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No height, no speed, no strength, no width and no craft
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I have supported Everton for over a quarter of a decade now. My heart breaks when I see a performance like the one at Villa. No height, no speed, no strength, no width and no craft in this current Everton team. It seems like the team is made of a bunch of flukes. The defense is panicky. The midfield is nonexistent and the strikeforce is lightweight.
With this kind of performance, we should be happy if we are not in a relegation fight come end of the season. Villa made a mockery of us. They were strong in all departments and imposed their authority on the game. We started brightly but things get worse and worse as time went by.
Even if Everton win anything this season, I won?t be convinced because it?ll be a fluke. When will Moyes realize that Neville and Osman are at best classy substitutes? Victor is like McFadden, McFadden is like Osman, Osman is like Neville, Neville is like Carsley, all flukes. This current midfield has destroyed any hope I have. If we do win anything with this midfield, it will be down to fluke and fluke and fluke and fluke?
Sur Jo, Posted 24/09/2007 at 03:00:24
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Michael Kenrick
Bit fishy... all them flukes? Was 4th place a fluke? Was 6th place a fluke? Is everything a fluke? I'm confused. And what is "over a quarter of a decade"? If you mean three years, say three years! It's actually less words.
Simon George
1 Posted 24/09/2007 at 08:22:51
1 Posted 24/09/2007 at 08:22:51
What are you talking about, yes its been a bad week and we’ve played some terrible football.
The defence panicky? I bet you most teams in the premiership would love to have Yobo, Baines and Lescott.
No speed? Im pretty sure AJ is one of the fastest strikers in the premiership.
No craft? Im also certain that most teams would love to have Mikel Arteta as their playmaker.
No height? Again Yobo and Lescot are hardly short and they can both head the ball fairly well. Admitedly we dont have a great header of the ball in the striking department, but for a little man Vaughan isnt too bad.
Finally no strength? One of the main attributes of David Moyes teams is their determination and teams know their are going to be run ragged after playing us.
Get a grip, its not that bad.
The defence panicky? I bet you most teams in the premiership would love to have Yobo, Baines and Lescott.
No speed? Im pretty sure AJ is one of the fastest strikers in the premiership.
No craft? Im also certain that most teams would love to have Mikel Arteta as their playmaker.
No height? Again Yobo and Lescot are hardly short and they can both head the ball fairly well. Admitedly we dont have a great header of the ball in the striking department, but for a little man Vaughan isnt too bad.
Finally no strength? One of the main attributes of David Moyes teams is their determination and teams know their are going to be run ragged after playing us.
Get a grip, its not that bad.
Blue Shaun Cook
2 Posted 24/09/2007 at 08:51:42
2 Posted 24/09/2007 at 08:51:42
Simon are you watching the same Everton the rest of us are ? We have been nothing short of crap for a while now-absolutely no creativity and unable to pass the ball. Baring Derby I have no confidence of us beating anyone in the league at the moment with Neville and Hibbert in the side. We need reinforcements in Jan as Moysie has strengthened the wrong areas again when we all knew a crative midfielder should have been our priority, Piss poor show.
joe
3 Posted 24/09/2007 at 09:23:36
3 Posted 24/09/2007 at 09:23:36
simon george i fully agree with you all that about no speed the defence paniky no height no craft and no strength that is aload of shit we are just going through a bad spell when we are at a best with this so called flueky team we can beat or draw with the top teams like man u chelsea and arsenal and and dont forget the red shite (3-0) and the minute we have a bad spell people are saying we are flueky and we are shit every team goes through a bad spell
we will sort it out i think we will beat sheffield wednesday and this will give us a confident boost
we will sort it out i think we will beat sheffield wednesday and this will give us a confident boost
steve pugh
4 Posted 24/09/2007 at 09:27:33
4 Posted 24/09/2007 at 09:27:33
the display we endured at villa, was awful. the the team selection was wrong and the lack of decisions by moyes was even worse, it was obvious to every one of us evertonians that the midfield was not up to the task , neville worked hard but passed to them every time, osman and piennar were lively but too easilly pushed off the ball, so with the front two feeding off scraps all day, moyes brings on two strikers and,leaves carsley ( our only midfield player )result no change in the course of the game what ever
no wonder the villa fans were laughing in our faces, next two weeks vital, three good performances may help erase this from the memory
no wonder the villa fans were laughing in our faces, next two weeks vital, three good performances may help erase this from the memory
Matt Brown
5 Posted 24/09/2007 at 09:53:19
5 Posted 24/09/2007 at 09:53:19
From my seat at the villa game we were nothing short of rubbish. The two forwards in AJ and Aniechebe tried but were never going to get anything out of the two man mountins Knight and Laursen. The midfield was again small and looked very lightweight. On the plus side Lescott, Yobo, Baines and at times Hibbot kept us from even more embarresment. Oh how we miss Arteta. More so in that game though I believe Graveson would have been a key figure, we needed someone to stamp some authority there, and unfortunetally Neville, Osman, Piennar or Jagielka could not do that.
