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Regulars may have noted that I haven't posted since the Wigan game and I have to confess that the performance left me with no heart to do so.
It was my birthday last weekend and the old man, who doesn't get to many games these days, treated our whole family to a "Latics Night Out" package, which included a pre-match meal and drinks with all the trimmings. The downside was the game itself which, by any standard, was appalling. I just felt sorry for the old fella blowing his pension on that garbage on my account. Because, as he said on the way home, "the charlotte russe moved about more than some of our lads!"
Out and about in Formby at lunchtime today I bumped into someone who knows a thing or two about what goes on at Everton and he told me he had never seen Our Davey more depressed. Apparently, with no money for Christmas we can expect some major wheeler-dealings and at least one departure will come as a shock.
Could our man be about to cash in on Arteta or the Yak? Is Lescott set for a move to the smoke? Could Fellaini be about to return whence he came? "Rule nothing out," I was told ? so who is it to be? Answers in a posting, please!
Richard Dodd, Posted 29/11/2008 at 14:30:14
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Yakubu - Spurs
Arteta - Madrid
Howard - Arsenal (Almunia’s shite)
Yobo - Arsenal (They are piss poor defensively
Any other thoughts?
I reckon Lescott will be off to Arsenal, and maybe Arteta to Atletico Madrid. Bout £20 mil between them if were lucky.
The apathy that Moyes has created within the club and amongst the fans is his worst crime and while he continues to mouth off about what little money he has, the depression only worsens. Why doesn’t he at least keep his gob shut? I don’t think there is a more clueless manager in the whole of the football league. And if he going to sell someone, I honestly don’t care, they’re all absolute garbage.
Now as long as Tony Marsh doesn?t undergo some bizarre personality change and come on to tell us about
"The positives from the Wigan game"
We can move on in broad agreement as a ?Blue band of brothers? to face a very uncertain future.
COYB
Does anybody seriously think that Wenger would go within a country mile of the current Lescott?
And the way he?s playing, I think the MLS, or maybe the Greek league would be more to Arteta?s liking.
Sad for your dad, but more shocked to note that reality has knocked on your door at last. Hate to tell you this, but we have been shite since last May.
More to the point though, "our Davey" has been deeply depressed since last May too. He was invisible between end of last season and way into pre-season. When he did surface his demeanour & body language were negative beyond belief. We are all human,but we aren’t all on large 7-figure salaries & he should have decided to stay or go & not dithered around as he did.
I have seen no vitality, excitement, interest or empathy in Moyes this season. Never in a month of Sunday’s should he have been awarded such a ludicrously generous contract after overseeing such a dreadful start to a season (and I mean up till now) and including 2 cup exits. Kenwright should have given him an ultimatum in the summer to crack-on or crack-off.
No pleasure in saying this, because he has brought much good and some principles to the club, but he really has gone as far as he can. He looks as though he is weighed down by expectation & an inability to deliver. More so now when £3.5m is going his way each year. No credit crunch for him.
And whilst so many players have been off colour, I still place most of the blame at Moyes’ feet after the impact of his behaviour over pre-season & into the new season. The players see a manager who was throwing his toys out the pram, deeply depressed (and not minding who knew it) and unprofessional. Then they see him suddenly jump on to over £3m and I think several are not impressed.
I was going to run through what I think we should do with certain players, but frankly I’ve reached the point where I don’t much give a toss. I would be deeply sad to see Felatio go, or Yak. But we are in such disarray, so dispirited and so utterly grim to watch, that tinkering by the guy who’s caused most of it will be an irrelevance.
No. It’s time for a change I’m afraid. Better now than when we’re near the bottom and in crisis. At least now there’s a good opportunity to salvage a half-decent season.
If there are out goings, who are the incomings?? or is this another sale to pay the bouncing cheques ala JMcF.
All together now....All I want for Christmas is some pass and move, some pass and move, some pass and move...All I want for Christmas etc etc
There is nothing that could happen this season at this club that could possibly suprise any of us.
Maybe Kenwright is going to jump ship and take DM with him?
More likely is that The Big Fella will return to whence he came , quickly followed by the Yak to tomorrow?s opponents.
I honestly believe that all of BK?s robbing Peter to pay Paul syndrome has come to an abrupt end.
