Slightly off topic but how good a manager is David Moyes. I know he can be a little "enthusiastic" at times but who doesnt want that from their manager.. Albeit with a bigger fan base which we can never realistically hope to match, he has had to work season after season with limited funds, has dragged Everton back from dreadful starts on numerous occasions and now has them competing against all the odds for the top 4. He also has very noisy neighbours who due to history are always the big draw in their city... How has he done it? good financial management (imposed on him admittedly) but more to do with building a team and a squad that is motivated and loyal. Everyone raves about Swansea's scouting but who had forseen that Cahill, Baines and Jagielka would be top class premier league players before he did....& then there's the unearthing of players no one had heard of before they joined the toffees - Fellaini, Jelavic, Pienaar. Who saw Phil Neville becoming one of best defensive midfielders in the prem after his nightmare against Romania in the Euros....Good youth set up too - Hibbert, Osman, Coleman etc Now they've recruited another highly rated player that never featured in any of the gossip columns - thats the way to run a club and conduct their business. Fingers x Harry gets his men & they keep us up but our whole approach just feels unprofessional and a little grubby.....You hardly ever hear of them, they just go about their business We talk about WBA and Swansea being role models but they are still relatively new as stable prem clubs....surely Everton is a better model that TF should be looking at. Patience and long term thinking. Really hope that whether we stay up or not, in the summer, the management of the club take a long hard look at how the club is run and conducts itself and genuinely starts thinking long term. It will take a few years to unravel the mess MH created in less than 12 months and if we have to take a step back to go forward then so be it. As many have opined on here, a bit of our soul as a club has disappeared in the last 12 months but Everton seem to prove that it is possible to be successful without behaving like Chelscum, Man City etc.... Rant over - back to the -36 temps in sunny Calgary
