Everton banter 8

06 Apr 2024 17:02:54
Well we won. That's about all I can say about that.

{Ed025's Note - i just cant watch us NFM, my stomach goes in knots and i must owe our swear box about £100,000 mate, football is supposed to be enjoyable but for me its a bloody nightmare..

06 Apr 2024 17:07:30
Spot on lads.

06 Apr 2024 17:09:08
Rubbish team selection, rubbish hoofball tactics, rubbish performance, rubbish subs (why was Dacoure left on when he was having a poor game? ) , lucky result - Dyche out!

06 Apr 2024 17:16:50
3 mile walk and been asleep till now. 1-0 I will take all day long. The bloke is still a tosser though. Looking at stats Youngs' are the worse. No fing imagination. Fingers crossed for a slap on the wrist or suspended. Heard they argued double jeopardy, let's see how that goes.

06 Apr 2024 17:17:54
A win is a win but I agree Ed we make it hard for ourselves and I s%#t myself every game. Can't believe Luton won as well. Hopefully Forest get beat.

{Ed025's Note - but if we survive will it be the same crap again next season TB?, it seems that we are on the back foot from the get go and i cant watch that week in week out mate, yes our players are poor but a lot of that is down to tactics and lack of ambition from the manager, my only hope is that we survive and get rid of that dinosaur Dyche who has basically turned us into Burnley, mind you thats a terrible slur on them..

06 Apr 2024 17:29:14
I attribute today's win not to dickhead Dyche, but Guernsey Blue. Before the game the players agreed to give him a win and get his prediction correct (for once) . Well done GB ?.

06 Apr 2024 17:44:21
Awful game but cheers Nick.

06 Apr 2024 17:47:33
Ed 025: I thought you liked SD?

{Ed025's Note - he was doing well Skylark for what was at his disposal but since the new year he has lost the plot mate, he has turned us into Burnley and sets us up not to lose rather than to win, i dont think the players are happy either going by their demeanor and he needs to go imo..

06 Apr 2024 17:54:53
Totally agree Ed. Burnley played better football. All we did was lump it up for Lewin to win the header or hit it long for the oldest player on the pitch to have a foot chase. Harrison whilst he's not my favourite or has done anything for a starting place looks better in that system (and that's saying something) .
Gomez is definitely our best ball player and I thought he was trying but with no pace or movement off the ball what is he supposed to do.
We just need to stay in the league this season even by having these poor quality games and review in the summer. Only thing is that we'll keep him. ??.

{Ed025's Note - lets hope not mate..

06 Apr 2024 17:56:44
3 points was vital today so that was pleasing. That's about all that can be said about the game really. Started brightly without really threatening but that was about it.
Young was disappointing, maybe him starting will give Harrison a kick up the backside that he needed. Beto, is that man really a pro footballer? I wince whenever he starts or is about to be brought on. I like his work ethic but that's all the praise I can give him.
Gomes had a decent game and JB was superb yet again.
I suppose at this point of the season I'm just happy getting 3 points, the way we play is incidental. Let's face it, considering how we've been this season, we aren't suddenly going to start battering teams by 3 or 4 goals. Christ, how good would it be to score 2 goals in a game?

06 Apr 2024 19:18:46
Sd has to go either way at end of season doucs was dead on his feet young was offering nothing yet again! Burnley down To ten men and left it till the 82nd minute to Make any changes and still left doucs
On and took off our main threat in dcl
He blows my mind week in week out I’m sick to death of the boring long ball no imagination rubbish we are forced to put up with.

06 Apr 2024 14:44:32
Our right side has penalty given away all over it.

06 Apr 2024 14:08:12
4-4-1-1 again. Hardly going for it are we.
I give up.
Happy DCL is in there, however midfield has no bite to it.

06 Apr 2024 14:32:31
With Coleman and Young on the right and Gomes in the middle, Burnley could do us serious damage. I've lost all faith in Dyche. When he was at Burnley he said Everton did'nt know how to win. Seems that applies to him as well at our expence.

