2025/26 David Moyes

[JobForTheMoyes]

Any change will bring disruption. The way the contract position currently is we’d be making that change next season anyway. That’s not a reason to not make a change now if there are viable and potentially decent options out there now. What’s also more disruptive is making an enforced change during mid season, if he doesn’t perform next season. One th8nk for sure….he will need to improve as expectations will increase.

I would say that when we were at our best this season with Branthwaite and Grealish on the pitch we looked a formidable side. The problem is, Branthwaite is surprisingly fragile.

If we keep Jack we’ll do well as he is quite a robust player. But we really need to address the spine as it is far too weak. Delap will help if we can get him up front. We desperately need an all-around attacker who can be a focal point as Beto and Barry cannot relieve the pressure - the ball just bounces off them.

Right back is obviously high priority. We need a higher quality partner for Garner as well as when Gana is out we just aren’t good enough.

It’s actually quite a lot of work, so we do need some semblance of stability.

 

[Evermaarton]

You would have thought that this match was a very good opportunity to play JOB in the centre instead of Keane and let Seamus start as RB for his last homegame.

If you look at the results of the last matches it's just terrible. But more importantly, the way we played was even worse. Europe was up for grabs but instead of going for it, DM was again reverting to reactionary football.

Moyes will get a team somewhere between 12th to 15th but his mindset is not adventurous enough to take a team any further.

 

[Thomasc]

I have a degree of sympathy. The recent form has in part been down to players making either awful mistakes or just poor decisions.

Today we had O'Brien give the ball away to concede and later on miss an absolute sitter.
Ndiaye has carried on his recent run of making the wrong decision or just plain fluffing his lines the majority of times when breaking with the ball.
We've got a centre half in Tarkowski whose alleged strengths are positioning and strength who gets left in no man's land and bullied one on one with alarming regularity.
Still no right back and our two centre forwards have some clear flaws in their game.

I can understand some criticism of the manager but I wouldn't put it all down to him. We've been creating opportunities to break but squandering them and conceding from repeated individual errors rather than something fundamentally wrong.

I don't think he's hit contract termination just yet but he'll need a strong start next season to justify his continued presence at an ambitious top flight side looking for a seat at the top table let alone any kind of extension.

He has no ambition

He plays our ambitions down constantly

It’s a tired act and nobody wants to see it anymore

 

[Streetender1878]

Has he gone yet

 

[brooklyn blue]

His reluctance to rotate the squad or making subs has left the starting 11 completely knackered..

 

[BackRow PE6]

I have a degree of sympathy. The recent form has in part been down to players making either awful mistakes or just poor decisions.

Today we had O'Brien give the ball away to concede and later on miss an absolute sitter.
Ndiaye has carried on his recent run of making the wrong decision or just plain fluffing his lines the majority of times when breaking with the ball.
We've got a centre half in Tarkowski whose alleged strengths are positioning and strength who gets left in no man's land and bullied one on one with alarming regularity.
Still no right back and our two centre forwards have some clear flaws in their game.

I can understand some criticism of the manager but I wouldn't put it all down to him. We've been creating opportunities to break but squandering them and conceding from repeated individual errors rather than something fundamentally wrong.

I don't think he's hit contract termination just yet but he'll need a strong start next season to justify his continued presence at an ambitious top flight side looking for a seat at the top table let alone any kind of extension.

He’s chosen to keep playing the same players who are either out of form or in need of a rest. That’s where the mistakes and bad decisions come from. Seriously neglected the squad this season and the result is what we have seen over the past 6 games

 

[tommytowne]

They won’t see it as progression, they’ll see it as stabilisation, which is what I should imagine was their goal at the start of the season.

There’ll be no excuses next season though.

Agreed. We can see whats happening in front of our own eyes. Ill be astounded if we get anything out of our last game meaning our points total can hardly be classed as progression.

 

[zook]

I would say that when we were at our best this season with Branthwaite and Grealish on the pitch we looked a formidable side. The problem is, Branthwaite is surprisingly fragile.

