2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

[Goat]

Let's put a final end to this rubbish, we were looking at strikers over the summer but Silva was pushing Brands to sign Richarlison, and we did. That is where your striker money has gone, hence why we now need to wait till the summer because we used up the funds and don't have anymore till then. Im all for giving him a bit longer and some proper players, but he chose to go into the season lightweight upfront with what he had, not Brands from what i have been told.

Which makes sense cos Silva himself has repeatedly said hes ok Striker wise.

I mean we aint, but we all know the score regarding incomings.

 

[Blue Roo]

What's with Silva selecting Walcott?

It could very well of cost us the win.
2 great opportunities in the first half completely squandered.

9min
Great ball from DCL to Walcott in behind the defence.
Walcott has inside position on Robertson, VD out of it - if Walcott moves towards the ball and holds off Robertson he has a first time shot with only the keeper to beat.
Instead Robertson brushes past him and gets the ball. Then loses it and Walcott somehow is able to bounce it to Sig.
Walcott's movement as Sig gets the ball says it all - he literally lays out the red carpet for VD to defend

37min
Should have been the best opportunity of the first half along with Salah's.
Walcott doing about the only thing he seems capable of doing- waiting for the right ball to run in behind.
Takes a good touch and he is away.
The only other thing he is capable of doing is getting a shot off - that's all he can see.
Yet our greatest threat this season is Sig finding space on the burst on the counter.
Sig is in acres of space and he's got Bernard in space as well.
All Walcott has to do is cut the ball back behind the defensive line - it was sooo easy.
If the ball is good and Sig takes a touch you won't get a better opportunity outside the 6 yard box.
If the ball isn't or the touch is bad, Sig still has Bernard after drawing in defenders.

This has happened far too many times this season.
Sig could have at least another 3 or 4 goals.
How that combination is not second nature at this time of the season is beyond me.
And while we can all despair at Walcott at some point this gets down to Silva.

Why wasn't Richarlison starting and Lookman on the bench?

 

[EvertonFury19]

Why wasn't Richarlison starting and Lookman on the bench?

Would be nice if the press could get answers to these questions

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

I guess the big difference with the BFS hoofball is that is all the lardyman had. If silva switches things up now and again and has a plan B and C isnt that a good thing. BFS is a one trick carthorse.

 

[davek]

Sure, shouldn't Silva have done this from the beginning.

He's had the players to get better results.
Rather than build foundations and improve from there, its been all over the place, schoolboy tactics and little improvement in players (reverse in the case of Gomes, Pickford etc)

In the two derbies and against chelsea he proved how difficult it can be to beat us.
In many of the other matches he pissed it away.
If he had got it right we would have surely nicked a win against one of the top sides by now.

Yesterday was about the players responding to the supporters and the occasion.
How much of it was down to Silva is hard to tell.
He's a very lucky manager - what manger gets a free 17 days to work out the problems
If he didn't get a bump in performance out of the players after that then he really did deserved to be sacked.

He was tasked when coming in with changing the style. That's complicated matters.

The truth is that any fool can set up to keep tight and get a draw and nick the odd win.

 

[Lelouch]

What's with Silva selecting Walcott?

It could very well of cost us the win.
2 great opportunities in the first half completely squandered.

9min
Great ball from DCL to Walcott in behind the defence.
Walcott has inside position on Robertson, VD out of it - if Walcott moves towards the ball and holds off Robertson he has a first time shot with only the keeper to beat.
Instead Robertson brushes past him and gets the ball. Then loses it and Walcott somehow is able to bounce it to Sig.
Walcott's movement as Sig gets the ball says it all - he literally lays out the red carpet for VD to defend

37min
Should have been the best opportunity of the first half along with Salah's.
Walcott doing about the only thing he seems capable of doing- waiting for the right ball to run in behind.
Takes a good touch and he is away.
The only other thing he is capable of doing is getting a shot off - that's all he can see.
Yet our greatest threat this season is Sig finding space on the burst on the counter.
Sig is in acres of space and he's got Bernard in space as well.
All Walcott has to do is cut the ball back behind the defensive line - it was sooo easy.
If the ball is good and Sig takes a touch you won't get a better opportunity outside the 6 yard box.
If the ball isn't or the touch is bad, Sig still has Bernard after drawing in defenders.

This has happened far too many times this season.
Sig could have at least another 3 or 4 goals.
How that combination is not second nature at this time of the season is beyond me.
And while we can all despair at Walcott at some point this gets down to Silva.

Why wasn't Richarlison starting and Lookman on the bench?

Well sadly it made sense if Lookman isn't in the squad, We have to assume he's injured and Richarlison has been off it the past couple of weeks/months and it was the first time(?) that Richarlison was used on the right so sadly Walcott is kind of forced to start unless we play Bernard or Richarlison there.

