vs Chelsea (H) Build Up Thread

[Nick77]

They don't win any trophies but the last seasons they have had a better team mentality than us.

If we had the same fighting spirit week in week out then we would probably be playing CL football.

How many games the last seasons have our players not turned up? Even our Captain admitted that they didn't turn up in a few games.

Agreed & considering we went out of all the cups relatively early, we should've ended up at least 6th in the league this season. For the squad we have, there is no excuse to finish any lower imo...

[RichC]

So one place different then

[Neil Young]

A whole place though. We're not even six and a halfth.

[Boogs]

Has the season finished? I could a sworn there was 5 games left

[mulvokop]

So one place different then

think youre missing the point which is Everton are mentally tougher and can roll the sleeves up when needed and scrap for their lives in every department. we just don't have that and it has resulted in dropped points and exit from cups


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[Neil Young]

And you're blaming the manager for the players' lack of mental toughness (if that's what it is). Brilliant.

[Chazza]

think youre missing the point which is Everton are mentally tougher and can roll the sleeves up when needed and scrap for their lives in every department. we just don't have that and it has resulted in dropped points and exit from cups


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The same Everton that choked at home to Wigan in the cup. Choked against us last year in the Semi final and and have not won away against Utd, LFC, Chelsea or Arsenal under Moyes.

We have issues but aiming to be Everton should not be one of our goals.

[Reece]

And you're blaming the manager for the players' lack of mental toughness (if that's what it is). Brilliant.

But he's been here a whole year now!!!!

[RichC]

I think you're missing the point, BR has had less than one season to mould this squad whereas Moyes has had 11 or so years to get it right.

We have finished 7th, 6th & 8th the past 3 seasons and have multiple players come and go as well as we're now on our 4th manager in that time & who also has to use a number of players that weren't good enough previously, changing this takes time and was always going to take longer than this season.

So the comparison at present is daft at best.

[SB]

I think you're missing the point, BR has had less than one season to mould this squad whereas Moyes has had 11 or so years to get it right.

We have finished 7th, 6th & 8th the past 3 seasons and have multiple players come and go as well as we're now on our 4th manager in that time & who also has to use a number of players that weren't good enough previously, changing this takes time and was always going to take longer than this season.

So the comparison at present is daft at best.

Is what it is.

[Neil Young]

But he's been here a whole year now!!!!

Apparently there's a well-established scale of mental toughness (the Mohs scale is based on it), with unambiguous measurements for each Premier League squad and it's universally acknowledged that a manager should take exactly 94.547 days to develop us from where we are now (talc = 1) to Everton (diamond = 10).

[Yozza]

daft at best.

Est 1892

[McDermotX]

The same Everton that choked at home to Wigan in the cup. Choked against us last year in the Semi final and and have not won away against Utd, LFC, Chelsea or Arsenal under Moyes.

We have issues but aiming to be Everton should not be one of our goals.

But David Moyes is a "winner", as Sky reliably informed us.

No. of trophies Moyes has won at Everton = 0

[RichC]

Fergie likes him therefore he's a "winner"

[Marina]

Really not looking forward to this match! Ugh.