06 Apr 2024 14:32:32
Sick of saying this but at home we should be playing with two strikers.

06 Apr 2024 12:40:09
Time for these Everton players to stand up and be counted, whoever gets the nod to start needs to leave everything on the pitch, give something for the fans to feed off and make a tired Goodison bouncing again. UTFT ?.

06 Apr 2024 13:35:50
100% Andy.

06 Apr 2024 13:51:13
For the first time in weeks I’m feeling like we might get 3 points today. COYB.

06 Apr 2024 14:33:46
Well I hope you’re right BR. But again a negative team selection for me.

06 Apr 2024 14:39:57
Then I saw the lineup….

06 Apr 2024 10:59:07
If Dyche goes with the same starting eleven as Newcastle then we are doomed.
Have to start playing with two strikers at home, put teams under pressure and don't allow them time on the ball.
Onana, Gomes, Gana and Gardner midfield. Drop our two wide men far to slow. Keep the ball on the floor and play through the channels.
Back for picks itself.
Or change nothing and keep punting it long to the loan striker.

06 Apr 2024 14:19:30
Well there’s your answer. Prepare to have a sore neck.

06 Apr 2024 09:36:05
Has to be a win today after that well earned point on Tues and with our crowd as usual giving their all,3 points will be massive and put on well on the road to staying up, Bring it on.

{Ed025's Note - massive game this today GB, a win will give me confidence that we will stay up but a defeat or a draw will have the opposite effect mate, a lot will depend on how we go about the attacking set up and who actually plays, but i live in hope...until 5 oclock..

06 Apr 2024 10:35:11
Think we win today Ed, I will go 2-0 keep the lad Fofana quiet and should be ok.

More worried about the 2nd charge and possible points deduction Ed, as believe if we escape any points deduction this time we will stay up (just) . But that may well change come like yasen at 5pm.

A defeat and dare not think of repercussions for Dyche.

{Ed025's Note - yeah Mocker like you my sanity depends on a win mate.. :)

06 Apr 2024 11:14:29
Pickford
Godfrey tarks jarrod Coleman myko
Garner Gomes onana
DCL Beto that would be my starting 11 today lads massive day big 3 pointer COYB ??.

06 Apr 2024 10:43:18
Deja Vu all over again Ed. This is a massive game as you say and one the lads should win, no excuses. It's the hope that does ya.

{Ed025's Note - absolutely Mocker, we all just want a team we can be proud of mate, playing decent football would do even if we were not winning all the time, we need to see something that gets you off your feet and applauding but i certainly have not seen much of that this season..

06 Apr 2024 12:26:42
Yep totally mate, just want to see a spark and connection, this season has felt worse than others. tbf to the lads they imo played some decent stuff in a lot of matches and was unlucky with stats backing it up, then went on that 4 game run with 3 wins and draw and spirits were up then last 3 months just nosedived, coincidence with off field stuff maybe, but can't keep banging that drum, the lads need stand up starting today and as much as I try be realistic and balanced with my view anything less than 100% commitment today and 3 PTS, then my Dyche has to go wether be now or the summer as if he can't galvanized them for a must win and expected win today then clearly the rumours are true of a dressing room split against him.

06 Apr 2024 13:50:12
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06 Apr 2024 08:41:13
Countdown to 12 points starts today. Every game is a cup final.

06 Apr 2024 09:53:13
Yep for sure mate.

06 Apr 2024 07:39:07
{Ed's Note - DLIB has posted a new article entitled, Cool heads must prevail at Manchester United

05 Apr 2024
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05 Apr 2024 22:39:03
3! ?.

05 Apr 2024 07:37:31
I think the uncertainty of our situation is affecting everything. I know we all know these problems but can you imagine what it’s like with all this going through the players heads because it will be.

