Everton Banter Archive February 25 2018

 

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25 Feb 2018 20:03:01
Looking at current points and goal difference v league position, prediction is we will finish 12th or 13th. Martinez was sacked on us finishing 11th. Have to wonder if Sam will be here after the final game.

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25 Feb 2018 21:12:29
Not sure how you worked that out DFS. Allardyce is averaging 1.4 pts per game with 10 left. That should see us on 48, which was good enough for 8th last season.

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25 Feb 2018 22:22:57
I think the piece in the echo points to a more worrying end to the season. 1 clean sheet since boxing day, we face the second amount of shots on goal and have the lowest shot on goal.

If we're close to the bottom three with 4 or 5 games to go you can add fear and nerves that can affect you as well.

Sooner the better we get these points on the board.

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26 Feb 2018 06:50:10
Smit, you are counting West Ham win under Unsworth to get that 1.4 figure. Allardyce is 1.35.

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26 Feb 2018 10:35:05
Glenn the 0.05 difference will only equate to half a point over the next 10 games.

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26 Feb 2018 11:41:01
This is what we have been reduced to. Discussing what half a point will do to our season LOL. Were DOOMED.

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25 Feb 2018 18:38:14
We need a new DOF badly. A football man not a scout or a business person. Someone who can advise the board and owner who should be appointed as the new manager and to take charge of recruiting new players. Until we make that appointment we will be treading water and wasting money.

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{Ed025's Note - very true mike..

25 Feb 2018 20:08:47
Most of us have been putting forward that very point BlueMike. As Ed (s) and others have observed, no doubt Clubs have people that surf these sites, ergo Mr Moshri will be up to speed. Ideal situation is that Mr Walsh accepts that his greatest value to Everton is as a Scout, allowing an experienced DoF to evaluate, (my first choice would be Glenn Hoddle) . Hopefully ego and pride will permit Mr Walsh to accept that important role and move aside.

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{Ed025's Note - lets hope so DFS..

25 Feb 2018 23:46:45
Yes I know Ducks but most are calling for a new Manager, what I am saying is that we need a new DOF first so he can help choose a new Manager. I don't trust Moshiri or Kenwright or anyone else presently at the club (especially Walsh) to choose a new Manager.

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26 Feb 2018 04:20:19
Think it's best not to have a dof unless he's proven and trustworthy.

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26 Feb 2018 07:04:13
I don’t trust him as a scout - Sandro, Klassen, Schneiderlin and now Tosun looks to be another dud.

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26 Feb 2018 08:12:13
I think its to early to label Tosun, he has hardly had a chance! we all thought Niasse was a complete dud a season ago yet I believe now he is a good option from the bench at the very least! Sandro and Klassen have had little chance to impress either now ones on loan and ones rotting in the reserves! Schneiderlin is the only one given the game time and has consistently disappointed so yes agree there!

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25 Feb 2018 18:18:59
Who should we be looking at for manager in the summer?
Sam was a necessary evil and I believe we might have gone down without him this year but moving forward we need a manager that tries to win not one who thinks he has done his job as long as we don't get beat
A manager that wants to win things not one who thinks he's won something if he finishes outside the bottom 3
We also need to get rid of the bigger problem that is Steve Walsh, I can remember when we moaned about Moyse spending money as if it was his own! I'd rather that than Walsh spending like a crack head looking for a high.

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{Ed025's Note - im on board with that S..

25 Feb 2018 18:32:06
We can still go down mate.

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{Ed025's Note - but not very likely GB..

25 Feb 2018 18:45:22
Walsh got lucey with two unknowns, and has been dinning out on it ever since, with people waiting for him to repeat the trick, if he had any part in bringing in pickford, than thank you, but he was hardly an unknown quantity, time for you to pick up your pay off and move along.

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25 Feb 2018 21:03:46
agree Ed but to stay up we have to get the points mate fingers x.

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25 Feb 2018 16:42:15
My own personal player ratings for yesterday:

Pickford 6
Martina 4
Williams 5
Keane 5
Kenny 5
Rooney 4
Gueye 5
Davis 4
Walcott 4
Siggy 5
Niasse 4

I've left the subs out as none were an improvement on the starting 11. Now maybe you think I'm being a bit harsh with some but it's a personal opinion and none of them really merited anything higher.

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25 Feb 2018 17:25:26
I don't agree with Davies having a 4. He was the only one who looked as if he was trying and cared about the result. I would give him a 6 at least.

