John before monday 4 pts from these 2 games was more than acceptable but now where all over 6pts and they say greed is a terrible thing .

I’m only saying what Moyes is thinking .

Got a feeling Hackney for Armstrong we need to boss the game.

If Branthwaite is out then i think Keanne will come in leave O Brien at Right Back .

If all fit the rest speak for themselves .

Moyes only shuffles 1 or 2 players at the most .

So, Grealish is at a clinic right now?

With a squad our size and a manager reluctant to fully use even the meagre resources we have, it seems inevitable we will start to run out of steam at some point next year, maybe around March if not earlier.

For me, that means we must bank our points now, especially against lesser teams like Coventry. I think we will struggle to get much out of the very condensed Xmas period. It won’t be helped by what is likely to be a very subdued January window, even by our modest standards. It’s likely the owners have already mentally checked out, if indeed they ever checked in.

I’d have mentioned the game on Monday, Dave, but we were already eliminated when Boreham Wood thrashed Middlesbrough 7-1 a couple weeks ago. That eliminated any chance for us to nip one of the 2 quarter-finals qualifying spots.

Our 3 goals Tuesday was more than our entire goal return, the first 3 games.

Braiden played 3 of the games. Competing against 5th/6th-tier opposition, I was looking for him to have a great tournament.

Same team as Monday, same approach will do me.

Rotate in December

Soo, play the strongest team and try guarantee 3 points ahead of the break. Or freshen it up, risk the points, but blood players ready for a busy December.

3 points is all that matters for most.

To Moyes’s credit, when reminded he has now managed more Everton games than any other manager ( Catterick, Kendal etc ) he did say "yes but I’ve never won anything at Everton, those others did" or words similar, he was admitting to his failure in never bringing us any silverware and I have to say " fair enough Davey, at least you have the balls to sit there and say that and whilst I am not his biggest fan, for a few reasons, I have to say " fair enough Davey" My heart hasn’t grown 3 sizes bigger but I warmed to him for saying that.

The win on Monday means nothing if we dont follow it up with a win on Friday.

Isnt that how the saying goes?

There may well be no plans because if we are ‘comfortable’ in the league then TFG wont spend money.

The squad size is crazy but AMN being used less, Norgaard getting no match fitness, Dibling rare, and Grealish left out. He only wants to use 14/15 players.

Moyes’s pre-match wisdom: "Coventry… a really difficult game." — so the fans are primed, just in case it doesn’t go right.

He’ll have soon overseen more Everton games than Harry Catterick — who actually won trophies.

Everton under Moyes? "Not won anything for a long, long time."

"Jack’s not available. We will be working with Jack again soon." Is he not available because you suspended him for 2 weeks, and hence he is now not match fit? "18 outfield players, now down to 17"… for fuck’s sake!

The penalty against Schar that was never even looked at: "I don’t think you can kick through the back of people." — This is happening now almost every game… why aren’t Everton kicking up an absolute stink about this???

Moyes on the utterly foriegn concept of squad rotation: "We’ve got 14, 15 of them that can be used… They can’t come in and not be productive."

And this gem: "No plans for January [Transfer Window]." Come off it — we see 10 different transfer rumours every day. But no plans……

I still see the same 4-5-1 that I first witnessed twenty seasons ago under David Moyes.

It’s going to take a lot of convincing, for me personally, that Johnson is a great player. So far he has done little or next to nothing. The endeavour just isn’t there. Moyes is giving him the opportunities but he isn’t taking them. He promised he would give his all playing for Everton but if that’s ‘his all’ he needs to look in the mirror. He just isn’t getting involved, he just seems to jog around the pitch until someone gives him the ball. There’s no urgency, there’s no passion, there’s little on offer at all.

He needs to pull his finger out and show some urgency or go home and watch the game on tv…..COYB

Sean.

Your lad is in for a treat.

First game a night game.

Remembering my visuts to the game with my dad all those years ago mate.

Hope you have a great night.

I think it’s best to choose another captain than KDH after Tarks, because KDH needs to be doing what he is doing, and focus solely on that.

