2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

[TopBalconyView]

EVERY Everton manager gets the first season as far as I'm concerned.

Agree with this totally. It's clear something is very wrong behind the scenes in regards to the players. It can’t always come down to the manager, it has for the past 3 seasons, time to be more critical of the players. They need to man up ffs

 

[Albertini78]

Surely you cant bin off another manager so soon ?

 

[GwladysBlue]

Surely you cant bin off another manager so soon ?

We can if he’s crap and he’s the worst we’ve had in 5 years.

 

[daza_1973]

Would have had Wimbledon away. One of the easiest draws.

Get this fraud out.

Don't think West ham would agree there

 

[Mosh Pit]

To be honest, Everton is a team I find difficult to like these days...they're a bunch of spineless losers.

Hmmmm... Wasn't the case for the first 1/4 of the season. Looked quite exciting. Cheer up Charlie. We'll be alright.

 

[TopBalconyView]

Would have had Wimbledon away. One of the easiest draws.

Get this fraud out.

Not for Everton

 

[Toast]

Would have had Wimbledon away. One of the easiest draws.

Get this fraud out.

They would bring back Fashunu and Mick Harford just to play against us.

And scare the life out of our bunch of fannies.

 

[daza_1973]

What a missed opportunity - Chelsea v united - they draw opening up like that as usual - What a bunch of wasters

 

[BrendanGOT]

I see your point but Marco hasn't changed anything the past few weeks and the players haven't responded to any pep talks that I see. Fresh blood is needed but the players we have stink at zonal marking and everyone shudders on set pieces anymore. We will get ten points perhaps but very little else to look forward too.

Agree slightly but Arteta isn't the answer and I feel Marco needs more time

 

[TopBalconyView]

They would bring back Fashunu and Mick Harford just to play against us.

And scare the life out of our bunch of fannies.

Vinnie Jones would just have to look at Keane and he'd piss his pants.

 

[deipnosophist]

Hmmmm... Wasn't the case for the first 1/4 of the season. Looked quite exciting. Cheer up Charlie. We'll be alright.

I hope you're right Moshie

 

[Albertini78]

We can if he’s crap and he’s the worst we’ve had in 5 years.

Going through them in Sunderland rate the past few seasons guess thats the pressures of modern football though

 

[BlueToff]

Not for Everton

Or West Ham and super duper Pellegrini, either...

 

[PeregrineT]

It’s genuinely not zonal marking that’s the issue though. Everyone defends zonally from free kicks on the halfway line, they just do it better than us. Liverpool defend zonally and it’s not doing them any harm. Our biggest problem is still going forward, if we were more of a goal threat we could change tactically to become more solid, but we end up committing everybody forwards and having to play Sigurdsson further up because nobody else looks like scoring.

I get that there is more to it than that, but it mostly IS zonal marking, or at least Silvas version of it. It is most definitely not our lack of going forward, because that is completely irrelevant in set pieces, Im not sure why you would even think that...

You cannot argue with the sheer volume of goals that all come through set pieces that all look the same. The fundamental struggle of the system is that it removes individual responsibility. The fundamental strength of individual marking is that each player knows their job, and its greatly simplified. The reason you see open players with free shots is that Silvas version of zonal marking has no individual responsibility, so its always "someone elses" job, something that is not the case when marking individuals. The 2nd and 3rd goals by Millwall are great examples of this. They did not score on the first ball in, but defenders had "done their job" and covered their zones, and then let off because the ball was in the next guys zone. Which it was. Except the one guy was busy defending 3 and going for the first ball.

 

[deipnosophist]

Would have had Wimbledon away. One of the easiest draws.

Get this fraud out.

we would lose to Wimbledon