Martinez has his sights on Europe

Yes 11th. Place

I pity the fans of all of the other teams that aren't going to try and get as many points as possible from the next 12 games. They really need to rethink their strategies.

Thank god for Roberto and his wise ways.

How we can play so well at Stoke and then lose to WBA at Goodison is beyond me.

The bloke next door and his stepson are season ticket holders like I used to be... when they get back from the ground the whole street hear the car door slams.

He really needs to man up and sort all this shite out as he has the best squad at GP since 86/87.....and it's getting pissed away.

"The margins in the league have been so small that I just feel we’re very, very close to being able to achieve our aim. -– such as, being able to defend as a team, which is a big margin, Roberto!

"Our disappointment has been at home [in the League]. To have six home defeats is not good enough and the challenge is to correct that. – like the last home game, which was very similar to the previous two home games against West Brom, only we lost this time... still cannot score against the mighty West Brom at Goodison Park though, Roberto.

"The small margins have been against us in every single aspect and you could go through many good performances that didn't end up getting the right result. – again... defence Roberto. That is the same margin you are going on about! It’s actually a massive margin!

"The final third of the season is where we’re going to be making sure that we turn that situation around and, if we do that, we’ll be in a very different position to where we are now." Anyone else heard Roberto say this before???

More utter shite spilling from his deluded mouth!!!!

In that case, I will drive him to the airport and buy him a one-way ticket...

Wait a minute! This is another case of RM selling the bearskin before he shoots the bear!

"The last 12 games have been very disappointing and we have not achieved our aims, but with the lessons we have learned we will be much stronger until the end of the season" – Roberto Martinez in January...

Roberto Martinez in February: "The final third of the season is where we’re going to be making sure that we turn that situation around and, if we do that, we’ll be in a very different position to where we are now."

And finally Roberto Martinez at End of May: "The final 12 games did not result in the change to our overall performances, although we were very close and only small margins stopped us from qualifying for Europe, but the phenomenal performance in the final game of the season, when the players showed what a tremendous moment they were in, ensured we finished a very satisfying 15th in the table. As I said in February, and my prediction was correct, we finished in a very different position to where we were then. We are now looking forward to the first 12 games of next year when we can continue this one game unbeaten run and fulfill the potential of this phenomenal set of players and climb into the higher reaches of the bottom half of the table."

Oh just piss off.

Wigan's fightbacks started with 12 games to go every season. The beginning and the middle season are irrelevant to this blathering fool. At least our team may turn up fit now, hey.

Resign, you charlatan. BK act now before you're gone for good. Do something constructive, sack this clown immediately.

"I wouldn't say I need to win it [the FA Cup]. What we want to do is qualify for a European position."

That's a nice way of saying "Well, I didn’t want to win it anyway" after you exit the only hope of winning anything this season!

This is already defeatest talk!!! I normally say to myself every Monday, "Roll on, next weekend." ... Now it's "Roll on, next season."

Bob Hope and No Hope....

What I will say though, is it astounds me how much msplaced faith he continues to put in the 'mentality' of his men:

"I see the team is mentally ready"

How often has he talked about them having the right mentality, a winning mentality, being mentally strong, having learned lessons, being 'ready' in both body and mind to move onto another level? Almost every time he does, they immediately let him down and he falls flat on his face. Yet, this pattern seemingly never registers enough to even raise a nagging doubt in Roberto's noggin.

It's like he sat his squad down at the start of the season and gave them all a Rorshcach test, cried at the beauty of the results and hasn't been able to see beyond the pretty pictures they placed in his mind ever since, even though to everyone else they just look like a blurry bag of shite.

If there's one thing this Everton team have proved throughout this season, it's that they don't possess the mental strength to get to grips with their shortcomings and mount a continued surge up the table and they resolutely refuse to fucking learn.

Is he the new keeper to replace Howard? Can someone check the videos of him to make sure he really is here with an Everton shirt on and it's not just photoshop?

Good grief, can't make it up can you?

What happened there?

What is going to be different?

He said if we won we would have been 3 points off 5th place. Well we never won, simple as that, and we never were going to win by bringing on Kone and Osman. We need less talk and more action.