Because I don’t get to go as much as I used to? Maybe I’m looking forward to it, and it’s my youngest’s first time?

I’ll remember ask permission in future.

My apologies.

He covers a lot of ground, but for me it would be Armstrong.

Johnson is a good player . He will come good . With forwards they need to get a few goals or assists to build up their confidence. Barry is in the right place all the time and is now scoring regularly , yet last season the fans had written him off . Patience is needed with players , not writing them off after a few appearances.

In a 4-3-3 Ian?

Poor stats for Brennan mate.

We would not have got him for £20mil swap based on his figures 2 years ago

Being honest, and with respect to Barry, there was nothing that Barry told us in his assessment of players above, , that we didn’t know before.

Not having a go Ajay but when was the last time Alcaraz started a game for Everton— I rate him and think he is on the outside looking in where Moyes is concerned and like a lot of fans on here wouldn’t be surprised if he is involved in any transfers we make in January.

Worth looking at his stats 2 years ago. 21 goals scored and 5 assists. Pretty impressive.

High percentile of goal & shot stats.

But look at his other stats, and theyre poor.

38 dribbles attempted all season

17 successful

0.7 successful dribbles per 90

Successful crosses 6 from 53. SIX!

Basically he is a gosl scorer that gets on the end of things with his pace & isnt aftaid to shoot (accurately). But His ability as a winger is poor. He isnt very good at dribbling and his crossing is terrible.

He is a passenger unless he scores. A wide right forward rather than winger, and yes there is a difference.

Hi Brian,

We’ve been promised getting the Oldest first sort order installed by tomorrow (6 November). Hopefully that can also be set as default.🫰

Seeing more comments is proving to be harder to secure… we finally saw some movement when they asked if they should increase fron 6 to 10 the number of comments shown before the Show more comments button appears at the bottom.

For some reason, this seems difficult to do… nut we’re still banging away at them!

Hi Brian,

We were told November 6th. I’ll chase Arena now for you.

Nooooooo! Why would you want to play Grealish over the other youngsters who are chomping at the bit to get playing time – Dibling, Alcaraz, Hackney. Even Norgaard deserves another go.

An unchanged starting XI for me (unless there are injuries), but an earlier use of the subs bench if we are leading, say 2-0 by the hour mark.

Hackney for KDH

Alcaraz for Barry

Dibling for Rohl

Norgaard for Armstrong

I think Hornes judgement on Johnson must be based on what he did at Spurs as he didn’t score for Palace in 18 games and had his only goal for us chalked off by VAR. I agree with Michael I have seen nothing from him and given a choice I would prefer Dibbling wide right.

Seeing both our editors have commented can I ask when are we going to get the posts in chronological order and when am I going to be able to view all the posts.

I guess it must be more from what he’s seen pre-Everton and for Wales. Think John is right, his confidence is on the floor. Hopefully a couple of Spurs-esque tap-ins at the back post can get him going…

Derek he was getting praised by fans on here because, allegedly, he was doing his upmost throughout the summer to get fit again, played twice for City before he signed for us— then started playing for us and despite all that effort of training during the summer he didn’t look any different to the form he showed when he played for us last season, another over hyped player by Everton fans.

He looks scared to receive the ball Michael imo.

No confidence whatsoever.

I’d be happy with that 11 mark.

Coventry will give us a harder game than Newcastle I’d say.

How anyone could have watched Brennan Johnson perform on the field since he’s come to Everton and claim that, and I quote:

"He’s technically very, very good."

No, I’m sorry, Baz, he’s not. He’s awful. Just virtually useless. We didn’t expect much when he signed, but he hasn’t even delivered on that. He has to be one of our worst players so far this season.

Paul m.and mike g. Yeah we are currently 7th but 29 games to go and as previously stated such a small squad with only 1 striker it’s going to be difficult to achieve a top half finish. Surely you haven’t forgotten how last season ended – in with a chance of European competition and we collapsed, knackered, kaput..we beat Coventry tomorrow we go up to 4th but we ain’t gonna finish in the top 4. ! Every season we look for 3 teams worse than us and I think we will be ok this season. I think moyes is our manager until TFG sell up. Who should be his replacement ?

