Everton Watch

As someone quoted on that Sun article:

"The most expensive watches here are actually the most ugly. And this tells something about their owners: bad taste, dubious education, poor family origins, high ego and desire for recognition."

 

He has a great opportunity to get them into the top 6 this season. Both arsenal and chelsea are in transition so both should be in range, particularly arsenal who I expect to really bomb this season.

 

So far.

 

I don't know

Remember that Everton are in transition just as much as those two clubs, but those two spend more than double the amount of money on wages that Everton do

Arsenal didn't look great on Sunday, but there aren't many teams who wouldn't get stuffed against Man City

 

TB, my mate stayed under water in the jacuzzi for almost 2 minutes but your 50 words with only a single comma edges that.

How’s the lad?

Excellent to see him looking confident again.

 

Two commas. I insist pedantry be done properly.

Anyway, he was really good last weekend. Very keen to see what he'll be like in a game where we have 11 men on the pitch as he had to do a lot of defending against Wolves. His start could barely have been more promising.

 

Btw, on the DTel FF, he is still shown in yellow. Their team of the week is a wall of yellow.

 

Everton fans are beside themselves. This is the year they're really going to do it. Ssssilva is going to ssslither and sssslime them all the way to the league title.

But let's just pause a moment and take a closer look, now that we can cross reference their form.

Firstly they managed to draw with newly promoted innocents, Wolves. Who went on to be soundly spanked by mediocre, 10-man Leicester yesterday. Even minus a player, Leicester still managed to dominate them in a style that Everton never managed.

Next they squeek a win (at home) against a team who avoided relegation by the narrowest of margins last season and don't look to have improved much. Southampton ought to have had 4 really. Everton were wide open at the back and if the saints had someone a bit sharper than that old banger Maurice Austin and if Danny Ings were a bit more up to game speed, they might well have lost it.

In their first game, Southampton had a bore draw with Burnley and on a line through that form, with us whopping them today, you can see that really they've just about beaten a team at home who every team in the prem will consider easy meat on their own patch and drawn with another bunch who look like they're also going to struggle badly.

Not quite so impressive as it appears at first glance, is it?

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see humble Eddie Howe on MOTD next Saturday accepting Lineker's congratulations after they've spanked Everton by 3 or 4 and brought them crashing down to earth.

 

Hmmmmmm

Wolves - they weren't as good as I expected them to be. We were comfortably the better side until Jags messed it all up. Playing with 10 men for 50 mins away from home was a tall order, but still probably should have won the game. I was ok with this.

Southampton - first half yesterday was the best I've seen us play in ages. It was almost perfect apart from one stupid mistake from Pickford, which he fortunately made amends for. Should have been more than 2-0 up at half time as we were all over them. Second half wasn't as good, but we were still the better side. Missed one great chance, had a goal ruled out for a v close offside call and generally looked much more like scoring. Conceded from a corner (yes, I had been told to expect this), but other than that Southampton didn't do anything really. They will go down this season I expect.

Nobody should be getting carried away, but the football has improved a lot in a short space of time and all the new signings are still yet to play (Richarlison apart). All in all, so far so good.

Fully expecting to lose at Bournemouth though - our record there is horrible

 

Could it have actually got worse than brand Allardyce?

 

It's hard to imagine

(It wasn't much better under Koeman either for most of the time by the way).

 

Wolves soundly spanked?
An own goal and a deflection against the run of play. Plus Wolves hit the woodwork three times. Yes Vardy was dismissed but Leicester just put everyone behind the ball to see it out.
You should get your facts right. Wolves are playing some very good football

 

Credit to Wolves &, from the little I've seen, Fulham for playing attractive football.

Marvellous upgrade on Stoke/WBA for the Prem.

 

Wolves looked on the highlights, and sounded on the commentary, really very good. Should have been out of sight before LC scored through and own goal. They will be safe in mid table.

 

Might be nice football, but it's not getting them many points.

We'll have to wait and see of course, but I suspect that Wolves and Fulham (and perhaps Everton too) might be object lessons in proving that you can lash out millions on loads of expensive players, but that doesn't make you a team.

 

No, that’s West Ham.

 

Think you'll find Everton gave a masterclass in this concept last season.

West Ham look best-placed to take the title this year based on early showings.

When you have money burning a hole in your pocket and are devoid of any kind of long term plan, the aftermath usually isn't very pretty.

 

Richarlison says:-

“I want to be the top scorer of the league, take Everton back to the Champions League and reach the Brazilian national team.”

Yeah. Right.

You go on and do that old son.

We'll be watching and ready to comment on how you get on.

 

Hope he does and that it then triggers all the undisclosed "add-ons" we heard about.

 

Sounds like a variation on a small child's Christmas present list.

 

If there's a clause that pays us £10 every time he gobs off and gives it the big 'un to the press, then we'll be back in for that £60m striker in January....

 

Any comparison on crisps on Merseyside v Hertfordshire from Chas?

 

Nice to read about Silva reminding Lookman that he won’t allow anybody to force a move or disrupt the squad, amid his reported interest in returning to Germany.

 

It's been mine for 52 years.

Not the Everton bit.

 

I always wanted a pedal car but I received a Sooty glove puppet.

 

Were your parents hard of hearing?

Or associates of puppeteers?

Sweep?

 

I don't care about the blue scousers, they are as dislikable as their red neighbours and thankfully there are many miles between the city of pity, and my beautiful town

Close this thread now.

 

I personally hope he breaks his leg terribly and his career ends.

 

Mother is now but she's 93!
My Dad was a mason,is that the same thing? I'm not good on The Magic Flute.
Still waiting for Sweep,hopefully with a enormous watch!

 

Tell her you want Sweep & you'll probably get the pedal car.

I gave up on opera 20 years ago but, without wishing to sound like Frasier & Niles Crane, the QotN aria is quite scintillating:

 

The cause of his awful form for two thirds of the season is definitely open to question.

If he pulled on the yellow shirt and then didn't give it his all for whatever reason, then screw him really. I certainly don't wish him "all the best" playing for the opposition and I wouldn't shed any tears if Big Mig Britos did a number on him when he comes back here either.

 

I'm not bitter about him. In fact, I think it's a good move all round and only the extremely naive would have denied that he was eventually going to go to Everton - deep down we all knew it.

However, we got a very good deal and he's started well, albeit against some average teams.

His departure has been very good for us as well, the cancer has been cut out and we're a team again. Last season we relied heavily on Richy during our barren spell and he crumbled beecause we didn't have other attacking options, so it was immediately give it to Richy and work some magic and he came up short.

This season, I think we look more balanced, Deeney's sharper, Gray's movement helps the midfield and Deeney. Hughes and Doucoure are creative and will pitch in with goals, Perreyra has started well. Del Boy to come back in so we've got different weapons in the armoury.

So, I'm not bitter in the least, we're in a win-win. Richy does well = more money. He struggles it'll affect Silva and their Camelot comes crashing down.

What's more important is what we do and so far I like it alot.

 

Good idea.
It is indeed.It features in one of my favourite Morse episodes,'Masonic Mysteries',part of which is shot near or in the grounds of St Albans Cathedral.

 

A classic edition.

'Lew-isss, it's the bloody masons!'