Roberto Martinez discussion

[davek]

Mate you are well of the pace in terms of the league points.

A battering at the hands of city (not beyond the realms of possibility) and your prediction will make you look a laughing stock.

But you dont want that do you mate?

Ha Ha Ha.

Crack on.

 

[ilikecheese]

...I think you have to look in the context of a number of games this season. The number of goals we've conceded when in dominant positions can't be down to bad luck. I know it's frustrating but we have really good players.

I am not comparing this to other games though. In this game, we did give up a really bad goal, one that should never have been given, and the one that was a massive deflection.

 

[neil999]

as an side...villa battering Leicester atm(not winning), this league is mental

 

[Eggs]

Well, weve missed Jags,Baines and Coleman for a lot of the season and McCarthy being injured as well as besic didnt help.

I put it down to the keeper and also (and this is just my opinion and 99% wont agree) not being able to have Besic and McCarthy together rather than barry as i think they would make us more dynamic.

Also of course the players are young and adapting like mori...

This is also a weird season as lots of teams have improved. It means we need time to develop a settled team with experience.

.....as I said I don't think it's down to personnel, I think organisation has lots to do with it.

 

[bicycleheader]

I promise I'll have patience if you can guarentee our best players will have some

i guarantee it Ian

ok?

 

[davek]

Of course they will get top 4 mate, they beat the teams the are suppose to with regularity and very rarely lose games, so who do you think out of the teams 11 points+ behind are going to catch them, go on nail your own colours to the mast?

...already said it:

City
Arsenal
Spurs
United.

It's January....January.

 

[ianefc]

i guarantee it Ian

ok?

Phew

 

[kenada_blue]

as an side...villa battering Leicester atm(not winning), this league is mental

They'll do what we did when we finished 4th. Grind result. Solid unit.

 

[neil999]

They'll do what we did when we finished 4th. Grind result. Solid unit.

yep and unsustainable I suspect

 

[banno]

....ok, sound.

And this is getting us where?

At the moment not really any worse off than anytime over the last 20 odd years but if you look very carefully you will see that he is getting young players in for our future and building a good solid foundation built on football (as a team of Evertons stature have to do because we lack finances). Yes the results are frustrating at the moment but anyone can see that our performance is almost there and the building process is continuing very nicely albeit slowly. Sound footing we have now and we go from there. Now if we get taken over and money is available we might even be able to fast track it but at the moment a patient build up is happening.

 

[kenada_blue]

...already said it:

City
Arsenal
Spurs
United.

It's January....January.

United? Right.....

 

[Eggs]

I am not comparing this to other games though. In this game, we did give up a really bad goal, one that should never have been given, and the one that was a massive deflection.

..it's a fair point but it's happened too often for this to be a one-off. We are verging on being very good but clearly need to be able to manage games better.

 

[davek]

Christ lad, I've moaned about the ref on this thread and on others. I'm not blaming Martinez for the third goal.

You can't blame the ref for us soiling ourselves at 0-2.

Yes, but it was the goal at the death that's the issue: how can the point not stand thereafter that we got ahead and saw out the time added on?

In what sense is that in any way the fault of a manager.

 

[ijjysmith]

i hope he doesnt really believe that and is just defending Deulo for dumbly losing the ball at the end

Could well be that mate. I think I, and probably a lot on here, need to remember not just the players need to learn, the boss does too.

 

[sheedys left foot]

May have been posted already but it's these kind of face palm comments that wreck my bulb