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Sadly Jarrads playing record since the start of the 2024/25 season, is pretty glum, around 40 appearances, some as a sub, until last weekend. I suppose if we had paid millions for him, it would not be a great return. Someone said, players did nt seem to get injured as much years ago, but the pace of the game, is a lot faster, that is the danger with hamstrings, but if players can hack todays game, they often can play well into their 30s still at the top level.

Jeez Jim @9. Something in our dna is there ? Well there wasn’t prior to 2002. We were known as the school of science before that. Always played open attractive football. What happened in 2002 to change our character ?

I guess reading the experts on T/W all the problems are because of our ultra defensive manager and his negative approach. He spent a fortune on bums he doesn\'t play and with our fantastic array of talent he may even achieve the impossible and finish outside the top ten I just hope they make the change before the end of the season so the new manager can asses this brilliant group of players who successive managers have made into relegation candidates. Also we want fast attacking football sprinkled with a bit of the old school of science.

I hope the owners are seriously considering a change of manager at Everton. While Moyes has done extremely well to bring Everton up to this position (10th as on today), the damaging result over the weekend, and subsequent wins by Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford have seen them leap-frog us in the table. While Moyes is a good steady hand, I don\'t think he will take us much forward in the present modern age of football. He should be thanked and given a good send-off, but time to move on. Somebody on another thread had listed down 15 trophy-winning managers who will become available in the summer. Keep sentiments aside and make decisions that take the club forward. Like Bournemouth did a couple of seasons ago, when they sacked Gary O\'Neil who had dragged them away from the doors of relegation. They ruthlessly replaced him with Iraola, and they have reaped the benefits of that stone cold decision. Do TFG have it in them to take the club forward?

I think Jim @9 may have meant something other than “abandonment for defending“ and it’s the Edit button which is still causing a problem on some phones. Perhaps “abandonment of defending”?I think Eric said his Samsung was an issue. I’m going to check out my iPhone….Well, it seems to work okay with my iPhone, even though the Edit button sits on top of the text… not ideal.