Everton v Spurs. 24th May at 15.00.

[Brad McEachern]

I certainly didn't vote "No Everton" that's for sure. Win or lose, no matter if they live up or down to their expectations i'm always proud them and there always a treat to watch every week. That goes for the Toffees and any other team I follow.

Maybe it's because i'm a positive and loyal person by nature, maybe it's because I don't take sports as seriously as other and that win or lose, 5th or 12th, the world isn't going to come to an end if the club don't finish where we want them to finish but following Everton isn't some sort of curse for me. I take a lot of joy and pride following this club.

It was a tough game to watch, that’s for sure. If wasn’t even a classic Everton match from 2014-15 where we dictated possession and nothing came out of it, while the other team caught a lucky break and cashed in. They didn’t even have much of the possession. All in the process, Everton played extremely lethargic and let Spurs play keep-a-way with the ball for the majority of the match and the chances Everton had were blown and Kevin Mirallas has some blame in that.

This was an end of season game with nothing to play for and Everton treated it as such. Not really a great way to end the season, playing like that on your home pitch in front of the loyal supporters who deserved a better performance from their home team today given how you team has faired in the PL.

I also have to say is farewell to Sylvain Distin. For six years, the Frenchman had given us nothing but reliability in the back four for six seasons and was a classy player in the process. I don’t know where he will end up, but wherever that may be I wish him nothing but the best.

With that ends the 2014-15 season and I doubt many will be rushing to buy the highlight DVD of this season. It was a season filled with blown games against [Poor language removed] opponents (including two matches where a club now relegated; Hull City, embarrassed Everton at Goodison and at the KC), missed opportunities, a retched home record and barely registering a pulse in the two domestic cups ties.

It wasn’t all gloom and doom; there was at least 2% of positivity I can take from this season.

-The performance of John Stones
-Lukaku, despite being a polarizing figure with some Evertonians scored 20 goals in all competitions
-The comeback at Upton Park
-Jags goal in the Merseyside
-Playing out best football of the year in the Europa League, where despite all signs telling me I shouldn’t feel like this due to the last 20 years but I really thought given how we were playing that we were going to win it all and I feel guilty thinking like that, because you have to have hope as a supporter. You have to believe beyond logic sometimes that your team can pull it off because sometimes hope, faith and belief is all you have as a supporter.

It was a season to forget for sure, but despite the pessimism shared by some Evertonians, I really don’t think this team is bad as their record tell us. There’s a lot of talent on this team and I just think it was a lost season. Just like that one season where we qualified for the CL and had a rough PL season. I feel with a buy or two, a rearrangement of the squad and with no European commitment unfortunately, that Everton will be able to compete at a high level like they did in 2013-14 and I trust the gaffer that he will learn from his mistakes and make the necessary adjustments needed to make that happen.

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

Everton you utter mingebags.

 

[ijjysmith]

In all honesty how bad were we today?

I've been out playing with dolphins and stuff today so missed everything.

Sounds bad.

I really don't see why we will be any better next season either.

Oh and, INABIT DISTIN YOU TERRIBLE BACK PASS AT THE WORST POSSIBLE MOMENT GET.

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

In all honesty how bad were we today?

I've been out playing with dolphins and stuff today so missed everything.

Sounds bad.

I really don't see why we will be any better next season either.

Oh and, INABIT DISTIN YOU TERRIBLE BACK PASS AT THE WORST POSSIBLE MOMENT GET.

We were pretty bad in an away at the beach sort of a way you'd expect from the last game when nothing really matters. Spurs were up for it though.
Jags might have got in the way a bit better for their goal but all game there was too much last ditch defending and emergency blocks to call any of what we did at the back proper defending.
The only real excitement came from Galloway who made a few surging runs and when Bobby made a switch later on. He took off Ross (who was woeful) and replaced him with Besic (yes, 3DMs, how attackminded..) bizarrely though we did pass it forward a lot more after that.
Distin came on at the end for 10mins of mostly standing around in the Spurs area while we tried to hit him with crosses but we couldn't.

all a bit meh.. really. Can't see why some are losing their rag over it, not our worst showing of the season but by no means good. Typical last day of term really, even Atsu got on the bench as a special treat for him before he gives up pretending to be a footballer and gets a job at flipping burgers somewhere.

