Moyes says it was just ''one of those days''

David Moyes had no explanations for why his Everton side failed to perform to anything like they are capable of against lowly Wigan Athletic, as the blues crashed out of the FA Cup yet again to the huge frustration of a seething Goodison crowd.

"We've not had many downsides but today is a massive one, for me, the team and the supporters.

"We didn't play well and if you don't play well you are going to lose. That's it very simply but that's the case. It was an opportunity to get to an FA Cup semi-final but we can't complain."

"It was one of those days when it didn't go well at all. We just didn't perform and never gave ourselves any opportunity."We would normally do better and play better but it was a big off day. Even when we did try to put a bit of pressure on the shots we had were wide or saved.

"It just wasn't to be our day," said Moyes. "But I have got to say Wigan played well in the first half. They passed it well and had a good chance before they scored.

"The quick goals came and because of that it made it a very difficult task in the second half. The players tried to get back into it but the longer it was going on the more it drained away from us.

"We didn't really create a lot of chances, we didn't threaten as well as we would have liked. We tried to score any way we could but everything we hit went wide or was blocked.

"But this is a team here and we work together as a team. I don't point the finger at anybody. I might do it in the dressing room but I never do it publicly.

"The whole team is in it together, not any one player. We will pick ourselves up and bounce back. We had disappointment last year and we will try and do a similar job and finish the season well."

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Ralph Basnett
1 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:17:08
Is he for real, we where outplayed because tactically he got it wrong followed by his unwillingness to react at 2-0 down.

I think he looks so down now because not only has he alienated himself even further from the supporters but has probably put paid to a new contract which I for one am pleased about!!

Al Reddish
2 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:20:16
What shots?

I like Moyes but today he got it horribly wrong. Neville and Osman!!! The subs should have been on at 2-0 or at least straight after 3. Jelavic, Osman, Neville, Heitinga and Pienaar (apart from last week) have been shit for ages now and it just goes to show what an opportunity we missed in the January transfer window when 4th was looking achievable.

Alan Humphreys
4 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:21:16
Ralph, "Unwillingness to react at 2-0" they scored 3 in what 3/4 minutes ? It takes Moyes at least an hour to consider changing it. Problem was the CM pairing from the get go - Neville was woeful, Osman running on empty.

Fellaini's attitude stunk - "The whole team is in it together" well when push came to shove very few showed any ability to fight for the cause. Neville geeing everyone on after he makes the pass of the game to gift them the 2nd. Fuck off Phil.

Alan Williams
5 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:26:40
I have been a fan of Moyes but, after today, I think its time for a change, to bring in someone with new ideas because I think he has gone stale and has no idea what is the right team to play. He keeps on relying on the same players and won't give anyone else a chance. Kenwright won't sack him – he hasn't got the bottle – so come on, Davey – do the right thing and go please....
Chris Smith
6 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:29:51
He certainly got it wrong by playing Neville instead of Gibson today but so many of the team were woeful.
Dave Lynch
7 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:27:21
What he should have said was. ' Another one of those years, when we bottle the big occasion and let the fans down with a fucking pitiful display due to my inept tactics and awful management. I'm reigning now because I've realised I'm fucking clueless.'
It was so awful it was laughable and at the final whistle I couldn't even get angry, I was totally ambivalent with regards the whole sorry affair.
Matthew Williams
8 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:23:26
First things first: taxi for Moyes, then play the reserves for the rest of the season. We're a million miles away from Europe's elite, time to build for the future with a young, hungry team of British & Irish lads who don't believe their own fuckin' hype and bleed our beloved club dry with big wages for performing in a piss poor fashion.

Champions League... we're having a laugh!!!

John Keating
9 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:31:39
At 1-0 down, if he'd decided to make a change, by the time the sub had got on, we'd still be 3-0 down!

We just fell apart. It would not have mattered who started and who came on and when the whole team from the kick-off were an absolute disgrace to the shirt and the Club. Everyone in the ground was up for this game except those arseholes wearing Blue shirts.

We were slow to the ball, poor in the tackle – just absolute abysmal. If we were still playing, we still wouldn't have scored. Wigan were up for this and they steamrollered us – how fucking sad is that!

Moyes needs to get everyone of those arseholes in in the morning and make them watch a rerun of that. He should have made them walk around outside the ground after the game and let every one of them get the dogs abuse they all deserve. I've only been disgusted in my team a few times in over 50 years of going – this was one of them

Brian Hill
10 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:32:31
Can Moyes not say: "Every player on the pitch was given a contract on my recommendation. I coach them, I motivate them, I pick the team. I am paid millions of pounds to do those things, yet I put out a team today that looked like it couldn't care one way or the other if Everton Football Club goes out of existence tomorrow?"

Today is inexcusable, shameful.

David Moyes, please leave Everton now.

Tony Christian
11 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:39:59
He treats the fans with contempt however he will still sign his 5 year £20m contract when the penny finally drops that he will NEVER manage a bigger club than Everton. Just wish Kenwright had the balls to sack him.
Ste Traverse
12 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:41:01
Every player back when we are defending set pieces while 3 goals down. What the fuck???

Sums the negative twat up.

I was in the lower Street End and everyone was going mad when this disgraceful 'tactic' was employed.

GET RID NOW and he can take that charlatan masqerading as our Chairman with him. Just wish his smug grid would have poped up on the big screen today.

And I NEVER want to see that phony Phil Neville in a Blue shirt AGAIN.


Brian Hill
13 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:48:06
Ste, will this just be written off as another blip by the sheep? You say everyone was going mad. Will they continue to go mad, or will the next half decent result appease them yet again?
David Edwards
14 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:46:09
The sound of a manager who knows he's come to the end of the road with our club. Doesn't deserve a new contract and actually probably doesn't want one either.

Sadly it all means we have to endure a couple of months of everyone going through the motions – watching the RS overtake us – and then seeing our better players leave (along with Moyes) this summer.

No sign of Bill leaving, so it's back to the drawing board. Let's hope a new manager with a bit more tactical ummph and enthusiasm will take his place...but do you think Martinez would accept a sideways move?

Norman Merrill
15 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:37:10
Moyes, looked like a rabbit in the headlights, while Wigan played us off the park.
And our chairman was hoping he would get back to London in time for his supper,
As for the supporters, Same Old Same Old, Promises promises! But make sure you renew your s/tkts before end of March, Nothing changes.
Richard Farrington
16 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:48:16
"One of those days"? The guy is deluded. We were taken apart by WIGAN ATHLETIC AT HOME with a place at Wembley at stake. They were better in every department and in particular Martinez made Moyes look a fool in terms of tactics. He should do the decent thing now and go before it descends into a toxic and unpleasant end.
Peter Thistle
17 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:55:02
Fuck off Moyes and take Neville with you. Embarrassing.
Paul Hughes
18 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:51:55
I recall that Mr Moyes's predecessor fell on his sword after a woeful 3-0 FA Cup QF defeat.

Wrong team selection, inability to react, hoof ball tactics, negative approach.

I think it is time for Davie to follow Walter's lead.

Dan McKie
20 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:51:15
Moyes said picking Phil Neville over Gibson was tactical? I can't for the life of me think what tactic it was. Does Neville break up play? No. Does Neville always offer an assured outlet for the centre backs? Fuck No. Can he pick out a forward pass? No again. You could hang his kit up ready for the next game, he does fuck all. Today we had what I believe was our nightmare centre back pairing, coupled with our nightmare centre midfield pairing. Martinez played Moyes like a prick. Saying all week how he was thinking of making changes, the chance of a first semi didn't matter, and that the league was all he cared about. We played like a team who thought they only had to turn up and it was in the bag, we had swallowed Martinez mind games. As soon as I saw that Wigan team, with 5 attack minded mifielders behind Kone, I thought we could be in trouble, and we were in a whole heap of it. Moyes mind games was to claim Howard was 'doing fine', only for that to be changed to 4 weeks out shortly afterwards. Moyes has to go, and I hope to god that is the last time we see Neville in an Everton shirt!
Andy Meighan
21 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:44:16
Did anyone expect any different when they saw that line-up today? I've been saying for ages now this coward of a manager is too loyal to under-achieving players. We must have the least mobile midfield in football! Three kids out of the academy could walk into that midfield to replace Osman, Neville and Pienaar and they wouldn't look out of place.

As for the superstar that is Fellaini can people please get out of their heads that he's world class. He strolls round like he's Beckenbaur. But doesn't bring anything to the side. He can't pass a ball can't strike a ball can't tackle and is easily bullied out of games

And if hear anyone uttering that line again, "Jelavic is only a goal away from going on a run" — I'll scream. He's not; he's fucking useless. For fuck's sake, give someone else a go! He's got one goal since December... it's shocking.

We could argue til were blue in the face about the contract situation affecting the players. That doesn't excuse the fact we were outclassed by a side fighting relegation – a side walloped the week before and in a shit run of form. All-in-all... gutted. But not entirely surprised because of team selection.

Jeremy Benson
23 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:57:05
It beggars belief that people can instantly blame Moyes and his tactics.

This pathetic loss runs a lot deeper than such a simple one-man explanation. I've even seen some ToffeeeWebers blaming the entire loss on the Neville backpass. They can't have been watching the same match as me, we were never in it.

The players just didn't turn up today. End of story. They were pretty much all, to a man, rubbish. Perhaps they just couldn't handle the big occasion – as they so often haven't in the past.

Maybe it just meant more to us supporters than them. Money is ruining the modern game. They all got paid handsomely today for that "performance".

I truly feel for the hardworking man in Liverpool who paid out good money that they can barely afford to watch that today.

Thomas James
25 Posted 09/03/2013 at 17:54:29
He could have done a lot. He could made changes on the field, he could have told Neville to stop playing right back.... He could have told pienaar we were the team in blue today and to stay on his feet. He could have told fellaini top drop into the whole being left by Neville. He could have told Heitinga he was actually playing today and not watching(he fit better in second half hours to show he is just rusty). He should have told Osman to pass to a team member. Could have told Neville to pass it forward... Not sideways or back putting pressure on them around him. But he didn't.

Thank goodness he hasn't signed a contract... It is a shame Laudrup has mind.

Richard Farrington
26 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:04:23
Jeremy, if Moyes and his tactics aren't to blame, then please enlighten me what the cause is. Don't bother with the money excuse because thats bollocks. We have a much bigger budget than Wigan.
Paul Ferry
27 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:08:36
Spot on Richard (942), my thoughts exactly when reading what Jeremy had to say. Selection and tactics and weighing the game up as it unfolds are what the fucker gets paid for and he failed on all three fronts. Well, Jeremy?
Jeremy Benson
28 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:11:29
Richard, I already said what the cause was - I thought it was pretty clear. The players didn't play to their potential.
Norman Merrill
29 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:09:09
Jeremy, Money Is The Modern game WISE UP!!!
Paul Ferry
30 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:12:39
Who is supposed to make sure that they do play to their full potential, Jeremy?
Jeremy Benson
31 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:12:21
Thomas - shouldn't those players have realised that themselves? They do it day in, day out, and get paid 10's of thousands a week to know what to do.

Every failing you have pointed out is a player's poor performance.

Chris Leyland
32 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:03:49
I took my lad today — cost me £48 for the tickets. Cost me £7.20 in train tickets, cost me £8 for lunch at the ground and £3 for a programme. £66 in total.

What were we treated too? A bunch of millionaires not giving a shit, coached by another millionaire without a clue about how to motivate said charlatans masquerading as footballers. Well, I've had enough.

Fellani was a disgrace today; if he's a £25m player then things really are going downhill... Neville was a joke. A snail can run faster than Heitinga. Pienaar spent more time moaning at the ref or giving the ball away than anyone else. Coleman was slipping over or caught out of position too often. Jelavic was woeful and can't control a ball. Osman was too slow and Baines failed to get a single ball in the box other than corners....

The only one who came out of it with his reputation intact was Distin for me.

James Stewart
33 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:13:32
The slow death continues
Richard Farrington
34 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:13:19
Jeremy, the Manager bought the players, he trains them, picks the team and should also motivate them. The blame is at his door. 1 or 2 players to have an off day is normal but 10, sorry that's a lack of belief in what we are doing. We were utterly clueless.
Matt Traynor
35 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:07:46
Richard, whenever the detractors come out after a poor performance, the defenders of Moyes say "but it's the player's fault". A good result and "Moyes is a genius". If it's not the manager's responsibility then why employ one? Especially at £4m a year?

