Kid Icarus

Everton have a chronic lack of movement off the ball like

How much football do you watch on average per week and if it's a lot how do you get away with it?

Two poor teams here like

Really? Think he's been quite good for Everton for about a season now tbh.

Where's the best place to see photos of the flyer? Would be nice to try and look for names on it.

I love how carried away Loaded Mag get with their ratings when we win like Most of them are fair enough, but these are their ratings for Murphy: 8, 9, 9, 9.5, 10 Don't begrudge them at all like and he played well, but 9s a 9.5 and a 10 for Murphy is mental.

Honestly, I'm wasted on this hellsite

Potter from Brighton to Chelsea Nuno from Wolves to Spurs Moyes from Everton to Man United Pochettino from Southampton to Spurs Arteta from no one I take your point, but it's not all that much of a rarity considering there are only 6 teams to pick from and the above is all within the last 10 years. Re the bit in bold, it's all about context I think. We'd had the takeover, Rafa unavailable, Emery turning us down. I'd say that people would have been exited about Howe under Ashley, but I don't think that's true either because each manager came with the baggage of having chosen to work under Ashley and us knowing that we were going nowhere, regardless of how good a manager is. What I would say though, is that in a very alternate universe where we were a functioning club under Ashley, I think people would have been excited about Howe. All in all I do agree with you though, there's no one out there who had the initial excitement over Howe that matches up with the reality, you'd have been seen as optimistic to the point of complete delusion to have ever expected him to be this good. Totally hypothetical, but without Howe being here I think he'd have taken a job and probably got to the level of having the reputation that Rodgers had - this season notwithstanding.

Don't stop.

No chance of an element of rose-tinted glasses either? You always remember the big atmospheres don't you? Bournemouth this year sticks in my mind as being a poor atmosphere but I'll forget it. Man City, yesterday, Wolves, Arsenal last season, and a couple of others sit alongside any match I can think of since the stadium redevelopment though tbh. Don't forget as well, your hearing won't be what it was in the Keegan years

It was delusion then as well. Joelinton's had a hattrick of headers against them and definitely should have scored the double one at Old Trafford.

Doing it against the player we gifted Burnley to ensure their survival and not ours no less.

I mean this in the nicest possible way, but with the football that we're playing and the position that we're in, is the atmosphere really pissing on your chips that much that it's the focal point of what you post about?

If you have kids, read a Peppa Pig book to them, try and do the voice for Peppa Pig and then tell me it doesn't sound exactly like Mark Goldbridge.

Just looking here it's between about 5 and 10 debutants each year since he's been England manager. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/england/trainerdebuetanten/verein/3299

Longstaff's second in the Southampton semi final.

That mentality is more endemic amongst that club, it's managers, staff, ex-pros, and fans than with any other club. Each club has things about it that people don't like - that's their's. Just relentless, insufferable arrogance about who they are. Anyone beating them has done so because it was their cup final, they won because they wanted it more not because they're better, they did a lap of honour because beating us - the mighty Man United - is a huge deal to them and probably the biggest accolade in football. It's been the same mentality from them for decades and it's why no fucker likes them and their sterotypically Terry Christian-like fans.

Seems funny to say this considering the massive difference in positions, but we've now gone past last season's total with 11 games to go. Remarkable that we even ended last season on 49 points as well considering where we were.

I'd snap your hand off for 5 points from these 3 away games like.

Wouldn't say any of them we're incredible, but Martinez and De Gea are the only two who can say they did their jobs.

Watched it again last night and it was more or less as I experienced it the first time tbh - probably because we were so in control and dominant throughout that there wasn't loads to worry about beyond our own missed chances. Trippier was outstanding man, everything he did was more or less perfect. He is a seriously special player - Maybe calling his style British or English isn't quite right, but he has a part of his game that I remember Shearer or even Lampard having, where he doesn't look like he's doing anything fancy, but he does what look like the basics to the absolute highest level. The greatest RB this club has had in my lifetime, no contest. ASM wasn't far off and should have had a hattrick of assists - watching it the first time I kept thinking he should mix it up a bit and take Darlot down the outside, but nah, every time he was going inside he was either putting it on a plate for someone, or playing someone into a great position having dragged a Man United player out of position. His decision making was excellent and his header back is underrated as well, he had to get that spot on and his execution was flawless. Not a negative, but no idea how Bruno got MOTM tbh - what he did on the ball was great, but he was quite quiet compared to the other contenders on second viewing and would be behind Trippier, ASM, Schar, Willock, Botman, Isak as MOTM for me. What a brilliant position to be in though - Bruno puts in probably around an 8/10 performance and I'm sat here thinking there are 6 players who deserve the MOTM award ahead of him.

I think the trepidation about Howe was fair tbh. We were all fearful of going down, there was an expectation of Rafa coming as part of the takeover who we had experience of as a safe pair of hands playing pragmatic, hard-working, tactically astute football. Then we had just missed out on Emary who is imo the modern equivilent of Rafa. Howe was the club's next choice and at the exact opposite end of the scale to those other two in terms of football philosophy™ so that alone was a worry. The expectation from fans with Howe was that we would probably be good going forward but leaky at the back. Of course the devil is in the details and I think once fans looked into what he'd done, watching documentaries, talking with Bournemouth fans etc, those fears turned to excitement and we were for the most part all on board. I always say this, but for me he had me at 'a lot of you are stood still. Standing still's no good, you've got to move' during that first training session video. There was also the sense of the unknown - no one, not even Howe, knew that the time he'd spent working on his weaknesses would work out so incredibly well. Literally becoming one of the best defences in Europe over the past season and a half. I don't think Howe was in the wilderness though, he was constantly being linked with jobs and (just as Potter should have done with Chelsea imo) he turned down the Celtic job because it wasn't right. He wasn't allowed his own backroom staff and that for him was a dealbreaker. Meanwhile Potter walks away from a job where his stock is high into a job where the owner is playing Football Manager above his head. I get people not blaming him, but for me it was always a completely insane decision tbh.

Yeah for some reason that seems to have passed everyone by, but on Reddit a really big deal was made of it.