Everton Banter Archive March 07 2015

07 Mar 2015 20:22:13
Lucien Favre would be my shout if we changed manager.

07 Mar 2015 18:17:17
I'm just a bit surprised that, in all the musings about who should be our next manager, that the name of Eddie Howe hasn't come up. It looks like we won't be in the healthiest of league positions come the end of the season(!), so a big name manager might be out of reach, so we will need a manager who can put together a consistent run of league results & not one who just lives off a few good cup runs/wins. Sound familiar?

07 Mar 2015 20:06:29
Eddie Howe is doing well at Bournemouth, but didn't he return there from Burnley because of family or other personal reasons making him want to be back down south. If he ever does move on, then I'd expect it to be to another southern club.

07 Mar 2015 15:48:33
.have a funny feeling Mr Moyes is coming back!

07 Mar 2015 09:18:06
Bradford have beaten more Premier league teams this season than we have! 😭

07 Mar 2015 07:33:51
Quick stat update for you Degsy, Osman has 1 goal and 1 assist in the premier league this season, Pienaar has 2 assists so can't quote injury, Baines being top with 8 assists. In Europe ossie has a massive total of 0 assists. This is the playmaker you believe is our saviour? As for Barkley I believe he has talent and needs to be played as a deep lying midfielder in order to fulfill this talent. Maybe a change in midfield of maybe Barkley and McCarthy with Gibson.Adobt a 3-5-2 or 3-5-1-1 formation. We need to play to our strengths for the final 10 games and we definitely need to start controlling games in the midfield area. This is just my opinion well other than the stats which are from whoscored.com which some stats on there suprised me the main one being we have scored twice as many goals from set pieces as Stoke! So much for your total football philosophy fraud.

{Ed025's Note - good point gray..

07 Mar 2015 10:10:50
I am not sure where you got your info from or what constitutes an assist, but in Europe against Wolfsburg away, Ossie played holding midfield. It was probably our best defensive performance this season and he twice won the ball off Wolfsburg and played it forward. Once to Lukaku who scored and the other via Mirallas I think? . both goals were directly as a result of his tackle/interception and ball forwards. He has only played a handful of games too. Compare his stats against: Barry, McCarthy and Besic and the number of games played. I really don't think Ossie is the saviour or even a brilliant player. My support for him stems from the criticism he got earlier in the season when he made a couple of mistakes. But I do think he brings in something different than the possession holding trio of Barry, McCarthy and Besic who do not contribute to our forward play much at all. I can also give some (a bit guessed because I need to look up again) stats that suggest that Ossie has only been involved in 3 or 4 losses all season and in the other 12 ish games we have won 4 and drawn the rest. As a team we have been more effective with him. I think we have won 1 or 2 without him. Surely that means something?

07 Mar 2015 13:10:52
Stats are from whoscored.com go have a look yourself mate.