The Coming...

Of the no-Europe year.

The first years of David Moyes have been yo-yo years. Fourth-Seventh every year, except it is from the top one year and from the bottom in another year. And good riddance for the past few years since we stabilized the team. We moved away from that trend and constantly beat bad teams and lose to good teams. Well, give or take a few unexpected performances.

Today, we drew with Newcastle, possibly the worst team in the Premier League that had not played in the Championship in the last few years. Well, maybe with the exception of a few others like Fulham who improved this year. Else, I expect a top five team to beat it comfortably...barring the surprisingly toothless Man U in the first game. Championship contenders tend to stutter sometimes. But they don't concede an average of two goals every game either, so that will be proof that Everton really needs improvement right now.

Anyway, it was a defensive disaster. How did Everton concede goals within one minute from each side of half time, I'm not sure. I'm just happy they survived. My only concern is, Moyes, get back to basics. Probably that will help. Long term success is build on defence. We can score goals now, but that will not win us the games if we don't defend well. The biting midfield is lacking I guess. The old dogs of war are gone...I always prefer to work with players we have so instead of buying, Moyes probably should just get his old scratch book back and redo the defence strategies...

Well, a few things doesn't change at least. Like Cahill having his extensive collection of cards...