2 minutes ago, StanBalaban said:

What does Traore need to do to get some game time? 

Get a copy of the photos that Lescott has of Black.

2 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said:

Yep jobsworth words removed the lot of them. Small minded pricks who relish their pathetic little match day 'authority'.

Or you know, just doing their jobs

I really hope someone dusts off the "sob on the Tyne" banners again. Their fans are ridiculously bitter about that, and it would be good to remind them when they're gloating about us going down, that they're probably coming with us

14 minutes ago, sne said:

He looks just like the baddie from an late 80's - 90's action flick.

Driving me mad that I can't find what movie it is.

Anyone has any idea?

He looks a tad like Hans Gruber in that photo imo

1 minute ago, Zatman said:

He could also end up having a 16th position on his CV(Everton 2 points off at the moment) and no trophy

Which would mean that he's taken a team that were consistently challenging Top 6 before he arrived (of Moyes' 11 seasons, they finished Top 6 - 5x, 7th - 3x, 8th -1x, Bottom Half - 2x) to just above the relegation battle in just three years.

27 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said:

I don't get the hate for Martinez at all.  So what if he got relegated with Wigan, I'd say it's more of an achievement keeping them in the league that long and winning a trophy to boot.  His Swansea job was excellent.  At Everton I'd say he has done ok getting them in Europe but this season has been a poor one, but Moyes has the odd poor one for them too.

He got them relegated out of sheer stubbornness in regards to his play style and his complete inability to organise a defence. If he hadn't stuck to his philosophy of "pretty" football, he could have easily kept Wigan up. There's a reason why the so-called survival specialists like Allardyce and Pulis play direct, "ugly" football, because when you're in the thick of it all that matters is getting points, not how you get them. If Martinez had spent more time focusing on organising his defence properly at Wigan, and less on the technical side, they would've had a much better chance of survival, just like when Jewell and Bruce kept them up.

Now the same is happening at Everton, too much focus on the attacking and technical side, whilst their defence gets worse game by game seemingly. John Stones is almost Martinez football incarnate. Yeah he looks good on the ball and is quite good technically, but he makes some horrendous mistakes all because he's fannying about trying to look skillful. The amount of times I've watched Everton highlights this season and they've given away a goal/chance because Stones is dribbling in his own box or trying to play fancy passes with opposition players in front of him is baffling, and yet it still happens, a proper manager would've told him that sometimes you just need to word removed the **** as far away from goal as possible.

1 minute ago, rodders0223 said:

Decent player on his day. Get him signed up.

And he hasn't played football in 4 years and his retrial hasn't even started yet.

I'd rather not take him.

1 minute ago, It's Your Round said:

Surprise surprise it's this 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/7085727/Gabby-Agbonlahor-pictured-on-laughing-gas-and-drinking-in-London-hotel-on-night-Aston-Villa-were-relegated.html

Gabby Agbonlahor pictured on laughing gas and drinking in London hotel on night Aston Villa were relegated

Hahahahaha

Aston Villa player in being a prick shocker!

I'd actually quite like match fixing "Haha, we're not actually shit, we've just been losing on purpose!"

Would make this season slightly easier to swallow, I already hate all the players anyway.

Just now, NoelVilla said:

Would the Editor in Chief tweet like that if it was players on the piss? Don't know the papers in England but it seems a little bigger doesn't it.

It's the Sun, so yes.

1 minute ago, ferguson1 said:

Gutted we didn't hear his Bacuna story just before 8.00pm.  Staggers butted in and they went to the news.  All he said was that he bumped into Bacuna at Birminham airport.........???

If it's the story I'm thinking about, it's the nothing story that he saw Bacuna pissing about on a segway or hoverboard (can't remember which) at an airport.

Just now, Genie said:

I bet there's some chiefs at TalkSport a bit nervous Stan is about to land them in court 

The other presenter was desperately trying to get him to shut up when he was talking about Little when they came back from the ads 

Southgate is sitting in the stands next to Little today, perhaps he's being lined up? Probably a case of 2+2=5 though.

West Brom with 24% possession, 4 shots and 1 on target today...

They may be winning but I find it baffling that anyone would want Pulis to be our manager and be forced to watch that tripe week in week out.

17 hours ago, V01 said:

I was under the impression he'd picked her up in a club and believed she was 18, how wrong was I. I can't see how he can believe he has any grounds for a defence.

I thought this initially too, then when I saw the grooming charge, I assumed it must've been a technicality due to him admitting he knew her age but that it was still consensual (as consensual as doing stuff with a 15 year old can be), wasn't quite expecting the texts that have come out that seem as if he has actually groomed her and took advantage of her. I just can't fathom why he'd do it. Scumbag.

2 hours ago, Rodders said:

once he's served his time, whatever it might be, someone will pick him up for a bargain, I'm fairly certain. Lee Hughes got back in after manslaughter. May drop to the championship but he'll play.

Considering he's 28, and with some of the stuff that's supposedly being brought up in the trial, I don't see him coming out at an age where he can realistically play professional football at a high level.

He was never this bad, he'd have scored 5+ for us if we'd given him this many chances.

Benteke having a shocker and massively out of form atm. Guaranteed goal at the Holte end on Sunday then...

I was thinking more when we blew our 2-0 lead at Leicester...

Just now on MotD, "They've never been 2-0 up this season"

Errr, yes we have! I remember cause it's so rare!

2 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

In view of the Leicester way that has brought them success this season ( 30% possession in matches quite often  , direct counter attack style ) with fairly limited players , do we feel that Remi's more patient possession based football is the way forward for the club ? It's fine if you are Arsenal but we aren't  or is this Leicester way a one season one off and not a model to copy ?

I don't think that style of football is sustainable at the higher ends of the table, as soon as Leicester's confidence goes I can see them drop like a stone playing how they currently are, whether that be this season or next. Ultimately in football you need the ball to score (as the cliche goes, "the best form of defence is attack") and we showed under both Lambert and McLeish that 9 times out of 10 you're gonna be at the wrong end of the table playing that way. You can't let the opponent just have the ball for the entirety of the game and hope you can steal a goal or 2 on the counter, most of the time it just doesn't work. It's fine if you want to scrape to 40 points each season but if you want to work your way up the table, you need to dominate games more. Leicester are a bit of an anomaly really, they're the perfect mixture of pace, confidence, form, discipline and luck, they might be able to sustain it until May, but I doubt they will stay near the top of the table for long unless they adapt their style a little bit.

So for us moving forward, I'd prefer to keep plugging away at what we're currently doing, it's more satisfying to watch than most counter attacking football and I think long term it's more likely to take us towards getting back to the top half.

Wrong thread.