Glasshalffull
Player Valuation: £10m
Well, bravely risking hammer from a 360° of viewpoints, I've got to say that everyone is right:-
EVERTON FAN - We've endured years and years of rubbish, and we've paid good money to watch this garbage. All this time we've seen fortunes paid for manifestly poor players, who are so bad that they can't even get selected for this poor and injury-ravaged team. On top of that, there are a host of high earners who are permanently injured, and the players who do make it onto the pitch wet themselves every time the ball comes near them, and make endless poor decisions, with a fair number of tragi-comic ones. The cherry on the cake is that a lot of them come off after yet another defeat without their shirts looking particularly wet. Is it any wonder that I have a short fuse when I see the same poor team selection, the same mistakes made, and the same apparent lack of effort?
EVERTON PLAYER - I didn't buy myself for this club, fail to replace myself when I'm clearly too old/not good enough, and I don't select myself for the team (not that there's anyone much better being left out for me ). I do my level best, even if I'm actually not up to this standard any more/ever. The endless tactical, managerial, and team composition changes mean that I've lost all track of whether I should be going forward , back, inside, or outside, so sometimes I just stand still, or set off a second or two late, which makes me look slow and /or not bothered. My confidence is low because of results, and if I make a couple of errors with forward passes, the fans give me so much grief that I make a few back and sideways ones for safety, which gets me even more fan abuse.
I know very well that we're not good enough to concede needless goals, so I start off the game already twitchy. When I get a dog's abuse from the fans after my first nervous defensive error, I start second and third guessing myself, which just results in me making more mistakes in a vicious circle of error and abuse. I really hope i get dropped for the next game.
I think both of those viewpoints are simultaneously valid, sorry. (I'm also sorry if there are a load of typo errors in here, but I'm having a migraine, and can't see the screen properly).
EVERTON FAN - We've endured years and years of rubbish, and we've paid good money to watch this garbage. All this time we've seen fortunes paid for manifestly poor players, who are so bad that they can't even get selected for this poor and injury-ravaged team. On top of that, there are a host of high earners who are permanently injured, and the players who do make it onto the pitch wet themselves every time the ball comes near them, and make endless poor decisions, with a fair number of tragi-comic ones. The cherry on the cake is that a lot of them come off after yet another defeat without their shirts looking particularly wet. Is it any wonder that I have a short fuse when I see the same poor team selection, the same mistakes made, and the same apparent lack of effort?
EVERTON PLAYER - I didn't buy myself for this club, fail to replace myself when I'm clearly too old/not good enough, and I don't select myself for the team (not that there's anyone much better being left out for me ). I do my level best, even if I'm actually not up to this standard any more/ever. The endless tactical, managerial, and team composition changes mean that I've lost all track of whether I should be going forward , back, inside, or outside, so sometimes I just stand still, or set off a second or two late, which makes me look slow and /or not bothered. My confidence is low because of results, and if I make a couple of errors with forward passes, the fans give me so much grief that I make a few back and sideways ones for safety, which gets me even more fan abuse.
I know very well that we're not good enough to concede needless goals, so I start off the game already twitchy. When I get a dog's abuse from the fans after my first nervous defensive error, I start second and third guessing myself, which just results in me making more mistakes in a vicious circle of error and abuse. I really hope i get dropped for the next game.
I think both of those viewpoints are simultaneously valid, sorry. (I'm also sorry if there are a load of typo errors in here, but I'm having a migraine, and can't see the screen properly).
