2025/26 David Moyes

[maccavennie]

Once again, down to the bare bones and he squeezes the absolute maximum out of whats available.

 

[Ged G]

….they were lining him up tonight but have had to return to the woodwork

End of December, 14 points off the bottom three; 4 points from the top four.

What a job he’s doing

You do know that there are blokes on here who would do a better job?

 

[Nymzee]

I said when we were expecting it to be.

Like so;

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Yeh but still, we didn’t have Grealish, KDH or Ndiaye tonight. It is 100% normal to think we might not win tonight with our lineup. Not arsed if they’re 17th - they have a good squad.

 

[derek duvall]

More importantly the win exposed Moyes' consistent undermining of this club with all his talk about not having a team to put out because we had 3 or 4 players sidelined.

Moyes completely owning your hero Dyche, again, is hurting you more than ever. Love it.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Hahaha even the mods opening the vaults. Bad time to be a Dychette and/or Top Bloo.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

If you looked individually at our defence you wouldnt rate it.
Yet there they are. 4th best defence in the league.

It’s because Moyes is one of the best defensive coaches in the game.

 

[davek]

Branthwaite
Gana
Ndiaye
Grealish
Keane
Alcaraz
Coleman
Dewsbury-Hall

Coleman long term and Grealish played tonight.

But yeah, that just underlines what I'm saying: it's an utter LIE to say we are short of numbers to win PL matches...and tonight underlined that.

 

[JohnRoss23]

As a club we need to stop being so negative.

Cringeworthy the level of writing us off before the game vs Dyches 17th placed Forest.

I saw fans on Twitter before the team news saying they'd backed Forest as odds were evens. Incredible.

We can't all whine about Everton that attitude, and mentality when fans are doing it.

Is it some sort of mental defense mechanism with Moyes?

 

[Groucho]

Why should that be?

I said he was selling the Big Lie that we had no players to play.

We jkust went away from home "with hardly anyone to play" and won handsomely in the end.

No one should pay Moyes any attention in future when he's saying we have no squad strength. We do.

The Big Lie unravelled there tonight.

Comes across as a bit “whatever it is, I’m against it” this mate.

 

[dannyboy]

Brilliant from our manager tonight. The people advocating him being sacked aren't living in the real world. The chances of us getting someone better right now are very low.

 

[Efcjake]

Good to be challenging for Europe isn't it

 

[allen]

He’s not glamorous, he might have hit his ceiling with us last time, but he’s still a really good manager.

 

[Grfirestorm]

This season is both great and frustrating. Up to 8th by end of Christmas - noting Moyes teams used to always be stronger in the 2nd half of a season, however with those dropped points v Leeds and Burnley we could have been 5th - however that is as much the fault of VAR inconsistency. However what a difference a season makes - can’t remember the last time we went a season without any fears of relegation.

You can criticise Moyes all you like but we have stability and we’re moving in the right direction. We’ve underinvested for years, we’ve been bottom half fodder spending more time worrying about other results than our own yet now we’re 8th. Things won’t change overnight but if we can finish top half with a team building for the future - that’s a great position.

 

[evertondotcom]

Coleman long term and Grealish played tonight.

But yeah, that just underlines what I'm saying: it's an utter LIE to say we are short of numbers to win PL matches...and tonight underlined that.

Okay.

That still means 6 players were missing… not 3 or 4?

 

[davek]

Comes across as a bit “whatever it is, I’m against it” this mate.

Saying Moyes constantly talks Everton down and being consistent is whatever it is Ilm against it?

A win against Forest cant change 12 seasons of experience of him playing Everton down.

We were always going to be able to handle Forest and compete. Moyes knew it too. But he's managing expectations again. It's what he does: his MO.

We can be doing so much better than this with a better manager who can really get us stuck into this woeful league.