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Tragic.

Game started at 4:30 AM local time. I saw from about 30 minutes on, but I have weird sleep habits.

Pretty sure that would result in overtraining and aggravating the injury. Rest and recovery is an important aspect of getting back to fitness. Who cares what he does whilst resting?

"No plan B".

There's a difference between constructive and sometimes harsh criticism from your manager and personal abuse hurled by fans. It's not necessary to attack someone personally to explain how they could improve at their job.

I think this is where I say "agree to disagree", my friend. I think in an ideal team you actually COULD switch between those formations on the fly, because that would be best. But it requires supremely intelligent footballers that are well trained and communicate incredibly well to handle that...

I don't disagree with this point but I think it's important for the players to be able to play in multiple ways as well. I think there will always be times we need to adjust to the opposition...not having "Plan B" has been the death knell of a few Everton managers. I think we can easily see we...

Why do the players we have now need to learn to play a system that they'll be turfed out of at our first opportunity? Does DCL really learn how to play that system if his service is coming from Iwobi, Bernard, and Sigurdsson - all of whom would go away in the ideal world? What benefit does...

...often does depend on defense and going out and sneaking a few wins to build confidence. The attacking flair gets added later. We've had 4 win runs *twice* this season. Maybe it's a fluke, but it's one I haven't seen since I've been watching Everton. Our culture and mentality are not going to...

I feel like building a culture around winning is probably almost as important, if not moreso. Building a system and consistently losing does not set us up for success in the future necessarily.

Has anyone mentioned Steven Naismith in a jelly? It was Naismith wasn't it? Nope, was McCarthy and linked 3 posts above. This is why I don't post.

Based on how much I liked them, not ability. Robles Coleman Jags Distin Baines Pienaar Arteta Barry Deulofeu Cahill Straq...man striker is hard. Hopefully this will be Kean shortly.

You're ignoring chemistry. Players are not numbers. Baines was one of the best attacking fullbacks in the world for 5 years because he worked so well with Pienaar. Don't you find it interesting that Baines loss of that status coincides directly with Pienaar's retirement/aging out of the squad...

...how many chances has Player X had? 90? That's a tiny sample size for an entire season. And could easily be a product of sheer statistical anomaly *for that instance*. It could take multiple seasons of that production for it to be actually statistically meaningful on an individual level. It's...

...game for 162 game seasons. I also feel like it's a matter of time before they get it worked out. I'm just not on the stats bandwagon currently because the public stuff is very Meh. It's *better* than just counting goals and assists, I guess, but it certainly doesn't tell as much as the eyes...

Most football statistics don't appear to handle positional play well. They don't handle managerial expectation for a particular setup. They don't handle a player that 'keeps things ticking' because those actions don't regularly result in particular trackable 'events' that modern statistics...

...But basketball has some decent advanced analytics going on and is much more of a 'constant motion' sport. I do think statistics in football have a *long* way to go, but that doesn't mean that they won't eventually get there. Just not yet. I suspect it'll end up being largely related to...

Mine is pretty straightforward; my wife is a born Evertonian (non-scouse, English division) her dad is a born Evertonian - from Liverpool, and his dad was as well. I got converted when we started dating, with Baines’ freekick against Chelsea in the FA Cup being ‘the moment’. Heitinga shoulder...

For foreign Everton fans, I think they tend to either: A) Have some reasonable connection with the club or B) Were 'chosen' by something. PL football has gotten globally big only in the past 20 years or so, and Everton have obviously not been a club du jour during that time...you don't tend to...

Minimum: 65 points+ A good cup run or a cup win and more than 50 points.