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So,
it's looks like Tim Cahill will be out for the rest of the year. NIGHTMARE!!!
This is the sort of situation that has "disaster" written all
over it. At present, our main problem is lack of goals and that certainly
wont be helped by the loss of his goal threat. It is vital that we try
not to let this effect the side too much. His loss will be a massive blow
for us. However, Tim's absence may allow Arteta to be brought in to the
centre which is without a doubt his best position. With his range of passing
and eye for a through ball he has to play in the middle. This could, in
turn, help AJ as he thrives on latching on to such balls. A blessing in
disguise? I very much doubt it, but who knows. Every cloud has a silver
lining (or so my mum used to say. I hope she was right. Lets face it,
mums are usually right) All I know is that we have to beat Bolton on Saturday.
Looking at the fixture list a few weeks ago I was fairly confident that
we could pick up 10 points from Fulham away, Villa and Bolton at home
and Charlton away. We have now lost the 1st 2. Bolton are always tough
(especially without Tim and Gary Speed is bound to score again. Let's
not let them get 4 again please) and when we go to Charlton they're likely
to have a new man at the helm and we all know what effect that has on
a struggling side. The players must dig deep and we must get right behind
them. Bring on Big Sams' bunch of rejects. Becks A Blue Could
we get Phil to tap David with a view to coming to Goodison? It would be
a better move for him than to Blackburn. He's coming back from Surely it's time to give Beattie a run upfront with AJ. In the time that we have had Beattie he has not exactly grown into a crowd favourite. His initial role was to play up front on his own when only half fit. Then we tried to play him alongside Bent who can only play upfront on his own! Then back to lone striker for most of last season and from January to March he was outstanding, scoring, winning over the fans and generally causing problems for all defences. He missed out on a vital England squad and that was him done for the season. We then sign his buddy AJ in the summer and we have the prospect of our 1st decent striker Partnership in ages, in fact have we had a decent partnership since Rideout and Stuart and even that is stretching it. After only a couple of games this season the partnership was dissolved due to our Midfield being inadequate, AJ starting like a house on fire and the manager employing a safety 1st approach. Now that our decent start has come to a halt, AJ's form has dipped and we probably only have 4 fit midfielders it must be time to give Beattie a run again with AJ. I know that we Evertonians like to see young players emerging and it is good that Vaughan and Victor are about but I feel that Victor is too raw for a run in the team just yet, that’s not to say that he is too far off the pace I just think that we have to give this partnership every possible chance to work. I am totally fed up with this lone striker role, I can understand using it against the better teams especially away from home but at home to teams that we expect to beat just winds me up. I haven't included McFadden as I don’t regard him as good enough, In fact if I had to name a worse team then he would partner Brett Angel upfront! Parkender. (15/11/06) Beattie Transfer list the fat little shite hawk, he just can't be arsed. He doesn't deserve to wear the Royal Blue. Out, out, out pie boy. Rich Welsh Blues. (15/11/06) Moyes has our players under strict instruction not to pester (try to influence) the referee. Its a pity he cannot get other teams to do the same. Opposing managers use all kinds of tricks to influence refs that our best striker is a diver and it seems to be working. It's time Moyes used the same tactic and to hell with being Mr nice guy. Dick. (15/11/06) Taxi For Moyes Fulham
1 Blues 0: Blues 0 The Arse 1: Blues 0 Villa1 Where to now Davey? Any
one who knows me or has read anything I have written knows how I feel
about Moyes. So its no good repeating the same old rhetoric. Suffice to
say that enough is surely enough. We haven't played as a team (excluding
the Luton walk over) since we gubbed the red shite. I've kept quiet over
the early months of the season and read as we all do anything I can about
the Blues on various web sites and publications etc. Another Saturday Night Sorry to be negative but it again showed today. We started well this season and have again been sussed out. Davey and Alan have got plan A. When the other team score what happens? I know he spent in July to get them in early. Lescott is the next Ratts. AJ needs a bit of confidence, remind him of the £30000 pounds he gets and to tell his good friend BIFFA that I won't be bluffed by someone who huffs and puffs a lot waves his arms like he is working hard and wins the odd header. There is alot to do to impress us. Arteta is getting the ball looking for options and getting caught. Today I wished Mickey Lyons was there with Neville's throw ins. AJ needs service from start of season I thought that Osman needs to play Cahill's roll for the next weeks, which he has done before. Who would have thought that Everton played 4 5 1 at home every week after spending £13 million plus on 2 forwards. Do you think we need a bit of width to our play? Another Saturday night thinking to much. Phillip McFerran. (15/11/06) Daddy said he refereed another game last night. He said it was between a team who call themselves ‘the toffees’ and Arsenal, the team with Theo in… He’s my hero, I hope I can be an England hero like him one day. It was a hectic first half said daddy, and he told me about how all the toffee fans where being horrible to him and calling him names… He said at one point he could hear them chanting ‘You’re not fixing anything’ but daddy said he didn’t understand what they meant! On the television I saw Andrew Johnson get tripped up in the penalty area, but daddy gave his explanation of what actually happened, he said that the little man from the team that play in blue had the ball and ran so fast that he tripped up over his own feet, this is obviously right, because daddy is never wrong! Then daddy had to send off a player because he swore at him and called him a cheat… Daddy said he never liked Scottish people anyway, and that only Wayne Rooney could use every swear word there is to insult him. There was no flow to the game from then on, but daddy did his best he said by awarding all decisions Arsenal’s way, he’s good like that. I asked him if he did his three yellow card trick but he said he decided not to this time. In the second half the blue team was very tired, but daddy said they still ran around and got shots in on goal. Denilson had to be taken off because he got injured, daddy is on his way to the hospital now to make sure he’s ok. Daddy
