bluebastardo
Player Valuation: £40m
Are we any good as a football team, and are we asking far too much of our team?
Moyes was a defender in his day. Nothing special as a player, and after Celtic, played for mediocre teams untill moving into management at Preston.
Steve Round was a full back and had a very short career with Derby before retiring through injury.
Jimmy Lumsden was a midfield player who apparantly played 'inside right'. He played half a dozen times in nearly a decade at Leeds before moving on to play for mediocre Scottish teaams most of us won't have heard of.
Is it any wonder that we play mediocre football when we have coaching staff that can't speak from personal experience?
None of our coaching staff, including Moyes, won bugger all as players, and none of them were strikers or attack minded.
How can we possibly expect to play good football, and get the right players in, in order to give us the possibility of playing good football, if the staff have no idea what good football is?
I'm deliberately being harsh here, as I don't see any reason to paint over problems and pretend all is well.
I strongly believe that to play good football, you need to have a very well balanced side, and Everton is anything but a well balanced side at the moment.
Does Moyes buy players with a definite strategy and plan of action, as it seems to me that there are many players in our team who are constantly playing out of position, or playing a role that doesn't suit their style of play.
We tend to play with 1 striker.
This can work fine if the midfield are capable of getting in amongst the opposition and feeding the ball through.
Unfortunately at the moment, we have a defense that think the direct route is the best way forward, and continually hoof the ball up to the lone striker, who is normally amongst 4 defenders, a goaly, and 2 defensive mids.
Other fans continually accuse us of playing hoof ball, and we can't really argue the point.
If Moyes thought hoof ball was wrong, then he would stamp it out. The fact that it is something that happens all too often shows that Moyes actually condones this style of play.
Howard kicks the ball up field 9/10, and we lose possession of the ball 9/10.
Neville floats the ball forward, and does this a lot.
Hibbert does the same, and so does Yobo and Baines.
This is a sign of desperate play and poor coaching.
We are desperate for a midfielder who can hold the ball up, and create a chain of play. Fellaini is probably our best keeper of the ball, but is out of favour for some reason.
Even if we had a creative midfielder, we would still need movement from the rest of the midfield to give the CM options. We are painfully slow on the attack, especially on the right, and very rarely do we catch teams on the break.
We have 2 players who throw the ball.
wtf is this all about? Play is held up while Neville or Baines run up to take the throw in.
This brings either player out of position, and allows the opposition to regroup instead of just throwing the ball and keeping momentum flowing.
Play Neville, or Rodwell, but don't play them both.
Decide who our best midfielders are and stick to it.
Play 2 strikers, so the midfield have someone to play the ball to and if we must play Cahill, then play him as a striker.
I don't think we will improve as a footballing team under our current coaching staff. I'm not talking about improving league positions, but improving the style of play.
We are light years behind other teams regarding flair, and it's no good being defensively sound (which we are not) if we are poor in attack.
Set pieces will not win trophies.
Even if we had money, I don't think we would play good football unless the players were left to their own devices.
The way forward in my opinion :
Replace Howard. He's really not as good as some think.
Replace Neville. Sorry, but not good enough.
Replace Osman. He is playing out of position.
Rotate Cahill with other strikers.
I would try this :
.........................Howard/new keeper........................
Hibbert..........Yobo....................Distin..............Baines
..............Heitinga..............................Rodwell..............
Pienaar..........................Fellaini............................Billy
....................................Striker........................................
Or
.................Heitinga...........................Fellaini
Pienaar...............................................................Billy
......................Cahill........................Striker........................
or
.............................Howard/new keeper.......................
Heitinga..........Yobo....................Distin..............Baines
..............Neville..............................Fellaini..............
Pienaar......................................................Billy
........................Cahill............Striker..........................
Then I would get another coach in that is attack minded.
Moyes was a defender in his day. Nothing special as a player, and after Celtic, played for mediocre teams untill moving into management at Preston.
Steve Round was a full back and had a very short career with Derby before retiring through injury.
Jimmy Lumsden was a midfield player who apparantly played 'inside right'. He played half a dozen times in nearly a decade at Leeds before moving on to play for mediocre Scottish teaams most of us won't have heard of.
Is it any wonder that we play mediocre football when we have coaching staff that can't speak from personal experience?
None of our coaching staff, including Moyes, won bugger all as players, and none of them were strikers or attack minded.
How can we possibly expect to play good football, and get the right players in, in order to give us the possibility of playing good football, if the staff have no idea what good football is?
I'm deliberately being harsh here, as I don't see any reason to paint over problems and pretend all is well.
I strongly believe that to play good football, you need to have a very well balanced side, and Everton is anything but a well balanced side at the moment.
Does Moyes buy players with a definite strategy and plan of action, as it seems to me that there are many players in our team who are constantly playing out of position, or playing a role that doesn't suit their style of play.
We tend to play with 1 striker.
This can work fine if the midfield are capable of getting in amongst the opposition and feeding the ball through.
Unfortunately at the moment, we have a defense that think the direct route is the best way forward, and continually hoof the ball up to the lone striker, who is normally amongst 4 defenders, a goaly, and 2 defensive mids.
Other fans continually accuse us of playing hoof ball, and we can't really argue the point.
If Moyes thought hoof ball was wrong, then he would stamp it out. The fact that it is something that happens all too often shows that Moyes actually condones this style of play.
Howard kicks the ball up field 9/10, and we lose possession of the ball 9/10.
Neville floats the ball forward, and does this a lot.
Hibbert does the same, and so does Yobo and Baines.
This is a sign of desperate play and poor coaching.
We are desperate for a midfielder who can hold the ball up, and create a chain of play. Fellaini is probably our best keeper of the ball, but is out of favour for some reason.
Even if we had a creative midfielder, we would still need movement from the rest of the midfield to give the CM options. We are painfully slow on the attack, especially on the right, and very rarely do we catch teams on the break.
We have 2 players who throw the ball.
wtf is this all about? Play is held up while Neville or Baines run up to take the throw in.
This brings either player out of position, and allows the opposition to regroup instead of just throwing the ball and keeping momentum flowing.
Play Neville, or Rodwell, but don't play them both.
Decide who our best midfielders are and stick to it.
Play 2 strikers, so the midfield have someone to play the ball to and if we must play Cahill, then play him as a striker.
I don't think we will improve as a footballing team under our current coaching staff. I'm not talking about improving league positions, but improving the style of play.
We are light years behind other teams regarding flair, and it's no good being defensively sound (which we are not) if we are poor in attack.
Set pieces will not win trophies.
Even if we had money, I don't think we would play good football unless the players were left to their own devices.
The way forward in my opinion :
Replace Howard. He's really not as good as some think.
Replace Neville. Sorry, but not good enough.
Replace Osman. He is playing out of position.
Rotate Cahill with other strikers.
I would try this :
.........................Howard/new keeper........................
Hibbert..........Yobo....................Distin..............Baines
..............Heitinga..............................Rodwell..............
Pienaar..........................Fellaini............................Billy
....................................Striker........................................
Or
.................Heitinga...........................Fellaini
Pienaar...............................................................Billy
......................Cahill........................Striker........................
or
.............................Howard/new keeper.......................
Heitinga..........Yobo....................Distin..............Baines
..............Neville..............................Fellaini..............
Pienaar......................................................Billy
........................Cahill............Striker..........................
Then I would get another coach in that is attack minded.
