Match Thread Everton v Norwich 15th May KO 15:00

[Mikeonlythebestwilldo]

Hahahahahaha hope your watching Martinez !!!!!

 

[Rook]

mirallas is all over the show ... best performance from him in a long time

Tom davies tho .. 17 if we get de boer with his track record of youth am pretty sure he will be in the first team a lot next year

He's rubbish. Doesn't pass the ball backwards and he'll send us tumbling down the possession table.

 

[Nymzee]

Future looks promising with the academy and yet we're clambering for Mourinho who will 100% ignore them all.

 

[Jamiednm]

I guess they've not been trying for two full seasons, and those last Wigan players getting themselves relegated......

There's a tactical shift, if the players aren't consistently pressing across multiple seasons and two different teams, it's a managerial issue, hardly lazy players at fault

You're right, it is 100% on the manager, nothing to do with the players that are actually out on the pitch.

 

[Kiwi]

Davies has been superb

 

[Efcjake]

Davies is having superb match for a seventeen year old. Mirallas to be drug tested after the match, I have never seen him do this much work.

 

[maddison]

Its the same as at chelsea, the players give up under mourinho and they got called all kinds. But it happens with us its all on the manager. Some of our lads have been pathetic, no matter the manager the least we should expect is some effort

It's not the same mate. Had there not been previous form on this, and had the manager come out and said the team weren't doing what he sent them out to do, I'd be more inclined to agree. The reality is Martinez teams don't work hard off the ball, they aren't defensively organised, and he plays out of form players.

 

[ianefc]

Not being funny lads, but do we have to keep bringing up Martinez this, Martinez that, he's gone, so lets move on.

That sounds soooooo good.

 

[Bazlar]

Great first half from Tom Davies. He doesn't lack confidence does he?

 

[Ring master]

we have played pretty well 1st half,could have had a few more,feels like 1st game of season

 

[Donald Twain]

Not being funny lads, but do we have to keep bringing up Martinez this, Martinez that, he's gone, so lets move on.

x 10.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

That sounds soooooo good.

You little tinker you!

 

[allen]

So much to like about this performance.

Well done Unsy and Royle. There's the pride back before a long summer.

 

[eurosrees]

This is just like Moyes' first game against Fulham all those years back, not that I want that Ginger ballbag anywhere near the place again, just saying it feels like that day.

 

[Jamiednm]

Absolutely. They clearly wanted a summer holiday.... lol

Absolutely baffles me that people think El Fraudo's tactics weren't the problem and try and pin it on the players

No, you're saying everything is black and white - that Martinez was to blame for absolutely everything, when in reality, his management made it difficult for the players who ultimately gave up. No one is saying Martinez wasn't the problem, but to suggest the players were giving it everything since Christmas is just wrong.