Does Allardyce deserve some credit?

[CrustySack]

 

[Groucho]

I think this would be the most unanimous poll in the history of GOT if one had been included.

Good idea. Mods can we get one added? @Groucho

We could but the inevitable outcome would render it largely redundant.

 

[thorney33]

Did his job and any hate directed his way should instead go to those who hired him.

 

[APN_EFC]

I wish the hate was not persona! We had enough to criticise and attack him for his crappy, rubbish, horrible football management, without resorting to his really annoying personality and appearance.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Looking forward to this whitewash.

 

[gav1985]

Why are we doing this? Why remind us of him? Hurts me to see his name in any way associated with our magnificent club.

Can we agree to never speak of him again? Could the mods perhaps have his name changed automatically to something less offensive?

 

[bcblue1878]

Nope, and why the flippin’ heck is he still being mentioned on here in any way shape or form?

 

[jtl60]

I hate the man with a passion,however he was asked to do a job and he did it.

 

[dholliday]

I absolutely loathe the man, but i think he deserves some credit for some of the tough medication he gave us in dragging us out of the mess Koeman had created.

- Retiring Rooney as a striker (Koeman showed no indication of doing it)
- Binning the multiple number 10s (ok we sometimes played Rooney with Sig out wide but the days of seeing Rooney Klaasen Siggurdson and Sandro in one team were over)
- Buying Tosun and Walcott (both will arguably be in Silva’s 11)
- Rehabilitating Coleman and Baines from long term injury
- Establishing Mason Holgate as a prem CB
- Reviving Schneiderlin (I despise the coward but by the end he at least had him looking like a passable midfielder we might be able to sell rather than a pile of horse manure)
- Giving Jonjoe Kenny substantial game time.
- Establishing a way of playing to beat the bottom 13 at home.


He had many many many faults, and I’m not sure i’ll ever see a worse Everton performance than the one against Arsenal. He also thought it sensible to loan out Besic and Lookman. But now that the rage has died down is it time to consider that he may have laid an ok foundation for Silva to build on (in comparison to the utter shower that Koeman left in place)? Silva May end up using the same formation and quite a few of
Allardyde’s first 11 including his 2 buys in his best lineup. Does he deserve a smattering of credit?

Good post and solid list of the pros there. It's a yes vote from me.

Many at the club (and fans too) were panicking at the thought of relegation. We were leaking goals like crazy. Personally I had faith Unsworth would turn it around, but many didn't.

Sam steadied the ship in terms of goals-leaked. We went from being relegation-scared to finishing comfortably top 8.

That's quite a decent plus in the bank, to be fair. Then add those from your list.

In the minus corner we infamously played the worst anti-football any of us have ever seen. So it was also right we said goodbye to the chunky fella.

 

[AmericasToffee]

 

[evertonarntwe]

the people giving him credit are the people who don't go to goodison, fact.

worst 6 months ive ever seen regardless of the results, I still come out fuming after we won because of how dire the game was

 

[jaycee]

Yes,yes he does,he makes me appreciate Gordon Lee and Billy Bingham more

 

[billyblue80]

The negatives of outdated football, negative mindset and binning off youngsters like Lookman and Holgate outweighed the positives of him organising us and scraping up our points total.

 

[welshtoffee]

Allardyce kept me away from Goodison, no ever manager has ever done that. His style of play was horrendous and he blamed everyone else for the issues we had apart from himself...so sorry, ITS A BIG NO FROM ME !!!

 

[Kantareller]

He did the obvious changes that everyone could see was necessary. So no, not really.

It shows how utterly lost Koeman was with his ''philosophy''.