Squad Numbers

feedtheyak09 · July 11, 2017

gibbo, was still there for 2 weeks after morgan. i blame him for morgan getting no 2. should have been retired after hibbo

toffeejack · July 11, 2017

feedtheyak09 said:
gibbo, was still there for 2 weeks after morgan. i blame him for morgan getting no 2. should have been retired after hibbo

ah, that answers my question ha, couldn't for the life of me remember who had no. 4. He's such a forgettable player, did a quiz on all of everton's premier league players. Kept forgetting him, every time i tried ha

Scolari · July 11, 2017

blueblue said:
The numbers for the younger players do not matter, more importantly , which ones are being taken on the trip to Tanzania ?

Hopefully all the England u20s lads are involved (including Walsh who I think had to pull out).

TheCount · July 11, 2017

rochdaleblue said:
Young Tom is still finding his feet (albeit very well) in the Premier League. He is not a full back and would be exposed if he was. Let him to continue to develop in his favoured position.

I sort of agree, but, I'd rather see him get minutes at full back than sit in the bench. Also think he could handle it

billyblue80 · July 11, 2017

Well well well Niasse with a number

cromofo · July 11, 2017

Niasse gonna be on fire this season, mark my words.

kev · July 11, 2017

WOW
I hope you're not outing yourself as KKK there :eek:

Charles Hawtrey · July 12, 2017

Didn't Lennon cover RB for a while a couple of season's ago? Would be ok with a back 3 and wingbacks perhaps...

GBH73 · July 12, 2017

Happy with these numbers apart from Morgs still with #2. Would much prefer him to move to #4 and Keane to get #14.

Not as mad as Kone wearing #2 at Wigan and playing up front though.

PVD_Blue · July 12, 2017

Charles Hawtrey said:
Didn't Lennon cover RB for a while a couple of season's ago? Would be ok with a back 3 and wingbacks perhaps...

It's happened, Besic too iirc. I see what you're getting at but honestly can't see that ahead of some rotation of Kenny/Holgate/Martina (if he signs). Relatively new to the sport but is having both a wingback on one side and more of a deeper fullback on the other a thing?
Little off topic but curious given the current options.

LABlue2 · July 12, 2017

PVD_Blue said:
It's happened, Besic too iirc. I see what you're getting at but honestly can't see that ahead of some rotation of Kenny/Holgate/Martina (if he signs). Relatively new to the sport but is having both a wingback on one side and more of a deeper fullback on the other a thing?
Little off topic but curious given the current options.

It's somewhat common because quality attacking fullbacks are rare (tough to get 2) and when one goes forward, you tend to want the other to hang back and defend unless you accommodate for having two... like we did with Coleman/Baines under Martinez with Barry and McCarthy playing so that they could cover the gaps.

All depends on the players available though rather than an absolute standard of one attacking and one defending... Pulis won't let either past the halfway line

cardno4 · July 12, 2017

Naisy'sCharitableLeanings said:
Yeah, but only for FC Lodashyte of the Crimean Premier League or similar!

But still useful then.. we've paid for that lad, he's scored against premier league teams, he can do it against random European teams I'm sure.

dave abrahams · July 12, 2017

BlueToff said:
Well, he's had 15 minutes game time for our first team.

Ideally, he gets a run out in pre-season and then in the Europa League qualifiers as well.

He played against Norwich at the end of 2015-16 season and then a few minutes versus Swanseas away last season, but I think he deserved to play right back as soon as Seamus broke his leg, but that is down to Koeman, IMO and I think many other fans he is good enough to play now, he has turned twenty, he's not a kid anymore.