Homepage Article David Unsworth To Leave

[Ghost Rider]

Happy he is going.

The indication of the job he was doing was this season in a nutshell. In an injury crisis you need to be able to call up players from the under 23s to plug holes. The fact we never had any to do that created part of the problem.

I look forward to the reserves having a philosophy going forward with the new man. That will make a huge difference , knowing we can call upon a reserve player and they know how to play for the first team, giving them a chance go stake a claim.

 

[allen]

Jumped, or pushed?

Would not be surprised if its hte latter and out of respect they've let him put his spin on it.

If he ends up in a management role in the next couple of weeks, he might be able to dress it up as a choice.

But I suspect this is the club allowing him to save face - and that's entirely fair enough as far as I'm concerned.

 

[moyeslovechild]

He will be replaced by a mercenary who is out within a couple years.... I just don't trust the management of our club.

 

[HeltSkelt]

Good luck to him. U-23s is basically the reserves though. It's the U18s where the potential talent is.

Our U23s are very young in comparison to most sides in PL2

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I think perhaps the biggest positive about Unsworth was also the biggest negative

He treated the u23 League like it mattered and went all out to win it

I think he maybe thought it would help give the lads a winning mentality (whilst also allowing him to look good in the process) but he lost sight of what his main task was, which was getting lads ready for the first team

It's not like you're going to have a street parade over winning the u23 Premier League either is it? Especially with a fan base that hates young players as much as ours does

 

[blue1948]

He hasn't produced the next Messi, this has apparently angered some of our fans and because he was an ex player, it seen as a job for the boys. Both are bizarre

I can see you support him and that is fine by me .Do you honestly think we have had enough come through ? Do you think he has quit for the reason stated with 2 months of the season left ? A great Evertonian yes but from two league winning sides who has progressed to the first team or is that not his job ?
Remember the motto - Nil satis nisi optimum - I know the rest of the club is finding it hard to live up to that .Has he left under his own steam if not the clear out might be what we need .

 

[blue1948]

I think perhaps the biggest positive about Unsworth was also the biggest negative

He treated the u23 League like it mattered and went all out to win it

I think he maybe thought it would help give the lads a winning mentality (whilst also allowing him to look good in the process) but he lost sight of what his main task was, which was getting lads ready for the first team

It's not like you're going to have a street parade over winning the u23 Premier League either is it? Especially with a fan base that hates young players as much as ours does

How does the fan base hate young players ? Bad young players yes but not all .

 

[Dancing Pat]

Thanks Dave, good luck.

DBB has obviously shown you the ‘back door’.

 

[blue1948]

….if there’s a lack of players coming through, I doubt it’s down to what happens after they get their first professional contracts. When was the last time we got to the final or latter stages of the FA Youth Cup (U18 level)? I think it was probably Rooney’s team that lost to Villa.

That Villa team had a number of future top flight players, as did the West Ham team that beat us some time earlier. We won it with the likes of Osman, Hibbert, Cadamarteri etc. I even watched Jimmy Husband & John Hurst winning it in 1965.

The point I’m making is the FA Youth Cup has always been a strong indicator of talent, the fact we haven’t had a decent run suggests we have more of a recruitment than coaching issue. Even then, recruitment is so much more difficult because the talent pool is so much smaller. Kids don’t play from dawn till dusk like we did in the 60s and 70s.

The strategy of bringing in promising youngsters is reaping some reward; Stones, DCL, Holgate, Lookman, Nkounkou. Indeed, it was Unsworth who went to the Board and suggested they find monies to buy DCL.

Root and branch change might make a difference. if Unsworth is the start of that then fair enough but I very much doubt his departure alone will make much difference.

I too played morning til night in the entry so I know what you are saying but to me it seems very simple ,we have a new DoF and he has come from the States where everything is numbers and graphs ,bearing that in mind the production line has failed and it may just be that he has acted now instead of doing what we normally do and subscribe to the old boys club .
Defending him with the DCL signing is a bit stretching the facts ,Walsh discovered Vardy but came here and signed a lot of rubbish .
Any way I wish him well and there he goes .

 

[Lanolin]

Happy he is going.

The indication of the job he was doing was this season in a nutshell. In an injury crisis you need to be able to call up players from the under 23s to plug holes. The fact we never had any to do that created part of the problem.

I look forward to the reserves having a philosophy going forward with the new man. That will make a huge difference , knowing we can call upon a reserve player and they know how to play for the first team, giving them a chance go stake a claim.

We have though? Dobbin, onyango, branthwaite and simms have come in at times to plug holes. Welch and price have had run outs too. How many are we realistically expecting?

Again, I’m not defending unsworth how because I think he’s great, just because some of the criticisms are unfair and some (like this one) are simply untrue.

 

[Steve EFC]

He hasn't produced the next Messi, this has apparently angered some of our fans and because he was an ex player, it seen as a job for the boys. Both are bizarre

It’s a shame to see the negative comments that big Dunc and Unsy seem to get from sections of the fan base.
- I don’t have an opinion on their current job performance because I don’t work at finch farm. I wonder how many are actually qualified to comment.

 

[Steve EFC]

The lack of youth progression into first team is possibly down to the poor scouting at the club as much as anything else.

 

[SirBarryHorrrrrne]

Did he do such a bad job?

Our academy comes across well here. Skewed trend towards creating League One level pros - which was probably his downfall - but I wouldn't say Unsworth was a total disaster based on that?!

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[SJB]

He seemed to have a very good approach to coaching/mentoring young players, keeping them grounded and humble. Hope he goes on to prove himself and have a good career as a manager. In an age where fans get excited over a manager who "gets the club" it'd be nice to have a former player who ticks that box already, but goes away and earns a crack at the Everton managers job on merit and not association.

 

[grandjoeblue]

How does the fan base hate young players ? Bad young players yes but not all .

Unless you get very lucky the young players are likely to be average or bad when they first break through. Will take a lot of players a year or two to get used to the league.