was relieved when Adebayor scored, because he didn’t want all the kids
from Arsenal to stay up late on a school night, he’s very thoughtful like
that. He even gave a goal kick after Poom saved a shot from the small
man. VILLA DEFEAT A big disappointment on Wednesday was followed by an even bigger one on Saturday against Villa. I think we all know that it was our worst of the season. We created a few real good chances but the football if you can call it that was horrible. Stubbs went back to the 'Ferguson' tactic and that was that. We have had no luck in the past few weeks and have played well but the worrying thing on Saturday was that confidence looked low. AJ especially looked like a poor player. We know he is not. With Tim missing now probably as reports suggest until after Christmas we have to stick together and that means the supporters as well as the team. We are not kopites, we know that we are a building side and do not have a divine right to be up in the top four. When we win a game its not as if we think we are the best and when we lose we shouldn't believe we are the worst either. I know it was poor on Saturday but this happens. I think we are on the right track. There are lots of positives. The Radio City phone in after the game on Saturday was like a kopite phone in. We should be above that and you know why 'KOPITES ARE GOBSHITES! James Mullarkey. (15/11/06) Poll Should Never Referee Everton Again Spoke
to sausage at half time at the Arsenal night game recently, and he didn't
seem pleased with what turned out to be the star of the show Mr Poll (and
quiet rightly so). I have to say yea I thought the arse looked a good
side seemed comfortable on the ball and had plenty of pace. However what
angered me last night and is still sitting in the pit of my stomach like
a volcano ready to blow is this was not a far contest. Give Vic A Start AJ is going to be burnt out very quickly. We need to play Vic. What's he there for if he doesn't give him a proper go. Or is he waiting till last game of season? Put Beattie on ebay with no reserve! Christopher Grace (12/11/06) Is this another winter of our discontent? We had FIVE center halves in the squad today and yet they get the winner from a free header in our box. This is your team David Moyes you signed them and you pick them. The blame lies fairly and squarely at your doorstep. Today we had ONE shot at their goal by James Beattie late in the game. That was the only time their keeper came into use. You are so defence orientated it is not true. Like many other fans I listened to the phone ins about Beattie's body language etc and him not wanting to play for the club. Before today he has defended corners, cleared shots off the line it is little wonder that he is so frustrated. He hardly ever gets into the opponent's penalty area. He has been a let down to Everton and himself. You decide the game plan and your mind set is such that we start off 0-0 and we have got a point.We have gone down the same road as last season whereby if the opposition scored a goal we are struggling. The ball was launched throughout today's game to no avail. Earlier in the season we kept on the deck and looked like a passing team at times. The soccer was good to watch and the play flowed. What we are watching now is 22carat shite! The defence is solid. The mid-field is (I am moving if you don't pick me) small and light weight. Three games in a week is too much for Carsley. We NEED a manager who can match and fulfill the desire of the fans. JACK WARNER. LIFELONG EVERTONIAN. (12/11/06) Bring on the Youth I have just a few words to say on our recent form....PISS POOR BLUES, ABSOLUTELY PISS POOR!! I'd like to say i understand Mr Moyes' decision to play or bring on James 'man boobs' Beattie ahead of Big Vic, but I simply don't?!! Why when we're down to 10 men against the arse, would you put Big Vic into the game on approx 93 mins? makes absolutely no sense at all! Although Alan Stubbs and Davie Weir have been great servants to the club its time for them to go out to grass. While they're helping to fill a gap during our injury problems at the moment they can both only play the one pass, HOOOOOOF up to big tits who only ever flicks onto opposition defence. Time to blood the youth Mr Moyes, Mark Hughes, Victor Anichebe and James Vaughan all have great futures in football, let it be at our club and let it start now! COYB. Mark Goss. (12/11/06) What a clown! Graham
Poll once again has proved that he is an absolute joke. In the space of
2 matches over the course of just a few days he has showed yet again that
he is incapable of any kind of rational thinking. On Sunday Spurs beat
Chelsea for the 1st time in nearly 20 years. Was this memorable victory
the main headline from the game? No, of course it wasn't. Rather than
praising the lillywhites for a great performance the papers were full
of Mr. Poll and his bizarre decisions to send of John Terry and disallow
a goal. This sorry excuse for an official once again grabbed the headlines
last night too. Not only did he essentially cost us the game with his
lack of refereeing ability, he has also set an alarming precedent for
other officials who will now come under fire for not sending off anyone
who swears. If all refs don't do this now, where is the consistency? He
has made a complete fool of himself and made the job of his colleagues
that much harder. Does he send off Rooney for swearing in his face? No.
