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

[Bedfordblue]

I was asking for Simms before the game, got a sarcastic remark and now everyone is in my camp, this is getting all too familiar.

Fairly sure if the manger thought Simms would influence the game more than Maupey from the start, he would have started him.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Even with that - we're crossing okay for the most part but we have no presence in the box, because he's chosen to play Maupay, almost as if he himself doesn't know he's Sean Dyche and needs a big man up front. We have a big man of equally questionable, but unproven, quality on the bench in Simms too, which makes it even weirder.

He's not - he's a decent no nonsense manager but that's where it stops really. If he manages to survive he should get a year to actually stabilise us (as, even if you bizarrely disagree, changing managers ever 3 months is just not sustainable) and finish midtable, or do better, then he can go.

No manager whatsoever was getting a tune out of those and if you suggest Union's manager or something again you should honestly just ban yourself.

Also nice cop out from the actual fact that you bunkered yourself away when you were instantly wrong

I was enjoying the victory. It didn't change the fact that I don't believe in Dyche and that wasn't worth talking about for a few days.

I'll give him a year if he shows he can set up an attack with consistent chance creation and real patterns of play. I'm not getting behind any manager who can't do that.

And no firing managers isn't sustainable but as with Frank last spring it also isn't sustainable to have a manager who isn't good enough.

 

[daza_1973]

We needed a Kevin Campbell in January.
Bill and the board thought different.
We are now circling the plug hole.
Thanks for the good times Bill

 

[when i score we riot]

I love how Simms somehow is a deus ex machina, the ideal striker that never plays. Yet we play him against the RS and he stinks completely, and he's a big tactical liability

 

[DualityNSNO]

I was enjoying the victory. It didn't change the fact that I don't believe in Dyche and that wasn't worth talking about for a few days.

I'll give him a year if he shows he can set up an attack with consistent chance creation and real patterns of play. I'm not getting behind any manager who can't do that.

And no firing managers isn't sustainable but as with Frank last spring it also isn't sustainable to have a manager who isn't good enough.

So you're saying we created absolutely nothing today and had no ideas?

 

[ForeverEverton]

Zero; but it does not take away from the fact we played well.

We just needed to take one of those opportunities in the first half.

Still cannot understand the penalty as it looked like he clearly got a nick on the ball.

Perhaps when we kick off our Championship campaign we can reflect on all our hard luck stories from this season.....

The truth is we lost, we are in the zone with the next 6 all tough tough games which I wouldn`t expect anything from, we will be the first club cut adrift. No goals in this side.... It`s done, we can all see where it goes from here.

 

[DualityNSNO]

I love how Simms somehow is a deus ex machina, the ideal striker that never plays. Yet we play him against the RS and he stinks completely, and he's a big tactical liability

So you think he'd be worse at getting his head to a floated ball in the box than Maupay, a human being who's 5ft 10 with his hands up?
OK mate.

 

[banno]

Exactly the reason we won't stay up. Incredibly unlikely we win another 5 games 1-0 from set pieces.

On a positive note....we actually stand more chance with Dyche than FL. We have given ourselves a chance, we are creating more, we look better BUT still no strikers

 

[lungo]

I was asking for Simms before the game, got a sarcastic remark and now everyone is in my camp, this is getting all too familiar.

What has Simms done ,apart from not being named Maupay, to be your Messias? Nothing is the obvious answer.

 

[sdk]

We needed a Kevin Campbell in January.

He's in his fifties but it's probably worth a try.

 

[Cels]

Disappointing result, especially as we played quite well. Dwight McNeil was MotM for me.

 

[DualityNSNO]

On a positive note....we actually stand more chance with Dyche than FL. We have given ourselves a chance, we are creating more, we look better BUT still no strikers

Ah if only this was a known problem from the start of the season... lol

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

On a positive note....we actually stand more chance with Dyche than FL. We have given ourselves a chance, we are creating more, we look better BUT still no strikers

Sean's been given a bum deal and no mistake. If we go down as I expect us to, I'd back him to bring us back up at the first time of asking, but only if we punt the wasters running the club and back him to do his job.

 

[captainvindaloo]

The board failed in recruiting the most vital player every team needs.
You can moan about goal keepers, defenses, wingers and midfields, but in the end, it's all about scoring 'kin goals, and we can't, because these idiots failed to recruit someone who can.

 

[banno]

Well that was miserable

Have to be winning games like that

Utterly toothless up top

You just noticed