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Reasons to be Hopeful
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Well I am still full of hope and optimism for the coming season.
We have made some interesting signings with the possibility of more to come. As well as bolstering the squad, it means we have the team challenging for positions and greater tactical options. The younger players who have been drafted in to fill the gaps left by injury will have benefited from the experience that will stand them in good stead for a greater contribution in the future.
The team spirit has been one of our great strengths. A couple of good results will bring with it renewed confidence. Even if the results don't come straight away I think we will see the team galvanize and play with a determined fighting spirit.
Moyes is a talented manager and the best person to take the team forward. I think that his best quality is his ability to instill, in the team, a sense of pride in the shirt and the commitment that comes with it. We don't see it from every player in every game but more generally its there and I think it reflects Moyes's values and approach. I also believe it has played a major part in our promising finishing positions in recent years.
I experience the same highs and lows, fears and frustrations as every Blue fan, but personally, I don't think that there has been a better time to be a Blue in twenty years. So here's to the future. COYB.
Robert Miller, Posted 30/08/2008 at 19:33:27
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It was very worrying to see Moyes going around the pitch at the end shaking all the player’s hands as if it was his last game.
I just hope I’m wrong and we get 2 quality signings by Monday but we have been "Watching this space" for over 2 weeks now and have no reason to feel optimistic.
6 goals against in our first 2 home games!!
I assume you?re taking the piss. However, on the off chance that this is a serious post, I would have to agree that these are among the most interesting signings we have ever made. I am sure that the supporters of clubs who have actually shown some ambition this summer must find their signings quite mundane in comparison.
Yes, it is a great time to be an Evertonian. Forget the false hope of a Champions League place; this season, thanks to our beloved chairman, we can look forward to the excitement of a battle against relegation. Wonderful days indeed.
David Moyes leaving next week would be a disaster. Not for 90% of the people posting on this site though. Because they are blessed with another type of optimism. One that leads them to believe that there is is a fairy godfather waiting in the wings to provide a £200M budget for players, fund a new stadium in the city and perhaps some tactical genius with international honours to come and manage us.
These are all things I would like very much.
In the meantime I am not going to let a troubled summer, a lack of funds and a poor couple of performances (all things we have great experience of) send me into the depths of despondency.
Therefore Hope and Optimism. Onwards and Up.
What do we have now Robbie?
I?d take 1988 any day over this shit and you would too if you knew what you were talking about.
We have too few players and not enough quality to stay up I?m afraid. But the biggest mistake of all is not to sign players in June/July. Now you have to play them out of position and put in youngsters with absolutely no experience. Last season we had a very fit Carsley in a (for Everton) very important position on the pitch. Now, with a lot of injuries and youngsters, it may cost us.
Met Jose Baxter's Mum today. We may have lost, but she seemed happy.
I knew I might raise a few eyebrows throwing the challenge back the full twenty years but don’t tell me I don’t know what i’m talking about. I remember that despite the strength and depth of our squad 88 also held its fair share of disappointment. Not least defending our title and finishing 4th - a full twenty points behind the shite. Also because it heralded an extended period of (almost!) un-interrupted decline.
No I remain upbeat, confident and looking forward.
A Premiership midfield pool assembed for seven million pounds. For the Everton board to have expected David Moyes to field competitive teams year after year in the face of such lack of financial support is nothing short of scandalous.
The only person missing from last years first choice 11 is Lee Carsley. I have great time for Carsley but he was a limited midfielder.
Let’s give the lad Castillo a chance and see how he performs. I too expect one big signing before the deadline (whether it’s Moutinho or not we’ll see).
Saha will score goals and give us another option up front.
Jackobsen is by all accounts a solid right full and has lots of international experience.
Jags cannot be left to play in midfield. IMO Moyes had to put Jackobsen in today and move Pip into centre mid.
He also needs to sort out the defence. The centre back pairing is not working and he needs to adress this quickly.
Davie looks like he’s feeling a bit sorry for himself. He needs to step up to the plate and start earning his money.
You left Dutch out of that equation.
