Recent content by JohnHoyte

The bit about moving off the ball is funny. I’m 29 now, my first season ticket was when I was 11 and been going with my dad ever since. I always remember my dad going on about how static all the players were and they didn’t move. When I was younger I didn’t fully understand what it meant in...

I do think the thought leaders on this now need to put some time into thinking about how to improve engagement and widen appeal to the broader fanbase (as we’ve seen, far too many seem to find the idea of game-time protest objectionable - for reasons not fully clear to me as surely this is one...

Fully take your point here mate. Unfortunately I think it’s a risk we’ve been essentially forced to take and is a relatively small risk in the big picture of the future of the club. Sadly we don’t get the luxury of protesting when times are easy, and we have to take action BECAUSE things are so...

Everyone speaking very well on the Twitter Space. Things I think are important to add to the discussion: 1: fans may not all be in agreement towards the method or even intent of protest. The important thing will be to recognise we’re all Evertonians who want the best for the club and are trying...

To be honest though mate, regardless of what I think of various methods of protest, if you’re going to dismiss well-intentioned fan attempts to enact change and improvement, it would be worth you putting your own suggestions forward for criticism or piping down. Otherwise you’re just being an...

Hard agree with you here mate, I think reading some of the articles and listening to some of the content put out since yesterday these issues and the culprits are finally starting to become more widely acknowledged both in and outside of the club

I don’t want to see us go any months without a win, bit of a false dichotomy that we start winning games if we replace the manager. Getting rid of Benitez also leaves us with even more work to do to be able to bring any players at all in, seeing as we then have to further sell players to...

I don’t understand what’s so contentious about this. RB certainly needs to help himself with in-game management, team selections and occasional post-match remarks but removing the manager (at further considerable expense to the club) after a few months in post brings its own set of problems...

In the grander scheme of things though, across different managers I do wonder why every player who comes to the club seemingly gets worse, maybe with the exception of DCL. Other clubs seem to be able to get the most out of a lot of their players and we used to years ago. Now we sign players and...

The question on this thread is a good one and I think it’s time we (collectively) start to come up with some answers to it. It’s not something I’d ever really given much thought to, but I think I’m getting to the point where I’d join some organised form of protest over the state of affairs. The...

Agree with this and been saying so for last couple games. We don’t have an injury “crisis”, we have a couple of starters out temporarily which most clubs can expect to at some point in the season. Any crisis has been brought on by the fact that the club has allowed us to barely be able to name a...

I think the new stadium is more of a symbol to some people, some intangible hopeful future that releases us from the limitations of the old stadium. Think most are more realistic than that though, but my worry is that the senior club officials are so wrapped up in the stadium project they’re...

Feel like the injuries thing is a little misrepresented. Agree we’re unfortunate in missing the 3 players who are probably all most crucial to us actually playing football, but I don’t think we’re disproportionately affected by injuries - the actual issue is the squad depth. Chelsea recently...

Agree with this, and if they do sack Benitez in the near future when it’s obvious the problems at the club aren’t of his making, then it suggests they still don’t actually understand what the real causes of the problems at the club actually are

False dichotomy. We should have spent appropriate resources that returned at least some value, under someone who appreciated the need for investment while balancing responsible spending. I don’t think I’m alone in being genuinely worried about the financial state of the club and what it means...