Freak results happen, and 3 goals in 3.5 mins killed the game. We seldom score more than 2 in a match anyway, so 3-0 down at home to a Wigan team with their tails up was the end.

But I know many fans won't have been surprised. The squad was never good enough to challenge for 4th with too many players guaranteed their place, no matter how poor their form. The lack of January transfer activity confirmed to many of us that we're destined for another season of what ifs.

We've now got several games coming up where we traditionally struggle to get anything out of the fixture. The same old excuses will be rolled out by the usual suspects, and we repeat the process. Toffeeweb's pages are as predictable as some of our results at Emirates/Anfield/Stamford Bridge!

Nick Waters
36 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:14:17
So managers must be pointless and unnecessary then Jeremy? Funny how every football and sports team ever has a MANAGER to lead them. Pathetic defence (no pun intended but it'll fit) of the clueless one.
Jeremy Benson
37 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:14:03
p.s. Thomas - I don't know what you do for a living. But if your boss told you very often, a skilled professional in your role, what to do, what not to do...after about a month most people (ignoring the very subservient!) would either

a) stop listening
b) get very annoyed and look for another job
c) claim bullying and and unfair dismissal when you eventually resign

The players didn't perform today. You can't always blame the manager.

Richard Farrington
38 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:16:49
Chris, I've spunked 3 grand this season on watching Everton and I have to question my own sanity after perfromances like that.
Tony Hanlon
39 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:15:20
Moyes's post-match comments of "Oh well, bad day at the office" are really annoying... It's like well never mind another game next week blah blah. But the thing that grates most is MOYES will decide if he stays or goes — not Everton Football Club.
Jeremy Benson
40 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:20:04
Nick,

They aren't pointless – I never said that. Don't put words in my mouth, that's a poor argument.

But if you can't see the wood for the tree's, then what else can I say? You cannot blame today's performance on Moyes alone. The players (almost all) were terrible.

I'm not a Moyes defender. I don't hold him blameless for this. But some of you are holding the players blameless, and that's shameful.

Richard Dodd
41 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:15:54
Do people on here seriously believe that Davey has gone home tonight to enjoy a cosy meal with his wife and family? No,of course he hasn`t.....he looked mortified on his TV interview and I am positive he is as upset as any of our number.

The man has won an awful lot of matches for us over the last eleven years and I am sure he really wanted to win another today.The fact that his players weren't up for it will have hurt him greatly and I am sure there will be repercussions for some of them.

In the meantime, let`s all get real. The world won`t end tonight and next week we`ll still be cheering on our beloved Blues!

Steve Guy
42 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:02:51
Unbelievable comments from Moyes and yet totally in keeping with his increasing self delusion..........

believing that Neville was a better bet in midfield than Gibson

or that Jelavic deserved a start (again) over Anichebe,

or that the Heitinga/ Distin partnership works,

or that not playing younger, hungrier, fitter, fresher players instead of Heitinga/Osman/ Neville/ Jelavic / Pienaar is a good idea

or believing that Wigan didn't want to win the match and setting up accordingly

or that not signing his contract would have a positive affect on Team performances,

or that holding the Club to ransom over said contract by holding out for a better offer (either from the Club or elsewhere) is a decent way to behave; given that any player similarly holding out to go on a "free" would be viilified by Manager and suppporters alike

or believing that any other "Big" Club is going to want to employ him over the likes of Mourinho and a host of other probable managers.

or lifting his skirts so embarassingly last year for Spurs or his antics this year in this regard would go unnoticed by anyone with half a brain

or for thinking that patronising Evertonians who bleed blue blood actually buy the patronising line of this being as good as it gets, because he and Bill say so (plucky Everton "punching above our weight" and all that bollocks spouted by both those two and their media mates.

He and "Boys Pen" Billy may be delusional but I'm not and I think increasingly neither are other Blues. Today's result has been coming since before Christmas. We got exactly what we deserved today...nada; but it wasn't because Wigan played well, it was because 11 professionals playing in Blue Shirts played poorly, without belief and no discernable game plan and the fact that Moyes won't admit it and chooses to praise Wigan just reinforces the sense of delusion and feeds my disillusionment and that of many others.

Tony Hanlon
43 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:25:38
I will show my arse if Neviile isn't playing against City next week because that is what Moyes is al about ..... Fucking arrogant
Jeremy Benson
44 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:24:22
Paul,

I respect your opinion a lot, and of course the manager has to do that – but he isn't entirely 100% responsible for their performance. Just as employee's, our boss isn't entirely responsible for us when we mess up and its our fault. If that were the case, only managers would be sacked, and not employees, and that's rarely the case (football is weird in that respect, only because of the cost of players contracts).

And today, the players were at fault. It's been Moyes's tactics many times in the past, but today they players are to blame.

Nick Waters
49 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:28:17
Doddy I'm sure he is miserable, but he is paid to bring success whereas we are paying to witness it, or so we hope. If he can't bring success then he must give the job up to another who can try instead. Jeremy I have already said today that I don't want Jelavic or Neville in an Everton shirt again, but I reserve the largest share of the blame to one who you seem happy to absolve, for reasons that I cannot fathom.
Michael Kenrick
50 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:33:24
But Jeremey, you've just shown why your analogy is flawed. In football, it's managers who get sacked for poor performance & results. Players? Not so much.
Dave Fenney
51 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:03:04
Two of the worst performances by a team I have ever seen have been this season:
Leeds, we should have got our money back that night... disgraceful and Wigan, both teams run at us and we haven't got a clue. Today Jelavic was struggling on his own up front, we should have started with two proper forwards from the start. The pitch was heavy so it might have affected Osman but he has no pace – even our tortoise in the garden moves faster. The defence concedes every week and yet he wont try anything else; Duffy should be given a go before today.

3-0 down and like someone else said when they had a corner, 11 men back in the area. Moyes has not got a clue.

Let's not make a fool of ourselves in Europe, we might be okay in the earlier rounds but that's about it. Baines was the only decent performer today.

Steve Guy
52 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:28:24
Richard you have not been heard of on this site for months, so why are you suddenly back posting this "everything in the garden is rosey, just a blip" tripe on just about every thread this evening ?
Mark Lennon
53 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:27:54
I left myself skint to pay for my ticket as I hate missing any game home or away. Now attack and berate me all you want, but I swear I will not go to another game while that man is in charge. Neville is not good enough, but he wouldn't refuse to play when asked. It's Moyes who picks him!
Paul Holden
54 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:32:44
A watershed moment! Time for a change in manager. We've won nothing under Moyesy, and I don't want to go to my grave waiting for next silverware. The players have, overall, done great this season, but we have over achieved. Coleman, Anichebe, very sadly Jelavic, Heitinga and Naismith not good enough. Neville and Distin are old men by Premiership standards. Fellaini can't want to leg it. Bainesy - great player/great lad - deserves a crack at top flight footie with one of the big three and I will cheer him on wherever he goes. Massive changes between now and the start of next season! Reality check!
Eugene Ruane
55 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:29:49
Jeremy (938), - imo, total bollocks and let me state that, for me, your response/s beggars belief.

What are we - Amazonian rain-forest dwellers who see everything as simply being the plan of the gods and therefore just smile philosophically when it pisses down and say (like Moyes) 'just one of those days'.

Let's be honest - expressions like "The players just didn't turn up today" (or Moyes equally stupid "It was one of those days") are fucking nonsense.

There are actual REASONS for why things do or don't happen on a football field.

If the players 'don't turn up' there's a reason - the manager.

He picks them, he trains them, he buys them.

Phil Neville was (and has been) fucking shite, BUT Phil Neville did not select Phil Neville

This suggestion of 'well it was written in the stars" or "well it's the cup" is about as piss-weak as 'excuses' get.

The reason for coaches and training and tactics and this player over that player and video analysis and conditioning is so players DO turn up.

Of course there's no guarantee of results, but fuck me, if we start excusing results like todays with that kind of two-bob shite, we might as well not have managers - just pull 11 names out of a hat and leave it to fate.

That YOU might not want to hear/accept/discover the reasons for WHY the players didn't 'turn up' and prefer to suggest some ethereal cobblers is up to you, but don't give it all that 'End of story' shite because in reality it doesn't even HINT at 'the story'.

Ged Simpson
56 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:34:26
Mr Paul Ferry - I have watched the game without the joy of the TW live forum and have come on TW to see what peole are thinking. Agree with most (and you) that it may be Moyes's time to go. But one thing I do notice throughout - you pick on one person you disagree with obsessively go after them and their opinion. Your views then lose credibility as you focus on the views of one person. You did it to me for a week or two. Pack it in - it is childish and stifles sensible debate.
Jeremy Benson
57 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:38:08
Michael,

I know its flawed - football managers get sacked and not players, I said it. But they get sacked as they are easiest to get rid of, and cheaper. Easier and cheaper to sack the £50k a week manager than the six £80k a week players who didn't perform.

Jeremy Benson
58 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:42:39
Eugene,

you are right of course.

Andy Meighan
59 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:33:38
Richard 969 you talk the biggest load of shit I've ever heard in my life.

No it's not the end of the world but at half-time it fucking felt like. Do you expect everyone to just shrug their shoulders and just say, "Oh well, there's always next year..."? But there's not under this one-trick pony shithouse of a manager, is there?

I think you need to get real if you're happy with that shambolic performance — but then you're probably the type of fan who thinks Osman is a complete midfielder.

Ray Said
60 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:37:58
Moyes may blame the seasons changing, the way the wind was blowing, the moon being in Scorpio rising or some other such bollocks. Like Michael Jackson he should start 'with the Man in the Mirror'. He's 'Bad' and I wish he was 'Out of my Life'.
Jeremy Benson
61 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:43:01
p.s. and managers don't have transfer/asset values (only the "remainder of their contract" fee). Players do have value that can be traded when you don't want them. It's not rocket science.

Another reason why managers get sacked and not players.

Phil Sammon
62 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:35:19
You know what, as horrific as it was, I could tolerate this as 'a bad day at the office' if it was a one-off. Sadly it was not. We have been woeful for months now. And woeful in the same ways every game. The same players playing poorly. The same formation not working. The same subs coming on at the same times. The same faces sitting on the bench not getting a look in. The same ear piece in that prat's ear tuned to the same self-help station.

Its one thing to make mistakes. It's another to make the same mistakes every week for months on end.

Ged Simpson
64 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:46:56
I tend to lean towards the views of Doddy etc that it isn't end of the world but today I really think this may be the time for Moyes to move on. He has kept us in top flight and by god we needed him to do that but I think things may now have gone stale and it would be good for him and EFC to have some fresh ideas. The risk is we drop but to be honest, it is all a bit dull these days being a Blue
Richard Farrington
66 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:48:05
Ray, Like what you did there, I'm going for "I know its over" by The Smiths to describe my feelings towards Moyes tonight.
Richard Farrington
67 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:51:38
Eugene, spot on.
Patrick Murphy
68 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:49:00
Ray 'You are not alone' and I too wish that DM would just 'beat it' otherwise all we have is 'history'
Michael Kenrick
69 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:54:29
No, Jeremy, managers are on contracts as well. They get sacked because most owners / boards, like most fans, hold them responsible for the performance of their charges.
Robbie Muldoon
70 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:42:00
Here's the crunch, football is a funny old game and can throw up surprise results where a team gets lucky and nicks a couple of goals and the other side has an off day. Sometimes if that match was replayed 10 times you wouldn't get that result again. But I can safely say those two sides today, 10/10 times Wigan would have won or drawn. That's how bad that centre mid was today. Manager's fault 1 million fucking per cent. I really hope MOyes is gone in the summer, and if he isn't I won't bother with my blues again until he has.
Jeremy Benson
71 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:58:01
Michael, I never said managers aren't on contracts (I even said, they only have "remainder of contract fee's").

I said they had no transfer/asset value other than remainder of contract value. I know you like your facts Michael when making a point, so maybe you can re-read...

