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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Elston Gunnn in Martinez - Direction?   
    What if we'd sacked Martinez before liverpool got rid if Brenda ! would klopp have been just what we needed.If that is the case maybe we slipped up.
     
    We have got a very good squad, shame if it breaks up before it has a chance to show it's full potential.
     
    Martinez tried during his sencond season to out pass every team, playing it sideways, backwards, sideways and backwards again.Some of the worst football I've ever seen, even with a pretty good attacking squad.He tried it against Watford in the opening game of the season, scraped a draw and was boo'd off.
     
    Realised he had to change it or get sacked, he has changed things, they are better than they were, well the tip-tap crap has improved.
     
    Now he has to change again, kill off teams when we are far the better team, make a few daring subs, have the guts to drop people, give fringe players a chance.Might just work, at the moment it isn't.
     
    This football club won't always have Coleman, Baines, Jags, Stones, Barkley, Lukaku and some other very good players, maybe we deserve a really good manager.
     
    Martinez certainly isn't a bad one, but if he can't change, certainly there are better ones.
     
    Maybe we haven't got enough money to attract big name managers, the present boss at Leicester, would we have wanted him?
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    Blue 250 reacted to Romey 1878 in Longest Thread For Drivel (or the Romelu Lukaku thread)   
    Oh yeah, the bloke who looks like he couldn't finish a half eaten sandwich at the moment :I surrender: .
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Deacs in Predict our result: 2015/16 season   
    Congratulations to those that have knocked me off the top of the league!......also to those gathering just below me in the table, I have just one small request.....!
     
     
    STOP IT!
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Romey 1878 in Predict our result: 2015/16 season   
    Congratulations to those that have knocked me off the top of the league!......also to those gathering just below me in the table, I have just one small request.....!
     
     
    STOP IT!
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Deacs in Pienaar   
    At his best, he would have been the first name on the team sheet ( for me ).
    Clever player who's link up play with Baines was as good as any partnership I've ever seen.
    Every team needs a player like he or Osman to get by the parked bus, shame both players are past their best.
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from MC11 in Pienaar   
    At his best, he would have been the first name on the team sheet ( for me ).
    Clever player who's link up play with Baines was as good as any partnership I've ever seen.
    Every team needs a player like he or Osman to get by the parked bus, shame both players are past their best.
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from patto in Pienaar   
    At his best, he would have been the first name on the team sheet ( for me ).
    Clever player who's link up play with Baines was as good as any partnership I've ever seen.
    Every team needs a player like he or Osman to get by the parked bus, shame both players are past their best.
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Matt in Pienaar   
    At his best, he would have been the first name on the team sheet ( for me ).
    Clever player who's link up play with Baines was as good as any partnership I've ever seen.
    Every team needs a player like he or Osman to get by the parked bus, shame both players are past their best.
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from holystove in Longest Thread For Drivel (or the Romelu Lukaku thread)   
    I probabably go to more Everton games than you, I certainly watch most of the other Everton games on streams, I've played enough games at center forward and scored way more goals than you could ever dream of Billy!
     
    You've just got a hard on because Lukaku missed a couple of goals yesterday.
     
    'recreational poster',.........you might post a lot, but most of it is bullsbut.
     
    Keep telling every one that Kone is better than Lukaku, maybe someone will come in with a £50million bid for him
     
    Oh, what did I make of the game, what do you think I made of it Billy, pissed of we didn't get three points.
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Matt in Longest Thread For Drivel (or the Romelu Lukaku thread)   
    You need to check out Romey's link above !
     
    Seems a lot of people who know far more about football than you, had way more ' faith' than as you put it 'hope' concerning Lukaku's ability !
     
    For you to state 'he' (Rom) needs to hold his 'focus' is an insult to the man (mind , you've never been short of those).......What about the 'focus, from his team mates that can enharnce or diminish Lukaku's threat.What about Martinez's 'focus', how he (Martinez) sets out the team and tactics will will have an impact on Lukaku.
     
    If the defence plays shit in front of Howard, you don't hang the goalkeeper.
     
    The manager and every memeber of the squad need to keep their 'focus', they will as all humans do slip up now and again, and as mentioned above in a previous post, then the rest must step it up a bit to help them out.
     
    You were wrong about Lukaku, simple as that ! He's had the ability for years, it was there for all to see, that's why so many people/clubs wanted him.
     
    It was never 'Hope' it was 'FAITH'
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from MikeO in Predict our result: 2015/16 season   
    Nah, luck is the key...........that's why I've been top for months !
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Romey 1878 in Predict our result: 2015/16 season   
    Nah, luck is the key...........that's why I've been top for months !
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Elston Gunnn in Crystal Palace (Home)   
    Trying to be a tad pretty at times, just be a bit more direct and stick the odd long shot in.
     
    Coleman, Stones and Lukaku looking spot on so far.
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    Blue 250 reacted to Sibdane in Longest Thread For Drivel (or the Romelu Lukaku thread)   
    I keep opening this thread expecting there to be new content, but there never is.
     

