Not if that useless lump is still manager!
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GwladysBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
He’s had 20 years to go to the next level, there is a reason he is seen as a Firefighter.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
That's funny because it's true.
Has the gravy guzzling dinosaur been jettisoned yet?
marcus
Player Valuation: £15m
Gladystweet
Player Valuation: £50m
"Next season will be interesting" . Our new club motto right there.
Interesting has so many connotations...
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Problem is I feel that our expectations have been steadily eroded over the years since we last WON the title, with a few hopes of "a new dawn" along the way leading to a sort of apathy amongst our fans where the worst is expected. The blame for this lies fairly and squarely with the decisions made at board level, from managerial appointments to ground failures, to marketing strategies. I don't feel he fans as a whole even think that things will improve ...it's like a drip feed of mediocrity fed to us to the point where some just have ceased to care. As they say it's the despair I can cope with....it's the hope that gets me in the end
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If the board had been patient we had no need to hire him we were 13th not in the bottom three!
We have climbed five places in a mediocre league outside the top six!
He spent money in January too!
Not or nowhere near good enough!
Allardyce said that after we were ‘safe’ we would see a tactically different Everton, more adventurous, attacking etc, still yet to see any proof of this.
The fact is after playing a certain type of negative footy for all these years, there is no way he will change his philosophy, and that’s been proven by the footy we’re now playing, even after being ‘safe’
Gladystweet
Player Valuation: £50m
He mean't he was taking the lads down to Laser Quest as a treat.
Exactly this. The first paragraph shows that he hasn’t been told he is here next season.
The thing is that Sam would’ve asked him outright in the meeting if he was being retained. If he had been told he is, he would’ve been giving it the billy big balls yesterday.
It's a fact you refuse to acknowledge. He's had 4-5 months to get the team playing decent football and he is completely unable. He's been doing the same thing for 20 years. He literally said "I will be judged on results and entertaining football". If he's judged on that, he's a failure
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
He has achieved the bare minimum that was required of him. But the concern is he thinks the quality of football he has coached is sufficient. It demonstrably isn't.
Monday's game was dire , the standard of football was poor and we produced one shot on goal. I barely managed to get off my seat to celebrate because what preceded it was so unmitigatingly tedious that a sense of ennui had encompassed me along with the rest of the subdued crowd. Yet this 'style' of football is one that Allardyce robustly defended in his post match comments. It does not bode well or give me any hope of a brighter future under this mans flawed guidance.
Certainly there is very little in his past record or his present to suggest he is capable of building a team that can do more than fight for the best of the rest title.
His limited style of football that could at least grind out results 15 years ago has long since become outmoded. Tactics evolve constantly in football and his methods look out of place and perform poorly in today's game.
I sincerely hope we do not intend to waste another season in the vain hope that this ageing manager can do that which he has failed to do in a long and disappointing career in top flight football namely manage a team into the elite and provide some genuinely exciting football along the way.
marcus
Player Valuation: £15m
I agree with you the football has not been pretty...
However 5 months is a short timescale to make big changes he needs more time...
GwladysBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
He had chances to get us in 7th and he surrendered. Do you think Burnley have a better team/squad than us? He’s an absolute joke of a manager.
Sentinel
Player Valuation: £8m
I used to sit with my Dad sometimes in the mainstand. Mostly though I was with my mates in the Enclosure. That night when the cushions rained down, I was with my Da. Wasn't my proudest moment I must admit but it wasn't out of apathy, it was down to sheer frustration.
Fair enough wasn't the kindest thing to do in hindsight but hell did they respond. It felt good to vent. And the players left, knowing full well the expectations the supporters expected of them. They we're rejuvenated or [Poor language removed] scared of us. Sometimes conflict kindles hope. Vociferous. They responded. Just like when Bayern caved before us. That's the power of the old lady.
It's different now, mercenary players and managers. Who knows if they care. The bottom line is "the hope that kills ya". No. it's our expectations as supporters who demand the best, we're still throwing cushions it's just not so immediate now. And I'll die before I accept we can't be the best or they forget who we are.
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