26 Oct 2026 06:39:33
Just reading comments on here - very hard to hear folk are finished with / close to be finished with EFC / football. I include myself in this bracket.
I don't think we are asking for the World. Realistically top 4 is not an option for EFC under current Premier League cartel
We would however like to look forward to our team playing attacking football and giving teams a real go getting fans behind them and come away from games having seen a decent match.
Leeds / Brighton / Sunderland / Palace / Brentford etc have all done this over last couple of years with mixed fortunes but had the courage to give it a go
Moyes is no different to Dyche - we have been served up dross for over a decade - when was last time we really played well and sore some good goals and made memories - I honestly cannot pick much out.
Why can't we see Dibling, Hackney, George, Alcaraz, Armstrong, OBrien, Branthwaite, Garner, Dewsberry Hall on the pitch together - Moyes bought most of them
Why on earth have we been left with Barry as only striker - he wouldn't get a game for any team in the league let alone be only striker
Moyes is setting the tone with his miserable performances and attitude
Need a new manager - candidates only who can move us away from this dire brand of football we somehow have been tagged with
We all should be coming on here talking about great goals, crosses, close games, dribbles, youth development but we are left talking about new board, managers, owners, fines, point destructions, hopeless forwards for years and years.
Imagine being 7-16 years old now - would you be keen to support EFC - I grew up with Reid, Heath, Gray, Sharp, Stevens, Southall, Bracewell to name a few but more over - from the whistle we had balls to just bloody go for it as we were EFC!
26 Oct 2026 07:43:46
I grew up before those 5 players you mentioned it's been hard going since the 80s, now reading we losing £1 million per week not easy loving my Club mate.
26 Oct 2026 07:59:39
We just lack ambition as a club Sobs. The owners have pulled their flag from the ground. The manager might talk ambition if quizzed on it but in his heart of hearts knows he has none. He's not a winner and can't cut it in the PL. So he creates a false identity for the club that we are underdogs for every game.
He completely underestimates our football knowledge and tries to gaslight us into thinking he saves us from the abyss. That we should be grateful for a nil nil draw against a newly promoted team citing there's no easy games in the PL!
Well David, we know they aren't easy which is why we need a coach to win us games. Not give up before a ball is kicked. He's created a mentality that we must score first to win (you can see this in the stats when we concede first) .
Our plan B is everyone's plan A. In which we only attack when we go behind rather than attack until we go in front. It's not rocket science to know you'll lose more than you'll win with this tactic. And of course we lose more than we win.
The unmistakable fact is that we will have nothing to shout about with him in charge.
Just plenty to moan about.
I feel for the players who are just driven to distraction at the apathetic tactics. They went into this career dreaming of winning and are slowly being brainwashed into being grateful to share the same pitch with clubs like Hull and Coventry, rather than showing them that they're part of the club that these teams should look to in awe.
The people that run and coach our club lack ambition, sporting competence and any sort of desire to dare to win. We are the a Giant in history that's pretty irrelevant in the present. We have one of the newest and best stadiums in world football. Which for us is like having a Ferrari with no petrol to go in it. Very Sad.
So sell the club and change the manager. We don't need a multi billionaire just someone who can maximise and utilise our income more effectively. And then change the manager. Who do we get? Well anyone of the clubs in this league can answer that as they've already got someone who's better than what we have.
{Ed025's Note - spot on for me Ace..
26 Oct 2026 10:31:37
Let have a look at the recruitment team, all of us on here know we haven't had a decent forward for years then they go bring in Beto and Barry, get rid of them do them as well for not doing there job.
26 Oct 2026 11:27:18
But the manager must have some say in bringing these players in Pb. We've recently added AMN and Norgaard neither look to be strengthening us at the moment, and we have Hackney and Dibbling sitting on the bench.
26 Oct 2026 13:03:06
Im 31. May 1995 our last success, i was born July 95. Its not been fun and doesn't seem likely to change anytime soon.
26 Oct 2026 18:59:26
Brilliant post Ace.
26 Oct 2026 19:09:31
Yes your right Brass but it's not often you see any manager at another game looking at players they want.