on March 5, 2026, 11:44 pm, in reply to "Re: It didn't end well, but we owe him a lot. Most managers would have seen us down."
The amazing thing about last season was we stopped trying to play football just as Branthwaite, probably the most important player to us playing that way, came back from injury. Another victim of playing a high line with the partnership of Tarkowski and Keane. 
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Exactly this. He did what was needed and somehow we scraped over the line twice, which was an incredible feat when you look at the circumstances.
Arguably, he tried to kick on with us as a more 'progressive' team in his last / Moyes' first season, but we started haemorrhaging goals, and it was clear that his time was up.
But, he deserves great gratitude from Evertonians for getting us through. Previous Message
Yeah, maybe we didn't push on, yeah, maybe he doesn't have that ability,but in a back to the wall scrap there's a VERY short list of managers I'd take ahead of him. Previous MessagePrevious Message
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