A fabulous season despite final loss

The parting of the ways is probably best for everybody. I just hope the new man can pick up the pieces add a few new players get rid of the deadwood (Naismith, Anichebe, Heitinga, for starters) and help turn some of this seasons draws into wins. I think it's a safe bet that Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea and the RS will all make improvements to their squads this summer so what happens at Goodson is all the more important.

Over to you Bill......... heaven help us!!!

See ya Davie.

Now lets see what that gobshite chairman is really made of. (and before any smart arse pipes up, yeah, I could have made a better job of Blood Brothers).

You pretended to be a decent, honourable man with integrity and yet you sold out your great 'friend' Bill for filthy lucre and a shot at personal glory.

A man is judged on what he does and you looked people who trusted you in the eye and lied to them. I hope that sits well with your Christian morals, you shameless, greedy, ungrateful dick.

Ha ha. £4M a fuckin' year. Jesus. I'm gonna miss that fella.

Good luck, Davey, because you're going to need it at your new home. Here at Everton most of your followers don't expect or demand much more than stability and safety. At Old Trafford, they demand the exact opposite. SAF was a God to them tossers so God help you if you don't give them the Glory they crave as it's all they have ever known.

Our lot were all too happy to feast on crumbs and I hoped all that was about to change until the horror of what you advised BK came to light... Even now you're gone, we can't escape your deadly deeds.

Oh wait, I remember there was a ToffeeWeb poll then...

What a 'greedy, ungrateful dick' for taking the biggest job in world football. Fuck sake

Thanks Davy, worst of luck for the future though.

It's mixture of missed opportunities down to his negative tactics which cost us late goals, and down to not strengthening a tiring squad back in January.

Give it a rest!!!!

So the leading company in whatever your field of employment is offers you the job as their top man and you politely decline stating you would rather carry on with your career drifting aimlessly??? Yea course you would!!

Only one person who could be described as a 'dick' it he isn't David Moyes!!!

Yet another in a long long line of doing ok in the 1st half and losing in the 2nd half games (and season for that matter, last away win 2nd Jan )

Yet another defender for forward subs, which may not have directly cost us the game but shifted the balance and pattern back when it needed to... well if not go forward, more stay where we were having survived a few scares and the Chelsea push from the 2nd half KO.

Not one iota of ...last game of the season lads nothing to lose, go out and show them.

No it was strict by the numbers 451 / 4411 KIPAP1. We had Naismith ( how my hearty fell when I saw him in the tunnel ) scurring between being wide right and being Vics support.

To give him his due he took his goal well and did a lot of work in the scurring on the right position, but looked one step over short of top 4 class...and he wasn't on his own.

Somebody said in Dec. that Moyes confided that the good ( at the time ) start was ok but we were playing right at the edge and top of our game, it couldn't go up another gear, it just wasn't there and so it proved.

Rafa for manager...undecided on that, there are some I wouldn't have infront of him, I mean he plays people out of position, Ruis is a player who I think is a pretty good midfielder was at centreback. He finished the game with 4 fullbacks on the field. But in the space of half a week he won a major Cup and a must win last day of the season qualifier for the CL game.

Does being a winner mean that the ends justify the means...In footballing terms yes...but only if you win and he does.

So ends the season and an era...Not with a bang but a whimper, same old same old really

The next appointment is imo, the biggest for the Club since 1892. Yes in this day and age it is that important.

I hope they get it right.

We have also been playing with the worst strikers in the league if you can call them that. Jelavic was utter shite. His miss today was probably one of the worst I've seen.

I can't for the life of me work out how failing to meet those objectives constitutes a "fabulous season".

In fact, any season where you finish below where you were aiming for, are dumped out of the League cup by a lower league side, and then get battered at home in the FA Cup by a relegated PL side, is a fucking terrible season as far as I'm concerned.

That said, if the new guy holds onto this side, avoids some of Moyes's more glaring errors, and can continue with the sort of football we played in the first half, then there's a lot to look forward to. The first half we were, erm, fabulous. Actually scratch that, imperious.

Moyes had only one first teamer injured yet he played with only one striker and any thought of him using one of our own youngsters was zero.

Over the years Moyes has criticised his players, pitch conditions, match officials and everything under the sun. Not once did he direct a word of complaint to Bkue Bill and his boardroom cronies.

Benitez uttered a few words against the Red shite boardroom shenanigans and was promptly sacked by the yanks.
Our Davy has kept his nose out of such things and was rewarded with top bracket wages, security of trnure and promotion.
Come in Rafa!

