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I've said it before and the Boro game reinforced my opinion that the attacking third is a foreign country to our lot and we do not speak its language. In my opinion, the problem and the answer can be found on the training ground and with the ingrained philosophy of our coaches.
The playing careers of our entire coaching staff was based on their ability in breaking up and not creating attacks. We need to appoint someone to counter balance ex-defenders Moyes, Round, Holden and Stubbs ? someone experienced in cracking open defences.
Who can the likes of James Vaughan ask for advice when none of his advisors have ever played in his position?
Dick Fearon, Posted 17/11/2008 at 21:22:09
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Every ex-player turned manager had to have played somewhere. If a manager was a striker that doesn?t mean he can?t instruct defenders. The best managers are all rounders. While Moyes is a good manager, he is not an attacking-minded one. The majority of the time he plays percentage football and avoids risk mostly.
All in all the monopoly of ex-defenders in our coaching staff is a worry. I know of many of our coaching staff, but I?m curious if we have any specialists. I would have thought this was typical of EPL clubs.
Not many other options I don?t think... Kevin Campbell, im sure he?d love to get back involved in the game!
He?s employed by the club and if anybody can give a pep talk, or give some coaching, to our strikers surely he?s the man!!
Mind you, they are doing pretty well on that score!
I agree completely with the post and I will say the same thing I have said for years: it's never been any different since Moyes came here... Now Moyes has achieved some great things with Everton but one thing we have never had under him is a genuine attacking pass-and-move football team. I go back through Moyes seasons...
When we finished 7th with attacking players like Rooney and Radzinski leading our attack, we managed to score three goals in only one game all season, a 4-3 defeat at White Hart Lane. The emphasis on defence all season.
When we finished 4th, our emphasis was on defensive unity and we just about scraped over the line but come the end of that Champions League we?re having a laugh season, every man and his dog knew we did not look good coming forward and a lot of us predicted a struggle to the start of the 2005-06 season...
What did we get? We had scored two goals by November 5th and only nine by December 31. Reason being?? We didn't have a clue how to win a match by taking the game to the opposition once our defence had cracked.
Ok, with the signing of Andy Johnson things improved slightly during 2006-07 but we still struggled scoring goals in spells notably after the 3-0 derby victory. Last season we had Yakubu banging in the majority of the goals with AJ and Cahill following up with a useful tally but once again we finished the season looking clueless and the fight for fourth almost cost us even getting into the Uefa Cup.. If you look at Moyes's record since being here, he is good at scraping wins which ok everyone is happy when it works... but when it doesn't, then the cracks appear.
As for Big Dunce coming on board? Theres no chance.. Fergie isn't even that big a fan of football and you just couldn't see him putting in the hours on the coaching ground when he can't get out there himself and play. Not going to happen I'm afraid.
How about Dennis Bergkamp? I read somewhere a few weeks ago that he wants to come back to England doing some coaching. Just a thought...
Naming a list of great strikers doesn't mean that any of them are able to coach. Most great strikers are just instinctive (Lineker, Wright, Henry etc), so passing on how they did things is probably hard for them.
Moyes's coaching style is to get players to work hard and work for the team ? it's got us where we are but won't get us any further.
I?ve always thought this, a few months ago I said on here someone like Zola would be a good No 2 and got slated. Even Wigan can attack, meny is no excuse look at Hull. Attacking football has ever been & never will be Moyes thing. What I can?t understand is given Moyes and training staffs experience in Defending, how comes we concede so many goals?
Under Moyes we will alwys play way too much Anti- Football. Wigan, Hull, Fulham, Villa, Portsmouth don?t so why do we??
No finer exponent of the type of football we all want to see.
A fantastic example of a professional footballer.
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1 Posted 18/11/2008 at 03:32:44
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If you ask me, Moyes wants his 1 ’striker’ to defend first, as the most advanced defender in the team. Hold the ball and knock it sideways, or create space in the wings. Conversely, when we had Lineker, the whole team were there to create chances for Links. Now it’s opposite; AJ - winger, Yak - left winger, Anichebe - target man/brick wall in right mid, Vaughan - headless duracell bunny in berserker mode in last 5 mins.