IslandExile

What's all the fuss about then? That was an excellent performance.
Best referee I've seen for ages.

Please can those on the pitch during the game - especially those in a white shirt - play some entertaining football.
Thank you.

It's not taken long for some of ours to start questioning David Clowes' first important decision.
Anyway, RIP Bill Kenwright. A true Toffees supporter.

If any fans could be classed as "entitled", it's the Everton lot.
Felt so sorry for the genuine fan: Bill Kenwright, who suffered so much abuse.
He's out of it now. RIP Bill
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/bill-kenwright-long-term-everton-chairman-and-west-end-producer-dies-aged-78-12991655

Please can those on the pitch during the game - especially those in a white shirt - play some entertaining football.
Thank you.

I’m all for a positive atmosphere.
But given the performance at the weekend, maybe we could install some of these, so we know when to cheer!

If it helps - I don’t moan (too loudly) I don’t boo - I have had a season ticket for 40 years and shifted everything to attend games but tonight I have been invited to a small family meal so I have accepted the invitation and won’t be going to PP and I only live 3 miles away and could easily get there - I just can’t be bothered watching the nonsense every week 

Unless you’re going to attend tonight and act like the audience at a North Korean concert arranged by the Supreme Leader, please stay home. 

Your individual opinions and freedom to express them are not welcome. 

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Please can those on the pitch during the game - especially those in a white shirt - play some entertaining football.
Thank you.

Please can those on the pitch during the game - especially those in a white shirt - play some entertaining football.
Thank you.

Please can those on the pitch during the game - especially those in a white shirt - play some entertaining football.
Thank you.

Is that the same Graham Potter reputedly being considered to take over from Ten Hag at Manchester United?
If so, we'd better get in quick with an offer of all the Jaffa cakes he can eat.

"I'm not blaming our current form on recruitment"
I agree.
This squad is good enough to be performing far better, playing decent football and being higher up the league.
So, why isn't it? 🤔

In my working life I publish books, and I'm lucky that some are by the world's finest thinkers. When I first got a job like this, naturally I read a book about how to do it. Written by a woman, and acknowledging the sexism in the advice she was being offered in a similar position to me, by a publishing grandee, he told her:
"Authors are like women - they love to be asked."
It's advice that has stood me in very good stead and I think it does no harm to apply it to managers. I've published books by three Nobel-prize winning physicists and many other prestigious people, who other editors probably didn't dare go and talk to. Graham Potter would probably be the first name on my list, just in case I could sell him on the idea of falling in love with the Derby project. Proving himself as one of the managing greats, by taking us through the divisions into the Premier, and able to challenge at the top. He'll likely say no, but what if he says yes? What if there's some quirk in his upbringing that sees him want to come here - follow in Cloughie's footsteps? It's my job as an editor to try to find what might make someone want to write for me, and it's Clowes' job to do the same with managing Derby. Find something they have in common - show Potter how much Graham would enjoy working together at Derby. Sell him the dream, and hope he buys it.
 

But can they count fouls and corners?

The Press Association - probably the leading news agency in the country - not just for Sports either. They provide much of the news for all media outlets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gn9llt
Here’s the pre match bbc podcast with Warne. My summary of it is….
It’s an interesting listen but doesn’t really tell us anything that hasn’t already been said about finances despite Dom’s tweet. Words to the effect of “didn’t really have a pot for fees, but could have used some of the budget on fees but not enough to improve the squad so used it for frees” 
There were some good questions from Dom, did ask about the post match scenes on Sat; Warne said it’s not ideal but understands it. Said something about it being “best not to engage” which I take as being why he didn’t come over himself. Said emotions ran high in the dressing room after but isn’t being lingered on and players want to put it right tomorrow.
Dom said the comments about needing more aggression/physicality/finishing have been said for a while now but nothings changed, Warne said something about a bum cheek then how he gets things need to improve and when pressed later on as to how that happens he spoke more about work on the training ground etc. 
Dom said something about 3 of the 11 on Sat being Warne signings, Warne asked clarity if Dom’s meaning was signings haven’t been good enough which Dom replied saying he meant it’s still not fully “Warne’s team”. Warne said it is his team, thinks we recruited well and is definitely good enough for top 6 but needs to improve and soon.
I might have forgotten bits or portrayed them subjectively so best to give it a listen yourselves if you feel so inclined. 

Chris Powell is now assistant manager at Sheffield Wednesday.

Nah, he may have been boring to watch but he won quite a lot of games.

Nah, he may have been boring to watch but he won quite a lot of games.

Being too quick to fire managers in the past is not a reason to stick with a manager performing well below expectations in the present.

When you’re young there are certain games which stand out…..this one was right up there.
Watney Cup Final       Derby County v Manchester United 
Baseball Ground     8th August 1970      attendance 32,049
The Manchester United side which faced Derby included World Cup winners (Bobby Charlton and Nobby Stiles), European Footballer of the Year winners (Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best) and the squad who were the first English European Cup winners just over 12 months earlier.
It was a privilege to watch players who are still legends of the game come to the old Baseball Ground.
Thanks Sir Bobby for these great memories………..may you rest in peace.
 
 
 

Not all League One managers are percentage hoof merchants. 
Nobody is asking for Pep. 
But somebody who can actually get us playing some entertaining football with a resemblance of a plan would be nice.
Warne football is just rubbish on the eye. It may have worked for him at Rotherham in the same way Phil Brown had success at Hull or Aidy Boothroyd at Watford.
I don’t care if people view me as entitled. I just want my team to play entertaining football, win or lose.

It took courage to approach the fans like that. He has my respect.

Hourihane was asked about tactics at the fans forum and said it was up to the players to adapt to what the manager wants. In saying today, we are trying, he's giving the same message.
I think it is his way of saying we're doing what we're told to do. My take on that (both times) is that it's not what he - and probably several others - wants to do. 
I'm maybe just thinking that because it's not what I want them to do, either.