My Xmas Is Ruined!

A peek at our remaining games could put a damper on any die hard Evertonian. If what remains of the season is anything like what has already happened, we will up to our necks in the brown stuff.

Some may say we are already on that slippery slope. Our main hope for change is Cahill going to the Asian games. I make no apology for suggesting that his departure could be a catalyst for improvement. Week by week, our situation is becoming more perilous with less games to mount a recovery.

A fair appraisal of our players shows them to be at least as good if not better than most of their peers in the top half of the division ? so where and why have we gone so horribly wrong?

The finger of suspicion must firmly point at Moyes. Despite conclusive proof that 4-5-1 has been a complete failure, he resolutely sticks to it through thick and mostly thin. He will not accept even the slightest possibility that his tactics, team selection, timing and deployment of substitutes or even training methods might in any way have contributed to the situation.

Game after dismal game, he trots out excuses but never genuine reasons. His recent eulogizing of Saha is a sure sign that no changes are in the offing. I am convinced that only catastrophic events could force him change course.

Cahill going to the Asian Cup is such an event. Tim?s bravery, extra ordinary box-to-box stamina, remarkable heading ability and goals have played a major part in Manager of the Month awards won by Moyes. Those goals have rescued Moyes's credibility as a manager and tactical nincompoop.

The Asian Cup will force Moyes to take a cold hard look at where he has gone wrong and hopefully drive home that what we have been doing to date is unacceptable.

That is why I am glad the Asian Cup takes place in January. When Tim returns, there will be just enough remaining games for him to help drag us from the relegation zone and possible oblivion.

Couldn't agree more.

I'm tired of David "Mr Entertainment" Moyes's cavalier attitude to how football should be played.

How many times has he shown tactical naivety by instructing his sides to go for the second, third or even fourth goal when they could have sat on a 1-0 lead ?

Why does he give his sides a "license to play", to express their skills with pace and passion ? Why must he constantly eulogize that football is "the beautiful game" ?

Well I've had enough.

We need a manager who is dour. Someone who realises that 4-5-1 is the percentage,play it safe, way to go.

Someone who is fearful of the opposition and is able to pass on those fears to his players so that they become inhibited and frightened to try any "fancy stuff".

Sigh ... but where could you find a man like that for the paltry salary we could offer him ?

I really do think that if he is given a proper chance then Vaughan could turn our season around, if Moyes is just a bit brave and throws him in I think he will respond to that. If he starts Saha agains City though, then i'll cry.

You have to learn from your mistakes eventually; Saha is a striker and he isn't scoring goals, that is all you are required to do and if you don't do it then you are useless to the team. No matter what you do on the training pitch!!!

So, if you don't get up off your arses and shout from every section of the ground that you are displeased (I did Saturday and got a tirade of abuse from a couple of old timers)... you're never too big to go down and the prem take no prisoners; not enough points and you're down ? simples.

THIS COULD HAPPEN... EVERTON NEEDS YOU!!! [....pointy finger....]

Arsenal 0-7 and 1-6 (our heaviest home defeat in half a century!) Bolton 0-4... Steaua Bucharest 1-5 and and for good measure newly promoted mighty WBA 0-4!!!

How about some "Moyes Out" banners.... some vocal dissaproval that really hits home. Or even turn your backs (first 15 min)... difficult that one, especially if he picks Saha on Monday!!

I wouldn't mind that so much if he was an inspired puppet master but he is so far from that. Mike (4) had it pegged when he called him the PE teacher.

The apathy is the most dispiriting thing to see. I have posted here before that I recall the venom directed at Gordon Lee and the fan protests at the crap we were watching ? well I would watch Lee's team over this mob any day! At least he set them out to have a go at the opposition when they came to Goodison. Moyes treats EVERY OPPONENT as if they are Barcalona. FFS, let's have a go at our own ground!

Santa, please bring either Mr Moyes or Mr Kenwright a working pair of testicles. If Moyes gets them then he may find a bit of fight and take it to the opponent. If Kenwright gets them, then he may just put a P45 in Moyes's top pocket and say, "Thanks but it's just not good enough for this club, we expect better than that matey."

