Everton - Post match thread.

ancoats said:
last night game should be the springboard to great things and 2nd half was all manchester city and with 10 men should and could have won we can all moan after the game and the ref got it wrong we all know nothing will happen and the ref is a joke but again and again we must take our chances if we do it stops the ref from getting involved in the game and change the mind set of the players

i seen enough last night to say manchester city we be the team to beat and we are the team everybody wants to beat and everton are a good team and will upset a lot of teams home and away so down to 10 men for 60min its a ok result we have players to come in and change it for the better and i think we will sign a couple more players so the season does not start until the international break for me 3 games to settle back in and then you go from there
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Well played for separating it into two paragraphs. We'll done.

Next week we'll work on full stops, and maybe by Christmas we might even try you on commas. It's a journey, but you.can get there with practice.
 
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Chippy_boy said:
Well played for seperating it into two paragraphs. We'll done.

Next week we'll work on full stops, and maybe by Christmas we might even try you on commas. It's a journey, but you.can get there with practice.
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I beg you; please tell me that's intentionally ironic.
 
Blue Mooner said:
Agree with you re Sane. Bit in bold what game were you watching? De Bruyne was immense and ran the game just missing that final touch.
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The game I was watching was the one where De Bruyne constantly gave the ball away, was caught in possession several times and had no impact on it whatsoever. Him and David SIlva were both 4/10s. Both were well shackled last night. That game.
 
It seemed to me that everton spent the whole week studying video of our games. They put it to good use, defending as a unit and fully committed, caused us a lot of problems.
For a Pep team to hit the heights we have to be extremely precise, one-touch pass and move, there were moments of it in patches, but to turn it on for the whole game will take time before it becomes instinctive. My preference would be KdB as link with Merlin and Bernardo playing in whoever is at the sharp end. And definitely not a big lump as a target
Way too early for any drastic changes imo just need to gel into a powerful outfit who can beat anyone.
 
Meanwhile over on sad cafe theres a whole thread decidated to getting retrospective action for agueros dive when contacted by leighton baines i thought it was a pen and them sad idiots are desperate for us to fail i can almost smell the fear .
 
birchwoodgingerste said:
Meanwhile over on sad cafe theres a whole thread decidated to getting retrospective action for agueros dive when contacted by leighton baines i thought it was a pen and them sad idiots are desperate for us to fail i can almost smell the fear .
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I assume there's also a thread dedicated to the dives that got Walker sent off? Right?

My God, what a sad club.
 
birchwoodgingerste said:
Meanwhile over on sad cafe theres a whole thread decidated to getting retrospective action for agueros dive when contacted by leighton baines i thought it was a pen and them sad idiots are desperate for us to fail i can almost smell the fear .
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replays prove that there was contact (twice) and the correct decision to send sniderlin off , whereas baines and lewin proven to be acting cheating coonts getting Walker sent off
 
birchwoodgingerste said:
Meanwhile over on sad cafe theres a whole thread decidated to getting retrospective action for agueros dive when contacted by leighton baines i thought it was a pen and them sad idiots are desperate for us to fail i can almost smell the fear .
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The thick twats haven't read the rules, no pen was given therefore no retrospective action can be taken.
 
Gingers Dad said:
Oh they did. I think Everton must practice time wasting in training. Every time they look like getting something out of a game they start it.
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Rooney reffed the game - going for twenty yard walks with the ball under his arm before free kicks (no-one seemed to pull him up about it).
 
Juan King said:


Watching last night I had a strange feeling of deja vu. Shit ref making bizarre game changing decisions, dominating possession first half without really creating much, the other team putting everyone behind the ball then scoring with virtually the first good chance they get, playing well for about 25 mins rather than the whole 90. Nothing much has changed from last season.

Positive's from last night. Can't wait to see B Silva getting some full games, he looks like he is going to be very good. I thought Sterling & Danilo were both decent when they came on too.
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Agreed. Two games in, and so, last year. A midget team like us, will not win this league. What's Edin Dzeko up to these days?
 
