2025/26 David Moyes

[ToffeeTim]

I jumped up when the goal went in but I'll be honest the second half did little for me. Backs to the wall scraping a result to move us from 14th to 11th? I've done that enough. I get the circumstances were what they were, but I go back to what I said. What is the goal here? And then I guess following on from that, how are we going to achieve that? I don't see it right now even a little bit.

Far better teams than us would have played exactly the same, defending a 1 nil lead, with 10 men, for 77 minutes, away from home.

 

[bag a yoko]

There's players there, and the manager doesn't seem as much of a tit as a great deal of the former incumbents, who has convinced them to dive at every occasion needs looking at, and I reckon they'll evolve when they move a few problem characters on. Sides go through stages of change, only got to look at how city are coping with their rebuild.

Amorim seems a decent guy but last night was abysmal.
The substitutions made his team weaker.
If you're looking at the best managers in the league he's pretty close to the relegation zone.

 

[DualityNSNO]

I'm not raging at all.

I'm calmly pppinting out that we could easily have been here this morning with a club in crisis.

You're definitely raging mate.

 

[BlueInNZ]

I jumped up when the goal went in but I'll be honest the second half did little for me. Backs to the wall scraping a result to move us from 14th to 11th? I've done that enough. I get the circumstances were what they were, but I go back to what I said. What is the goal here? And then I guess following on from that, how are we going to achieve that? I don't see it right now even a little bit.

To win a game of football. Which we did.
Get off your butt and get to a game and then, maybe, you'll get what Everton are about.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

….incredible, 3 points off top four;

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Shoulda woulda coulda, but tuck in a couple of those pretty easy chances in games we drew when we were dominant (e.g. Villa) then it shows what a bizarre season it has been so far. Obv the real world isn’t like that but still.

Sky can’t lose can they. Their favourite teams dominate the airwaves when being allowed/helped to win every week. Then when half of them are having a nightmare they feed on the carcass. Actually felt like we were incredibly popular victors last night, for a change.

 

[Kurt.]

Imagine we hadn't won last night: today we'd have had a rabble fighting with each other on the pitch and getting sent off and no improvement whatsoever.

The fact is we got extremely lucky last night playing a United team shorn of a few quality players.

Anyone who sees a plus there for Moyes presiding over that lack of respect and discipline needs their heads feeling.

It’s great ain’t it !!!!

 

[b-rad]

Imagine we hadn't won last night: today we'd have had a rabble fighting with each other on the pitch and getting sent off and no improvement whatsoever.

The fact is we got extremely lucky last night playing a United team shorn of a few quality players.

Anyone who sees a plus there for Moyes presiding over that lack of respect and discipline needs their heads feeling.

But we did win. You are the only one imagining that scenario. I assume to make you feel better.

Moyes presided over a battling and disciplined display, marred by one player losing his head for one minute. To paint it as an undisciplined, ramshackle, tetchy, haphazard or unfocused performance overseen and orchestrated by Moyes is a real stretch - one that is both amusing and entirely expected.

We didn't win because of Moyes, but he's also not the reason we could easily have lost.

 

[matty1878]

Imagine we hadn't won last night: today we'd have had a rabble fighting with each other on the pitch and getting sent off and no improvement whatsoever.

The fact is we got extremely lucky last night playing a United team shorn of a few quality players.

Anyone who sees a plus there for Moyes presiding over that lack of respect and discipline needs their heads feeling.

no only YOU would be tryna fight the forum

 

[malcson]

After last night, those who claimed that Moyes set his team up to capitulate in games against the ‘top’ sides should at least admit that was not the case last night.

 

[b-rad]

After last night, those who claimed that Moyes set his team up to capitulate in games against the ‘top’ sides should at least admit that was not the case last night.

It was refreshing to see our attacking intent throughout the first half. I wasn't expecting it, but it was really good to see.

 

[Sheedy's right knee.]

I just see this as a complete misunderstanding of how a club like ours needs to go about building a better squad. We don’t need to spend years “rebuilding our reputation.” We need to find players with the right profiles interested in playing in the best league in the world and making more money in the mean time while they position themselves to play for even more money and prestige after that. Once we have that pipeline established we can work on turning it into consistent European places and hopefully trophies.

Bournemouth were in the championship 3 seasons ago. Gary O’Neil kept them up. And they sacked him because he’s not good enough. They’ve bought a whole host of players and sold a bunch more. That’s how it works. You aren’t going to make 100% good signings. It’s a volume game to some extent. You can’t be afraid of failures. Target the profiles for what you want the team to be and hope you find enough successes to get it together. We have the advantage over a lot of clubs in that if we do get a talented team together we have the support to actually keep it together maybe. Palace did similar with Roy. They could’ve rode that until the end of time. But what’s the goal?

Although I agree with some of your sentiment Everton aren’t a Bournemouth, Brighton or Brentford. Look at Frank at Tottenham for example. He is clearly a knowledgeable and level headed guy but he is finding out how difficult it is to manage a club that size with a higher ceiling of player. That also goes for the players on the pitch. When things are going well they are on the crest of a wave but things don’t go well they require a different character to push through as well as the manager. I think Moyes and the players are doing ok at the minute. Yes we could do better but we could be a lot worse too. We all want trophies and European football but a bit of patience is in order at the moment. Considering we haven’t had Branthwaite for the season and haven’t had a right back and striker troubles we aren’t doing too badly.

 

[wandyr79]

Imagine we hadn't won last night: today we'd have had a rabble fighting with each other on the pitch and getting sent off and no improvement whatsoever.

The fact is we got extremely lucky last night playing a United team shorn of a few quality players.

Anyone who sees a plus there for Moyes presiding over that lack of respect and discipline needs their heads feeling.

Oh my good god.

You really are a man child aren't you.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Imagine we hadn't won last night: today we'd have had a rabble fighting with each other on the pitch and getting sent off and no improvement whatsoever.

The fact is we got extremely lucky last night playing a United team shorn of a few quality players.

Anyone who sees a plus there for Moyes presiding over that lack of respect and discipline needs their heads feeling.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

A distinctly un-Moyes approach to a game at OT, and when the game got turned on its head, the players put on a truly incredible performance. Let's have it right, United were abysmal, but we still win that 0 times out of 100 before last night.

A couple of blotches on Moyes's copybook, though. Starting Coleman was ill-advised, and bringing on McNeil over Dibling - who he has literally just said he wants to give more minutes to - was a shocker as well.

 

[wandyr79]

I'm not raging at all.

I'm calmly pppinting out that we could easily have been here this morning with a club in crisis.

Oh, I would say that there is a good chance you are raging at the thought of Everton winning and Moyes getting praise.