Sam Allardyce

[Stuartisitc1878]

What are you on about?
Let me get one thing straight , I support Everton Football club and I thoroughly enjoyed the match last night, despite getting soaked through. If our fat gravy guzzling supremo can guide us all the way to champions league success I’ll be as made up as anybody.
But I still dislike the Fatman , the style of football he has propagated throughout his managerial career and his RS infested menagerie of assistants. Hell, I hated him as a yard dog CB.
Last night was good, if he can keep it up ,great, but I doubt he can without reverting to type, and I will still be happy to see him payed off and a manager appointed who unites us all.

Bingo!

 

[Barnfred 55]

I'd rather that too but I think the problem at kick off is all our players are in our half which means that as soon as the ball is kicked you are under pressure in your own half from the opposition (especially in the Premier league). So it's easier and pragmatic to hoof and relieve the pressure rather than make a mistake straight from kick off and give the opposition a chance.

Is your name Sam?

 

[flibbyflob]

I don't know how much the stereotype is an exaggeration but we are literally the most long ball team in the league since he arrived.

Are we? Don't think we do it any more than when Koeman was in charge to be honest.

 

[Barnfred 55]

It will be. No Everton side since 1996 has won at Arsenal away and whoever our players are, and whoever our manager is, we just can't beat a side perceived to be better/or just actually better than us in these away games.

Bournemouth can, Swansea can, but not Everton.

West Brom can. Palace can. Even Watford can. We cannot.

 

[davids]

Can we have an Allardyce Axed after Arsenal thread please.

 

[davek]

I still cant bring myself to dislike him. Even after underlining he's 'kin clueless. Just relieved about getting Koeman out the door, I suppose.

He IS appalling though. And he has to go.

 

[Timak]

Are we? Don't think we do it any more than when Koeman was in charge to be honest.

Not that it will come as a great surprise but the stats show

Since Allardyce came in:
Possession down
Shots down
Crosses down

Chances against up
Busy defence up
Long balls up

Points up (but fewer per game than Unsworth)

Mentioned in an article here on football analytics

 

[leslad]

Is your name Sam?

Good God what have I become

 

[hktoffee]

Park the bus against Sky6 Sam. A point is job done there.

 

[AlexEFC92]

West Brom can. Palace can. Even Watford can. We cannot.

WHY is this though? It’s just so frustrating to see the likes of West Brom best the RS at the pit (and they have done not too long ago also) and Bournemouth put 3 past Chelsea at Away. Something is seriously not right.

 

[Jt5688]

er...Lookman insisted on going to Leipzig....this is a guy who reportedly is homesick,and yet he insists on going to Germany. I can see Sams point completely. And re Klausen....some players just don't fit in...Veron at United for example. At the present time Klausen is having difficulty fitting in at Everton. So the loan would have been good for him.

If you were Lookman wouldn't you insist on going to Leipzig too instead of some Championship team like Derby?? Leipzig would rip us to shreds right now and they see enough in Lookman that they want to take him even if only for a half a season on loan. His development will be infinitely better at Leipzig than at Derby, yet his manager would prefer for him to get lumps kicked out of him in the lower leagues instead. Great. Perhaps the reports of his homesickness are downright lies too if he's insisting on going to eastern Germany??

I take your point re players not fitting in and Klaasen, but he has not been given a chance at all. The only games I recall seeing him in were in the darkest Koeman days where he was chucked into a team bereft of confidence and playing terribly, with the crowd groaning at every mistake. In one game at Goodison I remember he was playing the best I had seen him (Lyon I think) despite a shaky first ten minutes and Koeman still hooked him off, not helping his confidence at all. The loan might have done him good personally, but I don't see how uprooting him into yet another football culture and country would have helped him be better for Everton.

 

[trueblue10]

The ship was steady when he arrived.

Steadily sinking.

 

[granter79]

I still cant bring myself to dislike him. Even after underlining he's 'kin clueless. Just relieved about getting Koeman out the door, I suppose.

He IS appalling though. And he has to go.

Give it time. A lot of games and team selections left to go

 

[Khalekan]

I'm not saying we hoof it but why on kick offs we launch it to the opposition right back? I'd rather we passed it about

To be fair, Spurs did sommat similiar last night but Kane outjumped the opposition left back and the ball was in the back of the United net with eleven seconds on the clock

Not a bad tactic, putting the opposition defence under pressure in the opening seconds.

 

[Barnfred 55]

WHY is this though? It’s just so frustrating to see the likes of West Brom best the RS at the pit (and they have done not too long ago also) and Bournemouth put 3 past Chelsea at Away. Something is seriously not right.

In fairness. Its not just this year either. Not sure what the reason or indeed the answer is. Under Allardyce and Koeman we've definitely gone into these games with a very negative/defensive format which probably hasn't helped.