2025/26 David Moyes

[Drico]

Christmas is often a fairly boring time...

God bless @davek. Doing God's work.

 

[Pootsy]

Wasn't it only a month ago he was telling us all how we're nowhere near the level of Newcastle, a team we were (and still are) above in the table?

His M.O. is and has always been to downplay ambitions whenever he has to answer for a bad result. He simply can't manage a club that wants to be considered a heavyweight because with that comes pressures and expectations.

He's the right man for now, but not for much longer.

Managing ambitions is part of his job. He's done that very well despite the protestations. Your last sentence he confirmed himself when he came back. And while we are above Newcastle in the league currently, they are struggling with injuries just like us, but also managing Champions League games.

 

[duncs pigeon]

Fact 3 - you dislike a certain individual.
New owners.
Naming Rights.
Ambulance Chasers.
Bringing in money by using the stadium for other events.
The look of the surrounding area around the new ground.

Over anything on the field.

None of these things will ever change in your mind.

You don't care for football, you care about anything negative that surrounds the game.

Or Fact 4 - you just crave interaction, and negativity is the best bait to catch a bite.

This sadly.

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

There's a glorious irony in this post not understanding how averages work

It's entirely possible for the majority of people to be below average. Also possible for the majority to be above average. Someone with less than average intelligence would obviously confuse the average with the median.

 

[hetion]

It's entirely possible for the majority of people to be below average. Also possible for the majority to be above average. Someone with less than average intelligence would obviously confuse the average with the median.

Not when discussing something which has a population-wide perfect bell curve...but we digress

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

Not when discussing something which has a population-wide perfect bell curve...but we digress

No problem mate. Let's just admit you were wrong and then we can move on.

 

[Joey66]

No problem mate. Let's just admit you were wrong and then we can move on.

The goodwill season has gone already then ?

 

[Toffeelover]

What the point of winning a cup and finishing 15th? It’s meaningless. I’d sooner watch us win games in the league on a regular basis. I realise some other fans are obsessed with a nice day out and a shiny trophy.

I think he is looking at the possibility of some Euro football.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

What...your smoking gun is me saying if we didn't have a relegation specialist here we'd be relegated...and then we actually did replace one with another one?

No? You specifically said we'd go down without Dyche, which is contrary to you also stating we havent gone down since the 50s an shouldn't be worried. I thought it was a pretty simple message to read.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Europe is only a chance because of how oddly volatile the league has been so far. If you sat there in the Summer with large expectations, that’s on you for being far too greedy.

Its weird because said poster wrote the entire season off when Branthwaite got injured but continues to waffle on every week about the season not hitting his expectations.

 

[Bluebonic]

I’m going to wait up on Christmas Eve and grip Santa and ask him if we are getting a right back. If he says we aren’t because it wasn't on Moyes Xmas list, then Santa is getting snotted and Moyes will wake up with a decapitated red-nosed reindeers head under his bedclothes!

 

[Glasshalffull]

It's entirely possible for the majority of people to be below average. Also possible for the majority to be above average. Someone with less than average intelligence would obviously confuse the average with the median.

I'm no mathematician, but aren't mean, median and mode all different ways of measuring the 'average'?

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

It’s like people moaning during a house construction as the yet-to-be-built roof is leaking.

 

[windymiller]

Not when discussing something which has a population-wide perfect bell curve...but we digress

Angry Kev confusing parametric and non-parametric data again? Why do you suppose he is so furious all of the time? With his hero Moyes in charge you would think that every day would be like his birthday, yet he's on here every day raging against the naysayers calling them all names.

 

[Efcjake]

Will be a very interesting second half of the season. The big change at Everton now is that no one will be able to rest on their laurels. He needs to push the board for January signings and if the Friedkins back him again then they’ll want results. The summer was the fifth highest net spend in the league.

The summer will probably be the period that they consider a contract extension or a change of manager (as he’ll have one year left). The opportunity is therefore there to take us into Europe this season and go on a cup run. I’m just not sure that turning in 11th or 12th and saying look at the stability will be enough for the Freidkins. They will want Europe, revenues that come with that, and ultimately to be win trophies and be competitive. The predictable limp showings at Liverpool Chelsea Arsenal City Spurs Newcastle to not even gain a single point and only score one goal are not helping him, especially after doing so well to get the monkey off our back of winning at Old Trafford.

If we’d seen out the game after going 1 up against a terrible West Ham team, and picked up anything from that run of top half teams then the table would be looking extremely promising but there’s just this feeling that every time we look like we’re about to push on, the players collectively just phone one in and we get the Newcastle game or the first half an hour of the Derby, or major individual errors that just undercut the momentum.

We could be sat here in the European places and in the QF of the carabao cup with just a bit more care and attention but the only response back to this would be Moyes saying yeah but if we lost a few more we’d be looking over our shoulders again. I just don’t think the Friedkins will see it that way.

It’s a huge second half of the season.

I don't know what we've seen from the Friedkin's that could lead anyone to make any conclusions on this.

Can you point to anything from the Friedkin's involvement with Everton that suggest they won't allow anyone to "rest on their laurels"?

Have I missed something?

They've hardly even given one interview and the one manager they've sacked came to them saying he couldn't do the job and asked for the severance.

Reading the rest of your post you say an awful lot about what the Friedkin's will think and do and quite frankly it comes across as pulled out of your backside. When have they said or indicated any of these expectations you're assigning to them?