14 Oct 2025 19:59:18
Honestly Ed025 it was a bit of banter that obviously went wrong and came across badly.
Sorry about that.
It was basically saying I wouldn’t expect you guys to support our lads when they’re going through a storm.
I realise it reads badly so sorry for that.
{Ed025's Note - yeah Ron i must say it upset me mate, we have both been on here for a long time and had mutual respect, i did not take Diogo,s passing lightly and that sounded like i did because i support Everton...thats just not me..
14 Oct 2025 21:25:25
My mistake, hope we can move on with no hard feelings.
{Ed025's Note - of course we can Ron..
14 Oct 2025 22:20:14
I for one know that ed25 and ron keagues posts will be of the utmost respectability and no call for anything more to be said.
{Ed025's Note - cheers Digger..
14 Oct 2025 23:12:59
ED025.Iv just booked you both a room in the Devonshire .
{Ed025's Note - you could have gone a bit more up market strom, im not an asylum seeker you know mate.. :)
14 Oct 2025 23:51:19
Haha Ed025.thats why i got it a bit cheaper . don't get much for £25 nowadays. bargain, all you can eat aswel ?.
{Ed025's Note - i think i would sooner spend a night in Risley Strom.. :)
14 Oct 2025 23:57:42
Ed025.Iv got a pair of Risley Runaways for you, they'll get ya from the Dev to Risley in no time.
{Ed025's Note - great stuff Strom...im a 10 mate..
15 Oct 2025 00:40:08
To be fair to Ron Ed you actually upset me by insinuating that I was using the death of Diogo and Andre as an excuse for poor results. At the least you agreed with a post which accused me of it anyway. I expect it from some of the posters on here but I thought you were better than that.
What I actually said was that it affected our preseason preparations which is undeniable. So for you to say I was being disrespectful to the memory of Diogo and Andre is bang out of order.
Before you go throwing stones you should clean the windows of your own glass house mate.
{Ed025's Note - i can see how it affected the pre season Robbo as it was still very raw then..and even the first few games (which you won), but its been over 4 months now and yes i think some people are using it as an excuse for poor set ups and bad form, if they are that is disrespectful..
15 Oct 2025 09:23:55
To be fair though @25, as an Evertonian you do talk some right cobblers about football ?.
{Ed025's Note - we all do at times i suppose WDW, the thing with Evertonians is that we dont have our heads up our own arses mate or a sense of entitlement...which is why we are known as "the peoples club" i would think.. :)
15 Oct 2025 09:39:51
Spot on, Ed. I concur.
15 Oct 2025 10:01:00
How is it disrespectful to say that the players preseason was disrupted because the entire club had to deal with such a tragedy?
How is it disrespectful to say that because preseason was disrupted the manager had to ease players in to the season to prevent injuries?
Yes we won the first 5 games but you could clearly see we were playing at half pace for most of the games and we tired towards the end of games allowing leads to slip. The last 3 games are just a continuation of that. We haven’t played any different it’s just that the results haven’t gone in our favour which is what this furore is all about.
I was in no way excusing results or saying that anyone was to blame, bad results happen even when everyone is fully fit. I was more saying that the setup and tactics could have been dictated by a lack of fitness due to the disruption that the club had in preseason.
Once again though you and others jump on what is a very logical statement and call it disrespectful and making excuses. Excuses for what? Losing a game? We don’t need to excuse losing a game it’s part of football and those that lose their heads when it happens need to find a different sport.
I just think that the criticism is way over the top and there are some very obvious mitigating factors as to why we might have started the season playing like we have. At the end of the season the points will be tallied up and the champions will deserve the title regardless of all of this. I’m not making excuses or being disrespectful to anyone I’m making an observation and offering a point of view. You can choose to agree or disagree but to call it disrespectful to the memory of Diogo Jota is bang out of order and shows just what type of person you really are. Any excuse to criticise the kopites and make them look bad eh?
You should be ashamed of yourself mate.
{Ed025's Note - stop being a dick head Robbo, you are taking things out of perspective as usual and you need to read the posts and especially my replies before you comment stupidly, you got binned as Beckers Pecker because you were a prat and you are right on the cusp again....maybe a bit of time away from the site to reflect and consider how much of a gobshite you have become will help..
15 Oct 2025 11:06:21
Ed025, I am totally with you on this. It absolutely affected pre-season, but we cannot use a tragedy as an excuse for what's happening on the pitch. Is Konate so poor this season because of a tragedy or because his head's in Madrid? Are we getting exposed in almost every transition because of the tragedy or because our tactics are not right or our players don't know their roles yet?
It's too easy to make excuses and in my opinion it's hugely disrespectful to do so. We are not playing well for a variety reasons and when the players cross the white line, I would imagine they are focused solely on the game.
{Ed025's Note - thats my way of thinking as well TBB, its a bit disingenuous to blame it all on the sad loss of Diogo mate imo..
15 Oct 2025 11:33:49
You don’t have to post my responses Ed I understand. I will say thought that the heading to my original post was not mine, that was added by whichever Ed posted it and was not really what I was saying.
I was not saying that the players needed time to get over the death of Jota, that’s a completely different conversation and one in which is impossible to quantify. My post was more about the impact the situation had on our preseason and the effects of that.
I don’t for one minute think that the players are running around out there thinking of Diogo and it’s affecting performances. Quite the contrary I think it’s more likely that they are happier to be on the pitch playing as it takes their minds off it if they are struggling.
But an entire squad missing the first 2-3 weeks of preseason and then probably not in the right mental place to be grinding out the rest of preseason is bound to have an affect on fitness levels in the first part of the season. That was my point.
{Ed025's Note - which was exactly what i said..
15 Oct 2025 12:59:51
Mate, ed25 is a great ed and is always level headed and provides a neutral viewpoint so to call him out like that is massively disrespectful and comes across like you are a bit of a knob. Wind ya neck in pal.
15 Oct 2025 13:14:05
Ah he was Beckers Pecker before? Makes sense?
We’ve been playing at half pace all season so far. More out of tactics I would guess and we scored a lot of late goals in those games so that would contradict the players getting tired late in games.
15 Oct 2025 13:20:43
The team also didn’t miss 2/ 3 of preseason. You’re making stuff up.
15 Oct 2025 14:04:06
My 2pence worth on the subject of Jota n our form. I think like any death it hits you not straight away but weeks later . but as Ed025 says we can't use that as an excuse when we were winning, it all was good in the camp. im sure some of the players still miss him but we've all lost people close to us but in the end we put it in the back of our mind n carry on with everyday life . loads of other reasons why were not playing well. players off form, injuries, new players, new systems, the expectation with us spending 400 mill . but only hard work on n off the training ground n in games will help us get back to how we all know we can play.
{Ed025's Note - spot on Strom..