Search results

It isn’t moving the goalposts - a squad that finishes the season full of players that deteriorated, buggered off or got injured, backed up by a bunch of loanees who turn back into pumpkins at midnight can’t be said to be in better shape than it was at the start of the season.

Great! (They’re all leaving shortly after though) Don’t forget that list of players who have improved this season btw

Stacking the squad with loanees is all well and good, but it won’t do us much good going forward. Which squad members do you think have really kicked on and improved this year?

I didn’t say they were key/first XI players, but they were all regular members of the first team squad last year, and relative to their value to us at the start of the season they’re now worth even less.

In terms of their value to us, I mean. O’Hare, Moore, Dabo, Kelly, Waghorn, Walker, Godden, Tavares and Kane have all gone from being regular first teamers to being frozen out, injured or unplayable. Very few players, in contrast, have stepped up in their place, and almost all of our new...

It’s not just a case of who leaves the club - there are hardly any players on our books whose value/stock has notably increased this season. Plenty more whose value has plunged.

Think this is shaping up to be the first season in a while where the squad that finishes the season is worse than the one which begun it.

Why take a non-league job over L2?

On the face of it, he looks like someone who’s here to offer an occasional plan B and take penalties if he happens to be on the field at the time. So basically another Waghorn, but younger and presumably cheaper.

He did do a better job than Waghorn, and for less money.

Didn’t know Grendel had got into life insurance, discounts for SBT members surely?

Despite the odd people who turn up at BoxPark etc, the pint chucking thing is sometimes legit….it’s hard to properly lose your shit at a goal and carry a pint at the same time without looking like a twat. Sometimes the pint has to be sacrificed….

Do other teams stuff their U23 side with out of favour/injured first teamers? Fair enough if we’re an outlier across the whole league but I don’t know if any other teams are using their U23 games for this.

Much like Panzo vis-à-vis the player he’s supposed to be marking - it’s not even close.

Surely Chelsea and Liverpool’s implosions are signs that the top 6 isn’t pretty much tied up every season? Everton themselves were a top 6 regular until not that long ago.

I believe Chris Badlan underwent a Severance-style procedure on leaving Ryton.

Voodoo?

Good article, cheers! It’s amazing how many of these bad decisions are attributed specifically to Moshiri caving to fan pressure. I somehow doubt there’s much self-reflection going on among the Everton fans chanting ‘Sack the board’ every week.

I’m not sure what you think I’m pretending doesn’t exist. But if you want to believe you’re helping educate against discrimination by saying “conflating homosexuality with paedophilia is legitimate, actually” then that’s obviously your choice. Don’t be surprised if disingenuous people take your...