I dont know -I would have gone for glasner but he’s struggling at forest.

Derek,

"We sold our most gifted player to massage the balance sheet."

Iliman Ndiaye made it abundantly clear he wanted out of Everton. He wanted Champions League footy and could see he was never going to get it under Moyes.

Good post Steve,an accurate take on the current situation.

Hopefully Laurie below is right on the younger players getting more minutes.

I’d love to see Grealish come back from the bench on Friday and make a real impact. He’s a top player, seemingly a good character and was enjoying his time at Everton. We should want this to work out.

Morning Ray,

youv`e put me under a bit of pressure there mate😁.

Si,

Agree 100%.

Moyes starts the majority of games in the same manner.

He has them front foot for the first 15-20 minutes looking to score first,he can then revert back to type and defend the one goal lead.

You can see them gradually going into a keep the rigid shape mood if we dont score.

Have to be honest and give him credit when due,he didn`t do that on Monday night.

He repeatedly got 5 sometimes 6 men into the opposition box in open play.

You very,very rarely see that in a Moyes team.

Hopefully the penny has dropped.

I think we are stuck with Moyes until the club is sold.

Wont be a fast sale imo and Moyes wont accept a one year extension.

Reckon he will go for a two year contract.

They could tell him hes not getting a penny to spend and he will still sign a new contract.

I dread the next two years in a football sense if we are watching his preferred style of play.

if,IF the penny has dropped and he plays in the same manner as Monday night in the future i can accept him staying.

If not i will not be going to a lot more games this season,already give two home games a miss.

The negative ,drab, fearful football is soul destroying to watch.

What has Ray Wilson got to do with George overlapping Grealish Eric?

What is the formation you propose?

Obviously Grealish is wide left in your thinking,what position does George play?

OK, first season he took over they hadn’t won a game. He won 12 of 18 to take them from relegation to 11th. First manager to do this.

They won the league cup in 2025.

2 succussive seasons qualifying for champions league under PSR constraints (he had to deal with selling his best players and not being able to replace them)

85 goals scored in a season.

All that in 4 seasons at Newcastle beats the 7000 years Moyes has bored us to death.

Being selfish – I don’t like our key players being in Internationals breaks because of injuries. But, good luck to him

I agree with most of that Steve except I have a question mark about the last sentence. A month ago I would probably have agreed with that also but I think the landscape has changed.

The young players he has available excluding the under 23’s are George, Dibling, Harrison, Hackney and Rhol.

The only three older replacements for them would appear to me to be Grealish and Norgaard. Grealish for George maybe and Norgaard for Harrison maybe and Johnson for Rhol maybe but I think the way those three are playing he may finally surprise us all and go for youth.

I think the old codgers and Maitland_Niles will only be coming on off the bench later in games.

I really hope so, because those five youngsters look a very exciting group to me that seem to get on really well together.

TFG won’t care about that. They’ll care how he’s doing now. We’re 7th. Better than expected.

There is definitely no vacancy.

Howe ‘shown he’s a winner at Newcastle? ‘Seriously? I don’t believe that he did.

Carl, we would be if we didn’t have Moyes as manager 😉

TFG were putting all those structural reforms in place Kunal, and I’d expect them to use that as a selling point. The fact that the recruitment team, and arguably CEO, failed in the summer is just a teething problem and partly down to TFG who must have already been considering selling the Club.

I think seeing reforms in the pipeline would be attractive to a new buyer who would only need a minor tweak (e.g. replace CEO with his own man) to make it seem like his success.

As David West said, Moyes is in a good bargaining position, so he can hold out fot a 2 year extension knowing that if the new owners want to replace him he’ll get a good pay off.

As I said to Jimmy Salt, Ray Wilson was never an overlapping left back, but somehow we were able to fire in crosses from the left.

A reward for total mediocrity, well deserved given his record of achieving it

I think you will find that Ancelotti has won significantly more silverware than Moyes. But yeh, let’s keep a manager who has never won a domestic trophy in his entire managerial career