2025/26 David Moyes


hetion said:
I don't think he'll drop Tarks (and I don't know if it would be a good idea either) but I'd be interested to see how Branthwaite and O'Brien as CBs with Garner as RB would affect how we can play. Probably with CBs a bit higher and with more ball-playing ability, and someone who can deliver good crosses from RB.
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High line against City🙄 That'd end well.
 

Toffe3m4n said:
Hope yesterday showed him definitively that Barry & Dibling shouldn't be starting games together, certainly at this early stage.

Dunno why he hasn't be utilising Alcaraz more but he was crying out for that starting berth yesterday in KDH's absence.
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We have to have some options otherwise we will stay one dimensional with same starting 11…
 

Brett Angell Delight said:
We looked completely unsure of what we'd been asked to do, first half. HT subs were the right ones but we still looked wide open at the back and, for all our bluster, not really likely to score. The big one was the injury sub, where I was cryarsing because he brought Tim on instead of simply bringing on Coleman and moving JOB inside. Shows what I know because that one turned the match.

Issues for me, are:

Whatever fire is lit under players at HT needs to be put there from minute one.

Similarly, Tim and Charly probably looked the best I've seen them, and Beto was fired up. They need to show that when they're afforded a start.

It's easier said than done, clearly, but that's where the management part of management comes in, no? If the fans are effectively doing that bit of the job, then it's a mark against our coaches/senior players.
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When behind especially at home then we tend to have to up the tempo, and we play massively better when doing so, we also play a higher line which reduces the huge gaps between the different areas of the team.

We don't start they way because Moyes is intrinsically a negative manager who wants to try to do a slow build up - which doesn't suit the players we have and with Tarks and Keane at CB we play very deep at the back due to them having no pace.

Keane has played well - but he does mean we tactically set up way too deep.

You'd see a massive difference how we could start games with Jarrod and O'Brien at CB as both have genuine pace on them.
 
Saint Domingo said:
Results are results. Used to annoy me under Dyche when any win was explained away as a fluke but every loss was a damning indictment. Another day Barry scores in the first half and Alcaraz’s shot flies in the top corner without Henderson’s strong hand, so there’s zero point in all this ‘yeah but if Mateta scores we’d have lost 3-0’ etc. Football is a game purely of outcomes, the outcome was an Everton win, there’s no point getting into hypotheticals.
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Thankfully that occurred so rarely that you wouldn’t have had to worry about it much.
 

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