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Have your say or do you want to reply to the e-mails below - e-mail Blue Kipper Discuss this on the Message Board We have had over 200 e-mails over the last few days. We can't use them all. Some of them were written as events unfolded. Below is a Full Page of Your views on the sacking of Smith & the beginning of the Moyes Era We Will Not Be Patronised It's
an article of faith among so-called "football people" i.e.
retired players and washed up jock commentators that they stand up for
their own, no matter how awful. Just check out the solemn headshaking
and pious bleatings over the Last of Wally. The flip side of this is
that supporters are dismissed as "uninformed", "misinformed",
"don't know the way football is", denying us any understanding
of the game or even the ability to judge what we see with our own eyes.
Typical of the closing of ranks and the out-pouring of sympathy that
is rampant among "professional Football people" following
Wally's well-justified dismissal, is this rancid piece of leftover sewage
spewed by John Barnwell, the League Managers Association's chief executive.
The LMA is an "old boys club" designed to ensure the continued
employment of superannuated know-nothings that populate British football,
people like Smith and Knox who are tactically and professionally stuck
in footballs wasteland, with methods and ideas that went out with Accrington
Stanley and the Long Ball philosophy.
The Fat Lady She ain’t singing yet, but if you listen quietly you can almost hear the opening bars of “Abide with me” drifting across Goodison, and the sound of the deckchairs beginning to slide. Walter has put a huge gouge in the keel of the club, perhaps not entirely his fault, but there is no doubt that he’s been bobbing around lost in a big blue sea for to long now. Apparently cool and composed on the surface, we can now clearly see the frantic bulk of a problem under the surface, that’s now turned turtle. Now it’s time for the board to grab the helm and steer this club to port. Forget Kings Dock, the port of premiership survival is far more important. Big Nev has suggested that Everton need to go down, in order to rebuild. What is he on????? Here’s is a club that has never known relegation, has deep pride, fanatical support, and a fantastic tradition. Would Nev rather be at Gillingham or Rotherham next year or Anfield? And what if we never come back? No doubt about it. Walter has built a great team for Div 1 football. It mainly comprises has beans and non-entities. There are of course a few jewels, but these will go the same way as Jeffers and Ball. So if we do go down, it will take a massive change in club staff and culture to avoid Div 1 mediocrity. It is then unlikely that a “quick return” will happen, and if it did, there a very strong chance that Everton will become a Watford or a Barnsley (and look were they are this week) The fans have shown time and time again that they will dig deep and stand by the team. The team has shown time and time again that they can fight. I hate to say it but we need the dogs of war again, not the school of science, to get some quick results, but who in the team is up to it, and who will lead it. There’s talk of Moyes, but can a relatively inexperienced manager who has only known the giddying height of the Celtic youth team, Shrewsbury Town, Cambridge Utd, and Bristol City deliver? The board needs to look deeper than that. Ex blues players have shown an amazing propensity to do well in management. There’s loads of them out there. Let’s grab one, or more. Make them an offer they can’t refuse, and how many true blues would not want to return. Reid, and Ratcliffe as a team spring to mind, but there are others. So
get your charm hat on Bill. Look at your history and for gods sake get
a gag for the fat lady; quickly.
Filthy Blue Pretenders How
the fuck can these pieces of shit who call themselves Everton players
sleep at night. Apart from the obvious couple who seem to still harbour
a little professional pride by way of trying a little bit, the rest
of the cunts seem happy to just turn up and trot around like a bunch
of sulking schoolboy's when things aren't going their way. Big Nev Just heard that Big Nev Southall has been sacked from his management position (3rd division team somewhere). I hope this is just a coincidence. Matt - London. (18/03/02) Auf Wiedersehen I,m
an exiled scouse blue living and working in Frankfurt Germany and although
being in another country can somewhat buffer the pain, its still agonising
to see Everton fall apart so badly this season. I watched the game against
Boro in my local "Orish" pub, and was truely astonished at
what I saw, enough has been said about that already. Everton Football Club When
are Everton Football Club going to sack this imbecile! Under his stewardship
we have been utterly shambolic. I have been following the club since
the mid-70s and can honestly state that the current personnel is by
far the worst team I have seen during this period. Consequently, I implore
all decent Evertonians to act decisively and first threaten to boycott
Saturday's home game against Fulham to put pressure on docile Bill and
his Board of Directors. Surely this or other appropriate websites have
a representative who can contact the local media TODAY, illustrating
that Everton fans are very serious about airing their displeasure and
intentions both locally and nationally. Should the club hierarchy fail
to respond, let's turn this threat into reality and not attend the game
against Fulham and subsequent home games until the tactically inept,
brain dead, passionless cretin is removed from the club! A short-term
