Ronald Koeman discussion

[Khalekan]

We haven't really tested many keepers over the last month

Very true, Chris.

I can never remember an Everton side which was so shot shy.

 

[Dirty Dutch]

We were really good for 25 minutes of the first half, then the last 20 mins of the half it evened out with both teams being really crap, second half we were cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Thats what a lack of quality does with you.

 

[Runcornblue52]

Get beaten by Leicester and fail to beat Hull you better believe the knifes will be out

LOLZ......

 

[brieverton]

Fitness seems to be the biggest issue, alongside a glaring mental fragility, when you take away the complete lack of quality.
Sounds like a recipe for relegation right there.
I thought Jan Kluitenberg came with a good rep at Soton? Serious questions have to be asked as to why, 6 months in, we still look so painfully unfit. I thought that would have been sorted. Maybe it's the average age being high.

 

[jinkyali]

Big job on his hands. Hope he is the man to deliver.
Have my concerns.

 

[Kurt.]

Lots of kneeJerk here... the Mccarthy sub changed the game... barry doesn't have the engine to do what Mccarthy gave us and it just invited pressure onto us. We were quite comfortable until then.

 

[ChrisBlue]

You know when our midfield struggle to string 2-3 passes together, That's because there poor footballers

You know when we break and our final ball 90% of the time is short/over hit, that's because there poor footballers

You know when we struggle to break down crap defences, That's because we have poor footballers in midfield

 

[brieverton]

2 big away games now for a side that has lost 5 away on the bounce.
Will we ever see Holgate and Davies starting at this rate?

Look at Leicester at the weekend, salvaging a point with 9 men. We struggle visibly with 11.

 

[ChrisBlue]

Fitness seems to be the biggest issue, alongside a glaring mental fragility, when you take away the complete lack of quality.
Sounds like a recipe for relegation right there.
I thought Jan Kluitenberg came with a good rep at Soton? Serious questions have to be asked as to why, 6 months in, we still look so painfully unfit. I thought that would have been sorted. Maybe it's the average age being high.

Can you get a bunch of unfit/overweight players at 100% after 6 months? Genuine question

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Thats what a lack of quality does with you.

You don't have top be a quality player to actually put a shift in for 90 minutes and show a bit of passion, we had that 'lack of quality' against Arsenal and we didn't do too bad in that game.

 

[tadao]

Lots of kneeJerk here... the Mccarthy sub changed the game... barry doesn't have the engine to do what Mccarthy gave us and it just invited pressure onto us. We were quite comfortable until then.

If all you want is to not concede, at home, against a side that leaks goals all over the place.
Did you think we looked like scoring?

 

[andy4efc]

Just not buying into it at the moment, can't see what he's trying to achieve.

Not sure what the thinking was in a game like this bringing Barry on who couldn't cope with the pace and Calvert-Lewin who barely touched it and appeared to be sent on to man-mark Milner.

Poor players but poor tactical decisions as well.

 

[ChrisBlue]

You don't have top be a quality player to actually put a shift in for 90 minutes and show a bit of passion, we had that 'lack of quality' against Arsenal and we didn't do to bad in that game.

True, That has to be down to the players though

Koeman didn't tell them to drop off second half, They did that themselves by stopping pressing as a unit

 

[ToffeeTim]

Think he's the man but he's concerning me with his Moyesisms

 

[nsno-chris]

Lots of kneeJerk here... the Mccarthy sub changed the game... barry doesn't have the engine to do what Mccarthy gave us and it just invited pressure onto us. We were quite comfortable until then.

Comfortable as in setup solely not to concede. We are very toothless up top and the RS biggest weakness is their defence, we had no ambition to see how weak it was.