Drop Kone and Osman and put Rodriguez and Niasse on the bench as attacking back up.

Start Lennon and if he's playing well then don't take him off. Put Delefou on the left, and keep Cleverley as sub to replace him 2nd half. Keep Robles in goal, and tell him he's our number 1 keeper now and that it's his to lose, and that he won't be dropped just because Howard is fit.

Just my opinion, the way I see it.

So frustrated with all this talk talk talk talk about how close we are. We'll I think we could be close with just a few tweaks.

AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH

Any ToffeeWebbers know why club have delayed season ticket announcements for next season?

And please Roberto sort up the damn defence. We are never gonna reach the points haul we deserve unless we stop conceding those silly goals....

If the players weren’t ready to compete for a European place at the start of the season, he needs to take a look at himself.

He’s right, the final 12 games are important... but they all are. It was 3 points for a win in September as it will be in May.

I think we need a change come the end of this season cos this can’t continue.

Fire in the hole!!!

It’s no point just forgetting about the first part of the season and saying the last 12 games are going to be important for where we can end up, you end up finishing were you deserve based on your achievements throughout a whole season, I don’t remember many teams in our situation that have been hit and miss all season and under achieved so far, just all of a sudden put a winning run together that propels us up the league and into the European spots?!

Our season as followed a pattern of one step forward, two steps back, we’ve gathered no momentum through out what so ever and I can see the rest of the season panning out that way and once again we’ll be languished in mid table or just about in the top 10 imo!

I’ve referred to Spurs a lot a lately and I honestly think we’re very similar to them in a lot of ways. We’re at a very similar level to them experience, youth & ability wise imo (apart from the No 1 spot!) yet their better than us at the basic fundamentals like hard work, closing down, organisation, their fitter and more importantly, their consistent! For me, we have the right blend of experience and youth and have a lot of ability but we lack hard work.

Too many of our players for me, don’t put enough of a shift in. We pick and choose games when we want to close down and win the ball back high up the pitch. We’re not defensively organised off of the ball and when our attacks break down we can be all over the place and get caught out and concede a lot of goals.

I don’t think we’re that fit either, I’ve said before in other posts that were not fit and seem to go flat after about 70 mins in a game, some of the players are blowing after an hour! Fitness was also an issue for me last season and we’ve not been has fit has we were when Steve Tashijan was at the club!

And we’re very inconsistent! One thing Spurs have been this season is consistent and that’s why their right up there in the mix for the title. And that’s with still being in Europe and the FA Cup! Our manager & players eventually blamed Europe for last season, well Spurs are proving that’s bollocks that it can be a hindrance, in fact, it can help you gain momentum, IF you utilise all the competitions you're in.

But another big difference between them and us, is the managers! Pochettino is a class act and what he’s done their in 2 years, getting in the players he wants and getting his ideas across so soon and getting Spurs playing in the way he wants, working has hard has they are in such a short space of time just shows the standing of the man who the players are right on board and doing well!

Under Martinez for me right now, we’re going nowhere. We don’t seem to be improving on Moyes's stats or Martinez’s first season, we seem to be going backwards, even though he’s had more money and got a better group of players at his disposal.

I just can’t see us going on a winning run from now until the end of the season that will see us propel into the European reckoning and all I can see is us winning odd games here and there, losing the odd game that we should win and stay in and around mid-table and for me that should be enough for Martinez to be sacked cos another season of mid table mediocrity isn’t progression for us!

Our leader is an annoying spin doctor worthy of a Government Secretary of State for Bullshit. I know these guys are contracted to talk to the media before each game, but why doesn’t he learn to just keep it to who is fit and who isn’t etc...?

He sets us up for a fall so often, it is like Groundhog Day. Only in the film, the hero eventually sorts things out, whereas Bobby continues the fuck-ups !

"AHHHH FUCK OFF NOB'EAD!"

He even talks sense. Couldn't be more different to our manager who is becoming an embarrassment. Somewhere a Spanish village is missing its idiot.

Still waiting.... zzzzzz .

That is precisely the only thing that can save our season and your job, Bobby.

With the players we’ve got – yes.

With the manager – let’s wait and see but I’m not putting dosh on it.

