Yes or No: post WBA result should Martinez be sacked?

post WBA result: should Martinez be sacked?

  • Yes

    Votes: 238 37.4%

  • No

    Votes: 399 62.6%
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Jxg said:
As for Lukaku, I'm not sure why Martinez signed him. He's a huge talent and I'm glad we have him, don't get me wrong, but he seems to be the exact opposite of the kind of striker that would work in Martinez's style. There's a reason Barcelona have Messi and not a 6'3 target man. We need to use him correctly.
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I honestly think it's easy to see Lukaku as a target man but cause of his size, but that's not what he is. He is a goal scorer and we all know he delivers his best stuff when running onto the ball in space. Bit like describing Ibrahimovic as a target man cause he's big.
 
Walken said:
plenty of people after that game crowing about how he was proved right, what nonsense, he got very very lucky with it, and it was a real shocker of a selection, even moyes wouldn't have done that
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Needs must in certain situation. He did it and it paid off, whether he got lucky or not. I seem to remember Moyes playing a very young Seamus Coleman at left back against Benfica in the EL. Wasn't it his debut? Sometimes your hands are tied.

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radiostar said:
No ffs.

Have a bit of faith in the man who did so well last season. He's proved he can get results at the business end of the season.
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What he actually proved was the team has no bottle as soon as we become favorites for 4th or as soon as it's in sight and in our own hands.
 
Walken said:
plenty of people after that game crowing about how he was proved right, what nonsense, he got very very lucky with it, and it was a real shocker of a selection, even moyes wouldn't have done that
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The hallmark of moyes 10 years with us was playing players out of position
 
Seanjd said:
Needs must in certain situation. He did it and it paid off, whether he got lucky or not. I seem to remember Moyes playing a very young Seamus Coleman at right back against Benfica in the EL. Wasn't it his debut? Sometimes your hands are tied.
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Played left back didnt he
 
Khalekan said:
It reminds me a bit of the latter days of Colin Harvey's reign.
Everyone wanted Colin to succeed so badly that we all urged each other to give him a bit more time in the hope he would turn it round.....even though we could see no betterment. Colin was and remains a well loved figure at Goodison. Bobby has endeared himself to the vast majority of us in the short time he has been here and I think that us why so many of us are reluctant to call for his head.

If he is forced out in the near future, I for one will remember him fondly for re-kindling the dream, if only for one glittering autumn and winter in 2013/14 season.

And I am sure he will get a warm welcome any time he returns to the Old Lady.
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No mate, most of us are reluctant about that because we're 12th in the table and in no realistic danger of ending up as one of the bottom 5, never mind relegated 3.

#MassHysteria.
 

Seanjd said:
Needs must in certain situation. He did it and it paid off, whether he got lucky or not. I seem to remember Moyes playing a very young Seamus Coleman at left back against Benfica in the EL. Wasn't it his debut? Sometimes your hands are tied.

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it didn't pay off though, we didn't win the game because hibbert played left back, we won in spite of it, we looked shocking down that side defensively and going forward, it was an unbelievably poor decision, and one he didn't have to make with Garbutt having good games after that, his hands weren't tied, that's what makes it such a poor decision, I had doubts about martinez before that game, but that one was the selection that really put the question marks over him for me, hopefully he learns
 
Jxg said:
As for Lukaku, I'm not sure why Martinez signed him. He's a huge talent and I'm glad we have him, don't get me wrong, but he seems to be the exact opposite of the kind of striker that would work in Martinez's style. There's a reason Barcelona have Messi and not a 6'3 target man. We need to use him correctly.
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I dont know, I think he can do a lot of different types of attacking for us. We just dont have the right player who can play off Lukaku. Kendall was right in the Echo last night when he wrote...

We all fully expected West Brom to play the way they did at Goodison on Monday night. It came as no surprise at all and they left Merseyside with the point Tony Pulis would’ve wanted before the game.
You can work on ways to break down a side like that all you want - as the Blues did in the build-up - but if you haven’t got that type of player that can open teams up and create the holes for the runners then you are going to struggle. It is so much easier for defenders to cope with sides like that whereas the top sides can rip through the middle.
At the minute, I don’t think Everton have the type of players to do that.
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We have a lot of players (Naismith, Barkley, Osman, Mirallas) who have been played there but we're just adapting them to a role that only a specialist can do. It makes no sense to me spending almost £30M on a player if you dont get the right player around him who can develop his game in and around the box. We all know how devastating he can be with acres of space in front of him, but he's one dimensional if we dont solve the above conundrum.
 

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