I watch Moyes share “ideas” in games his lack Andy Irvine. As I said elsewhere, a snap of them is like watching the two old men in the balcony in the Muppets. And then along that bench is Mr Baines. What a great player we all loved but if any good in his role, Tranmere would have stolen him for 20 quid. And we wonder about lack of imagination, sense of fight and why we are all bored. Imagine having non Blues or bloody long servers. Those who haven’t inherited the length of time in “top flight” to sit comfortably and rejoice end of every season as they secure insane wages. Our increasingly blind support is an owners’ dream. Word is stadium will soon be giving out specs at every match so nobody properly sees this shite and keeps seeing dreadful mediocicy. But… who else has been in the top level for so long? I compare us to Coventry. But they came back up. Celebrated something? Must put Blue specs back and see if I can leave this closed deluded ward am sectioned in!

Your not the only one Mark M. It’s a bad shout. You only have to look at Dave Abrahams, struggling to get to the game after a lifetimes service to the club. He watches on the telly or ipad mostly now. You would struggle to find a more knowledgeable Blue on these pages.

Thomas frank mk2? Is Andrews doing well because hes a good coach or at a good club?

If Rashford isnt doing it at united, hes got no chance at our place. Id expect it’ll be Richarlison to the rescue. He isnt the long term answer, but we know that isnt how everton is wired. Balogue played 18 minutes all season, and no goals in 4 matches. So not missed out there currently.

I think I’ve met Hewey a couple of times but not sure. Once at the Harlech and once outside the Prince George at palace? Was that you PH?

Maybe I’m the only one who interprets “armchair Evertonian” as a tad condescending then.

Joe, funnily enough i had a good chat with a mate of mine who`s football coaching knowledge i fully respect over the years He is adamant any team with the bottle to play 4-4-2 would be really effective against the 4-3-3…3-4-3…4-2-3-1 etc .

Moyes is culpable in all of this but people seem to forget Kinnears role in the recent form of the team. Absolutely hasn’t got a clue about football or what a player looks like, gone into hiding after that disaster of a transfer window, especially his comments on Toffee tv regarding a right back on which he failed miserably and please dont anyone comeback with Maitland Niles because hes not a right back. The whole club is a mess and im sick of it.

Time to drop Moyes’s favourites… including Pickford,KDH, Garner (in Midfield), Grealish. The team needs a total re-fresh, starting on Thursday night or we go out…it’s really that simple!

Rashford on loan? Wages a stumbling block?

Hard to get quality in January. Even harder to get a quality striker. Wasn’t that our problem with Beto ? Needed a striker, any striker and end up getting ripped off for a poor player. 1 thing worrying me now is are we going go blow any spare SCR on an overpriced player ? Do we want moyes & TFG using the transfer funds we have when hopefully both will soon be departing, only for the next in charge to be lumbered with players they don’t want ? The whole ownership issue is going to leave us in limbo I think !

The days when you had the Shearer’s, Ferdinand’s, Wrights, Fowler’s of the world are gone now as is 4 4 2 sad to say. Teams now have about 7 players that are capable of netting 10 goals each. Unfortunately we have one at best. Outside Barry maybe sneaking 9 or 10 and perhaps Dewsbury-Hall getting 7 or 8 who else gets more than 3 goals in this team?

I remember when we used to say that even Messi would find it hard to score in our team. So with Moyes in charge what difference will a striker make?

I don’t see much improvement to be honest Andy, but I agree the way we isolate strikers burns my fucking head out

Southampton are more entertaining than Everton. Bar spy-gate 😂

For CF, Ebnoutalib from Eintracht Frankfurt would be perfect for us, but we won’t get him in a January window.

Well seed

Lee carsley would be my choice

Yes your right Lee carsley manager

We need to sell to dill it won’t happen with are present ownership even if we got into Europe we be up against the 2 club system

It’s not a striker we need its someone that can score goals it doesn’t matter who and we have a young player who as score goles at least 25 against all different teams in the last season and this is name is brandion Graham but moyes keeps saying he’d not.strong enough but you don’t need to be puilt like a brick house to kick a foot ball and whzt we need is a change in formation and a manager that is not a dynersore someone like Lee carsley

What about for a centre-forward?

McKenna seems to be a popular choice, but I’d rather have Keith Andrews. He’s not a one-season wonder and I like his footballing ethos. He seems to be a players coach. He’d suit us – solid at the back but deadly on counters.

O’Brien did play well, especially defensively. He just lacks Branthwaite’s excellent distribution but is still learning.

I favor a younger manager more suited to current tactical play. Proactive set up, with bench options for change in real time , not 80 mins. Eddie Howe is a maybe, but he might be taken soon, Gary Oneill is another. We just need an upgrade on D Moyes, but with TFG looking to sell this may well be on hold until a new owner steps up.

