Danny Murphy Everton Analysis (03/03/17)

[Kungfunesmori]

Danny murphy = future retired Tom cleverly. Now blagging a living being a match of the day last minute fall back (ball bag). I'm not fussed about the rooney thing as there are case's for and against, but I think as a rs he would definitely not want to see wayne back in blue, hence his comment's about younger player's missing out. Gerrard left Liverpool at 34, can wayne give a couple of good years? I think so.

 

[Badge1878]

Does anyone really take anything Murphy has to say seriously? Let the stupid has been do a similar preview of his favourite You scratch my back & I'll drop a Pavement Slab on yours, team.

I'll paraphrase for the lad - we struck a deal with the devil a long time ago, that long even he's forgotten the deal, but never mind we are stuck in a time warp, we are collapsing quicker than a Belgian wall, in a field so far away, we forgot it existed, but in a storm Lucas can walk on his own. And by the way Everton rely on Lukaku.

Seriously? Why bother reading or listening to the no mark. Nothing to be bothered about here, move on.

 

[Brownie]

Tangential question: why do reporters for English papers/etc seem to prefer not using paragraphs? Or is this only an issue with football and sport articles?

You mean using one/two sentence paragraphs? It's not just English media, and it's not just football and sport. In short, it's to make the articles as easy to read as possible for as many people as possible. Google it pal.

 

[Groucho]

verton are too reliant on Lukaku to score their goals

Well this is spot on.

I love the big fella, but the rest of the team must wade in with goals too.

 

[Barnfred 55]

That's exactly it. They don't sit and watch 90 mins of every side week in and week out but have to make it look like they have a superior insight to those that do.

Annoys me on MOTD when they analyse defences. They'll see a goal and tell you the defender was too tight and that's why the goal was scored. Then there'll be another goal, same scenario, but the defender stands off and the attacking team score. The pundit will then claim the defender should have been tight. Their analysis is based entirely on hindsight and hypothesis.

They should lock them in a room all day Saturday with no contact to the outside world and then on MOTD show several clips of that days games. Every time a situation is developing freeze the clip and ask the experts who should be where and doing what. Then play the clip and see how correct they were.

True.. But I also remember an occasion on MNF when Carragher was disecting how RM sets up his defence. It made absolute sense and

 

[Barnfred 55]

He's just a bland media whore, who's trying to change tack from the normal beige bollox he spouts.

" Let's be all controversial and stick the boot into the RS and then give Everton some praise at the same time ".

Ooh that'll get the listeners going.

File under bad wool knob jockey.

You're just saying that cos he's RS and I get that. But as RS articles though its reasonable and mirrors what a lot of us fans think. Not sure he watched many of our games in the Autumn though.

I dont mind seeing good articles about us in the press, even from RS. It shows they're starting to take notice. As fans we need to shake off this backs to the wall everyones against us mentality and embrace whatever positive coverage we get.

 

[Kev50]

To be fair to Danny Murphy he has to work these days, he lost millions when he tried to avoid paying any tax and suffered massive penalties at the hands of the Inland Revenue.

 

[Woolly Blue]

It's not an insightful, or clever article in any shape or form, but what do people expect from a mainstream article aimed at the general sporting public ?

It lacked any info on which fans of Spurs or Everton were the scruffiest, but, apart from that, it was broadly positive about us.

Would I make an effort to take any notice of what Murphy says in the future on the back of it ? No, but I've read far worse stuff.

There are people on here who can express themselves much better than Murphy ,so get it written down and posted on here. Our Danny might even stick it up on the home page !

 

[bcblue1878]

Not bad words from a former Red.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39130708

Arsenal do not generally spend as much but they still made a massive outlay to sign Alexis Sanchez (£35m in 2014) and Mesut Ozil (£42.4m in 2013), for example.

Like Liverpool and Tottenham, Everton have not changed the philosophy of their recruitment to try to compete. They are not at the same level financially, so they have to do it in a different way.

The Spurs approach has been to try to build a young squad full of hungry players and sprinkle it with proven quality.

This is the line that made me laugh in Mr Murphy's piece! "Like Liverpool and Tottenham, Everton have not changed the philosophy of their recruitment to try and compete" The inference being that that lot have not/or can't compete financially with the others! That lot are I think the fourth biggest spenders in Premier League history, and have certainly spent the most by some distance not to have won it - an inevitable consequence of buying some of the dross they have wasted money on over the years! Meanwhile I'm sure I read somewhere that Spurs net spend over the last five years is something stupid like £10m!

 

[Andy McGurk]

Has no one else noticed he's included an alternative league table with Liverpool top?