2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

[Thomasc]

It's difficult to gauge that when he played cowards football last season even after we passed 40 points.

It is, but let’s not forget the side he inherited wasn’t actually that good and were taking regular pastings.

 

[scotchbutterpin]

SEAN DYCHE IN

 

[COYBL25]

TBF to big fat Sam, when he did have a better calibre of player at Bolton he actually did very well.

Okacha, Djorkaeff and co were a pretty decent side.

I’m not saying he was the way forward, I’m just saying that he might have got a tune out of a better calibre of player as he has done it previously.

That was a long long time ago in footballing terms.

Footy has moved on light years since then, especially with fitness.

He`s just a bitter, washed up legacy of the past.

 

[Frang]

Have you thought forwarding your CV to the club Frank, as not only are you a tactical expert, but also a master statistician and an expert in recruitment ?

im way over qualified ..

it would be like taking a backward step

 

[ToffeeTim]

It is, but let’s not forget the side he inherited wasn’t actually that good and were taking regular pastings.

We got a few more postings too remember. Arsenal we conceded 4 in about 14 minutes. Hammered at Spurs too. And while trying to park a double decker.

It was a horrible period.

 

[sarath]

Id be pretty upset if I did a good job and got sacked knowing the incoming manager has just about none of my credentials.

If silva had come in when Alladyce did last season with his `we play one way' philosophy lol we very realistically could have gone down.

With 100m to spend in the summer and some loans does anyone seriously think BFS would not have bought fast, attack based players and centre forwards.

The mind boggles. HE had to get us organised defensively to stay up. This seasons job would have been to improve our defence further and make attacking aquisitions that would have allowed us to have more possession and/or serious pace/movement so we became a counter attacking team. We would have graduall built on 8th place to challenge around 5/6th.

Instead we are nowhere, We have gone backwards defensively, not moving the ball effectively or prettily and lack any sort of goal threat unless the ball falls to the feet of Gylfi/Richarl close to goal.

No matter how you dress it up Silva has not improved any aspect of our club bar possession stats.

I think results will pick up naturally just because we have some decent players but that could well see us finish 8/9th and blinker us to Silvas shortcomings in every aspect of management.

I have not seen him able to motivate a team after a poor result, change tactically to good effect in any game or use substitutions well. Pickford, Coleman, Walcott, Toshun nd Davies have all gone backwards under him. Only DCL and to a monor extent Keane (give me stength) have improved. Whatever `press' style he uses is a mystery to me.

Its telling that even the BFS haters admit we would have more points this season under him and that those who think he is a good manager think he would have substantially more points and progressing the club forward not backwards.

Behave

 

[streeky]

worrying quote after the game from the manager saying we were nervous! if a team in the top half of the table is nervous under him, playing at home then god knows what will happen if we drop into the bottom half.

 

[Igrok]

Sacking a manager 6 months into his contract, with us no where near relegation is insanity.

That s a measure of success now - to avoid relegation? Then we dun need any managers, especially with these salaries

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

We were doing alright until the Derby, and even gave a good account of ourselves in the actual match before the mess up at the end

Since then, we've been largely awful

Not all of that is Silva's fault but, as the manager, it's his job to pick the players back up and get them on course again, and he hasn't managed to do that yet

Losing on Saturday would be an absolute disaster. He has to get the players minds right for that game, because it's our last chance at squeezing anything worthwhile out of this season. It's bizarre that a home cup tie against a team in the fourth tier carries such a weight to it, but he and the players have made the rod for their own backs and simply have to deliver now. Harsh of course, but it's just the way it is

 

[riddick]

Id be pretty upset if I did a good job and got sacked knowing the incoming manager has just about none of my credentials.

If silva had come in when Alladyce did last season with his `we play one way' philosophy lol we very realistically could have gone down.

With 100m to spend in the summer and some loans does anyone seriously think BFS would not have bought fast, attack based players and centre forwards.

The mind boggles. HE had to get us organised defensively to stay up. This seasons job would have been to improve our defence further and make attacking aquisitions that would have allowed us to have more possession and/or serious pace/movement so we became a counter attacking team. We would have graduall built on 8th place to challenge around 5/6th.

Instead we are nowhere, We have gone backwards defensively, not moving the ball effectively or prettily and lack any sort of goal threat unless the ball falls to the feet of Gylfi/Richarl close to goal.

No matter how you dress it up Silva has not improved any aspect of our club bar possession stats.

I think results will pick up naturally just because we have some decent players but that could well see us finish 8/9th and blinker us to Silvas shortcomings in every aspect of management.

I have not seen him able to motivate a team after a poor result, change tactically to good effect in any game or use substitutions well. Pickford, Coleman, Walcott, Toshun nd Davies have all gone backwards under him. Only DCL and to a monor extent Keane (give me stength) have improved. Whatever `press' style he uses is a mystery to me.

Its telling that even the BFS haters admit we would have more points this season under him and that those who think he is a good manager think he would have substantially more points and progressing the club forward not backwards.

We hit 40 points with games to spare and he did nothing to change it up. He only knows one way.

 

[ijjysmith]

To be clear I most definitely don't mean that!

 

[hktoffee]

No he wasn't. He was sacked for playing the most boring unimaginative ambitionless football ever known to mankind. The position in the table was irrelevant.

Yet he got 8th not bottom half finish.

Results speak in the end for every manager.

 

[Frang]

Allardyce saying "Everton can't expect anything other than mediocrity as they're currently a mediocre club" will anger some. Says we can't live on past glory and to stop thinking we're a big club. Nice one Sam.

hes right

 

[Thomasc]

That was a long long time ago in footballing terms.

Footy has moved on light years since then, especially with fitness.

He`s just a bitter, washed up legacy of the past.

Like we have said, he had a chance to show he had a bit more in the tank at Everton but he wanted to do it the negative way.

I appreciate football has moved on, but in some ways it wasn’t too dissimilar to the job big Joe had to do all those many years ago when we were rock bottom of the table.

The club did the right thing in potting him, he portrayed a bad image for the club, so for that reason alone he needed to go.

 

[Thomasc]

We got a few more postings too remember. Arsenal we conceded 4 in about 14 minutes. Hammered at Spurs too. And while trying to park a double decker.

It was a horrible period.

A bit like now?