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{Ed025's Note - 7 for me mike..

25 Feb 2018 17:38:04
Your Ed at least he tried to win the ball.

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25 Feb 2018 18:55:37
Keane: 'The lads are gutted in the changing room'! Then young man try opening your eyes and you may have got something on Troy's goal shot instead of like a Sunday morning 11 year old, closing your eyes and ducking under it. I bet not many of you noticed that.

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25 Feb 2018 18:57:40
6 and 7 really? Oh well, as I said it's only an opinion. Maybe I was too busy yawning when Tom was doing his thing 😜.

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25 Feb 2018 16:27:54
People have been posting about the improvement that Allardyce has brought about so I thought that I would have a look. Initially, I am just looking at stats; no thougt of playing style whther we have been lucky or unlucky or whether results are deserved or underserved.
When SA took over we had played 14 games for 15 points. Since he took over 14 games for 19 points. It isn't a huge improvement but it is an improvement ad maybe sufficient improvement.
If Allardyce's stewardship had not produced that additional 4 points we would have been between 13-15 depending on goal difference. In truth from 30 points at this stage we would probably survive but it would be a bit more sweaty that what this promises to be.

Allardyce took over after the emphatic victory over West Ham and enjoyed a short term upturn in the team's fortunes. It may well be that had he continued Unsworth would have reaped the benefit of the post West Ham confidence boost. In truth the point is moot and we can never know.
Looking forward we have 10 remaining fixtures; 5 at home and 5 away.
If we are as pessimistic as we can be so that any surprises are pleasant ones, we should discount any return from the home matches with Liverpool and City. that leaves Brighton, Newcastle and Southampton. Now whilst you would see all those as winnable, if we consider in full on pessimistic mode, we must surely win 1 and get a couple of draws. That would give us 5 points and take us to 39.
We have the 5 away games to get 1 point to get to the holy grail of 40 points. I know that we are worse than awful away but surely there must be 1 point away at Burnley, Stoke, Swansea, Huddersfield and West Ham. So in the end those 4 extra points whether due to the Allardyce factor or a wave of confidence generated by Unsworth look to be 4 points of gold.

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25 Feb 2018 16:54:31
Good post mate.

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25 Feb 2018 17:20:32
Interesting post Glenn, nice one.

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25 Feb 2018 17:40:23
Hi Grumpy mate, what's going to happen to Big Sam do you reckon, i'm like you I will give my total support to whoever is in charge.

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25 Feb 2018 18:58:39
Glennk and not to say given Sam and Unsy's combined results that Koeman would have achieved the end result if given time. I would even include Brown Shoes in that, we did after all finish 11th in his bad season.

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25 Feb 2018 19:19:16
I know I'm not Grumpy GB but he's done little to show that if he sees out his contract things will improve on what we are seeing now. If being predominantly ultra defensive and still losing is the kind of football you want to see he's definitely your man. If that happens I'll support the team fully as I do now but I won't like it.

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25 Feb 2018 19:53:11
I think he will leave in the summer mate.

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25 Feb 2018 20:13:00
I think so too. I can't see Moshiri putting up with this any longer than he has to even if it costs him a few ££.

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25 Feb 2018 20:23:48
Realistically GB it will all depend on availability. What we need in a new manager will be someone who wants to manage us to move us forward not someone who has come on board for a good pay cheque.

It is imperative that the next manager we have is the right one and meets all of the brief and not just parts of it, if that manager is not yet available or if indeed they do not wish to join us then I can see SA staying on next season, Unless something remarkable happens next season with SA in charge then I do not see the club extending his contract.

If there is a manager who meets the brief and is willing to join us for the right reasons then SA will be out. In my opinion the board have been clever in giving in to his so called demand of an 18 month contract as it gives them a lot more time to find a suitable replacement. With so much in the pipeline the next one really has to be the right one mate.

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25 Feb 2018 20:33:45
Agree mate I see now that Sam has lower points per game average than both Koeman and Martinez, i reckon he will be on his bike mate.

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25 Feb 2018 20:51:08
Agree Big H especially with the new stadium in the pipeline, Mr Moshiri will want a top coach and I am sure he can persuade him to come to Everton.

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25 Feb 2018 21:22:31
If Sam is only going to get the remainder of his contract then the club would be suicidal in keeping him.

