Total Utter Freefall

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Cork Evertonian said:
We were crap as well back in the Walter Smith era.But back then we had people like Big Dunc and Richard Gough in the team.Now our main leaders, are fairly meek and overly polite guy's like Jags and Bainesy.
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Never thought id agree with a rebel being from the capital of Ireland but yes i remember those days vividly...listening to 5 live in a garage with my mates all of whom were either RS or Manure...at least they gave you something to go back in to school/work with...a sense of pride that they left it all out on the pitch...new age Ev are for all intents and purposes bonafide mercenaries...
 
CrustySack said:
We will be fine. We have a better squad than the team that finished 7th last season, albeit without Lukaku. A good manager will whip them into shape fairly quick.

Lessons must be learnt though. I hope there will be an inquest into how mistakes we're allowed to be made, especially in terms of recruitment.

Bringing in too many players at once, and failing to replace Lukaku and a center back was criminal.

The blame rests squarely at the feet of the board. They are the ones who recruited Koeman and Walsh; a tactically sub-standard manager and a glorified scout.
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Are you going to score the goals? We have zero in us. You are in denial mate.
 
kithnou said:
Are you going to score the goals? We have zero in us. You are in denial mate.
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It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings, or should that be until Fat Sam sings. I dunno.

The team will start scoring some goals when they get organised up and down the pitch. We've also got the lads coming back from injury and the transfer window.

Try not to judge this team until a good manager has a hold of them. Unsworth has failed spectacularly btw.
 
mikeh72 said:
Remember when we didn't need pace, we just needed to move the ball quickly? Great times.
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we need a very tactically astute manager to come in to fix this mate, not some fat chancer who plays ten men behind the hoofball tactic and plays for set pieces.

because yes we have three massive holes in this squad (4 possibly), lack of anything after Keane at cb, no left back in reality, no striker in reality and a lack of pace in attacking/at the back.

but what we do have is some players who a really good tactical manager could start to form a plan around.

Soon as Barkley was back i'd honestly go a midfield Diamond with this lot with Baningime, Davies/Gueye, Vlasic and Barkley in there, load of energy, none of them slow and all got something about them which makes it feel like losing actually bothers them.

Get the central midfield sorted and build from that. Play Sandro up front with Niasse, again both have pace, both have energy and at least Niasse causes a bit of chaos at times, and who knows one of those Sandro long range blasts may be a turning point this season.
 
Toffee in Jandals said:
They both had very poor quality squads when they went down, barely Championship-level quality. I won't buy into the "we"re too good to go down" myth though.... remember QPR spent tens of millions on utter dross a few years' back the season they were relegated.

We have better individual players than both Sunderland last season and Villa two years ago. Doesn't necessarily mean we have a better collective unit though.
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I have not read a post from anyone on here, or spoken to anyone in real life, whom has even peddled the “myth” that we are too good to go down in the first place.

And that’s because we ain’t :blush:

Everyone is concerned and rightly so.

Even the club.....hence the very real prospect of Big Sam coming in.
 
A team of individuals with no respect for the club except for the pay cheque. January is a far way away but who will come. Walsh is part of the problem not the solution as so called football director
 
Keep telling myself that we'll sort it out in the end. We have too much quality overall to get relegated. Still every time I see us play there is that nagging feeling that I'm just trying to ease my worries.

We've spend millions on assembling a seriously unbalanced squad. Too many player are over the hill, overrated or just not good enough. Not really comforting when you are faced with a relegation battle in the most unforgiving league in the world.

Yes, we're in a freefall and in all honesty we probably have been since halfway through the Moyes era.
 
NilSatisOptimum said:
20 odd competitive matches into this season and we still can't defend. What a [Poor language removed] mess!
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But when did we last grind out a draw away with our backs to the wall. And no, I don’t mean at City when we were winning. I mean a horrible goalless draw. We simply don’t know how to do it. Plenty of other teams can do it.
 
NCLBlue said:
Any free agent strikers lads?!
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I remember someone drawing up a list just after the last window shut.

The best contenders was some guy who had four cruciate ligament injuries in the past 4 years or Ricky Lambert who has since retired after getting no offers!
 
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