Was it all that bad? Top 5 changes worth retaining from Roberto's years

[TheAlmightyFloater]

Great parts & quite frankly dreadful parts.

Thankful for the wheels he set in motion, even if he did unintentionally derail them again almost immediately.

 

[degsy]

Struggling to think of any positive other than the Christmas Thing.

Oh and him getting the boot

and Koeman coming in

Oviedo baby Vs The Mancs

There that's 4...now I am struggling

 

[macdog]

Not as bad as Walter IMHO

 

[Piijt]

The worst thing he did was to influence me to buy an expensive pair of shiny brown brogues. How smart we thought we looked at the time yet now they sit on the shoe rack mocking me and making me feel such a fool

 

[PITA]

I'll be honest. I really loved receiving this on my birthday. Thought it was his best work.

TBH, it made me wish I had been born on Feb 29.

 

[PITA]

1. Gareth Barry
2. Talking ourselves up rather than down
3. Deulofeu
4. Romelu Lukaku
5. Gareth Barry

Struggled for 5 to be fair.

Mate, you filled the list. Credit where credit is due.

 

[diggerdestroyer]

1/ best ever PL season

2/ reintroduced the quaint notion of passing the ball to team mates that the School of Science was noted for

3/ *got* the club and its history - as the late great Howard Kendall found out

4/ increased the value of the squad with astute signings and bringing through of talent already here

5/ oversaw the reorganisation of the playing side of the whole club from top to bottom in his time here

Cannot agree with *got the club. The club in the most part.. players, supporters,management and ideals. After 6 months he lost all of above. Only kenwright was blindly lead by a stubborn football fraud. ( nothing against him as a person , he comes across as really decent). He never fully understood Everton. Never. Preseason in his second season I knew he wouldn't last if he didn't up the tempo off the ball .Players jogging around with no intensity when opposition had ball, had never and will never be allowed at goodison. The everton supporters will never settle for that. We need some form of intensity and effort when working to retrive the ball. Its in our DNA. The following is not allowed on our turf.Standing off. Soft. No tackles. No intensity. When the atmosphere was turning last couple of years there only the stubborn football fraud failed to realise that the tide was turning fast and he need to change his tactics fast. He didn't because he didnt understand Everton.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Would've been a good manager if he actually adapted to the changing game, played to our strengths and didn't stick so stubbornly to his ridiculously outdated footballing philosophy


And he ruined the word phemomenal for every Everton fan on earth.

 

[JuanAMataU?Hey!]

The worst thing he did was to influence me to buy an expensive pair of shiny brown brogues. How smart we thought we looked at the time yet now they sit on the shoe rack mocking me and making me feel such a fool

Wait til you come home and catch them dancing to 'Bring me sunshine'.

 

[ilikecheese]

Cannot agree with *got the club. The club in the most part.. players, supporters,management and ideals. After 6 months he lost all of above. Only kenwright was blindly lead by a stubborn football fraud. ( nothing against him as a person , mahe comes across as really decent). He never fully understood Everton. Never. Preseason in his second season I knew he wouldn't last if he didn't up the tempo off the ball .Players jogging around with no intensity when opposition had ball, had never and will never be allowed at goodison. The everton supporters will never settle for that. We need some form of intensity and effort when working to retrive the ball. Its in our DNA. The following is not allowed on our turf.Standing off. Soft. No tackles. No intensity. When the atmosphere was turning last couple of years there only the stubborn football fraud failed to realise that the tide was turning fast and he need to change his tactics fast. He didn't because he didnt understand Everton.

1. Howard Kendall was welcomed back to the club by this man.

He was over the top positive and seduced me to be honest with it. I knew he was chatting wham at the end of the day, but it was still positive wham. Him welcoming Howard Kendall back to Everton was huge moment for the club IMO.

So to your last point...he got it.

He chatted positive wham which was refreshing for a while and at the end was fumed upon because the results didn't match the positivity.

He got Everton 100 times better than Moyes ever did, and that is one for the fact file.

 

[vintage-toffees]

Rightly or wrongly as results proved he put moyes spoon away that he used to take to the annual anfield gunfight got smashed by them still but hey he left his spoon at home

 

[diggerdestroyer]

1. Howard Kendall was welcomed back to the club by this man.

He was over the top positive and seduced me to be honest with it. I knew he was chatting wham at the end of the day, but it was still positive wham. Him welcoming Howard Kendall back to Everton was huge moment for the club IMO.

So to your last point...he got it.

He chatted positive wham which was refreshing for a while and at the end was fumed upon because the results didn't match the positivity.

He got Everton 100 times better than Moyes ever did, and that is one for the fact file.

Check urself in immediately. Get all vital signs checked and a quick scan. If all comes clear just stop drinking. You'll be ok

 

[davek]

Cannot agree with *got the club. The club in the most part.. players, supporters,management and ideals. After 6 months he lost all of above. Only kenwright was blindly lead by a stubborn football fraud. ( nothing against him as a person , he comes across as really decent). He never fully understood Everton. Never. Preseason in his second season I knew he wouldn't last if he didn't up the tempo off the ball .Players jogging around with no intensity when opposition had ball, had never and will never be allowed at goodison. The everton supporters will never settle for that. We need some form of intensity and effort when working to retrive the ball. Its in our DNA. The following is not allowed on our turf.Standing off. Soft. No tackles. No intensity. When the atmosphere was turning last couple of years there only the stubborn football fraud failed to realise that the tide was turning fast and he need to change his tactics fast. He didn't because he didnt understand Everton.

His time here can be sunned up pretty easily:

Sensational first season points wise and playing wise; second and third seasons the players decided to clock off - especially the clique that Koeman has inherited and needs to bury if he wants to stay here for any period of time.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

He did hand out some hidings to the mancs at goodison. He stood firm against Chelsea last summer and had me believing we were a top club again.

The 2nd half against the [Poor language removed] in his first season when we wiped the floor with them

haha watched that one in a room full of kopites and they were all bricking it, boss that
hopefully see more like that under ron

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

1 - Did more with the youth set up than Moyes did

2 - Had us playing some exciting attacking football at times

3 - Signed Lukaku

4 - Seemed to "get" Everton

5 - Got a win at Old Trafford for the first time in 2 decades

Overall, he was better than Mike Walker, Walter Smith and Kendall Mark 2 and 3, but that's about it

If he'd had more tactical flexibility and defensive nous, he would have been excellent

As it was, he had a great first season but was then sussed out and didn't have a adequate Plan B to combat that and get us over the hump

I wish him well with Belgium, I honestly do. It didn't work out here but he was trying his best. I certainly have no strong negative feelings about him as a person