2025/26 David Moyes

[Gilbert..]

We beat Burnley, not by a cricket score either. It needs more than that to re-write the home story.

Similar comments were being said when we never battered Wolves. Same Wolves who in the last few weeks took two points away from Arsenal and beat liverpool & Villa. Burnley took points off Chelsea at stamford Bridge two weeks ago.
People need to stop classing these games as gimmes.
cricket score lol.

 

[neil999]

1500/1 to go down

 

[Bedfordblue]

The people of Got are mainly an intelligent bunch.
The man of the match poll from last night sees Dwight and Gana in the top 3 . 2 players the anti Moyes brigade were adamant should not be playing.
My goodness but he really piped ye down last night !!

I’m just glad @Efcjake has come to his senses.

Ffs Gana that was horrible

I was very firmly in the camp that they're not good enough to start and Moyes was right but I can't accept that about Dwight McNeill starting over the two young lads.

He's a passenger at the best of times.

 

[blue to the bone]

There seems to be an absence of many in this thread suddenly which is most peculiar and unexpected. The mind boggles why.

Could there be an Internet outage due to the conflict in the middle east perhaps!

 

[chicoazul]

A mod just PMd me and said they’re tracking the accounts of those who were megamouth on here after Everton defeats but are viewing this thread silently now. They said they’re planning something to mark their cowardice but I just find it all a laugh really.

 

[Tom Hughes]

How anyone believed Moyes could turn that squad into anything much more than "functional mid-table" after just one Summer transfer window is beyond me. Yet here we are, only a few points off CL places and several teams that have spent multiples of our outlay in recent years, with glaring gaps in our dysfunctional squad, but the haters still have to hate. Give him a chance and he will close that gap further...... then who knows what might happen.

 

[Eggs]

….they set him up for a fall, but;

- 6 points out of 6
- 43 points on the board
- all football commentators and pundits heaping praise on him
- McNeil gets MOM
- 10 sleeps until our next game.

 

[Tommy Chong]

A mod just PMd me and said they’re tracking the accounts of those who were megamouth on here after Everton defeats but are viewing this thread silently now. They said they’re planning something to mark their cowardice but I just find it all a laugh really.

Make ‘em do the walk of shame, Chic’s!

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

A mod just PMd me and said they’re tracking the accounts of those who were megamouth on here after Everton defeats but are viewing this thread silently now. They said they’re planning something to mark their cowardice but I just find it all a laugh really.

I've been here long enough; I see what's really going down in the GOT boroughs.

 

[Miked1e]

We were discussing before the game, and agreed that he had to go with an unchanged team from the weekend. Glad he didn't change anything as he has done previously....

McNeil has stepped up after the faith put in him by the manager.

Very glad also that he didn't end up going Branthwaite LB which I was half expecting him to do.

Even though changes albeit still very late were the right ones. Would have liked to see George much earlier as we had every opportunity to get at them and he would have caused them many problems. Not sure he even got a touch by the time he came on!

Anyhow.... congrats on finally putting 2 good performances and results back to back!

 

[davek]

The thing about Everton under Moyes was summed up last night against Burnley: Moyes is at his best getting players - much superior players to Bunley - behind the ball and closing them down. He's just worked that out now: that even at home against less quality teams we have to focus on the unglamorous but necessary side of the game of pressing for 90 minutes, if you dont have a passing game yourself that is....something supporters watched and noticed since Moyes has been back months ago. The penny finally dropped for him.

We are very effective in our own half - dominant even against the better teams of the PL, because we do have those type of disciplined players to play that way.

There's not much ceiling playing that way though and we're probably pushing the limits in the table we can go with it without adding seriously good forwards and at least one flying FB to the team.

This is one way of playing that Moyes can do. But forget it if you want a team to go out and win and entertain. That's not possible under Moyes. It's not what he does or ever will do.

 

[N0L1M1TK]

Regardless of how poor Burnley were. The team and manager still had to do their jobs.

There’s been plenty of times this season where we’ve had good results and they have been followed up by a poor result - typically against teams we should be beating at home.

The away form is fantastic, Moyes and the players deserves the plaudits for it, but the home form has not been anywhere near good enough and people are well within their rights to highlight it.

The season is a difficult one to interpret, if before the season you’d have said we we’d be 8th and a chance of Europe that would’ve been a massive step up and beyond most of our expectations.

On the flip side of it, the quality of the league I feel is below last season, we’ve also continually got our self into fantastic positions and fumbled too often and that’s where the frustration and questions come from, at least for me.

I’ve always been a heavy Moyes supporter until the last couple of weeks. Happy to be proved wrong, want to be proved wrong.

Hope Moyes and the players can have us finish the season strong. 55/58points should hopefully get us into Europe.

 

[hallamblue]

….they set him up for a fall, but;

- 6 points out of 6
- 43 points on the board
- all football commentators and pundits heaping praise on him
- McNeil gets MOM
- 10 sleeps until our next game.

He set himself up for a fall by failing to win any of the 7 previous home games, most of which were against teams below us in the table.

 

[Eggs]

He set himself up for a fall by failing to win any of the 7 previous home games, most of which were against teams below us in the table.

….surely a contract extension

 

[ToffeeScot]

He's showing what he is. One of the best mid-table managers but ultimately a mid-table manager. No shame in that and it's what we needed after the horror show of the previous few seasons.

He's done a lot of good things since he's came in like playing JOB (despite at RB), getting the best out of Garner, helping us bring in some good players that leave us with a good platform to push on as a club, and of course picking up points regularly and chipping away in the league to get us into contention for Europe.

He's also done a lot of bad and/or annoying things like chucking away a cup run with some really abject performances and he's been poor in his handling of Dibling, Rohl and Aznou in my opinion.

I don't really understand the McNeil situation either. He's out of contract soon and the club are very happy to sell him so although he has experience and I think he is/was a good squad player, I think we should really be focusing on George or Dibling instead who the club appear to want to invest in.

I would still prefer to shake hands at the end of the season and go for someone a tad more adventurous but if Moyes sticks on for another season then I'd feel safe knowing he's likely to bring home another season like this points wise.