He sold it to us in the first season and we are now bearing the fruits!

Matinez WILL be here next season and as he didn't learn it at Wigan and he hasn't done so at Everton, could someone just slap this into him? As was his first season, Moyes team let off the leash. And there was ore of this attacking style he loves that season than this or last.

Then, we all got frustrated that we showed no ambition because clearly we had stopped being a team who were one of the favourites to be in the battle to stave off relegation and we now a team that could push on into those European places but still the first target was 40 points and not being relegated.

Now we get frustrated because the manger is in dreamland and his ambition is far greater than his ability to deliver added to which his constant attempts to spout the said dreams and make himself look like he is totally deluded. I wonder if any journalist will remind him when he makes 8th or thereabouts and 6 points adrift of these boasts and then challenge him as to the reasons were luck, bad referees or his inability to make it happen - or was it the players?

This is plain fact.

There is only really one more game left in the league that will get the fan’s slightly pumped up and that’s the Anfield derby, even that these day’s struggles to generate much interest from many Evertonians due to our predictably dire record at that place.

Martinez is completely fooling himself but nobody else with this latest batch of utter jargon.

There’s little we can do to salvage this league season and make it anything other than half respectable.

Liverpool ( match day tbc ).... L

Aston Villa v Everton......W

Everton v West Ham.....L

Sunderland v Everton.....W

Everton v Arsenal.....L

Man Utd v Everton.....D

Watford v Everton....W

Everton v Southampton.....D

Crystal Palace v Everton.....L

Everton v Bournemouth.....W

Leicester v Everton.....L

Everton v Norwich.....W

Far better that realism than 'the season starts here' every single month of the season. As we approach March, this time we can only hope RM's telling the truth!

Martinez hyperbole, in one ear and out the other for most Blues I know.

Er... a shot of what Roberto's on, please, darlin'. Ere, I'll tell yer what, love – make it a double, will yer.

Total and utter moron

"I know Bill finally grew a pair and has sacked me, but I still think that the team under my guidance will reach its full potential in the first 12 games, and then we will get stronger, with even more phenomenal moments to take us into the CL by Christmas, after which Niasse will make his debut and along with Kevin and Mo will be very important to the group for the final third when all the lessons we have learn’t will mean we will get 100 pts and................."

"Come on Mr Martinez back to the bed you know you shouldn’t be out of your ward"

"Yes matron."

I think he is going to Europe as a commentator for the coming Euros in France. Technically this is what he is talking about. He is looking forward to spouting more nonsense at the Euros.

If RM has his sights on Europe I want Brexit.

Sadly, I think I've got more chance than the Incredible One has re Europe.

We know that, when the boys cross that white line, it's up to them. We have been the victims of some outrageous bad luck and some diabolical refereeing decisions. However, the table doesn't lie. The home record is an absolute disgrace.

Battles are won and lost by the quality of the leadership. No sooner do we emerge from the trenches, advance a few yards, fire off a salvo of blanks, and get driven back into the trenches. The buck stops with the man in charge.

I am sorry to say it but as much of a decent man Roberto certainly is, I can't bring myself to read or listen to anymore bullshit. This Blue Army needs a new leader before it is too late.

I wonder what the players say to each other after each team meeting, or listening to the verbal garbage the manager comes out with at every press conference. Or the reporters themselves – how do they stop themselves from laughing out loud at the nonsense this man speaks?

I’ve just switched off from watching the Liverpool game; very, very boring. ToffeeWeb is much more entertaining.

Knowing the mentally is right, that's a huge relief for me. Now I'm expecting a phenomenal run of form, the team will finally beat anything in front of them. The points target is still on, we finally know what we're playing for.

Europe could be on.

I don't believe that but Martinez is selling it, what's the next excuse going to be? Sticky grass season or some other agricultural phenomena?

Which name does not belong in this list?

A Jimmy Tarbuck
B Tom O'Connor
C Rob Wilton
D Ken Dodd
E Roberto Martinez

No, it's no good, I can't figure it out...

I liked you when you arrived. You seem a nice bloke but you're not good enough to manage our great football club.

