No
Ok
He’s one us
I’ll never ever speak I’ll of him again
He’s been great for 7 games
Over and out
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No
Ok
He’s one us
I’ll never ever speak I’ll of him again
He’s been great for 7 games
Over and out
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
Rhino will likely come out of this spell in charge with a bloody awful record, and will have shown that he really needs experience elsewhere before being ready for the job here.
But, though he might have failed as a manager in the last few weeks, he's shown what a class act he is. There are many at the club, and on this forum, who ain't fit to lick his boots.
But, though he might have failed as a manager in the last few weeks, he's shown what a class act he is. There are many at the club, and on this forum, who ain't fit to lick his boots.
Damo W
Player Valuation: £750k
I feel sorry for him, he has shown class, dignity and respect for the club and its supporters. More than what others and most of the players have over the last 5 weeks. I’m a big supporter of Moshiri and have respect for Kenwright for my own reasons but their performance in this last few months since the summer has been nothing worse than criminal (not literally let’s not open that can of worms) and have undermined Unsworth as well, I can’t see him going back to under 23s now.
His record may be bad from this spell but I don’t see that hindering him getting a chance elsewhere down the leagues. I would like him to work with our new manager but that wouldnt work.
A real shame for a real evertonian and someone who is doing this out of love for the club and as he believed he could.
Get behind him and get him a deserved win
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/everton-mess-is-down-to-the-players-z5nn8vnrn
Everton mess is down to the players.
Anger fills Finch Farm and Goodison Park. Anger at the incompetence and indolence of Everton players can be found in the hearts of enraged supporters and David Unsworth, the bruised caretaker manager. If “Fireman Sam” Allardyce is appointed manager, he needs to tear into underperforming stars, telling them that they need the commitment of the soon-to-be-sidelined Unsworth.
Anger is good in a way. Anger shows the passion still aroused by a famous club 139 years after their birth, the club of Dixie Dean, Neville Southall and Kevin Ratcliffe, the club who Unsworth serves so loyally. People care deeply about Everton’s fortunes. Phone-ins, social media and Liverpool Echo letters pages teem with emotional fans pouring out their feelings. The time to worry about the future of a club is when there is radio silence, when apathy reigns. That’s not the case with Everton. Anger pervades because fans are hurting. Like Unsworth.
But his days are numbered. Farhad Moshiri’s interest in Allardyce makes sense. The Harry Houdini of the relegation zone, Allardyce will drill the defence, instil some belief, making Everton tough to play against and probably also hard to watch. Allardyce is more an alumnus of the school of hard knocks than the School of Science but even Everton purists will not care if he keeps them up, preserving a relationship with the elite that dates back to 1954.
Jagielka, the captain, shows the pain of the Southampton defeat on Sunday
Jagielka, the captain, shows the pain of the Southampton defeat on Sunday
Moshiri can then return to his true love, to Marco Silva, pay Allardyce off with a big smile and a bigger cheque and build for the future. Others are linked with Everton, such as André Villas-Boas and Martin O’Neill, but nobody offers the obvious buoyancy aid of Allardyce in a sea of uncertainty. AVB certainly is not the man for a dogfight.
Make no mistake, Everton are in trouble, and needs must. They are only two points above the line that borders pleasure and pain, that would cost them more than £100 million if they slipped below. They are devoid of confidence, as demonstrated by the hapless surrender to Atalanta last Thursday and then Southampton on Sunday. They need the jump-leads hanging up in Allardyce’s garage.
If he does arrive at Goodison, Allardyce must embrace the club’s deep connections with the past. He may want to bring in Craig Shakespeare as his No 2, but Allardyce has to acknowledge the affinity between staff and support. That anger emanating from Gwladys Street partly pertains to frustration that Unsworth has made mistakes, but stems primarily from players not living up to their reputations and pay-packets.
This is why so much sympathy exists for Unsworth. The likes of Joey Barton may rail against him, highlighting his limitations as a tactician, but the more legitimate target of fury should be the players. Few of those on the field are displaying the hunger of those in the dugout, club servants who worry about Everton’s wellbeing. It is an indictment of the work of the starting XIs that they lack the requisite pride in the royal blue shirt.
It is hardly Unsworth’s fault that Ashley Williams, Phil Jagielka and Leighton Baines are creeping past their sell-by dates, that the squad is overstocked with No 10s, that important players, such as Ross Barkley, Séamus Coleman and Yannick Bolasie, are injured, and that individuals such as Oumar Niasse reveal idiocy and get suspended. Too few in Everton blue take responsibility for combating the club’s plight.
The heartache is felt in a dugout mainly packed with some of their own. Unsworth himself emerged through the youth team to make 350 appearances and score 40 goals in his two playing spells. Joe Royle made his debut at 16, going on to score 119 goals in 276 matches. John Ebbrell entered the Everton system aged 12 and played 265 times, scoring 19 goals.
