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I take it back. George didn’t fully track his man for the second. Not a lot AMN could do. He tried but the stop start was too great tbf.

I think most managers will be keen to keep their better players on the pitch, whilst the game is tight, and hope to bring on players that have a goal in them or a track record of producing.

He did say that he knew he had to take Garner off, but he clearly wanted to squeeze a bit more out of him before he came off. Ultimately that failed, as the lad was done. But he wanted his ability to retain possession just thst little bit more.

I don't think that is necessarily reckless by Moyes. Fernandes on their side never comes off when the game is tight either, and there are plenty of others in the same boat that managers use. Granted Garner isn't fully fit.

That being said, I think Garner can start from the bench this season, such is the depth in the central midfield once others are fit and players have that bit more experience. For all the promise of Hackney and Armstrong, they’ve only started a handful of games, so putting them straight in, isn't cut and dry just yet.

The above will piss a few off. But there was never any talk of taking off Barry or Branthwaite either. In Jarred, yesterday was precisely a game he could have picked up an injury through fatigue. Big games like a Derby, united etc will always present a risk. So do you protect the player, bring on lesser players at the exoense of a result?

Thats the discussion on the bench. The sport scientists will be telling the manager to take players off, but the gamblers, will knowing the odds are reducing when key players are coming off.

Chris James: ‘I really don’t think you can lay all that at the feet of the Friedkins’.

Well, then, who else is responsible for us being in your word ‘desperate’ in the late window and lacking squad depth now? Will the be a follow-up article? Who ‘messed’ that American striker. around?

‘The net result was an outlay of around €74M, not ‘nothing’ as many posters on ToffeeWeb have suggested’

Erm, we did end up spending ‘nothing’, as more came in than went out.

‘really don’t think the Everton hierarchy wanted to sell’ HA.

You have absolutely zero evidence for or knowledge of what happened.

Moyes ‘maybe the leading manager in the Premier League’.

Quite possibly one of the most absurd and bizarre statements ever posted on this site. How can we take anything else that CJ posts seriously?

Phew, you were lucky to get on lad. You were third choice today.

Tony 68, it’s clear that our options as back-up to Barry are Johnson, George, or Alcaraz/Dibling as some sort of false 9.

I said last year I thought George could do a job up there, but of course you want him running at people on the wings.

So given Moyes doesn’t fancy Dibling or Alcaraz, I’d bet Johnson gets his chance up there. The problem is he doesn’t have the physique to bully defenders, nor the blazing speed to burn them, nor the first touch or moves to run circles around them.

I like being proven wrong about the players whom I see for the first time and don’t think they’ll cut it — in recent years it’s been Barry and Mykolenko for me who when I first saw them just didn’t seem to have that footballing sense and touch you’d expect of a PL player.

I get that Johnson scored a boatload of goals a few years back for Spurs, but we’re not a free-flowing attacking team like they were. I think we’ll end up feeling like we’d be just as good as with McNeil (who obviously needed to go).