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2019/20 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

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Mate I snigger a bit when I see this thread I stood on the terraces the GV was my idol - along came a young lad called Joe Royle - as an a young boy the backlash he got replacing the GV was horrendous {No internet forums then }
Just stick & abuse from older fans on the terraces -comparing them to the GV , and Joe was struggling in his early days, then when the goals came where I stood I let them have it all in good fun why because Joe was a different player to the GV just like DCL is a different payer to Lukaku, Joe went on to be a legend for the blues... lets hope DCL can keep it up ;)
I seen the GV in my first ever everton game when I was 7.
The hush around the ground when he got the ball still lives with me
 

Glad he's scoring. Seems he needed a new coach. I was wrong, which happens in life from time to time.

Hope the same that are championing being patient with DCL extend the same patience to a younger Moise Kean....
Is right Gary. I once rated Anichebe over Lukaku so it happens.
And 3 years prior to this of being absolutely toilet.

Chortle.
You’re really hurting over Dom coming good aren’t you pet?
 

What about if he’s, you know, improved?

What if it's a purple patch?

That happens too.

Hopefully all the weirdos writing off Kean have learned a valuable lesson from DCL’s improvement that footballers generally aren’t the finished article at 19.

DCL is largely the exception, not the rule.

Assuming he goes on to become the finished article and this isn't a purple patch, most top level strikers are accomplished regulars before the age of 22.
 
My dad used to talk about the GV, best he'd ever seen in a blue shirt he reckoned (and he'd seen Dean, Lawton etc).

To all those desperate to proved right and see DCL fail (though they all say they're 'happy' to be proved wrong), I ask what do you want to get from supporting this great club of ours? I have come to the conclusion that some just enjoy the frustration and being proved right when a player fails or makes a mistake, as that is more likely than the opposite, so in their head they 'win'.

If you follow certain posters, they rarely praise anyone associated with the club, moreover they actively look for opportunities to find fault after an event and hark back to some moment when we took a wrong turn (the sacking of Martinez springs to mind). They have convinced themselves that running Everton is not that difficult and that the answers are staring everyone in the face if they weren't so stupid not to realise it. Bramley Moore will never get off the ground, but if it does they will be happy of course, but in the meantime you to are just a naive bunch of mugs, falling for it yet again.

I have concluded that this is their passion, not supporting and encouraging in the vain hope that tings will improve, better to knock and carp so they can scream 'I told you so' at the top of their voices.
 
Assuming he goes on to become the finished article and this isn't a purple patch, most top level strikers are accomplished regulars before the age of 22.

i think in this modern era where points are so valuable and teams performance means so much money wise, and we are seeing less young players given minutes, that the established at 18/19 isn't really the norm anymore

21/22 seems to be the new 18/19 in that respect
 
i think in this modern era where points are so valuable and teams performance means so much money wise, and we are seeing less young players given minutes, that the established at 18/19 isn't really the norm anymore

Is this the case? I'm not so sure. The average age of starting line ups in the Premier League has remained fairly constant for 30 years, around about the 25-26 mark.

In fact, in the last 10 years we've seen records broken for youngest appearance, youngest goalscorer, youngest starting line up, I'm not sure that's the case that younger players aren't being given chances.

If anything, I'd say more younger players are being given chances than they were 20 years ago, and the demands and expectations placed on them has increased if anything.

It's not unusual for players to 'peak late' by the way, plenty do. Drogba wasn't regularly scoring high numbers until 22/23, Vardy was a notorious late bloomer, there are plenty of examples so it's not a pop at Dom. I'm just saying the goal for him has to be consistency. He must keep scoring, he's in a great position to finish in the high teens or even 20+. He's then got to follow that up again next season.

Plenty of English strikers have gone through purple patches, runs of games where they are great and score a glut of goals, we've unfortunately been blessed with many of them here. Start great and then fade away ala Michael Bridges, Francis Jeffers, Darren Bent, Andy Carroll, Andy Johnson, Charlie Austin, Callum Wilson, James Beattie etc
 

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