 

[ijjysmith]

We were pretty bad in an away at the beach sort of a way you'd expect from the last game when nothing really matters. Spurs were up for it though.
Jags might have got in the way a bit better for their goal but all game there was too much last ditch defending and emergency blocks to call any of what we did at the back proper defending.
The only real excitement came from Galloway who made a few surging runs and when Bobby made a switch later on. He took off Ross (who was woeful) and replaced him with Besic (yes, 3DMs, how attackminded..) bizarrely though we did pass it forward a lot more after that.
Distin came on at the end for 10mins of mostly standing around in the Spurs area while we tried to hit him with crosses but we couldn't.

all a bit meh.. really. Can't see why some are losing their rag over it, not our worst showing of the season but by no means good. Typical last day of term really, even Atsu got on the bench as a special treat for him before he gives up pretending to be a footballer and gets a job at flipping burgers somewhere.

Thanks mate. Sounds pretty standard for this god awful season.

 

[The Equaliser]

The worst bit is that it is not unusual for a team which finished the season in poor form to start the next season the same way.

Sweet dreams.

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

The worst bit is that it is not unusual for a team which finished the season in poor form to start the next season the same way.

Sweet dreams.

not all bad news for us then?
http://m.premierleague.com/en-gb/form-guide.html

 

[ilikecheese]

not all bad news for us then?
http://m.premierleague.com/en-gb/form-guide.html

LOL...RS in a relegation scrap with Barcodes, Soton, and United. How boss would that be.

 

[mezzrow]

Thanks for the effort, cheeks. That game was like sucking the last drops from a particularly questionable sour orange.

Moving on. Martinez has played the wise fool this year, so let summer bring us all wisdom and hope for the future of our beloved football club.

We can rest secure in the knowledge that if Everton come out and are ultraboss next year, we'll have no inkling that it's coming until the ball is in the net. Everton, you see.

 

[fareastblue]

Coleman was embarrassing today

Coleman performs when he gets played into the final third.
You cannot expect him to take the ball from his own half and charge down the flank again and again. The opponents know how to stop him when he tries that. The problem is that there is no one to pass to in the middle of the park and he just stalls, look up and passes back or sidewards.

 

[ijjysmith]

Thanks for the effort, cheeks. That game was like sucking the last drops from a particularly questionable sour orange.

Moving on. Martinez has played the wise fool this year, so let summer bring us all wisdom and hope for the future of our beloved football club.

We can rest secure in the knowledge that if Everton come out and are ultraboss next year, we'll have no inkling that it's coming until the ball is in the net. Everton, you see.

Difficult to have wisdom in the summer with no cash mate.

 

[mezzrow]

Difficult to have wisdom in the summer with no cash mate.

Yet, is a fool more or less dangerous with money? 130 million quid worth of foolery across the park shows us the folly of foolish spending.

Cash + wisdom is best, but cash without wisdom is just a waste of said cash. The wise man will find his own financial backing while retaining possession of his soul.

That could be a clue to our own lack of dosh, some might say. Not me, of course, but some...

 

[royvernon39]

Some posters have said that Miralles is not a traditional winger. Entirely agree.

So when I saw the team with Osman playing on the right, it was clear to me that we would not be attacking their full-backs. Spurs had a ball playing 5 man midfield line- up and were alert to Coleman. How would EFC score? A bit of magic or a dead-ball play. That's it.

EFC had to pressurize Spurs, go at them. Coleman was not doing it. Miralles was playing his own game. Lukaku double-marked and not that bothered.

If you play Miralles you need an out and out winger on the other side.McGready who played well last week should have been introduced at some point.

 

[uknightbreed]

Well im glad the seasons over.
now im gonna be truthful in how I feel.

I have to say its been the most disappointing season in over 35 years of supporting everton.
If it was a book it would be called'100 shades of beige' - a 10000000 page epic tale of the worlds most blandest dullest man picking his nose and not doing much of any interest to anyone.

not only do I think we were the most boring team to watch in the whole prem , its the most pointless football ive ever had the misfortune to watch everton play period.

Almost everything about the season has left me hollow.

The brand of football and the performances in the main have been unwatchable aimless lifeless souless gutless one dimensional dross.

Then the over positive deluded comments from a clearly clueless manager has just angered me To the point of not even caring anymore.
How many times did i see the manager standing there in front of the cameras smiling and trying to say we were unlucky and the most average of things were phenomenal ? when he should have been angry and ashamed he sent out an everton team so under performing so under motivated and so lacking ideas !

You may not agree , but its how I feel and its my opinion. There was nothing 'everton' on that pitch this season . The everton fight pride desire and passion that ive always supported - was non existent and dead.

School of science ??? Are you kidding me ? It was more special school where kids get a well done certificate for not eating the pva glue or killing the class gerbil.

Someone wake me up when roberto grows a pair and his team get a personality and start playing something resembling competitive football again.

 

[BigBlueConk]

I am old enough to remember when playing at home was an advantage.

A work in regress this season has been.