03 Mar 2015 23:52:22
Every time I see a post off degsy I see issue mentioned, give it a rest it's boring he's 2ft and never won 50/50 in his life, he also hasn't been 31 for two years and isn't zidane so stop acting like he's the answer because its draining and stupidly repetitive
04 Mar 2015 05:52:52
Couldn't agree more. I skip his posts these days as they are as repetitive as a Martinez interview.
04 Mar 2015 08:57:36
Mikedeblue, when you say he has never won a 50/50, I assume you mean header? If you mean tackle, have another look at the Wolfsburg away game. Ossie played holding midfield and made the 2 interceptions and played the ball out for our 2 goals. That performance was the one that kept our season going. Also name another midfielder in our squad that scores a goal every 8 games. Or another one that can play right side of midfield comfortably? McGeady? Lennon? Neither of these contribute to assists nor goals. Ossie leaves them miles behind. It annoys me that we have a loyal Evertonian who has been VERY effective over the seasons and scored over 50 goals (a couple this season in the handful of games he has played) yet gets slagged off all thtime no matter how well he has played. Yes he is 2 foot tall and does not win headers. He probably would not get in the Stoke team because of that. I prefer to watch football played on the floor thank you. Pod, they are repetitive because there seems to be a few short sighted Evertonians who have preconceived ideas about certain players and do not realise that form, confidence and other issues like carrying slight injuries can affect how a player performs. I judge players over seasons.not a couple of games. Ossie had a few bad games last season and typical of the Goodison crowd, they got on his back. He probably had 3 or 4 bad games. I have seen enough from his performances this season to know he can still cut it. Silly stats. that might be a bit out because I can't be bothered looking it all up again. He has played in only 2 defeats all season. Of about the 12 games he has played in, we have lost only 1 or 2. He has provided 3 or 4 assists and scored 2 I think. That is ahead of all our other midfielders. Would you rather have McGeady? Lennon? Or pack the midfield with Besic, Barry and McCarthy? I can guarantee we will score less that 2 goals all season from midfield if you pick them. Alternatively you can put Naismith, Barkley or whoever on the right. Maybe Mirallas, but then who goes on the left? I have often posted about Lennon and McGeady being terrible signings and RM getting players in who are pleasant on the eye, but are completely ineffective in helping the team score goals. Alcaraz, Besic, Barry, McCarthy, Lennon, Kone, Atsu all look very good, but do not score goals. (Atsu may develop). My final point. if I am wrong, why are we finding we have 60% possession every game and getting maybe 3 shots at goal in 90 mins? Why do we get corner after corner. yet never score? Why have we drawn so many games that we should have won? I hear people saying he is turning us into Wigan. I can actually see the logic in that. Look around the premiership and it is littered with RM players that look really comfortable on the ball. Especially able to receive and pass. Yet none of them are able to score a goal and help their teams win games. Ossie is!
04 Mar 2015 13:52:54
yeah so in other words, bar lukaku, mirallas and Naismith all of our players are awful and shouldn't be professionals, none should be in the same country as ossie. Plus because lennon hasn't got a goal nor assist in his 2 games it means osman is the Better winger (wingers usually being pacy, skilful, can beat a man, track back and cross, osman can't do any of those). #ossieforballondor #mysticdegsy
04 Mar 2015 16:45:17
Swan I have finally come to the conclusion degsy must be related to osman.
04 Mar 2015 18:47:02
Swan, Ossie is not a fast pace winger. I agree. He is a link player. One whocan play on the right or in fact anywhere in midfield and scores goals. something we are missing at present. With regards to Lennon, he is the same as McGeady. Both fast pacey wingers who can go past fullbacks and then misplace a pass. They do it all the time. They rarely get into shooting positions and when they do they very rarely score. I never said all our other players are awful. I am not sure where you picked that up. What I meant was Barry (who is clearly too slow now), MacCarthy and Besic are all so defensively minded, they do a great job hunting the ball down, but are useless going forwards. Gibson is different and so is Ossie and Pienaar. They can all get the ball back to goal, turn and play another player in. Used to be our full backs. The slow tactics we use without one of those players leave all the pressure on Lukaku, Naismith, Barkley or Mirallas to get the goals. From what I have seen of Ossie, he is better than Pienaar these days. Gibson is another option and he was class when he came on against Boys. I don't know why he didn't start against Arsenal? But Gibson also does not score many. I know I wind people up with my Ossie crusade, but time will tell. I hope I am right and he comes in and we get the few wins we need.