Moyes had a 5-year plan when he arrived, but since that point, we have gone backwards. Money was not an issue when he arrived so Moyes should not be hawking that lame excuse around any journalist lazy enough to print it. With the exception of Osman and Hibbert, Moyes has signed, or introduced, and then coached every single member of that first team squad.
He spent big on the gifted, but limited and pedestrian Bilyaletdinov. He spent big on the gifted, but limited and pedestrian Felliani. He spent big on Yakubu and then systematically disintegrated what made him such a threat at other clubs. He spent big on Heitinga and then refuses to play him in his best position; instead Moyes chooses the error prone, hoofing, yard-dog Jagielka at centre back... The list goes on.
With such a heavy investment in so few players, who either sit on the bench or are constrained by the rigid Moyes structure, there is no free capital to procure players with pace and or flair. Hatem ben Arfa and Victor Obinna were both available over the summer but did Moyes even consider them? I doubt it. Moyes hates flair but flair entertains fans and wins games ? but is Moyes interested in winning games? I think his team choice and time-wasting substitutions at West Ham provide all the evidence one needs to prove that Moyes isn?t interested in winning games anymore.
And Moyes?s reluctance to try and win takes me back to his dogmatic adherence to his 9-year-old pattern of 4-5-1. It is dour and negative, because our midfielders cannot or will not overlap. It doesn?t matter whether this is due to a lack of pace or an overly defensive mindset, it is soul-destroying to watch. Conference teams could defend against our set-up; all they need to do is double-up on the target man and mop up the second ball, then break with a hint of pace ? Everton nullified.
Moyes has turned us from perennial relegation candidates into mind numbing also-rans. He will never win silverware because his sides are consistently incapable of maintaining any type of form for a cup run, never mind a whole league campaign.
We have lost all the home games I have been to so far this season and every time I make the effort to go to the alehouse to watch a game, we have been shite. We are coached not to concede and for Cahill to nick the odd goal. This is not the Everton I grew up on, this is not the School of Science, it is football played on the balance of probability and it typifies the defensive mindset that permeates Everton?s current coaching staff.
But unfortunately we have a catch 22 at Everton. This mind-numbing mediocrity allows Kenwright get to keep his train set. And while Kenwright retains his train set, and those in football are under the laughable illusion that Moyes is still working miracles, he is beyond reproach. Moyes is free to carry on stuffing his pension pot with your hard-earned wedge ? no questions asked. Much of the Goodison faithful are sick to their eyeteeth of this media hyped self-perpetuating illusion of ?over-achievement?.
It is time for a change at Everton, but we have a typical cosy club with no internal impetus or external drivers for change. We will carry on lurching from crisis to crisis until one of Kenwright or Moyes leaves Everton. And neither of them wants to leave.
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Having just defeated the blood-stained petro-billions of Man City on their own patch, and outplaying an admittedly shoddy looking West Ham on their own ground, currently sitting above the Redshite who we soundly whooped this season, and sitting 12 points behind Chelsea, things are looking better for 2011 and I believe that us moving up the table is inevitable this season.
However, maybe like you say, Kenwright should derail his 'train set', sell our club to some chicken farmers, get rid of Moyes, poach Alan Pardew from Newcastle and sign a few big players on £200,000 a week who will subsequently fall out with the new poultry-based regime and go on strike and we can all start complaining about boardroom wrangles and the chicken shit we've got ourselves into.
Any club that has to play Tony Hibbert at centre back is clearly looking for investment but there is a recession and our stadium is made of wood. I don't understand what else is supposed to happen to the club we love, and sacking Moyes would be an unmitigated disaster as most people who know anything about football would be able to tell you (I reckon even Alan Shearer might be able to tell you that, just maybe).
Maybe you should move to Surrey and start supporting Chelsea, then you can call for Ancelotti's fat head on a plate every week. Other than that, see who we get in on loan in the transfer window, sit tight, and trust in Moyes that we will again finish strongly as we do every season.
I think that we can do something though. As a club, we have to insist on a change at coaching level. As I have mentioned on another thread, I am sure that there have been little changes since Moyes took over, other than Round.
All of these have seemingly kept a Championship mentality if performances over the last 6 years are anything to go by. The board should be telling Moyes that fresh blood is needed. we need people like Poyet etc on our coaching staff ? all of our staff are simply old-school English lower league players. No wonder we have no creativity.
Granted there have also been some poor Everton teams over that 45-year period and some I have expected to lose at West Ham but not this one. I was gutted when the line-up was announced but it seems to me like you must have been dancing round like we have won the cup.
What drives guys like you to follow Everton and be so happy with your lot? Go do yourself a favour and go and support someone whose main ambition is to stay in the Premier League.
So I would much rather have someone who is prepared to attack.
Truth is, if Holloway took over a club with bigger expectations, he'd be more cautious and I'd wager he'd fail miserably as he did at Leicester.
There's no point in playing Cahill as a lone striker. His goals are scored when he attacks the ball from midfield, unmarked. Playing as a lone striker he is permanently up against 2 centre-backs.
Now I am not a tactician, but it's there for all to see. Moyes is too negative. How can you play West Brom & Wolves at home with one lone striker???/ Defies logic!!!
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