Who Is Your Favourite Everton Manger From The Last 20 Years?

Your Favourite Everton Manager From The Past 20 Years?

  • Howard Kendall

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • Mike Walker

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Joe Royle

    Votes: 32 50.8%

  • Dave Watson

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Walter Smith

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • David Moyes

    Votes: 24 38.1%
  • Total voters
    63
  • Poll closed .
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Artetafan said:
Royle was in charge for parts of three seasons. We spent two of them stuck deep into the bottom half and finished both in the bottom 6.

In royle's only full season we finished 6th.

Like most things it depends how your phrase it. The truth is somewhere between the two.
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The two 15th places saw us win about 10 games each. Not a great time imo.

Moyes > Royle in the league
Royle > Moyes in the cups
 
Joe Royle is a blue, though. Moyes isn't.

I just can't like Moyes as a personality for some reason. Maybe the things he says - not that it matters.
 
Artetafan said:
He wasn't really though. We'd picked up a whopping 9 points in Royle's last 14 league games.

To be fair Moyes had a much worse second full season only he was giving time to turn it around and royle, despite his vastly superior first two seasons was forced out by johnson.
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Yeah you made the point I was going to, Moyes had a terrible second year, we only avoided relegation because of the crap below us. And I think Royle would have turned it around if he had stayed. It's all speculation though.

As a kid, Everton winning a trophy made my summer, so Royle will always be top dog for purely emotive reasons (which this poll obviously is). If Moyes won something, he'd probably jump ahead of him.
 
Azzurri said:
Joe Royle is a blue, though. Moyes isn't.
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Would a blue leave the club like he did?

I don't think so.

Kanchelskis left for Fiorentina in an £8m move, as the Blues moved from being European candidates to relegation contenders once again.

The final straw for Royle came when attempts to re-sign Barry Horne and acquire two Norwegian players were vetoed.

Royle resigned on March 27, 1997, with six games of the season to go and the Blues just four points above the drop zone.
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It took a true blue to come in and rescue us from a potential relegation. That was another last-minute escape vs Coventry. If Kendall wasn't around, we might have got relegated.


If we were manager of Everton we'd also get mightily pished off at how the board was blocking our ambitions...but we'd never abandon it at such a crucial stage of the season. Or would you?
 
Joe Royle gave me my best vivid memories as an everton fan at a time when money was not the be all and end all in football. It still saddens me the way he left the club only a few months after Martin O'Neil said he thought we would win the league that season. We have had to wait until now to see an everton team with 2 proper wingers that approach the caliber of Kanchelskis and Limpar....and we even have a Nigerian lump up front
 
dholliday said:
Would a blue leave the club like he did?





It took a true blue to come in and rescue us from a potential relegation. That was another last-minute escape vs Coventry. If Kendall wasn't around, we might have got relegated.
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But it was Dave Watson who took charge after Royle, and the Kendall season was the worst season of football I have ever seen from an Everton side. I love Kendall, but he was completely out of touch with the game
 
People picking a manager who's won sweet FA over a cup winning manager. The fact AF even got to argue the point is sad!

Wake up you bad geoff's
 
Cork Evertonian said:
It was sad the way the 96/97 season ended up.From what i remember we got off to a good start but we then went on a bad run after christmas.Kanchelskis leaving was the end for Joe Royle and didn't Hinchcliffe get injured as well that season?
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I remember before that season started, my optimistic teenage self was predicting we'd be up there challenging for the league and up to Xmas we were 4th and looking really good. Then Hinchcliffe and Parkinson got injured and that shafted us basically. Really sad that that team got broken up so quickly, as we had the nucleus of a really good team.
 
mawders said:
Joe Royle gave me my best vivid memories as an everton fan at a time when money was not the be all and end all in football. It still saddens me the way he left the club only a few months after Martin O'Neil said he thought we would win the league that season. We have had to wait until now to see an everton team with 2 proper wingers that approach the caliber of Kanchelskis and Limpar....and we even have a Nigerian lump up front
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This.

And big Joe was such a lovely fella too. A bit like Bobby Robson. You kind of wanted to give him a hug.
 
Joe Royle made me proud to be Blue, even just his interviews. The man was so proud to manage our great club, and it showed.

With Moyes....it looks like he is doing us a favour by managing us, and WE should be lucky.

And that drains me.
 
Pabbers said:
Joe Royle made me proud to be Blue, even just his interviews. The man was so proud to manage our great club, and it showed.

With Moyes....it looks like he is doing us a favour by managing us, and WE should be lucky.

And that drains me.
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I may never have agreed with any post ever more than this.

*disclaimer - apart from James BT's superb efforts.
 
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