2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

[DungaDog]

Well, no, it'd be two wins in nine. We beat Brighton and Cardiff (as we should do).

The away fixtures in that time have been v United, Chelsea, Liverpool and City.

Context.

Context what???????

 

[billyblue80]

His record in the league has been quite poor and we're in a poor spot. Needs to figure out how to stop this sharpish.

Were you saying that yesterday?

 

[BlueToff]

Context what???????

You're presenting nice (alternative/wrong) facts, with no context.

If we don't beat Spurs, it'll be two wins in nine.

But there's no context to that.

While i'm not saying that's a good return - it isn't - you have to look at who we've played in that time.

Our four away fixtures in the last eight games have been at Old Trafford (where we probably deserved a point), Chelsea (got what we deserved), Liverpool (one clanger away from a deserved point) and City (can't say we deserved anything, but we weren't awful either, just made mistakes).

The two slip ups in the run have been Newcastle and Watford. We should be beating those teams at home. But, City should be beating Palace at home, shouldn't they? S*** happens, as they say.

So yes, context is important.

 

[ijjysmith]

Just seen a stat saying if we don’t win tomorrow we’ll have less points than at the same stage last season.

Let that sink in.

 

[DungaDog]

You're presenting nice (alternative/wrong) facts, with no context.

If we don't beat Spurs, it'll be two wins in nine.

But there's no context to that.

While i'm not saying that's a good return - it isn't - you have to look at who we've played in that time.

Our four away fixtures in the last eight games have been at Old Trafford (where we probably deserved a point), Chelsea (got what we deserved), Liverpool (one clanger away from a deserved point) and City (can't say we deserved anything, but we weren't awful either, just made mistakes).

The two slip ups in the run have been Newcastle and Watford. We should be beating those teams at home. But, City should be beating Palace at home, shouldn't they? S*** happens, as they say.

So yes, context is important.

What about Wolves away an(d) Huddersfield at home....

 

[BlueToff]

What about Wolves away an(d) Huddersfield at home....

Ah, so I completely debunk your argument so you shift the goalposts? You mentioned this run - which was wrong anyway, btw - so I referred to the games in that run.

And what about them?

Wolves the side that have beaten Chelsea, drawn with City, and we were playing them on the first day of the season on their return to the Premier League. And we should have won that, yeh. We had some good chances, after going down to 10 men 30 minutes in. And, look at the team that started that game. We had one new player - Richarlison - in the line up. Jagielka in defence (for half an hour), Baines, Schneiderlin, Tosun...

Huddersfield was a poor display. Poor displays happen. Should be winning those games but we didn't manage.

Anything else?

 

[DungaDog]

Ah, so I completely debunk your argument so you shift the goalposts? You mentioned this run - which was wrong anyway, btw - so I referred to the games in that run.

And what about them?

Wolves the side that have beaten Chelsea, drawn with City, and we were playing them on the first day of the season on their return to the Premier League. And we should have won that, yeh. We had some good chances, after going down to 10 men 30 minutes in. And, look at the team that started that game. We had one new player - Richarlison - in the line up. Jagielka in defence (for half an hour), Baines, Schneiderlin, Tosun...

Huddersfield was a poor display. Poor displays happen. Should be winning those games but we didn't manage.

Anything else?

Yeah there's something else...are you an Evertonian?

 

[BlueToff]

Yeah there's something else...are you an Evertonian?

Yes. Very much so (for my sins). Why do you ask?

 

[DungaDog]

Yes. Very much so (for my sins). Why do you ask?

I ask because you don't present yourself as an Evertonian.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

I ask because you don't present yourself as an Evertonian.

Absolute nonsense. He's more a Blue than most on here.

And I don't how he can be bothered spending so much time responding to the constant negativity. Fair play to him though.

 

[DungaDog]

Absolute nonsense. He's more a Blue than most on here.

He doesn't want EFC to the best though...so we can only conclude that he is not an Evertonian...???

 

[billyblue80]

I don't get the doom and gloom. Yes we should have more points on the board and we should take more of our chances, but this isn't a squad without holes. After the derby we took a knock in terms of confidence and energy for me and most of the squad players haven't stepped up. On the plus side we have the makings of a good side in my view that plays the right way, yes we all want results now but the longterm blueprint is important as we didn't have one last year. Now we know the weaknesses in the squad Brands needs to address them. We are in a mini league in the middle of the table and we have played most of the big teams away so far, so 11th is a slightly false position. Yes we need to kick on again but I think we can.

 

[riddick]

If Pickford doesn't drop that on Origi's head, we draw the derby.

If Gomes heads in from a yard out, we might have won it.

If Richarlison doesn't shoot over from six yards out, we might have got something at City.

If Tosun manages to score from a yard out, we probably beat Newcastle.

I don't really see what there is to figure out other than for the players to be better at scoring from inside the six yard box.

Obviously, there's always tactical improvements that can be made and maybe Silva needs to be a bit more astute with his in-game changes, but I can't think of one instance where a mistake from Silva has cost us the points...

I mean, with that logic, he isn't responsible for anything after the whistle is blown?

You know my position on him. I'm not calling on him to be sacked, I'm simply stating facts.

 

[EverBlue92]

You're presenting nice (alternative/wrong) facts, with no context.

If we don't beat Spurs, it'll be two wins in nine.

But there's no context to that.

While i'm not saying that's a good return - it isn't - you have to look at who we've played in that time.

Our four away fixtures in the last eight games have been at Old Trafford (where we probably deserved a point), Chelsea (got what we deserved), Liverpool (one clanger away from a deserved point) and City (can't say we deserved anything, but we weren't awful either, just made mistakes).

The two slip ups in the run have been Newcastle and Watford. We should be beating those teams at home. But, City should be beating Palace at home, shouldn't they? S*** happens, as they say.

So yes, context is important.

Crystal palace have beaten Man City

Wolves have beaten Chelsea

Watford have beaten spurs

Leicester have beaten chelsea

West Ham have beaten Man Utd

Even not looking at that which to an extent debunks your post mate, we've also failed to beat:

Wolves
West Ham
Watford
Bournemouth

So basically nearly all of the top half which means Silva has only really beaten 10 man Leicester and some of the relegation fodder.

 

[DungaDog]

I don't get the doom and gloom. Yes we should have more points on the board and we should take more of our chances, but this isn't a squad without holes. After the derby we took a knock in terms of confidence and energy for me and most of the squad players haven't stepped up. On the plus side we hlave the makings of a good side in my view that plays the right way, yes we all want results now but the longterm blueprint is important as we didn't have one last year. Now we know the weaknesses in the squad Brands needs to address them. We are in a mini league in the middle of the table and we have played most of the big teams away so far, so 11th is a slightly false position. Yes we need to kick on again but I think we can.

Why don't you take your kopite gobshite heysel murmerings elsewhere noob....