Unlike some of the players, the coaches bleed Everton blue. Duncan Ferguson, drafted in, recorded 72 goals in 273 appearances. When Everton were debating tweaking the club crest, they asked Ferguson for his views and he simply rolled up his sleeve, displayed his tattoo, and said it should look like this.
If he does arrive at Goodison, Allardyce must embrace the club’s deep connections with the past
On being awarded Everton Giant status at an awards ceremony in 2011, Ferguson advised the players present to “stay at this club as long as you can because there is only one way after leaving this club, and that is down”. Clearly not, as proved by the subsequent movement of some of those in that squad, such as Marouane Fellaini, Shkodran Mustafi and Eric Dier, but club affiliations do matter.
Every club cherishes former players and managers but the bond at Everton seems particularly strong. One of the many privileges of being invited into the manager’s office at Everton’s old training ground, Bellefield, was to see the desk once used by Harry Catterick.
Unsworth understands the link. He readily accepted the hospital pass of tending the team after Ronald Koeman was eased out, even though failure would tarnish a reputation built during his successful tenure of the club’s under-23s, and diminish his prospects of a decent job in the future. But Unsworth did it because he dared to dream that he might deliver, and because he cared.
If and when Allardyce replaces him, Unsworth is owed huge gratitude by Everton. If only others in the Goodison dressing room shared his selfless attitude.
Everton mess is down to the players.
Anger fills Finch Farm and Goodison Park. Anger at the incompetence and indolence of Everton players can be found in the hearts of enraged supporters and David Unsworth, the bruised caretaker manager. If “Fireman Sam” Allardyce is appointed manager, he needs to tear into underperforming stars, telling them that they need the commitment of the soon-to-be-sidelined Unsworth.
Anger is good in a way. Anger shows the passion still aroused by a famous club 139 years after their birth, the club of Dixie Dean, Neville Southall and Kevin Ratcliffe, the club who Unsworth serves so loyally. People care deeply about Everton’s fortunes. Phone-ins, social media and Liverpool Echo letters pages teem with emotional fans pouring out their feelings. The time to worry about the future of a club is when there is radio silence, when apathy reigns. That’s not the case with Everton. Anger pervades because fans are hurting. Like Unsworth.
But his days are numbered. Farhad Moshiri’s interest in Allardyce makes sense. The Harry Houdini of the relegation zone, Allardyce will drill the defence, instil some belief, making Everton tough to play against and probably also hard to watch. Allardyce is more an alumnus of the school of hard knocks than the School of Science but even Everton purists will not care if he keeps them up, preserving a relationship with the elite that dates back to 1954.
Jagielka, the captain, shows the pain of the Southampton defeat on Sunday
Jagielka, the captain, shows the pain of the Southampton defeat on Sunday
Moshiri can then return to his true love, to Marco Silva, pay Allardyce off with a big smile and a bigger cheque and build for the future. Others are linked with Everton, such as André Villas-Boas and Martin O’Neill, but nobody offers the obvious buoyancy aid of Allardyce in a sea of uncertainty. AVB certainly is not the man for a dogfight.
Make no mistake, Everton are in trouble, and needs must. They are only two points above the line that borders pleasure and pain, that would cost them more than £100 million if they slipped below. They are devoid of confidence, as demonstrated by the hapless surrender to Atalanta last Thursday and then Southampton on Sunday. They need the jump-leads hanging up in Allardyce’s garage.
If he does arrive at Goodison, Allardyce must embrace the club’s deep connections with the past. He may want to bring in Craig Shakespeare as his No 2, but Allardyce has to acknowledge the affinity between staff and support. That anger emanating from Gwladys Street partly pertains to frustration that Unsworth has made mistakes, but stems primarily from players not living up to their reputations and pay-packets.
This is why so much sympathy exists for Unsworth. The likes of Joey Barton may rail against him, highlighting his limitations as a tactician, but the more legitimate target of fury should be the players. Few of those on the field are displaying the hunger of those in the dugout, club servants who worry about Everton’s wellbeing. It is an indictment of the work of the starting XIs that they lack the requisite pride in the royal blue shirt.
It is hardly Unsworth’s fault that Ashley Williams, Phil Jagielka and Leighton Baines are creeping past their sell-by dates, that the squad is overstocked with No 10s, that important players, such as Ross Barkley, Séamus Coleman and Yannick Bolasie, are injured, and that individuals such as Oumar Niasse reveal idiocy and get suspended. Too few in Everton blue take responsibility for combating the club’s plight.
The heartache is felt in a dugout mainly packed with some of their own. Unsworth himself emerged through the youth team to make 350 appearances and score 40 goals in his two playing spells. Joe Royle made his debut at 16, going on to score 119 goals in 276 matches. John Ebbrell entered the Everton system aged 12 and played 265 times, scoring 19 goals.