 

[davek]

Dont you dare blame Brands for this Jarg Jose buffoon.

Itls true thiugh: left high and dry with Koeman and Allardyce's tat.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Well sadly it made sense if Lookman isn't in the squad, We have to assume he's injured and Richarlison has been off it the past couple of weeks/months and it was the first time(?) that Richarlison was used on the right so sadly Walcott is kind of forced to start unless we play Bernard or Richarlison there.

Yeah, tough choice.... should we play Theo on the right or one of our two Brazilian Internationals.....????

 

[paultheblue]

Give the fella a break he has been in charge for 9 months.
I think he realised the potential of the club and the fans yesterday and given time I think he will succeed.

 

[roydo]

Yeah, tough choice.... should we play Theo on the right or one of our two Brazilian Internationals.....????

Haha! Its a bit nuts put like that!

 

[Death]

If only for Pickford he'd be an unbeaten derby manager and that would be something to cling to for me when there's such a lack of things going for him. But, y'know, Pickford.

 

[Blue Roo]

Or maybe he was just trying out different systems and different partnerships and giving the players a chance to get used to how he wants to play?

I’m disappointed with how this season has gone but we need to get out of the mindset of sacking people if it doesn’t work out immediately.

And re your 17 day luck thing. Were you saying he was unlucky over Christmas when he had the shortest amount of time for 5 games over that period?

I wish people could be more balanced sometimes.

A bit of a contradiction trying out new players and combinations while trying to get them used to his play.
And what type of play is that?
Everyone can have a go at BFS but why he can still get a job is bc he comes up against managers like Silva, licks his chops and chalks up some points.
Silva's the type of manager struggling teams think they have a chance against - precisely bc of the way he wants to play.
Imposing a style of play and successfully controlling a game is much harder than negating it. It takes top managers and top players to do it.
We have neither.

At the moment we have enough players who could, down the track, be part of an Everton top 4 team.
But we're not getting any further down that track as things stand.
Its not about being patient. There needs to be some ruthlessness.
Whats wrong with getting a manger each new season until we find the right one?

But its also a matter of timing.
The right coach right now, dare I say, is a Moyes type.
Who can help rebuild an ethic back into the side, week in week out.
And doing that is not going to be done with the tactics mostly on display this season.

We need a Moyes type and then we need to learn the lessons of the past and not hire a Matinez.

But of much more importance is finding players who are fighters and willing to do battle for the RBJ.
And possess the skills to build a side on.
Until this happens the managers are less relevant,
unless its a manager who is countering all this.
The questions is what is Silva?
If he managed the side like he did against Chelsea and the two derbies week in week out, I think differently.

As it is I've been pretty consistent and 'balanced' from the start about what I think of Silva. You must have me confused with someone else.

 

[Blue Roo]

He was tasked when coming in with changing the style. That's complicated matters.

The truth is that any fool can set up to keep tight and get a draw and nick the odd win.

Yes and any fool can do what he's doing too.
But the real fools are the board. If you are going to change a style and impose your style in the EPl you need someone proven at it.

 

[roydo]

If you are going to change a style and impose your style in the EPl you need someone proven at it.

Like Brands?

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

A bit of a contradiction trying out new players and combinations while trying to get them used to his play.
And what type of play is that?
Everyone can have a go at BFS but why he can still get a job is bc he comes up against managers like Silva, licks his chops and chalks up some points.
Silva's the type of manager struggling teams think they have a chance against - precisely bc of the way he wants to play.
Imposing a style of play and successfully controlling a game is much harder than negating it. It takes top managers and top players to do it.
We have neither.

At the moment we have enough players who could, down the track, be part of an Everton top 4 team.
But we're not getting any further down that track as things stand.
Its not about being patient. There needs to be some ruthlessness.
Whats wrong with getting a manger each new season until we find the right one?

But its also a matter of timing.
The right coach right now, dare I say, is a Moyes type.
Who can help rebuild an ethic back into the side, week in week out.
And doing that is not going to be done with the tactics mostly on display this season.

We need a Moyes type and then we need to learn the lessons of the past and not hire a Matinez.

But of much more importance is finding players who are fighters and willing to do battle for the RBJ.
And possess the skills to build a side on.
Until this happens the managers are less relevant,
unless its a manager who is countering all this.
The questions is what is Silva?
If he managed the side like he did against Chelsea and the two derbies week in week out, I think differently.

As it is I've been pretty consistent and 'balanced' from the start about what I think of Silva. You must have me confused with someone else.

I could not disagree more with pretty much everything you said there. You may be the anti-Hawtrey? Your arguments seem well thought out and sensible but just the opposite direction to where I would see us going. No disrespect, we should discuss over a few beers as all differences should be resolved that way.