Ray Said
72 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:55:51
Moyes is basically saying' I Cant Help it' and its just 'Human Nature' but 'The Way You Make Me Feel' is 'Dangerous' and you should just 'Fly Away' and the sooner the better.
Tristan Kerr
73 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:43:22
The thing I can't get out of my head was the lack of fight. No pressing, no tough tackles, no desire. A lack of desire is down to the manager.

The other thing I noticed is that the whole Everton squad seems to be like a bunch of pussies... Where's the tough guys? The guys that roll up the sleeves an get stuck in? We're too nice... I can bet you now that every Everton fan would of killed to see a Carsley or a Big Dunc out there today.

Nick Waters
74 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:53:15
Moyes has not freshened it up since the summer. Jan was a chance, which every club bar us and West Brom took. It then takes coaches and managers a few games to pick up the differences in teams' formations and tactics, if they can at all to any degree of success. But Everton? Same as August but without the impact. Moyes may not have had money in Jan but he has had Barkley, Oviedo (CLplayer), Velios, Hitz and others to deploy on occasions to at least get other teams guessing. But no, it's same as last week, last week, last week. Martinez may not be the greatest young manager around, or he may be. But he's had 7 months to prepare for today's game, as will Mancini next week, unless things are freshened up.
After Wigan beat Huddersfield in R5 Martinez said he's been focussing on rotating a core squad of 17, and was pleased with the results. Today he won every battle
hands down. Moyes simply crossed his fingers and hoped the players were on a 'good day'. Not good enough for 4m.
Jeremy Benson
75 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:00:39
p.s. although I have no wish to get into a mega-reply-debate over whether the semantics/minora of what I have posted previously in the thread contradicts in anyway (it doesn't - I've checked, but that wont make any difference)..like the long debate a while back with someone else....

My own summary : the players to blame a lot for what happened today, and I'm sticking by that.

So I'll bow out for now. I must just be wrong.

Chris Sillett
76 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:44:51
After having a few hours to calm down this is how I am thinking at the moment.....people are saying we have had to put up with Moyes for 11 years and how he has always been dour, defensive etc, well the fact is that Moyes HAS done some good for us during the time hes been here. Yeah there has been no trophies (something I always point out in arguments) but he has turned us from a team full of no hopers and pensioners like Gazza and Ginola into teams over the years that have included the likes of Arteta, Fellaini, Baines and Lescott among others. He has turned a club that considered finishing 16th as success under Walter Smith into a club that see's finishing outside the top six as failure. There has been humiliating defeats in the league, cups and europe but I can also remember a lot of great days and nights where I have walked away from Goodison being proud to be a blue. However, after today it is time for Moyes to walk away before all this is eroded. After 40 minutes of todays embarrasment I witnessed a little boy crying to his dad (i felt like crying myself) and saw grown men arguing amongst themselves like kids in a school playground. Then I looked over at Moyes to see a man who has lost his touch, his fire and from todays performance - his team. It has been a decent eleven years under Davey (apart from the odd terrible year like finishing 17th) but he has now taken us as far as he can go - he has raised the expectations but unfortunately cant match them. Alan Curbishley did the right thing at Charlton after a similar spell there - he announced his resignation a few games before the end of the season and left with the respect and dignity he deserved....i only hope Moyes does the same.
David Greenwood
77 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:52:53
Well, what a bummer. Where to start? Disbelief, anger etc etc.

I think Moyes has improved us from when he took over, no question, but we are now going backwards. Apologies to whoever said it earlier, you're quite right, it's a slow, lingering death.

Captain Pip, it's been clear for sometime now that it's a season too many for him, yet he keeps getting a game. That's not his fault, he doesn't pick the team.

Johnny, he has not been at the races all season. Why, who knows, but to keep picking him when Jags or Distin are not available, it doesn't make sense. If I was Shane Duffy, I would be battering the managers door down to find out what I had to do to get a game. Not to get a chance despite the season JH is having, what does that say about the managers opinion of me.

Ossie, needs a rest, Pienaar last week excepted, hasn't kicked a ball for months, jelly, confidence shot,Felli, totally disinterested but they still keep getting picked.

Oviedo, Hitz, Duffy, Barkley, Vic, they must be thinking whats the point, no matter how these guys play I will never get picked before them.

It is still in our hands, we could finish very high up the league, but the chances are that DM's inability to learn from his mistakes, and worse to keep making the same ones, we will probably finish 8th/9th, a crap return when top 4 was there for the taking if only DM and Bill had gone for it.

Eugene Ruane
78 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:56:18
- In debating anything, is there anything that says LESS than "It's not the end of the world"?

Has there ever been a more pointless....point?

I mean how exactly is one supposed to respond to it?

"Hey I never thought of that - that is a VERY good point, I will immediately shut the fuck about losing my legs, because on the plus side, the planet has not exploded in a huge fireball - RESULT!"

Paul Holmes
79 Posted 09/03/2013 at 18:47:44
This result may turn out to be a blessing in disguise as the Moyes supporters seem to be losing faith and joining the rest of us in wanting a change. Martinez showed how to manage and be tactically sound in this game and showed the doubters on here what a good manager he would be at Everton.

The man has very little money to spend, has no crowds at the DW, but still keeps them in the Premier League year after year. (And his players are on peanuts compared to what Everton pay!)

He has to sell his best players every year (Valencia, Rodiellga etc), but his team tactically outplayed Everton with players from Chile, Austria etc who he gets the best out of, while we have to put up with Championship players like Neville and Osman in the centre of our midfield!

Moyes and his 'BIG' salary and Kenwright "I don't take a penny from the club" have been found out and supporters need to get them out or get used to more of the same while Davy and Bill get richer by the week and are content with just getting the big money from the Premier League every season.

Colin Wainwright
80 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:11:26
The players are to blame Jeremy. Moyes picked them and sent them out to play, so he must share the blame. Thing is, this has happened a number of times, in big games. With different players. The one constant being the manager.
Patrick Murphy
81 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:13:28
Eugene, I'm keeping a close eye on the N.Korea situation, I hope Doddy's right and that it is indeed not the end of the world.
Ian Bennett
82 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:15:21
Eugene - yes, the wife's saying it's only a game, or why do you take it so seriously. A quick fire way to put a smile on your face.
Trevor Lynes
83 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:09:50
The team that played was all we have !! Every player who was fit played some part in the debacle.
Name me a player available to the club who could have changed things ?

Collectively the whole team plus subs were outplayed and out paced by Wigan !!
Nothing was down to tactical blunders...the players all played badly but all the blame is put on Moyes.

The board did not use the transfer window to strengthen an obviously jaded squad.
I was apprehensive BEFORE the game and so were many others who write on this site.

We have not had decent subs all season and now its come back to bite us.
The whole board is a disgrace and I do not blame Moyes as much as a lot on here do.
Having played the game I know that it is mainly down to the players.
Lots of teams have days like today and that includes all the big money spenders.
The players that played today are all we have to choose from and they must get it right from now on.
Some played at half cock, some did not look interested and some caved in when we went three down.....they are all we have !!
We can trot out Duffy and Barkley next game and see what happens but that is about all we can do.
If Wigan play like that for the rest of this season they will get out of trouble (I hope so).

Andy Crooks
84 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:13:49
"we've not had many downsides,,,,". May I nominate this cretinous piece of piss from David Moyes as the worst thing I have ever seen reported on this site. I would also ask Michael Kenrick to banish the phrase knee-jerk from this site. This vastly over rated overpaid coach has nothing left to offer Everton."One of those days" is insulting. If I was to try and list the downsides over the last ten years I would be typing till midnight.
Wayne McNee
85 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:20:22
BBC article up already re all our gripes...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21730155

Barry Rathbone
86 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:17:15
Just seen the Moyes post match interview as he was doing the wide eyed platitudes his body language was shouting "really not arsed anymore".

Be staggered if he's in charge for the next game.

Andy Crooks
87 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:22:35
Trevor, why are managers ever sacked then? Yes the board are shite but Moyes has colluded with them for years and has been well paid to do so.
John Shaw
88 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:23:20
Trevor 038, I give you one Darren Gibson!
Patrick Murphy
90 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:25:46
Wayne thanks for the link I found this section interesting:

' So, as the pages of the calendar turn over to the conclusion of Moyes' deal, decision time comes closer. Moyes explained he wanted to see how his side fared in the Cup and the league - now one avenue has been closed off. If Moyes wanted to wait and see, there was nothing encouraging to see here. '

'There are a variety of forces now at work at Everton surrounding Moyes and the decision that will shape his and the club's immediate future. '

I wonder who or what those forces are?

Ian Bennett
91 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:26:33
Barry think you're right, or possibly a couple more sapping big defeats with that run in. I thought a couple of games ago it was the cards all in thing, with a romantic rnding - wrong. A couple of bad hands and he is down and out. And today was bad starting with p Neville on the team sheet.

Gomez and McCarthy must have been rubbing their hands together at our soft centre.

John Shaw
92 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:26:03
Andy 044 - I think it's wrong to say that Mpyes has colluded with them, he is after all an employee who is paid to do what he is told, like a lot of us. If he had thrown his hand in, say 3 years ago due to lack of transfer funds, what would it have achieved?

It would have been subject to the usual mutual consent bollocks, along with a legal undertaking meaning that he couldn't say a word about what was really going on behind the scenes. So on that basis, we the fans would be non the wiser and a large percentage of us would still think the sun shined out of Kenwrights arse !!

I think Moyes is a genuine guy, I just think he has taken us as far as he can. I think he himself needs a new challenge, and we as a team need a new manager with fresh ideas.

How successful that will be however, with the current pathetic and financially paralysed owners/board, remains to be seen, I for one certainly won't be holding my breathe !!!

Andrew Clare
93 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:35:58
The worst thing about today is that we all know absolutely nothing will happen!

Moyes will still be here. Kenwright will still be here.

Very disappointing!

Phil Walling
94 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:21:32
On another thread there is a fascinating story about the man many regard as our greatest-ever manager. It appears that, after 11 seasons of outstanding results and the most beautiful football, he lost his touch and was persuaded to resign/ removed from office. Either way, he left.

I humbly submit, if that fate could befall Harry Catterick, what price the very average David Moyes?

Keith Pratt
95 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:32:56
I am 51 and unemployed for the 1st time in my life, so I am lucky compared to many, but to blow all of my £71 jobseekers allowance on that disgrace has just made me realise what a bunch of overpaid twats most players are... not all, but take a bow, Mr Fellaini, fuck off to Chelsea you thick, overated tosspot. You are a disgrace to that famous blue shirt. Moyes, you clueless looser, just go anywhere away from the SoS.
Alan Jackson
96 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:32:11
Interesting to hear of all the opinions on David Moyes, but what does he think of us... well, this week a former player, referring back to the team selection for the Leeds game, asked DM if he was concerned by the fans' criticism. DM replied that he picks the team and has no interest in what the fans think and that he never listens to phone-ins or reads newspaper letters or website comments.

Says a lot about his attitude I think!

Much has be said about how far Moyes has taken Everton as far as they can go, and that Moyes deserves a chance with a "bigger" club. My take is that we need the change for the club to kick on to the higher level, not the manager.

Good to see Barkley make an appearance today, but taking Mirallas off? Why?

Where is Vellios? Is Victor a right winger? I have seen him in training, he needs to be up front every time.

And please, what on earth was Baines doing when he kicked the ball out of play for a player who was not even on the field, to receive treatment?

Re an earlier post, why would BK sack DM when he is out of contract at the end of the season? Last time the contract was on the table in the January and Moyes delayed signing, this time no contract has been offered.

Richard Farrington
97 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:42:09
Some good posts and interesting comments on here tonight on what is a very sad day to be an Evertonian. I am now going out to get absolutely very drunk indeed and hope I wake up tomorrow with the news that Moyes has done the decent thing and resigned or announce that he is leaving at the end of the season and we can all move on and concentrate on his replacement, who will have a hell of a job on.
Martin Berry
98 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:15:52
Wo is me.
Winston Williamson
99 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:57:18
That was by far the worse team performance I have witnessed!
My dad said that was the worse Everton performance he's ever seen - 55 years!

