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Roberto Martinez Shenanigans: All Reaction Here

How do you feel about the Roberto Martinez hiring?

  • Great hire. He'll do better than Moyes.

    Votes: 65 18.4%

  • Good hire. There were better available.

    Votes: 116 32.9%

  • Meh

    Votes: 59 16.7%

  • Wasn't the worst. Wasn't the best.

    Votes: 96 27.2%

  • We're getting relegated.

    Votes: 17 4.8%
  • Total voters
    353
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Little Ralphy said:
But if you close the ball down, higher up the pitch and have your keeper ready to sweep up any more hopeful, longer balls then it won’t happen all that often. That’s exactly how Spurs played last season. It’s not as easy as people think for a side to drop the ball halfway between the 18 yard box and the halfway line and have their striker beat everyone to it.

When we played Spurs away, I’d have liked us to have held a higher line in that game because Spurs really didn’t have any pace in forward areas. Yet Moyes had Everton defending their 18 yard box, and inviting Spurs on to us. Once he took off our attacking threat, Spurs bombed their fullbacks on as we only had Victor as an isolated outlet. He did the same against Oldham away, and once we sat back and stopped keeping the ball in forward areas, we conceded.

There are lots of different ways to play football and defend. I’m not convinced that Wigan did play that way in all of their games, I really didn’t see enough of them. But Everton are fairly quick at the back, yet we struggled to defend crosses in to the box, so I would argue that Moyes didn’t really set Everton up to be at their most efficient given the players at his disposal. Maybe Martinez will get more out of them.
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If Everton are going to play a high line then old lead boots in goal will have to be the first to go.
 
Eggs said:
...cheers Matey, thanks for the Bilic correction. Sky Sports and now Sky News are definitely reporting Martinez plus '2 other candidates', no reference is being made to internal/external. There was definitely twitter traffic coming from Russia on Monday evening linking Bilic and Everton.
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Bilic for me cooked his goose when he left last time.
Didn't he take us for a ride by leaving once fit again after a long injury ?

When you get off this bus it doesn't stop for u just cos you fancy getting back on.
Not a ticket to ride.

Correct me if wrong cos I was a long way away at the time in a place where a dog licking a rugby ball took precedence over anything else.
 

The most gratifying thing is 90% of them said 'you didn't let us down last time, go with your gut instinct and hopefully you'll get it right again'.
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If Kenwright was in charge of Liverpool I'd love him. What an absolute chancer.

A Premier League club being ran by Uncle Monty from Withnail & I.
 

Joey66 said:
Malaga still involved in corruption scandals last season they can not pay some players wages according to talk sport so very unlikely Martenez will go there by the sounds of it if reported is true!
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Yes....plus they are banned from the Europa Cup next tear because of "financial irregularities".

Martinez isn't going to go there.

He is coming to us and I for one am quite enthused about it.

I wonder when the new fixture list comes out?
 
Khalekan said:
Yes....plus they are banned from the Europa Cup next tear because of "financial irregularities".

Martinez isn't going to go there.

He is coming to us and I for one am quite enthused about it.

I wonder when the new fixture list comes out?
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A few weeks i'd wager.

Wigan away first game of the season NAILED ON.
 

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