2024/25 James Tarkowski

[NortheastBlue68]

Not a bad accolade.

 

[alpethsm]

I read today that Opta has rated five of our players as amongst the top five hundred in Europe based on their performances this season. Tark is one of them. Without looking it up, does anyone fancy having a guess at the other four?

Tarks
Pickford
Gueye
Ndiaye
Branthwaite

That's in order of confidence for my guesses.

 

[Verbal Kint]

Probably our best since the Moyes era? Maybe Pickford ahead?

Definitely Pickford ahead, I may be slightly biased since I know for a fact Everton signed Pickford after I raved about him whilst watching him play for Preston.

The scouting report I did was on the money.

Height was only concern

 

[heatmeiser]

Not a bad accolade.

Piss-boilingly brilliant choice of pic for that post

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Top defender, great captain, good footballer and never forget a top shagger if documentaries are to be believed

 

[Benicetoourboys]

He's a legend now surely? Think that goal was my best Goodison moment ever.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

One of the smarter signings of recent times on a free.

 

[Rehnman]

Tarks
Pickford
Gueye
Ndiaye
Branthwaite

That's in order of confidence for my guesses.

Got them all apart from Branth. There’s a mystery fifth man!

 

[Rehnman]

I'll go with Idrissa, Pickford, Iliman, and McNeil?

Got almost all, but it’s not Dwight

 

[Rehnman]

Tarkowski

Tarkowski
Gana Gueye
Pickford
Branthwaite

Hmmmmm... Doucoure?

No Branth or Doucs, but all the others yeah. Branth was number six hundred and something surprisingly!

 

[Rehnman]

Pickford, Ndiaye, Gana, JB

First three spot on, but different fourth. Gana was our top rated player this year by opta’s various metrics. Interesting that Tark does so well even when different ways of judging it are taken into account tho.

 

[SJB]

Got them all apart from Branth. There’s a mystery fifth man!

Beto?

 

[Rehnman]

Beto?

I thought he’dve done well statistically in terms of minutes played, but it’s not him. I’ll bring the other player’s thread back up to the top to give the answer there!

 

[Vintage]

Some indications of the season he’s had

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Remember that he had a couple of absolute crap games over the winter, and missed a few in the run in with his injury.

In some elite company here.

How the hell is Flekken, Haaland, Diaz and Palmer in that team of the season

 

[GoldenToffee]

Piss-boilingly brilliant choice of pic for that post

Probably the best tackle I've ever seen. Clean as a whistle, ball first, went in with one foot only, leg bent with no malice intended. Great tackle and rightly wasn't sent off. It was disappointing to see Duncan at half time telling everybody it should have been a red card.