Smirking_Saint

Well, he could easily have been my MOM last night, my main gripe about him was his distribution which has improved remarkably. He looked so classy last night, never really putting a foot wrong and I noticed was often on hand to cover for Hoovields poor positioning at times and when Clyne was overpowered he was there to mop up. I saw him ably manage to cope with Feliani in the air which is no mean feet either. I personally have thought he was the better of Fonte and Yoshi partnership recently and is improving every week, I just dont see how people dont see it. You dont need to be a unit at the back any more if you have a bit of pace and your positioning is good which is the situation he is in at the moment. Its not as important being a mountain at the back any more, football is becoming quicker and more technical. Long term partnership will be Yoshi and Forren IMO though its slightly undair on Fonte who has stepped up fantastically. For a panic buy Yoshi seriously isnt bad.

'Give me my ****ing pork pie back'

Quicker, higher pressing, hunting in packs and more incisive passing. Getting Ramirez on the ball is a plus snd allows Lambert to push into positions that he is dangerous rather thsn dropping deep.

Dissapointed in Gaston ? What exactly did you see to be dissapointed in tonight ? Sometimes he picked the ball up and had little options (only Lambert) ahead of him but that was about it, it should have been the wide men getting up to provide him with options. I imagine that Moyes positively crapped himself by half time snd obviously tried to get someone closer too him. Sorry Crabby btw, just dont agree with you tonight mate either, we looked so much more fluid up top, Rickie didnt drop so deep and so managed to get into the positions he is dangerous in far more often than he did during Adkins tenure, we are looking to get the ball into the box quicker too, resulting in more chances. The main set up is basically the same as Adkins set us up with some minor tweaks. Ramirez, why oh why has he not been playing there since the summer ? He just scared the crsp out of Everton, so so so good. MP has obviously tried to go down the Barca blueprint, try to keep possession and if you lose it work double hard to win it back, it worked first half but we started to run out of steam, more fitness work and better subs required VVV happy tonight

Morgan brilliant, ran his sicks off Ramirez was immense too, shame he ran out of steam as he looks so threatening, Lambert looking like the player we know Quality performance

Brilliant performance, his kicking is at times wayward but his throwing is immense He is big, commanding, strong and good reflexes Im happy

Whats wrong with Cork ?

get gaston back in the gym, that said the boy really has put a shift in tonight

Im increasingly beginning to believe your an idiot

Or perhaps just in his best position ?

Rickie getting into positions Ive not really seen him in often enough this year, Ramirez is just breathtaking I am so excited about this guy he is brilliant. Jos having a decent game, Maya and Boruc looking decent Clyne and Punch our worst players but thats no slight on them, Everton have such a strong left side. Im a little excited now, great pressing, a hunger to keep the ball COYR excited

What did you say previously ?

Great article that sums up exactly how I feel about the situation. Which is the majority of my sadness of Niges dismissal was for him as a man and the way he was discarded and not really due to his talents as a tactician or talent spotter. What is worrying is the man we have in place cannot speak english. If it were the summer it would not be so bad.

Can we send him a signed photo of all of us from Saints web ?

We are turning delightfully tinpot waving a white hankey, I will cringe so much

What direction ? They made the decision that NA couldnt take us to the next level, personally I agree, just the timing all wrong. You will have Cortese, Reed, probably Mitchell too as he is pretty trusted. Reed has done well here TBH, he was charged with developing the academy, sports science centre and scouting team I cant disagree he has done a good job.

Cant be 100% no but lets just say its a long old contract he is on now isnt it

Just thought it would be nice to get Restarks muppet show opening image into the book thats all

Its not, we have been here a million times ffs Do some research and stop bobbing up and down on bandwagons

I slso posted earlier, and saw it on the site but its not there any more ?

Its a nice touch TBH, can you also do a one smirking_saint, itll arguably be more popular Seriously though, I woke up Friday, thought WTF at the weather and told the wife she wasnt going to work cos I wasnt gonna come out and rescue her, then read the rumours, laughed and literally 10 mins after saying to the wife jokingly Adkins has been sacked he bloody was Then I was livid, not upset as Im double hard but I was the double hard equivalent of upset weeping whey protein n stuff. Not as angry now, I now realise most of my wronged feelings were for Nige as a bloke Ahh ******** Im still angry

This your doing crabby ? You snivveling little git

The only way loads of our players will go is if they paid the market rate for them, so no, loads of our players wont go

What statement is he going to make ? I was sacked ?! Not really groundbreaking is it ? He could of cpurse talk of difficulties working with Cortese but it doesnt seem the measure of the man. As for Pardew, he didnt sign a confidentiality agreement, nor did he sleep with anyones wife, but he also didnt stand to gain anything from giving a statement

Agree mostly but factor is the removal of a man loved by fans and players and replaced with a new guy who though talented does not speak english is strange.