Sam Allardyce

[scratchnsurf]

These players will be bricking it for the next home game. They’ll do nothing for 45 mins then under pressure from the crowd will play up second half to scrape s win then dine out on it for about 4 weeks. Utter chancers.

Sadly not though (bricking it). Should they be dross again, they'll just drive their supercars back to their mansions in Cheshire and settle down with their supermodel partner for the evening happy in the knowledge that they're on the way to another ridiculous weeks earnings (very much the wrong word) that they receive regardless of how abysmally they perform at their job.

Next time you watch them, think about which ones look like it actually matters to them.

 

[Tin-Tin]

I just would honestly love to know what it is they are working on in training. Not set pieces, not defensive shape when out of possession, not recovery of the ball, not any sort of press, not pass and move and obviously not shooting. So what are they doing?

 

[Lob]

Don't worry, its all going to be ok. Sam is going to spend the week sitting down eating bacon butties with the team and watching videos together of how crap they are over and over till they know how crap they are and then make sure that they dont attack as much in the next game. No shots on target is too many you see. Puts our defence under far too much pressure. I didn't think it was possible to descend any lower than we did under Koeman but then in comes Allardyce and depths of lowness know no bounds.

We are a complete laughing stock unfortunately and seeing Sam Allardyce in the dugout is like pouring salt in the wounds.

 

[harris78]

I just would honestly love to know what it is they are working on in training. Not set pieces, not defensive shape when out of possession, not recovery of the ball, not any sort of press, not pass and move and obviously not shooting. So what are they doing?

But that simply cannot be true can it, three managers and none of them are practising the one thing we need to do...mmmm i think not.

We can blame the manager for the negative football but the actual naivety of our play etc comes down to the prima donnas who put on the shirt at 3pm on a saturday afternoon. Something absolutely stinks within the squad at the moment, i don't know what it is but there are deep rooted problems within the playing squad.

 

[jceverton]

You’d be hard-pressed to find more crude misuse of statistics than this. To give just three reasons:

1) You’re better off looking at expected goals than shots on target because it controls for the quality of chance. It also brings out the fact that Unsworth’s setup was more cavalier than Allardyce’s. (I.e. this helps your argument.)

2) You completely ignore the opposition in that list. Would you expect more shots on target against better teams or fewer?

3) You completely ignore the defensive side of the game, which impacts the metric you’ve listed and the failure at which which was the defining reason why Unsworth had to go.

I wasn’t trying to carry out a large statistical analysis, i’ll leave that to someone like @Timak. I was simply pointing out that Allardyce has, so far, overseen a decline in our attacking play. Yes it’s crude but I think, despite this, it gives a good indication. With regard to different teams you may have less shots on target it just depends on their form, players available etc. In saying all of that against Man Utd away we had 3 shots on target, at home under Allardyce none.
I didn’t comment on the defense because I was making a point about attacking play. Still conceding 10 goals in the last 4 games under Allardyce doesn’t look great.

At the end of all of this I don’t believe we’ll end up with more points under Allardyce than we would have under Unsworth.

 

[nsno-chris]

People actually defending this man

Sake

 

[maccavennie]

Stream? I have a season card mate. I won’t cancel it Because FS will be binned of at some point.

I bet if you've given that away Matty when Sam got hired, the person you gave it to has thrown it back at you and said they don't want it either lol

 

[bring the ghost on]

I just would honestly love to know what it is they are working on in training. Not set pieces, not defensive shape when out of possession, not recovery of the ball, not any sort of press, not pass and move and obviously not shooting. So what are they doing?

11 a side kick-about?

 

[Everton1654]

Makes it worse when you see how they play across the park. Hate them with a passion but they are a cracking side

 

[ToffeeTim]

I hope people delay renewing their ST to show disgust at the board appointing a fraudulent dinosaur as our manager.

 

[toffeejack]

He would have been a far far far better appointment than this waste of space.

I mean a guy who has won the champions league, la liga, Europa league, Fa cup etc vs what the **** has sam won?

sam buys the likes of nolan and carrol, benitez given money, signs the likes of alonso, torres, mascherano, reina etc

We arent good enough to get tier one managers, the FSW is the best we could probably get in terms of managerial stature, might even win us a cup since that is his speciality.

he has taken a seriously crap newcastle side, with next to no money given to him this summer, and constant off field drama etc an they are 4 points behind us after we just spent 200 mil. warra guy fat sam is.

Yeah but you're a Liverpool fan, of course you'd think like that. Those players he bought were about 10 years ago. He's jarg, utter jarg, he should have lost a title to Brighton when it should have been a walk in the park and is constantly banging on about needing money as opposed to actually trusting himself to keep them up... Which he failed to do last time with them. They have a better squad than the other teams down there yet he breeds negativity.

3rd season at Newcastle, that shows how bad he is.

 

[streeky]

Does he? While being a member of the coaching staff the past 3 years(?) has he made a difference?

Think big dunc has been frozen out by previuos managers, just hope he has some kind of input because evertonians are sick of our playing style.

 

[paulbefc]

He'll probably steady the ship again and we'll coast to a midtable finish.

Then we really have to kick him to the curb and get a proper manager in. The football is vile and massively limited.

 

[Latchford Lark]

I hope people delay renewing their ST to show disgust at the board appointing a fraudulent dinosaur as our manager.

When I received the phone call re renewing my season ticket - I said I want to but depends who the manager is going to be next season. Faint hint of a resigned sigh from the other end of the phone. Makes me think I was not the only one saying this.
Have until the end of April to decide - hopefully we'll have signs of new manager coming in by then.

 

[orly]

Interesting that there is not now a single right-thinking fan seeking to justify Allardyce's medium-to-long term employment as manager of Everton.