2025/26 David Moyes

[Marcus Kendall]

Not watched anything official EFC since going 2 nil down tuesday, however, has Moyes come out and used relegation as an excuse for that team selection?

No he didn't

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

He's just come accross as smug , swatting questions about Tuesday like it doesn't matter and doesn't see as any sort of setback.

Thought the hacks where way too timid with him.
" don't you think it was a great opportunity missed to progress David ?"

"Was it wise to send out a disjointed ,weakend team ie Coleman & McNeil in particular ?"

Then again he just says its his decision who plays and its not to be questioned.

Not doing himself any favours at all.

Listen to some of the podcasts with "hacks", they have to play nice for the most part, they get deplatformed so to speak, its not unique to EFC. Only when when not asking questions becomes untainable (fan stand dissent) for clicks will they get clinical.

 

[Dykovski200]

I like Moyes and don't particularly like press conferences, but having watched it now, most of it wasn't any different then what I would expect. But I will say when it came to the cup, he didn't just close the door on the question, he slammed it shut, which i can see where people are coming from..

I dont know the bloke and am not just trying to back him up, but I reckon that was a response from a person that is more pee'd off with himself and the performance then he wants to let on...

If he had opened up to that question, maybe he wouldn't have been able to control what came out his mouth..

You could see he was fuming in the dugout after wolves game, I don’t think he should have rotated so many players, yet the players who did get their chance let him down big time.

 

[orchard]

You could see he was fuming in the dugout after wolves game, I don’t think he should have rotated so many players, yet the players who did get their chance let him down big time.

Yeah, it's obvious Moyes wants to throw them under the bus, but it's not that simple. Surely Moyes had something to do with too many newbies at once, the tactics and structure of the team, as well as players completely out of position. He can cry-arse all he wants, but like he said, the opposition manager ensured his poorly performing team won with multiple changes.

 

[hallamblue]

I don't understand people's surprise that he didn't apologise for his team selection or that he blamed the players, that's his mo Like Allardyce and Benitez, he's never made a mistake in his life, and is a genius of a manager who keeps terrible teams in the top division whilst working on a shoestring budget.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

I don't understand people's surprise that he didn't apologise for his team selection or that he blamed the players, that's his mo Like Allardyce and Benitez, he's never made a mistake in his life, and is a genius of a manager who keeps terrible teams in the top division whilst working on a shoestring budget.

To be fair a manager needs to have the courage of his convictions as good leaders can't show self doubt or weakness of hindsight thought

 

[orchard]

I don't understand people's surprise that he didn't apologise for his team selection or that he blamed the players, that's his mo Like Allardyce and Benitez, he's never made a mistake in his life, and is a genius of a manager who keeps terrible teams in the top division whilst working on a shoestring budget.

It's not surprise, it's the injustice to the players, fans and club coupled with also creating issues amongst the team and maybe not learning from the experience himself, or worse, the possible intentionality of it if he's playing politics with the board that's infuriating.

 

[orchard]

To be fair a manager needs to have the courage of his convictions as good leaders can't show self doubt or weakness of hindsight thought

Good leaders also need to get easy victories.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Good leaders also need to get easy victories.

Hey I was as annoyed with the selection as you were especially Coleman playing left back but life is about making decisions and inwardly I'd imagine Moyes knows he got it wrong but has to put on a defiant act infront of the media

 

[davek]

Moyes's problem now - and he's beginning to see it this last week - is that no one is in the mood anymore for derbies to be surrendered and cup competitions to not be taken seriously. He'll also learn that playing any 'elite' team home or away wont come with the free pass of achieving f.a. anymore, or that settling for a draw against any team outside the elite will be acceptable.

If he thought signing up to a second stint here was just going to be producing what he did last time in a vastly changed Everton set up he's going to be corrected on that very very quickly. Yesterday's press conference was a reaction to that. He knows the winds of change have blown through the club and he doesn't have Bill there anymore to count on.

Given the fixture pile up for other PL teams in Europe this season he needs to get a Euro spot - especially if they're going down to 8th position.

 

[Bluebonic]

If you are going to publicly state that the cup competition is important to us as a club, you play your strongest team to maximise your chances of progressing. Yes, the players he brought in underperformed, but they shouldn’t have been brought in to start with. We were playing a prem team, not some 3rd or 4th division outfit!

 

[Nymzee]

If you are going to publicly state that the cup competition is important to us as a club, you play your strongest team to maximise your chances of progressing. Yes, the players he brought in underperformed, but they shouldn’t have been brought in to start with. We were playing a prem team, not some 3rd or 4th division outfit!

To be fair Wolves are about as good as a 3rd or 4th division team at the moment. They’re horrendous.

 

[58 toffees]

I don't understand people's surprise that he didn't apologise for his team selection or that he blamed the players, that's his mo Like Allardyce and Benitez, he's never made a mistake in his life, and is a genius of a manager who keeps terrible teams in the top division whilst working on a shoestring budget.

Whilst boring fans to death seas

I don't understand people's surprise that he didn't apologise for his team selection or that he blamed the players, that's his mo Like Allardyce and Benitez, he's never made a mistake in his life, and is a genius of a manager who keeps terrible teams in the top division whilst working on a shoestring

I don't understand people's surprise that he didn't apologise for his team selection or that he blamed the players, that's his mo Like Allardyce and Benitez, he's never made a mistake in his life, and is a genius of a manager who keeps terrible teams in the top division whilst working on a shoestring budget.

Whilst boring fans to death season after season

 

[davek]

If you are going to publicly state that the cup competition is important to us as a club, you play your strongest team to maximise your chances of progressing. Yes, the players he brought in underperformed, but they shouldn’t have been brought in to start with. We were playing a prem team, not some 3rd or 4th division outfit!

...and a PL outfit we'd beaten on that pitch 3 weeks earlier, which would have made it much more difficult to win a second game in quick succession there.

To make 7 changes was unforgivable. The XI who faced Wolves and beat them 3-2 would have made short work of that LC tie.

 

[orchard]

Hey I was as annoyed with the selection as you were especially Coleman playing left back but life is about making decisions and inwardly I'd imagine Moyes knows he got it wrong but has to put on a defiant act infront of the media

Yeah, but that's going to impact the players adversely mate. Call out McNeil. Fine. But as poo as we were, a lot of the players worked hard, but seemed to have no plan or structure. For instance, I'm not sure whether Dibbers will make it, but imo he tracked back a lot more than i've ever seen him do and gave it a go, but everyone around him was either out of position, or also trying to prove themselves too. Throwing players under the bus like this can backfire massively. I just don't think Moyes prepped them for this adequately, if at all.