Some of you are making out 'it's the biggest job in world football". Tell that to a Real Madrid supporter! It's embarrassing you would think along those lines, we're not Accrington Stanley and he wasn't being paid in pies. He had a BIG job at a BIG club on BIG wages. Going to success is not laudable, creating success IS laudable.

He has walked out on the home of Dixie, the Golden Vision, the school of science, the people's club and for what? To be Fergie's bitch until they can get one of their own in to position.

You do the best you can with what you have - and that's what he's done. Expecting him - or any new manager - to successfully compete whilst juggling peanuts against billionaires is plainly ridiculous.

If we can play like we did yesterday and get a finisher then next season bodes well for whoever who gets the job next. My wholeheatered commisserations to whoever you are.

You will be expected to achieve the impossible -nand no matter how hard you work you will in the end up having to buy your own cross and nails - as the club certainly can't afford them.

Poisoned chalice anyone?

Thanks Davey and BK as you have successfully lowered expectations at this club to a level where finishing 6th is deemed as a major success for plucky little Everton.

Good for you and better still for you the world looking in and apparently the majority of Evertonians think you are both bloody fantastic for managing such a feat at poor cash strapped 'small' club Everton.

As long as we have BK at the top this misery will continue

Bollocks to the league, as long as we have a lucky run and win a competition that everyone uses to rest players. (Where the fuck are Wigan, Birmingham and Portsmouth now?). Might as well get Joe Royal back.
Thank fuck this is my last ever post on this subject.
Good luck to poor sod who comes in next

Although, personally, I have found it a season of excruciating frustration and missed opportunity.

That said, if Moyes thinks this season was fabulous, it just shows how much he thinks of us as a club, and what he thinks of his own players.

This site is for Everton fans and as a fan I have every right to be angry with someone representing the club in his own interests. If you think that is ok then I suggest you start a Moyes fan site. You could call it 'i'llnickyourbestplayerwhenthedustsettles.co.manc'

Moyes had an easy ride because if the acceptance from some that he was punching above his weight and others, like me, that he was slowly building something. Very few managers have ever got the level if support from fans and media that he got. Fewer still got that support without winning anything.

But anyway, my beef is not with his managerial abilities. It's with the smoke coming off his heels the second his phone rang and the smug look on his face when the news leaked out.

Makes me wonder if he'd taken the Spurs job if he'd been offered it.

It's all irrelevant now, he has gone and we all look forward to slagging off the new fella following his first dropped point.

Bring it on!

I'm glad Moyes has gone, he couldn't take us any further and it removes Kim Jong Bill's heatshield, though I suspect it'll take a while yet, and possibly a dodgy managerial appointment, before the happy clappers start to see where the real problem at the club lies.

I see the revisionists are already getting to work on the Chelsea game. it was an amazing first half - where are all those shouts of 'I don't care what the result is as long as the football is good' gone now? When Naismith doesn't play he just gets all the criticism for being rubbish - when he does play and score and put in a decnet performance Moyes gets the criticism for playing him. Who knows how many he could have scored this seaosn had he had a proper run in his proper position. Seen too many finishes like that one from any of the Everton forward players this year? Me neither.

Moyes can't do everything for this team - he didn't tell Giibson to cock up every shot he had from distance, he didn't tell Jelavic to put his header straight at Cech and miss two tap ins. He didn't tell Fellaini to stop tracking Mata for the first goal or Howard to spill it, ad he didn't tell Baines to constantl ybe out of position like he was for the Torres goal. His tactics gave us the platform to win the game yesterday but the players just didn't deliver because at the end of the day they're not that good - Moyes has them playing at a level well above their ability. Going to Stamford Bridge with a strikeforce of Naismith and Anichebe what are people really hoping for?

If a player is selected, he will play and that player won't think to himself "I'm crap, I'd better turn down the shirt today. It's the manager's job to put out a team that has players in form and not just stick with the likes of Osman and Howard who have been terrible for years. If I got the nod to play for Everton I would jump at the chance but once I fucked up and gave the game away, would it be my fault or the managers?

It was Moyes's squad that he didn't use enough and it was Moyes's tactics and team selections that backfired on too many occasions. Don't blame players who aren't up to scratch for being in the team and messing up as they shouldn't be there in the first place.