Will we get hit with another unfair points deduction
Will we not get any more points taken off us and we only need to beat those around us and we’ll stay up
Will we get new owners and will they be 777
Will 777 get rejected and we start again
Will there be money to spend
Will we get a different manager with new owners
Will we go into administration and get 9 points taken away
What happens if we get relegated due to points deduction.
Will I need to move clubs to keep my international status but my family are settled here
Will I get a new contract because I want to stay here
Do I get a new contact anywhere or is my time up
Plus all the other personal matters that are going on in the players lives .
Two decisions out of the clubs hands are the cause .

05 Apr 2024 07:50:16
Realism BigC??.

05 Apr 2024 08:57:57
Mmm not sure todays footballers think about any of that to be honest.

05 Apr 2024 09:53:39
Money doesn't stop people worrying about their family and kids Woburn, BigC makes some valid points especially those about uprooting when started.

Ps further to Paterson link below in regards crossing etc and pushing on, like Kieran Tierney both were immense in Scotland, but completely different standard in premiership, less time on the ball and better positional defending meaning crosses that were deemed decent in a average league don't cut it at top top level, work very much needed but agree our coaching isn't working obviously.

05 Apr 2024 10:17:20
Mocker how many players stay at any club for more than three or four years? At the end of the day they’re contractors, so they won’t mind moving as long as the money is coming in.
As for Patterson well we will just have to agree to disagree on that one.

05 Apr 2024 14:33:29
There’s no loyalty to any club these days regardless of what money there on, and some of that is down to not being local lads.

06 Apr 2024 10:56:03
Seamus Coleman!
Pickford @lm staying
Onana I’m staying
Gana there is only one club I’d come back to
To name but a few
Granted there are some that don’t get it Van der Meyder for example
But we can’t keep on about “ once Everton has touched you etc. and then say there’s no loyalty
I believe that if we hadn’t been skint Richie wouldn’t have left and if we could afford him he’d come back/ home
So there is loyalty with players, and I don’t except that they’re just contractors also even contractors have personal problems, and have concerns that the contact there on might finish for one reason or another. Our reasons are out of their control and even out of the clubs it’s all in the hands of Masters and his buddies.

06 Apr 2024 14:39:34
Your rely naive if you think footballers are loyal to clubs. The fact that you can count on one hand how many stay for any length of time shows that. Kiss the badge and move on.

06 Apr 2024 17:04:16
Did the line
To name a few get missed? I could go on and on also not local lads all that seems to happen on here is the local lads get slaughtered?!?!

04 Apr 2024 21:47:10
Being retired and there being a fair amount of games on TV this week I have watched a lot of football. What is obvious to me is that players (even on teams lower down the table) seem to have a lot more energy than most of the Everton team. Now I can understand players having more talent and players having more speed but why do Everton players seem more lethargic than most? Do we have fitness coaches? Maybe it's because they are brain-dead or just disinterested in putting in the effort required.

04 Apr 2024 23:44:47
I think they have been ran into the floor in training. It's not like they've had chance to sit a game or 2 out as we have no squad.

05 Apr 2024 08:58:34
Haven’t they just had a three week break?

05 Apr 2024 17:44:46
3 weeks of getting ran into the floor in Portugal probably.

05 Apr 2024 18:11:02
I am 3 weeks recover after major surgery (8 hrs I am told) discharged after 5 days with less inside than I started with LOL. Today my Grandaughter took me for a 3 mile walk. The point I make is these lads are professional athletes, they have nutritional experts, monitors and scientific approached training programs. I am a 74 year old man, my motivation is family. This lot lack motivation, you don't get that by slapping a lad round the back of the head or 'not interested in the journey' 'we need to change the story'. The bloke is a waffler.

05 Apr 2024 22:31:28
DFS
Spot on! They r mediocre players at a mediocre club ran less than mediocre so r just taking their millions and going through motions!
We all give a Sh1T if we go down as we r loyal for life! These guys kiss shirt one minute then move on when better offer comes along ( ie Onana will ) but does a loss spoil their week like it does ours I doubt it!
Apart from Seamus (maybe Beto who I feel cares but knows he’s giving his all but isn’t quite good enough for PL and us) can u name another player blues who really goes care?