Hello sunshine, come into my life.
And we were expecting what? Strange how a summer of not losing our best players can distort the ambitions of most of us, and this is not one of them kick a cat when he's down thing, as were still ace. Well, aren't we?
Disappointment prevailed all round post Ewood Park result, you sort of had that horrible little doubt of the ghosts of opening day past when you seen Osman on the right but we still had enough quality on that pitch to put Blackburn to bed, we didn't. Part of the evolution of this team is going to be having the shoe on the other foot now with teams looking to get in hard, stifle us and put men behind the ball. The nice possession play counts for not much when it takes into injury time to test the portly too good for England Mr Robinson.
But the dismay will dissolve and turn to optimism by about Wednesday for most, as a home game against Wolves is the sort of game you're looking for to get your season started.
That's not a slant at Wolves who are benefiting from a more than decent team put together by their blunt speaking sturdy foreheaded Manager. They drew both games against us last season so won't be patronised like is the tendency to do with those teams battling it out in the middle of the table, a la Blackburn. They beat Stoke on Saturday too, super goal from that free kick too like. Steve Round is going to be pencilling all sorts of pre-emptive measures in his jotter tonight when he sees that on Match of the Day. The wools of the Midlands wont give an easy game.
But all things considered and knee jerk statements out of the way, we should be beating Wolves. The general disjointedness in our play against Blackburn should be addressed in training during the week and a squad containing many words of new season would want to turn it on you'd think. Not conceding first will be vital, as we seen at Goodison last season how effective Wolves can shut up shop.
Moyes said all the right things about no ones place being guaranteed and it's likely we will see some changes, probably the most significant of them all will be Heitinga's return to the side after another week's fitness, but where: at centre back or in midfield? Probably the former. Up front we were generally toothless and on the right hand side you would anticipate Anichebe starting if he shakes off whatever knock he's carrying.
Welcome back to Goodison y'all, hope we see the Everton we were expecting this season.
And we were expecting what? Strange how a summer of not losing our best players can distort the ambitions of most of us, and this is not one of them kick a cat when he's down thing, as were still ace. Well, aren't we?
Disappointment prevailed all round post Ewood Park result, you sort of had that horrible little doubt of the ghosts of opening day past when you seen Osman on the right but we still had enough quality on that pitch to put Blackburn to bed, we didn't. Part of the evolution of this team is going to be having the shoe on the other foot now with teams looking to get in hard, stifle us and put men behind the ball. The nice possession play counts for not much when it takes into injury time to test the portly too good for England Mr Robinson.
But the dismay will dissolve and turn to optimism by about Wednesday for most, as a home game against Wolves is the sort of game you're looking for to get your season started.
That's not a slant at Wolves who are benefiting from a more than decent team put together by their blunt speaking sturdy foreheaded Manager. They drew both games against us last season so won't be patronised like is the tendency to do with those teams battling it out in the middle of the table, a la Blackburn. They beat Stoke on Saturday too, super goal from that free kick too like. Steve Round is going to be pencilling all sorts of pre-emptive measures in his jotter tonight when he sees that on Match of the Day. The wools of the Midlands wont give an easy game.
But all things considered and knee jerk statements out of the way, we should be beating Wolves. The general disjointedness in our play against Blackburn should be addressed in training during the week and a squad containing many words of new season would want to turn it on you'd think. Not conceding first will be vital, as we seen at Goodison last season how effective Wolves can shut up shop.
Moyes said all the right things about no ones place being guaranteed and it's likely we will see some changes, probably the most significant of them all will be Heitinga's return to the side after another week's fitness, but where: at centre back or in midfield? Probably the former. Up front we were generally toothless and on the right hand side you would anticipate Anichebe starting if he shakes off whatever knock he's carrying.
Welcome back to Goodison y'all, hope we see the Everton we were expecting this season.
