MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
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JLW
Player Valuation: £70m
The manager and the players last night done the complete opposite of what they have been doing recently with their 'passive' behavior and look what we can do. Koeman was Screaming, shouting, all game. I personally loved his performance last night.
More of the same please!!!
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
Not even 11th we were 12th or 13th when Martinez was sacked.
The ones that he has brought in have, by and large, been our most impressive players.
It bodes well. He knows who to get to fit his system.
Yesterday was the first time since probably Spurs that the rest of them showed they are capable of adapting.
It was utterly thrilling at times last night
Proper blood and thunder football for the working man!
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
I thought the second half against WHU was decent as well, I remember saying at the time that they had set a benchmark then but they reverted to type next game.
Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
Some of the teds, who before last night, were calling for his head or cry arseing about he's got a X number of games or he should be sacked, need to go sit in a darkened room and give themselves a month off the internet ffs.
He's going to need time to shape his own side and get them playing the way he wants them to play - on a consistent basis.
He's had 16 league games and we sit in 7th chaps. Hardly a disaster despite some crap results and performances so far this season. He took over a complete shambles, and a group of players who'd been cuddled for 2 years, and lead to believe that half arsed performances were 'phenomenal'. Turning that around both physically and mentally was never going to be a 2 minute task.
The bloke needs the next 2 windows to put his own squad together and create the kind of winning mentality that's been sorely lacking at the club for ages. Last night was a start, but I'm not going to predict that it's a milestone moment, we need to stand back and give the bloke a chance to build something at Goodison.
He's going to need time to shape his own side and get them playing the way he wants them to play - on a consistent basis.
He's had 16 league games and we sit in 7th chaps. Hardly a disaster despite some crap results and performances so far this season. He took over a complete shambles, and a group of players who'd been cuddled for 2 years, and lead to believe that half arsed performances were 'phenomenal'. Turning that around both physically and mentally was never going to be a 2 minute task.
The bloke needs the next 2 windows to put his own squad together and create the kind of winning mentality that's been sorely lacking at the club for ages. Last night was a start, but I'm not going to predict that it's a milestone moment, we need to stand back and give the bloke a chance to build something at Goodison.
JLW
Player Valuation: £70m
I have criticized him a lot without wanting to get rid of him, I wanted him to show he cares as much as us which he did last night. If we are playing beautiful free-flowing football then he can sit back and relax in the dugout. When we are not, I want him barking orders to the players to change the situation.
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
Lots of name calling from the apologists I've noticed, what happened to civilised debate, where it was acceptable to have a differing opinion.
Ashtonian
Banned on request
For me.
What Koeman proved last night was that he could actually motivate the players. He got them fighting, massive improvement from recent weeks. It might have been the lights or the TV cameras or whatever reasonings given but the fact is the team cared about fighting Arsenal.
Probably not enough credit is given here either that Koeman's (ok fairly obvious) tactics to beat Arsenal worked as well. Show that sort of fight more often and we can turn this season around which would be a bloody good achievement based on 2 months of results.
finally with the young lad getting on, Koeman showed he is willing to go with the crowd in a game. To bring the lad on with goodison rocking and we were chasing a winner? Perfect time to bring him on, not the best sub we could have made there but the fans certainly wanted him over others brought on and Koeman reacted with that good feeling.
all in all i think i am not the only one with a bit of a change in view based on the team now, and moving forward to monday, we turn up like that and hold firm then you start to believe even just a little bit, we can go and do it, and really kick start the season.
What Koeman proved last night was that he could actually motivate the players. He got them fighting, massive improvement from recent weeks. It might have been the lights or the TV cameras or whatever reasonings given but the fact is the team cared about fighting Arsenal.
Probably not enough credit is given here either that Koeman's (ok fairly obvious) tactics to beat Arsenal worked as well. Show that sort of fight more often and we can turn this season around which would be a bloody good achievement based on 2 months of results.
finally with the young lad getting on, Koeman showed he is willing to go with the crowd in a game. To bring the lad on with goodison rocking and we were chasing a winner? Perfect time to bring him on, not the best sub we could have made there but the fans certainly wanted him over others brought on and Koeman reacted with that good feeling.
all in all i think i am not the only one with a bit of a change in view based on the team now, and moving forward to monday, we turn up like that and hold firm then you start to believe even just a little bit, we can go and do it, and really kick start the season.
JLW
Player Valuation: £70m
Sorry When
I don't think that was Koeman tbh. This isn't meant to take anything away from him, because he deserves a serious amount of kudos for having the brass set to put that lineup out on the pitch. Credit, too, must go to him for showing faith in the young lad at such a critical point in the game.
The fight came from lads like Coleman and McCarthy and Idrissa, as ever, leading by example. The other players responded to it, the fans responded to it and, most importantly for fans who thought Koeman was just phoning it in, the manager responded to it too. For a minute there, at the end, I could almost swear he enjoyed himself
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