How do you sell a club to a player when it's just a 12 month contract?

If we want to sign good players we have to sell them a longer term vision than 12 months. Also why would we sign players for Sam's vision to then have to do it all over again in 12 months with a new manager. We are bleeding money right now and it will very soon start to dry up.

We need a new man in place this summer that is going to bring a fresh new vision and project and then back him properly in the summer.

To give the new man a chance of success he has to be given time by the board and the fans. That may mean we accept the hiccups along the way. However, for us to accept this we need a brave board that understands what we want which is a brand of football that gets you excited and then give it time to make it work.

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{Ed025's Note - great post that john..

26 Feb 2018 06:59:07
I can see allardyce going a few days after the last game (unless we finish 7th) with Walsh shortly after that.

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26 Feb 2018 10:46:52
It was less than 5 weeks ago the majority were saying we should sign this player and should sign that player BJU.

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26 Feb 2018 11:23:10
BJU, that is exactly why we will be looking for a new manager come the summer, it makes no sense to support a manager and his notions for 12 months to then rip it up and start again, that's what I'm hoping and praying that we do.
Pay them all off and start with a new manager with a 4 year plan.

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26 Feb 2018 12:32:27
And i think Grumpy the Tosun deal shows how important it is we get a new strong manager with his own ideas and back him. Not a manager brought in to support walsh and the board.

We as supporters will wish for new players and there was a need for pace and width. Thankfully Theo came in because if we didn't we'd be 1 point of the relegation places.

Koeman wanted a striker a left back a centre back and left winger in the summer on top of what we bought. Walsh got none of them.

It's time Walsh and the board to take a look at themselves. I like the board and all of them on it but they've got to understand Walsh is the DOF and it's the manager who picks the team and who plays in it.

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25 Feb 2018 14:48:05
Surely it's time we had a creative midfielder on the subs bench?
Rooneys passing was way off yesterday and our only option was Schneiderlin.
Garbutt is never going to get a game under sam (although bringing him on for Martina would have given us more going forward when 1 0 down)
So why have him on the bench with Holgate, when holgate can fill in at full back anyway.
Surely Klassen or Vlasic could be a sub to give us more options.

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25 Feb 2018 17:40:24
Unfortunately for klassen vlasic Sandro lookman they were victims of a new manager not wanting to bother with another managers players they were all bought as creative players who we are now told are not good enough to play IMO none of them have been given the opportunity to adapt or play themselves into form I would have liked to of seen them all on the bench I don't blame lookman or Sandro going on lone and will not be surprised when they all do well at new clubs until we get a manager who plays quality football we will be watching a defensive nervous team Touson will be next a player we were told would save us but doesn't play will probably be gone in the summer aswell.

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25 Feb 2018 13:54:42
Looking back perhaps Moyes was the best since Howard Kendall and maybe just maybe that is as good as we can get. Perhaps Moyes should have accepted that as well. Not advocating bringing him back, (lost his mojo) . Don't honestly know where we go from here, I don't want proven failed Managers, Silva et al! but on the other hand, is there a successful manager out there that would fancy the coaching/ managing challenge that we have become. I couldn't at the moment name one.

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25 Feb 2018 14:06:44
Fonseca or Howe for me mate.

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25 Feb 2018 14:29:49
Benitez, gasperini, fonseca.

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25 Feb 2018 15:07:14
Like any of those Smit mate.

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25 Feb 2018 15:09:21
I did say would any of those you mention (I agree with all of them except perhaps Howe, A. he doesn't want to leave and B. he would just keep us middle of the table) , come to us.

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25 Feb 2018 15:39:20
I think Benitez is as negative as Allardyce and to him we are "a small club". I'm alright thanks.

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25 Feb 2018 16:12:44
benitez is more tactically adept than sam and his style is more akin to counter attacking than blockading which is what sam does, the two things are different
anyways
i want a manager with clear potential and backing him through and through for a couple of seasons and go for the long term. someone who has experience as a one club manager, maybe sean dyche, i wonder what he'd do with more talented players in a squad like everton
and i think getting a new director of football is more important, managers can be completely daft at signing new players, howes record isn't particularly good in that regard.

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25 Feb 2018 16:19:37
oh and there's a reason real madrid went for rafa benitez and not sam allardyce, before you jump the gun on his time at real being a failure, it really wasn't he wasn't sufficiently backed in the summer, the players were against him as soon as he got in because they didn't really want ancelloti to leave, and real were still 3rd in the table.