Words honestly fail me at this present time, a lot of posters have said how i feel already.
Where are the Kenwright apologists when we are licking our wounds after what we witnessed today???
I think Moyesey is saving the little transfer money which he has to buy a big name signing (Mountino). But please, Moyesey ? not hunt.
I didn?t say everything was ok. Clearly many things are far from OK. Whilst there have been and are many good reasons to express fear and loathing ? views that are well represented on this sight ? I also think there is a real argument for remaining positive.
As an antidote to despair I will be here every week. Commitment renewed. Feel free to join.
Forever Positive COYB
We watch a team of kids thrown to the lions expected to pull three goals back. Rodwell put in the middle of the park alongside a fucking centre half to try to learn how to play a central midfield role; we see Jose Baxter thrown on as DM has absolutely fuck all else on the bench and expects this 16-year-old boy to change a match we had lost long before.
Take a look at that subs line-up, guys; no disrespect to any of the children on it as they didn?t put themselves there, that lying two-faced bastard Bill did. Listen to DM?s interview about his four signings where he admits none of them will even keep us on level terms with the teams around us fighting for a fifth or sixth spot in the league.
I don?t ever want to hear how BK saved the club, is a true blue, or any other bullshit; you can leave that to him and the sheep that believe his lies.
Few managers have had Moyes's length of time to put their stamp on a teams basic style of play. Any self-respecting manager would be embarrassed with the kind of absolute drivel served up in the first half of yesterday's game. Arteta put in one of his away-game performances. He is a bit of a show pony that turns it on barely enough to hold his place.
As for the farce of Yakubu's penalty ? what can I say! Oh well, I guess that's enough from me.
In my opinion, too many of our supporters just accept the situation. Bill Kenwright is a disgrace, it's him and nobody else?s fault that our optimism has evaporated. We were viewed as the team most likely to upset the Sky 4; however, thanks to his stewardship, "Watch this space" bollocks, we are now a laughing stock. This prick should have been made aware of this today.
If we lose David Moyes, it is because of Kenwright and no-one else. Kirkby?? No city centre store?? Amongst other things. This twat has got away with murder because of Moyes and just because he?s a blue its fine with our supporters! I?m a blue but haven?t got the money to take us forward!!
Even if by some miracle we end up with Moutinho or M?Bia, this prick has blown our season and I hope our shareholders let him know ? unlike our piss poor fans today!!
A gutted Blue!
I watched Moyes go round shaking all the players hands at the end of the game, something he has never done before, and it struck me here is a man who has lost his spirit.
To me, if we lose Moyes at this stage, we?ll be relegated and as I?ve always said, that prick Bullshit Billy will have inflicted far more damage than Johnsom ever did.
Blue Bill my arse.
Help me. I may be daft and missing the obvious who is it that will buy the club from Kenwright ?
Calling people two faced lying bastards is easy (ask any Red about their new "rich" owners ) but we still always return to this question when the emotion and ale has faded.......who wants to buy and invest seriously in EFC Ltd.
The ale doesn’t need to fade from my vitriol either as the driver to and from the match I tend to be teatotal maybe having one or two when I get home but not often as I have two sons under 4 and a wife waiting for me.
Maybe I should stop coming on here then but I love the stuff on this site.
Even if we buy someone big tommorow the damage has been done,we where three big players away from a go at the top four, now we are light years away again and as was said above, we let that lying fucker get away with murder again, not a whimper at the luvvie all day.
- Cahill back
- Pienaar back
- Hibbert back
- Castillo fit and settled
- Jacosen fit and settled
- a new signing that will happen in next 24 hrs
- match fitness for all
- a surprise win against the red shite thanks to EVERYONE writing us off (thats when EFC performs historically)
and finnally:
- Moyes signs new contract
Good times ahead!
IMWT
COYB
Damn right.
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I just fear for you when the reality of our current situation finally hits home. Ponder this: How are you going to feel if Moyes walks next week, saying "I've taken this club as far as I can on a ridiculous shoestring of a budget. I've had enough"?