RuffRob

It would be great to see him a player reborn and playing in a blue shirt. I think Dyche is a decent man manager, and I think he will have genuinely been a great support to him as he tries to get his career back on track. I think the hard working squad environment will do him the world of good. I really hope that Spurs can come to some agreement with us. Hopefully they will realise we are genuinely on our arses moneywise and not taking the piss or trying to pull a fast one. I think the

the biggest flaw I see in your argument is that you assume that if you stick Klopp or Postecogle in charge of this Everton squad it would mean you instantly get Liverpool and Spurs - it would be pretty far from it. In Klopps first season in charge of Liverpool I beleive they went backward 2 places in the league. That would see us relegated. We have NO margin for error. The players in this sqaud are best set up for being solid out of possession, playing a big man upfront, getting crosses in or hitting teams on the counter attack. Why, for the sake of it, put a manager in with a totally different playing style if you don't have money to solidly back him over two or three transfer windows to bring in 4-6 quality player to allow you to safely change the playing philosophy of a sqaud. We don't have the money to do this or have the luxury of being able to afford losing 2-3 places in the Premier league as this new style beds in. We need to become a solid mid table team first, get the new owners bedded in, stadium finished and our revenue streams all sorted first, before we should really be concerning oursevles massivly about having a manager who favours progressive football over effective football.

sounds like you have a fairly blinkered and preconceeded idea of Dyche. I have seen a manager actually managed to notibley improve the Everton team this summer. Given the tools and conditions he is working under I think he deserves massive credit for improving and galavanizing this team and getting all those player actually playing for the shirt. He has said from day 1 it starts with sweat on the shirts - and his team are delivering this at an ever increasing consistency. This club has been crying out for some sort of stability, so to simply sack a relatievly successful manager after 18months purely in order to bring in a more fashionable one who has a polar opposite 'progressive' possession based style would simply be foolhardy. We have seen the fall out of chopping and changing managers and styles - why on earth would we do that again if we finally have the oppertunity of a period of some stability. Do we have the players capable of playing a possession based game? or do we have the budget to bring in players who could to this at Premiership level?

If we are steadily imporving, does he not deserve the opertunity to develop as manager with the club?. I think it would be rather disrepectful to dump him simply becasue we feel we deserve something 'better' than him. If I saw another club do that to a manager, I would think what a bunch of shithouese, they deserve everything they get.

I think he has done much better than OK, he has followed a string of managers who have all in one way or another (and I include Ancelloti in this) slowly brought this club to its knees both financially and footballing wise. Dyche is going about this team and club in the right way - getting the basics right for a team who have been poor on quality, low in confidence and frigile both mentally and physically and at times looking disinterested. Forget about overall footballing philosphy and tactical nuances, there has been far more wrong with this team than this issue. I think Dyche is addressing the fundamental problems and addressing them properly. His mantra when he walking in the door was 'minimum requirement is maximum effort'. This is what we are seeing and its proving to be a good foundation for much improved performances and results. I have said it in another post - we look to have transitioned from the team that everybody wants to play (as its a great opertunity to walk away 3 points) to a team that are going to give you a tough game and now increasingly likley to nick the points from you. This is a significant and welcome swing.

I would be suprised if we are not soon under the ownership of 777 Partner. However, I wouldn't minded being under the ownership of an Indian company. It sounds like interest in football is developing at a fairly rapid pace and it wouldn't do any harm in being the poster club in India - second only to China, the potential for quite a fan base - but a lot easier to access.

so good to hear him say '... we are in a nice place at the moment...' . It has felt like such a long time since anybody with anything to do with the club has been able to feel or say this. Lets hope its a trend that continues in all aspects of the club.

exactly this, Dyche et al have got this lot well drilled now, it's a long time since I have seen an Everton this fit and with so much energy. This side battle and battle. Heads could have gone down given there we not getting the results they deserved in the first half dozen games. took Liverpool getting a penalty to score and took a deflection for Brighton to score. we have become a tough nut.

pickford had fuck all to do all game, all game we looked more likely to score a second than they did a equaliser, they got a fortunate deflection. Fuck all to do with tired players as in the last 15mins we had much better chances.

who for who though. we are defending well.

crowd sound amazing today.

got away with one there., phew

I was good to see the lad rewarded. pretty much made that goal himself. just the sort of thing that will hopefully see his confidence increase, making a positive impact from the bench.

it may not have been any sort of classic performance, but winning is a habit we have not seen from Everton in for a while. long may it continue. 3 goals a clean sheet and spot in the QFs does me just fine.

for the money being paid for Beto and Danjuma fees and wages wise, they should be more that capable of putting in a performance in a cup completion or in the Prem when needed, this is a squad of players not just a starting 11. It's not like suggesting we fill the team with youth or a second string team it's about utilising the squad of player. beto and danjuma should be 'hungery' to get on the pitch and show there worth. if they don't then you sub on DCL. 30mins plenty for DCL if wanting him to play 90mins one the coming weekend.

it is also about getting some decent game time for other players. I would like to see Beto and Danjuma starting this game. I think from a squad moral point of view it is important to give finge players game time. This helps them be more effective when subed on or if the need to come in to the team due to injury etc. can't help but feel DCL is still needs treating with care, so a rest on the bench for a mid week game would seem sensible at this time. same with Harrison as well.

Braithwaite. Icing on the cake was winning that ball that led to our goal. Big shout for Onana as well.

But if you read through Myers tweet, he says part of it is for the stadium, but doesn't know the details. Do you know different? Or just speculating it needed simple to keep the club running.

soooo glad he signed that new Contract

Yeah, I though he had a good game as well - I would love it if he could just start to add the occasional goal to his game.

I can't quite understand the Dyche negativity. We just went away from home to a team who won a European trophy last season, and came away with a deserved and not a 'nicked' three points. We also had other very good chances and maybe unlucky only to come away 0-1. A deserved clean sheet, and the West ham fans booed their team off at the end as we out battled them for pretty much the whole game. when the highlights are on MotD tonight, it will be pretty much all Everton, with the pundits giving us the plaudits and the Hammers the hard time. off the back of two seasons of being deserved beated game in game out, with next to no transfer budgeted spent, we are actually being competative in games, and are really unlucky not to be 6-9 points further up the table. this is massive progress on the team of the past to seasons.

That was another deserved away win. We out battled and out ran West Ham. Any win away from home. Starting to get a gap to the relegation spots, and I think we are slowly developing in to a team that the opposition teams will not be looking forward to playing. To me this foundation of a team you can build from.

We are such a different team with him.

Let's not allow west ham any momentum.

Not a great game, but the home team hammers fans will be enjoying it less than us. Lacking a bit of quality, but think we are winning more of the individual battles than they are. Keep that up second half and 3 points for the taking. We should be 1 up, as Harrison really should have scored the best chance of the game.