I took my boy today! 6 years old! child cruelty?! Nah, just a shit day at the office for Moyes and Co...which cost me a total of £100 and other fans similar amounts!

Minimal effort...fucking wank. I'd keep only 2 people presently at the club...Baines & Mirallas...Felliani can fuck off with all of the other shite...

Patrick Murphy
100 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:59:17
Just read the David Moyes programme notes from today's match:

"Most of the players we have available to us are internationals and they have many qualities, but the biggest is the collective spirit and desire to win for Everton. It's part of the DNA at this club and I hope that you supporters have seen it and today you'll see it again as the players and the staff try make your Saturday night as good as we possibly can."


Mike Hughes
101 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:52:10
Robbie - #015

When it comes to the crunch, DM just hasn't got it.
In big games we bottle it - FA Cup final and semi, League Cup Final and most Derby matches.

I could see today coming and wasn't that surprised. To feel like that says it all. The RS semi-final was the low point of the Moyes era for me as I expected success and was sickened by the performance and result that day. Today, as DM put it post-match, was "just one of those days".

Bollocks.

Even the "good" first half of this season was a surprise given the pre-season shenanighans.

Now it's back to same, tired, stale manager, football, post-match comments etc etc etc.

Time for a spring clean out. Get rid of the dead wood. Start again.

Thomas Windsor
102 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:02:43
Moyes should leave after the last game of this season so the new manager can begin trying to work out his plan. Please, David, don't sign a new contract: 11 years is enough!
Lee Browne
103 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:00:17
All the players and manager should give all this weeks wages to a local charity. They never earned a bean today. All of them should be ashamed of themselves: Felly wasn't interested; Neville not even a bench warmer now; Pienaar misplaced passes all game... WTF? Gutted, depressed... chance of Wembley and they couldn't even stand up to it.
Mike Gaynes
104 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:09:57
That was simply the worst I have ever seen from an Everton side in a game this big, and it’s the first time I’ve ever been embarrassed to be an Everton fan. It was obvious from the outset that Wigan had a plan – throw all their attacks at the hopelessly overmatched Coleman, and throw a blanket over Baines – and it was obvious that it was going to work. Moyes’ plan to help out Coleman with Neville and Pienaar failed utterly, and the attempts to force the ball to the covered Baines became ridiculous.

The first goal was the fault of whoever thought little Osman could mark Figueroa. The horrific second should be Neville’s swan song into retirement. And the third was the same pathetic passivity that marked the attack all day, exemplified by the useless Fellaini. The only passion on display from anyone besides Mirallas and Distin was the endless whining to the referee about nothing. That this team should produce this display in the biggest game of the season, at home against an inferior opponent, is inexcusable – and it’s on Moyes. I have no complaints about his lineup or substitutions. But this was clearly a flat, uninspired side.

This season is pretty much over. The way we’re playing, we’ll be lucky to get three points out of our next three games. So no chance for 4th, no chance for 5th unless both Arse and the RS fold up. Nothing left to play for except finishing ahead of the RS, and I really don’t care about that. Time to close the accounts of Neville and Heitinga, send Gibson off to surgery to get ready for September, and find some nice comfy seats for Osman, Pienaar and Jelavic while we blood as many of the young players as possible in the final 10 games of the season. I want to see what we really have in Barkley, Oviedo, Duffy, Vellios, McAleny etc. before the manager and roster decisions are made in the summer.

But I don’t think it will happen.

Robert Collins
105 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:06:36
"Just one of those days"

I'm not one of his supporters, but I've always thought he conducted himself with dignity.

I can now only now conclude he's either deluded or has no honour?

Go now!!!

Andy Walker
106 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:01:12
Moyes made a massive error picking Neville, this is a given.

However he was let down by the other players as well, sure he picks the team and trains them but its the PLAYERS who didnt turn up today and they should not be not be excused blame.

The simplistic argument that the players didnt turn up so its just Moyes fault is too simplistic. Ask yourself has no one you trusted ever let YOU down in your life? When they let you down was that your fault then?

The players were in the main a disgrace today and let down the fans and the manager.

Mike Green
107 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:08:14
Mike 081...... League Cup Final....... have I been comatosed by all of this so much I missed a League Cup Final?! Shit. Bollocks. Have we really been in a League Cup Final with Moyes? Bollocks. What happened? Who beat us?
Robert Collins
108 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:12:37
Matthew Williams @ 890

I agree and well said mate, you can see the greater picture!

Kenwright has allowed him to build a team of OAPs that wouldn't last 5 minutes in the Europa or CL.

New build a youthful team for the long term.

Mike Hughes
109 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:17:55
Mike # 092

Sorry - meant semi final - drowning my sorrows and the ales started talking.

Michael Evans
110 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:14:31
Eugene Ruane - THANK YOU for expressing what so many of us are feeling !

Here's a crazy thought - there was a time when Everton managers were SACKED for their inability to win trophies.

Now we worship the 'Moyesiah' for taking us to the 'promised land' of 40 points a season.

If Everton managers are no longer ACCOUNTABLE for performances and winning trophies then BK should do the decent thing and let us MUGS who still care know.

Patrick Murphy
111 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:14:11
Andy#090 That may hold water if we were talking about the odd player here and there, but truthfully not one player was at the races today and that's very hard to accept as being independent of the Manager. He has to take responsibility and he must know his players characters inside out and if he doesn't then what sort of manager does that make him? If you also throw in the fact that it has happened on numerous occasions with totally different personnel then it would appear that the Manager is the constant in the equation.


Trevor Lynes
112 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:16:02
John... Gibson did nothing to change the game after coming on..he is not an impact sub.

Andy (#090 You have more or less echoed what I said earlier.

I asked the question before: Who did we have on the bench to alter the state of the game? I honestly believe we have the weakest bench in the league and I have said this while we were winning prior to the January transfer window.

This bungling board let EVERYONE down in January when it was openly obvious that the first team needed a few fresh faces to retain the impetus of the great start we made to the season. Once more after a defeat, it's the manager who is the punch ball for the board and they seem to get off Scot free.

I was really afraid when I saw who we had available for this game. We totally missed the boat in January and this board have written this season off because we now have enough points to stay up.

If Moyes go's at the end of this season we will be losing one of our best ever managers. He has been finally let down, frustrated and looks broken to me. This board will take the plaudits if we win but skulk in the background when we lose.

Sean Patton
113 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:24:19
Can you imagine the uproar if it was Barkley who made the mistake the captain did for the 2nd goal, he would never be picked again but we all know that Neville will still be in team next week.

Talk about double standards

Kevin Tully
114 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:07:29
It was the manner of the defeat which hurt most today. We looked like a lower League side today, at fucking home, with a trip to Wembley on offer.

Wigan looked ten times the athletes we did, knocking us off the ball, and with seemingly miles more pace. Our only reply was to try and hoof it to Fellaini or Jelavic when the chips were down, do we really pay £4m a year for this tactical masterclass?

What manager in world football has all 11 players in his own box when 3-0 down in a Cup game? Would a Sunday League managervever employ such idiotic tactics?

We now find the club being held to ransom by this fraud, what a fucking shambles. Spurs gave Redknapp his P.45 after finishing 4th, we are on our knees begging this man to stay, after shaming the club with his shite. Incredible.

Kunal Desai
115 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:27:54
'It was one of those days' - Of course it was Davey, this is symptomatic of a man who isn't an Evertonian and lets be honest is still at the club because he gets paid £3 million plus a year. Good riddance to him when he fucks off.
Mike Green
117 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:32:13
Mike 094 :D looks like we're in the same boat! Cheers....
Mike Hughes
118 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:33:54
Mike #108

boat?...you mean ship. A sinking one.

Andy Walker
119 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:25:18
Patrick, in no way do I think Moyes shouldn't take some of the blame; he should, but I also think the players must stand up and be counted. I do not think they performed and I feel they let me down, they were in charge of their own attitudes and actions on the pitch this afternoon.

To be a player apologist and suggest that it's because Moyes did this or that is complete bollocks, and is making excuses for multi millionairre professional footballers who just fucking bottled it. I am not saying you're doing that by the way mate. They are all responsible for this shambles.

Mike Green
120 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:33:27
Kevin Tully - nail on head.
Mike Hughes
121 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:33:54
Mike #108

boat?...you mean ship. A sinking one.

Eugene Ruane
122 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:02:04
Trevor (038) - "Some played at half cock, some did not look interested and some caved in when we went three down.....they are all we have !!"

If Everton players play at 'half cock' - down to Moyes.

If Everton players don't look 'interested' - down to Moyes.

If Everton players cave in when we are three down - down to Moyes.

Not only that, but if Everton are outpaced by Wigan - down to Moyes.

You say nothing was down to tactical blunders?

Nonsense - it's a tactical blunder (always!) to play Neville in midfield (or anywhere)

Yes the players played shite but they're HIS players.

He bought them.

He picked them.

He trained them....badly.

Oh and to say 'they are ALL we have' is also simply not the case.

He has been, in the opinion of many, ultra cautious with some of our younger players.

Fine when you have a successful/winning side, but when things need freshening up...he hasn't.

When he could have been brave, he hasn't

The dogged, intransigent presbyterian, repeating the same mistakes/tactics/players over and over and over and... learning nothing it seems.

I don't hate David Moyes and I do believe he is a decent man.

Many times (even this morning come to think of it) I have paid him compliments regarding his dedication.

But he's going backwards, has undoubtedly gone stale and I believe his contract HAS become a distraction.

I think if would be better for Everton if he went and I think it would be better for David Moyes too.

Robert Collins
123 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:32:28
Trevor Lynes @ 099

Were you watching the same game as the rest of us today?

You are in the absolute tiniest of minorities!

Did you see that nearly empty stadium well before the end or hear the boos?

The fans didn't leave or boo because they're upset DM has no money to spend, it was for another reason!

Do you know what it is?

I'll give you a clue: just maybe the don't want him to have that money to spend?

Patrick Murphy
124 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:37:21
Andy I agree with you that the players let us and themselves down big-time. Either they have learned how to mug Moyes by saying and doing the right things in training or Moyes himself has lost interest and isn't on the ball, you very rarely get that sort of performance from any top-flight team and we have witnessed it on far too many occasions. If it had been a horse-race there would have been a stewards inquiry into what we witnessed today.

Paul Washington
125 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:25:34
This defeat was coming, last week's first half against Reading was diabolical, but Dithery Dave managed to gee them up for the 2nd half...

Anyway, before the game, on paper, we should have had more than enough to see off a team fighting relegation, who embarrassed themselves last week. I've seen some awful displays over the years and that one is up there with them.

Moyes is devoid of ideas, a First World War general, fighting a Second World War battle. Let's play the fringe players / kids from now on, see what we have got and start again, preferably without Dithery Dave and that Belgian phoney and his deluded dad.

Chris Leyland
126 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:26:28
I said it earlier and I say it again, Distin is the only one excused from today's sham. If the rest of the over-paid and under-talented shitbags and cowards out there today had an ounce of decency they would collectively forfeit a week's wages and donate it to charity. However, as they drove home in cars that cost more than most of us earn in a year to houses that cost more than a lot of us will earn in a lifetime, I bet it didn't cross the mind of one of them that they should do something like I've suggested.

As for Moyes, I have been a fan of his up to Christmas this year and I've defende him on this site. But no more. He is clearly leaving at the end of the season but even with that knowledge, when the big game came around and he had a chance to take us to Wembley, he bottled it once again and reverted to type with his team selection. Heitinga and Neville are clearly busted flushes but they were on the team sheet when Duffy and Gibson (or even Barkley) would have been better suited to this game.

As soon as we went behind we capitulated and it was clear that there was no Plan B (some might even say there was no plan A). I don't think that Martinez is the answer but at least he came with a game plan today and a tactic to exploit our weaknesses. We had nothing.

The whole club stinks from top to bottom. A tired and worn out stadium. A tired and out of ideas manager and ageing and under talented team. No money, no ideas and no prospects unless we have a route and branch clear out from top to bottom. Bring in a new manager with new ideas. Sell Fellani and give said new manager the money to buy young, hungry players and let's start again. I'd rather finish 12th and have seen a different style week in week out next year than the same old staid and laboured shit we have been witnessing of late.