Gingers Dad said:
Quite the opposite mate l love players like Bernard and Kinkladze. But unfortunately Kinkladze career at City was dreadful.
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Kinkladze didn't have any support acts on the same wavelength - Rosler, Walsh, Quinn (all top players in their own right) etc didn't like Kinky's unpredictability. We as fans loved it. The whole stadium rose to its feet once the ball reached Kinky. How many players can you say that about - anywhere in the world ? Not many.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I think opposition teams seem to know that with a little bit of 'persuasion' we can be reduced to ten men. Of all the sendings off at The Etihad the only one that seems to activate my memory cells is Kun's v CFC, and then we were stiffed by the big black fellah only getting a yellow and the loathsome Fabregarse escaping what the Laws demand. All the others seem to have been soft 'uns! My memory may be suffering from these blue-tinted specs I'm wearing but we have been shafted with some right arse-end yellows that have mounted into reds.
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One thing I have noticed is that City players seem to be booked for first foul there is rarely a warning like other players from other clubs receive.

Its literally two challenges and they're off.
 
The team needs to start playing with the same tempo in the first half as they do in the second half.

The more the game continues the more pressure the side is under and for the majority of sides a draw with is is a great result but for us a case of dropped points.

Lets go back to 4-3-3 or 4-1-2-3 whichever way you view it and bring natural width and pace into the side
 
inbetween said:
So 4 points out of 6, if we carry that kind of form on we'll win the league so I don't really care. Everton will do well this year, they have a great manager and they have always been a bogey team, not losing in the circumstances is a good thing.
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76 points will not win the Premier League.
 
cookster said:
I would hope he has a plan but how can he not be judged against the progress of others. He inherited a team that finished fourth, OK it needed some changes but he's spent over 350m so far, probably 450m by the end of the window. He needs to deliver this season, the pressure was off last year mainly because Manure were shit, they won't be as shit this season.
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It took 3 years to completely dismantle the best team & strongest squad in the league, so I fail to understand why it will take less than 12 months to repair the damage & reverse the regression even if we have spent £350m.

FFP was extremely damaging for us & meant we had to mend & make do with a rapidly ageing squad. What Guardiola has done is to correct these glaring deficiencies within our squad & the lack of a left wing back last night proved we still have a lot more squad building to do, but there's still another consideration many seem to forget...... Our competitors.

Whilst we stalled because of FFP restrictions & regressed because of the previous managerial incumbent, our competitors caught us up & in some cases they surpassed us. Since Pep has been here, he has halted our decline & started the process of reversing the damage caused.

HOWEVER, as we have tried to do all of this, have our competitors just stood still waiting for us to catch up? Hell no. They've also been busy changing managers, spending vast sums on their squads & increasing stadium capacities etc, to maintain the advantage they gained during our stasis.

So whilst we have narrowed the gap, we still have a way to go, not least because of the huge shift in playing staff & philosophy. Kompany said in pre-season that Pep's influence only became really clear when the on loan players returned & were clueless as to what was needed from Pep.

Apparently only Nasri adapted quickly and the rest struggled. Kompany said this solidified the belief in the squad that we were heading in the right direction & progressing at a rate of knotts. BUT having said all this, have ManUre, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool or Spurs just left us to get on with our transformation unchallenged?

The huge changes this summer should finally prove the damage that has been done to our club, and it should also show the size of the task facing our new manager who is also having to adapt to the toughest league in the world.

Pep has a plan & that is clear to see, & as such he deserves time to affect his plan & should be afforded time from us. This is why for last season & this, all I want to see is a reversal of our decline & the advancement of our progress. This is why I believe we won't see the green shoots of recovery until next season & I believe it won't be until the season after, before we start to challenge in the Champions League. We just have to be realistic here. It may not be what many fans want to hear, but unfortunately it's the reality if our situation...
 
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