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    Blue 250 reacted to duncanmckenzieismagic in Man of the Match at Bournemouth   
    I wish I had!
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    Blue 250 reacted to duncanmckenzieismagic in AFC Bournemouth (Away)   
    That was one of the worst 45 minutes you could hope to see Martinez badly got it wrong today. The game was won yet we managed to make Bournemouth look like Barcelona in the second half and we snatched a draw out of the jaws of victory
     
     
    On a positive note we have stolen a point that we did not deserve!
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    Blue 250 reacted to marcopaulo in AFC Bournemouth (Away)   
    Maybe the fans were a bit stupid but the players couldn't repel one attack? Game should have been well out of sight...pathetic 2nd half
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Elston Gunnn in AFC Bournemouth (Away)   
    Martinez at fault, should have been driving us on for the 3rd.
     
    They were coming at us, we didn't play to our strengths.
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    Blue 250 reacted to Matt in Longest Thread For Drivel (or the Romelu Lukaku thread)   
    Just got a few minutes for the time being. Watched the 20 minute highlights, so not the complete game, but my word what player this lad is becoming. All the issues he had where many said he would improve on with experience he is improving on dramatically. Link up play? Check. Control? Getting there but needs work still. Attitude? Massively improved.
     
    What's changed? Playing to his strengths, team behind him is playing well, got himself some actual support and service on a consistent basis and the play is much more direct, forward playing and at speed.
     
    Weird that, if only someone had mentioned all that before
     
    All smugness aside, I'm personally a bit relieved with his progress. I'd invested so much time in defending him, I was worried I'd gone blind with optimism. My faith is being rewarded, but more importantly Rom is enjoying his football, and he is an utter delight to watch when he is
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    Blue 250 reacted to duncanmckenzieismagic in Middlesbrough - League Cup Quarter final   
    We need to win a trophy , this is the ideal opportunity to land one. I really don't see how it is debatable
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    Blue 250 reacted to Bill in David Moyes thread   
    I can,t understand all the bad vibes aimed at David Moyes. He kept us out of the shit for ten years. For those who remember the previous ten years he was a godsend, and was probably a big factor in stopping the club from going bust.
    Ask any club outside the the "top six" if they would take him as manager, I,m sure there wouldn't be many refusals.
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    Blue 250 reacted to Romey 1878 in West Ham (Away)   
    Apart from the first 5 or 10 minutes I thought we did reasonably well. They were all over us early on, it was quite worrying, but we settled into the game after that. The only problems we had, imo, were that West Ham were just that bit sharper than us in attack and that our left side was a liability. We had a good amount of the ball but, as we've seen many times, we lacked ideas going forward and were a bit slow in our play. Galloway was getting destroyed, partly through his own doing and partly because he had no support. So it was no surprise that their goal came from a ball out into the box from our left side. Our defence didn't deal with that ball in very well but there was nothing that could've been done about the finish, it was pure quality. Apart from that I thought our defence did very well in the first half really. When we eventually did click in attack it gave us our equaliser. And what a ball it was by Deulofeu for Lukaku to race on to once again. Inch perfect. You give this lad the ball and he'll make things happen. Barkley should look at the last two games and learn something - get your head up and see what's ahead of you instead of charging forward with your head down. The goal came right before half-time and it gave us momentum but there just wasn't enough time to really capitalise on it.
     
    So, I went into half-time reasonably happy if I'm honest, but knowing we had things we needed to improve upon.
     
    I think we did improve on those things and managed to keep the momentum we'd built up going. We had a much better tempo about our play and we looked much more threatening going forward. Where the first half was quite cagey the second half was a lot more end to end. It wasn't good for the nerves but I thought we had the better chances to score because our defence remained as solid as in the first half, and we finally realised that Galloway needed some protection. It seemed destined that there would be a winning goal (for us) so it was a surprise that it finished a draw. We had one excellent chance right at the end of the game that left me in despair! While I'd have taken a point here before the game based on what actually transpired I was disappointed not to take all three.
     
     
    Howard - Made the saves he needed to man and could do nothing about their goal.
     
     
    Galloway - Got ripped apart defensively. I can't be too harsh on him though because he's still very young and it's not even his natural position. Tbh, we've done very well to get away with him playing there for this long and getting Baines back will be great. Ironically, his best moment of the game came in attack when he put the ball in to Lukaku who narrowly hit the ball wide.
     
    Funes Mori - Looked dodgy last game but was back to his no compromising self yesterday. He was a good mix of coolness with the ball and just smashing it away when the need arose. And aerially he really is invaluable, in attack and defence. Anything that was put in our box he was after it, and he got on the end of a few down the West Ham end too - one game soon he's going to connect with one of those properly and power it home.
     
