Maybe try not playing either, and have an interchangeable front three of Grealish, Dibling and Ndaiye. The same relentless tactic of hoofing it to an ineffective target man is stifling us currently.
I don't really understand your first couple of paragraphs at all to be honest. What has the list of names got to do with anything? Is our number 10 an attacking player? I certainly hope so, yes. How does goal line tech change whether you see a manager as risk averse or not? I'm very confused.
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £100m
Illustrating how the game has evolved in the time specified.
And our number 10 is not doing the sole job of a number 10 is he. A defender and two keepers can't be considered attackers, Rohl is a holding midfielder? and then our ~ number 10 problem.
Why are you talking about the keepers? I said we brought in £150m worth of attacking players - Dibling, Barry, KDH, Grealish, Alcaraz. I didn't mention keepers. And again, the game changing in some ways doesn't in any way address the actual point being made. This is a very bizarre conversation so I think i'll bow out here.
Gilbert..
Player Valuation: £50m
Full backs are such a massive part of teams now. We saw in the opening game at leeds Garner plugged a gap but we had zero contributuon going forward down the left. It unbalanced everything.
Its not new. We failed this crucial area of the pitch for years now.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Ilm still unmoved on this glory stuff.
A great match experience or two and a Euro qualification season does not make for a glory period.
We diminish this club by describing it thus.
58 toffees
Player Valuation: £750k
Exactly this , I wonder what he is being told what to do ? I don't remember him touching the ball in the 21 mins he played last night .
We seemed to struggle to mount attacks in general thus his involvement being minimized and like you accurately stated we never looked to bring him into the action when we do attack , he seems to make decent runs it seems to be how we approach things, we either go the wings and bang in broad crosses that go into crowds of players or we're so slow in building up our play the box is just congested with defenders so when in the rate chance Barry does get the ball it just gets blocked
He's forced into chasing shadows, he seems the last player we look for when attacking..
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
I agree - a glorious era is not qualifying for the Champions League play-offs and being eliminated. Or finishing seventh and commemorating it with a celebratory DVD. Or getting our highest PL points total only to miss out on the CL and then go into a terminal tailspin.
A glorious era was 1984-1987.
But glorious victories matter too - all the more so in non-glorious eras or in times of absolute chaos. Moyes did a lot of good work in the Kenwright Decline era, but he didn't do enough in the way of glory. That was understandable - to a point. His risk-aversion meant he wouldn't gamble when the chance of going above and beyond presented itself. Now, we should at the very least be looking for some glorious performances in an era that can at least lead to something potentially glorious in the future. We're no longer in Kenwright's Austerity.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Glorious victories is a definition I can live with; glory years when we dont win anything...no.
Cameron Manning
Player Valuation: £35m
Moyes started the Derby game all wrong and gave the game away in the first thirty minutes, he played four players, v Wolves in the cup who had hardly kicked a ball this season, the subs came on at half time but couldn’t change the game, we couldn’t open Villa up and played like for like with one sub and brought two on with four bleedin’ minutes to go. West Ham, gave two thirds of the field to play with last night, we scored a very good goal with the pass coming from Garner who is playing very well this season but especially from centre midfield, but we couldn’t increase the lead and it was WHU who took over the game and I was glad to see we got a point at the end of the game. Moyes is Moyes and I doubt he will ever change, but you know that Rita, and any optimism many fans had not too long ago has been drained by these last few performances and a lot of it is down to Moyes and the ultra cautious way he sets his teams up,
He's lost a lot of credit over the last fortnight, and I'm back into that love-hate relationship that tarnished the end of Moyes 1.0
MisterJ
Player Valuation: £35m
We did until we scored.
Then we do what we always do and stopped doing the things that got us the lead. At which point we always make the oppo look like world beaters until they inevitably score.
Rinse and repeat
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