Bill K will not get rid of his mate, no matter what happens this season. Moyes, like Big Sam, is an average manager who in my opinion can take the club no further, but as the media love him, and his boss has no balls, he will stay ? no matter what the results.

The current climate though, as Tony says, is probably the lowest I have felt for a long long time....
Still... we do have an away fixture at Citeh on Monday and you know what happened there last season!

You can be a realist all you want, but answer me this ? and this goes for all Evertonians who are still in denial about the dire situation at Goodison ? how does DM take a team who took 39 points from 19 in the 1st half of 2010 to taking just 18 points from 17 with only a summer to separate?!

That form in the 1st half of the year, when we played every team once (apart from City who we played twice and Burnley who we didn't play at all) should have proved that we are capable of challenging at the top, so it's only fair to expect the same or similar, and ceratinly not a drop of over 20 points.

It points to stale ideas, stale tactics, and an inability/unwillingness to change ? and before I'm criticised, I've always been one of the 'apologists' as we've been called.

Your point sounds a bit childish ? I do not say Marshy has lied; he says what he believes ? I just disagree with what he says and have always disagreed with how he says it.
In simple terms he talks shite in my view.

Stewart ? I don't want to get rid of David Moyes because I believe he can do as well as anyone can with what he has to work with ? if you feel I am in denial so be it but I am not and never have been an apologist. I do not dispute your logic based on what facts you put forward.

Imagine my and the lads suprise found that there were hundreds of other blues doing exactly the same thing: result, Smith out, Moyes in... so yes, it can be done. Don't forget, Smith was BK's bum chum as well but 7,500 screaming away fans that Sunday had made his mind up.

Who would I get in? Well Big Sam temporarily to get us out of the shite that we're in and gents pretty football won't get us out of it hoof ball and strong arm tactics just might.

Like Tony M, whom I've disagreed with strongly in the past, I agree that Moyes has to and go now. The countdown to disaster is almost done ? we have to act now. BK slating can wait for another day,but he must once again do the right thing and send the dark lord back to hell!

Saying that, I do genuinley think he is hurting by the current plight of Everton Football Club... as we all are; that's why we are on here voicing not only our opinion but our CONCERN.

Let's not beat about about the bush, this is a certified relegation battle we have on our hands, we could well find ourselves in the bottom 3 come Monday night when we play City. Our forwards are nothing more than a joke... and I mean ALL OF THEM, players on massive salaries have failed to deliver anything of note and with the exception of Cahill, Baines, Piennar and wait for it.... Distin, the rest of the squad have given us absolultley nothing whatsover to cheer about.

I am writing Monday night's game off already, so defeat against Birmingham and something HAS to be done... I admire Moyes for what he has done for Everton Football Club, but I don't see anymore he can do for us. I do think he must see the bigger picture and do what's best for him and the club and go with all our best wishes.

Everton ruin your Xmas???? ? not a chance! :)

What annoys me most of all about this current team is the amount of games I've walked away from scratching my head wondering how we haven't won the game I've just watched. The amount of times we've outplayed the opposition but a Pienaar or Saha shot has hit the woodwork, a keeper such as Schwartser, Friedel, Al Habsi, Carson has pulled off an unbelievable string of saves, Beckford has ballooned another shot over the bar, and a 'Linesman' has missed a blatant offside.

This isn't a one-off, it's all the time... but, short of Kenwright suddenly finding a fortune down the back of his couch to buy a Tevez or Darren Bent, I can't see much else that can be done.

I watch MotD or Sky highlights and teams I'm told are the best in the land are not as good as we can be, that's why Chelsea were lucky to get a point off us and why I'm confident of a result against the City Billionaires. There's nothing much wrong with us a few goals from Saha, Yak or Becks wouldn't cure.

I don't like Allardyce either but he knows how to win in a fight and that's what we're in ? a fight ? make no mistake about it.