Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
People complaining about him not passing forwards enough, well according to this it's only him and McNeil who are creating anything worthwhile. Dyche really needs to sort this out somehow and soon.
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £60m
Maybe get a small placard with boo on it that you can hold up if not satisfied. You could sing at the same time if so.
DualityNSNO
How much for the pair?
Tablets on the seats (which are definitely not gonna be thrown at players trust me) with smileyfaces from green to red, like in IKEA.
DualityNSNO
How much for the pair?
Does moor hoof = more better?
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £60m
Maybe young James could have articulated a more erudite sentiment, advising something along the lines of, when you are in the trench don't shoot sideways.
The best thing he brought to the team when he come in was passing forward. To have a centre midfielder who actually looked to progress the ball.
I think he's doing it less at the moment - coinciding IMO with a fall in form.
The thing is though, the lack of pace in wide areas kills us. If we had attacking full backs, or pace on the wings he'd have more opportunity to pass forward.
We'd miss him if he wasn't there.
DualityNSNO
How much for the pair?
We hoof all game, nullifying any passing ability anyone has.
Lack of pace isn't what kills us, we don't utilise width at all and don't play attacking full backs, so there's no one to pass to anyway.
Agreed though, we need either him or (current squad availability, sadly) Gomes to be available as we have no one to even try a progressive pass otherwise and it will be even uglier.
"How was your Everton football experience today? Please rate from the following"
Abysmal
Coma inducing
Gentle booing
Satisfactory
You can list all the training you want, secondary training by the way, not their priority. You are still talking about a 22 year old who has just ran 13k and underperformed in a relegation battle and got slaughtered by 38,000 for 90 mins. What was it he said, 'It's tough to perform being booed', hardly a hanging offence and hardly a call out to the fans.
You overestimate the media training aspect in these particular circumstances and have far too high of an expectation on players post match, they are at their worst at this moment and understandably so.
Yes I do post on a forum, that is the medium it is being discussed, I don't believe myself 'too cool' for anything inparticular, I'm a grown man who plays video games and reads comic books! It was in response to your attack of 'well here you are talking about it', yes talking about it because I believe the reaction to his comments warrents response, if commenting invalidates critique then you are invalidating all critique that has ever existed. I absolutely believe that anyone getting upset about comments made immediately after a match is being quite silly, I've probably been guilty of it myself.
You've excused one and condemned the other, that is picking a side, own it.
DCL probably would have been better off not talking, but again, I don't see the problem, the fans at villa booing a lad for breaking a cheekbone were also daft. I don't think they should judged by that long term anymore than he is.
McNeil laid on two clear cut chances, he still got slaughtered after the game
Pootsy
Player Valuation: £15m
I think team pace and coaching are to blame for James being singled out a bit here.
When we pass it across the back 4 there should be 2 forms of outlet, a long diagonal stretching the opponents or a set of triangular shapes setup by the midfield to allow us to play through the press/midfield 4 or to pull the midfield 4 out of position. This then creates the space for a Def/DM to run into while the CM progress up the pitch ready to break down the next defensive bank.
The coaching isn't being done for the attacking. Instead they are keeping a defensive shape in case they lose the ball.
This then places greater pressure on the midfield as they have less movement up front to aim at leading to backwards and sidewards play.
So while I think James is not as creative as I would like, he very much brings something to this squad. But the same can be said right across the pitch. We could improve every single player if we had the money, not many teams couldn't but we need a tweak in coaching to see more from James.
When we pass it across the back 4 there should be 2 forms of outlet, a long diagonal stretching the opponents or a set of triangular shapes setup by the midfield to allow us to play through the press/midfield 4 or to pull the midfield 4 out of position. This then creates the space for a Def/DM to run into while the CM progress up the pitch ready to break down the next defensive bank.
The coaching isn't being done for the attacking. Instead they are keeping a defensive shape in case they lose the ball.
This then places greater pressure on the midfield as they have less movement up front to aim at leading to backwards and sidewards play.
So while I think James is not as creative as I would like, he very much brings something to this squad. But the same can be said right across the pitch. We could improve every single player if we had the money, not many teams couldn't but we need a tweak in coaching to see more from James.
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
Much of that is to do with his one footedness which doesn't half slow attacks down at times and he is easily brushed off the ball because of it.
He's a 15-20 mill winger, in the modern era he is pretty much what you get for that.
I see him as an asset in the current set up. We ask an awful lot of the wingers with very little support from the full backs
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
Another table here shows the amount of defensive work he is doing, that for me was never his game. He can do it but when I first used to watch him on loan at Forest he played a bit further forward and he was the guy that was moving the ball about and starting the attacks.
Attack.Here's you calling me and others a clown for discussing post match comments
... and this, my response - is apparently an "attack"
'Attack'.
Behave.
You continually fabricate and claim untruths.
... so after all that, you agree players criticising fans is unhelpful/unwise. Got there in the end.