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25 Feb 2018 17:13:25
I think Benitez is another Moyes and has lost his way Fonseca would be my option if a deal could be struck as I don’t know enough about Gasperini
The area that needs review as well is DOF.

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25 Feb 2018 13:20:39
This is not to do really to do with the Watford game but something in general. My views of Allardyce and Walsh are clear, both of them should be sacked as soon as the last game of the season is over. However, three managers this year have came and the results have been the same. My life has only seen Moyes onwards but I remember even if we were playing badly, we would never roll over. Players like Cahill, Jags and Neville wouldn't allow us to be smashed. Now as soon as a couple of goals go in away from home we end up getting battered e. g. Tottenham, Arsenal. Southampton and Atalanta. Even when Unsy was in charge, we still got battered. This makes me question the mentality of these players, I can only thing of a few who would do anything for this blue shirt but the rest couldn't care less. The management must take responsibility but so should the players, they need to give their all every time.

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25 Feb 2018 13:38:25
The disappointing thing with Walsh is, all I ever heard about him was how much he looked into players temperaments, character and personalities. All that seems to have gone out the window with our recruits.

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25 Feb 2018 13:48:57
I agree mate I'd keep at the club as a scout for home grown talent maybe but we need someone in from Europe who has links in the game and get players with the play style to fit whoever the manager will be, players who are adaptable and have the character to fit into British life. As Sandro has shown, some players will find it tough moving from sunny Spain to Merseyside.

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25 Feb 2018 14:56:48
I don't think he is suited to our club toffeejoe.

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25 Feb 2018 15:08:05
And a few others mate.

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25 Feb 2018 12:12:20
I see there is a lot of emotion on here this morning and so there should be after another dreadful performance yeaterday, we are not out the relegation battle just yet being only 7 points in front of Swansea, but we do need to get behind the whole team and the manager now more than ever at this difficult time, if the powers that be decide to replace Sam in the summer and I hope they do, then so be it he wasn't my first choice either but as I stated before I will always support Everton and their manager 100% until that happens.

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25 Feb 2018 13:14:21
I will not call for his head GB even though at this rate I will be in the summer. It is getting harder and harder to stomach though.
I have just resorted to drink and sarcasm to get me through these tough times.

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{Ed025's Note - less of the sarcasm and more of the drink is what you need smit mate..

25 Feb 2018 13:30:21
Can't beat a bit of sarcasm Smit mate.

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25 Feb 2018 13:46:41
Same as that lads.

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25 Feb 2018 12:01:15
Five days in Dubai wtf did it work? it was just a holiday? "sam will keep us up" are you happy with that? we are the most boring team in the prem, two shots on target against watford?

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25 Feb 2018 12:51:18
Dome idiots will still defend him.

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{Ed033's Note - Who are these Dome idiots? 😋

25 Feb 2018 13:12:40
They're in Greenwich hiding out on the O2 arena.

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25 Feb 2018 11:10:47
Although results are what we need, I think the bigger issue is the nature of our performances. We set up yesterday and looked like a team that were there for just one result a shutout and a draw! In fact just before they scored his intent was to bring on Schneiderlin and shore up the defence for the last few minutes. He then had to abandon that once they scored, however the problem then was the lacklustre response to conceding that goal.
I want to give SA support and know he is here until the end of the season, however again I see no difference in the player's attitude, body language and commitment to the club since RK was here. The tactics are not dissimilar and he is just repeating the same mistakes, we are afraid to lose and look like we have no idea how to respond to going behind in away games! We do not play with enough attacking intent, we are unbalanced in the team set up and as we used to say when RM was in charge we have no plan B!
Our recruitment policy has been totally mismanaged, you can blame SW, the manager and the board but someone made the decision and someone authorised it! How can we have £25m players not even on the bench?
This summer needs a complete overhaul, the board must take good advice and as we supposedly have a long term plan then maybe review that, because if Spurs were criticised for misspending the Bale money, we have been ten times worse with our new found wealth!

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{Ed025's Note - i agree wakka mate..

25 Feb 2018 13:20:14
Part of it is, we try to keep the game tight for 20 minutes to silence the home crowd but then look to shut up shop after 70 minutes. when the game is getting stretched that is the time to exploit teams.
So essentially we only have half a game of football to be on the front foot.

