Alaric
Erik Edman
David Moist is the worst manager the Spammers could have employed; he sucks so much joy out of football he'd make the grim reaper feel depressed.
Almost guaranteed to get relegated now...
GHod I hope you're right.
David Moist is the worst manager the Spammers could have employed; he sucks so much joy out of football he'd make the grim reaper feel depressed.
Almost guaranteed to get relegated now...
Hmmmm, good luck policing Millwall around that areaI can't wait to see the London stadium in the Championship. 20,000 fans in that place will be like a 2018 Harvey Weinstein pool party.
Hmmmm, good luck policing Millwall around that area
They might really struggle if they go down.10 point deduction for both teams, Div 1 for the dildo brothers in 2018/19.
We'd have been ashamed of a team like that in the late 90s.from wiki
First-team squad As of 14 August 2017
No. Position Player
13 GK Adrián
25 GK Joe Hart (on loan from Emirates Marketing Project)
2 DF Winston Reid (vice-captain)
3 DF Aaron Cresswell
4 DF José Fonte
5 DF Pablo Zabaleta
19 DF James Collins
21 DF Angelo Ogbonna
22 DF Sam Byram
26 DF Arthur Masuaku
41 DF Declan Rice
7 MF Marko Arnautović
8 MF Cheikhou Kouyaté
10 MF Manuel Lanzini
14 MF Pedro Obiang
16 MF Mark Noble (captain)
23 MF Sead Hakšabanović
30 MF Michail Antonio
31 MF Edimilson Fernandes
36 MF Domingos Quina
37 MF Nathan Holland
9 FW Andy Carroll
15 FW Diafra Sakho
17 FW Javier Hernández
20 FW André Ayew
Genuinely poor pool of players. Very little real quality, a handful of "average to decent" and then just dross. It would take a real motivator to get somewhere with these guys, someone who can really galvanise them and make them stick to a plan.
Is that Moyes? Not for me. I think they are in real trouble, and if they stay up this year itll be a race to the bottom type "who imploded the worst" situation.
Attritional is a perfectly appropriate description for the brand of football you are discussing there.
In terms of Bolton going against Arsenal, where they were completely outclassed, theres nothing wrong with it.
However, when you build a club up to knocking on the top 6 in that style, you are limiting yourself. And so it showed.
He got only so far doing it that way, and then when they were of a certain level he failed to take the next steps.
Which were steps available to him, he just didnt take them.
No, you cant. Bournemouth and Swansea have already survived playing that way. Why cant they continue?
And look at Bournemouth, their spending - they arent a rich club and yet are able to purchase players to allow them to play more expansive football than Everton ever did. Money is not the issue. It helps, for sure, but its not the limiting factor that defines all.
Look at Leicester, premier league champions with a squad largely made of players that came up from the championship with them.
Look at us, title contenders with such massive outlays as £10m Lloris, £10m Dier, £11 Wanyama, £? Rose and Walker...
A fantastic team can be built on a budget. Great football can be achieved on a budget. It all comes down to the managers ability and ambition.
And, in the case when such unheard of time as 10 years is involved, it is a very fair conclusion to state that that Everton team were the peak of Moyes ability and ambition.
And, personal taste accepted, I hated it.
I have far more respect for Allardyce, by the way, who I think is a very under rated manager. Not good enough for us, but certainly better than he is often credited.
Moyes, for me, is the opposite. People assume he is much better than he really is, IMO.
Wouldn't be at London Athletics Club today if he wasn'twhen compared with the best he is really left wanting
Love the fact he’s already called out “the West Ham way” b0ll0cks! Just like Allardyce. The only people in the world who think they have “a way” are the West Ham fans themselves, I’ve no idea what that way is.
Well this is awkwardI know, what the hell have they won in the last 30 years to give them a "way of playing"?
Zola was the last one to play any football.
Championship playoff - that defines their "way of playing". Moyes is the perfect fit.I know, what the hell have they won in the last 30 years to give them a "way of playing"?
Zola was the last one to play any football.
He seemed to have an over achieving season with Everton and then the next they would under achieve, then next they would do well and then... Very topsy turvy.
how far into the 5 year plan are we?
Well this is awkward
To league cups and I seem to remember when Jol was here we won a pre season cup, the peace cup?
We took the peace cup? - you're having me on
Pretty sure.
No relation to the peace race through communist eastern europe.