Mike Gwyer
127 Posted 09/03/2013 at 19:52:19
Brian Hill #912. I was at that shit fest today, in the main stand, so I don’t know how your ITV feed relayed the non- stop abuse that was thrown at Moyes, from Wigan’s first goal to me leaving around the 70th minute. How your ITV feed relayed the trouble between Evertonians & stewards – Evertonians who were being ejected for standing and abusing Moyes, his side kick Round and that total fuckwit Neville. These blues, have supported Moyes through thick and thin, travelled all over this poxy country supporting Everton and rest assured – they ain’t fucking sheep so keep your fucking abuse of fellow blues to yourself.

Dan Mckie – #931. Spot on, Moyes’s mantra has totally fucking gone.

Richard Dodd #969. Seriously - I mean fucking seriously, that was Wigan who popped over the M6 and gave Moyes a serious lesson in football!!!!!!!

As for Neville - your days as anything that resembles a footballer are fucking finished.

Moyes – fucking wow, how many fuck ups can one person make, or allow to happen, in a 90 minute window. Take all the publicity and self image that you think you have, pop into BK’s office and tell him to fuck right off. Then leave this wonderful club.


Andy Riley
128 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:43:52
I do think it's taxi time for Moyes. He's probably Johnny Carey fifty years on. Competent but not really good enough. Won't happen though because BK is not John Moores who clearly believed in the NSNO motto.
Andy Walker
129 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:41:53
Eugene, thats the simplistic players apologist I was talking about, nothing to do with the players then, all the fault of Moyes?

Next time I have a shit day at work and I do a bad job, I'll blame my boss.

Moyes is responsiible for picking the team. He certainly should take the blame for picking Neville, Osman and Jelavic. They are all clearly not worth a place in the side at the moment and havent been for weeks.

You blame him for picking Baines and Fellaini then do you? They were sensible logical selections pre kick off, that any manager would have included in the side. The fact that they were shite is down to the players not Moyes.

Wayne Smyth
130 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:42:31
Trevor (099) how bloody stupid are you??? I can't believe you're this thick.

You put the fault of defeat squarely at the foot of the board for not providing Moyes with the funds to beat Wigan. Here's a fucking wake-up call for you.

Wigan spend about HALF what we do on players. Their turnover is about £30M / season LESS than us, and they sold some of their best players last season and turned a profit.

We weren't playing Barca. We weren't playing Chelsea. We were playing a team brought together on a much smaller budget.

Moyes bought or retained ALL the players in the squad. If the squad is too shit to beat Wigan, then the blame lies squarely at the clueless, negative twat in charge who is one of the highest paid managers in the league yet bottles it every single time we get near a trophy, regardless of the opposition.

Wayne Smyth
131 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:49:17
All the people complaining about Barkley giving the ball away in dangerous positions, take a fucking good look at Neville's performance today... despite gifting goals and possession, he'll still be the first name on the teamsheet next week.

I firmly believe that most of the players have seen through Moyes and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they're not giving 100% to get the dour tit out of our club.

Only 1 player today really showed some fight for the entire game and that was Mirallas. Osman was poor, Neville was an embarrassment to himself and the club; most of that squad should be donating their wages to a charity this week. The performance from manager and players was just unacceptable.

John Shaw
132 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:45:21
Trevor 099 - you've got it completely wrong.

Gibson would have made a massive difference, because I'd bet my last pound that had he started, instead of Neville, he wouldn't have made the pass for the second and he would also have been in his usual position in front of the back four to block the third, so you see, we did have a player who would have made a difference, but it's a little difficult for him to do that from the bench, and that is definitely the fault of the manager, and nobody else.

I do agree that he has been shafted time and again by the board, and for me the comic capers from Jan this year are coming back to bite us on the arse. But even allowing for that, there are things that Moyes could have done which would have made a difference, like starting Gibson, and also his ridiculous reluctance to make more frequent use of players like Oviedo, Vellios, Duffy and Barkley, it really is pretty poor fare !!

Andy Walker
133 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:53:40
Cracking idea about the donation to charity, Wayne, unfortunately I cant see it happening though but I'd love to be wrong. It would actually show that they care, which at the moment I doubt.
Mike Green
134 Posted 09/03/2013 at 21:06:26
One of those days.... Three goals in three minutes.... At home.... In an FA Cup Quarter Final..... Against relegation fodder..... Hardly a shot on goal all game................... Just...... one of those days.......
Trevor Lynes
135 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:59:59
I just don't see Gibson in the same light John and I reckon what we have on the books outside the first team is bloody abysmal.

You can only use the tools you are given and Moyes has been trying to make silk purses out of pigs ears for too long.
No one else was bidding for ANY of the players we have signed over the past few years including Jelavic, Heitinga, Fellaini and Bily.
We immediately drop out whenever any other club shows interest in a player.
Newcastle Utd have a top chairman who signed at least five players during January.
Wigans bench is stronger than ours never mind the top clubs.

Take a long, serious look at the playing assets at our club and all we have is a decent first eleven without any subs worth retaining on the payroll.

In the past seasons we have given jobs to the likes of Hahnemann, MacFadden, Hitzelsberger and Naismith, none of whom were wanted elsewhere by any club with ambition.

Now we stand to lose Fellaini and perhaps Baines with the distinct possibility of Moyes joining them.

A new manager will want money to buy fresh faces so the only person who will be employed once DM moves on is someone who will take the job without a transfer budget.
Once Moyes go's we will slide down to the way we were before he took the job and bailed us out.

As Ive said before..this club board will only part with money when relegation threatens.

Jamie Barlow
136 Posted 09/03/2013 at 21:03:38
Winston@079 I know how you feel. I took my daughter to her first game today. I've been bigging it up all week. The atmosphere, singing, the buzz, only to be let down by a load of overpaid pricks.

I know it's only a small part of the shambles today but can anyone explain why Baines put the ball out of play for a Wigan player who was injured off the pitch?

Thick as fuck!!!

Robbie Muldoon
137 Posted 09/03/2013 at 21:15:10
One of those days as in most embarrassing days for the club. All round I've never been as embarassed for the club as I have today. From the chairman, to the manager, to the players, to the stadium that looks like a cow shed on the tele and now some fans. Especially the ones tweeting the players telling them their child is inconsolable and all that bollocks. A very dark day for Everton and I wish the season finished today. It might as well have for us anyway.
Clive Rogers
138 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:35:41
Moyes must take the blame due to the selection of the centre midfield pair. He's picked Neville for six years and he's not been up to it in the middle. His passing has not been up to it since he came to the club. United got rid coz he was past his best. He's picked Osman for ten years and should know he's hopeless in centre mid. Osman is a failed winger who has never been PL standard. He is too small, too weak and his range of passing is limited to sideways. If Moyes hasnt got that yet he is a poor manager. The fans have known it for years. Moyes seems to be a worse manager now than he was five years ago. He'll never win anything anywhere. He sounds good in interviews, but really is an average championship manager.
Frida Ericsson
139 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:35:38
David Moyes as shit himself on every single big ocassion. When every important match has mattered..uefa, europa, fa cup, league cup, derbies. No matter who it's been...we have failed on the very ocassion when it really mattered. The one constant in all of that is the Manager.

Non of this has fuck all to do with money. Do Swansea or very poor Bradford have shitloads of money? of course not, but both appeared in the league cup final, while we went out against world beaters leeds.

The fact is, this happens to us every single fucking season. Always when it matters the most..we get slaughtered. I can accept freak results, shit happens, but that being said..it continuously happens every single season. The man is incompetent and inept in my opinion.

10 years of the same old same old. At one stage where where going forward, but then we came back down to earth with a loud thud, nothing has improved, but things have got worse.

The League this season as been shite. How else do you think we are still in 6th with 12/13 draws? we should be no where this position,now teams around us are starting to pick up point and we are caught, down the league will go.

when it matters this manager doesn't care..if he did, he wouldn't fuck it up every single ocassion, I have come to the conclusion that the only people who could possibly want this idiot to remain at the club, are those with interests away from Everton and I sincerely mean that, because with Moyes in charge we stand no chance of ever winning a thing snd that is a fact.

he needs to go now, because for me he has well and truly outstayed his welcome.. this squad is pathetic...and most of it needs getting rid, just like Moyes needs to be sacked.

I do not want mediocrity and mindless / pointless seasons where we can't win anything due to the dour negativity this manager breeds into our players.

He built a very poor team, of which most would struggle to get into a fucking championship team let alone lower league...and this man proclaims them to be the best he has ever had ?? he statements are just as baffling as him being a manager...go back to the championship and learn your trade properly you tactically inept baffoon.

I won't say thanks for what you have done, because you are over paid to do the job your supposed to. you want to manage in germany hahahaha you turnip brain

Eugene Ruane
140 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:53:13
Andy (127) - "Eugene, thats the simplistic players apologist I was talking about, nothing to do with the players then, all the fault of Moyes?"

When you say "nothing to do with the players then" it tells me you simply haven't read my post, because if you HAD read it, you would have clearly seen - "Yes the players played shite" - which I would suggest is hardly me saying 'nothing to do with the players'.

You continue..

"Next time I have a shit day at work and I do a bad job, I'll blame my boss".

Maybe, maybe not, you see I'm familiar with the details of what happened today at Goodison and with those involved, so I feel able to make the call I have. Before I'd feel confident giving an opinion on YOUR boss, I'd need to know more. I'd be interested in things like, did you feel motivated by your boss? Did you feel tired? Properly trained? Were you distracted because your boss might be fucking off? Do you respect your boss? Has he employed a bunch of nob-heads who were no good at their jobs when he employed them and now they drag you down with their incompetence? That kind of thing.

The next paragraph could have been written by me

"Moyes is responsiible for picking the team. He certainly should take the blame for picking Neville, Osman and Jelavic. They are all clearly not worth a place in the side at the moment and havent been for weeks"

No argument there, next.

"You blame him for picking Baines and Fellaini then do you? They were sensible logical selections pre kick off, that any manager would have included in the side. The fact that they were shite is down to the players not Moyes"

No I don't blame him for picking them, I blame him for for putting them in a team containing the useless players that YOU just pointed out, thereby giving them the work of two players. I also blame him for failing to sufficiently motivate them (if they appeared not to be sufficiently motivated).

Hope that helps, but if I'm wrong, maybe you could make a list of what you think a manager on 3.5 mill a year (or whatever) SHOULD be responsible for.

Would be genuinely interested.

Eugene Ruane
141 Posted 09/03/2013 at 21:26:16
Trevor - "You can only use the tools you are given and Moyes has been trying to make silk purses out of pigs ears for too long".

The tool who made the pig's ear that led to their second goal today wasn't 'given' - Moyes bought him.

Guy Hastings
142 Posted 09/03/2013 at 20:57:47
You know when you really want to say something but then think, 'what's the fucking point.. because whatever I say will have absolutely no bearing on what happens...'?
Colin Wainwright
143 Posted 09/03/2013 at 21:39:46
You've just summed up my life, Guy.

Shit!

Frida Ericsson
144 Posted 09/03/2013 at 21:40:17
if we all said the same thing, and sang from the same sheet, we could get rid of moyes on monday..buy as Jackie said previously on the Live forum, the fans are just as much to blame for allowing this manager to still be here. frightend rabbits in the headlights, thats what I think of some of our supporters who are to 'frightend' to get together to get Guyhim out because they worry we might get relegated...in fact strange as it sounds, relegation might be what we need to get the board members out..they wont want to sit in a sunken ship, there really would be hardly any value and the valuation price would come down..probably even go into administration which would mean someone being appointed to 'really' look for a buyer.

Guy Hastings #157 I agree with you..whats the point when there are not enough people brave enough to usurp this turnip??

Wayne Smyth
145 Posted 09/03/2013 at 21:25:39
Trevor, how many other clubs bid for the Wigan players that gave us a footballing lesson? And what does that have to do with anything anyway?

No one forces Moyes to pay Hetinga £60k / week
No one forces Moyes to pay Neville £50k / week.
No one forced Moyes to pay £15M for Fellaini
No one forces Moyes to ignore our youth squad.

I think you'll find your argument has no substance whatsoever.

