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Hi, I've been a casual follower of Everton's fortunes for a while, and want to support them further this year. I was pretty out of the loop last season since I was at uni and couldn't watch games on TV, so I'm curious as to what exactly went wrong for Everton last season? Thanks.

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More than anything, the demands of the Europa. Add to that a terrible preseason, some very unlucky injuries, players like Barkley losing confidence, and that explains not being in the top 5 or 6. Eto'o was a trouble-maker. Mirallas acts as if he doesn't care. And then there's second-year syndrome for RM. IMO, he was trying to be too cautious, which is not his character. He needs to go with his instincts. With the signings made so far, I can see a very different team and attitude this coming season.

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Slow paced 'possession' based football.

Inept substitutions.

Key players NOT playing up to their expected standards.

Consistency to play players who weren't performing or just generally out of form.

Rotating players for vital games, when the team the game before were fantastic and subsequently failing.

Fitness levels not being up to scratch.

Overly positive manager, refusing to amend tactics based on performances.

 

Other than that. It was great :D

 

And welcome.

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Slow paced 'possession' based football.

Inept substitutions.

Key players NOT playing up to their expected standards.

Consistency to play players who weren't performing or just generally out of form.

Rotating players for vital games, when the team the game before were fantastic and subsequently failing.

Fitness levels not being up to scratch.

Overly positive manager, refusing to amend tactics based on performances.

 

Other than that. It was great :D

 

And welcome.

 

Pretty much all of this. Lions share fell on Martinez for me. It wasn't one bit exciting watching a Everton last season. Edited by MC11
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Slow paced 'possession' based football.

Inept substitutions.

Key players NOT playing up to their expected standards.

Consistency to play players who weren't performing or just generally out of form.

Rotating players for vital games, when the team the game before were fantastic and subsequently failing.

Fitness levels not being up to scratch.

Overly positive manager, refusing to amend tactics based on performances.

 

Other than that. It was great :D

 

And welcome.

In a word: COMPLACENCY

these 2 sum it up perfectly, though I'd throw in pride and arrogance from our manager too Edited by Matt
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- other teams worked out how to play us from the season before

- having no plan B pretty much fucks up the above

- Martinez insisting having 85 pct possession in your own half is okay

- playing players out of position far too often

- playing Barry far too often

- Leaving subs far too late ( esp with Ossie , Barry treading water )

- Players not being fit enough at start of season ( Martinez was all about ball work )

- Howard thinking he was JC after the World Cup

 

Not blaming the europa one bit. Players should be able to play Thursday and Sunday.

 

We all want champions league so no different from playing Wednesday and Saturday.

Edited by milesey05
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More than anything, the demands of the Europa. Add to that a terrible preseason, some very unlucky injuries, players like Barkley losing confidence, and that explains not being in the top 5 or 6. Eto'o was a trouble-maker. Mirallas acts as if he doesn't care. And then there's second-year syndrome for RM. IMO, he was trying to be too cautious, which is not his character. He needs to go with his instincts. With the signings made so far, I can see a very different team and attitude this coming season.

 

Personally I think that's a cop out. We were shite all season , before , during and after the Europa League

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I'm bored so here we go:

 

Between 18th September (our first Europa match v Wolfsburg) and 19th March (our last Europa match v Dynamo Kiev) we have earned an average of 1.07 points per Prem match.

Outside of this period (before and after Europa & cups) we have earned an average of 1.64 points per match.

1.64 points per match so far would see us 3 points off 5th place.

 

Is it a coincidence that since bombing out of Europa we have suddenly found form - WWDW? I kow the opposition hasn't been of the highest standard in recent fixtures but we were getting turned over by the likes of Stoke and Hull earlier on in the season.

 

Food for thought? Maybe missing out on Europa next season will be a blessing?

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roberto and the players.

 

roberto

playing barkley on the wing

playing naisy on the wing

playing barry too much and exhausting him

not playing youngsters enough (besic, garbutt, robles)

sticking with favorites (tim howard, gareth barry)

not being flexible with formations and subs

bad tactics and uber possession

no creative player #10 yet using a system that requires such a person

 

players

jags started out like crap

tim howard forgot how to play football

kevin mirallas hasn't gone a season without mid/large injuries

ross barkley getting his confidence shot on the wing and regressing

aiden mcgeady not knowing that you're supposed to pass to OUR team, not the others

major injuries (osman, pienaar, mccarthy, stones, baines, coleman, lukaku, kev, ross, alcaraz, distin, gibson), holy crap our whole team was injured

 

the good

romelu lukaku is a beast of a man and soon to be world beater, 20 goals

roberto finally gave up the possession and went more direct (yea!!)

we didn't get relegated (woot woot)

stones is even more of a beast than he was before injury

phil jagielka grew a pair of balls and became the captain we all wanted him to be (and played really well after starting slow)

luke garbutt proved he is the LB of the future

we got pretty far in europa league (farther than other english teams) and had a decent cup run

 

i'm very positive for 2015/2016, vault me we will win a trophy

Edited by markjazzbassist
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roberto and the players.

 

roberto

playing barkley on the wing

playing naisy on the wing

playing barry too much and exhausting him

not playing youngsters enough (besic, garbutt, robles)

sticking with favorites (tim howard, gareth barry)

not being flexible with formations and subs

bad tactics and uber possession

no creative player #10 yet using a system that requires such a person

 

players

jags started out like crap

tim howard forgot how to play football

kevin mirallas hasn't gone a season without mid/large injuries

ross barkley getting his confidence shot on the wing and regressing

aiden mcgeady not knowing that you're supposed to pass to OUR team, not the others

major injuries (osman, pienaar, mccarthy, stones, baines, coleman, lukaku, kev, ross, alcaraz, distin, gibson), holy crap our whole team was injured

 

the good

romelu lukaku is a beast of a man and soon to be world beater, 20 goals

roberto finally gave up the possession and went more direct (yea!!)

we didn't get relegated (woot woot)

stones is even more of a beast than he was before injury

phil jagielka grew a pair of balls and became the captain we all wanted him to be (and played really well after starting slow)

luke garbutt proved he is the LB of the future

we got pretty far in europa league (farther than other english teams) and had a decent cup run

 

i'm very positive for 2015/2016, vault me we will win a trophy

Does this Singapore cup count?

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Personally I think that's a cop out. We were shite all season , before , during and after the Europa League

 

It doesn't account for a fall of 6 places, but it definitely accounts for three of them. You can't argue with real data and regression analysis.

 

https://www.bsports.com/statsinsights/football/europa-league-hurt-premier-league-clubs#.VZW_vOeaSLp

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