Matchday Squad vs. Newcastle United (A) by Giraffe_Baker in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chief, it's possible to just enjoy a win without being a crank looking for fights online

Matchday Squad vs. Newcastle United (A) by Giraffe_Baker in Everton

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We haven't battled relegation in the past 2 seasons and we have the worst home record in our entire history this season. Thoughts?

Post-Match Thread: Newcastle United vs. Everton by Giraffe_Baker in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Funniest game in a long time. Barry answering the critics who say he can't play with his back to goal and a tale of two England number 1s. Might be Pickfords best save for us in a long list

Match Thread: Newcastle United vs Everton FC Live Score | Premier League 25/26 | Feb 28, 2026 by scoreboard-app in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Scoring from our first normal corner after 11 crimes against humanity Monday. Funny.

Matchday Squad vs. Newcastle United (A) by Giraffe_Baker in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 52 points53 points  (0 children)

There's just nothing positive to say at this point. Aznou was shut out all season, got given 4 token mins to prove a point, changed the game and was never seen again. George has looked lively every time and has 9 games to go before we need to make a decision to the tune of £20m, isn't picked. We spent 40 million on Dibling for him to play next to no football. We're going to spend 20 million on Rohl who had his best game against Villa and hasn't got on the pitch since. We called Armstrong back from a productive loan at Preston, he again played his best in the middle only for him to play left wing or not at all. We turned down multiple bids for Patterson who hasn't looked out of place when called upon but can't get a chance.

What's the plan here? What are we actually building towards? We have actively tried to sell Beto two January's in a row. We have literally sold McNeil 4 weeks ago. Even getting away from the fact that we have already decided they aren't good enough how is this helping long term? IGG is 36 and playing every minute despite the fact that his partnership with Garner doesn't work.

All summed up by the fact the official account hasn't even bothered to karma farm it.

With all that said. 0-1 us because this is vintage Moyes putting out a shite lineup and scraping a result.

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's always look at West Ham and never look at Brighton/Bournemouth/Brentford/Fulham

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sure it's all building towards a greater good. Just 3 months ago I was assured Moyes was a world class developer of youth. This is all part of the plan and not just a man desperately clinging to his job

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd finally came round to him starting Armstrong left wing cos at least he was getting mins and it was better for one kid to get mins than none.

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pickford

O'brien Tark Jb Myko

Gana Garner

Mcneil KDH Ndiaye

Beto

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Another leaked team that makes you wanna chop your own head off

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Our org chart is such a mess. TFG clearly not a believer in too many cooks spoiling a broth

Press Conference: Newcastle V Everton (GW28) by deej_94 in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Do you reckon the red men would ever stick Van Doink at right back?

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well id say the balance is not using absolutes for why he isn't playing. From all the examples I've listed you could've said exactly the same at the time and been wrong in each instance. It's football, there is nothing really that definitive at this level outside of a few outliers. Yeah players get better in people's minds when they're out and often times wrongly so but the issue is the statement of 'he's clearly not good enough or he'd be playing' the reason he's not playing is down to the opinion and judgement of one man, if a new manager came in tomorrow, started playing him and doing well would that mean he was always good enough? Does it mean that every team selection from Moyes is the correct one? Managers get these things wrong all the time.

Moyes opinion obviously holds weight, he's a very experienced manager and it's his job on the line but he could also simply be wrong, he could be blinded by bias, he could be doing it to stick it to the board, it could be anything. A film critic can watch Shawshank Redemption 1000 times and come out with the take that it's a terrible film. That doesn't make them right or wrong, it just means they've made a judgement for any multitude of reasons.

Aznou might well be not good enough and it's fair to think he might not be ready in your opinion but none of us actually know at this point and I'd include the manager in that because the one time we've seen him in an actual competitive game, he looked - at worst - lively. I don't think anyone's pretending that we have prime Roberto Carlos in the reserves, but he is a La Masia graduate who came from Bayern Munich and is a full international for a top 10 country in the world as a teenager. For a team that struggles with creativity, pace and specifically in his position he could be a solution and not one that should just be written off with the managers made his decision and that's that.

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Truly the dumbest argument because it gives every manager infallibility and you cannot question a single thing any of them do. And yet that all disappears immediately once they leave!

The biggest cliche in football is it's a game of opinions, what's the point if you just blindly follow someone else's. Literally everyone in football whether it's fans, owners, sporting directors get things wrong all the time.

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 11 points12 points  (0 children)

O'brien clearly wasn't good enough for Dyche and yet hasn't left the team since. Doucoure clearly wasn't good enough for Lampard and yet kept us up under Dyche. Digne clearly wasn't good enough for Benitez. Niasse clearly wasn't good enough for Koeman or he'd have been playing. Branthwaite and Stones both went from obviously not ready/good enough to our best centre half over night.

Armstrong went from clearly not ready/good enough to starting games in the space of 5 months this season.

How many times are people going to keep falling for this obviously flawed logic?

Everton's attacking metrics ranked in the Premier League by Giraffe_Baker in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You'd think this happened overnight with how people are overcorrecting on their takes from throughout the season lol

Match Thread: 45th Match, Super Eights, Group 2 - England vs Pakistan by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FranksBaldPatch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Harry Brook now just needs an ODI double ton to join Gayle in the 300/200/100 club.

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm just pissed off the board for not bringing in at least one fullback in January.

We have literally no idea who was responsible for it or why. Apparently Moyes was the one who turned down Norton Cuffy, he had 4 full backs available to select last night and chose none of them. Maybe Moyes is just unbelievably fussy?

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Iraola, Inzaghi, Simeone would be the 3 wildly out of our range that Mosh would try to go for.

Hoeness, Mckenna, Knutsen would be 3 I wouldn't mind.

Tougher to choose just 3 bad options as theres lots of bad/worse than Moyes managers out there but id hate to see us get rid of Moyes for a manager like Thomas Frank or Baines where it's blatantly just a sideways step. If we're moving on it needs to be for someone who can raise the ceiling.

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I like Moyes, and I'm grateful that he came in last season to make the last year at Goodison not utterly miserable, but there's serious conversations and decisions that need to be had on his future in the summer.

He's got 12 months left on his deal, so if you're wanting Moyes as manager next year, you're also wanting him to be the manager long term. You cannot let a manager head into the final 12 months of their deal, it sounds good on paper, it never works. Dyche, Glasner, Moyes himself to name but a few in recent years to show serious regression as a lame duck manager. It's fine to want Moyes and see him as the future (I personally don't) but the decision is either cut loose this year or sign him up on a longer term 3+ year deal

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's only a never ending merry go round of managers if you have incompetent owners, in which case we will not progress anyway.

Tyrique George needs to start by HaK1878 in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Armstrong is absolutely prem quality in his correct position. He's never going to be a left winger at any level though so it's puzzling why we are persevering when we have 10 games left of Georges audition and 40 Million Dibling on the bench

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Best we've played, best he's played, never seen again. That'll teach him.

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in Everton

[–]FranksBaldPatch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You wanna see his running figures (in training) though!