Who's To Blame

[alan ball]

I felt that Jermaine Beckford was not a poular figure amongst Evertonians but i personally did like him. When Everton signed him on a free from Leeds, Moyes and his coaching staff obviously realised that Becks was not by any way a finnished article and would need working on. So my point is, Why have we not got a striker coach to help the likes of Beckford, Vellios , Anichebe and the upcoming Hope from the reserves to reach a standard that is required.
I wish Jermaine well with the Foxes and maybe one day we will be rueing the day we sold him

 

[Hibbert&Ernie]

Because any coach would be expected to bring his boots on a saturday and get on for the final 20 minutes. Maybe.

 

[MoreCows]

I wonder if he would have been sold if the Arteta deal had gone through earlier. The banks would have been happy already.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

the best goalscorers shouldn't need coaching, they work on e.s.p.

 

[Jolietjake]

Considering he was a free, I think we got good money for him and I wish him the best. My opinion is that Beckford wasn't clinical enough in relation to the amount of chances he had. You could argue that at least he got into those goalscoring positions but I think you've got to be more ruthless because Man utd and the likes won't give you many chances. I would've liked to have seen beckford given a second season though

 

[alan ball]

Beckford's goalscoring wasn't consistent but when he scored they were excellent, Bolton and Chelsea spring to mind. He was not a premiership player when we signed him he needed the coaching which is the point i'm trying to make. Having 30,000 + fans on your back will not help anyone will it?

the best goalscorers shouldn't need coaching, they work on e.s.p.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Without reading your post im going to say Anichebe is to blame.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Beckford's goalscoring wasn't consistent but when he scored they were excellent, Bolton and Chelsea spring to mind. He was not a premiership player when we signed him he needed the coaching which is the point i'm trying to make. Having 30,000 + fans on your back will not help anyone will it?

I wish we'd kept him mate, he showed far more in 1 season than victor has.

 

[MoreCows]

oh well he's gone

 

[billycopper]

Moyes- centreback
Round- fullback
Lumsden- midfielder
Holden- defender
Stubbs- centreback
Irvine- winger
Sheedy- midfielder

Over 50% of coaches at the club are defenders and not a single former forward. If we were going to get an ex-player to coach the side, like Ferdinand does for Spurs then Dunc is the obvious choice. Peter Beardsley would also be an excellent candidate, but I imagine he's settled at Newcastle.

 

[TheFinnFan]

ill say lets blame him

 

[RFUS]

I didn't realise we don't have a single former striker coaching. That's ridiculous.

To be honest when have we ever had a striker play well here for any length of time? Our defence is almost always solid, our midfield is almost always solid and for most of Moyes' tenure our goalkeeping has been solid. But strikers, well, Yakubu had one great season and that was it.

We've had loads of strikers here over the years and none of them have been sustained successes in the royal blue. I don't believe it's a coincidence to be honest. Moyes doesn't know how to handle forwards and I think it might be good to have someone on the coaching staff with that bit of invaluable expertise and first hand experience.

 

[billycopper]

Moyse has already lined up his next coach...Davey Weir! ffs

There are lots of striker coaches around: Ferdinand, Beardsley, Rush, Hartson, Bergkamp etc. It's definitely an oversight that we haven't got a specialist for the forwards to turn to or even someone remotely close. Jimmy Lumsden is 63 now and the peak of his career was playing 4 games for Leeds in the sixties. And Irvine's career slowed down in the mid 80's. So that leaves Sheedy.

United have McLair and Solskjaer in their backroom. City have Platt and Lombardo. Even if it was a part-time position, it would make sense for Vellios, Anichebe, Baxter, Silva and Hope to have someone to learn from, especially seeing as our only senior striker (Saha) is more often than not injured and away from the training ground.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

I thought Becks was good at what he was, a free who scores a decent amount in his first season, he was a gamble who paid off both in returns on the pitch and in a finance sense.

I would have liked him to stay, he was our most effective striker at the club, better and fitter than Saha and Anichebe.

 

[Hibbert&Ernie]

I didn't realise we don't have a single former striker coaching. That's ridiculous.

To be honest when have we ever had a striker play well here for any length of time? Our defence is almost always solid, our midfield is almost always solid and for most of Moyes' tenure our goalkeeping has been solid. But strikers, well, Yakubu had one great season and that was it.

We've had loads of strikers here over the years and none of them have been sustained successes in the royal blue. I don't believe it's a coincidence to be honest. Moyes doesn't know how to handle forwards and I think it might be good to have someone on the coaching staff with that bit of invaluable expertise and first hand experience.

Being fair to Johnson, had there not been a smear campaign taken too so readily by so called impartial referees, he could have had 10 penalties easy that season, on top of his goals. So...