Villa 1 - Us 3

OMG I think i must be living some parallel dimension - but boy is it good :-) i don't know what Davey boy has done different this pre-season but its certainly worked as our usual slow start looks like not being a problem this year. maybe its the rest that not going the Java cup gave us or the early signing of some decent, attacking players who knows?

as per the last game we were immense and produced another dominant display against a poor Villa side. Props have to go to the dynamic duo in  midfield of Gibson and Fellaini. When you wonder why we are playing so well in recent memory it has to go back to these two - we always seem to play well and win when they're on the pitch. I think Gibson in particular is a lucky charm who seems to have a winning habit that rubs off on everyone around him. I bet Ol' Red Nose is regretting letting him go now!

We were very lively up front too with Naismith looking good (although a bit rusty) and Pienaar showing why we brought him back home from his London nightmare. His opener was special and you could see by his celebration what it meant. A lovely move ended up with him curling it in from the edge of the area beautifully. The second was a great cross from Jags that Big Mau Mau rose to nod home - although Given should have done better really. The third scorer you can prob guess - who normally scores for us if hes playing?! Yes thats right Big Jello and it was a really nice, one toucher that he steered home after a good move.

All in all a great performance & win - well done boys :-)

help i'm stuck

Get in there!!!

what a result yesterday for the boys :-) i have to say i wasn't too convinced we would do much as was expecting the customary slow start to the season from us. but they certainly showed me how wrong i was and that they have the appetite for the new season that is very promising.

You can't talk about the game without mentioning the majestic Mau Mau Fellaini who ran the show for us and was immense. Scoring the winner didn't do him any harm too :-) i really loved that goal cos i don't think we scored enough from set pieces last year. I thought Jags did really well too as his Cahill-esque run and block off took men away and freed up space for our big haired Belgian

that header was mine mau mau!!

All in all the whole team played really well even Ossie who can go missing on these big game occasions. They all put a real shift in but more importantly showed real skill also and were well worth the victory. On to the next one now - is so exciting now we're back in season :-) 

Start of new Season - 12/13

hello all

Just like the Premier League players I am back from my summer break and raring to go. only difference is i went to a caravan in skegness where they no doubt had a few weeks in St Tropez. As we know the season actually kicked off at the weekend with some surprising (and in Liverpools case) amusing results but the real kick off for us is tonight.

Before I get onto that I think its best to summarise the summers news & dealings:

1. Selling Rodwell for £12 million - IMO a good bit of business as the lad would not have been first choice for us in the middle and when he did play last year wasn't actually that good. don't get me wrong he looked good in a style over substance way but most of the time passed backwards or sideways to no real effect. He is also majorly injury prone and so would have probably spent most of his time in the treatment room so better to get the dough for him now.

2. Buying Naismith - again a good bit of business i think mainly cos Jelly obviously likes playing with him and so it should mean he's more likely to score more and stay at the club. I know hes had a couple of bad injuries and so we might not get a full season out of him but i think he will help us pick up a few extra points

3. Liverpool failing to buy anyone good - i know a lot of Evertonians think we should concentrate on us and not bother with those lot but i just find it amusing ha ha

The match tonight i can relax about as the result doesn't really matter especially as we are no doubt gonna have our by now famous slow start to the season. Will take more notice of where we are after 10 games or so and worry then if in trouble ha ha. Having said that the opening few weeks always throws up some surprising results as even the big boys are a bit rusty so you never know.

paying the price?

after the defeat to Arsenal last night (which i can't be @rsed to post about) does everyone think Moyes fucked it up bigtime with his decision to rest players in the derby game and break up the rhythm of a winning team? to be honest i am fearing he has and the effect could derail what could have been a storming run in to the end of the season. Think of the optimism after the Tottenham game and how it would have surged through us all if he had just stuck with the same team and beat Liverpool next game?!! God only knows what Jelavic thought - probably same as Velios, 'i've just scored and played well but the boss has dropped me like a hot potato?!'

sometimes the game is made overly complicated by managers & coaches - if the team is winning and people are playing well don't bloody meddle with it!!

I would never have made those changes either - i bet King Kenny was pissing himself

perspective

one funny thing i've noticed over the last few days is the amount of fans moaning about Davey Moyes when we didn't win on Saturday in the cup. hes getting all sorts of stick for being negative and not thrashing them 8  - nil or something. even funnier is the amount of fans comparing him to Martin O'Neill unfavourably and wishing we had O'Neill as he is some sort of tactical genius?!!

just to remind everyone who is moaning like this - O'Neill is far far more negative than Moyes , how many shots on goal did they have on Sat for example or how many chances did they create?!! not one apart from the goal off a dodgy free kick - we penned them in all game after that and we're the negative ones?!

so to the point of the post - its all about perspective , some ppl just have it in for moyes i think!