Were down at the min, but certainly not out, the potential is there so lets get our key players back fit and march on.
Were down at the min, but certainly not out, the potential is there so lets get our key players back fit and march on.
Colin Malone
6 Posted 24/09/2007 at 10:58:34
6 Posted 24/09/2007 at 10:58:34
Carsley been our best defensive midfielder,But he,s not moyes blue eyed boy.
Brian Wolf
7 Posted 24/09/2007 at 11:18:54
7 Posted 24/09/2007 at 11:18:54
When you say over a quarter of a decade do you mean 3-4 years or have you got mixed up and you actually mean a quarter of a century?
If it’s only 3-4 years then you should’ve been here in the late 90’s mate, that was shit personified.
If it’s only 3-4 years then you should’ve been here in the late 90’s mate, that was shit personified.
Sandy Brown
8 Posted 24/09/2007 at 13:05:23
8 Posted 24/09/2007 at 13:05:23
"quarter of a decade" LMAO.
Reminds me of a kid outside the ground at Blackburn when they bought themselves the title. He raised his scarf aloft and cried out: "I’ve waited nearly five years for this!"
Reminds me of a kid outside the ground at Blackburn when they bought themselves the title. He raised his scarf aloft and cried out: "I’ve waited nearly five years for this!"
Sandy Brown
9 Posted 24/09/2007 at 13:05:23
9 Posted 24/09/2007 at 13:05:23
"quarter of a decade" LMAO.
Reminds me of a kid outside the ground at Blackburn when they bought themselves the title. He raised his scarf aloft and cried out: "I’ve waited nearly five years for this!"
Reminds me of a kid outside the ground at Blackburn when they bought themselves the title. He raised his scarf aloft and cried out: "I’ve waited nearly five years for this!"
Michael Newton
10 Posted 24/09/2007 at 13:42:42
10 Posted 24/09/2007 at 13:42:42
At least in Michigan you can watch NFL or MLB or NBA or NHL instead of EPL. In fact you should consider switching your allegiance to WBA or QPR though I doubt you will get them on ESPN or CBS.
Dave Rooney
11 Posted 24/09/2007 at 14:54:14
11 Posted 24/09/2007 at 14:54:14
Its been a bad week, and I’m feelin pretty down about the last two results but the fact were playing twice a week at the moment at least means we have a chance to put it right. Granted the result yesterday was disappointing as was the Kharkiv game as the performances were not great. The result against Man U a week ago was also disappointing, but for a completley different reason, we matched them for almost the whole game and were very unlucky not to get anything from that. It certainly wasn’t a fluke !!
The midfield is looking weak at the moment, but lets face it last Wednesday we had Arteta, Cahill, Gravesen & Pienaar all missing, thats not a weak midfield, and in Baines, AJ, Yak, Yobo & Jagielka we have some pretty pacey players.
I think we’ll beat Sheff Wed this week, put on a good performance against boro on Sunday then go and win in Kharkiv. By the end of next week I think we’ll all be feelin much better. Its football no fluke!
The midfield is looking weak at the moment, but lets face it last Wednesday we had Arteta, Cahill, Gravesen & Pienaar all missing, thats not a weak midfield, and in Baines, AJ, Yak, Yobo & Jagielka we have some pretty pacey players.
I think we’ll beat Sheff Wed this week, put on a good performance against boro on Sunday then go and win in Kharkiv. By the end of next week I think we’ll all be feelin much better. Its football no fluke!
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