Match Thread Everton v Manchester City - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

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eurosrees said:
Not sure if it was just because I was young, but I remember at least caring about it back then, there was at least something or someone to like about us. I just don’t feel anything about this team.
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In fairness I cared loads more as a child and far less now I’m an adult with my own real world issues. It’s harder to care about football in general because of the money involved and the fact it’s a closed shop.
 
Watching and listening to Victor Anichibe’s initiation as a pitch-side Sky pundit made painful viewing for me, and brought to mind memories of W1a’s own ham-fisted Ryan Chelford on Match of the day.

His meanderings and occasional pointless outcomes was like watching someone drowning, and more than once I kept wishing he’d come to the point as his floundering was painful to watch. With no chance of the ‘prompt-card-only’ presenter intervening to save his blushes, it was left to the veteran Andy Hinchcliffe to bail him out; for some reason, Hinchcliffe sat on his hands, so on Victor irrelevantly droned, in his L23 tones......

But when the inevitable faux pas arrived, it did so in opening day Olympic style pomp ‘n’ ceremony:

With this being Cit-eh’s first outing since the Silva/Mandy incident, Sky raised the issue of continued racism in football and invited Victor’s thoughts on the matter.Correctly so, Victor was damning in his summary and grave in his delivery, especially when, he proffered, ‘the joke’ went beyond dressing room banter and strayed onto the world-wide stage of Social Media where the material would fall into the hands of the socially vulnerable, giving the green light to the uninitiated.

But wind back several minutes to when Victor was asked to comment on the issue of DCL ‘thieving’ Seamus Coleman’s goal. In arbitrary fashion, he could empathise with DCL’s claim following his recent goal-drought, but equally sympathise with Coleman’s indignance.....who he ‘jokingly’ described - to the throngs of viewers world-wide - as a typical angry I**shman. But at least it’s not said on Soshul Meedea where it can influence the vulnerable. So that’s okay then Vic.

Perhaps Sky should ensure their pundits are coached in the art of punditry and diversified before being let loose on the viewing world, as I blame them for Victor’s lacklustre performance.
 
Jonte said:
Watching and listening to Victor Anichibe’s initiation as a pitch-side Sky pundit made painful viewing for me, and brought to mind memories of W1a’s own ham-fisted Ryan Chelford on Match of the day.

His meanderings and occasional pointless outcomes was like watching someone drowning, and more than once I kept wishing he’d come to the point as his floundering was painful to watch. With no chance of the ‘prompt-card-only’ presenter intervening to save his blushes, it was left to the veteran Andy Hinchcliffe to bail him out; for some reason, Hinchcliffe sat on his hands, so on Victor irrelevantly droned, in his L23 tones......

But when the inevitable faux pas arrived, it did so in opening day Olympic style pomp ‘n’ ceremony:

With this being Cit-eh’s first outing since the Silva/Mandy incident, Sky raised the issue of continued racism in football and invited Victor’s thoughts on the matter.Correctly so, Victor was damning in his summary and grave in his delivery, especially when, he proffered, ‘the joke’ went beyond dressing room banter and strayed onto the world-wide stage of Social Media where the material would fall into the hands of the socially vulnerable, giving the green light to the uninitiated.

But wind back several minutes to when Victor was asked to comment on the issue of DCL ‘thieving’ Seamus Coleman’s goal. In arbitrary fashion, he could empathise with DCL’s claim following his recent goal-drought, but equally sympathise with Coleman’s indignance.....who he ‘jokingly’ described - to the throngs of viewers world-wide - as a typical angry I**shman. But at least it’s not said on Soshul Meedea where it can influence the vulnerable. So that’s okay then Vic.

Perhaps Sky should ensure their pundits are coached in the art of punditry and diversified before being let loose on the viewing world, as I blame them for Victor’s lacklustre performance.
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Bit harsh, he looked new, what can you say. He also doesn't play for us so nobody cares. Always moaning about RS pundits, they finally get 2 Evertonians and you slate them, damned if you do, damned if you don't.
 
