Fair comment and I need to be clear that I don’t like Allardyce and it’s not my intention to be seen to be defending him. My issue is that we have very recent form of accepting a manager for a large period of time who did not play much better football than him, had a similar negative attitude in games against the “big sides” and at the end of the day won sweet FA. Yet because we have Allardyce in charge all of a sudden people are concerned about our style of play and upholding the standards of our club? Standards that haven’t been enforced since when? And style of play didn’t exactly help Martinez did it?
People act like it’s the media who belittle us and mock us for having ambition when the club have done a fantastic job of creating that narrative for decades now all by themselves. Look at how long we kept Moyes, those extra seasons we gave Martinez when it was getting worse and worse, how long we dithered after sacking Koeman to eventually see us land Allardyce. People act like we’re not shown any respect anymore and it’s all “kopite propaganda” and because we’re not part of sky’s big six we’re irrelevant. We could do with respecting ourselves first. Plenty of pundits were bigging us up last summer and look how our season has gone. Is that the media’s fault too?
Allardyce’s appointment is a culmination of all the bad decisions and coasting along that’s been going on for years now. You reap what you sow.
I totally agree, and this comes back to the other things I’ve said regarding the “people’s club”
That has morphed us into an acceptance of utter mediocrity, no matter what the big clubs do we’ll show faith with our players and managers as long as they keep our head above water in the PL
The club have latched into this, it’s brainwashed fans, media etc that plucky little Everton do things differently, we stick by our managers through thick and thin because we’re lucky to even be in the PL.
The club is rotten from the core, we have Everton fans who have seen the club win leagues and compete with the best resorting to accepting this, they believe the media hype and insecurity. Hence why we have this fat slug
And to top it off you have Kenwright coming out and telling the world he signed Rooney and none of our purchases will be sold; this speak volumes and highlights who is truly making the decision at the club.
Our fans need a wake up call, they want to compete then they need to rebel and let the board know that it is us, not them, who keep this club ticking over and relevant.
But we won’t do that, because on the other side of the fence will be the lads shouting “kopite behaviour”
