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Post by rosscrombie on May 8, 2016 9:55:29 GMT
 Congratulations to Leicester City, not just for yesterday, but for winning the Premiership title. We can only applaud you......and look on in envy. You would have beaten Everton 8-0 if you hadn't have been on the pop since Monday. We were hopeless, hapless, helpless, and yet at least our defending was helpful. To you anyway. Bearing in mind this blog is for Evertonians, I'm writing this for that audience so any Leicester fan reading this can stop now if they want to read about the excellence of their play yesterday, and most days from August to May. Instead, we had a left back playing at right back, despite a right back on the bench. We played a £13.5m striker so obviously unfit (and mostly incapable as well) that we could hear his wheezing 20 miles up the A46 in Nottingham. We took off a lad who has been our best player for yonks to ironic cheers, and replaced him with a 93 year old Leon Osman, despite the precocious young talent in Kieron Dowell sitting next to him on the bench. And we continue to gift opponents goals from crosses, we are a distant 20th out of 20 for goals conceded from crosses, and goals conceded to headers, and nothing yesterday ever looked like it would change. As supporters we sit, stand, and stomp our feet in frustration at the abysmal state of our team, and arguably our club. The agony is compounded at the 'what might have been' if we had been able to capitalise on the collective malaise of the big money clubs, with a team that has widely been touted as one of the best for years. Best potential maybe. Potential realised? Don't even think it. Instead, I'm shelling out £80 for 2 tickets for the last home game of the season, and over £1k for 2 season tickets for 16/17. I must be mad, certainly a masochist, because nothing I saw yesterday makes me think I'll see anything better next season, and a grand is a lot to shell out (and you can double that with my travel costs and car parking every home match) just for a load of gallows humour if relegation is the prospect, and if you'd watched that yesterday, you'd have assumed you were watching Villa not Everton, so it's a realistic prospect. The only hope, and it is the only one I can think of right now, is that in Moshiri, a man who has made billions out of being a very clever business man, has a plan, and that plan doesn't involve Martinez, or some of the flawed talent on show yesterday. Over 3k Everton supporters went to that game, a good many more watched it from behind their hands or sofa, and the way that loyalty (and cost) was rewarded, was that. That. Embarrassing. A laughing stock. I'm proud to be an Evertonian, it just doesn't feel much like that at the moment. Anyway, I feel sorry for Newcastle. Sunderland only need a win on Wednesday to condemn their Geordie neighbours to the second tier, and guess who they're playing? Ross Crombie |
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Post by Avinalaff on May 8, 2016 15:46:32 GMT
I'm sure Martinez had a reason for not playing Dowell, but I can't imagine what that reason might be, as it was a nothing game for both sides, and he didn't need protecting.
In my opinion it's time to get rid of dead wood, and it would be useful to test out some of the players who are knocking on the door.
When Moyes was here, I had few issues with any of our players, but I think I have issues now with most of them, and although those issues range from poor performances, bad attitudes, age, lack of effort, few of the players have shown me that they are worthy of keeping.
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Post by fitzyefc on May 9, 2016 13:29:31 GMT
I don't understand the claims that our team is the best we've had since the eighties as even though we have a lot of players we can only play 11 at once and there are no 11 that play well together. We have no defensive partnership for starters and Everton always had one under Moyes. Yobo, Lescott, Jags at his best and Distin are better than the current bunch by a mile. Baines and Coleman don't get forward much now, and there is no creativity in midfield. I think Arteta would walk into this team, as would Pienaar at his best, and Fellaini also. If Moyes had Lukaku we'd have been challenging the top 4 a lot more.
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Post by jimmy on May 10, 2016 11:45:30 GMT
Our players looked half arsed again until Mirallas came on and showed a bit. He plays Oviedo at Right Back while we have a young Right Back on the bench and doesn't play Dowell at all. Osman and Gibson need to find other clubs. If he plays kids against Sunderland there will be murder from the league now and from Newcastle who will expect Everton to play ball and go with their strongest team so chance missed.
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