Ronald Koeman discussion

[billyblue80]

Davies needs to be playing he's the one that can drive us forward from central areas.

 

[Furey1878]

Davies needs to be playing he's the one that can drive us forward from central areas.

Watching Davies last season I thought he would just be a link man, but when he's been given a chance this season he's shown a bit more of the driving and ball carrying. Originally thought he'd just be a decent midfielder but starting to think he could be the real deal.

 

[Thomasc]

I said for me it was always how we were doing at the end of October.

If things do not improve and sharpish, he can get his globe sized fod out of the door.

 

[mightymoyes]

football 365 stat:
Everton: Dribbles don’t by themselves make you a good team – Crystal Palace lead the league – but there’s a reason they’re followed by Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Man City. Dribbles mean you’re confident on the ball, and more dribblers give you more attacking options. Last season Everton were a reasonable eighth at 10.6/game. But with three of their four leading dribblers from last season (Romelu Lukaku, Ross Barkley, Yannick Bolasie when fit) missing, and the fourth (Kevin Mirallas) stuck on the bench, they’ve dropped to an abysmal dead-last 4.4. They don’t have enough variety in attack.

 

[bicycleheader]

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[Timak]

football 365 stat:
Everton: Dribbles don’t by themselves make you a good team – Crystal Palace lead the league – but there’s a reason they’re followed by Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Man City. Dribbles mean you’re confident on the ball, and more dribblers give you more attacking options. Last season Everton were a reasonable eighth at 10.6/game. But with three of their four leading dribblers from last season (Romelu Lukaku, Ross Barkley, Yannick Bolasie when fit) missing, and the fourth (Kevin Mirallas) stuck on the bench, they’ve dropped to an abysmal dead-last 4.4. They don’t have enough variety in attack.

Almost word for word what I wrote on here a few weeks ago.

We play a 4-3-3 that relies on two wide players who can dribble and sign Klaassen, Rooney and Sigurdsson to fill those roles. None of whom play them.

 

[BernieWright13]

I think it's down to the media and mainly Sky making fans feel like it's only the 'top 6' that matter. Fans naturally want their club to be part of that and so it makes every game a must win.

Or it comes down to having experienced EFC managed by an authentic legend or two. Ones who had passion and the best interests of the club at heart -rather than merely themselves, their £££s and the portion sizes on the menu at Greggs. This tends to produce greater levels of expectation than the '7th heaven' ceiling that Booman, Moshi and even Moyes before him seemed to think we should be grateful for.

 

[Khalekan]

Big two who?

That's what I was wondering.

 

[Joey66]

KRAP
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ALWAYS AT THE GOLF COURSE
NUMBER TENS - LETS SIGN THREE MORE

 

[ijjysmith]

Hope we win on Sunday

 

[sageyefc]

Hope we win on Sunday and he still gets sacked anyway

Me too

 

[Joey66]

Me too

TBF RK has a hard job if we win it will be it's only Brighton, if we draw or lose in a bad style it's another set back for him and our club - as a fan we all want a win to stop the rot, and get our elusive away win!

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

I'm not sure why the idea is so black and white regarding koeman and the team winning. Either you are a real fan and want to see us winning or you aren't a real fan or a crap one for suggesting it would he better if we lost.

That same mind set kept Martinez here treading water for 2 years. Those wins that fans are meant to expect just kept him in a job hyperthetically every time it was going bad. If it was just a negative 'I want the team to lose because I don't like the manager viewpoint then yeah, fair enough throwing negativity their way. But it's clear things aren't going to magically get better under koeman. Yes there has been a big change at the club but when your manager hasn't got a clue on a team or tactic so far into the season after repeatedly playing the same tactics last season until results starting to come in then is it wrong for wanting change?

For all intents and purposes our season ended in January last season, we were told our best player for 20 years made no difference to where we finished and now we are expected to all rally round the manager despite watching some of the worst performances on the pitch for most young fans memories. Even under moyes when it was bad against the teams not in title races we could at least defend. We haven't even got that, struggle to score, struggle to defend. No fan wanted to lose to Burnley spurs Chelsea United atalanta to name a few but we did anyway.

I just believe that if a manager hasn't got any idea in their second season and 140 plus million spent on first team players, then they aren't the right man for the job. Last season it was to weed out all the players not good enough for the team, there isn't that excuse this year, we as fans shouldn't have to just put up with it for fear of being labelled a bad fan.

It is black and white ,surely. You want your team to win regardless of who is the manager, chairman, owner or the sodding tea lady . If your not prepared to support your team through bad times as well as mediocre (let's face it we don't do 'good' anymore), what's the point. I want us to win every game from this point regardless of anything else.

 

[Connor]

He's chatting as much wham as his predecessor.

 

[Eggs]

...sounded a bit angry with the last question at the press conference.