The credit crunch has only just begun and is already hitting household named business?s . Let?s hope that our banks don?t pull the plug , because that will put us in a worse position than Leeds United.
I notice that PNE have crept into the play-off positons , life couldn?t be that cruel could it?
Crikey, I know Wenger is often amusingly short-sighted to what happens on the pitch...but he isn’t THAT blind!
Why give these bellyaching fuckers the ammo ?
There are people on here who simply wont be satisfied until we are all wallowing in their particular brand of misery
Instead of trying to overcome the considerable handicaps the team faces, They prefer to constantly point at the said handicaps - usually because the glaringly obious has just dawned on them
"Kenwright is clueless etc etc"
We know that, how many different ways can you find to say it ?
"Moyes is dour, tactically inept, losing his blaa blah blah"
We know this too, but it doesnt stop the football Einsteins who have just realised what the rest of us knew years ago, suddenly screaming it in every post.
It you’re an ugly twat, you’re an ugly twat. They only thing guarenteed to make you feel worse, is people reminding you of this every day.
I’m off to the game, coz I have a hope, a belief that we can win and I will be roaring the boys on.
I’ll leave the chicken hearted and the hopeless to spend the rest of the day dreaming up new ways to state the blindingly fucken obvious if we lose.
Sharpen you’re poison pens, but ask yourself this . . .
Kenwright or Moyes are going nowhere, you know this, so what is it you think you’re trying to achieve
Moyes had one trick ... inspiring players of very modest ability to perform out of their skins. Evidently, his treatment of them has resulted in him losing the dressing room.
He has no other tricks to offer but that won’t worry Chairman Bill unduly. It will be falling attendances and decreasing merchandise sales that will finally put an end to this dreary reign of negativity.
I refuse to condemn the players. They’re just not really top five material.
But one-oft repeated pronouncement by this Kenwright/Moyes arse-wiper looks certain to come true. His ?Tenth is Good? mantra so reviled by most of us may this season become fact ? and many performances like the one at Wigan will make it a fucking miracle!
Sadly I can see some of the players wanting away, possibly in January, and for good reason. The reason being that they would prefer to play in positions that are not alien to them. Lescott in particular would do well at Arsenal as he would be in a team that PLAY football as opposed to the dross regularly served up by Moyes.
As stated in a different thread, Moyes appears to have lost the dressing room. As soon as that happens it is time to go.
But the fact is we are in good company; the rest of the Premier League is about the same with the exception of the Sky 4 who have the money to escape the rat race and even then, vide Arsenal, they have occasional hiccups. In fact there is precious little football on offer to compare with La Liga. You should see Messi?s goals against Sevilla last night - that?s footy.
Most of the Premier teams will have a purple patch now and again, even Everton, but the vast majority lack the consistency to win trophies including the shower across the park for all that they?ve spent. We have to be realistic and accept, however grudgingly, that the game has undergone a mega change over the last 10-15 years.
What does disappoint me about Everton ? more than anything else ? is the evident lack of fight and determination. That?s probably down to DM and I just hope he?s aware of his responsibility to club and supporters.
Too many players are in their comfort zone it doesn't matter how bad they play they will be back in week after week (Lescott, Arteta, Yak, Osman the main culprits) I have never hated watching us as much as I do at this moment and that includes the relegation seasons of recent past.
We are a Bad Bad side!! But then again so are the other 15 sides. How many of the these teams do you enjoy watching ....NONE
I have always admired you courage etc
I have read many of Doddy's ramblings and, to be fair, 'courage' is not a word I would use. Doddy is one of the people who will not say anything bad, plod along hopeing everything will be ok. Correct me if I am wrong but is it not this attitue wich led to the Nazis?
If you sit around and do nothing or say nothing people are going to take mickey, ie Moyes.
Spurs away
Villa home
Man Cuty away
Chelsea home
If we take 0 points from these fixtures, as I fear is possible, I think Moyes should fuck off.
Nil satis nil optimism.
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I'd become accustomed to the fact that you were incapable of critical analysis and will now have to re-calibrate... although it was perhaps to be expected that you did not dwell on the abysmal performance and instead look to things being spiced up one way or another at Christmas (surely you mean "in January"??? But there I go again, being literal... not a strong point for you is it?).
Meanwhile... the rest of us will continue to deal with the Here and Now.