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19 Aug 2018 10:07:37
What a difference a forward thinking manager makes to a club.

If you're positive in your play, positive in your communication with your players, positive in your communication with the fans and positive in you and your teams ambition you can make great things happen.

When Sam came in he told us all we are relegation material. We can't win playing football and need to scrap points to get to safety. Then he tells the world we are playing good football after having 2 shots on target in 4 games and what do we all expect with the players we have available. He makes you believe it.

Everton yesterday with 10 out of 11 players the same as last year we looked a completely different animal. Quick forward thinking football with every player looking to help an attack to be built. From the back to the front everyone had the same idea.

The free kick yesterday showed more attacking enterprise than anything Sam or Koeman produced last season. In the 1 minute that free kick was alive it was more than all of the minutes put together last season in showing invention and imagination. It was genius and brilliant and the players executing it would have grown an extra foot after the ball nestled in the back of the net.

There is a skewed perception in England that you only make yourself safe when playing defensive football. Well Silva has showed that this myth should be left in past along with the Allardyce's of the footballing world. In MODERN football there is no longer a place for them.

Back to the FOOTBALL, our forward players yesterday produce a top draw performance, all as good as each other. The move between Sig and Theo deserved a goal and would have been difficult to beat as goal of the week. Sig in particular put in a performance that you see gracing teams like Barcelona or Real.

Tosun has turned into a superb target man and helps bring everyone into play. He seems to be able to link up with anyone and is a perfect player to the other forwards to run off. Ricky and Theo linked up for the second goal, Sig and Theo on numerous occasions, Theo with Tosun, Ricky and Tosun, they all seem to know what the other wants and can do. I don't know how you defend against that fluid foursome.

However, this was all possible because of how well Gana and a brilliant performance from Snids had until his injury. I'm not his biggest fan for reasons shown by him in the last 12 months but one pundit pointed out that maybe his poor performances were down to how managers had been playing him. Well, if the other 9 men on the pitch can improve under Silva then why can't he?

For the new players, Silva not playing has given them something to think about. Like, wow, I'm going to have to work damn hard to dislodge this lot. Genuine competition has never been so high.

We have a long way to go and there are tons of problems that I can see still. We are going to get beat but the seed has been planted in the players, the staff and more importantly the fans. It'll grow if we give it time and patience. The players believe it and the fans yesterday certainly do.

10 to 7th was my wish this season. If we keep this up though I might change it to 6th. At the moment though, I'm just happy to see my Everton that I know and fell in love with playing back at the old lady.

Let's not get carried away but you can allow yourself to get excited. Just a little anyway.

COYB NSNO ISWT.

{Ed025's Note - what an excellent post, one of the very best i have seen on these pages john and total respect to your literary acumen mate..

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19 Aug 2018 10:29:24
Cheers ED but it's what happened on that pitch yesterday that wrote these words. 😉

Imagine if we won a trophy! 😲😂

How are you feeling ED. Happy with what's going on?

{Ed025's Note - delighted john, these are basically the same players who looked an absolute shambles at times last season, i really believe in the manager and DOF and that they are taking us in the right direction mate..

19 Aug 2018 11:09:13
Absolutely ED. Organised all over the pitch.

You hear people say about being organised at the back but it's even more important to be organised upfront. You start to defend from the front and you start your attack from the back. It feels now like they are all starting to understand this.

Also, what a revelation Brands has been. His interviews this week have given us all a little understanding of what goes on behind the scenes.

There really is a new phylosophy at the club and it seems to be about inclusion. The interviews and openness and even the Snids interview yesterday on sky is obviously an idea for a better understanding between club and fans. I'm really buying into all this.

{Ed025's Note - me too mate..

19 Aug 2018 12:33:29
Absolute cracking post BJU.

19 Aug 2018 12:36:30
Great post BJU. I, like yourself always thought there was a team in there last season. What Marco is doing is changing the mindset of the same players we had last season.
It's remarkable players like Schneiderlin and Keane are quickly looking like decent players again.
Even Sandro, although can't seem to hit the back of the net, looked like a decent footballer again.
Schneiderlin has a long way to go to win back the fans but, if he knuckles down and buys into it, he will be a fan favourite again.
It's early days and we only have the same points after 2 games as last season but, boy do we look completely different.
Baines needs a special mention because like jags was for the last few seasons has been written off by some because he's in his 30's.
Digne is going to have to go some to displace him.
But when he does, well have a real threat in Baines coming on with 20mins to go, to try and win a game.

One thing all fans on here wanted was to see a progression when the new manager came in, and we are seeing it now in bucketfulls.

19 Aug 2018 13:19:31
That BJU is one of the best pieces I have read in a long time. Brands and Silva seems to have vanquished the negativity that Koeman and Big Sam embellished upon us and we are seeing now the fruits of their philosophy. 2 games and the change in the mood and our play is in stark contrast to the garbage and dribble we have been dealt with for the last couple of seasons.

19 Aug 2018 13:39:24
BJU, I don’t think I have ever disagreed with a post you have written. I enjoyed this one even more mainly because that’s exactly how I feel right now.

COYB.







 

 

 
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