Think Brad Pitt sums us up perfectly

[acst]

If anything we are the titanic, we have an idiot in control who doesnt realise if he doesnt slow down he is going to destroy this club.

 

[Azzurri]

If anything we are the titanic, we have an idiot in control who doesnt realise if he doesnt slow down he is going to destroy this club.

Hey!

Captain Smith was a nice guy, and a scouser.

And his beard made him look like Captain Bird's Eye.

I love Bird's Eye Fish Fingers.

 

[ToffeeMark]

I well I follow the Blackhawks and they are the Ice Hockey equivalent of Everton for me. Passionate Fans, let down in the past...

A somber note was struck in February 2004, when ESPN named the Blackhawks the worst franchise in professional sports. READ IT HERE Good news is they turned it around and won the Stanley Cup, Revivals do happen.

Come on Everton FFS

 

[bluejock]

BRAD PITT IN FFS

 

[Royal]

I well I follow the Blackhawks and they are the Ice Hockey equivalent of Everton for me. Passionate Fans, let down in the past...

A somber note was struck in February 2004, when ESPN named the Blackhawks the worst franchise in professional sports. READ IT HERE Good news is they turned it around and won the Stanley Cup, Revivals do happen.

Come on Everton FFS

Luckily for the blackhawks, they can't get relegated to the AHL if they're consistently bad for long enough.

 

[Walken]

Everton personified is Hibbo.

*fits noose around neck*

 

[Rook]

We need to do what the A's did in the 90s. Find cheap promising players, juice them up with horse steroids and then get rid of them before all their tendons and ligaments explode. I want to see Baines bench a VW Golf by next year.

 

[TheFinnFan]

enjoyed that trailer must see movie

 

[wm02]

Timely thread. I just read Simon Kuper's Soccer Men (Christmas present) and one of the best interviews is with Billy Beane. The question of who is most similar to the Oakland A's in the Premier League is posed and Beane suggests "Everton". Kuper responds by saying something like "No, actually in terms of squad costs, it's more like Wigan." I think this is fair given that, over the past fifteen years, the A's payroll has been in the bottom 25% fairly consistently. While I do think Beane recognized inefficiencies in the market and played them to his advantage, it is easy to look like a genius when you have three aces (Mulder, Zito, Hudson) in your starting rotation and don't require many runs to win games. That and the whole PED thing with Giambi and Tejada. That being said, I think the existence of an actual philosophy to club management is key. In his case, it involved drafting college players who have a longer track record and utilizing a different set of statistics to find undervalued talent. What is our philosophy? Right now, I don't think we have one. By comparison, part of Newcastle's success (besides the obvious sale of a 35m pound hump) is recognizing that creative, technically skilled players from France are undervalued. They have put together a very nice midfield rather inexpensively. By the way, the film is excellent.