2025/26 David Moyes

[Nymzee]

barry 23
ndiaye 26 kdh 27 Tim Iroegbunam 22 garner 25 rohl 23
aznou 19 branners 23 O'B 25 patterson 24
travers 26

23+26+27+22+25+23+19+23+25+24+26=263
263/11=23.9

2nd oldest?

Yeh Mark Travers starts a lot for us.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Just a random piece of info for you, but one you and @windymiller should be very proud of.
You both survived an 8hr battle yesterday.

we embrace the silliness. (with occasional facts thrown in)

#troopers!

 

[Rita_Poon]

Yeh Mark Travers starts a lot for us.

tee hee hee

 

[Moomin]

barry 23
ndiaye 26 kdh 27 Tim Iroegbunam 22 garner 25 rohl 23
aznou 19 branners 23 O'B 25 patterson 24
travers 26

23+26+27+22+25+23+19+23+25+24+26=263
263/11=23.9

2nd oldest?

Yes, we have the average oldest starting 11 in the Premier League

 

[Curtis]

It's the fact we went more cautious as the season went on that makes no sense. Once we got ourselves well into mid table safety, the manager went even more safety first in his approach

If he isn't willing to give it a good go when we are rock solid and safe by new year, then what's the point. We've thrown away half a season playing dull percentage football, and for what?

And the whole notion of a safety first approach ironically made us more vulnerable in games and wasn't even pragmatic because we became predictable and had the same players being played endlessly which lead to them being incredibly fatigued by the end of the season

 

[Swartzy]

What ambition could he show realistically? He was hardly turning down moves to PSG and Bayern to stay here was he? His options were probably along the lines of stay and be a squad player here, do the same sort of job for someone like Wolves or Burnley or drop down a level and play more (less money, worse facilities and lower standard in training etc). I don't really see how making the decision he made could be seen as lacking ambition in any way. I've slated Keane loads of times but he doesn't pick himself, it's not his fault managers keep putting him out there and I can't see how there's any blame attached to him for accepting a contract the club offer him.

Yeah alright mate, think you need to grab a drink and cool down a bit.

The lad has signed 2 contracts accepting he wont be a starter. for him fair play, it's a good payday.
For the club, I think I'd rather have a player say that he still believes he can make that spot his own.

 

[COYBL25]

yes, this. the cautiousness is part responsible for the sucker punch jitters.

what's maddening is everyone can feel it.

It’s because we know it and the team know it.

We’re terrified of conceding, as we don’t think we’ll get a goal back, due to the team not having competent strikers.

It’s a collective anxiety, the crowd feeds off the players and vice versa.

 

[Curtis]

beat man utd, beat villa, beat chelsea. should have beat city.

Let's gofund him a trophy to signify his massive achievement , almost beating city

 

[Rita_Poon]

It’s because we know it and the team know it.

We’re terrified of conceding, as we don’t think we’ll get a goal back, due to the team not having competent strikers.

It’s a collective anxiety, the crowd feeds off the players and vice versa.

oh for a vial of the belief Cahill used to play with.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Let's gofund him a trophy to signify his massive achievement , almost beating city

we're crowd funding sarcy trophies now everyone. roll up roll up, it's silly season, and everyone wants a jolt.

 

[Moomin]

Yeh Mark Travers starts a lot for us.

He should throw Dibling in and that 16 year old Northern Ireland lad into the lineup as well.

 

[Nymzee]

He should throw Dibling in and that 16 year old Northern Ireland lad into the lineup as well.

I do think injury to Branthwaite and Gana being 400-years old skews our data a bit though. Very easy to drop our average age down with a couple of changes.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Issue is that only those in bold were first team players. Even Young and Harrison had been phased out under Moyes for JOB and McNeil end of last season. DCL was injured a lot so we played Beto.

The only decision we really made was moving away from Doucoure, which was the right one.

When it came to Keane Gueye McNeil Coleman, we ducked big decisions and kicked into the long grass for another season or two. Aside from Coleman, the other three play a lot of football for Everton.

We’ve already renewed Keane again and woislnt surprise me to see us retain both Gueye and McNeil.

Until all three are gone from the spine of the team we’re not going anywhere.

I’d only consider that the top layers as well, we’ve not even mentioned Mykolenko Tarkwoski Beto who play all of every week for us and aren’t good enough.

magic money tree!

 

[Curtis]

It’s because we know it and the team know it.

We’re terrified of conceding, as we don’t think we’ll get a goal back, due to the team not having competent strikers.

It’s a collective anxiety, the crowd feeds off the players and vice versa.

The strikers aren't top tier but the major issue is a lack of attacking coherence brought forth by two fullbacks that don't overlap and offer little in attack. For some reason mykolenko in the second half was positioned further towards the middle of field but offering nothing attacking wise like usual it was odd

 

[Rita_Poon]

I don't really see what you're getting at here? In context a year is actually quite a lot seeing as the age range at which you can realistically play football at the top level is relatively small, and Liverpool are - quite famously actually - in need of a squad rebuild due to a number of their previously key players no longer being at the level they were due to age.

John Burridge, 43 years young when he turned out for city vs qpr in may 1995. (I thought it was Ogrizovic, but he was 42)

Them pesky keeper ages can sure skew an equation.