Next Everton Manager

[davek]

I think he panicked mate, his initial selection and subs were very strange, he wants the job so badly i think it clouded his judgement

I detect a bit of 'going with the lads' about it.

I was disappointed to tell the truth. At HT in both games though he changed it. Maybe he'll learn.

 

[davek]

We are that bad at the back - that I'm actually praying for Mori to come back mate, it has come to that...

Ha ha.

I know how hard that must have been to admit!

 

[Berenger]

So who's scores mate? Who? You know playing a 21 yr old kid who's scored once in 20 games is asking for disaster. It's like ping pong as we can't even hold the ball up. Mori coming back at a point will help but it's were we will be by then. We need to spend to stay up

This doesn't even need proper statistical analysis. Just look at the table. Goals conceded is what's much worse than teams 7th down, broadly speaking, not goals scored. You don't need to win every game 4-0.

 

[nsno-chris]

I detect a bit of 'going with the lads' about it.

I was disappointed to tell the truth. At HT in both games though he changed it. Maybe he'll learn.

Watford should answer all, maybe Lyon but that competition is dead and buried imo

 

[MickA]

Unsworths style and system requires confidence that frankly is not in the squad - otherwise it's just a step removed from the Martinez way of play

Benitez is the blindingly obvious choice should we be that concerned by possible relegation that we would consider the likes of Dyce or Allardyce. Because he's a manager who can do it at that end of the table with frankly an absolutely shocking set of players at Newcastle that make ours look like Real Madrid in comparison. BUT he can also manage a team in Europe and which is trying to win things - as his history at many clubs shows.

On what you suggest btw, Gueye needs to be sat down and out the squad, he is one of the least disciplined dm's i have ever seen, in fact the young lad ACTUALLY seems to have that in spades about him and maybe should be playing now

Completely agree with everything you say there mate.

As for Gana people seem to be blinded by him putting a foot in here and there but he's a total headless chicken. Right now, if fit, McCarthy would walk into that starting XI.

 

[Moomin]

Remember his first press conference, he was the saviour.

Why do they do this

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/watch-david-unsworth-press-conference.99903/

 

[bluestevon]

It's been criminal the way we let Howard/Baines/Hibbert/Jagielka/Williams age without replacements or competition. Been a failing of the last two managers (and the board as well).

the best managers forsee a change coming a year before it actually is needed, Ferguson was the master of moving players on who still had a good season in them, and replacing them - yeah it meant they lost a good year of a lot of players careers for them, BUT what it meant was that they never had the situation of finding themselves with a player suddenly going overnight during a season and wrecking them.

Could add Distin to that list as well mate really, but as to my above point we are the polar opposite and for whatever reason (sentimentality, penny pinching etc) we will instead play a player for 2-3 years after he has become shot, and sit there hoping he can 'rediscover his form' when in fact 33-35 year olds who play badly over two seasons aren't in bad form, they are just finished as a player.

Interestingly that was what f'd up City last season as well when they had all their fullbacks age overnight and Toure on top of that

 

[wiggum23]

Yeah. I'd say also that crisis or not, we are 10 games in and about 5 points from mid-table safety. We have time and scope to make a non-panic driven decision we will regret for years.

The sooner people accept that we are in a crisis but not a death spiral the better. Just accept that the season is gone...a write off. Then calmly pick our way out of this using creative means on team selection and plan a hit list for January. Only a good manager can do that anyway, so forget the Dyches and Alardyces of this world.

This.

We have 28 games to get 32 points and as sad as that sounds it’s the reality. If we get a good manager in, play a settled side and make ourselves hard to beat that will be a start.

Then in January we can get a striker and a CB in to push on.

It’s bad, but it’s fixable

 

[orly]

Remember his first press conference, he was the saviour.

Why do they do this

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/watch-david-unsworth-press-conference.99903/

Come in Tuchel, this is the Walton Luftwaffe, leave holding pattern in T-10 and commence Operation Rhino Exctinction

 

[Geoff Nulty]

I've been pushing for Unsworth as a season-long stopgap while we conduct a proper search. While doubts crept in yesterday, I think it's unfair to judge him on less than a week, during which he's had two matches. He won't have had time for much in the way of coaching and injuries have limited his options hugely in defence, leaving him no choice other than to play Williams and Jagielka, which must have thrilled Vardy and Gray. He's also been handed a poor squad by Koeman (Walsh or no Walsh, £6m pa says you should take responsibility) with no cover for an ageing Baines.
The temptation is to panic and appoint Allardyce as a specialist in avoiding relegation, but I think it's too soon for that. Anything that he's capable of should also be achievable by Unsworth and Royle. I might be saying something different though, should Watford beat us.

 

[orly]

This.

We have 28 games to get 32 points and as sad as that sounds it’s the reality. If we get a good manager in, play a settled side and make ourselves hard to beat that will be a start.

Then in January we can get a striker and a CB in to push on.

It’s bad, but it’s fixable

32 from 84 with this squad is terrifying

 

[bluestevon]

Completely agree with everything you say there mate.

As for Gana people seem to be blinded by him putting a foot in here and there but he's a total headless chicken. Right now, if fit, McCarthy would walk into that starting XI.

What is the most defensively solid we have been all season - basically the Chelsea game for 60 minutes when they had one chance off a set piece, coincidence that it was the only 60 minutes McCarthy has played all season?

I'd take Baningime over Gueye mate, mad a sit sounds, the lad actually has tactical discipline, has pace to cover the ground and when he's playing I'm not seeing 40 yards of space opening up in front of our centre backs all the time

But what Gueye does is charge around throwing himself about in the oppositions half and the LG loves that...

 

[MikeH72]

what was scary yesterday is looking at the line ups, i prob would have taken leicesters back 5 and front 3 over ours...how has that happened?!

Their back 4 but with Pickford, absolutely.

 

[evertonarntwe]

I've been pushing for Unsworth as a season-long stopgap while we conduct a proper search. While doubts crept in yesterday, I think it's unfair to judge him on less than a week, during which he's had two matches. He won't have had time for much in the way of coaching and injuries have limited his options hugely in defence, leaving him no choice other than to play Williams and Jagielka, which must have thrilled Vardy and Gray. He's also been handed a poor squad by Koeman (Walsh or no Walsh, £6m pa says you should take responsibility) with no cover for an ageing Baines.
The temptation is to panic and appoint Allardyce as a specialist in avoiding relegation, but I think it's too soon for that. Anything that he's capable of should also be achievable by Unsworth and Royle. I might be saying something different though, should Watford beat us.

Holgate was on the bench though, and whilst inexperienced at CB he has something them 2 don't have...pace something Leicester have a lot off

it's weak decisions like that which is why he wont get the job

 

[neil999]

Their back 4 but with Pickford, absolutely.

yeah... they played five defenders and i'd take the lot of any of ours atm