When Arsenal or Man Utd players surround him and swear, does he send them
off? No. This man did his best to ruin the Derby and last night probably
cost us a place in the next round of the cup. The FA have to sit up and
take notice that there are a growing number of people who don't think
that Mr. Poll is up to the task. (just look at the world cup. 3 yellow
cards to the same player? Well done genius). I am so glad that Chelsea
are now anti-Poll as well. If it was just us then no one would take any
notice. Lets face it, they've never taken any notice of our complaints
before. However, now that he has upset Jose at Chelsea and sent off the
England captain perhaps he will get his just reward. Reffing Sunday League.
He has sent off 2 players now in the space of a week and both have been
hugely controversial. As for him failing to give us a penalty, don't get
me started. CLOWN!!!!!! Having discussed the issue at hand for much of the journey back with the mates I travelled down with, I felt compelled to write in about what we had to sit through throughout the 90 minutes at Craven Cottage on Saturday. We arrived at the ground, not feeling too fresh after the night before, but nonetheless in good spirits and a confident mood about the way the Blues have been playing. Nothing, however, was to prepare us, or the family sitting in front (including three children as young as 5 years old), for the behaviour of the four or five Neanderthals sitting behind us. Not me, my friends, or my brother and cousin, who we were sitting with, regard ourselves as particularly easily offended but the stream of vile and racist language that we had to endure was like nothing I have ever heard before. They abused each Fulham player and the referee with the most offensive language they could muster from start to finish. Usually, with all their constructive intellect, it was “you fucking (adjective) cunt!” Now if these were one off remarks fueled by particularly bad refereeing or inciting behaviour I would not have minded but it was constant, loud and increasingly unpleasant. Anybody sat near us could vouch for that. The more cocaine they sniffed during the game, the more they became completely unaware of anybody around them. The dreaded ‘N’ word was heard too many times when the ball went anywhere near Zat Night and much to my surprise Liam Rosenior was being abused for being a ‘Paki.’ Needless to say, the morons could also be heard seconds later singing “Yobo, Yobo, Yobo,” and “Doo-Doo-Doo, Victor Anichebe.” I have never been in the proximity of such unpleasant, angry and ignorant people in all my life. At this point you ask ‘Why didn’t you just report them to a steward or police officer?’ This thought ran through my mind for most of the match and more so on the way home after the match. I knew my reasons for not doing it. That the steward would probably warn them and then I’d have to endure vile abuse and perhaps worse, bearing in mind their intoxication levels, for the rest of the game. God knows, even if they were kicked out I’d be sitting in fear knowing the distinct possibility they would be waiting outside the ground. I have ultimately decided, in hindsight, that I failed to do the right thing and took the cowards way out. Next time I have vowed to stand up and be counted in order to rid this scourge from our club. But I’m sure it is a position that most right-minded Evertonians have found themselves in before, and a complex one nevertheless. The biggest pity of the story, however, is that by the looks of disgust on the mother’s face sat in front of us, and the sheer terror on her young children’s, I can safely say they will probably never want to go and watch Everton, or any football for that matter, ever again. Tom O'Reilly. (12/11/06) Team Tactics Having
missed very few games home and away, I am starting to despair at Everton's
tactics, taking our last game in particular, both teams were physically
tiring, we brought on Anichebe with 3 minutes to go when we were one down,
taking off Carsley instead of Osman who appeared to be by far the weaker.
Surely we needed changes far earlier in the game than 3 minutes to go,
are we going back to the Smith regime by leaving it as late as possible
to make changes. Also why does Johnson come back into our area when the
opposing team has a corner or set piece, he would be far better employed
staying up field taking out their defenders who would have to mark him,
instead of him having to try and mark them. What Do You Think? Have your say! e-mail info@bluekipper.com |