    Stones - Below par performances because he doesn't want to play for us? I think yesterday makes a mockery of statements like that. The Upton Park pitch will have to be cleaned because Stones oozed class all afternoon. My heart is always in my mouth a bit when he brings the ball out of defence but at the same time I loved it the two or three times he did it yesterday, exchanging one twos with midfielders. He's not a blood and thunder defender but he won his fair share of headers and made a few blocks. Oh and Andy Carroll is now well acquainted with what Stones' backside smells like because he spent the majority of the game stuck in his back pocket.
     
    Coleman - He didn't offer a hell of a lot going forward but I thought he was brilliant defensively. He mopped up a lot of attacks and showed great stamina tracking back when he had to. Hopefully he'll have fully recovered from his illness by the time we next play and we can see the best of him.
     
     
    Kone - He hung Galloway out to dry a bit I thought. He very rarely came back to help him out even when it became obvious he was struggling. In terms of his main objective though I thought he did OK - he held the ball up and generally used it well.
     
    Barry - I can't praise him highly enough for his performance yesterday. I thought he was majestic, I really did. We all know his severe lack of pace can be a big liability for us but his positioning will more often than not make up for it, and his positioning against West Ham was second to none. The ball and Barry was the equivalent of flies to shit. Wherever the ball went by our penalty area he was there so it just arrived at his feet or his head. Then he calmly and simply played the right passes to get us moving forward. The most impressive thing for me though was how much he looked after Galloway in the second half as well as doing his central work. He was like a second LB and gave Galloway the protection he desperately needed. So much so that our left wasn't really a problem at all in the second half. My MOTM.
     
    McCarthy - Honestly? The only thing that really stood out for me was his naughty challenge on Payet that deservedly gift him booked.
     
    Deulofeu - After yesterday my man love for Geri has increased hugely, and it was already at alarming levels . He wasn't great for the whole game by any means but every time he got the ball I just felt like something could happen. He was so exciting and his ball for Lukaku's goal was another beautiful bit of vision. I just love his positive attitude whenever he got the ball. He does need to improve on his decision-making - sometimes he doesn't need to beat a man and should just get the ball in. He's learning though and it's so exciting watching him learn. I wa ps disappointed to see him subbed off tbh. He was starting to look a bit tired but I still thought he was our best avenue for getting a winning goal.
     
     
    Barkley - He just sort of coasted through the game didn't he? I don't really think he played too badly, I've certainly been more annoyed with other performances by him, but he really struggled to impose himself on the game and make an impact. And he must learn to get his head up more when he has the ball. He's shown that he possesses good vision, like Deulofeu, but he can't display it if his eyes are fixed down on the ball. Oh and he really needs to step away from set-pieces and let someone else have a go for a while!
     
     
    Lukaku - He wasn't quite as good as he's been recently but I still thought he was above average and I don't have complaints about his performance. The ball didn't stick as much as it had been but he still showed some good hold-up play and good use of his strength in other situations. And then there's the fact he scored again. It was another cool as a cucumber goal too. Not at his best but still had a massive impact on the game. I can't grumble at that.
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Romey 1878 in West Ham (Away)   
    Point was probably a fair result, neither team did enough to deserve 3.
     
    Found it difficult to pick a mom, thought a few were slightly below par, ie Mirallas, McCarthy and Barkley.
    You can see Barkley will be class one day, you just have to wonder about the coaching staff, how to get Ross to choose the correct pass at the right time.Get that right and he could be unplayable, he can win the ball and he can run with it, the next step WILL come, but it's about getting it sorted quickly, I don't know, maybe the movement off the ball by his team mates don't help, there's just that final piece of the jigsaw missing from his game.
     
    Looking forward to seeing Baines back, it's easy to forget at his best what he does for the team, also thought today Lukaku was starved of decent service today, but what a great timed run and finish.
     
    Bring on Villa and no mercy.
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from Elston Gunnn in West Ham (Away)   
    Point was probably a fair result, neither team did enough to deserve 3.
     
    Found it difficult to pick a mom, thought a few were slightly below par, ie Mirallas, McCarthy and Barkley.
    You can see Barkley will be class one day, you just have to wonder about the coaching staff, how to get Ross to choose the correct pass at the right time.Get that right and he could be unplayable, he can win the ball and he can run with it, the next step WILL come, but it's about getting it sorted quickly, I don't know, maybe the movement off the ball by his team mates don't help, there's just that final piece of the jigsaw missing from his game.
     
    Looking forward to seeing Baines back, it's easy to forget at his best what he does for the team, also thought today Lukaku was starved of decent service today, but what a great timed run and finish.
     
    Bring on Villa and no mercy.
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    Blue 250 got a reaction from markjazzbassist in Longest Thread For Drivel (or the Romelu Lukaku thread)   
    £60m seems fantastic, until you just for a moment think what a brilliant sight a full flight Lukaku would be with another years prem experience behind him, oh and the right tactics and players around him.
    Can we keep him........I doubt it.
     
    I'm not Martinezs' bigest fan, but going for the lad was a brilliant bit of business.......or maybe it was luck.
     
     
    Know one thing, West Ham aren't looking forward to the beast running out in Blue.
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