Any new manager will need money to buy players. I suspect that £20-£30M for fellaini plus offloading Hetinga, Neville and a few others is likely to save the club enough money to buy 2-3 decent quality replacements. Maybe our new manager could make use of Duffy, Barkley, McAleny, Vellios etc. They'd be like new signings!

Colin Glassar
147 Posted 09/03/2013 at 21:52:30
You've had too many "just one of those days" Moyes. You are a nearly man. One of those who get within touching distance but just can't cross the line. Thanks for the memories but we now need a manager with fresh ideas and who will get rid of your untouchables. Oh, and Steve Round.
Guy Hastings
148 Posted 09/03/2013 at 21:49:40
Today transcended unmitigated shite. That said, what I find interesting is that, taking my pub regulars as a litmus test, not one of them has any real enthusiasm for the current state of their club, or the state of the game itself.

Arsenal won't spend; Spurs are riding their luck with Bale; Chelsea haven't a clue, who'll be Ferguson's successor (he's as good as landed the title and still they're not happy); Villa, well the writing was on the wall last season; Liverpool are very so what and still suffering from the fallout of KK's second coming; Rangers beyond laughing stock....

The only fans I know who seem to be enjoying watching football are in the lower leagues. After today's display, we may well be joining them in a season or three's time. So it's not all bad...

Michael Evans
149 Posted 09/03/2013 at 22:03:53
Did narrowly avoiding relegation (twice) terrify us all so much psychologically ?

Were we prepared to ignore out doubts about the tactical ineptitude and fundamental negativity of DM as long as he kept us SAFE ?

40 points a season at ALL costs ?

Have we colluded with this insidious process ?

Tony Marsh has often been ridiculed on this site for his negativity because he's dared to question the Everton legends that are BK and DM..

Everton have done a pretty good job of portraying the Blue Union as the 'enemy within'.

After almost 40 years of supporting this club I feel very uncomfortable tonight because I know that I've been prepared to accept the crap that BK and DM have offered up.

What's that saying about good men (and women) doing nothing ?

Trevor Lynes
151 Posted 09/03/2013 at 22:15:02
The fucking club buy the players — not Moyes. They avoid doing business until it is too late for alternatives... Newcastle did not!!

Moyes is offered what they supposedly can afford (if you believe it) so we end up with POUNDLAND shopping. Wigan's chairman puts our board to shame... he invests in the club!! Same goes for Newcastle's chairman.

Our board get into the ground for free... we the fans put in the investment. They sit on their shares and fiddle while Rome burns.

So long as you clowns continue to blame the manager who has kept us in the top ten most seasons, this board can sleep peacefully in the knowledge that we have survived another season in the Premier League.

He is the best paid punchbag in the club!!

Talk of getting rid of Heitinga and others is ludicrous... no one wants them. Only Fellaini and Baines are wanted.

Mike Price
152 Posted 09/03/2013 at 22:11:52
Finally, the lemmings are starting to turn, the PE teacher may have been sussed and the emperor is finally seen as bollock naked. He's the most overrated manager in the history of football. A small minority saw the 'obvious' years ago and I got panned for saying he had drained the will to live from me years ago and I couldn't take it anymore and just wouldn't stay involved. Well as we all know its easy to say but impossible to not be involved but I'm finally hopeful that there may be light at the end of a long dark tunnel.

Maybe, just maybe we can get someone who reveres pace, skill and attacking football, that won't just pick his favorite jack of all trade types who try really hard in training and pick the cones up at the end. FFS we are paying millions of pounds a year and morons are still saying who could we get that's better!

Steavey Buckley
153 Posted 09/03/2013 at 22:36:48
When I saw Neville leading Everton out and realised he was playing in midfield, my heart sank. I knew then it was going to be one of those days. When ever Neville and Osman play together in midfield, one of them (or both) conjures up chances for the opposition. And on cue, Neville and Osman delivered for the opposition. Besides them two, Heitinga can't defend and Jelavic can't score. What a shambles!
Patrick Murphy
154 Posted 09/03/2013 at 22:27:01
Trevor you are absolutely correct in blaming the board for not investing in the club, however, David Moyes gets paid FOUR MILLION POUNDS a year to manage the club and has always known his conditions of employment. As you will have read on today's post's many people sacrifice time energy and no end of money to get to Goodison Park and they expect to see whichever players in an Everton FC shirt to work hard for the club, we did not witness that today and it is not the only time it has happened. WIgan Athletic are not the highest paid players in the league, nor do they have the largest squad, but they seemed to be able to generate enough passion for the game and showed touches of class on occasions allied to hard work for the FULL 90 minutes.

How much damage has today's result done to Everton FC around the globe? Whelan will take full advantage of Wigan Athletic playing at Wembley and if they survive in the PL he will probably sell to a new owner before next season. If Everton FC had gone on to win the FA Cup they still wouldn't be able to generate enough interest because the board is and always has been inept, that does not excuse the manager or players for today's performance or any other similar performances.

Paul Ferry
155 Posted 09/03/2013 at 23:14:08
Isn't it £6 million sponds Patrick? Agree with every other word tho.
Nick Armitage
156 Posted 09/03/2013 at 23:33:44
Moyes fuck off.

Neville, never pull on a blue shirt again.

http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/everton/id/633?cc=5739#

Derek Thomas
157 Posted 09/03/2013 at 23:46:37
Has fizzer and any other twats tweeted yet?
Paul Kelly
158 Posted 09/03/2013 at 23:36:29
One of those days. Us fans have had to endure 'one of those decades' you cunt.

Apart from one good calendar year, it's been fucking awful. Truly dire.

Being a scouser and previous season ticket holder now living in Kent, I decided not to attend any more along time ago. 5 hours and a bundle of my hard earned cash to go to watch KITAP1. No thanks.

Thought we might of turned the corner after our early season form. We have the same players but can't do Shit. What happened?

Carl Bloxam
159 Posted 09/03/2013 at 23:52:18
Gutted, I do think we bottled it but I do think there is some knee-jerk reaction. It's a long argued point but DM has put together a good team with little funds. Maybe it is time for him to go but I feel like we will get worse as soon as he does. There is no money to invest in a good striker and CM at the moment and the team will break up if he leaves and probably drop out of top half. It's hard being a toffee on a day like today but there will be better days.
Jamie Barlow
160 Posted 09/03/2013 at 23:53:23
Distin has tweeted quite a lot and Duffy a little. Our captain is unusually quiet though.

It was pretty depressing watching the stadium empty today. It probably says a lot more than words could.

Martin Handley
161 Posted 09/03/2013 at 23:34:54
The last time I felt this low was 11 years just after we'd been beaten 3-0 in the quarter final of the FA cup (sound spookily familiar?) within a week the manager a dour Scot (again sound familiar?) had been replaced by a young vibrant manager willing to give youth a chance and play attacking football.

Fast forward 11 years another 3-0 defeat for defeat, sorry, surrender in the quarter finals for an Everton team managed by a dour scot. I wonder if history will repeat itself with regards to the manager?

A few people have said that Distin was the only player to come out of today ok, I disagree I thought Mucha did ok as well, he's certainly not at fault for the goals and made at least 3 saves of note. The worst player in a blue shirt for me today was Fellaini he just didn't seem to care; if that's his attitude, the sooner he goes the better.

Mike Green
162 Posted 10/03/2013 at 00:15:00
I've been thinking about it a bit and to be honest its really, really simple for me what I want from my team.

I want them to come out of the tunnel looking like they want to tear the opposition a new one, play like want to tear the opposition a new one and win, lose or draw walk off the pitch knowing they'd done their best to tear the opposition a new one.

Did we do any of that today? Did we fuck.

Mike Powell
163 Posted 10/03/2013 at 00:15:28
It will take me a long time to get over that performance... in fact, I am not getting my season ticket next year and I have had one for 23 years. I am not being funny but you people who don't live in our city don't know what we feel like, having to put up with this every fucking year.

Neville should never play for us again and people on here who say Osman is a good player are fucking deluded — sorry for the swearing but I am pissed and and sick ff takeing shit off them RS... FUCK OFF EVERTON.

Good luck, Wigan — hope you win the cup. By the way, the Ref was a twat.

Mike Green
164 Posted 10/03/2013 at 00:34:59
Point in case.

Nelson, stood on deck of Victory at Trafalgar was asked by his second in command what his tactic was faced by the combined might of the French and Spanish fleet.

His answer was 'I'm going to go at them'.

And the rest, as they say, is history. Something we seem to be pretty fond of....

Derek Thomas
165 Posted 10/03/2013 at 00:44:27
Mike; and those that forget history repeat the mistakes, almost every season or so it seems.

Wigan didn't have chance to sit on a one goal lead (and we don't know if they would've) before Neville gave them another.

But they defo didn't sit on a 2-goal lead.

When it was 0-3 all they did was play a very comfortable rope-a-dope. The last hour wasn't exactly Rorke's Drift backs to the wall stuff was it.

I'll be cheering for them in the Semis and, with a bit of luck, what could've been our Final.

How many Groundhog Days is this now?

Anto Byrne
166 Posted 10/03/2013 at 03:50:09
Playing Neville is Moyes way of raising two fingers and telling us all to fuck off. What has Tommy Hitz done and why not put Barkley on from the start?

As per usual when it come to the crunch the man is always shown up for what he is a fucking defensive clueless fool. I wanted the prick gone 5 years ago. I hope he fucks off soon.

Tim Jones
167 Posted 10/03/2013 at 04:39:09
It's his team selection, his tactics — or rather lack of tactics, his man-management and motivation, his selection and timing of substitutions, his training ground coaching — it's HIS fault. Time to go — resign, Moyes, you useless muppet — have you no shame.
Tim Jones
168 Posted 10/03/2013 at 04:44:20
The people I feel really sorry for are those who conflate loving Everton with supporting Moyes. If you really love Everton, you should be enraged by the shame that Dour Davey has brought upon us.
Kevin Freaney
169 Posted 10/03/2013 at 04:53:17
Can I just say, let's judge Moyes on this alone:

3-0 down at half time.Quarter final at home, game at Wembley on offer

And the team runs out for the 2nd half....and shows fuck all passion. Fuck all anything. Same as before.

If you cannot motivate the players in this situation, well then, you're shite.

And as for the Mirallas sub... well, that's one way to resign (please... please).

Kevin Freaney
170 Posted 10/03/2013 at 05:05:40
The odds on Neville starting the next match.... real world, 2,000,000/1

Moyes World.... get the shirt on Phil, the midfield is weak.

That's okay boss, I can shout a lot and point... as for passes.....

Drew O'Neall
171 Posted 10/03/2013 at 05:50:05
Gibson isn't fit.

Our next best centre midfielders play up front or left midfield.

Moyes took a risk with Neville against 'lowly' Wigan.

They scored 3 goals in 4 minutes which is a bit of a freak.

Moyes will be much more annoyed than his comments allude.

I hope he learned something today; if he did, we should see quite a bit more of Barkley now. (I'm certainly not a Barkley booster but enough's enough.)

Steve Brown
172 Posted 10/03/2013 at 06:09:55
Conversation with my wife following the catastrophe....

"Oh dear, never mind"

Muttering below breadth.

"There's always next week"

Mild expletive summoning the almighty.

"You're just like a kid, it's only a football game!"

Exasperated shouting countered by folded arms and sour look.

"Anyway, I thought they said Moyes is a good manager".

Complete silence.

As a respecter of Moyes but not regarding him as the Moyesiah, that silence is the cue for him to signal this season will be his last. Because I cannot think of a single argument for why it would benefit him or us for him to sign a new contract.

Neil Pickering
173 Posted 10/03/2013 at 06:24:09
I personally lost all faith in Moyes in 2009, when Stevie G-la was sent off in the derby at Anfield after half an hour. Any manager worth his salt would have jumped on Liverpool that day and won the game, but not our Davey; he played for a draw and we got beat easy.

Same goes for the Wigan game. They have a manager that dares to send a team out in a big game with a brief to go out and dare to win a game. On paper, they are inferior to us in pretty much every position, but when you have a go anything can happen. That's the difference for me, and why Moyes will never manage a club bigger than us.

