Everton Banter Archive March 01 2014

 

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01 Mar 2014 20:58:03
It's about time we kept the doom and gloom posts to a minimum.still in contention for Europe and the cup but every second post is negative. All the what ifs this and what if that. We don't hear the rs going on about what if Suarez leaves, what if sturridge gets injured etc and they are a lot more reliant on two players than we are. Let's try to be supportive for a change.

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What doom and gloom, were 6th in the premier league, 11 points off second with a game in hand and our next 3 fixtures are cardiff and swansea at home, fulham away and then what could very well be our most important game of the season in arsenal at home, plus were in the quarter finals of the f a cup. what doom and gloom?

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Cardiff will be scrapping although in theory we should beat them quite convincingly, Swansea will be a tough one. Fair play to Gary Monk he has instilled belief in them and have strong, physical talented players. Be happy to scrape 1 goal to nil. After that bring it.on.
As far as i'm concerned we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Spurs will fall off pace and Utd will be beating a few more.times yet before end of season.
I appreciate that the higher we finish the more money we get but irrespective of that let's just go for it.
We cannot go all season with out us clicking at somepoint where we take lots of our chances.
Nice time to find some form and go for it flat out.

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01 Mar 2014 20:07:36
I have just been looking at the next few fixtures in premier league. I think arsenal are the team to catch and if we can get some of our confidence back and start being more ruthless in front of goal. Arsenal fixtures are away to spurs, away to Chelsea, home to man city, away to us. So it's still not over yet and if arsenal win in those games they deserve top 4 as much as it kills me to say it our neighbours deserve it with the results they have had recently don't get me wrong they have had luck on a few occasions to help them.

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01 Mar 2014 17:31:41
we seem to be great at keeping the ball until the last 3rd, then we don't know what to do, pass back, pass back, go again, pass back, pass back, go again. Then a shot from 25 yards!

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Read my posts on reasons why we are not scoring goals.
1. Corner kicks abysmal. Scored from 1 all season I think.
2. No Felli. two defensive midfielders. brilliant defensively but no goal threat going forwards. Barry and McCarthy score less than 2 per season between them on average. Over last 4 seasons. Our wide midfielders need to score more. We need to have Lukaku permanently fit and signed. Or a.n.other scorer and play Mirallas all the time. There is very little goal threat from our team because it is full of low scoring players.

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01 Mar 2014 17:09:53
Two points rescued by Lukaku. We could have played all day without scoring before he came on. Like I say. we need goalscorers on the pitch. Mirallas should have started with Lukaku. I worry about us if/when Lukaku leaves. That's 10 goals in 21 appearances for him. Without his goals we have scored a meager 28 in 27. Again 69% possession.impressive until you consider we had 22 shots and only 3 on target. I know you will all have a go at me again, but statistics don't lie.
Before you all do. I will ask one question.Are you happy with 3 shots on target with 69% possession?

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If one goes in, yes. Lukaku wasn't ready to start, but I don't know why Mirallas didn't feature. Osman shouldn't play in any top flight game.

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01 Mar 2014 17:31:03
No i'm not happy with it, not good enough, I expect every player including howard to have had 5 shots on target at the least, fine them all a weeks wages, robertoout!, would of been the same under moyes, only with less possession but more shots on target from fellaini hoof the ball headers, :)

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Even more staggering is that if you take away all the goals scored by all our players this season, we have scored 0 goals in 27 games.

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Whoa whoa whoa. AB, no nee for the dig at Osman. His link up play while he was on was fantastic. He didn't do much wrong, and I thought he played quite well.

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01 Mar 2014 18:12:49
Im with you ab!

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People at match were saying that kev had bust up with martienz in last match had not heard this before today I don't really believe this I think we are saving him for the fa cup

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To have 69% possession and 22 shots great stats to have maybe next week five of those shots will go in its another good result and top four is still a realistic target some huge games for teams around us this month so all to play for still and an exciting cup game to come why not look at the good season we are havin so far and keep your stats to yourself we won today what more do you want

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I've not heard anything about a bust up between Mirallas and Roberto. This is mischief making amongst fans (possibly instigated by Kopites jealous at our involvement next weekend). I'm sure Kev will start next week and today was merely a precaution with such an important next weekend.
A good result today, even if we looked nervy against a much improved West Ham United side. The 3 points were what mattered once Lukaku made his appearance.
Next week we need to be good against the Arse. After their result today we've got every chance to go there and win. If it's a draw, I'd still fancy our chances under Goodison's lights. Despite the fact that they've cheated us out of a further 4000 tickets, let's hope we out sing them and cheer the lads towards victory.

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Hey Cobyone, it is a banter page. That's why I put my stats on here. If you don't like them, don't read them. Simples. Fact is 3 shots on target for all the possession and missed shots is pretty poor. Look at my other posts, because I am suggesting I know the reasons. Our corners are terrible. Haven't scored from one for decades. We fill our team with non scoring players. I am not having a dig here, just pointing to facts. I have actually enjoyed our football this season. But we should have won lots of games by 4 or 5 goals. For some reason we have not. The red s**te have scored over 2 X what we have. This is the same team that we finished above for the last 2 seasons. All the teams around us have scored more.

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I do exactly what Degsy said and don't read them. His posts are identical and basically say the same thing over and over again. Once you have read one you have read them all.

Simples

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Thanks Oli.

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01 Mar 2014 16:42:50
OK fine, Lukaku has just come on and completely changed the game. I wish everyone would stop saying he's overrated

;-)

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01 Mar 2014 15:06:40
Playing a sort of 3-5-1-1 formation against West Ham.

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