Stoke v Everton. 4th March at 19.45.

Just who can save us now?

  • Martinez

    Votes: 30 10.2%
  • No one

    Votes: 47 16.0%
  • Darron Gibson

    Votes: 66 22.5%
  • Garbutt singing a contract

    Votes: 28 9.6%
  • Warsaw

    Votes: 63 21.5%
  • Sniderman

    Votes: 59 20.1%

  • Total voters
    293
  • Poll closed .
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We haven't scored yet. FFS, get it forward.

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Wingers or no wingers. Or is it whingers or no whingers. Can't make my mind up.

Jimmy Husband.

"The team were in the process of changing to 4-3-3 and neither Ernie Hunt and Alex Scott were suited to that system - wingers were virtually becoming a thing of the past. So right away you have lost your inside forward position and I moved to right side of the pitch. So Joe, Johnny Morrissey and myself formed the attack. You would have to class Johnny as a winger but I could wander anywhere I wanted. My position was to help Joe out more than help Tommy Wright but defensively I used to retreat to the right hand side – perhaps I was a bit like an attacking Trevor Steven.

Howard Kendall tended to play to the right side, Bally in centre-mid and Colin Harvey in left-mid but it was interchangeable. Colin was great short ball player with wonderful first-time touch whilst Howard was a great long player of the ball with good vision - he didn’t have that much pace but didn’t need it. Like all great teams it’s not the 11 best players, it’s the balance of the 11 – as England proved in the World Cup.

Myself, I had pace and okay ball control – my left foot was adequate but I was mostly right footed. I was never any good in the air but I had really good acceleration which frightened defenders because if I ran at them they knew that nine times out of ten I would get past them. Full backs disliked marking me as I was one of the few forwards to drift across the pitch - I’d wander off past Joe towards the left wing and the defender never knew whether to follow me or pass me on to a colleague. Howard knew this and if the full-back went with me he would drift into space on the right flank ready to receive a ball from Tommy and put in a good cross for Joe to get on the end of - this was just something the two of us worked out together in training.

- See more at: http://toffeeweb.com/season/12-13/comment/editorial/24608.html#sthash.kVWfcazk.dpuf.

Pass and move was the mantra of the great Everton team that won the league in 69-70. With Howie the brains on the pitch.
 
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