Everton dealing with fresh injury concerns before Burnley game

Burnley fans will be made up with the praise Moyes is giving them and we Everton now know Burnley will not be an easy game.

Thanks for that information, Moyesey!

“Sometimes we can’t reach them.”

You have never reached them, Mr Moyes.

I don’t know why he doesn’t learn from Shankly who constantly told a bunch of second-rate players they were much better than their opposite numbers.

Turn up the dial instead of damping down expectations!

…but sometimes we always can’t quite…

Knell Dave! You’ve obtained a good result. Write some statement down, read it for coherence, and then stick to the damn script. Geez.

Neither of the newly injured players would have a hope in hell of being picked.

Much as I love Seamus, let’s face it, he is well and truly broken. I have never understood why he has been seen as a first or second choice RB recently. Seamus of a decade or so ago, well that’s RB sorted.

Hasn’t Seamus just come back from an injury and has now got “a nick” in training.

Sounds not serious but an indication that his body has broken down. I know how he feels!

Devastating blow that about Seamus. No chance of making the Champions League surely.

Seriously, why does Moyes even bring up his name in the press conferences? As much as we all love Seamus, everybody knows that he is finished at the Premier League level.

Sadly, I doubt that we will ever see him again in a Blue jersey.

Some of you just haven’t seen the dangers of these players, Coleman & Alcaraz, being injured…

It might mean one end of the bench being raised off the ground, or worse still, having to put some youngsters on it especially as we are without the third keeper.

Remember, Mr Moyes sees them on the grass.

What I’m getting here is the 11 that worked away to Newcastle, might not work at home vs Burnley.

Even though Moyes’s rock blunted Newcastle’s scissors, football has other permutations than that.

Coleman may or may not be injured – but he’s definitely not fit for the Premier League anyway. He is taking one for the team freeing up space on the bench and Moyes is preping us for changes.

God preserve me from Moyes having too much choice to 2nd guessing himself with.

Hopefully, when he does his Rachel Riley and picks 4 from the top line and 5 from the bottom… let’s face it Pickford & Beto have to start… giving us the 9 outfield starting names – hopefully he gets it right.

I know there’s no easy games… it’s Burnley for fuck’s sake.

Derek 11 –

Coleman may or may not be injured…

Derek! Come on, mate. And I thought that I was cynical!

A must-win game. One that we have to have a fast, in-your-face approach to.

Hands up if you think George will start?

More bollocks from Moyes as he prepares his pre-match excuses for shit-show number 7:

“If you look through the history books and look at the teams who have moved to new stadiums, it’s never been that easy, certainly in the first year.”

So he’s turned to history books to divert attention away from some of his crap tactics, and team selection at home.

Mid-table Moyes, forget Europe.

Moyes is spot on, Sean — it’s you talking bollocks: The home points drop tells a clear story:

Southampton FC
The Dell ➝ St Mary’s (2001–02)
• Final season: 35 home pts
• First season: 26 home pts
–9 points

Manchester City FC
Maine Road ➝ Etihad (2003–04)
• Final season: 29 home pts
• First season: 24 home pts
–5 points

West Ham United FC
Upton Park ➝ London Stadium (2016–17)
• Final season: 34 home pts
• First season: 25 home pts
–9 points

Arsenal FC
Highbury ➝ Emirates (2006–07)
• Final season: 45 home pts
• First season: 42 home pts
–3 points

Tottenham Hotspur FC
White Hart Lane ➝ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• Final season: 53 home pts
• First full season: 38 home pts
–15 points

Maybe I was listening properly to Moyes press conference, but I am sure he said neither Coleman or Alcaraz would be ready for the Burnley game.

He added to that, he said we also have a couple of injuries which he wasn’t prepared to speculate about. So I think we might be missing 2 players who played on Saturday.

Moyes’s “new stadium” excuse is just that — an excuse. We can win at St James’ Park and with 10 men at Old Trafford but not at Hill Dickinson Stadium?

We play the same way whether home or away. Fans expect the home team to attack if not the atmosphere dies. It’s usually loud for first 10 minutes or so then the players revert to type.

Pickford sees more of the ball than our midfielders do or Tarkowski launches one which comes straight back again. It sends everyone to sleep.

Iain,

I’ve given my ticket away for the last 6 home games, I can’t watch the Turkish Delight football we are playing.

After the set-up and style of play vs Newcastle, I’m thinking of going but fearful he will revert to type.

‘We need to play more expansive football and put these crap teams to the sword’ translates to getting picked off on the break and losing countless games at home.

Moyes is a coward who ‘takes a knife to a gunfight’, shuts up shop away from home but wins more Premier League points on the road since his return than any and all other teams bar Arsenal.

No strikers. No full-backs. None. This is the worst ‘squad’ I can remember us having for a very long time… and we’re 8th. Like him or not, and I don’t particularly, Moyes has worked a miracle since he came back, so hats off to him.

Ben,

Moyes inherited a very weak squad and has added Grealish, Dewsbury-Hall, Barry, Aznou, George, Dibling and Rohl. That’s stronger than what Dyche had at his disposal.

Moyes has done well since his return but a leopard can’t change it’s spots and the lowering of expectations is his default. Something a generation of older fans can’t get on board with.

At this time of year, I would rather play mid-table teams than the ones fighting relegation. I can’t see it being one for the purists.

Andy,

How sad you have wasted your time looking up stats to post your meaningless opinion.

Implicity you’re stating, Moyes’ mindset is, “Historically all teams who move into a new stadium have a bad first season at home — therefore, it’s okay if we also have a lousy record at home in our first season.”

I don’t want an Everton manager to be even thinking like this! What does it do to the players from a motivation point of view?

Moyes should burn his history books. He’s supposed to be a football manager, not an effing historian. I’d advise you to do the same, as you’re repeating the same bollocks as Moyes.

It’s not the stadium it’s the manager’s tactics. Great for away performances but wrong for home games. Defensive play is his forte, attacking play is not.

Like all home games I am worried about tonight’s match.

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Rob #21,

He has also lost Doucoure, DCL, Ashley Young, Onana, Godfrey etc. so while the quality went up in one or two cases we definitely lost out on the goal threat front.

I think the issue at home is the pitch is apparently 5 metres longer than GP was so we are more open to breakaways and while HD is loud to begin with, impatience sets in and the fans frustration gets to the players.

I have no doubt we are playing better football than under Dyche (It couldnt be any worse) but we are still missing that killer instinct in front of goal and at home that is very frustrating.

Sean I am not implicitly stating, Moyes’ mindset is, “Historically all teams who move into a new stadium have a bad first season at home — therefore, it’s okay if we also have a lousy record at home in our first season.”

You’ve put your own thoughts in quotation marks. That’s says quite a lot about your apparent belief that if you think something, it must be true. It isn’t.

What is true is the fact Moyes stated and the evidence I provided to prove it.