Am I right in thinking you're more passionate about cricket than footie?
Based on the impression that inept England cricket performances seem to provoke your ire more than inept Everton performances.
You clearly have a good understanding of both games.
Cheers, I think. I try to do the match day comms where I can. I've never used the following phrase before, I'll cite it here...
"I'm getting RSI from typing 'Thiago is in again here' "
I also called the brentford game the worst by far of Moyes 12 months back with us.
Where this becomes muddied is, Moyes hasn't wheeled his captain out to explain away a 36 hour bender that began on the beach and rumbled into nearby nightclubs where other players were ejected for being to drunk. This would be after repeated stuffings and an awful lot of lies told about how perfect everything is and how confident they all are.
If they'd shown a bit of contrition, if they'd acknowledged the problems in the field, if they'd learned on day one that kamikaze swing at any and every delivery wasn't going to cut it. But they didn't. I actually admire the double, triple and quadruple down on the mistakes being made and to hell with the consequences. 12 months ago it was "the players aren't responding", "I've taken the club as far as I can". That was Dyche. I'd never heard it before. 12 months on he's been put in the shade by the england cricket set up. Gobsmacking.
Just for the record, I was heavy and truthful with my critique on Sunday of the McNeil AM role and the mess it made in the brentford game (it wasn't just him, but he was the positional fulcrum that they exploited). If he goes stubborn tonight, Moyes will get more than 'lettuce armed, weak wristed wofter' out of me.
Anyway, I played a bit of cricket in my distant youth, and would have liked to pursue it a bit further (could bowl (6'5"), bat a bit less and was handy in the field) but other things happened and that was that.
The Nasser and Athers podcast is excellent, even if MA is a bit slippery and noncommittal, because they both know the game well enough and can offer insight and honest opinion of what they care about. Even the aussies are onside with them and want them back for their analysis and honesty.
TLDR - when someone treats me like a twit* chances are I'll react negatively, at least when I realise. come up short, hold your hands up and be truthful about the how and where it went wrong. It shows reflection, learning and respect. I'm an old dog now, I'm not going to wear someone wasting my time.
The england boyos, the higher ups, and the media go along with it as it was all on fire has annoyed me. It's been a shame to waste what could have been a good series through
repeated pigheadedness. This frustration has earned my contempt.
[I even used 'wofters' in the matchday thread, and got a surprising reaction where I thought it'd be seen as funny. I was well wrong
).