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25 Feb 2018 10:57:29
I know we have all been banging on about consistency when picking teams but maybe we need an away 11 and a home 11. The 11 that perform so well at home just don't have the mentality/ fight away from home.

It may be a mad idea but, how about giving the likes of Baningime, Vlasic, Klassen, DCL and a few other fringe players a shot at an away game. After all it worked in the final Europa league away game.

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25 Feb 2018 11:36:44
Maybe we need an away manager. Shakespeare gave us the best performance since Sam has been here home and away.

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25 Feb 2018 10:39:32
SA talks about the team as though he is still a pundit on the telly and not the manager.
He is a chancer who has benefited from the panic button reaction from the club. He is not a good manager, but he is a bloody good salesman. And he sold himself to the owners. As he has done to many clubs before us.
The man could sell flood insurance to the Arabs.
So what to do? Do simply boot him out and hope our saviour comes marching over the hill. Or do we look a little deeper and ask why was he appointed and by whom. Who is actually running the club, and who is making all these critical decisions.
I know lots of you think you know who it is, but are you sure. I know one thing for sure. If we don't get this sorted, and if we don't get strong leadership at board level, then the same mistakes will have again and again. And chancers like Sam will be queuing up at our door to sell us more crap, and we will buy it.

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25 Feb 2018 11:50:31
Absolutely WB, he is a chancer and lots have fell for it, including the FA. He shouldn't be anywhere near football, let alone our club. I don't understand the people that say he's been overseas and studied new technologies etc and yet he serves up what he learnt with George Graham 30 years ago but can't even get that right! He'll make sure we limp across the line around the 40 point mark and then pack himself back off to Spain with lord knows how many extra million in his fat pockets. If Moshiri and Kenwright are serious about what they want to achieve then they've got to get Rafa in and give him all the money he needs.

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25 Feb 2018 12:07:26
You make a good point there Woburn, for me it does not feel like he has embraced the club, its history or the city, he feels like a caretaker! He does not link himself to the teams performance but sounds like someone looking in, I see he is blaming poor finishing for our result yesterday but I'm not sure I remember their keeper making any worldies, anyway we only had 7 shots and one on target?

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25 Feb 2018 12:58:01
Woeburn, MJB. An awful lot of the panic in the Club is down to us supporters (myself included at times) . We must be very near the top of the impatience league when it comes to Managers and Transfer Windows. Transfer Windows in particular the impatience starts on the very first day. The same to some extent with Managers, we clammer, badger and harass to get a Manager out and then demand an instant appointment. Then we have the board itself, while the old guard of intransigence and wanting something for nothing negotiating Team exists we will forever be in the position we are now. It needs a whole new attitude from us supporters and a massive clear out top to bottom behind the scenes among the executive in particular.

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25 Feb 2018 14:47:44
Twenty seven years. 27 and counting. And still they get tremendous support home and away. Every season every year for the last twenty seven years, and you have the front to blame them? Supporters will support when there is something too support. At the moment all they see is players in blue shirts not giving a toss, so what do you expect.

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25 Feb 2018 15:17:39
What I said Woburnblue was we as supporters are very impatient and by harassing (airplanes for Gods sake) to get a man out and then having done so, whinging about the time it takes to get another one in. Perhaps if we left the powers that be to get on with it, we would not see the knee jerk reaction in appointing the wrong man or transfer. In other words we need to take a balanced view. Personally I have never seen the need to take my ball home if things don't go my way.

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25 Feb 2018 10:30:13
Not sure if its just me, but watching that last night its was the first time I have not felt any real passion or excitement about a Everton game. It was a case of just waiting for Watford to score and when they did I just felt nothing.

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25 Feb 2018 11:04:42
Sadly mate I know just what you mean.

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25 Feb 2018 10:25:08
Grumpy, I'm not a Sam supporter or hater. I'm very much on the fence but I am a bit worried by your blinded support for Sam and supporting him even after another poor game like yesterday.
Of course it's not Sam's team and he only bought in 3 players but so many managers come in to struggling team's with other people's players and make them play better and win football matches (carvahal at Swansea to name just one)

Whilst he has done his job in saving us from relegation (almost! ) , and we are all grateful for That, I think if you did a poll on who fans want as manager next season then Sam will have very low score.

But from now until the end of the season we need to get behind the team and management and get as high up the table as we can. Just need Sam to unleash the players to try to attack home and away.

