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What can we hope for by 2013?
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I see somebody described me a "a miserable old git" in a recent posting and I am sure my wife would endorse the sentiment without reservation! I have to admit that my spirits have not exactly been lifted this week with the news that we are 'stuck' with David Moyes for another five years. It's not that I don't recognise that the man has improved our situation no end (so don't feel it necessary to chronicle his 'achievements', PLEASE!), it's just that I find the man boring in the extreme and his brand of 'football' very similar to that on offer at my local Blue Square South club.
But Blue Bill has decided that "the devil you know" etc... and unless someone can find a king's ransom to pay him off, it's Moyesey 'til 2013. So what can we hope for by then? I suppose most people will answer "it all depends who owns us," and whilst that will have a big bearing on the situation, it's not as though Everton are the only club likely to have changed hands.
In the event that half the Premier League clubs are owned by billionaires, there is every reason to suspect we shall still be outside the top eschelon. I just do not see Moyes as having the perspicacity to sign the right blend of players of real quality whatever the funds available. And as for the tactics.....!
On the stadium front, I can only see us at a greatly improved Goodison Park or possibly in a shared stadium with our local rivals. I have always regarded Kirkby as a 'no-no' and my own local experience of Tesco planning failures has only re-inforced that view.
So, in a sense, I foresee my cup as being half full. I'm sure we'll have a more wealthy (and professional?) owner and positive we shalln't be stuck out in the sticks. On the other hand, I just don't see us as a force to be reckoned with where it matters ? on the field.
Harry Meek, Posted 16/10/2008 at 09:50:40
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ps: Moysey retired to a castle in the Highlands three years ago with a £10M pay-off.
As far as the stadium is concerned, I?m hopeful Kirkby will get the go-ahead and that we will be well settled by then. The difficulty as I see it is getting things sorted out this season because I don?t think a team in 15th place playing in a shithole will attract too many bidders.
Get the match much do you?
More I think about it... the less I want to think about it!
A case of ?Patton- Lust for Glory?, eh?
Imagine the likes of Krøldrup, Neville, Beatty, AJ and AVM all arriving in the season?
He will still be signing fat, slow strikers, defenders that can?t head and midfielders that can?t run, for ridiculously inflated fees. Still playing dour, dull football with no tactical nous, lots of safety first dithering and no chance of any trophies.
The redshite must be laughing their collective arses off because we?ve just made their lives easier for the next 5 years too! You know I?m right... and yet so many support him... why? ...he?s a proven loser and supporting his mediocrity and singing his name has led to this nightmare contract. Well, just remember at the end of this shite season, that its partly your fault... you got what you asked for.
Doddy says we should be grateful to Blue Bill for sticking it out with Davey until the banks took the trainset off him.
If you are all the great blues you say you are, then support the fucking team and manager. Crticism is all well and good but some of you fuckers think that until the 90s that Everton we?re the most entertaining & succesful club EVER!!
A lot of you forget that it was 14 (ish) years before our FA Cup win in 84. That was in a day when the league & cups were a lot more winnable than they are now. And if you argue that point then your not worth getting into a football debate cos you frankly haven't got a fucking clue!!
And in response to this particular comment "I just do not see Moyes as having the perspicacity to sign the right blend of players of real quality whatever the funds available. And as for the tactics.....!"
Well the tactics seem to have broken the top four once before & we came every close last year & the general agreement was that it was a shortage of quality in the squad (caused by lack of funds available) that caused us to fall away later on!
So, yes we have had a shit start & yes our football this year has been a poorer quality than the last two years combined. That's football & there have been other factors but forget them as this doesn't fit your blinkered geordie view of football........
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