Silva has to go. Why take Iwobi off? At least he tries to move the ball forwards. For what we paid for him, why only two starts and don't forget he has two goals for us already.
Whenever he and Moise Kean have been on the field together, they've linked well and tried to make things happen. So what does Silva do? Takes Iwobi off and sends Kean on.
Kean needs someone like Iwobi to get the best out of him. Silva's subs just baffle me. Like for like with no tactical awareness or changes. We could be in the bottom three by this time next week. It was never this bad under Koeman and they got rid of him, sharpish.
How many chances does Silva get? He needs firing before we're dragged into the relegation fight. We're going backwards with this clown in charge.
 
Played well, but poor goalkeeping and poor finishing from good chances cost us today. Recurring theme. And why oh why are we still trying to mess around at the back, when the long ball was causing them problems when we used it.
 
BernieH said:
Bit harsh, he looked new, what can you say. He also doesn't play for us so nobody cares. Always moaning about RS pundits, they finally get 2 Evertonians and you slate them, damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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Should have gone full on crazy gang Wimbledon on them, they are suspect at the back. Thought DCL had the better of the back line when he could use physicality. However, goal off being MoM. Seamus knows what it is to be Everton.
 
It's hard to take anything from the game.

Sure it was better than last week but it always is when we play a big team, always look better than what we are at times. Burnley away next and a poor result before the international break and I can't see the mood being too positive for the foreseeable future.

Sad thing is , there isn't any managers out there that would join us right now and improve us. No good calling for Silva to go if we have no replacement. Otherwise we end up with another Silva , works well for Watford !
 
Bit harsh on me. Just a humorous slant on the world of today using this as a vehicle. But going back to your point about him being a newbie, I’ll bet he still got paid more than the minimum wage for that diatribe, and yes as a Sky customer I expect better.

With regard to Hinchcliffe, I recall his presence was as a former City player not a blue so lay off with the violins.
 
I think we played relatively well yesterday against a good City team - albeit not at their best - and against most teams it may have been enough for a victory.

However, the issue is that we simply do not play like that against enough of the 'lower' teams and the same glaring issues/failings were there to see.

Unless we play at a higher tempo with more tenacity and actually look semi-capable at finishing chances then we're going to struggle to really push on.
 
Jonte said:
Watching and listening to Victor Anichibe’s initiation as a pitch-side Sky pundit made painful viewing for me, and brought to mind memories of W1a’s own ham-fisted Ryan Chelford on Match of the day.

His meanderings and occasional pointless outcomes was like watching someone drowning, and more than once I kept wishing he’d come to the point as his floundering was painful to watch. With no chance of the ‘prompt-card-only’ presenter intervening to save his blushes, it was left to the veteran Andy Hinchcliffe to bail him out; for some reason, Hinchcliffe sat on his hands, so on Victor irrelevantly droned, in his L23 tones......

But when the inevitable faux pas arrived, it did so in opening day Olympic style pomp ‘n’ ceremony:

With this being Cit-eh’s first outing since the Silva/Mandy incident, Sky raised the issue of continued racism in football and invited Victor’s thoughts on the matter.Correctly so, Victor was damning in his summary and grave in his delivery, especially when, he proffered, ‘the joke’ went beyond dressing room banter and strayed onto the world-wide stage of Social Media where the material would fall into the hands of the socially vulnerable, giving the green light to the uninitiated.

But wind back several minutes to when Victor was asked to comment on the issue of DCL ‘thieving’ Seamus Coleman’s goal. In arbitrary fashion, he could empathise with DCL’s claim following his recent goal-drought, but equally sympathise with Coleman’s indignance.....who he ‘jokingly’ described - to the throngs of viewers world-wide - as a typical angry I**shman. But at least it’s not said on Soshul Meedea where it can influence the vulnerable. So that’s okay then Vic.

Perhaps Sky should ensure their pundits are coached in the art of punditry and diversified before being let loose on the viewing world, as I blame them for Victor’s lacklustre performance.
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You prefer Piers Morgan mate?
 
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