2025/26 David Moyes

[preposterousvelios]

The thing is if we were still at Goodison I would agree with you. History has shown us time and again that any club thats moves to a new stadium the results particularly in the first year are patchy at best. We are just another stat that reaffirms that.

Could agree if it was just results not going our way, but what about the decisions being made.

When we go into the game last night with a full squad available - and start out best centre mid at right back, our best centre back at left back, a teenage centre mid at right wing all while having wingers and full backs available on the bench - it makes it hard to chalk it up to 'first season in a new stadium and teams always struggle in that scenario'.

 

[TalkingEverton]

He's messing up simple choices.
Garner did great at RB
but the question is does Garner start in place of Patterson at RB or Gana in midfield.
Gana has bee off form since AfCon so he's the obvious one to drop.
Myko hasnt been great but is he worth dropping and needing Keane in the middle of the defence.
George has more experience than Armstrong and is actually a winger, why start Armstrong out of position.
Thats three obvious mistakes on Moyses part and he made no effort to change things till the 68th minute.
If we win, I say 'fairplay, good call' but we didnt.
And the continued omission of Rohl is baffling.
And everyone knows he'll never drop Tark for O'Brien

At the moment our best XI is
Pickford
Patterson, tark (replaced by Jake when he's back), Jarrad, Myko
Garner, KDB, Tim/Rohl
Ndiaye, Barry, George

If we played that starting XI last night we have a good chance of winning that game. Man Utd weren't with it from the 1st minutes and if we would have had players in their proper positions we wouldn't have been so bad on the ball. We can all see this before the game, the same happened against Bournemouth. I can see why West Ham fans wanted him out now.

 

[Moomin]

Someone needs to tell him that we are playing football and not basketball.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

All I'm saying is that night they looked terrible when we went down to 10 men but did what they needed to do to get 3 points.

Honestly, the debate about the manager is all a much of a muchness for me. Better players are far more important. Until we do that we're basically quibbling over a few places in mid table.

A good manager is the most important thing in any club. Managers can transform clubs more than players. Its the same argument that the Dyche apologists used saying no manager could do better because of the players yet Moyes debunked that theory straight away

 

[willo30]

Some of the comments here are totally baffling. Those making excuses for Moyes are actually part of the problem. His outdated thinking will only disappear when he is binned off. Then we can try again to be better

That's the key word here. We keep binning off managers when the club itself has been broken all this time.

Fix the club 1st this time then the rest will follow. There is a lot of work needs doing by TFG before replacing Moyes.

 

[BigDuncTributeBand]

His idea of an attacking fullback is to stick a 6ft 4” centre back up the wing from a goal kick to win a flick on…to nobody.

The very limited attacking game plan I could see last night was:

.Kick it long to Jarrod and let him win flick ons;
.Get everyone in the box long throws; or
.Score from a set piece.

If you don’t think there is a coach who could come up with a better game plan with the players available, I don’t know what to tell you.

 

[willo30]

What's this crap in the middle of my page? Moyes Out!

 

[MikeH72]

Two points above 13th and dropping like a stone.
Is your passport not looking a bit redundant for next season?

How’s Dyche getting on in his quest to finish above us @Death?

 

[MACCA75]

I’m not sure where the ‘up and under’ hoof from kick off in the 2nd half came from either, but we can knock that on the head. Embarrassing.

 

[PeregrineT]

Im not anti-Moyes, but based on how United played the Win was there and Moyes set up just about wrong. We took our two best outfield players and played them out of position, which is insane to me. Our two best players were playing as fullbacks outwide, when they should have been in the middle. Last time we played United we won as Garner dominated the middle, which is a weakness for united. It was again yesterday, but we had no one to take advantage of it.

And for the life of me I cant understand playing two slow CBs high up the pitch, much less when you have someone like Branthwaite available. I dont have an issue with Tarkowski, or even Keane right now, but they were literally set up to fail in a system that highlights their weaknesses. Yes, we only have basic fullbacks(which he has praised)available, but if we arent going the rest of the season starting Branthwaite and JOB in the middle its on Moyes.

 

[JLW]

That goal last night doesn't happen if Brantwaite was CB in Keanes position, he would of got across to Mbeumo quicker and maybe got a tackle in, or if he was in Tarks position Sesko doesn't run past him.

He said he thought the performance was good and he was happy with it, it was crap it was just better than the previous ones.

Utd were there for taking last night and we hardly bothered them, 10 corners doing the same crap, if we would of scored one of them during the scrum in the 6 yard box they would of found a foul to cancel it out anyway.

I cant wait to see the back of him.

 

[MisterJ]

I was keen to give him time but his stubborn refusal to play fullbacks is making me think he’s lost the plot and we are just going around in circles with him

I don't understand why, if you're not going to play full backs, you don't go three at the back and pack the midfield

 

[Delargeinho]

He's messing up simple choices.
Garner did great at RB
but the question is does Garner start in place of Patterson at RB or Gana in midfield.
Gana has bee off form since AfCon so he's the obvious one to drop.
Myko hasnt been great but is he worth dropping and needing Keane in the middle of the defence.
George has more experience than Armstrong and is actually a winger, why start Armstrong out of position.
Thats three obvious mistakes on Moyses part and he made no effort to change things till the 68th minute.
If we win, I say 'fairplay, good call' but we didnt.
And the continued omission of Rohl is baffling.
And everyone knows he'll never drop Tark for O'Brien

At the moment our best XI is
Pickford
Patterson, tark (replaced by Jake when he's back), Jarrad, Myko
Garner, KDB, Tim/Rohl
Ndiaye, Barry, George

Probably would say so. We struggle to create, so Garner must start in the midfield, we lost a lot with missing Grealish in this manner. We have options now, unlike during Afcon

 

[blueconverse]

Hes a slightly better version of Dyche and we need better

 

[JLW]

Hes a slightly better version of Dyche and we need better

Sean Dyche - Farmfoods
David Moyes -Aldi