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{Ed025's Note - good post that geoff..

25 Feb 2018 10:47:57
I am not an advocate of SA. Never have been nor will be, but he did what we all would have done and accepted a job with lots of dosh. I am sure he will keep us up (just) but he must go in summer. However, I personally look higher for the faults though. Morishi came in and gave us hope. I really expected a top 6 finish this season with a message to others that we had arrived. All the excitement and hype seemed to disintegrate, and we found ourselves going through what must be the most embarrassing period of our history. Morishi is a businessman and knows how to make money by surrounding himself with those who know best. Sadly, I see this is not the case here. I am not sure what the set up with power sharing is, nor how easy it would be for him to buy out the other board members as, I have heard of infighting on the board which cannot help in the selection process of a new manager, or give a new manager confidence, but for me a total clear out at the top in summer might go some way to moving us forward in a unilateral way of, one for all and all for one. I don’t think yesterdays result was a surprise, in fact probably most posters expected it, but despite our differences there is one thing that is common, and that is the hurt we all feel for what’s happening to our club. I hope the board feel the same pain.

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25 Feb 2018 11:27:02
Geoff some managers go to poor teams and nothing changes at all. You mention Carvahal and yes he is doing ok but what about Pardew at WBA? There are always 2 side mate. We should in my opinion be happy that enough has changed to put us in a position where safety is within touching distance.

Thankfully it is not up to the fans who we appoint as manager, because if it was we would never appoint one as we would never agree. You hit the nail on the head saying he has ALMOST saved us from relegation, we still have a little way to go before that happens and in my opinion we should allow him to finish the job, when he has done that and we genuinely have nothing to lose then let's slag him off for styles and management skills, but at the same time in my opinion we should lay off him at least until the job is done.

As for the blind support of him I see the same as everyone else, I see the same mistakes, I see the same problems and I also see how bad we are playing, but in my opinion we are in a much better position since he arrived. Avoiding relegation has to be our number one priority, regardless of how bad we look. I support Everton and as I have stated every single week that means supporting everything at Everton regardless of how pretty things look. Now whilst this may not be the way everyone supports the club it is the way I choose to support them. I wanted Pellegini instead of RK but when he was not appointed I did not once slag off RK I gave him 100% support until the day he was sacked, I did not want SA my first choice was Raffa (I took a lot of flak for that at the time) , but seeing as SA has the job I feel it would be wrong of me not to give him my total support.

Now if that goes against the masses then so be it, I have chosen that way, I am a strong believer that if I support something then I support it 100% not just the bits I happen to like. As I say that is my choice and I take more stick than most on these forums for those choices but in my opinion it does not sit right cherry picking support for the club.

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25 Feb 2018 13:05:01
With you there mate.

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25 Feb 2018 09:56:12
There are 10 games left to play and I fully expect us to get 15 to 24 out of the 30 points on offer, if not more. Is that positive enough for you Smit666 😜😂😂.

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{Ed025's Note - its more than positive BigH...its unbelievable mate..

25 Feb 2018 10:06:38
You should offer your services as a motivational speaker to the team.
We are averaging 1.5pts per game so should come in around the lower end of your estimate 😂.

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25 Feb 2018 11:24:45
Seriously, as daft as it may sound I 'expect' us to win every game we play, or at the very least attempt to, even against the so-called Elite. It's been hard keeping that mindset going this season but I have to have faith otherwise what's the point. My points expectation is a bit tongue in cheek but let's get safe, regroup and rebuild in places in the summer and look forward to next season with renewed optimism.

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25 Feb 2018 08:25:04
Don't think SA is the answer for Everton he will do what he set out to do and get us safe but his brand of football is not good enough to take us forward players and fans don't like it no major player will sign to play in his system the amount of times we gave the ball away trying to play long balls it's boring to watch Who do we turn to next is the big question IMO it's going to be hard to get a major name to come but for me I would give someone like mikel arteta a try has learnt all peps contacts now always tried to play good football as a player and would do so as a manager survey blues fans would get behind him and give him some time a much better option than rhino ever was.

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25 Feb 2018 12:17:04
Alid, you're being kind to sa he is a man that gets bonus for keeping teams up I think are aim is higher than that we now need a manager that moves us forward I hope that's Silva despite him been sacked by Watford I really think he would be perfect. we are not a club that needs sa padrew pullis or hodsgon every year to save us.

