Hoofball

[RFUS]

Jags, I love you, but for fecks sake man. You too Nev. Disgusting today. Trying to play long ball, with such giants as fecking Osman up the pitch. Do you know what? We may as well sign Crouch, if that's what we're going to do.

I thought it was gone, but it's not. Fellaini, Pienaar, Arteta -- a wealth of skill in the midfield. Bypassed by the aimless hoof.

FFS Moyes, Jags, Neville and so on. Sort it out. We're better than this.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

Jags, I love you, but for fecks sake man. You too Nev. Disgusting today. Trying to play long ball, with such giants as fecking Osman up the pitch. Do you know what? We may as well sign Crouch, if that's what we're going to do.

I thought it was gone, but it's not. Fellaini, Pienaar, Arteta -- a wealth of skill in the midfield. Bypassed by the aimless hoof.

FFS Moyes, Jags, Neville and so on. Sort it out. We're better than this.

Will never change mate.

Moyes has allowed it to go on far too long now, he's the boss, if he didn't want it happening it wouldn't.

Like you say, today when a long ball got played up toward Osman wide right i nearly cried.

Same goes for crosses into the box which were dealt with easily by their defence. That doesn't work against Blackburn, Stevie Wonder could see it.

 

[Goat]

New threads should be BANNED after defeats.

Kneesjerk all over the place and makes it harder for me to bump them next week when we smash Wolves everywhere.

 

[RFUS]

Will never change mate.

Moyes has allowed it to go on far too long now, he's the boss, if he didn't want it happening it wouldn't.

Like you say, today when a long ball got played up toward Osman wide right i nearly cried.

Same goes for crosses into the box which were dealt with easily by their defence. That doesn't work against Blackburn, Stevie Wonder could see it.

It's so frustrating. If we can see it, why can't they? Why do they keep doing it? I just feel like I'm missing something, like actually it often works, or whatever, but it doesn't. ARGHARGHARGH.

*smacks head against wall*

*cries*

*masterbates furiously*

 

[chicoazul]

I thought it was down to Blackburn getting their tactics spot on mate, as soon as our centre backs got the ball they pushed up and stopped the distribution to our sexual midfielders, hence the long ball straight into their grocks in defence.

We didn't have a plan B is all.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

New threads should be BANNED after defeats.

Kneesjerk all over the place and makes it harder for me to bump them next week when we smash Wolves everywhere.

What, like you were gonna bump the Blackburn thread after we came back and smashed them?

 

[Seamus Colemole]

I thought it was down to Blackburn getting their tactics spot on mate, as soon as our centre backs got the ball they pushed up and stopped the distribution to our sexual midfielders, hence the long ball straight into their grocks in defence.

We didn't have a plan B is all.

I love how you say that so blase.

3 times LMA manager of the year didn't have a plan B and got outdone on tactics by Big Sam?

Is that really what you're saying? Or is it one of your wind ups?

 

[chicoazul]

I love how you say that so blase.

3 times LMA manager of the year didn't have a plan B and got outdone on tactics by Big Sam?

Is that really what you're saying? Or is it one of your wind ups?

No, I meant it lid. It was frustrating, we didn't get going at all. Must do better like.

Big Sam won today though.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

No, I meant it lid. It was frustrating, we didn't get going at all. Must do better like.

Big Sam won today though.

Next time someone gives it a "BIG SAM IN" I'm so bumping this.

 

[chicoazul]

Next time someone gives it a "BIG SAM IN" I'm so bumping this.

You're a monster death, and no mistake.

 

[TX Bill]

Gotta give Blackburn some credit for how they played against us. It wasn't pretty, but it worked.

 

[Goat]

Next time someone gives it a "BIG SAM IN" I'm so bumping this.

GET BIG SAM IN

 

[Andy M.]

Take a gander, if you will, at the opta stats (most readily available at Guardian chalkboards). Simply put - today we did not play hoofball, unless "hoofball" is just a synonym for "losing". To wit:

Everton: 418 passes (346 successful) Blackburn: 126 (63 successful)
Needless to say - Blackburn *did* play hoofball.

Oh, and again, according to the stats, Jags was our third most creative player (after Arteta and Baines) with 40 successful passes. And he came closest to scoring. If we're after scapegoats, Jags shouldn't be on the list (mind you, I don't think anyone, save Beckford and maybe Cahill, should be on the list).

 

[Goat]

Holy [Poor language removed], that boy just crushed you all with pretty pictures.

 

[RFUS]

Haha.

Well, maybe it's not so bad, but I'd still like to see it cut out completely. Too often Jags was smashing it upfield, and I don't remember an Everton player winning it once. Even the commentators on the stream mentioned it.

I guess there's no looking into why we played so bad today. Just got to take it on the chin, and accept that we didn't turn up.