appointment must be made NOW! Contrary to popular belief, there are
managers out there who can take on the mantle through to the end of
the season. How about George Graham, Terry Venables or closer to home,
Colin Harvey and Joe Royle? Each of the above candidates is not afraid
to blend youth and experience unlike the present idiot! What is £1,000,000
compensation compared to £20,000,000 loss of revenue due to relegation
into Division 1. Walter must Go i traveled up to borough and thinking wed bang 4 against a poor side that wernt the case why smith doesnt play chadwick i dont know you can obviously tell he doesnt like youngsters you can tell by looking at the side but chadwick is boss weve got 2 good players coming up in the form of scott brown and wayne rooney but i dont think hell play them when they come up hell proberbly go out and buy pele and maradona there old enough to join us theyve only just signed on their pension and there free at the end of the day everton need a new gaffer. Hobsdaniel. (18/03/02)
Yes Smith has to go... he's
making too many dubious decisions. If we take the match against Borough
for an example: Our defence hasn't let in many goals the last few months,
even against some of the better teams. On sunday he changed from four
defenders to three. Why? Blomqvist has been one of our better players,
especially against the Hammmers in the previous game. Smith plays Rhino
Arse Unsworth (who should also be sacked)or put down)) We've
got young Nick Chadwick who's been scoring all season for the reserves,
he's big and strong, a perfect partner for Rad. Smith plays the shortest
attack force in football history - Rad Alexandersson needs to go back to the Natiowide, where he belongs. Yesterday. Gazza has been one of the greatest football players in English football history. Note: has been. Smith has only ever been successful in the Scottish Premier, where the only competition is Celtic. Win the derby matches with Celtic, and you win the league. Blue
Kipper, I live in Sweden, but I'll be home for the Fulham game (must
have banged me ed somewhere) See ya at the Spellow! Make sure you'vegot
yer camera, I want me mug on the best web site on the Internet. Time's running out For
the first time in forty years, this could be it. This season could be
the one that sends the mighty blues into the despairing doldrums of
the football league sponsored by andrex. Just one wish God, 41 points March
is here and my heart can only take this so many times. My mum always
said that you should learn by your mistakes, I wish Walter's mum had
said the same to him. Instead she said "Sell your best players,
play the shit one whose dad scored that goal against Holland and let
that twat Knox train them!" Is it me or do we have too many of
the same type of midfielder. Surely if old Walter has a tight budget
then why buy Carsley & Linderoth when one (Linderoth more likely)
would have done? Then gone and looked for someone who could push up
out of midfield and, spare the thought, support the front two. The problem
is who. Well Izzet wants out at Leicester and until he got injured Hutchison
was on his way out of West Ham. Neither are world-class but we don't
have world-class money. Although with Hutchison being injured, he would
fit right back in at Bellfield. As soon as the final whistle went against
West Ham the first thing I did was to look up the final run in for the
other teams in the shit with us (annual event). If we play like we are
all of our games look dodgy, but games against Leicester, Bolton, Blackburn
and Derby are going to be very decisive. Arsenal away at the end doesn't
even bare thinking about. Survival It
is hard to believe that the Board, Management and players realise what
a dire position we are in. The management are unable to motivate the
players and the constant selection of midfield players who can neither
show the necessary guts and fight required nor the creativity to set
up goal opportunities is plain for all to see. Gravesen should be starting
matches not sitting on the bench for 70 or 80 mins. Alexandersson is
just a continual lightweight and we cannot afford Ginola's wages or
his approach to the game. Its unlikely the Board will have the guts
to change the Management at this stage. Our only hope is that the Management
have the guts to select players who are prepared to fight for the survival
of this club which probably means Disgust I am
disgusted about the recent performance of our so called 'players' and
the motivational skills of Walter Smith. I travelled to West Ham wednesday,
although I live just outside of london, it was murder getting there.
I am only 16 years old and have supported everton for nearly ten years
now and this is by far the worst bunch of un-devoted players I have
ever seen!! Not one person on that pitch looked as though they gave
a fuck whether we won or lost! David Ginola said he can do magic, well
him actually trying would be a start, also Walter Smith has got to be
the worst manager ever! He has got the motivational skills of a pen!
Everyone outside of everton says 'Walter Smith has done a great job
at everton', but I don't see how because when he came in we were struggling
to avoid relegation, and we still are. I say that we should ge rid of
that useless bag of shite and send him to a crap team (preferably redshite)
and get back Joe Royle who actually did Down Down, Deeper & Down. How
anyone can still support WS after the last few games is beyond me. Get
real. And now it gets worse somebody suggests we bring back Royle. How
short some peoples memories are. We were in as worse a state at the
end of his reign as we are now, i.e. we have not moved on. |