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• Moyes is doing okay Kevin, but because I’m also critical, then I suppose I can come across as someone who doesn’t like him mate. If I’m being honest he often bores me because he’s much easier to read than a lot of books I’ve read, but he’s not the biggest problem though Kevin, because I think people having an opinion like your last paragraph @31, is a much bigger problem than the manager, because I think that we have got at least a mid table squad in this league...
  Tony Abrahams in Sam Allardyce thinks he did an “unbelievable job” at Everton
• Alright, Mike, file it away for this time next year and we’ll see where the chips fall. Mark, 46, indeed the service remains poor because we have a left back who can’t cross the ball, no serious right back — and Jake who can seldom cross a good ball when out wide — and Grealish and Ndiaye, who can dribble with the best of them, but don’t have blistering pace to beat the defender to the end line. As such, despite our midfield talent, we struggle to get enough good balls to our strikers, and now that we’ve got more of the ball, we don’t have as many opportunities to play quick counter-attacking through ball to Barry and Beto. And unless either of them is all alone, I can’t recall a time when either of them beat a man on their own. All of which is to say, we have a long way to go before we have a recognized style of play with the proper players to execute. But it sure is better than the shit we’ve been served up the past several seasons....
  Jonathan Oppenheimer in Dominic Calvert-Lewin's form shows the risk Everton took
• I think Moyes has done a good job so far. I think he'll be here next year but I think the expectation from us and the owners will be higher if some more decent money is spent on the squad. Qualifying for Europe will be the expectation. I think Conor is right about the number of articles on the site. Way too many and this undermines potential discussion, people don't know what to respond to. ...
  Jimmy Carr in Sam Allardyce thinks he did an “unbelievable job” at Everton
• Tony when Moyes took over it was of a team that was scoring what was it, two goals in ten games? since that point the uptick in form would have delivered us European football most times. Before the last two defeats when we lost all our good players we were the most improved team in the division. That's not nothing. that is significant. The Arsenal and city bore draws were the high point of Dyche's last season. The improvement since then, has been remarkable. it wasn't like we had this good side, and just needed to get rid of a lousy manager. if you don't invest in a team over an extended period it gives rise to all kinds of vulnerabilities. Such as when we lost our spine last year of DCL Doucs and Jarrad, it didn't bring in any money. We had to replace these players cos they either left for nowt or were long term injured. So we had to spend sixty million just to stand still. And we manager to replace Jarrad with Michael Keane! this is patching up par excellence. So the onl...
  Kevin Molloy in Sam Allardyce thinks he did an “unbelievable job” at Everton
• To be fair to DCL I’m struggling to think of a cross on the forehead that hes enjoyed at Leeds in any of our games so far. There was the one Beto got to that was cleared onto Jacks foot and a couple that were just too high for Barry to get above but otherwise I don’t think Dom would’ve got 6 goals with the same service. We needed a striker and looked around and made offers but the only one that stuck was Barry. On you tube, in Spain, he looked potentially decent. But so did Danjuma and so did Sandro. (Of the latter, my massive Cule mate assured me he was a future “crack”) The Spanish la liga is different (I’m not saying inferior, just different) to the PL and personally I doubt even Lionel Messi would’ve got the totals he achieved if he’d played here. Barry will either need more time to settle in or go the way of Danjuma and Ramirez. Personally I hope he is given more time BUT Richy in for the second half of the season would be massive for us. IMO we should’ve go...
  Mark Murphy in Dominic Calvert-Lewin's form shows the risk Everton took
• It didn’t take much to stop us flatlining though Kevin. We drew away at both Arsenal and city, so it’s not as if we were a team that was leaking goals for fun, we just weren’t scoring enough....
  Tony Abrahams in Sam Allardyce thinks he did an “unbelievable job” at Everton