weren't robbed.
I certainly wouldn't if the Albion were relegated after a 38 game season.
The Albion being a team who have attempted to be Premier League Ready, struggled to get promoted, have a stadium and training facility worthy of the league, a scouting network which is seemingly more stalker than is healthy! and a promising yoof set up.
Their fans have turned a blind eye to the money stream as their team cheated its way to promotion, they've reveled in the lack of investment in the club, have a recruitment policy consisting of 'over paying for Liverpool cast off's' and a complete reliance on an arrogant manager who actively slams the door on advise.
If you look up 'f**k'um' in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of Bournemouth fans.
I have always liked Eddie and, unlike many on here, I also like Bournemouth, having lived down there many years ago.
He did a brilliant job for the club, rather like Mullers did for us, but with knobs on.
He will have a good future in football management providing he finds the right fit. I am not so sure about Bournemouth, but I wish them well.
I would much rather have seen Villa go down.
He did a brilliant job for the club, rather like Mullers did for us, but with knobs on.
He will have a good future in football management providing he finds the right fit. I am not so sure about Bournemouth, but I wish them well.
I would much rather have seen Villa go down.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
Bielsa out, Smug in
Not sure you have watched palace much in the last couple of years .... like Brighton if anything they pass the ball around too much, you know 15 passes around the back 4 when 3 would do. There aren’t any long ball teams in the premier league at the moment.
Not sure you have watched palace much in the last couple of years .... like Brighton if anything they pass the ball around too much, you know 15 passes around the back 4 when 3 would do. There aren’t any long ball teams in the premier league at the moment.
Motogull
Todd Warrior
- Sep 16, 2005
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Do you mean to the granny flat kitted out with a walk in bath, chair in the shower and power assisted armchairs etc?
If Eddie were to go to Palace, and have them playing a more energetic game, they'd be knackered by 60 minutes. Far too old collectively. They would need a dangerously high squad freshen up to make it possible. What might be left from the Dibley sale wouldn't be enough anyway.
Behind Enemy Lines
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That’s a good shout but think Watford are talking to one of the former Udinese managers...
Perhaps Mike was talking about October
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
- 12,114
Smug knows he needs the club to spend big to stand a chance of keeping his reputation intact as "a miracle worker"
The club know they can't throw money at it again and smug isn't the right manager to knit together the sort of team that is more than the sum of its parts.
Suspect it may have been pretty mutual.
It'll be interesting to see where he goes next. He's lived virtually his entire life in or near Bournemouth. Apart from two matches at Pompey, his entire playing career was with Bournemouth, and 10 of his 12 years in management have been at Bournemouth. Not exactly well-travelled!! He seems to be someone who likes the comforts of the familiar....not much wrong with that, but his world is quite a small one.
Randy McNob
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- Jun 13, 2020
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I think Watford's revolving door policy is a turn off