Really disappointed with the way yesterday was handled.
Martinez goes into most games with the Goodison crowd especially split maybe 50/50 in the love, hate relationship. 3, 3-0 wins on the bounce didn't change this notion and the West Brom game was important in a number of ways.
He started really well and the support was shown from the crowd it seemed in the early stages of the game, as the previous winning formulae including Joel was played which I would say at least 90% of us wanted to see happen.
...It was from here where he lost it all the faith over again though! Ok, so we were unlucky, we absolutely battered them and ultimately lost 1-0... but Martinez could have kept the support behind him very easily by making the right subs. We were 1-0 down, why do we still have 2 holding midfielders playing? Why do you sub your best player on the day (Lennon) who was the only one looking deadly, in a like for a like sub instead of sacrificing a holding player for another attacking outlet.
It's going round Facebook that Mirallas threw his gloves at Martinez after warming up, only to see Osman and Kone go on to be given the nod.
Appalling man and squad-management to be honest if you ask me. Diabolical decision making in the substitute department once again, which remains a familiar trait in my mind... and to be honest, I'm not even saying different subs would have definitely won the game. We could have even over-attacked and lost 2-0, but if we went for it a bit more and used common sense by utilising our squad and playing to its strengths I would have been less miffed about the result and more focused on what we are building on. As it is, I don't know what we are building on.
