wabisabi
Player Valuation: £1.5m
I've been away from this forum for a few moons and returning today see it reflecting perfectly Everton's trouble in the dressing room and decline on the pitch. I'm not condoning any forum nastiness but clearly some worm is turning.
Pienaar is as good as gone and clearly there are several significant others hoping to follow in his footsteps.
I for one am really hoping Moyes isn't one amongst them.
Certainly his limitations have been highlighted of late.. and to be fair there is nothing here that hasn't been seen or known before. Stating the obvious but the main difference is our now total ineptitude in front of goal. Over recent seasons we have somehow managed to contrive goals from those unlikely forward partnerships of Fellini / Cahill etc. We were never going to get away with that for long and Moyes has failed to remedy this major failing. Most worryingly it now appears to be eating away at the fabric and cohesion of the team.
Nevertheless something in me still believes he can bring things around and especially so if he allows these undeniable shortcomings to bite deep and hurt him and step up to the challenge they present. My main concern being his own thirst for the fight. He appears unusually laid back and kind of resigned in recent interviews. The fire in the eyes has dimmed.
It's understandable if you think what the prospects are; abject funding, uncertainty, and all the associated boardroom/dressing room battles to pull and hold together a team decent enough to compete. Meanwhile intense media scrutiny, on field competition and the incessant threat of head turning overtures whenever one of our players steps beyond the mediocre.
I just can't think of anyone else with a suitably magic wand who could come in and do any better given our pretty dire situation.
So I say.. let the slip slide. Open the wound. Sell (if the stories are to be believed) Pienaar, Vic, Yobo, Johnny H, Yak and Saha. Act, move now, get deals in place for action in the Jan window. Send the message that the team IS bigger than any one player and that you have a plan to bring the team through this.
Yeah Christmas is coming but don't expect a saviour from over the pond, Huyton or anywhere else..
Pienaar is as good as gone and clearly there are several significant others hoping to follow in his footsteps.
I for one am really hoping Moyes isn't one amongst them.
Certainly his limitations have been highlighted of late.. and to be fair there is nothing here that hasn't been seen or known before. Stating the obvious but the main difference is our now total ineptitude in front of goal. Over recent seasons we have somehow managed to contrive goals from those unlikely forward partnerships of Fellini / Cahill etc. We were never going to get away with that for long and Moyes has failed to remedy this major failing. Most worryingly it now appears to be eating away at the fabric and cohesion of the team.
Nevertheless something in me still believes he can bring things around and especially so if he allows these undeniable shortcomings to bite deep and hurt him and step up to the challenge they present. My main concern being his own thirst for the fight. He appears unusually laid back and kind of resigned in recent interviews. The fire in the eyes has dimmed.
It's understandable if you think what the prospects are; abject funding, uncertainty, and all the associated boardroom/dressing room battles to pull and hold together a team decent enough to compete. Meanwhile intense media scrutiny, on field competition and the incessant threat of head turning overtures whenever one of our players steps beyond the mediocre.
I just can't think of anyone else with a suitably magic wand who could come in and do any better given our pretty dire situation.
So I say.. let the slip slide. Open the wound. Sell (if the stories are to be believed) Pienaar, Vic, Yobo, Johnny H, Yak and Saha. Act, move now, get deals in place for action in the Jan window. Send the message that the team IS bigger than any one player and that you have a plan to bring the team through this.
Yeah Christmas is coming but don't expect a saviour from over the pond, Huyton or anywhere else..
