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Comments (17) : Moyes said: "I tried freshening things up in the second half and I thought we were a poorer team. My decisions as a manager were poor today and I have to look at that.
"The worrying thing is we are not beating the teams at Goodison Park we have done in previous seasons. I?m looking to see if there is any reason for it beyond simply not taking our chances.
"Today, I couldn?t see any. You don?t get better chances in the Premier League than we did today. They were shared around among different players and nobody converted any of them."
The key for me is the fact that he couldn't find any reason other than that we couldn't it a cow's arse with a banjo (paraphrasing!).
I compiled this list in about 5 minutes.....
1. Stop picking the 'striker' who is woefully out of form. Fuck me, Distin looked more dangerous than Saha yesterday. Beckford MUST start.
2. If I see all 11 back defending corners again... I really am in serious danger of breaking something valuable. Put two on the halfway line and the opposition have to leave at least three there, and so it goes... or one on the halfway line, and someone a little deeper to link if we get the ball.
3. Because of 2. above, we can never attack on the break. If we clear it, it just comes straight back.
4. This apparent rule that only Baines and Neville are allowed to take throw-ins means we lose all momentum..... it's fucking stupid and allows the opposition to re-group every time we win a throw.
5. Don't put useless great big injury prone lumps at right wing!!!!!!
6. We have highly experienced and established Nigerian, Russian and Dutch international players playing ? at best ? cameo roles. Use them or bloody well sell them and get guys in that you want.
7. Give Magaye Gueye SOMETHING!!!!! He's a wide player and he hasn't had a single second on the pitch in the League yet... He absolutely cannot be worse than Vic out wide... it's not possible!
8. It might be an idea to NOT construct the entire team around Tim Cahill. Yes, he's the only player looking capable of scoring right now, but it is negating everyone else's strengths.
9. Stop trying to walk it in fer chrissakes!! If you don't shoot, you don't score (unless you're Liverpool and rely on pennos and own goals).
10. Play everyone in their correct position.
11. Allow the players to express themselves! We have some bloody good players, but there appears to be an obsession with shape, and some perceived 'game plan' (which is definitely not apparent to me).
As I said, that was knocked together in 5 minutes (and posted on a Facebook group).....
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2 Posted 12/12/2010 at 17:11:42
- Vary our attack so that EVERYTHING doesn't have to go out to the wings for a cross to be lumped back in to the box. It is slow, predictable and easy to defend against.
3 Posted 12/12/2010 at 17:36:51
4 Posted 12/12/2010 at 18:42:06
I am generally speaking a fan of Moyes but I must admit I wasn't that surprised we didn't win yesterday. The man has baffled me many times but never more than the last few weeks when he has continued to play Saha. It's getting to the point where I am starting to think it must be me that is missing something.
Moyes wouldn't play him if he thought it wouldn't help the team win. I just wish I knew his reasons for thinking Saha is,currently, a better bet than the Yak. Or Beckford. Or even me! I just don't see it.
5 Posted 12/12/2010 at 20:10:41
Moyes is too stubborn.
He's gone stale.
We need a fresh approach.
I think it's time for him to go, but all the time his bum chum Bill is in charge, this isn't going to happen.
6 Posted 12/12/2010 at 20:09:26
Then, just as we are getting a bit of football/crowd stimulating momentum going, he brings on a bloke who has got the back up of the whole stadium in that morning's papers, AT LEFT WING, no less... and totally deflates 30,000 odd into a confusing crescendo of booing, cheering, what should we do? I know, go quiet and let the opposition off the hook!!!!
Moyes is an idiot.
7 Posted 12/12/2010 at 20:26:06
9 Posted 12/12/2010 at 20:36:20
If Pienaar & Big Vic want to go ? then don't play them ? Simples.
I think Moyes is scared stiff of 4-4-2 or even 3-5-2; either way, at home we need two attackers upfront ? Yak and Beckford (Yak being the link man); drop Tim back to midfield and use him as a third sriker coming in from the back. We need a Big Dunc type player who can cause havoc in the penalty area during the last 20 mins... COYB
ps: Has Moyes done his time?
10 Posted 12/12/2010 at 21:54:45
Beckford can't control the ball so until he learns I'd start the Yak. I don't expect Billy Liar to provide any funds to sign a striker who can score and Moyes has never shown any ability to wheel and deal. If it was up to me I'd be looking to offload Bily & Heitinga ASAP and if we did get offered Kranjcar and £1M ? as one paper suggested today ? I'd accept.
11 Posted 13/12/2010 at 06:57:55
Our fortune had turned with Yak upfront, he even had just scored a cracker.. the press and fans had noticed he was creating havoc for defenders, remember what he did to the Shite. And for his efforts, he gets subbed... I would be putting in my transfer request first thing and fucking off in January if I were him....
I love the Yak, hate the way he is managed.
12 Posted 13/12/2010 at 09:27:12
Fuck off.
13 Posted 13/12/2010 at 09:21:14
Something definitely going on here. Methinks DM has got his nose out of joint. Don't cut your nose off to spite your face.
I have been hoping for good things from Anichebe but when I read that he had turned down a deal he lost me. I am absolutely amazed that DM brought him on with Bilyaletdinov, Osman, Yakubu and Beckford on the bench ? absolutely incredible decision.
14 Posted 13/12/2010 at 13:24:57
I keep thinking things will get better. We seem to create good scoring opportunities every match but I don't understand why they are not going in... Low confidence? Bad luck? Bad finishing?
Is anyone seriously worried about the threat of relegation? I don't think I quite am. Yet.
15 Posted 13/12/2010 at 14:01:28
16 Posted 13/12/2010 at 15:33:40
Gone has the day when the likes of John Moores would be at the training ground, asking questions?
17 Posted 13/12/2010 at 17:04:22
18 Posted 13/12/2010 at 20:38:15
Sorry lads for using this as a catch up service:
Mike, drop me a line at
daverichman@iburst.co.za
Cheers
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1 Posted 12/12/2010 at 16:24:35
12. Get a manager who can remedy points 1 to 11.