Unsworth should have been kept in charge

[AdaBrummieblue]

Was the season a complete write off when the BFS came in? I think we were still in the FA cup?

Tbf we were, I was kinda thinking the league season, we were bottom 3ish and all my hope had died.

 

[MarkK1988]

the week where we lost 5-1 and 4-1 to southampton and atalanta is why unsworth wasnt ready

its not been much better but at the time we didnt know the teams around us wouldnt have improved

allardyce was the person we needed at the time but we need to be making sure he isnt anywhere near this team next season, youd hope moshiri, kenwright and walsh will be looking at their next manager already now (rowett please)

 

[andy4efc]

I don't believe we would be worse off with Koeman still in charge to be honest.

 

[mikey 62]

..more importantly, it appeared the players weren’t buying into his approach.

I believe this is one of the main points- " the players " , apart from total confusion at board level which is another story

I am not saying we need to stick with Sam he certainly is not the manager I want long term but TBH I believe Unsy had lost it

IMO there are too many players either not performing or showing a total lack of commitment , its as though there is discord within the squad demotivating any player who wants to perform , two players who have taken a lot of stick are Cuco and Niasse but to their credit have shown the type of commitment you would expect from an Everton player , the main concern is we have young talented players who will be negatively affected and want out

the team played as a unit against West Ham game when Unsy was on his way out coincidently that was just after Unsy had criticised the teams commitment and dropped Mirallas / Schneider after a training bust up , under Sam the players notched up 5 positive results , funny thing when Sam announced no Christmas party things then went downhill ?

 

[Berenger]

Southampton remains the lowest point of the season so far by a country mile. Genuinely thought we were going down.

 

[Raino85]

Alot has to be said about getting someone in who "knows" or "gets" the club.

I watched AC Milan last night, you could sort of put similarities to the troubles they have had this season as the same troubles as ours.

When they ditched there manager they got Gatusso in, he had an unsuccesful spell at Palermo and just got Pisa relegated from serie B to serie C.

He didnt start great as he came in either, he had a lot of players, some without confidence, some not good enough, some needed time bedding in.
Last night they defended like warriors against Roma, i think that was there 5th clean sheet in a row, he has didtched Kalinic and Silva and gone with Cutrone up front.
He has had the clubs best interest at heart and wnated players who would of played for the shirt.
Unsworth was building htat i felt, no one else has had the balls to ditch off Schneiderfraud and Mirallas.

Think Unsworth got sold a bum deal by the fans and knee jerkers personally, maybe if the club had been a bit more confident in what his position at the club was instead of it being on a week by week basis, that could of helped

 

[Papa Shango]

I don't believe we would be worse off with Koeman still in charge to be honest.

Probably not.

It's funny really, no matter who we have had in charge, the performances, the style of play, the moaning or the happiness of having a certain manager, we tend to end up in roughly the same place regardless.

 

[Papa Shango]

so we have improved the woodwork and iffy pens have saved sam !

The woodwork has been our best player this season.

 

[TheFinnFan]

He was a caretaker then though so wouldn’t he be a risk 10 games to go? We’re not safe yet.

We are safe. We dont have to worry about relegation but we do need to worry about Sam. We need to concentrate in forcing him out. Remember the bigger Picture.

 

[PickeringBlue]

Holy rose tinted goggles batman! We were a quickly sinking ship under Unsy. I truly believe that if he'd have been given the job till the end of the season we'd be at least 6 points worse off. Will Sam has not been great, most of the players just didn't seem arsed under Unsworth.

 

[Thomasc]

I don't believe we would be worse off with Koeman still in charge to be honest.

Me neither.

He got off to a bad start in his second season at Southampton too.

Don’t think we would be far off where we are now if we had stuck with him.

 

[Nymzee]

Would have been interesting to see how Unsworth did after the West Ham game if he got a couple more.

 

[peteblue]

the week where we lost 5-1 and 4-1 to southampton and atalanta is why unsworth wasnt ready
its not been much better but at the time we didnt know the teams around us wouldnt have improved
allardyce was the person we needed at the time but we need to be making sure he isnt anywhere near this team next season, youd hope moshiri, kenwright and walsh will be looking at their next manager already now (rowett please)

Please god no........

 

[Kenshin]

Before i put my point across here, let me state I am aware of how dismal some of the performances with Rhino in charge where. However, were they any worse than what we are currently witnessing? I think not.

What allardyce and his team have done is rubber stamp the disillusionment amongst the fan base which Koeman had begun. Whilst performances under Unsworth were generally poor, there was a bit more of the backs to the wall attitude which generated a little fight throughout the club (Watford home for example).

Now let's consider the games Allardyce has won whilst in charge.
Huddersfield (h)
Swansea (h)
Newcastle (a)
Leicester (h)
Palace (h)

I honestly believe that we would have won all those games had Unsworth remained in charge and ended up floating round mid table as we are now. Huddersfield and Swansea were woeful at the time and required only two crap ish performances from Ourselves to beat them. Newcastle we were lucky but still it was two poor teams. Leicester and Palace we were helped massively by circumstances and both Zaha and Mahrez missing. Granted, Allardyce has picked up odd points here and there through his park the bus approach, but again, maybe we would have beaten WBA on one occasion which would compensate for another draw/loss elsewhere.

Essentially, the board panicked after Southampton and were panicked into making rotten managerial and coaching appointments which is ultimately going to do nothing other than create a further divide between the fans and the club and then cost the club another small fortune to pay them all off if (likely when) they are removed. If the board had given Unsy the games against Huddersfield and Swansea, won the, both and them come out and stated he is the Mann for the rest of the season as anyone else we may want isn't currently available, I think most Evertonians would have accepted that as a stop gap.

As fans who go week in week out we should expect better and demand better from 'professionals' who are in charge of the club.

Mate we conceded 2 goals every game.

If unsworth was in charge we would be where west Brom are now.

 

[Kenshin]

I don't believe we would be worse off with Koeman still in charge to be honest.

To be honest based on the performances I think koeman would have put us round about where we are now season wise. Because he did have an attacking plan, it was crap but he did have one. Not sure you can look at the fixtures and honestly say allardyce has been an improvement over him.

Still not good enough but how were we to know what would follow after sacking him