How would YOU get this squad performing?

[matty1878]

ring sir alex up.

 

[Dougie]

A manager with actual tactics and game plan would get the team moving in the right direction. We are crap but shouldn’t be in the position we are half way through the season.

 

[trueblue84]

PEDs. PED them up to their eyeballs.

This. They owe us, even if it means their nobs shrivel up and fall off and they die of a heart attack in their mid 30s.

 

[Axlswhk]

Headlock and double headlock

 

[Taifi gorm]

Decimation.

 

[Gilbert..]

Fitness, learn to defend as a team, don't keep changing from a 4 or 5 at the back. Keep one and stick to it. Loads of crap teams do very well from just having an organised defence and tight midfield unit

Sounds good in written word. If Everton had sat back in the last 5 minutes at home to wolves and settled for a point the players and manager would have been slaughtered. Ancelotti had the same problem. Ok away from home. Struggled hugely to get away from that at Goodison. The home crowd wont settle for it as a full game plan.

Solution of course. Stop buying players who look very uncomfortable doing the basics.

 

[perth_blue]

Hostages.

 

[leslad]

Bomb the absolute gash that has been festering in the dressing room for years - Keane, holgate, Davies, Mina and some of the newer gash like McNeil.

Actually physically remove them from club, unregister them as players and fook them off anywhere if nobody wants to buy them. They’ve had more than enough chances and I’m sick to the back teeth of the spineless cowards.

Recall branthwaite, Warrington, nkounkou, dobbin and start selecting these and youngsters like price, simms, mills, welch in whatever system you like, but go more direct and simplify the game, players around a big cf and get it forward quicker - the kids couldn’t do any worse than the cowards getting picked every week in the first team currently.

Yep I agree with giving the youngsters a go. Be valuable experience for them if we go down, they will be more ready to play straight away in the championship

 

[MACCA75]

Mina to start every game he’s fit for.
Give McNeil a go at wing back
3 new attacking players as the current lot are useless.

 

[Mark Bisson]

Based on no incomings:

4-4-2

Hit DCL with long balls, Maupay feeding like a rat off the knock downs.

Gray right side cutting in, Iwobi/Gordan Left. Onanna, Idrissa center mid.

Back four is what it is (maybe Mina).

Keep it simple, Dogs of War...

 

[Dixieslaces]

Voltage...

High Amps too

 

[Eiffel 65]

Based on no incomings:

4-4-2

Hit Dominic Calvert-Lewin with long balls, Maupay feeding like a rat off the knock downs.

Gray right side cutting in, Iwobi/Gordan Left. Onanna, Idrissa center mid.

Back four is what it is (maybe Mina).

Keep it simple, Dogs of War...

I don't think we have dogs of war, more like puppies of privilege

 

[COYB75]

I think the first thing we need to do is bring in some sort of Sports Psychologist to work with the players and help them to block out the outside noise that is going on and just concentrate on one game at a time, help them to get into the right mindset again.
As for setting the team up Id play 4-3-2-1, It would be a 4-5-1 without the ball. We repeatedly try to play with wide players yet none of ours can actually cross/beat a man they just happen to be quick, so I would bring them narrow and have them running/pressing at the CB looking to play the ball through to whoever is upfront. the midfield would just be about staying solid and recycling the ball forward. I'm not saying this would work but it keep us a bit more compact in the middle a bit rather than the massive gaps we see in games at the moment.

Our full backs and wide men can't cross so completely agree. Fill the midfield and look to bully teams. Won't be pretty but at least we'd see some fight.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Sand dunes, shouting etc etc. That's bound to work.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Answer Sir Alex's phone.