Everton Banter Archive April 17 2014

17 Apr 2014 21:02:41
Hiya Ed any news on any new players on the radar for the summer mine are Barry FREE Colback Free Gomis FREE Rodwell 5m but play at centre half instead of midfield Tello Loan if barca get their banned lifted Ince Free Rhodes 10m and Bang AC Millan Loan Powell From Manchester United Loan Option To Buy Aaron Cresswell 3m from Ipswich Westwood 2m from Sunderland

Out Francisco Júnior, Apostolos Vellios, Joel Robles,
Shane Duffy, Magaye Gueye, Antolín Alcaraz

Loans for youngsters Tyias Browning, George Green, Matthew Kennedy, Jindrich Stanek, Matthew Pennington

{Ed025's Note - its a bit early to speculate really KJW, lots of players are being sounded out for availability, but things will change depending on where we finish, people are coming up with names of potential targets, but really only bobby and bill know the real options mate, the world cup will create a lot of problems as well, but i have faith that we will be very active in the market..

Give Roberto the tools and he will deliver! Hopefully the board now see this and will back him.
New stadium on horizon, which will be full if we get it right on pitch!

Out of curiosity Ed it all went quiet on the Red Bull meetings, did that fizzle out?

{Ed025's Note - yes mate..

17 Apr 2014 22:56:50
Antolin imo is still class, yes he has had injuries but when he has played he was motm in each game (bar the liverpool game when he wasnt fit) and robles will stay, don't see him overtaking howard though, especially since tim just signed a new deal and why get gomis? Because he is free? i'd take bony or someone we have to pay for, if we stock up on frees it will show how unambitious the board are, duffy is rated very highly by many evertonians and by distin, not so much by most others, if he or mcaleny have a future, it has to be next season, gueye can go he is woeful, dunno where cisco is, never heard of cresswell, colback and barry yes, tello maybe and i'm not getting into another rodwell debate, all our centre backs and midfielders from the under 5s up are better, just need stones, coleman and mccarthy to sign new deals, get barry in and happy days!

17 Apr 2014 22:57:37
Oh and westwood, there is a reason he is sunderlands 3rd choice you know

We shouldn't sell Duffy. He's doing incredibly out on loan. Arguably the best player the championship.

Keep duffy all day long. He ain't getting the chance because everyone else is doing ok so far

17 Apr 2014 17:45:44
Bitterly disappointed with the result last night. I'm currently in Thailand (Koh Samui) and had to stay up until 1.45am for the start of the match last night having packed the missus and the kids off to bed. What a let down. Why drop McCarthy from a wining side? This is the second time a team formation has let us down. Remember Robles' shambolic performance in the cup game at Arsenal when he couldn't collect the ball and resorted to trying to punch each time embarrassingly for us when Tim Howard was sitting on the bench unused?
So why was James McCarthy starting on the bench? This disrupted the flow of recent results and put Gareth Barry under unneccessary pressure. That was a game we realistically needed to win with both of the Mancs coming up at home next which won't be easy.
Why is it that Everton always try to do it the hard way? A win last night would have put us above Arsenal again and would have gone a long way towards finishing 4th.
Anyway with the trouble and strife next to me on Sunday there shouldn't be any distractions when we play UTD ( a 10.15pm kick off here ) unlike last night when I was constantly being offered company!
I did try saying that the only Kompany needing looking at was going to be in the next game, but I think it got lost in the translation on top of a few too many Chang beers.

{Ed025's Note - mcarthy was injured davey, bobby put him on as a last resort, have a good time in thailand mate, and dont mess around with a lady boy daveyboy.. :)

17 Apr 2014 13:13:36
Hi ed, I agree with most everybody here about palace being pushovers. The worse teams to be playing at the end of a season are those in or around the relegation zone. They are desperate for points and will throw the kitchen sink at you. I would much prefer playing teams who are already safe and have nothing to gain, like Man U or Southampton. I think Martinez got the formation wrong ever so slightly, would have played McCarthy from the start. Well I still think top 4 is not gone yet, Arsenal have a tricky match away to Hull, potential slip up there, hope Jelly does us a favor there. By the way ed, what's the matter with Traore.

COYB

{Ed025's Note - still injured as far as i know mate..

17 Apr 2014 08:48:48
When I saw the team sheet yesterday before the game, I thought, "Has RM got a new idea or something?". I looked at it and thought. "this is really some attacking team". But where are the "working" midfield link up players? The Osman's, Pienaar's or McCarthy's? The team in effect had 3 wingers in Mirallas, McGeady and Deulofeu. Then with Lukaku holding the center forward position, leaves Barkley to play a sort of holding midfield position. Either way, there were 5 attacking mids/forwards. Was the plan to have only Barry doing all the graft on his own? All round I thought the balance looks wrong. I think for once, RM got his tactics a bit muddled. Big gap in midfield and playing so many players in unfamiliar positions means that they are likely to make mistakes or not know the best way of doing things. I think that's what happened last night. Still, we all do make mistakes.as long as we learn from them.

17 Apr 2014 07:46:12
I'm very nervous regarding Sunday us fans need to get behind the team, forget spouting abuse at Moyes or Fellani, let's give Moyes the welcome he deserves, he done wonders for the club but is never mentioned by Bobby. let's tear roof off singing, we can still make the champions league it will go to the last game I guarantee.

{Ed025's Note - you may not get your wish there sunny mate..

Your statement, ". let's give Moyes the welcome he deserves. ", is open to a couple of different interpretations, Russ! My own personal one would be complete silence & indifference, but I think the whistles on Sunday will have dogs being walked in North Wales turning round!

{Ed025's Note - i think the crowd will give him hell to be honest tezza, but i think the crowd should just tun their backs on him mate...just like he did to us..

The best responce to moyes when he appears is for the fans to keep chanting
ROBERTO MARTINEZ and SCHOOL OF SCIENCE.
of course doing an arsenal on them (3-0) would be nice

School of science a near enough full house all singing will surely make gollum age another 40 years in 90 minutes. can't wait to see it on you tube coyb!!