You know it deep down: three seasons – no improvement with a very competitive squad. Be honest with yourself.

He is an absolute embarrassment... but, then again, so are Everton FC for firstly employing him and then not getting rid when it is clearly not going well and he has no idea how to change things.

If he is still the manager for the 2016-17 season, then I fear we really will be in trouble.

Okay, only people of a certain age will remember that film!

1. We have the best Everton squad in the last 25+ years (even the lads coming through such as Ledson and Dowell are being watch and admired by lots of Premier League clubs);

2. We could beat any team if set up correctly and tactically;

3. Roberto cannot defend properly even though the three richest Premier League clubs would buy two or three of our defenders for their teams;

4. Roberto cannot use subs to our advantage, to either win or defend correctly;

5. Roberto talks too much and most times it is rubbish that is embarrassing to the fans, players and to himself;

6. He constantly contradicts himself, eg, either we are performing well and are only good enough for 12th position or we are under performing and should be in the top 5;

7. Fans are totally puzzled why Kone and Howard (who wants to stay fit to go to the USA in the summer) have been constantly picked this season based on their performances.

What we cannot agree on is when Roberto should go and who should replace him. Finally... is the manager close to losing the dressing room?

After the miles travelled, time wasted and pounds many of us have spent to suffer repeated disappointment, . this inept excuse of a manager has the chin to actually believe we might believe this shite.

How dare he insult us and our intelligence. How dare he toy with our faint hopes and desperate longing for success.

How dare he ignore our collective awareness of his obvious failings and obvious but ignored solutions that any observer of Everton this season sees clearly.

This is our club; our heritage; our hope; our bitter disappointment ;our heartache; our anger.

Funny? Laugh? I’ll pass this time – it’s a crying game.

By the way, has anyone noticed the resemblance between our Bobby and Randle P McMurphy, central character of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?

You know, the one who rebelled against the established order, convinced of his cause, opposed by Nurse Ratched (Louis van Gaal in a nurses uniform) and ultimately defeated.

Your stubborn refusal to do so will cost you your job and makes these hollow promises sound ridiculous.

They should be ready on the 26th August – not the middle of February!!!

Déjà vu?

"Look Roberto, we get knocked out by Bournemouth on Saturday teatime then the season, as far as interest to the fans is dead!! This is plain fact."

Jim nice that you speak for the ’fans’. You do not. I don’t know who appointed you to speak for ’the fans’ but you do not.

At least one fan – me – does not agree with your self-made decision to speak for ’the fans’. Therefore you are wrong to do so.

Pedantic? Yes. But, quite frankly, I’m a tad sick and tired of people – people who don’t like Martinez for the most part – claiming that they speak for ’the fans’. When, palpably, they do not.

Martinez is a very smart guy, he loves Everton and has created an exciting young squad with huge potential. You can see his determination and passion when he refused to sell Stones. So why don’t all of us blue noses get behind our team and support them?

Other managers of course will continue to say what an entertaining team we are, of course they will as they don’t want us to change, having sussed us out and knowing how to beat us. Perhaps only more media pressure, such as Joey Barton’s words the other day, will make someone sit up and take notice of his continued farcical and totally unrealistic verbal meanderings.

Next thing I fear is cartoon caricatures of him appearing in the tabloids. Do we want or need that kind of publicity?

I do believe Martinez's comments are somewhat far-fetched at this stage, given that a few of these games are to be played at Goodison Park, and thus far, that's no relief. It also puts further pressure on the players to perform at their highest, although that's what most of them have been doing thus far. The only ones under-performing are the ones he stubbornly sticks with.

This is his choice and not the fault of the performing players! They know this and that's when the rumblings start in the dressing room.

No performing players should be held accountable for our Premier League position, or have to carry deadwood. And I am sure they are as frustrated as the fans. The most worrying thing for me is every club with their sights set on achieving top four, top six or staying in the Premier League do change the manager if the goal is not achieved.

We fans are the lifeblood of the club and, as has been said before, no player is bigger than the club! Likewise, no manager is bigger than the club! I know Martinez is here until the end of the season, but if nothing happens it's time to change. I fear for a mass exodus at the end of the season.

