Sam Allardyce

[nsno-chris]

Due to the protracted and amateur farce the manager search turned into, it is looking more and more like he was the best of a bad bunch that was interested in the job. None of us know this for fact, but it seems to be the case.

In hindsight, I am quite relieved we did not get Silva, he was far more of a gamble than Sam.

Who knows, maybe the target we really wanted will be available in summer, so I until then will get behind the current manager who actually doing a decent job thus far.

Silva is a bad, gash, fanboy wrongun. I wanted him nowhere near this club. His capitulation at our hands proved how Martinez he his.

The board take the blame for this, letting it ride with “one of the boys Unsy”.

 

[ijjysmith]

Nope,

I’d rather play with a balanced team.


LOL

We'd lose. As has been proven all season.

Jesus Christ.

 

[kiss the crest]

8 games before Sam...25 conceded Lost 6
8 games with Sam...2 conceded Lost 0

Covers just about everything I reckon.

Those are great stats, but at what point do we start to attack?

 

[JLW]

Parking ‘kin buses against West Brom! Yes the team that sacked Pulis, the team that hasn’t won in 18 games, the team that’s second from bottom in the league!!

Think il just check the result of the next game, be arsed watching that.

 

[Stanley Parker]

Can you not see why he played a back 5 also. He does his homework on teams strengths and we knew West Brom would be throwing crosses in and woe and behold they did. Good call by Alladyce in his attempt to set up that way. Yes we are disappointing with the ball and going forward as we have been even before he came. If he doesn't get the balance right come the end of the season then we will all be wanting him out. Currently he has stopped us getting smashed all over the place and rewarded us with 12 points from 6 games with very few conceded. Not pretty but much needed and he now has the chance to add his own players in January........then we can criticise if we are still playing the same style. At the moment BFS gets my full thanks for getting us out the sh1t and being only 3 points short of our previous 14 games points tally.

I'm not sure that he did get his tactics right.

Surely his intention was to cut out the crosses. But Pardew said he'd never seen as many balls flying across the goal mouth.

Once again - after Watford, Newcastle, Liverpool, Chelsea - we were saved by our opponents' poor finishing. We have been very lucky.

 

[CountyRoadKid]

Who knows, maybe the target we really wanted will be available in summer, so I until then will get behind the current manager who actually doing a decent job thus far.

Realistically, Simeone was never going to leave while Atletico were still in the CL

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Those are great stats, but at what point do we start to attack?

Arsed?

Priorities. Sam's addressed them.
The rest is just fluff for now.

 

[Thomasc]

Silva is a bad, gash, fanboy wrongun. I wanted him nowhere near this club. His capitulation at our hands proved how Martinez he his.

The board take the blame for this, letting it ride with “one of the boys Unsy”.

It is what it is my friend.

I can't be arsed going over old ground, prefer to deal with what we have, which is unbeaten in 7 games and deserves a bit of credit for that.

The future will sort itself out, lets give him a bit of a chance. I actually believe him and the team he has brought in is probably the most professional outfit we have had at the club for years! Lots of experience and actually good football people for a change.

All of this "peoples club" gash needs smashing out of the club with gusto.

The board need to sort their act out which hopefully they will. At least it's not Bill making the pathetic and sentimental decisions any more.

 

[Kev50]

Silva is a bad, gash, fanboy wrongun. I wanted him nowhere near this club. His capitulation at our hands proved how Martinez he his.

The board take the blame for this, letting it ride with “one of the boys Unsy”.

So you’ve led with the stinging criticism of the current manager. What then was your plan to avoid relegation a month ago?

 

[Lukymatic]

Playing "trench war" against Chelsea was smart. But playing two halftimes against WBA like that? No will, no desire to go forward? Please...

 

[banno]

And that’s the problem, fans got themselves into a mess thinking it was Fat Sam or relegation. And it wasn’t, we were not in the back end of March.

Unsworth should have been given one or two games whilst an appointment was being finalised. The dithering of the board got us into this mess by letting an incompetent “Unsy” take charge for so many games.

I hope he gets canned in the summer before he’s given actual money to spend. The thought of returning to Walter Smith style football is frightening

I for one was very worried about relegation and it was a possibility that cannot be denied the way we where playing.

You said Unsworth was given too long yet are basically implying any other manager besides Alladyce would now have us playing good football.

I wouldn't say Alladyce will take us back to Smiths days I would compare with Moyes days.

I don't want Alladyce long term unless he has us playing more expansive and feels he deserves the January window to prove otherwise.

He has turned out to be the right man at this current time and after 6 games has us feeling better (well most of us).

We will all be in a better position to judge come the end of the season but now is not the time to criticise. He has done a job, our points tally is better than anyone could have expected.

 

[banno]

Playing "trench war" against Chelsea was smart. But playing two halftimes against WBA like that? No will, no desire to go forward? Please...

The desire was there but the capability was not.

 

[sd_1992]

And that’s the problem, fans got themselves into a mess thinking it was Fat Sam or relegation. And it wasn’t, we were not in the back end of March.

Unsworth should have been given one or two games whilst an appointment was being finalised. The dithering of the board got us into this mess by letting an incompetent “Unsy” take charge for so many games.

I hope he gets canned in the summer before he’s given actual money to spend. The thought of returning to Walter Smith style football is frightening

As is painfully obvious from this thread fans are still clinging to the comforts that Moyes gave us... accepting we will never challenge (i mean why would we want to go to west brom and try to win...) but always getting that 7th place trophy... fans get the club they deserve in the end and it is going to be a long long time before we win another trophy if people are genuinely defending that utter garbage from yesterday...

 

[bluestevon]

What we are watching is some of the worst football from a entertainment perspective I've seen, up there with the worst of them, but and it's a big but, the results make it just about acceptable.

To play devil's advocate, the squad he has got right now and with the way confidence and form levels where at, i don't think any other option short term would have worked besides what we are currently doing.

We have a young but very talented right back, a young talented cb in Holgate, Keane who when he took over was utterly shot on confidence - same as Williams, Jags and Williams who have got no legs anymore, and Martina who is a terribly bad right back now playing as a left back, which makes us so unbalanced it's killing our ability to do anything going forward.

Will things chance after January - don't know, but for now a lot of the issues with our play come as a direct consequence of what happened or didn't happen in the summer and onwards.

NOW, if he is backed in January with funds to bring in 3-4 good quality additions money wise, and come feb/march we are still seeing this style of play then hopefully he's signed his own p45

 

[Groucho]

First Everton manager to debut with seven games unbeaten