2025/26 David Moyes

[Titus Shambles]

I do wonder sometimes if the journos all snigger to them selves that they know that need to stroke his ego to get anywhere with him.
Probably consider him the Temu Alex Ferguson.

These people are not journalists. They're sound-bite chasers asking boring, predictable, easy, middle-of-the-road questions that'll get them what they want for their pointless, lukewarm articles without risking any ire from the club.

I don't want to hear the usual garabge like "are you hopeful of a win this weekend?" or "would you like your strikers to score more goals?", I want to hear these spineless ballbags highly purposeful JoUrNaLiStS ask "this club has been amongst the lowest goal scorers for years now, do you think it's ok to start a season with only 2 strikers on the books?", "you know better than anyone how this fanbase craves a trophy, do you still think it was the right decision to rest your best players at a club that only plays once a week?" etc.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Bit snarky with the female journo suggesting the strikers aren’t firing.

Dunno why he takes visible exception to that, when he could just as easily use it as motivation for them, while remaining neutral in his response.

 

[Rita_Poon]

These people are not journalists. They're sound-bite chasers asking boring, predictable, easy, middle-of-the-road questions that'll get them what they want for their pointless, lukewarm articles without risking any ire from the club.

I don't want to hear the usual garabge like "are you hopeful of a win this weekend?" or "would you like your strikers to score more goals?", I want to hear these spineless ballbags highly purposeful JoUrNaLiStS ask "this club has been amongst the lowest goal scorers for years now, do you think it's ok to start a season with only 2 strikers on the books?", "you know better than anyone how this fanbase craves a trophy, do you still think it was the right decision to rest your best players at a club that only plays once a week?" etc.

We play Monday.

 

[McCallsVolley]

Hes rubbish with the press. He feels he will be attacked and goes on the attack as a way to prevent difficult questions and defend himself. Hell of a football manager though. Get that win on Monday.

 

[Titus Shambles]

He's been our best manager for a long time, we mainly finished in euro spots under him.

No one disputes he did a good job of having the club punch above it's weight for the majority of the 11 seasons first time round in the 2000s, or that he's a far better and more suited manager than Allardyce/Benitez/Lampard/Dyche - but literally none of that is the point or relevant to the cup exit.

Moyes is "Mr Everton", he knows better than anyone what the trophy wait has been like and what it means to the fans. To be so arrogant or dismissive of crashing out of a cup so early and so meekly with barely the shrug of the shoulders like it means nothing is such a massive disconnect to the point of insulting.

 

[Titus Shambles]

We play Monday.

I was speaking in general terms, hench the speech marks. And it's not just EFC or Moyes. Pick any so-called journalist in front of any manager and all you hear is crap like that. "Hopeful of a win next time out? Are you looking forward to having Player X back from injury?". Hardly insightful stuff, is it.

 

[LinekersLegs]

No one disputes he did a good job of having the club punch above it's weight for the majority of the 11 seasons first time round in the 2000s, or that he's a far better and more suited manager than Allardyce/Benitez/Lampard/Dyche - but literally none of that is the point or relevant to the cup exit.

Moyes is "Mr Everton", he knows better than anyone what the trophy wait has been like and what it means to the fans. To be so arrogant or dismissive of crashing out of a cup so early and so meekly with barely the shrug of the shoulders like it means nothing is such a massive disconnect to the point of insulting.

And it is self defeating.

Offer a small olive branch to fans that are upset by back to back losses in the derby and cup with a mild “I might have made a mistake”. That would get most back on side and then put out a decent West Ham squad and you’ve tamped down the noise bar the perma anti-Moyes crowd. Nobody is asking him beg on his knees, wear sackcloth and question his entire existence as a manager. Well, possibly @davek but still…

Instead he adds fuel to the fire for those upset.

 

[Drico]

Bit snarky with the female journo suggesting the strikers aren’t firing.

Dunno why he takes visible exception to that, when he could just as easily use it as motivation for them, while remaining neutral in his response.

She's lucky he didn't threaten to slap her.

 

[Nymzee]

I'm very much Team "Okay with rotation Tuesday" but he was extremely prickly this presser. Maybe had a bit of a telling off from above? Definitely the most defensive I've seen him since his return.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Eh? Since when did Dyche have to sell his best players every window?

He had point the deductions fair enough but let’s not give him extra points for things that didn’t happen.

Ah yeah sorry my mistake, I forgot that Onana Mina Iwobi Gray Gordon Godfrey and Moise Kean all still play for us and we didn’t sell them to raise money to keep the club afloat and pay wages and asked the manager to play Harrison McNeil and Lindstrom as his only attacking options instead.

 

[Titus Shambles]

And it is self defeating.

Offer a small olive branch to fans that are upset by back to back losses in the derby and cup with a mild “I might have made a mistake”. That would get most back on side and then put out a decent West Ham squad and you’ve tamped down the noise bar the perma anti-Moyes crowd. Nobody is asking him beg on his knees, wear sackcloth and question his entire existence as a manager. Well, possibly @davek but still…

Instead he adds fuel to the fire for those upset.

Exactly, but as we all know, managers don't come out and say when they got it wrong, even if they know they did. It's the doubling down on it that annoys me. He's had a few days to think on it and a platform to say we should have done better or even make reference to the players who played serving up a garbage performance. He should have said that's not acceptable, call out the overall team for being poor, but he didn't. Very disappointing.

 

[atrottel]

Bit snarky with the female journo suggesting the strikers aren’t firing.

Dunno why he takes visible exception to that, when he could just as easily use it as motivation for them, while remaining neutral in his response.

He's got history with browbeating and patronising journalists, which gets up my nose. (I was once a journalist in the murky Wapping days of the distant past.) I know certain people here don't like Giulia Bould but she has worked hard to create a professional relationship with him.

 

[Drico]

I liked he's interview, shows that we have moved on from relegation battles and I liked Moyes arrogance from the Wolves result, I've moved on from that, lol. Good managers and players need to show arrogance.

I'm not sure arrogance will be much use to him if we lose at home to West Ham.

Moyes has done a really good job since his return - unquestionably. However, the honeymoon is over now and the job description is slowly changing. In general, the biggest matches of the season for us are the two derbies. These are the games we would wish to win more than any other. While nobody expects a win against this very good Liverpool side, we demand that we turn up and give ourselves as good a shot as we can.

Other than the derby, the cups provide our greatest chances of glory - you know, the rare thing that fans crave to make up for the decades of mediocrity most fans of any club endure. While a cup is never an expectation, it does offer hope. We demand that we give ourselves as good a shot as we can to realise that hope.

On both accounts this week, Moyes proved himself totally unsuitable for the tasks at hand.

He's here for stability and nothing else. He's a percentages manager. Not likely we can beat or even draw with Liverpool at Anfield? "I've moved on." Not likely we can win a cup? "I've moved on."

Well, he might be the one moving on if the league form goes south. Anything less than a win on Monday and the narrative will start to sour. He won't be talking about a feelgood factor, then.

 

[Titus Shambles]

Nobody is asking him beg on his knees, wear sackcloth and question his entire existence as a manager

"SHAME!"(us Coleman should have never been at left back), "SHAME!"(us Coleman should have never been at left back)

 

[ClausThomsen]

Can't be arsed reading through and certainly can't be arsed watching press conferences so apologies if it's already covered but has the whole Coleman at LB with 2 LB's on the bench thing been explained?