To keep the season alive, and enough people interested we need to stay in the cup.

I see where you're coming from Paul, but I can see crowds of under 30,000 coming our way, because too many people no longer enjoy going the match.

Maybe he's his own worst enemy, because he's giving us a much better squad. But that's no good to nobody, when he just doesn't get enough out of them for whatever reason. Let's hope we just win tomorrow XX!

Maybe all these stupid accolades he’s handing out willy nilly are making the players complacent, over confident and as deluded as he is?! In my experience you need to earn this sort of praise! It’s a vicious circle - RM says they are all brilliant, players believe it and play crap! He says they are brilliant and so on!

Sad to say as wanted RM to do well but now really he is making me cringe with every interview! I used to look forward to every Everton manager interview on TV but I just cannot watch RM at the moment it’s embarrassing! Please just say it as it is!

Whichever, it could be said he has achieved(?) 2 out of 3 but does not seem to be aspiring to anything better. He did however, get Wigan into European competition which, it is reported, is what got him the Everton job.

I’m just going out onto the window ledge for 5 minutes to think about it......

http://news.sky.com/story/181082/the-best-of-comical-ali

Unfortunately I feel we are both in for a long wait!

"We should be firing on all cylinders around February"?

The man's a fucking idiot.

I’m sorry but his words actions and results just scream "loser"!!!

And if they are, how come it's taken six months to get them ready?

Eddie Howe out-thought him in our last visit to Bournemouth - no doubt if he does so again tomorrow it will be down to bad luck, despite us –being in the moment for the rest of the season.

His utterances are for the sake of the new owners – as even he can’t believe we are still falling for the same b/s excuses for mid-table mediocrity. I know he has to do these interviews as part of his contractual obligations but I wish he would talk about revamping his defensive coaching set up instead of his inane gibberish about mentality; bad luck and the moment is coming for this team to strike home for Europe. Utter Tosh.

She also asked whether I would renew my three season tickets. I found it difficult to answer while this phenomenal idiot is in charge.

Will somebody from the club please do something and shut him up. I heard the TalkSport interview and heard them sniggering!

The guy is a joke but I am not laughing anymore. We will not be relegated this year but give him another year and he would complete the job. He could not organise a piss-up in a brewery.....

And why are the players ready now, at this part of the season. Shouldn't they be ready from the very first minute of the very first game of the season and not when there's only a dozen games or so left to play?

Please please let this be the final season that this idiot is our manager we simply can't afford to start next season with him in charge because if we do I guarantee that this time next year we'll be in the same position and hearing the same old rubbish being spoken. In fact, we'll probably be worse off because I think that we might see two or three of our best players leave the club in the summer.

I wonder what the players think when they hear this guy talk like this. I be they are all at home shaking their heads like we all are.

Just go out and give it all we have got for the rest of the season please. I think they owe the fans that much at the very least and if (a big ’if") we win the cup, that would be brilliant. Restore some pride and give us something positive to hang onto.

Up to now, we are all pissed of with the way it’s gone so far. You can and must do better because you are starting to lose the crowd that turn up game after game. Enough is enough. That especially goes for Martinez and his shite staff.

Howard – no comment
Robles – could be good if he were to be given a chance long term
Baines – way past his best
Galloway - not quite good enough (yet)
Oviedo – might be good if he could stay uninjured
Jagielka – still very good, but past his best
Funes Mori – potentially quite good, time will tell
Stones – potentially very good, a few hiccups of late
Coleman – not as good as many think, past his best already
Barry – still has it, but I doubt he’ll last another season
Besic – I have high hopes, but he already seems injury prone
McCarthy – quite good
Cleverley – quite good
Deulofeu – has lots of potential, but I have a horrible feeling it’s a bit of a flash in the pan
Barkley – can be brilliant but lacks consistency
Kone – oh dear, dear me
Lukaku – can be brilliant but lacks consistency
Mirallas – quite good but moody
Pienaar – past it
Osman – past it
Lennon – very good
Niasse – who knows?

My conclusion – 11th place is probably about right for this supposedly phenomenal squad, but only if they are mentally ready...