If we keep Jack we’ll do well as he is quite a robust player. But we really need to address the spine as it is far too weak. Delap will help if we can get him up front. We desperately need an all-around attacker who can be a focal point as Beto and Barry cannot relieve the pressure - the ball just bounces off them.

Right back is obviously high priority. We need a higher quality partner for Garner as well as when Gana is out we just aren’t good enough.

It’s actually quite a lot of work, so we do need some semblance of stability.

Branthwaite and Grealish have never shared a pitch for us

Typical of our luck

 

[jaycee]

Today sums up life under Moyes, the 1st half was absolutely honking, but no change of tactics, no change in the team, 2nd half Sunderland taking the upper hand, so he swaps a poor CF for an even worse one , still no change in formation, then thinks what this game needs is McNeil,

 

[Blue peter]

I would say that when we were at our best this season with Branthwaite and Grealish on the pitch we looked a formidable side. The problem is, Branthwaite is surprisingly fragile.

If we keep Jack we’ll do well as he is quite a robust player. But we really need to address the spine as it is far too weak. Delap will help if we can get him up front. We desperately need an all-around attacker who can be a focal point as Beto and Barry cannot relieve the pressure - the ball just bounces off them.

Right back is obviously high priority. We need a higher quality partner for Garner as well as when Gana is out we just aren’t good enough.

It’s actually quite a lot of work, so we do need some semblance of stability.

Agree with all of that except stability, we seem to have a lot of ‘stable’ but at times not very much ‘ability’ and I don’t see why you can’t recognise all of those salient points you make with new management. I just do not think Moyes is an aggressive enough / attack minded enough manager. He seems to want to win but with a defensive mindset.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

You would have thought that this match was a very good opportunity to play JOB in the centre instead of Keane and let Seamus start as RB for his last homegame.

If you look at the results of the last matches it's just terrible. But more importantly, the way we played was even worse. Europe was up for grabs but instead of going for it, DM was again reverting to reactionary football.

Moyes will get a team somewhere between 12th to 15th but his mindset is not adventurous enough to take a team any further.

Seamus really shouldn't even be on the bench taking away the sentimentality aspect as he's completely finished. Also having 2 out and out right backs on the bench is appalling management and Aznou must be fuming that if Mykolenko would get injured then a right back would have to be shoehorned at left back rather than him who's a natural there

 

[Lapeno77]

 

[Little Ralphy]

I think we’ve all seen this before. As soon as there is any expectation, a Moyes team bottles it. It must come from him, as he never wins any of the bigger games and always goes on poor runs when it really counts. If there’s not a lot to play for and no pressure, his teams will go on a good run.

There’s just no hope that anything will improve while he’s in charge. If he stays which is probably the most likely, we’ll push to sign stones, soucek and toney and players of that ilk. We’ll pay out big wages (draining the finances) to players with diminishing returns, we’ll run out of legs in the last months of the season like we always do and the football will be rubbish to watch.

Everton as a club need a fresh start, we all thought we had that with the new stadium. But Moyes is taking us back to the kenwright years of plucky little Everton. All the while clubs like Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton and now even Sunderland are over taking us.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

With the Tarks and Keane partnership we concede 2 goals or more yet, Moyes continues to persist with them, why? It's not like we haven't got an actual right - back at the club.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

I would say that when we were at our best this season with Branthwaite and Grealish on the pitch we looked a formidable side. The problem is, Branthwaite is surprisingly fragile.

If we keep Jack we’ll do well as he is quite a robust player. But we really need to address the spine as it is far too weak. Delap will help if we can get him up front. We desperately need an all-around attacker who can be a focal point as Beto and Barry cannot relieve the pressure - the ball just bounces off them.

Right back is obviously high priority. We need a higher quality partner for Garner as well as when Gana is out we just aren’t good enough.

It’s actually quite a lot of work, so we do need some semblance of stability.

Subtle implication that our problems are all down to two players being injured (not sure they were ever actually on the pitch together either?), and a suggestion that signing Delap would help us.

Yikes.