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25 Feb 2018 13:06:50
Defensive performance is supposed to be Sams forte but to harp back about my oft example of Grand Son, Son's etc and our all weather sideline support and coaching. The first thing I told my son and Grand Son was don't duck or turn your back on the ball, yes you will get hurt but less so than if you don't see it coming. Yes Watfords goal was a good one but look at it again and in particular look at Keane, the lad is a professional and touted England prospect, for the goal his eyes are tight shut both prior to and in the act of ducking his head to supposedly make contact with the ball, result is there for all to see.

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25 Feb 2018 08:05:06
6 pointer next week if we still have any ambition of chasing 7th.
Let's dust ourselves off and go again.

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25 Feb 2018 09:34:04
The only way that we will get 7th is if it comes and finds us.

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25 Feb 2018 10:08:43
I have to disagree Glenn. If Leicester and Burnley both go into administration they will be deducted points at the end of the season, which should, see us sneak into 7th.

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25 Feb 2018 07:45:38
Not sure what all the negativity is about on here. We did a pretty good job of holding onto a 1-0. Granted, it was a loss but hey ho.

I'm not sure what everyone was expecting as we never play well after a footballing break and with our away record what it is, this was always going to be a struggle.

Roll on the summer.

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25 Feb 2018 08:04:45
Smit are you sure you are not big Sam or a member of the board.

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25 Feb 2018 08:17:02
I'm bored skylark, not on the board.

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25 Feb 2018 09:35:49
Try comfort eating although beware you may end up looking like Big Sam.

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25 Feb 2018 09:49:10
I am now only comfort drinking Glenn.

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25 Feb 2018 10:10:21
Love your comments Smit. With summer coming you should try and get a season at Blackpool. Always a slot for a good comedian at the Opera House :-)

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25 Feb 2018 10:48:53
Thanks Nick, although they don't let me out unsupervised so it probably wouldn't be ideal. Nice idea though. 🤣.

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25 Feb 2018 07:13:13
We are a shambles. And shambles equates to disaster. We are only 7 points above relegation, with 30 points still on offer. Play like this away from home and still have Liverpool and Man City at home, we are in dire straits!

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Review Of The Day 25th February 2018

25 Feb 2018 06:02:40
{Ed's Note - Tris Burke has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 25th February 2018

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25 Feb 2018 02:24:51
I'm struggling to find any real positives about the Watford game to be honest. The lads appeared to be up for it at the start and the effort was slightly better in patches than of late, but it's still not good enough. The ability to retain possession, pass accurately and create any meaningful chances was still, along with any confidence, sadly lacking. I'm not going to jump on the 'its all Sam's fault' bandwagon or pick out individual players to blame as I don't think that's helpful. From the top down they all have to stand up and be counted and they all have to find a way of working through this to hopefully get enough points to see us safe. The alternative doesn't bear thinking about.

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25 Feb 2018 06:48:33
There are some things that are so glaring and basic that they beggar belief. For example, we have Martina making valiant efforts at left back. However, he has no capacity to get forward and supply width. We address that lack of width by playing Sigurdsson in front of him. Can't understand how that works on a whiteboard never mind a football pitch.

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25 Feb 2018 08:03:31
Big Sam wasted no time in throwing players under the bus for the loss.
If he carries on he may just lose them like Koeman did.

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25 Feb 2018 09:10:18
I loved the fact he blamed a lack of cutting edge. How do you show your cutting edge if you never get the ball in the first place. Way to build up a strikers confidence.

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25 Feb 2018 09:39:56
It's not so much a cutting edge as that the whole knife appears to be composed of just the handle and no blade at all.

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25 Feb 2018 00:36:00
Well that was crap.

I've got to that place in the season where I've totally written off any kind of success and any kind of improvement.

I don't know if it was Sam's set up in how to play today or the players in fear due to being away from home but yeah it was pretty poor again.

There was plenty of fight for the most part but in commiting ourselves as an attacking force we didn't do it from minute 1. The tactics away from home of hoofing the ball up top has to stop. Every single one of them does it so it must come from the coaching set up. Using possession is so important and wasting as we do is only going to see us lose more than we win.

I don't like saying this as I wanted him gone but my god I would rather have the sideways passing of Roberto. At least I saw us have some of the ball. This though is as bad as I've ever seen.

Trying to stay positive but it is difficult. Anyway let's pick ourselves up, dust off and hope we show improvement next time.

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