Everton v Bournemouth

Yankthattoffee wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:When I watch these goal replays on a loop I like to look at the reaction of each individual player. Well, it's a justifcation for watching it on a loop, eh?

Usually, you'll see a few lads sprinting to get to the goalscorer. A couple more might just stand there with their arms in the air, or just jog gently towards the celebration, or sink to their knees etc.

On this occasion, Tarko goes off to celebrate with Pickford, but literally everyone else proper sprints towards Duke. The burst from Iwobi and McNeil to get over there from the opposite side of the pitch has me retrospectively worrying for their hamstrings.

It's lovely, this. I'm just enjoying talking about Everton with a light heart for the first time in months. So excuse the word vomit from me in the coming weeks. You wait till my squad review lands. If nothing else, it beats working.

It's on those moments "playing for the shirt" becomes apparent.
Do some players play for the wage only? Maybe, but when the game truly matters, you see who is committed to the cause, and who is buying into the manager's plan. Again, those pecky Bournemouth party poopers, decided to kick the wrong way and deny a Gladwys nuthouse reaction.
With the Duke, could it have been the last 2 minutes on the Wolves game, when Lamps throws everyone forward without a care in the world and we shit the bed? The team was never the same under FL from that moment on. No belief in the man. Maybe there was some dressing room descent?
Coady was an unexpected choice on Sunday, but his reaction was just as you would expect. I hope we keep him for the price he's available at.
Mina another one. Ambushed on camera by the hordes just a couple for months ago, but playing out of his skin for the past few games. Sadly he's gone, and for nothing, and still only 28.
Big Mosh had better make some proper decisions, not the show pony kind, but 2.0 reboot, with a plan. Have a plan FFS!
He could have had Howe but he went for Benitez. Don't do it again.
At one seminar many years ago, the motto was enjoy YOLO but be HAPPY (Have a plan you idiot)

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

hairy cataract wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

hairy cataract wrote:Fair points Rotts.  
it will never get boring.

https://twitter.com/TacticallyMatt/status/1663213889029324805

This looks like a pack of hyenas chasing a lion, as the lion changes direction.....
btw should Tark throwing the ball underarm to McNeil count as a foul throw?
Tell the toffeeweb lot that the game might have to be replayed.......

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

hairy cataract wrote:Fair points Rotts.  

So, in summary, Dyche did well, but only because he listened to you, Carra is clueless, and Lampard caught Duke shagging his missus.

Yes. I want to know which user name Dyche is using on this board as a burner account. He has clearly read my posts.

Speaking of Dyche - somewhere on social media over the weekend, someone described him as a human scotch egg, and I couldn't help laughing at this line throughout his post-match interview.

As for Carra - well he clearly didn't read my posts. His HT thoughts brought to mind the scene in Airplane when the stewardess asks if anyone can fly a plane and all the passengers flip. And what's even funnier is that, below the line in immediate response to that clip being posted on Twitter (at HT during the game I presume) everyone is agreeing with Carra but in a condescending "no shit Sherlock" and "oh, brilliant, can I be a pundit too?" sort of way.

I would like to pretend that I was the only one, apart from Dyche, to hold his nerve. But the reality is (and this is true BTW) that around half time the stress manifested itself in crippling stomach cramps. My belly had been turning over since about two hours before kickoff anyway. So if I was in Dyche's position I'd have held my nerve by worrying about my guts more than the actual game. Or, I'd have panicked and put Maupay on. It's rather different, being actually responsible for an entire club's future, rather than being an innocuous waffler on social media. That's why they're paid the big bucks, I suppose.

By the way, I'm still watching vids of the game. Haven't done a second's work yet this morning.