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2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

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killenefc said:
Going a bit under the radar isn’t he? Especially when you consider how much people were waxing lyrical about Eddie Howe and Bournemouth, Watford and Gracia and the beardy man at Wolves. We’re doing better than all of those but you don’t hear about it atall.

I’m reserving judgement on Silva until at least next season but I do feel he should be getting some recognition if others are.
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In fairness, I think we're a bit of an anomaly for the media. We aren't recognised as one of the big clubs but we have upset the balance once or twice over the years, so nobody is surprised when they see us where we are now. It isn't expected but also not unexpected either.
 
22 points after 13 games puts us on target for 65 over the season. Yes I know, ifs and buts and all that. But given that it's taken a while to get the new players settled in, I would hope that sort of points target would be achievable.

That would have put us at least 6th in 18 of the last 20 seasons by the way, and only bettered once by Moyes and once by Martinez.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
22 points after 13 games puts us on target for 65 over the season. Yes I know, ifs and buts and all that. But given that it's taken a while to get the new players settled in, I would hope that sort of points target would be achievable.

That would have put us at least 6th in 18 of the last 20 seasons by the way, and only bettered once by Moyes and once by Martinez.
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You’ve gone and done it now
Why did you have to mention the 72 points season lol
 

Barnfred 55 said:
22 points after 13 games puts us on target for 65 over the season. Yes I know, ifs and buts and all that. But given that it's taken a while to get the new players settled in, I would hope that sort of points target would be achievable.

That would have put us at least 6th in 18 of the last 20 seasons by the way, and only bettered once by Moyes and once by Martinez.
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That's us jinxed.

Gomes is going to demand to go back to Barca.
Richarlison's leg is going to fall off
Keane is going to remember he preferred how he played last season
And Mina is going to take up a career in dancing.

Well done Barn. Well done.
 
EverBlue92 said:
But he scores against gash sides only. You seen him see his arse against Arsenal, he comes on at chelsea and gets the ball and instead of taking on the defender or deciding to run it into the corner as it was nearly FT he fumbles and loses it and puts us under pressure.

He just isnt good enough mate. Dont get me wrong if they are winning and its around 75 mins I wouldn't mind him coming on and hope he can score from a header or something but he wouldn't get anything out of Gomez and Van Dijk and I fear he'll put us under big pressure.

Richarlison has to start up top until January we would be fools to persist with any of the others or change a winning side other than a 3rd CB for one of Bernard/Walcott.
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Last season he scored against Arsenal and assisted against Liverpool and Man City twice.

I feel that the best way to utilise Richarlison against Liverpool is him out wide and let Calvert-Lewin's pace stretch their center-halves.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
22 points after 13 games puts us on target for 65 over the season. Yes I know, ifs and buts and all that. But given that it's taken a while to get the new players settled in, I would hope that sort of points target would be achievable.

That would have put us at least 6th in 18 of the last 20 seasons by the way, and only bettered once by Moyes and once by Martinez.
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According to some of his comments, he is very keen to keep Zouma as well as Gomes. That comes as no surprise, but it makes me wonder if the 3 CB's will be rotated a bit. I doubt Zouma will be tempted to stay if he has fallen behind Keane and Mina.
 
Never been this excited about Everton me

Even if Martinez's first season it felt a bit 'now or never', cus we didn't have the dough to keep up long term, some of our best players were only on loan, and 3 of the top 6 were underperforming

Now we look genuinely ready to get stuck into them and push on long term, with the financial backing to boot
 
Think there is a lot more to see from Silva...players loving his training techniques and understanding of the game...Match day butterflies are back...going the game is 100% more enjoyable...First time realistically since the 80's feel positive about where we are going...also shout out to Brandts...looks like they are a good team..under the radar signing or two in January and 6th is very realistically within reach..who knows even 5th...
 
LocalNative said:
Last season he scored against Arsenal and assisted against Liverpool and Man City twice.

I feel that the best way to utilise Richarlison against Liverpool is him out wide and let Calvert-Lewin's pace stretch their center-halves.
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I’m split on this one. So much of the RS attacking prowess comes because of the width generated by Arnold and Robertson. With Gomes pulling the strings in midfield, if we do win the ball in midfield, he has the passing range to exploit the space that these two vacate with the pace of Richarlison and preferably Lookman out wide. However DCL would be absolutely no match for VVD and Gomez in the middle, whereas Richarlison can cause them trouble if played centrally.
 

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