It was inevitable we would not win the cup whilst teams like Man City, Chelsea & Man Utd are still in it. It hurts like hell going out to Wigan, but think how bad it would have been at wembley, so in a way im relieved that pipe dream is over.

Moyes has to go now. I am grateful to him for all he's done, but we need a fresh pair of ideas and eyes looking at things. Martinez gave a great interview for the job today, and I would love him to be given a go.

COYB

Tim Jones
174 Posted 10/03/2013 at 06:40:30
There is one Jock name that could never be applied to timid, safety first, defensive Davey — Braveheart.
Laurie Hartley
175 Posted 10/03/2013 at 00:41:41
I recorded the game on Foxtel (I've stopped getting up in the middle of the night these days because I have this crazy idea that I jinx the team when I do). Anyway I got up this morning thinking I wonder how we wen't. Then In my mind I saw the headline "Wigan shock Everton". So when I opened the BBC website I wasn't really surprised that the headline was "Wigan stun Everton". Does this mean I am psychic? Or does it mean as an Evertonian that I have come to expect and accept disappointment?

I started reading this thread and thought I had better watch the recording to see if it was as poor a performance as my fellow Blues on this site were saying it was. IT WAS!!!

Even if I hadn't known the result after the first ten minutes of watching the recording I would have predicted Wigan scoring the first goal. They were obviously up for it and had figured out (like most other teams in the premier league) that if you go hard at this Everton team they will crumble. That was their game plan and it worked.

Anyone who believed the Pre match propaganda that Wigan would put out a weakened team for this game is deluded.

Picking Neville before Gibson was like saying to the Wigan players and their manager - "we are frightened to death of your threat going forward and we are going to start the game cautiously." Wigan got the message and obliged.
To see Everton fans flooding out of the ground was heartbreaking. I have been guilty of swallowing the "great job under difficult circumstances" line. Not having any more of that. We were out thought AND outfought by as someone said elsewhere "The Mighty Wigan"
To win in the premier league you need a winning attitude. We haven't got it and it definitely is NOT GOOD ENOUGH!


Good luck to Wigan in the semi AT WEMBLEY - whoever they play I am sure they will give them a game.

Alan Clarke
176 Posted 10/03/2013 at 07:22:03
I was chatting with a Kopite the other week (something I generally avoid) but I entertained his conversation because he was whinging about Rodgers. He then went on to say he thought Moyes was a good manager. I started to explain all of Moyes failings but it really bores me now. So in one line, I think I summed it up:

'When we defend corners, we bring every single man back in to our penalty area'.

That in one line describes Moyes and his whole philosophy. Early in the 2nd half yesterday Wigan had a corner. Bear in mind we're 3 down and have brought on an extra striker and what do we do? Bring every man back. Pienaar clears the ball from the corner and guess what? Jelavic is stood on our fucking goal line. What a fucking joke.

Kevin Day
177 Posted 10/03/2013 at 07:19:15
I've always been a Moyes supporter, and to be honest had been hoping he signs his contract again. But my eyes are are beginning to open a little bit more now, I think it's time he went, not in a nasty way, cos no matter what you say he has done good at the club, no one can deny that, I just think that Moyes is going stale and for the good of Everton and himself its time he waved good bye and moved on, Everton need fresh ideas, Moyes needs a fresh challenge, I for one would want Gus Poyet as my number 1 choice
Phil Sammon
178 Posted 10/03/2013 at 08:09:24
Interestingly on Twitter, someone said "We need to stop playing the same 11 week in week out and give our youth a chance." Distin responded, "I agree"

A few of on here have been shot down for pleading with Moyes to try some of these lads. Well it's obviously been on the minds of some senior pro's as well.

John Crawley
179 Posted 10/03/2013 at 09:32:10
Interesting comment Phil. I like you think that some of our young players should have been getting some game time. It won't happen under Moyes. I had doubts about Moyes and young players when he didn't play Rodwell in 2009 cup final. But the final nail in that particular coffin was his treatment of Duffy last season, when the lad came in for a few games and played well but was then dropped and never seen again.

If you are a top manager then in big games you get the players and the team to play to the top of their ability. Moyes has never managed to do that. For those people, if there are any left, who still support Moyes then ask yourself would Moyes have got that team to beat Spurs and Man Utd in 1995. I think the answer is pretty clear! He's never been anything better than a good but limited manager. He shouldn't have been here for 11 seasons when he has never won a trophy. The club should withdraw the contract offer and Moyes should move on.

Phil Skelton
180 Posted 10/03/2013 at 09:32:47
"It was just one of those days" if you google David Moyes this is what the definition would be.Big game bottler, tactically inept and the fact under Moyes it will always be one of those days. This game was supposed to be the quest for redemption etc etc but we were totally outplayed by a team slaughtered last week. Due to the arrogance of Moyes and his team having already booked wembley hotel tickets we got what we deserved.

Unfortunately Moyes cant complain about his players because if he cant be arsed to sign his contract then why should the players be arsed to play. Only at Everton would Moyes have the freedom of the club to take the right royal piss.

I believe every fan who paid to watch that shower should be refunded their money and preferably from Moyes buldging pockets

Andy Walker
181 Posted 10/03/2013 at 09:27:01
Eugene 152, with pleasure. I believe in personal responsibility, in other words whether you have a shit boss or whatever, you should always try your best. We all don't always do that though do we, but trying to push blame onto someone else in those circumstances is not right, its the easy option though.
Excusing the performances of Fellaini and Baines because he picked players he shouldn't is bollocks. Their attitudes and performances stank, they let themselves down, me and you down as well as thousands of other fans and whether you like it or not, Moyes. I have zero sympathy for the view that its OK for any player to throw their toys out of the pram because the manager didn't pick the players they wanted to play with. You get on with it whether you agree or not and do your best, because its your job and your being paid for it.
Moyes is responsible for tactics, player selection training etc. He should be accountable for the mistake of picking players in poor form or past it, we agree on that. Where we don't agree I think is that you feel he should be immediately culpable for ever action of all his players. He could not have foreseen the ineptitude of some of the players performances yesterday. You have to trust your players precisely because its down to them to deliver, you can not control their actions on the pitch. Players Moyes should have been able to rely on failed big style, that's their fault.
Moyes is now responsible for reacting to what he learnt yesterday. If he does nothing then yes he can be blamed as he's responsible for failing to act, but he can't be blamed for everything at this stage. He did actually react immediately to Fellaini's most blatant strop by taking him off.
I'd like to see him drop a few so called big names for City. If he doesn't and they get beat then I think this does provide some greater justification for criticising Moyes.
Kev Johnson
186 Posted 10/03/2013 at 11:18:32
DM's post match interviews were staggering. ""It was one of those days when it didn't go well at all." Etc, etc. If only someone had shown the nerve to challenge him and say - "Hold on, that's not good enough. After one of the worst Everton displays in living memory, you really need to say something about what went wrong. The fans need to hear from you."

A few weeks back, I made a thread pointing out that the manager's communication skills were zero, and he was failing in one of his prime duties - which is to speak to the fans via TV and newspapers. Most people who posted said that didn't matter. In fact, some even said that they respected the fact that DM treated the media with contempt it deserved. I'd like to know what they think now, after that fiasco. Is furiuosly glaring at the hapless interviewer the appropriate response? No, it is not

To be clear: I hold DM partly responsible for what happened - he picks the team and sets them up to play in a particular way - but I hold the players equally, if not more, responsible. It's not all his fault, but some of it is. He needs to hold his hands up here, the way DIstin did after his semi final howler last year.

Ultimately, I realise, his post match interviews are irrelevant, but if he had been able to communicate with the supporters then it would have been a silver lining. He needs to publically address the question "What went wrong". As someone said - there have been so many posts since the game that it's hard to keep up with who said what - the boos ringing round Goodison are highly significant. The players, manager and board all heard them and that will influence what happens next. DM is perfectly well aware of crowd reaction, that's why he was calling for Evertonians to be the "12th man" in the lead up to the game. Well, the crowd gave the team what they deserved, in no uncertain terms. What say you now, Mr Moyes?

Phil Sammon
187 Posted 10/03/2013 at 11:24:44
Tony Pulis has been getting some grief recently from Stoke fans. His response, "They come, they pay their money, they'll be here long after I am and they're entitled to their views."

Now, I would sob my heart out if he ever took over at EFC...but at least the man has enough humility to accept the views of others.

Moyes genuinely believes we are lucky to have him. He came at a good time for us and I honestly believe he has done great considering the circumstances. But now those circumstances have changed, we have a squad that has outgrown the manager - not the other way around. Quality players who are played out of position, quality players who are not given a chance, and quality players who are not rested when they clearly need time to reflect.

Moyes, as far as I'm aware, does not live on Mars and commute to Finch Farm. He knows what the fans are crying out for. He is the most stubborn man I've ever come across and will flat out refuse to acknowledge the fans desires. The only way the likes of Barkley will ever start a game is if we all shut up about it and Moyes is allowed to make the decision by himself. Then it's 'his idea' and he is once again a genius in his own mind.

I'm almost in disbelief that I'm writing like this about Moyes. This time last year I would have argued hammer and nail for him to stay. Something really hit me this season though. Moyes belonged at Everton 8 years ago. A team of also rans with phenomenal team spirit and work ethic - and Marcus Bent up front. That isn't Everton anymore and Moyes is completely out of his depth.

It would be one thing if we were shipping goals because we were playing 3 up front and getting caught out. It's the absolute opposite though. We are playing the most defensive minded, every man back for corners, bullshit I've ever witnessed...and STILL throwing goals away.

And any time we do attack and get a goal - well batten down the hatches, because we ain't crossing the halfway line for the rest of the game.

And outsiders, the media and Moyes himself think we're lucky to have this man at our helm. They're wrong. We were lucky when he came. He has done brilliantly for the club. But now his time is up and everyone who goes to Goodison can see that.

Phil Sammon
188 Posted 10/03/2013 at 11:47:05
Hammer and nail?

Did I mean tooth and nail or hammer and tong? You know what I mean.

Karl Meighan
190 Posted 10/03/2013 at 11:45:36
Moyes insults us fans weekly,telling us we played well when anyone of us can see that we have been shite since xmas, there keeper had one save to make all match and this was not even Wigans full strength team.

It looked to me like Mirrales was one of a couple having a go second half yet Moyes drags a attacking midfielder off and replaces him with young Barkley who wont be as attack minded as long as he lives, and were all sick to death of this eleven in the box defending corners yet we still concede, how the fuck are we meant to break if we do win the ball? we were destroyed by simple pass and move football and all Moyes team offered in response was the usual high ball from the centrebacks upto the one striker on the pitch who is up against four or five six foot plus defenders are these the tactics of a top manager?

Moyes thinks none of us knows anything about football and things could be worse if he went but ime quite sure if the gamble was took we would at least have a victory at the Emirates, Anfield or Old Trafford in the next eleven years its never likely to happen under his management as for the who could do better mob well I would trust a couple of hundred on here as much as I trust Moyes. The only suprise yesterday was that Naismith wasn't his first sub.

Paul Andrews
191 Posted 10/03/2013 at 12:20:55
He is a defensive minded coach who can't coach his team to defend
Robert Collins
192 Posted 10/03/2013 at 12:26:18
Phil Sammon @ 383

Hello Phil,

Well said!

Although I personally was saying to anyone who would listen and there wasn't many of them, that I thought he had reached his plateau and wasn't going to win anything 4 years ago. I've been one of those tiny few voices and now there should be enough of us to topple him.

The problem is BK who I blame for allowing him to build an eldery team close to retirement, DM was thinking only of himself with this team and not the long term prospects of the club. We've only go 4 players we can sell Fellani/Baines/Jagielka/Mirrales, who would want the rest for any reasonable price?

When Moyes says: "Just one of those days", he's either deluded or has no honour?

Our fire should be turned on BK who's allowend Moyes to develop this team of old duffers at the expense of you youth/hunger/aggression.

Bill Kenwright has got his way, he wants the fans to have no expectations and he's provided us with a "lifetime" manager who's happy to fulfill that role. He's got us so terrified of relegation we're happy to accept just being in the Premiership.

