Everton Banter Archive March 13 2013

13 Mar 2013 22:29:27
Moyes probably waiting to see if we get takenover!

Very long wait for him then!

13 Mar 2013 22:14:26
Life as a BLUE is never easy. Usually we start poor and come with a late charge every season filling us with optimism only to start off poorly again! Well this season we have changed that trend. IMHO I feel the lack of new faces in Jan is the main cause but some of the team selections leave a lot to be desired. Imagine being a young midfielder sitting on the Everton bench on Sat watching Neville and Osman playing. Must be soul destroying knowing fine well that Moyes will Most likely start with them this week! They have both done well over the years but the lack of pace and strength makes them easy to be over run! Osman sprints going forward and jogs back and Neville is simply not good enough! Think Moyes will leave and I don't blame him as he doesn't get the backing from the board. Breaks my heard to read today that the darkside plan to bring in four quality players in the summer knowing fine well that we will be loosing a couple! Felli will defo go and maybe Baines. Just hope we get investment to push on or it could be back to relagation dog fights every season and I could face that again! Unhappy NI Blue

14 Mar 2013 10:33:03
top post.
the club lost the way.
the match against city will be very crucial.
we must get a result out of it.
if we loose. then europe is almost over.

13 Mar 2013 20:44:17
Would anyone else like to see Oviedo get a little run in the team? The poor lad has been sat on the bench most of the season and is probably itching to get a game. Seen a bit of him when he comes on and seems like a decent player so we could stick him at RM? Heard he's quite a nice guy too.

Team vs City?

Mucha

Coleman
Distin
Heitinga (Jags if he's fit)
Baines

Oviedo
Fellaini
Gibson
Pienaar

Mirallas
Anichebe

13 Mar 2013 22:30:56
He sits on the bench because he isn't good enough, he certainly isn't a midfield player.

He is also pacey, something we are in desperate need of.

He sits on the bench because he isn't good enough? why does Neville always get a game then?

Of what little time he has been involved he has been very good imo.

Toffee ace

We did pay 5 million for him!

To be fair hi is very quick but mostly left footed so if he played on the right he would cut in all the time he's played very well everytime he has played on the left we should move pineear to the right and oviedo on the left

13 Mar 2013 10:16:12
Ed Why has the attacking football we were playing at the start of the season dissapeared there must be a reason? Thomas Paul {Ed039's Note - From a neutral outsider looking in, it seems a lack of confidence through the whole squad. Fellaini isnt at the races, Jelavic is snatching, Mirillas looks as though he is trying to hard. If I am being honest I think a couple of wins and that comes back, plus Darron Gibson if he is fit must get a run of games and Phil Neville must come out of midfield, he is a terrible midfielder)

Sorry Ed, but I don't agree with you saying that Mirallas is trying too hard. There's not been a game this season where i've sat there and thought that Mirallas was trying too hard to impress. In fact it seems almost effortless with him.

BitterBlue {Ed025's Note - im with you bitter..

Well he was sure trying ten times harder than anyone else on sat so I think your being harsh on him.

I don't think you understood me Mike S. I was trying to say that he doesn't need to try really hard to impress the fans because with him it just looks effortless he is that good.

BitterBlue

13 Mar 2013 11:08:05
I presume the £125 million BK wants for the club includes money loaned by the board for players, if so this means we are in debt about £80-£90 million. or are they just being very greedy. KK.

Their just being very greedy, if they sold their shares at a break even return on their invertment, the clubs, ground replcement problem, would not be the deal breaker it currently is

If the reported 125m is just for Kenwrights shares, he`s fully entitled to ask as much as he wants for them.

But, if a potential purchaser does a little bit of due dilligence and looks over the books he`ll tell Billy to poke it where the sun don`t shine.

Kenwright is just looking for a hefty profit after 14 years.

Why do people keep going on about the board selling their shares on the cheap. Apart from BK, the others are simply investors, businessmen.
What investor would sell shares in business which is at the premier end of a booming market.
With the new TV deal EFC will receive £100's of millions of pounds over the next few years. let's get real here, EFC have huge earning potentai, and should still generate interested parties with an asking price of £125m

13 Mar 2013 09:03:17
Shame on the fans who turned on Fellaini.
So what he helped spoilt your dreams of Wembley, does that give us the right to take it out on him like you did, he is a young lad in a foreign country.
I know he earns brewsters and is probably a millionaire twice over but come on, after the dust has settled is their any need for it.
Think back to the good times, remember the picture of him doing the dance with Pienaar?
good times eh?
I was embarassed by the result but even more embarassed by the reaction of the fans, no wonder he told some horrible fans to F off, would you take it?
Would Wigan have still beat us if Howard and Jagielka were playing?
We are slowly turning into Galatasaray, sometimes Everton fans ashame me.
Ste F
Old Swan

Yes they probably would have still beat us. In the end, the quality of our players should be a draw - and that's assuming we had a nightmare (which we did). Two main players might have helped, but we could have had Messi, Ozil, Di Maria, etc and in the end it comes down to how the players play. And on Saturday they didn't want it.

So we are supposed to put with that display and not react?
I have never and will never boo the players. I have never left a match before the final whistle.

But I can fully understand the reaction of the crowd.

His display on Saturday was reminiscent of the lescott game and his attitude on the day was why the crowd set on him.
True, he was not alone but at the time he was the easy target.

Imo it should be Moyes who takes the greater part of the blame.
While the team were getting stick from the crowd he was sat in the dugout while Round was on the touchline. WTF was he playing at? And coming out with 'we weren't good enough on the day'? How many times has he said that lately? And nothing since?

How about a statement about there being no plan B and his failure to react on the day. The crowd could see what was happening but he was the only one with the power to do anything.
Still annoyed : (
MacT

If I was on £75,000 a week, you could call me all the names under the sun and I wouldn't be bothered. The nasty fans were only telling the delicate little flower to put a bit of effort in. His reaction was a bit pathetic really.

Mike

All Moyes did was look like an angry man who'd just has his apples scrumped by some kids. Steve Round? Lord knows what he does apart from sitting down like he's in a daze with a ear-piece in, what does he do exactly?And the vast majority of supporters pay their hard earned to go the game every week when they can sometimes ill afford it, then you have these millionaire fairies turning in a 'performance' like that. We fans pay their wages so we have every right to have a go at them when they're not putting a shift in. I can accept defeat to a better team, no problem, but not when our players don't even try as the majority didn't on saturday then we are entitled to voice our disgust.

What the **^^ has Galatasaray got to do with this?
Please enlighten me!
TT

13 Mar 2013 03:40:01
I actually don't want Felly dropped. If he's goinng in the summer then we need the best price available. Dropping him to the bench would force his value down.

Who knows, he might have a worldy against city.

Goodness knows we need him to.

COYB
Toffee ace

13 Mar 2013 02:20:22
R rite eds just got to get this of my chest. I have not read a word on this site since Saturday morning, I've not read a paper or had a sport channel on tv simply because what I saw on Saturday afternoon was an absolute disgrace to my beloved blue jersey. and for me felli is the closest thing to a cult hero we have had since duncan. And to be honest with you I would not care if I ever ever ever see that tool in a toffee strip again. My baby is 10years old she's only been going the game for about 4 years or so and I have always told her what we stand for she knows the meaning of nsno. When I was driving home me daughter said to me dad why did felliani walk off like that I said baby maroanne felliani isn't fit enough to polish Duncan's boots. Sorry but we will get over him!

Lets be honest I loved Dunc and he had desire and commitment he scored some decent goals but he wasnt a good player his ball control was terrible and he couldn't do much apart from fight and score headers.