gjohnson

No. My own inability to properly use the quote function. Consider it this way....if it was NUFC sitting comfortably and we were protesting at our manager imagine the typical reaction. There's a list of things that would be aimed....deluded geordies, know your place, high expectations, never give managers a chance etc etc Yet Everton (arguably) a club of similar stature are right to want better? Maybe just a press/pundit thing but unfortunately that is how the majority of fans form their opinions on other teams.

Not at all, I just don't agree that they've had a top 4/6 squad for the last two years

Quote from: gjohnson on Today at 02:18:03 PM To be fair, we've had almost 2 years of a side that should be challenging for top 4/top 6 being midtable or bottom half, while the press didn't raise an eyebrow. It's only because fans have started protesting against Martinez that they've picked up their pens. The press were happy to go along with his Mr. Nice Guy image without questioning his horrific results because they don't give a s*** about Everton. Compare our coverage to the mass hysteria in the papers over dips in Man Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool's form. Why's this? Apart from Stones/Barkley/Lukaku there's nobody in the Everton squad thhat screams top 6 to me. Who screamed top four/ six for you in our squad for two years then? No-one in our squad as it's dire, but I'm talking Everton not us :-)

No argument that they're good players, but I still wouldn't have them as top 6 material. Solid top 10 at best in my mind. Leicester aside would you really take Everton's players over the likes of Tottenham, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea or even Stoke? We are called deluded for wanting a team not to be threatened by relegation, yet Everton fans with a team who are sitting comfortably in the league are right to be demanding Martinez's head? Nah, sorry not having that!

To be fair, we've had almost 2 years of a side that should be challenging for top 4/top 6 being midtable or bottom half, while the press didn't raise an eyebrow. It's only because fans have started protesting against Martinez that they've picked up their pens. The press were happy to go along with his Mr. Nice Guy image without questioning his horrific results because they don't give a s*** about Everton. Compare our coverage to the mass hysteria in the papers over dips in Man Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool's form. Why's this? Apart from Stones/Barkley/Lukaku there's nobody in the Everton squad that screams top 6 to me.

Will Leicester start a trend of teams trying to win without the ball? We've seen lots of teams trying to copy the Bayern/Barca method of possession based winning, but both Leicester and Athletico Madrid have shown you can be just as if not more effective without the ball than with it. When Chelsea first got their money, everyone tried to copy them for a few years (and still are to a certain extent). Is this just a trend, or how successful teams will set up in future?

.com reporting that he will be confirmed in the next few days

Sammy Ameobi in Metrocentre Primark yesterday afternoon. With blonde woman about two foot shorter than him.

When players let the ball roll out for a throw in for themselves when they could have easily got to it. Slows down play, and invariably (for Newcastle) lose possession