Unlike some of the players, the coaches bleed Everton blue. Duncan Ferguson, drafted in, recorded 72 goals in 273 appearances. When Everton were debating tweaking the club crest, they asked Ferguson for his views and he simply rolled up his sleeve, displayed his tattoo, and said it should look like this.
If he does arrive at Goodison, Allardyce must embrace the club’s deep connections with the past
On being awarded Everton Giant status at an awards ceremony in 2011, Ferguson advised the players present to “stay at this club as long as you can because there is only one way after leaving this club, and that is down”. Clearly not, as proved by the subsequent movement of some of those in that squad, such as Marouane Fellaini, Shkodran Mustafi and Eric Dier, but club affiliations do matter.
Every club cherishes former players and managers but the bond at Everton seems particularly strong. One of the many privileges of being invited into the manager’s office at Everton’s old training ground, Bellefield, was to see the desk once used by Harry Catterick.
Unsworth understands the link. He readily accepted the hospital pass of tending the team after Ronald Koeman was eased out, even though failure would tarnish a reputation built during his successful tenure of the club’s under-23s, and diminish his prospects of a decent job in the future. But Unsworth did it because he dared to dream that he might deliver, and because he cared.
If and when Allardyce replaces him, Unsworth is owed huge gratitude by Everton. If only others in the Goodison dressing room shared his selfless attitude.
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
Great bloke , great Evertonian, wish he’d proved me wrong and showed signs of being the manager he could be.
But
It was wrong to give an inexperienced manager such a lengthy trial because he was the doorway through which FatScum has slithered.
But
It was wrong to give an inexperienced manager such a lengthy trial because he was the doorway through which FatScum has slithered.
royvernon39
Player Valuation: £10m
Unsworth tried all the permutations and all the players but frankly none of the players responded.
Football management is such a hiding place for the incompetent that a Koeman - who had one good season at Soton among failure after failiure -managed to snag a 3 year gig at 6 million. He fooled me too. Koeman acted as if he was a double-agent spending all the money on number 10's and barely nothing elsewhere. How can you explain the signing of Cuco, other than sabotage?
Anyway, Unsworth had a chance to snag the job but his senior players especially did not back him; in addition he has behaved well, kept his negative opinions to himself and leaves with the best wishes of all Evertonians.
Football management is such a hiding place for the incompetent that a Koeman - who had one good season at Soton among failure after failiure -managed to snag a 3 year gig at 6 million. He fooled me too. Koeman acted as if he was a double-agent spending all the money on number 10's and barely nothing elsewhere. How can you explain the signing of Cuco, other than sabotage?
Anyway, Unsworth had a chance to snag the job but his senior players especially did not back him; in addition he has behaved well, kept his negative opinions to himself and leaves with the best wishes of all Evertonians.
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
His last game later on, his deserves a good reception from the fans, yes it was a failure his run but he stepped up when no one else wanted to, he is one of us, just not ready for management
Superhans1878
Player Valuation: £950k
Hope we win for him later on. He’s not ready yet for full team management but he had the bottle to step in and he’s handled it with class.
Hope he has kept a job
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
To his credit he stepped up and was prepared to give it a go and help the club if he could, he's always conducted himself impeccably and spoken well in his pressers. The lack of permanence and hence any authority can always undermine any temporary manager though and his chaotic and everchanging selections didnt help. He was out of his depth and floundering despite making clear his desire to take on the job permanently.
He's overseen a series of performances from the team which started as just dreadful but under his guidance have progressed to utterly abysmal and he's been left floundering and lost, hung out to dry.Meanwhile the board have meanwhile been striving to reach levels of ineptitude in their search for a new manager of such a magnitude that those levels had been previously unchartered.
But his seven-game tenure has been little short of disastrous, with Everton losing five games and winning just one.
That victory, when Everton came from two down late on to secure a 3-2 victory over Watford, looked like it might be a turning point.
But they have lost their last two matches 5-1 to Atalanta and 4-1 against Southampton, taking the tally of goals Everton have conceded this season in all competitions to 46.
He's badly affected any future managerial prospects he may have had at a possibly lesser profile and more stable club in the process too.
He's overseen a series of performances from the team which started as just dreadful but under his guidance have progressed to utterly abysmal and he's been left floundering and lost, hung out to dry.Meanwhile the board have meanwhile been striving to reach levels of ineptitude in their search for a new manager of such a magnitude that those levels had been previously unchartered.
But his seven-game tenure has been little short of disastrous, with Everton losing five games and winning just one.
That victory, when Everton came from two down late on to secure a 3-2 victory over Watford, looked like it might be a turning point.
But they have lost their last two matches 5-1 to Atalanta and 4-1 against Southampton, taking the tally of goals Everton have conceded this season in all competitions to 46.
He's badly affected any future managerial prospects he may have had at a possibly lesser profile and more stable club in the process too.
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Yes Davy.
Doing it for Unsy, so far
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