I don't get the big drama about his send off to be honest. We lost 3-1 at home to a newly promoted side to make it over 2 months since we last won a game, people didn't want to hang around and applaud all the players, no big deal. He's had plenty of love from the fans including during his final game, and there's probably a 75% chance he's still here next year as a coach anyway.
On the social media stuff, you just have to remember what the point of having social media channels is. They're just trying to pump out content and get engagement - they're not deliberately celebrating mediocrity or whatever, it's just that there's only mediocrity to celebrate. If we'd won some games recently they'd be posting a load of 'how good was this on sunday' stuff but we haven't so they have to find other stuff to post, and seeing as we've only won one trophy in 40 years many of those posts are going to be about fairly innocuous stuff.
Agreed, being blown out of all proportion. We all love Seamus. My take on him is that he was a fantastic player in his prime, followed by being a very useful player for a few years. But he hasn't really factored as a player on the pitch for the last few seasons. His last meaningful contribution really was the goal against Leeds. But you can't put a black and white tariff on that like some would like to....."it kept us up!".....well, that doesn't account for some of the other games where he struggled. And struggled badly.
All the off pitch stuff he contributed the last two years. Well, only the club really knows how invaluable that really was. My take again would be grow a pair, if they guy that sets the standards around the place can't really offer anything on the pitch anymore then someone else needs to step up and fill that gap. People being good around the training ground is one thing, but actually being a top level performer on the pitch is what this club desperately needs.
In an ideal world, he would have come on on Sunday, rolled back the years with a classic Coleman burst down the right, and drilled in the winner. But Seamus is a big boy, and he has been at Everton long enough to now that the world isn't always ideal. And the above scenario was NEVER going to happen. Same as sticking Big Nev in goal now would be a disaster.......players get to a point where its totally gone. It was badly handled by
Moyes, as isolating the game people were fairly aghast that a well past it right back was being thrown on to rescue a game with 5 minutes to go. But everyone around me parked that at the specific moment and gave him a rapturous welcome. The after game thing was a damp squib, but if its the worst thing that happens to Seamus this year he will have had a very decent year
