2025/26 David Moyes

[witchdoc187]

We were paying for the stadium build with the loans from 777 mate, who very nearly became our full owners. They have been taken too task by the FBI and others for running a massive ponzi scheme amongst other financial misdemeanors.

Still remember the plans with a tesco car park and the same stadium as Southampton etc... now look at us. Thank god

 

[Papa Shango]

Obviously u were ahead of the times pal

I am a bit of a maverick like.

 

[witchdoc187]

I am a bit of a maverick like.

Can see that mate. Deffo the best place to demonstrate it

 

[Bluepablo]

Keane is in his element in a low block.

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Wasn't great under Dyche and the whole team, club, fans and tea ladies were in a low block
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True, in a Moyes low block, not a Dyche low block.

 

[Simon Buttle]

I think he tried to play a more expansive game. They scored 60, which is way more than we usually do, and still finished top half.

Doesn't matter imo that's bottom 3 numbers

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Conceded 74 goals in that final season mate, dress it up as much as you want but that's too many.

Of course. You do get anomalies at times though. I remember a George Graham side being the highest scoring team in 1991-1992 though his teams by and large were cautious

 

[RD2910]

It was in relation to West Hams defence under Moyes if you must know.

I know, but there are over twelve seasons at your own club to look at, it's a curious thing to do to use the season where Moyes's side conceded the most as evidence against him being good at coaching defenders.

Just to play along, there were loads of goals that season. It obviously wasn't good, but it wasn't that out of place with others.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

What happened at West Ham then, they had their worst ever goals against in their top flight history under Moyes.

They wouldn’t sign the players he wanted. He had tried to sign Tarkowski and Maguire. The German signed Mavropanos because he was “better value.” They were actually very robust when they had a fit Zouma.

 

[John from Bootle]

Form table for the last 10 games has us in 5th place.

Edit, I'm basing that on a form table the bbc have done since Rosenior took charge.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Form table for the last 10 games has us in 5th place.

 

[John from Bootle]

Slightly low points total for troubling the CL places, but then it's just one of them seasons with a lot of teams taking points off each other. Without going all kopite, because I know it's not the real table, but the 17 points from them 10 games would translate to about 64 points over a full season

 

[royvernon39]

One of the gripes I have with DM was his team selection at Wolves in the League Cup by playing Seamus at left back and dropping Jordan. Disaster resulted predictably.
But nutty selection by dropping your best goalue was repeated by Arteta yesterday and Igor Tudor away against Athletico. Why do they do it?

 

[st.domingo]

They should have listened to me at the time. I suggested it have the ability to float so we can take it anywhere in the world. We could host major tournament games in every nation in the world forever.

Well those with a coastline anyway.

Luddites.

I was explaining to some non-Brits who Ned Ludd was just the other day. A story relevant to our (and probably any) times.

Anyway, Moyesy basking in the spring sunshine, so credit where it's due.

I'm just looking at the fact that we apparently had 33% possession against Chelsea, so you could argue that we were playing a little like the away team, which we know we can do with aplomb. This was clearly much more than a typical KITAP1 performance tho tbf.

Aside from that we swatted Burnley, one of the weakest sides in the division.

It's going to be interesting to see if this does turn into the archetypal strong Moyesian run-in.

Hope so, obvs.

 

[toffeeblue9]

One of the gripes I have with DM was his team selection at Wolves in the League Cup by playing Seamus at left back and dropping Jordan. Disaster resulted predictably.
But nutty selection by dropping your best goalue was repeated by Arteta yesterday and Igor Tudor away against Athletico. Why do they do it?

In the case of the league cup, they make promises to the reserve goalies when they sign them that they'll pick them in the league cup to make sure they are least get the odd game

 

[st.domingo]

It's going to be interesting to see if this does turn into the archetypal strong Moyesian run-in.

Actually looking at the remaining fixtures, they really couldn't be better - from the point of view that we prefer to play away, or as if we are.

It's only really the Sunderland match where we may have to take the initiative?