Michael Winstanley
193 Posted 10/03/2013 at 12:30:44
Robert, he peaked when we got fourth and should have gone after the 5-1 hammering against Bucharest.
Colin Smith
195 Posted 10/03/2013 at 12:40:33
I'm new to ToffeeWeb but, after that shambles yesterday, I feel as though I must vent my anger. Our great club is slowly eroding to abysmal levels to a point it makes me feel ill. No longer am I paying to feel like this... no more, till this shower fucks off.

After reading through comments, I must say Richard Dodd appears to be a spin doctor for Bullshit Bill and Dour Davey!! You cannot defend the indefensible!!!

Mike Gwyer
196 Posted 10/03/2013 at 12:48:29

Robert Collins - what are you after some sort of award for being able to spot that Moyes was some sort of cunt several years ago. The stewards were the busiest people at GP yesterday, ejecting fans for abusive and aggressive behaviour — all aimed at Moyes, Round and Neville.

Every Evertonian is fucking pissed but they don't need to be referred to as lemmings, sheep, or whatever other sad name TW posters are calling them — they are blues who go to Goodison Park. It easy to sit on your PC typing how knowlegable you are about Moyes and Everton but at the end of the day you are slagging off fellow blues who will now have to suffer working with RS fuckers who could well be above us in the league by the end of today .... fuck this I'm going down the pub.

But lastly, that Fellaini was a total disgrace, he was spoke to by several Everton players and by the manager but he still played like the self-loving twat that he is.

Andy Walker
197 Posted 10/03/2013 at 13:44:04
I don't actually believe that Moyes thinks it was one of those days, I suspect he is furious and to avoid a conversation/interview which may have lead to him hammering his players in public ie he couldnt trust his true feelings not to come out, he pre planned a deliberately bland statement.
That having been said he still should have at least apologised to us for the performance.
He will be hurting today as well not that I have sympathy for him. It may force him into questioning himself and his abilities and I think it will pretty much guarantee he will leave in the summer, if he hadn't already decided to go.
Kev Johnson
198 Posted 10/03/2013 at 13:56:15
Andy - I agree with you, but that just shows he thinks it doesn't matter what he says to the fans! An apology would indeed have been the right thing to do. He and the team let the fans down. But that seemingly doesn't matter to him.

How can he expect the fans to be the 12th man when he treats us with such disdain? Rhetorical question. He can't.

Andy Walker
199 Posted 10/03/2013 at 13:54:51
Mike I completely agree, I made a similar point yesterday that the priorities of a small minority of posters seems to be to use yesterdays events to demonstrate a supercilious attitude to us thickos, whilst at the same time boosting their own self esteem.
Susong Hermawan
200 Posted 10/03/2013 at 14:03:34
Same old same old, week by week...its time for you to leave DM!
Andy Crooks
201 Posted 10/03/2013 at 14:47:32
Mike Gwyer, I agree with you. I haven't been able to afford to travel for a game this season but totally respect those who go .There is another thread which appears to blame fans in some way which to me is absurd.By all accounts Moyes and the players got the message yesterday.
Robert Collins
202 Posted 10/03/2013 at 14:51:10
Mike Gwyer / Andy Walker @ 416 @ 441

Mike & Andy I'm not the enemy. It's BK and the dignified "Man of honour" on the touch lines you should be firing at.

I'm after no award, I've just struggled to believe just how many of our so called Knowlegeable fans up until literally this Christamas still thought he was the "Moyesiah" and give him all the money he needs. Keep him on was the common opinion a few months ago.

Like you I'm venting frustration (this should have been stopped years ago).

Mike, can you find the words "lemmings", "sheep" or anything of the sort in my post?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that this can't happen again, we all have to learn a lesson?


New manager and give him the Fellani/Baines money to bring some decent youth in, the sun migh shine again?

Andy Walker
203 Posted 10/03/2013 at 15:10:43
Fair enough Robert.
I am not sure whether Moyes wants to go or not, equally I don't know at the moment if I want him to go or not. I think I will have a better idea after the City match though. His team selection and the performance will be interesting. It's shit or bust time as far as I'm concerned for the lot of em.

Will he pick the same team as yesterday and give them a chance to redeem themselves? I don't think he should but if he does they will need to get a result and fair dos to him if they did.

Will he drop a few of his faves and put in the likes of Duffy, Oviedo, Barkley? That would show he's willing to make a point to his senior pros and in his eyes take a risk. If they lose then I think he would actually be under less pressure as he would have been seen to react to yesterday.

Phil Sammon
204 Posted 10/03/2013 at 15:44:12
Its interesting how many people are now happy to let Baines go after a few very average performances.

I think a new manager can invigorate our squad and Baines, Jagielka, Mirallas and Jelavic are all key men I'd like to see the team built around.

The fact is, before his recent slump, Baines was consistantly changing games from left back. He is the best in the country there, without a doubt in my mind, and we should do our best to keep him. Also, I don't know what it counts for these days...but he's a great lad who gives his all for the club.

Ship Fellaini. I've enjoyed having him at the club but he doesnt want to be here and his magical showings are more than outweighed by game upon game of mediocracy.

Fellaini, Heitinga and Gueye should bring in at least £25million- hopefully more. Neville to retire. Thats c. £160k off the wage bill in total.

I hate to play the accountant...but theres money for us to build and improve under a new boss (who isn't on £70k p/w)

Robert Collins
206 Posted 10/03/2013 at 16:06:00
Andy Walker @ 465

Hello Andy,

The sad thing (for DM and us to some extent) is that even if he does drop his faves put out a decent attacking setup, I think as a team they're just simply psychologically sunk, they may do well for the first 20 mins (or whatever), but as soon as they concede one (like a boxer with a glass jaw) they're going to wobble.

If I was BK and I suddenly experienced a bout of bravery and decisiveness I would sack DM (or offer him the chance to resign), come to the conclusion we're safe we're not going down and give the team to stubbs (it doesn't matter who (we're not going down!)) and take the pressure off him by telling him to play the youth, enjoy the football, give them some regular experience before the new manager comes. I for one (and believe there's many) would enjoy the sight of the kids having ago, win or lose. Even if this club did get into the euro places are we prepared? The same will happen as what happened previously.

Build for the future!

I simply don't want to give any new money to DM - he's tired, we're tired.

Phil Sammon
207 Posted 10/03/2013 at 16:26:25
Can I just take the oppotunity to say that if anyone is getting an interim job, it absolutely should not be Stubbs. I'd sooner have Sheedy or Big Dunc. And their first job can be to sack Steve Round and the guy on other end of that FUCKING earpiece.
Tommy Meehan
208 Posted 10/03/2013 at 16:32:46
I don't Phil, might be his Mam on the earpiece
Robert Collins
209 Posted 10/03/2013 at 16:33:56
Phil Sammon @ 513

I've got not problems with what you've just said Phil, there's obviously people who shouldn't (Round, Neville etc), Dunc or Sheedy let's do it!

Andy Walker
210 Posted 10/03/2013 at 16:34:35
Hi Robert #510. It would be an interesting and brave move to sack him right now. I think anything is possible over the next week though, Neville retiring, Moyes announcing resignation or at least his future plans.

We probably all expect Moyes to be in charge next week, but for the first time ever I think anything could happen.

Assuming Moyes is in charge next week, his team selection is going to be one of the most interesting I have personally looked forward to. I wouldn't like to bet either way on wholesale changes or no changes.

I think he should make changes because as you say mentally some of them are fooked and conceding first may see them falling apart. The crowd will also be super tense.

At least Spurs have just equalised.

Robert Collins
212 Posted 10/03/2013 at 19:23:16
ndy Walker @ 521

BK not that brave, he'll probably be here at the end of the season. We may well get well and truly sorted out by Chelski,Arse,RS, BK and DM have their excuses (lack of funding blah blah..... or just one of those days!) and then maybe a win and mainly dour draws against the lesser teams.

If he won every game to the end of the season, I would still expect the same old same old next season from him.

Leading upto DMs contract end there will be a long silence and then afterwards one also, BK will be testing the water and hoping the fuss has died down so he can re-hire him!

The reason I think the above is because of DMs "just one of those days" statement, there's a real confidence in that statement (and arrogance, does he know something we don't?), I'm hoping deep down he's deluded and BK will find the backbone to off him from the club.

Eddy Bernard
213 Posted 10/03/2013 at 21:50:30
Moyes has basically just qouted the facts of the game, but thats something we the fans all know.

The difference is he is well paid to explain what went wrong and provide reasons and answers for the diabolical display we all witnessed.

Bad day at the office or one of those days doesnt cut it for me, I honestly feel the time is right for a change and hopefully he will now move on and let us bring a new face in to start a new chapter in the grand old teams history.

Ken Morgan
214 Posted 11/03/2013 at 01:28:40
Saw Royle and Gray on Al Jezeera at half time saying PN and LO were just not up to it! Wonder if either of them fancy 4 million sheets a year? One bald, on salt and pepper. No more gingers please.
Bob Parrington
215 Posted 11/03/2013 at 04:40:22
FFS Moyes. Take responsibility FCS. You plick (sorry, i'm with some Chinese fans at present)
Tony Christian
216 Posted 11/03/2013 at 13:45:06
So there you have it, folks: 48 hours after one of this proud club's most embarrassing defeats, the Moyesiah otherwise known as David Moyes writes it off as none other than a "bad day at the office".

This deluded fool takes no responsibility for his tactics and failings and believes that the jeers and boos from the crowd were born out of mere frustration and not aimed at him or his players. He even has the temerity to state that any criticism from the media or supporters is redundant due to fact that we really don't know what we are talking about as the game is far more complicated than we were led to believe.

Well, Mr Moyes, who should we blame for conceding a goal a game from set pieces?

Who should we blame for playing Phil Neville?

Who should we blame for not having a Plan B in every game?

Who should we blame for not signing a midfielder or centre half during the transfer window? Shall I continue?

Any remaining respect for you has now gone as you didn't have the decency to hold up your hands and say sorry. No contrition, no dignity and therefore no sympathy from me when you get jeered at the Man City game.

Paul Andrews
217 Posted 11/03/2013 at 13:47:42
Moyes: I don't point the finger at players in public."

Yes you do. You have done it in the last few weeks:

"I need more from Mirallas"........

"If Jelavic does not score goals our season will be difficult."

Richard Reeves
218 Posted 11/03/2013 at 14:20:34
What are we expecting him to say? To take the blame himself? No chance.

In his first 5 years I thought he was an honest, respectable kind of chap with integrity but not for the last 6 years. He never excepts responsibility and is probably the most stubborn manager I have ever seen. If he was to speak the truth it would go something like this...

"That was my fault for that performance today, I've played the same players in the same positions for far too long without giving the reserves a chance. I should not've put Neville in midfield but I need someone to galvanise the team when they self-implode due to my stale, overly defensive tactics and because I need someone in there who I can trust. I should've rotated the team earlier in the season, bringing in some of the youth which could possibly've breathed new life into the team. I should've dropped Osman because he's a bit too lightweight, but again, as with Neville, he's my friend and someone I trust. I've lost the changing room on several occasions and these are the type of players you need on the field as well as in the background... you see there's quite a lot of whispering behind my back so it's always good to have people to back you up. Apart from that I wouldn't know what to do as I only have one style of play. That's right I did say style... What are you giggling at?"

John Crawley
220 Posted 12/03/2013 at 06:41:31
Phil 492 I agree with you about Baines. We should be doing everything in our power to keep him at the club. To me the reason his form has dropped off is down to him playing on with an injury. He is the best left back I have ever seen at Everton and I've been going since the early 80's. we will miss him a lot more than fellaini or any other player.
Nelly Verdonghan
221 Posted 12/03/2013 at 09:20:13
Q....If Sir John Moores (god rest his soul) was still in charge of this once great club does any one think that Moyes would still be manager at Everton ?

A.....NOT IN A MILLION FUCKING YEARS !!!!!!

Sir John must be spinning in his grave at the clueless buffoons that now control his beloved club....Chairman, Board of Directors & Manager...all fucking clueless...time to go....."TAXI...." for the fucking lot of em

Robert Collins
222 Posted 12/03/2013 at 16:46:50
Richard Reeves @ 996

Spot on Richard, I feel like cutting and pasting that everywhere!


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