AndyinLiverpool

28 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

Well, there's the city of his birth.
The club he supported as a mucky kid.
His 6 year youth (playing) career.
His FA Youth Cup Final goal, where he revealed his "Once a blue, always a blue" tee shirt.
Becoming Everton's second youngest first team starter, and their all time youngest first team goal scorer (*At the time).
Becoming the youngest Prem scorer (*At the time) whilst wearing an Everton shirt.
"That" goal that put a stop to Arsenal's 30 match unbeaten run, (plus others), and the onset of his pro career.
His return as a playing messiah, and "That" goal from his own half, v west ham.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'd agree with those who opine that he'd be foolish to go back there now, as things stand... but to say there are no links between Wayne Rooney and Everton FC are equally as foolish... in my opinion.  

None of that has anything to do with his ability as a manager, though.

We've had plenty of ex-Derby players manage the club. Apart from McClaren, I'm struggling to think of one that took the club forward.

One thing I do know is that I have an xShag rating of 0 this week

4 minutes ago, LazloW said:

Was his broken arm predicted? Who knows what might have been had he stayed fit. However, probably a massive blessing in disguise as Wildsmith has been phenomenal. 

xFracture of 0.8

I thought he left months ago

8 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

So again Andy you seem to think this is people thinking they are clever when they are not? Like I said before there is a reason Brentford are in the Premier and we are not. Maybe they could have just sent scouts to watch games but they didn’t . They used stats to assess players.  This sort of thing works. 

 

How do we know that's what Brentford did? How do we know they didn't send scouts?

There are a whole load of reasons why we are not in the premier league. Leadership at the club wasn't inept just because they didn't use xG to sign players. 

32 minutes ago, Jubbs said:

Exactly this.

Imagine a player has a weak shot target from 40 yards that a 90 year old could've saved.
vs
A 6 yard shot where the keeper makes a wonderful reaction save to it.

Per some posters logic, these are exactly the same as they both count as a shot on target. 

If you look at the xG over the Lampard season it shows we were massively overperforming and created few high chance goal scoring opportunities, being bailed out by long shots from Wilson. We reverted to the mean and it came back to bite us on the backside.

Do you really need a statistician to tell you that?

It seems to me that xG is just a way for gamblers to think they are being clever.

9 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

That's how reductio ad absurdum works.  

With fancy talk like that, nobody's going to accuse you of being thick or obtuse.

2 minutes ago, David said:

Anyone that voted "I like" smells of cheese and onion crisps.

As an argument, it's as good as 'thick or deliberately obtuse'

2 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

If all you want to do is watch the football why are you on this forum? 

Your question is built on an incorrect supposition

or you could just watch the game

Dropped for this evening's game

20 minutes ago, Rammy03 said:

Feel sorry for Frank. He's a good guy who takes a lot of stick despite walking into an absolutely mess that is Everton

I don't 

It's still really funny, isn't it?

1 hour ago, mozza said:

The ratings system used on here confuses me, we all have different opinions on how high/low we rate players. I mean i quite liked Robbie Savage (7). Any chance you lot could put ratings number in brackets?, to give me a better clue as to if it's worth watching or not.. 

Thought not..

 

Quite liking Robbie Savage automatically excludes you. ?

6 minutes ago, rammieib said:

If you make a last minute decision to go, but you don’t own a printer, it’s pretty much either a case of gamble by buying at the ground or you don’t go.

I really hope in the off season we can modify to at least having the option to use a smart phone. I know not everyone has one but it would certainly free up a few more to buy last minute.

I used smart phone the last time I went 

2 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Medieval

The story of 15th Century Czech hero Jan Zizka

Low expectations, despite (or possibly because of) the presence of Michael Caine, but in the end it was ok.

Ian Buxton/10.

It helps if you know something about Zizka, which is a bit of a flaw with the film.

Looked pretty poor tonight. He should be in his prime but he's fallen to the level of bit part player at a nothing club. His second nothing club since leaving Derby.

1 hour ago, Oldben said:

Another player with very little resale value, am under performer by all accounts.

I can't see this happening as I read something about pw only signing players that improve the team, and also wanting to sign players that are aged 30 or under.

 

 

Have you missed the last 18 months?

Proper 70s sounding name

I think my sides have split

4 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

Pen. Sibley tripped  not  given 

Please don't do that

Forest just got a tonking on the Big Match Revisited.

Very watchable.

4 minutes ago, 1of4 said:

With the ban on single use plastic coming into force in October. It will be interesting to see what some pubs do on match days. Will they have revert to serving drinks in glasses or will someone come up with an alternative to plastic?

Paper cups

3 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

Good player 

Part of our tradition of flogging our player of the year

Isn't Dana a bit of a girl's name?