Recent content by Black Belt Jones

Ranieri perhaps? Talk about a late career renaissance. Moyes defo in a tailspin immediately after the Utd job (although history has been kind-ish to him there). Looked at sea at Sunderland, horrible stint there. Impressive to pull himself back together tbh as most CBA at that age.

Felli announced his retirement earlier this month. Dyche should give him a call - he would still create chances for DLC and Beto, while scoring more than the pair of them put together.

Ferguson, Wenger, Moyes - the Big Three. No one has won more prem games. Moyes in a separate category for that reason. Used to think Martinez was the biggest fraud to ever stand in the Goodison dug-out - but that opinion has mellowed substantially given the absolute clown show that followed...

Where was the communist manifesto written Drico?

Tricky comparison - Lee compares very unfavourably to the era that went before, Moyes compares extremely favourably to his preceding era, but both normalised being quite good and winning nowt. I'd give it to Moyes as he took over when we were in the absolute cellar and a total state on and off...

In all seriousness they shouldn't be getting out of a jog in training, by and large - it should be completely de-loaded. Then on Saturday they need to play with furious, infernal intensity. You can't be training like animals these days, recipe for a crocked team. Looks like we're halfway there...

Yeah Wimbledon won't be topped for the actual crux game. Bigger picture though that was less of an escape as Big Joe brings that team right back up no question. Wasn't even that bad a side. 97 and today feel like we clambered up out of the grave. Team and club just in a horrible place.

Wouldn't be surprised if it's our worst performance in the football league / premiership combined, just on the numbers. 33 pts with one game left to play, 38 games and 3pts for a win? I mean that stinks to an unprecedented level.

Wimbledon was a heart attack game but Walker was a big anomaly - wasn't really the board's fault. Decent appointment that no one questioned at the time because he was a very promising manager. Just our bad luck that the guy who managed Norwich was murdered by his evil twin who took his place and...

Harvey is the obvious turning point, and he was a really poor manager (sorry Colin) - but it was more like a regression to the mean. HK worked miracles in spite of the board, not because they enabled him in any way. The timing of it was brutal, though - in quiet times you could wear a manager...

You can't compartmentalise fitness in that way - as if it's a separate consideration, or there is any such thing as a good injury prone player. There isn't - it's like saying a player is great, worth 60 million, but he's really slow, or he has a terrible touch. No one would say that. It's a...

No such thing as a good injury prone player, sad to say. Doesn't feel right to say, as DCL is clearly good when not injured. But lacking resilience to train and play is like lacking touch, or being slow - it's just a fundamental flaw. Would love to see him come back strong but the odds are...

How did he do his toe do you recall - was it in a game? That seems to have been the start of it. Broken toe was the original source of Dunc's injury saga, according to the man himself. Incurred during a punch-up in a Dundee alehouse, rather than a football match, but the principle is the same -...

40 years ago perhaps - could have endured relegation because you come back up as the same club, to the same place. So you can afford to be philosophical about playing Rotherham and Swansea. I think what people are credibly saying is that relegation is an existential threat to the club as of...

Moyes gasping on 60 a day by the look of that pic. IDK he keeps us up so there's that. But can't imagine anyone would want him back past the short term.