He doesn't see, or just refuses to consider the possibility that by continuing to talk unrealistic goals, based on potential, instead of fact, he is alienating a large part of the fan base.

Roberto. Win a few games in a row, and leave the predictions to Nostradamus.

I replied I just go to Goodison to watch the match, I don’t buy anything to eat or drink as I live about five minutes away by bus.

I went on... "Nothing has changed for me really in the long time I have been going to the game, except the ground is now dilapidated and we need it updating or a new ground."

She finally asked if I would be renewing my season ticket? I answered, "That depends if Martinez and Kenwright are still there as I have no faith in either of them to improve my enjoyment of the match."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Geppetto

My conclusion – 1st place is probably about right for this supposedly phenomenal squad, but only if they are mentally ready.. and they are young, give them time. It's a process... The sky is the limit.

Positively yours -

Sir James C Crowley IV

And is Lukaku the best centre forward that Everton have ever had? Come on Jamie . Give it a rest. Me thinks that you are a piss taker. Of the highest order.Our players are good. But IMO nowhere near good enough. Hope that that makes sense. Good night...

McCarthy fills a role in Martinez' flawed system, Tom Cleverley is a proper footballer. McCarthy fantastic? Hardly. He does a similar role to Peter Reid but Reidy could create as well. Now there was fantastic. Sorry but I may judge these guys on different benchmarks.

Deulofeu is a talented kid who could possibly do something if he got fit and stopped throwing tantrums. Any opposition that contains him until he a) gets knackered or b) gets frustrated has basically contained and neutralised him. When he throws himself to the floor you know he doesn't threaten anyone again.

Galloway best young defender?? Long way to go. You should see players in other more successful teams and compare them before going so over the top.

And I am really sorry (I'm not really) but Lukaku best striker forever? Words actually fail me now. This is Everton lad, Evertonians. You seriously need a dose of 'istory injecting when it comes to strikers.

PS I know it is your way and I won't knock your enthusiasm intentionally

It’s like the ventriloquist’s dummy saying, "I could talk so much more sense, if it weren’t for this hand up me ass."

ps: I have started to collect some rare videos. Do any of you fellow sufferers possess a video of Aroune Kone in training? I want to see what I got for my money...

Lukaku is the best striker "in... forever". Not "forever".

Galloway is an awesome talent.

I agree with Delo’s tantrums they drive me absolutely mad. Doesn’t diminish the fact he terrorizes – quite literally – defenses.

Cleverley is good. No question I like him quite a bit.

But you’re wide of the mark on McCarthy. Without him, we were losing at an alarming rate. His work rate and industry – especially his ability to win a ball – allows Everton to get the ball on the feet of our more talented players. McCarthy is the man in midfield. Without him, we can never get into a game because the catalyst to retrieve possession for us is James McCarthy. He is a beast.

One thing you definitely do indeed do is judge these players on a different scale. You’re much, much longer in the tooth than I involving all things Everton and have the luxury and good fortune of having seen some of the greatest players to don the royal blue jersey.

Alas, I came a bit late to the party. So when it comes to the analysis of Peter Reid, I bow to your judgement.

But the gist of the post – we have some excellent players undoubtedly – was really to combat the analysis that all our players are either over the hill, shite, or fucking shite...

But I actually think you were quite aware of that already...

But that’s the problem I have. He is pretty limited as a footballer and a team that is so reliant on a single individual isn’t a team by my definition. If we take that mid-80s team for example, individuals could have off days and others could fill in. That’s a team. You may not recognise them but utility players like Alan Harper (much underrated) and Kevin Richardson (ditto) could come in and the team carried on winning almost seamlessly.

If your main man is injured or has a bad game doing what he does then we don’t work according to your point – one I agree with to a point. How does that work in terms of winning consistently? It’s a major problem I have with Martinez’s Everton, we are a collection of individuals trying to play a TEAM game.

One-dimensional and limited – the main criticisms of Roberto Martinez in a nutshell.

No team ever won with attacking alone. Not even Brazil. If he wishes to keep the same players then rain in Baines and Coleman to defend. With Rom, Del, Barkley, Lennon/ Mirallas we have enough attack and pace. It’s a small tweak... One unfortunately RM won’t make.

