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13 Comments: I?m sitting here at work (I never usually want to come in, but I actually nearly rang in sick today) and I STILL feel sick. I?ve felt sick since we beat the Mackems. It initially felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders after the game on Saturday and I thought,?Well fuck me, I?m glad that?s over?? This feeling won?t go away though.
It seemed to me like everyone before the game was shitting it; everyone just fuckin? knew what was going to happen. Even after we?d scored, the whole of the Everton end was nervous, quiet and waiting for the inevitable to happen. Fellas sitting near me had ?that resigned look? on their face even before the fuckin? game had kicked off, for Christ?s sake, never mind after Blockhead gifted them their 1st. The atmosphere around and inside the ground, before kick off, was 10-times stranger than the final of 2009? WE ALL JUST FUCKIN? KNEW.
The players let EVERYONE down; let?s face it, the 1st half wasn?t much kop, not to mention the 2nd. We never created much, never pressured their keeper NEARLY enough, never pressed hard enough, never had enough urgency, or never kept the ball with any confidence at all. I?m unsure if the manger is to blame for this, but they?ve ALL got to accept some responsibility in some form.
The players that we?ve got obviously aren?t much good; otherwise they wouldn?t be playing for Everton? We have to be realistic in that, even if we had somehow got over the Liverpool ?Big Game Hoodoo?, it?d of been a struggle to overcome Chelski anyway, as they?re better than us; they?ve got better players. It?s as simple as that?.
While I feel very very disappointed again, it?s nothing new for being an Evertonian and we shouldn?t expect anything different. We?ll never beat them in a ?Big Game?, because that?s just the way it is? I feel like the 800 miles I travelled at the weekend was a waste of fuckin? time again.
Having said all that, if someone had come to us at the beginning of the season and said you?ll finish 7th or 8th and have a decent Cup run, we?d have bitten their hand off. While this ? until someone comes along with £500m to spend ? has to be considered success for a club like Everton these days, I can?t stop thinking that Saturday was our opportunity to slap them bastards in the face and we just didn?t have the balls to take it.
We just fuckin? blew it. Again. THAT?S why I feel sick??
Andy Callan, Posted 16/04/2012 at 12:57:04
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It's like having toothache forever but you're not allowed to have a dentist pull the fucker out.
If I had any sense I'd pack Everton in and take up stamp collecting.
I'm just hope they have to watch Torres parading the cup around Wembley and then we can laugh at them on channel 5 in Outer Mongolia on Thursday nights wrecking next seasons attempt at the top 4.
Please resign Moyes, you've really overstayed your welcome.
"The players that we?ve got obviously aren?t much good; otherwise they wouldn?t be playing for Everton"
I don't agree here, though. As I pointed out in my big-game experience post, we have some very good players with a ton of top level experience.
In the likes of Baines, Fellaini, Heitinga and Jelavic we have players who would be right at home in any of the teams above us in the table.
Maybe we don't have enough of them but over the last eight games or so, this team is in Champions League-qualifying form. We can win games against anyone when we put our minds to it.
I know he's getting on a bit but still, class and the ability to motivate players is everything these days. Even more so than when Joe was last Everton manager.
Joe understands that every player is unique and you can't always get the best out of every player with an authoritarian management style.
Seriously, Joe Royle would do for me.
Moyes, you might wanna take some notice and learn how to win away from home, you negative twat!!!!
Yes the players were to blame but only partly. Moyes may have sent out the same team against Sunderland, but he has got a hell of a lot to learn about motivating the players against big opposition. His piss poor attempt at "mind games" (if that is what he even intended) by telling everyone that we are the underdogs and him and Round constantly off praising Liverpool did no favours in motivating the players.
And don't get me started on his negative nancy tactics against the shite. I've said it before and i'll say it again...You are asking for trouble when sit deep and defend against teams like this with just a one goal lead. We should have continued to attack and put them under pressure, but Moyes' instinct is always to play it safe. Moyesie.. you can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket!!
He lacks the "killer instinct" and the gumption to take a chance, and i fear we will continue to win nowt with him in charge.
We have to accept that the everton squad has neither the quality nor the strength in depth to consistently challenge several of the big name teams in england. At least not in the way we would like.
Winning by guile is often the only way possible. I'd like us to have been more attacking, but you have to cut your cloth accordingly; I don't think going gung-ho is going to get us anything other than a proper hiding.
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285 Posted 16/04/2012 at 16:07:41
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The monday after the FA CUp Final, we can look forward to those email photos of crying kopites at wembley :)