The touchline scene with his old man when west ham won that pot was great, his limitations as a manager are really obvious in punditry but he managed our club wonderfully well.
Just a shame of that was a consequence kenwright got away with so much
I, too, was very pleased he had his moment with West Ham. I have been a critic, but the man deserved that.
My animosity towards
Moyes stems from my belief that he was a fig leaf for the mismanagement of Kenwright and he bought too far in to Kenwright's agenda of pluckiness out of self-preservation as much as anything. When the time came to put ourselves in a position to win something, he folded against Reading and Wigan when only Man City - a team we routinely defeated at the time - remained in the cup. Plucky, but also paper tigers.
Moyes's good stewardship of the club - and it was good, we cannot take that away from him - was Kenwright's shield. He was perfect for Bill. Too good to ever get us relegated (and cost Bill everything) but not good enough to win anything or even seriously disturb the ceiling (which would mean Bill would be under pressure to fork out for better players to fund true ambition).
There is no way in the wide earthly world I would want Everton - as shambolic as we currently are - to return to those days. People point now and say "but we were 7th every year". True, but they forget the crucial next bit: "but knew in our hearts and souls that that was our ceiling and even a cup win was beyond us as proven by Wigan and Reading."
Moyes got us to Limbo. With new ownership, one would hope our ceiling can now shatter and another manager can finally break it. Will that be Dyche? Who knows. Right now, his job is to improve us again next season. But I wouldn't be rushing him out the door until total stability is earned and he has managed himself out of the role.
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