Have a slice of Bryan's birthday cake from today..
We agree 100% about him as well.

Paul Power was a bit of a joke to all of us in a joke team prior to Howard signing him. We thought he’d lost his marbles. How wrong we were. How right he was.

What a player he was as an ever-present in that title-winning team. I think he had a law degree as well.

Totally committed to the team, totally professional. He added goal scoring free kicks to his tireless running in that 87 team. You knew if you cut him he had Man City running through him and he made no bones about it but totally committed to Everton whilst he played for us. I remember him slotting one away when Sheedy was out injured and a big guy with a Wigan-ish accent who used to stand near me in the Paddock say "Sheedy? I’ve shit him!" to much hilarity. Didn’t he score against City too?

The only honour in his long career as I recall was a League Championship medal with us – not a bad one.

An absolute model professional who puts the modern day mercenary to shame.

Congratulations guys. I didn't think it was possible for two people to use so few words to describe our players and be so incredibly far apart... on almost all of them.

Poor old Kone, repeatedly played out of position, he seems to be everyone's punch bag.

Richard's wonderfully miserable "Coleman is past his best already" countered by some Fantastic OTT stuff from Jamie – "Only people who actually understand football and sport in general realize how fantastic this kid is" .

Vintage ToffeeWeb

Get off the fence, guys!!!!

I have thrown cushions at Lee and Bingham, screamed and bawled at Kendall, Smith and Walker... and detested Moyes in his last years at Everton for his total lack of respect for our club. Royle is the only manager I have not had a bad thing to say about. (Kendall proved me wrong, of course.)

This clown needs a good slap for his lack of respect for us fans and mainly his unprofessional attitude towards the fundamentals of hard work and defender responsibilities.

Having said all of that about him, I could easily direct my anger at the phoney in charge of the club. I'm not sure on his health at the moment but he is making a lot of us unhealthy by typically doing fuck all. Allowing Moyes to continue in charge after him committing to the Mancs should have seen enough protest to see him ousted.

For what it’s worth I think our team is overrated a little. You can see that:

Robles is a bit unsteady but needs a chance to prove himself (Howard’s finished);
Coleman has to be appreciated as you don’t get two class marauding full backs cheap.
Baines, Oviedo... our left-back spot is in a very healthy situation as I like all options.
Jagielka is still decent but was never and will be dominant in the air.
Funes Mori has it all and should be given a good run in the team.
Lennon’s work rate and recent form should see him hold his place.
Mirallas should be given a chance but Deleofeu can play there or change with Lennon.
McCarthy is a workhorse but I blame the coach for not forcing him to move the ball forward a bit more and also getting on the end of a few things in the box.
Barry is going great right now.
Besic will hopefully take over the Barry role next season.
Barkley is a gem but once again he is being badly coached. He let a high ball bounce twice last week early in the game and lost the ball. He should be trapping that first time and he badly needs to learn how to challenge for a ball and tackle.
Lukaku is also a gem but, for all of our crosses coming into the opponent's area, he has to be putting more effort to get on the end of them and also track back with intent.

Plenty of others to mention but I would not trust this clown to teach anything to them. Where is Basil Faulty? He will sort him out!!
Great to be Blue but getting a bit sick on this roller coaster ride..

12 games left and we should be thinking 36 points no exceptions. We can beat Arsenal at home and Man Utd away and I reckon we can do Leicester one as well.

I would like to see us teeing up shots from outside the box against teams that park the bus. Gerry Rom and Ross can all strike a ball but we need others to step up and hit the target.

She’s asleep, it’s 1:55 am here, and I’m off to bed to arise and watch us, I pray, beat Bournemouth. You "lot" are just waking for a new day... most of you anyhow I’d venture...

Before I go into dreamland, I’m going to have a slice of the Oviedo cake Riding left for me and say to Darren Hind -

That is exactly why I read this fabulous website called ToffeeWeb, posts 146 and 151.

Goodnight! Hoping for a win because a loss will mean a ridiculous amount of Bobby out posts!

I think, after the posts today, I know how Richard Dodd felt backing Moyes...

Power did score against Man City and at Maine Road. I was at that game which we won 3-1.

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