Marco Silva mid season poll

[hktoffee]

Not that I want Silva gone now. Moshiri will defo let him have this season at least.

When there was a poll in the middle of Martínez second season it was about 38:62? Maybe something similar for the time being?

 

[Eggs]

Happy enough with him.

He has a discernable style and it's up to the DoF to get him the players who can carry his vision out.

This season is all about sifting through who is in and who is out of his plans for the next few seasons. NEA about a mid-table finish. Anything outside a Euro spot is not an accomplishment anyway, so 6th.7th, 8th hold no fascination for me.

...I generally agree with Dave, although Silva’s tactical set-up against Spurs was so naive it gave me cause for concern, especially when he didn’t change things during the game.

Dave has a bee in his bonnet over Brands, but generally i’m happy with the newcomers and look forward to seeing new acquisitions. I do feel we have a playing strategy that is being supported by a transfer strategy.

Saying that, Silva will be under pressure if he’s not able to get a few wins in the near future.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Far too early for any judgement.

 

[Groucho]

He’s doing ok. Leave him be.

 

[summerisle]

Patience makes the heart grow fonder - or something.

 

[Deulofeumygod]

Not his fault that our players have brain farts every game, can’t finish and we are everton.

 

[The binman chronicles]

We ain't getting rid unless something cataclysmic happens over the next 2 months. So at the end of the day what does it matter? Happy, unhappy, neutral, are all the same.

Our heads have gone down and we can't go toe to toe against a decent side. Everyone is allowed one stinker, but a quality manager should be able to pick the bones out of that and prevent it from happening again. Over to you Marco. No pressure.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Happy enough with him.

He has a discernable style and it's up to the DoF to get him the players who can carry his vision out.

This season is all about sifting through who is in and who is out of his plans for the next few seasons. NEA about a mid-table finish. Anything outside a Euro spot is not an accomplishment anyway, so 6th.7th, 8th hold no fascination for me.

Dave, what you say about sifting through who he likes and dislikes is what a manager should be doing pre-season. We can’t just afford to be writing seasons off, we haven’t won a trophy since 1995, each year that passes it gets worse and worse.

 

[Loz]

Well, half way through the season. Out of one cup, negative goal difference and in bottom half of the table.
But....it could always be worse and it’s still early days in his tenure, so I guess we leave things and see how they progress.

 

[TheBigIguana]

My answer is I'm not sold on him but don't see the point in firing him now and probably won't see the point in it before the end of next season unless he is doing a Koeman

 

[davek]

Dave, what you say about sifting through who he likes and dislikes is what a manager should be doing pre-season. We can’t just afford to be writing seasons off, we haven’t won a trophy since 1995, each year that passes it gets worse and worse.

I dont see what else he can have done in the wake of Koeman and Alardyce. It'll take this season and next summer to get three transfers windows done and an axe taken to the core of the first team squad.

He's not daft. He sees what we do. He'll know who can do what he requires by now and who cant. Then it's up to Brands to make the outgoings / incomings happen.

 

[Steve Wigan]

...I generally agree with Dave, although Silva’s tactical set-up against Spurs was so naive it gave me cause for concern, especially when he didn’t change things during the game.

Dave has a bee in his bonnet over Brands, but generally i’m happy with the newcomers and look forward to seeing new acquisitions. I do feel we have a playing strategy that is being supported by a transfer strategy.

Saying that, Silva will be under pressure if he’s not able to get a few wins in the near future.

Silva isn't afraid to make changes,and I think he was keen to have a go at Spurs,but they are a very good side. The game reminded me of the Martinez game against Chelsea with Costa a few years ago,when we shipped six goals and sometimes Silvas whole approach is more than a little Martinez. But not all the time. I think he is anxious to play the three centre backs, but cannot get them in the starters without weakening the team elsewhere. Mind you if Coleman continues his lack of form, I can see one of the centre backs(Zouma?) at right back. The fact is that Brands signings are all superior technical players and hopefully in the medium turn, they will gel and improve with a couple more signings. Problem is, that I don't know of supporters of any club who are prepared to give a manager time for a medium/long term project,and that's exactly what Everton is. I was pleased to see Theo have a decent(in the circumstances) game and get a goal. He has been playing with a niggling ankle injury for a while and its to his credit he has battled on.I hope Gomes is not going to go off the boil and become injury prone. Bernards touches do not always come off, but his work rate, going forward and defensively,puts many professional footballers of greater physique to shame,not only some Everton players.

 

[Saint Domingo]

We’ve got players on loan that top clubs don’t even want and we’re fawning over them as amazing players. It just shows the quality gap that exists. We need to get to the point where Gomes doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb because he’s the only midfielder we have who can play football, and where we don’t wish that Richarlison could play every position across the front line because the other options aren’t up to scratch. Only then will we have even a fighting chance to get over the curse of bad luck that is perennially on us. Whilst we still have the likes of Schneiderlin and Niasse making squads we won’t be achieveing anything.

 

[CRIMHEAD]

...I generally agree with Dave, although Silva’s tactical set-up against Spurs was so naive it gave me cause for concern, especially when he didn’t change things during the game.

Dave has a bee in his bonnet over Brands, but generally i’m happy with the newcomers and look forward to seeing new acquisitions. I do feel we have a playing strategy that is being supported by a transfer strategy.

Saying that, Silva will be under pressure if he’s not able to get a few wins in the near future.

Uh, he changed at least twice. After the first goal, he absolutely played Davies farther back - or at least intended to - it's just that Pickford and Zouma completely botched that play and gave up the goal, right after it should've been 2-0. After we got down, he pushed Davies and Gomes higher up the pitch, which left us exposed at the back. That being said, it's hard to tell if Davies and Gomes suddely were terrible at winning backs and getting in passing lanes, or that Tottenham adjusted and we couldn't cope.

But everything went down our right side at Coleman the whole time. Coleman was clearly not up for it, Davies / Gomes couldn't get back to help, Keane got beat a couple times covering for Coleman, and Zouma couldn't get goal side - the Kane goal was a perfect example. But to me, the issue was how easily they bypassed our central midfield and how often we gave it away while we had pushed up too many numbers.

 

[Wat Tyler]

I dont see what else he can have done in the wake of Koeman and Alardyce. It'll take this season and next summer to get three transfers windows done and an axe taken to the core of the first team squad.

He's not daft. He sees what we do. He'll know who can do what he requires by now and who cant. Then it's up to Brands to make the outgoings / incomings happen.

Anyway, I’ve had quite enough of them at the moment, Merry Christmas one and all.