Shukes

I agree with Bailey. Very tidy without doing anything special. Not to say that’s a bad thing though, he had a good game.

But I do worry that when we played him in the middle a few games ago, he was a passenger. Had his worst game for us. He needs that space out wide. 
He could play in the middle, but not central. He needs someone doing the graft for him smack bang in the middle.

57 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

You don’t even remember why you’re telling me to fuck off. 

Who told you to fuck off? Twats! 
I got your back mate.

7 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

Comes across as senile, doesn't he?

You can fuck off!

9 hours ago, Formby said:

Shukes is a young'un???? 

Just hit my half century

With Gana it’s a case of…. Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good argument.

opens up the floodgates

Doucs for me. Was all over the place… for once in a good way. 
Set the pace, scored a goal, hit the bar and was a handful all match.

6 hours ago, Cornish Steve said:

Go watch the replay. Jensen was unmarked on the right because McNeil trotted back. He had time to cover but didn’t. Absolutely he was culpable. 

Ye agreed. The others tried and missed tackles, and Branthwaites clearance was rushed. But leaving players gives them an easy time.

But he is lacking fitness and would usually bust a gut to get back.

Stick up for him a lot as you all know.

But what a strange game he had. For the most part he had a good game. Stopped them playing and controlled the middle.

Could have easily had two assists as well.

But gave the ball away in the same position twice very cheaply, one of which nearly ended in us conceding.

And I know he is known for his non goal prowess…. But yesterday he took that to a new level. 
A very Naive game from him.

Much better from him yesterday. He has been disappointing to this point. But yesterday I thought he was calm when needed to be and has started passing the forward. That’s exactly what we need. 
Like Bailey said, nothing that stood out as such, but seemed to look after the ball better. 
 

And a nice through ball for Doms goal.

3 hours ago, c1982 said:

1st point - yep.

2nd point - Young’s a useful player - I want Patterson/Harrison to be the first choice partnership but don’t get all the hate for Young - one of our few players who is comfortable in possession, bags of energy, versatile and actually has a bit of know-how. He’s not a long-term option but is valuable in the short-term.
 

Evertonians need a scapegoat - it’s what we do.

Thought he had a good game to be fair. Very composed and also got the ball forward for us.

Looks such a solid player and really consistent this season.

Say what we want about Doucs, but damn he does score some goals. 
Get in the Duke!

Had a good first half. Very positive, worked hard and ran at them non stop. 
Very nearly got himself a goal as well.

This is why I don’t get the fans that are against us banging crosses into forwards. That was the golden age of football. Players wore their hearts on the sleeves. 
I watched the U21s with Harrison the other night. He just got the ball and ran at them time after time. Got tackled a lot, but knew that he only needed to get past them once to create a chance. 
 

The best wingers used to wear defenders down.

Fans these days will start criticising if a player gets tackled twice in a row though. 

Their goalkeeper plays more accurate long balls than all of our defence.

Damn you Trigger for making me admit that!!!!

9 hours ago, Trigger said:

I agree.

However, would you describe  the Bundesligue as entertaining, globally appealing and won by a variety of clubs every year?

I do see what you mean mate, but don’t think we’re that far away ourselves.

The last ten years especially they se to have had a good few teams being successful. 
I do enjoy the football though. I’m a fan of fast paced pressure football, crosses being banged in, so gets putting pressure on full backs. I would rather watch us in the 80s than Man City today. 
 

I recognise that City are an amazing team. But hate possession football and find it slow and tedious.

Kills me to say it, but the beat football in recent years was when the shite won it with their non stop pressure and lightning fast break football.

2 hours ago, Palfy said:

Would that be the most important stat

It’s the taking part that counts!

4 hours ago, Boston Toffee said:

I get it. I've just lost all patience.  Well until kick off Saturday where I'll spark up some hope that today's the day

With you there mate. It’s hard to keep up optimism when we keep get kicked back down. 
But Matts right. We are creating now at least. We just need that elusive first win to let the boys know they can win.

Wouldn’t work unless only millionaire fans joined.

Just do the maths. Your average fan could afford what, say £1500 a year?

How many would realistically back it? Maybe 30000? 
Thats 45m. I mean that’s enough to pay wages really. And 30000 fans paying that may also be unrealistic as would they then need to cough up for season tickets as well? If so that number comes down dramatically.

This shows just how unrealistic it’s become to run a premier league club. Absolutely disgusting money.

Such a rubbish team this Arsenal. 
There for the taking really.