Match Thread Olympique Lyonnaise v Everton

[ilikecheese]

Couldn't watch today. Looks like another bullet dodged.

How grim was it?

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Couldn't watch today. Looks like another bullet dodged.

How grim was it?

Dunno, but if anyone says "unlucky, but we played well" please tag me in your reply so I can put them on ignore.

 

[Bob Elstone]

I dunno, shall we ask them?

@Bob Elstone , penny for your thoughts?

Ready to admit we might be in some bother yet?

Never said we weren't in some bother, but compared with staying up on the final day of the season and the mike walker, Kendall 3 and walter smith days this is nothing.

We've played a quarter of the season, there are bags of points on offer.

Get a decent manager in and not a sentimental appointment like Unsy who the majority were asking for 3 games ago.

 

[Tel001]

Pistone? Pinear , Stubbs and others....

Chelsea sign young players and loan them and make money...

Said, plessis, that American I can't remember his name... there was heaps of them

Selling to loan is normal? We didn't sign a perminent first team player for 3 years wasn't it?

Fortress fund... I have not seen another club literally fabricate something like that and have it in the news papers like we did

Phantom bids... I do t mean rejected bids I mean bids for players we had zero chance of getting and we knew it collymore,shearer,guti,requelme, moutinho etc

You don't find it abnormal that our "majority shareholder" is the only one on sky sports live talking [Poor language removed]?

Bill kenwright "watch this space"

 

[Tel001]

@Steve Wigan




Pistone? Pinear , Stubbs and others....

Chelsea sign young players and loan them and make money...

Said, plessis, that American I can't remember his name... there was heaps of them

Selling to loan is normal? We didn't sign a perminent first team player for 3 years wasn't it?

Fortress fund... I have not seen another club literally fabricate something like that and have it in the news papers like we did

Phantom bids... I do t mean rejected bids I mean bids for players we had zero chance of getting and we knew it collymore,shearer,guti,requelme, moutinho etc

You don't find it abnormal that our "majority shareholder" is the only one on sky sports live talking [Poor language removed]?

Bill kenwright "watch this space"

 

[Jeff Jones]

To be fair, it's not the first time a Frenchman has surrendered meekly in France when confronted with determined opposition

That's statement's not fair, it's embarrassing.

 

[tommytowne]

Just heard the sports guy on five live call it......Another insipid Everton performance as they hit a new low.
Insipid....lacking vigour or interest. Sounds about right.
New low....first English team to go out of EL group stages without winning a game.
Cheers lads.

 

[Groucho]

One of the biggest concerns has to be the way we just collapse after conceding. You can be out of form, not have brilliant players and struggling but that screams something deeper within the squad. I'm no sports psychologist but surely that's evidence of some serious mentality issues.

Appear to be mentally fragile.

 

[jinkyali]

You know what annoyed me the most.

Not one Everton player went to see Martina was ok . Surrounded by Lyon only.

Disgraceful

 

[BigBlueConk]

The pain goes on and on and on and on.

Nobody should be blaming David. Can't make a silk purse from a pigs ear or something.

 

[royalblue66]

Don't know if already mentioned, I never seen any Everton player,showing any interest in the welfare of Martina, when the injury occurred, some team spirit ?

 

[GwladysBlue]

I think the commentator summed it up brilliantly on BT Sport last night:

"Everton have spent an awful lot of money to become awful!"

 

[DrEFC]

Never said we weren't in some bother, but compared with staying up on the final day of the season and the mike walker, Kendall 3 and walter smith days this is nothing.

We've played a quarter of the season, there are bags of points on offer.

Get a decent manager in and not a sentimental appointment like Unsy who the majority were asking for 3 games ago.

Where do you see our next win? We've played top & bottom of the league, cypriot minnows, ect. There's something deeply, deeply, wrong with the team. It is teetering close to an unescapable downward spiral into the championship- I am very, very worried.

 

[Muggins]

Couldn't watch today. Looks like another bullet dodged.

How grim was it?

absolutely nothing there. It's like the players had just met that day. If we could rewind to the start of pre season right now, we may have stood a chance at getting the unit together.

We are screwed mate. Based on last night and every game for the last two months, Watford will batter us, and the pain will carry on...

 

[deipnosophist]

I suggest that the team is divided, not acting as a cohesive entity. When 70% of a team is, a half hour before training commences, pigging out on a 'full English',whilst the remaining 30% are arguing over the relative merits of cod vs haddock vs Adriatic sardine, problems of unity are certain to be exposed. Fat Ron's sacking has probably only exacerbated things: rumour has it the entire squad had to queue behind his monolithic presence to get to the breakfast buffet...which didn't leave much food to go around.*


*Tubby Ashley's McDonald's Big Breakfast coupons evidently circumvented any of his possible food shortage issues.