No there isn't. You either want to play football or you want to hit it long. We know how hard it's been at this club to get ourselves weaned off a brand of football that looks for the easy option long ball. Any retreat now away from footballing principles that underline a passing game over direct football will slide right into the hoofball we've been trying to avoid.
This club has been synonymous with knocking the ball long. It's no use denying it. We just are (or were until very recently).
If back to the future is on the cards we really are contemplating a return to the dark ages again. It was never good to watch and wont be if it returns. We all complained bitterly about the mostly turgid clueless brand of football played at Everton for the last decade and a half, let's not forget that.
i) you sure?
you really really sure??
That out of all the opinions on here and other places, different methods and formations, from the Moyes end of the spectrum - to the Martinez spectrum end, that yours alone is the one true Jerusalem, the ONLY way to play football.
and that is that, for ever and ever, amen.
That your and Roberto's joint, my way or the highway...oh and btw, there's no highway option, is the only way; Is, over the years, going to win us more games than we lose...which it isn't doing at the moment
ii) that's not what I said, I didn't mention going back to hoofball ala Moyes, what i mean is taking the best bits of Moyes...and there were some and the best bits of Martinez and there are some and thus finding a middle ground where you pick and mix what and how we play as the circumstances dictate.
iia) Fill in a proverb of your choice along the lines of , cutting your suit according to you cloth... silk purses etc.
Trouble is silk purses cost.
iii) Moyes and Martinez, have and are, proved and proving themselves to be, in different ways just as inflexible as each other...that's the bad side of them
iv)
Hence the Goldilocks option...not too much Moyes ( of the inflexible type ) and not too much Martinez ( of the just as inflexible type )