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Match Thread Everton v Brighton & Hove Albion - Preview, Match Report & MotM Poll

Everton Man of the Match

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Mr PEN86 said:
Last bit from me. If Frank gets the sack him and Gerrard need to start from Non-League football and work their way up. All these job for the boys in top roles without proper experience

? Can't a man clutch at least...
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I was born in 1959. Never known a lower division, was holding back the tears when Wimbledon went ahead in that game but am not clutching at anything.
We are getting what Moshiri and Usmanov truly deserve. I despise the PL and it's International bent owners. I despise VAR and the international TV product. I despise players 'expressing' emotion to camera and their rehearsed goal celebrations. I despise their pathetic screaming to win a foul. I despise the game in truth but was born an Evertonian when the game was real. That is my dilemma.
 

No real system.
No real Game-plan.
No real approach.
No Idea.

Just 'Up the Creek Without A Paddle...

( Who's got the pesticides cos our club really is rotting to the core )
 
AirMo said:
And this is why we end up with “experience” like Maupay, McNeil etc and not finding cheap gems who need development like Brighton do, as I say, the fans don’t tolerate the young players needing to learn or their mistakes.
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Not what we needed. Brighton can get away with it, they are Brighton. They brought about 2 thousand fans and have a stadium which holds like 20k. We are Everton, we are not Brighton.
 
Rob17896 said:
I was born in 1959. Never known a lower division, was holding back the tears when Wimbledon went ahead in that game but am not clutching at anything.
We are getting what Moshiri and Usmanov truly deserve. I despise the PL and it's International bent owners. I despise VAR and the international TV product. I despise players 'expressing' emotion to camera and their rehearsed goal celebrations. I despise their pathetic screaming to win a foul. I despise the game in truth but was born an Evertonian when the game was real. That is my dilemma.
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Amen.
Utterly with you and I'm twenty years your junior.
 

CrimsonToffee said:
I don't know if it really matters who the manager is at this point. I've not been in the Lampard out camp so far, but it's less about thinking he's a great manager (he's not) and more about admitting that it would take a herculean effort to turn this squad of players into a good team. So unless we're actually going to get a world-class manager, what's the point of changing yet again, just for the sake of change?

Of course, if you lose at home to Brighton 4-1, I don't see how there's a way back from that, whoever's fault it was ultimately.

Even if we pulled a world-class manager out of a hat, it doesn't really change anything in the long-run, though, does it? I mean, we had Carlo, who by any criteria is undoubtedly world-class, and even with a slightly better team than this (at least offensively we had Richy, James, Digne, etc.), he still only got them to mid-table.

By all means, let's just keep spinning the manager wheel, though. Maybe we'll at least stay up a bit longer. But if something isn't done at higher levels in the club than the manager and done sooner than later, then none of this is doing anything but postponing the inevitable.
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People keep saying this - "previous managers had a better team because we had Richy, James and Digne. We also had Keane, Tosun, Walcott, Delph, Jonjoe, Cuco, Sandro, and many more wasters draining the clubs finances. Davies, Gomes and Holgate were regular starters. We had Gbamin and Bolasie permanently injured. People were calling for Matty Pennington and Brendan Galloway to be picked it was that bad.

The thing is, we've had (and still have) loads of players who were good in other teams: Gomes was at Barca; Allan was a favourite at Napoli; Pep rated Delph; Siggy had the most assists in the prem over several seasons; Schneiderlin was great for Southampton and looked good for Nice after leaving us. Antonee Robinson looks class for Fulham.

We're not spinning a wheel. There should be (sorry, should have been!) a careful process of looking at managers who know what they're doing. Don't tell me a good manager doesn't make a difference when Brentford, Brighton and Fulham are in the top half of the table. There's just no proper thought goes into who we appoint. It's the nearest, easiest, first-comes-to-mind names time after time. There are managers who get the best out of players. FFS let's appoint one.
 
Ian said:
People keep saying this - "previous managers had a better team because we had Richy, James and Digne. We also had Keane, Tosun, Walcott, Delph, Jonjoe, Cuco, Sandro, and many more wasters draining the clubs finances. Davies, Gomes and Holgate were regular starters. We had Gbamin and Bolasie permanently injured. People were calling for Matty Pennington and Brendan Galloway to be picked it was that bad.

The thing is, we've had (and still have) loads of players who were good in other teams: Gomes was at Barca; Allan was a favourite at Napoli; Pep rated Delph; Siggy had the most assists in the prem over several seasons; Schneiderlin was great for Southampton and looked good for Nice after leaving us. Antonee Robinson looks class for Fulham.

We're not spinning a wheel. There should be (sorry, should have been!) a careful process of looking at managers who know what they're doing. Don't tell me a good manager doesn't make a difference when Brentford, Brighton and Fulham are in the top half of the table. There's just no proper thought goes into who we appoint. It's the nearest, easiest, first-comes-to-mind names time after time. There are managers who get the best out of players. FFS let's appoint one.
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Brighton had Potter, who was giving time to mould a team with technical players, the recruiting team are picking up gems in every market, this new manager is a continuation of this philosophy.

Our philosophy was pick a big name manager, spend stupid money on players, sack that manager, get a new manager, new philosophy, same crap players, spend more money trying to fix the problem....rince and repeat... Total overhaul needed from the board down. Get rid of this old pals act.

Kenwright
DBB
Sharp
Prentice
Snodin
Ferguson
Stuart
Baines
Ebbrell
Unsworth

Christ we rewarded everybody for mediocrity. I don't think any other club has done things like this. Now I don't mean all the above mentioned haven't served us well in some capacity, but it's no way to run a club like Everton.
 
Tonight was the first time I’ve walked out mid match at a football game and I’ve been supporting Everton for over 40 years. To crumble in such a way, it was heartless, cowardly and disrespectful to all the greats who have played for this majestic club. I couldn’t take any more at 4-0.
 
At 0-4 I said to the bloke behind me “if it goes to 6 it might not be a bad thing”. He looked at me as though to say I’ll have a pint of what you’re on.
An even more embarrassing result could be a watershed moment. Getting annihilated would have cranked up the pressure on the Board.
I think I’m either clutching at straws or have gone mad.
Thoroughly depressing night at GP.
 

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