Match Thread Aston Villa vs Everton - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll...

[Nymzee]

Hopefully that's the last we'll see of DCL, I swear we'd be better off playing with nobody up front than him. There are championship teams who wouldn't have him even on a free and us paying his wages.

There’s not rating him and then there’s just being an idiot.

 

[BernieH]

I read a lot more than I post here, but feel the need to vent a bit this morning.

Coleman, Best days are a distant memory (Sorry)
Scheids, I imagine he has a very, very limp handshake (Wet lettuce)
Gomes, We bought identical twins... the ‘Baller’ twin had the night off (again)
DCL, is Marco being ironic by giving him the No.9 shirt?
Walcott, makes the impossible possible... but in a bad way

Big Dunc... Legend, but maybe not a legend in striker coaching after all?

I know it’s only 3 games in, but I can’t see us progressing with 4 of the above 5 being on the park. We have some talented players in the squad, but we have no depth, no team spirit and we can’t score!

I think we have the makings of a decent defence, but we are going to keep getting exposed when we’re chasing goals all the time, especially with the loss of Gueye.

We might as well just drop DCL and start Kean, I don’t care if he’s only 19, he was one of the few players who actually looked arsed last night.... let him learn on the pitch (I’m pretty confident he’s not another Sandro!)

You have no idea how good a coach Duncan is, he can teach them but if they don't have the tools for the job, he can't put it in the net for them.

 

[Tipp blue]

There’s not rating him and then there’s just being an idiot.

I stand by that comment, name any team in world football that wants a forward that can't score?

 

[Nymzee]

I stand by that comment, name any team in world football that wants a forward that can't score?

Name me a Championship team that would turn him down on a free.

 

[GwladysBlue]

As an aside to this, I absolutely hate Friday Night Football.

 

[kleew]

I'll give it to Iwobi. That could have easily been one all and we are 5 points from three games.

 

[sageyefc]

Wasn’t second half though was he. Decent centre half in the end. It’s okay to change your opinion sometimes.

The only good thing of note he did was boot his teammate in the head

 

[overkill]

Coleman, Gomes and DCL were the worst players for me.
Coleman's crossing is hard to watch, Gomes was a boss at giving the ball away and DCL was his usual self.

I actaully didnt really have an issue with Snides this game, he played his normal limited game, its Silva's fault for playing him in a midfield with such low energy.

Going forward Id like to see this 4-2-3-1 scrapped, it doesn't work.
4-4-2 might have legs with Keane and DCL up top, the midfield need to be very mobile though, something like Delph & Davies or Gbamin.

Honestly I don't really know, i think something needs to change though.

 

[LostLegend]

There was a moment near the end of the first half when Sigurdsson tried to either chip a ball over the top for someone to run on to or chip the keeper from near the half way line.

There was nobody anywhere near the box and the keeper collected it easily, the camera then zoomed to Sigurdsson and he had an expression on his face like he had no clue what was going on.

That moment was the entire game condensed into a few seconds...

 

[Deleted member 38674]

You have no idea how good a coach Duncan is, he can teach them but if they don't have the tools for the job, he can't put it in the net for them.

That is literally how you measure the quality of any teacher though.

Just as you judge all managers in Football based on results.

If the strikers aren’t scoring and improving then Dunc isn’t doing his job.

 

[TyphooToffee]

4 years of bottlers. What a stat

Wow, that's a worrying stat, even though those types of stats never say how many games it was. It's not like we've been behind in every game for the last four years. Some of the stats that are thrown up are laughable really. They make teams look better/worse than they actually are.

 

[BernieH]

That is literally how you measure the quality of any teacher though.

Just as you judge all managers in Football based on results.

If the strikers aren’t scoring and improving then Dunc isn’t doing his job.

Or maybe and quite a few would probably agree here...our strikers aren't that good?

I wouldn't judge any of my teachers because I couldn't be arsed in school, not their fault I left with hardly any quals, I didn'tput the effort in.

 

[TyphooToffee]

There was a moment near the end of the first half when Sigurdsson tried to either chip a ball over the top for someone to run on to or chip the keeper from near the half way line.

There was nobody anywhere near the box and the keeper collected it easily, the camera then zoomed to Sigurdsson and he had an expression on his face like he had no clue what was going on.

That moment was the entire game condensed into a few seconds...

Yes, I noticed that look too.

 

[Blueclouds]

Coleman, Gomes and DCL were the worst players for me.
Coleman's crossing is hard to watch, Gomes was a boss at giving the ball away and DCL was his usual self.

I actaully didnt really have an issue with Snides this game, he played his normal limited game, its Silva's fault for playing him in a midfield with such low energy.

Going forward Id like to see this 4-2-3-1 scrapped, it doesn't work.
4-4-2 might have legs with Keane and DCL up top, the midfield need to be very mobile though, something like Delph & Davies or Gbamin.

Honestly I don't really know, i think something needs to change though.

We need more energy in midfield for starters.

 

[f.t.r.s]

Standard Everton that performance as predicted.
Pen not given for a foul on richy who once again got no protection from the ref,
Dcl fluffing his lines when anyone else would of buried it,
Gomes woeful all game,
Iwobi hitting the post, sometimes they go in, but not for us,
Walcott showing what happens when you don't sign zaha or any other competent right winger...