For all his faults I think Naismith has that natural strikers instinct that only Jelavic has at this club. Rather than just admiring his ball to Anichebe he anticipated it coming back ot him then finished iwth his wrong foot. He ha sa long long way to go but can you really expect his touch to be perfect when he hasn't played for ages and when he does its not in his correct position. He has 4 goals this year from the wrong position and from barely playing in the seocnd half of the seaosn. I think if the new manager polished him up he could turn into a decent option behidn the front man. At times this season would it have hurt to give Naismith and Jelavic a run together and drop Fellaini back? What would w ehave had to lose? Fellaini and Anichebe haven't been putting them in for us in the second half of this season.

We need to change the mentality of the players, who believe that as long as they put in a good shift and win their home games that is enough to satisfy the fans, it isn't and nor should it be.

That's why I for one don't want the next manager to come from within the club, it needs a fresh pair of eyes to weed out the deadwood and someone who can assess what young players have the potential to truly fight for a place in the first team.

Since Moyes arrived I've not been his biggest fan so its ironic that the year he does go we've played some of our best football. His problem always has been his caution (fear) when we play the big boys particularly in the really important games and his stubborness in selecting players out of form or out of position.

But that's the past now. I'm glad he's gone and we have a fresh start. If its Matinez, its glory or bust!

I don't think the PL has been poor thi syear pAtrick, a syou point out Spurs got enough points to eaisly be I the top four most years yet have missed it. All it shows is that the bottom sides are poorer but the top ones have got better. The recent form of Arsenal and Spurs has been eye watering whilst united's canter at the top was ridiculous. Add in that us and Liverpool have shown form recently that would be enough for Europe in most seasons. Any other seaosn we'd be in Europe, we cocked up the cup ourselves but who could ave predicted Swanse aand WIgan taking the other two spots? Bad luck for Everton, ad luck for Moyes and that is the one thing I wil say on Moyes - for all his strengths which people know I deem to be many, he was never a lucky manager and that remianed even in the lats game with the oduble deflection off the post. Maybe you make your own luck, or maybe sometimes John Terry slips and you lose a European cup.

I don't buy the "he got the ball in good positions" argument either. He did, then squandered it. This isn't school sports day it's an elite football club. No marks for a good effort. I don't expect the title each year but I can't settle for Naismith's standard.

That's part of the reason I'm looking forward to life without Moyes. Maybe, just maybe we get someone who says "that's not good enough" rather than "fabulous effort".

I enjoyed much of this season but we finished second bottom of a 4 or 5 team league. Great that we're in that league and not cast adrift with the likes of WBA, WHU, and Swansea but we're a bit better than accepting that as "fabulous aren't we?

The usual riposte was "Moyes sees the players in training"

So we have to assume the other options are...
even more useless
or
unaffordable
or
not yet ready after x years coaching/training/playing
or
likely to be a gamble the manager was unprepared to take

Which again asks questions of the manager, recruitment and training staff although we are led to believe Moyes oversaw all such aspects of the club

I don't give a shit tbh but if I was a betting man, I'd give him less than a year.

It's been a decent season with some good football played. I'm missing it already. There's an exciting close season ahead for us, with a new manager and some transfer action.

I'm choosing optimism. Try it, you might like it.

We played some top football at times but our shooting throughout the season has been soft. A good season which fizzled through a lack of investment when it was critical.

Thanks for your efforts Davey, on the pitch, and for keeping us a cut above everyone else in terms of how a club conducts itself.

I hope we don't get a white line jumper as a replacement. Fuck passion , give me brains anyday.

Optimismmmmm...read about that, and remember it, a bit, pre-Kenwright, mostly

1970 - Catterick went doolally
1977 - Clive the Book
1985 - World team of the Year; Heysel
1996 - Kanchelskis
2002 - Rooney

Nil Satis Nisi Optimism

Likes his Wonga does old Davey boy. Maybe he can try Blackpool out next.

In about 12-18 months time.

Cheers Bill.

Its amazing what a wealth of attacking talent can't do when it puts its mind to it. For instance if they decide for some unbeknownst reason to take a dislike to Moyes early doors. Well. Could prove a most interesting observance from afar...

Though MU will probably have the momentum to carry them to some kind of trophy win next season even if they didn't have a decent manager. Which some cynics might venture is actually the case.

Moyes will be nowhere in the running. Especially if he wants to sign Barkley. He should be breaking the bank for Ronaldo or Bale now Spurs have another season in the Europa League.

That was a long sentence. I need to rest now.

Just feel it could have been even better and had anybody said to you at Christmas to win the FA Cup you would need to get past Cheltenham, Bolton, Oldham, Wigan, Millwall and our favourite Premier League opposition (bar West Ham) Man City, you would have been rubbing your hands in anticipation.