You see after a string of horrendous results, shall we outline the reasons so that someone can tell the staff?
1. Martinez is a very stubborn individual and it is clear that he won't admit his weakness in his tactics, at all. He thinks the passing (side pass; back pass), possession style football will smash any team (like Barcelona) but in fact, it looks as if his style has now been found out this season. Now even when we are losing, it seems our players are reluctant to go route one or a more direct style. For instance, we were losing 2-3 to Newcastle. Amazingly, Lukaku and Coleman decided not to cross in the dying seconds...who is giving such mad instruction? No crossing in = no chance of scoring.
2. His failure to rectify our schoolboy defending causes us dearly. Our defending is doing a Wigan at the moment. At the start of season, we only have Jagielka and Stones as a good CB partnership. Alcaraz can't defend and is made of glass. Distin is 37. Yet, we failed to add players even loan to our backline. You may say he does not expect Distin to go downhill in such speedy manner but how can you rely on Alcaraz and a 37 year old to provide competition?
3. Are we having Walter Smith back oh dear. A lot of players are playing in the wrong position. In other words, they are not playing in their natural positions. The whole plan is just chaotic. The highlight is playing Eto'o in midfield hoping the "playermaker" makes some Zidane killer pass in the edge of the area when the opposition have nine players surrounding our 2/3 attackers. Barkley and Naismith who have no pace playing on the wings. This is crazy.
4. In comparison with last season, the subs Martinez made were not having positive effect to the team. At the start of season, we lost a couple of points as Martinez was doing a Moyes with late and wrong subs. Far too often it was too late before he made some needless subs in the 80 mins.
5. Our players are making defensive errors in turn. On many occasions, our players made dangerous short pass at the back (you can ask McGeady today).
6. The tempo of our attacking play is too slow. We make far many needless back pass and side pass. Whenever we have the ball we just slow the tempo down. Pass, pass, pass, pass, side pass, back pass then to the keeper etc.
The New Year here we come but there is still no improvement and the same old boring crap appearing in front of the Evertionian week in week out. This is very worrying as we are now preparing a relegation battle. Fasten your seat belt lads.