Greg, The £40 million was placed on the table at 4pm last day of window.

Anyone who tries to win games.

Paul better explained post and i hope your keeping fine. But surely Paul what your asking are a long way off but we live in hope. I believe we’re not miles away from being ok but we need some quality thats for sure . Everton problem is we’re strong in defence not just under Moyes but Dyche made us strong aswell so sometimes that makes us a hard watch at times . I looked at the Arsenal players at the end of the game and they knew they had been in a game .

There isn`t a striker in world football who would score 20 league goals given the tactics the manager plays,and the service to the striker

You know what my next post would have been had you answered my question on what age you consider young for a manager. Well spotted.

Who would you target, Greg?

Patric Moyes is 65 and he does what it says on the tin he will never change. Remember he never asked to be Everton manager they asked him . Patric you quoted hills coments about how they focused on a game plan . Well what did they focus on before there 5 1 thrashing at chelsea . It sounds like the old song Patric you only sing when you winning .

If Moyes doesn’t know the team’s strengths by now then it proves he is a poor manager The squad does have some very talented players but his team selection and strategies are poor. Apart from two late heroics against Manure and Bournemouth plus an inept display against Ipswich there has been very little to remember about the season so far The bumbling of the club during the Summer has set the seal on what we have seen ( or not seen ) so far and probably until January. Moyes is well past his sell by date and has become stale but even a new manager may not improve things without higher quality players being available and that takes good money which they don’t have unless the club is sold.(Maybe) We just can’t seem to get out of the doldrums!

Can you do a series Brian. Next right back and right wing? There is a theme.

Who would be your no. 1 manager choice?

I don’t think TFG will hold back on spending in the January window, it doesn’t make sense to depreciate an asset when selling it, plus they did have £40 million plus sitting on the table for Balogun. The bigger worry for me is availability of a decent CF in a January window. The few available are going to get swarmed over by other clubs with better European credentials.

2? Coleman broke his leg 10 years ago, and his replacement is no better than tony thomas or mitch ward.

Consolation is that Barry is improving. We need another striker, two dedicated full backs and one manager.

The debt is securitised long-term against a nice new £1 billion stadium. But it will be about £30-40 million a year in interest. I think TFG will take a chance on Moyes keeping us up without putting more money in the club during the January transfer window.

Mark that knife to gunfight remark by Moyes illustrated the man’s ambition and strangely enough that game was against Man. City who were leading 2-0 and Moyes decided , with ten minutes to go, to make a match of it, we got a goal back and another effort kicked off the line, could have got a draw with earlier change of tactics. Did he learn from that game? His record proves that a leopard never changes it’s spots!

Rocco, the text of your comments are getting translated into English. It’s the title of the Article that is coming across in German when your comments are showing on the Recent Reader Comments page. Not sure that’s something we need to fix.

Thanks Michael. I’d had issues with logging in under the old system. Glad to be back.

The problem with Moyes is he’s way too conservative, he’ll pick some of his favourite players out of position, rather than take a chance on a natural younger player like Dibling. On Saturday it was shocking that he left Johnson on for 72 minutes, and only replaced him when we went 2-0 down, ludicrous. Brian I didn’t read what he said about O”Brien, who I thought played well, but isn’t that typical him, to take the flak of his own failures.

I agree Brian. I think Moyes has got worse, he feels belligerent now as though years of criticism and failure have made him even less flexible. How dare anyone question his record and ability. Living on borrowed time and he knows it

I don’t know if you looked at are fixtures if moyes stayes we will be lucky too get 34 points we need luke carsley as manager now otherwise it’s championship fotball next season and beggers can’t be chosers so if dell want to bye the club so be it

In 2010 I was working in Southampton surrounded by Southampton fans. We’d been decent, finished 5th and ru in the FACup. I told my colleague I was a Everton fan and he pulled a face. He told me Everton were his least favourite team. I’d never heard that before, most people speak to have little feeling towards Everton. I asked him why, and he said something like “because they don’t ever do anything, they are just always there. Boring” That was 16 years ago and we haven’t changed – even to the point of having the same manager and tactics!

Maybe the fact that they won at Old Trafford maybe? A place where Moyes has won once, But I am just guessing after I read the article. Give it a try

Had a ST for many years Mr steers, but finances and health took pay to that. Your other points 1 I just think a younger coach would have modern football ideas, I may be wrong. 2 I don’t expect a sale next week. But hopefully it will be quicker than the last one. 3 The squad is decent. The manager and tactics are holding it back. Hope that clears it up.

Oh, that was probably my mistake… Usually, I have my texts translated before posting them. I must have forgotten to do that this time. Sorry!

Just looked at a list of strikers we have had over the last 10 years. DCL, Lukaku, Richarlison, Beto, Barry, Tosun, Keane, Maupay, Rondon, Niasse, Josh King, Sandro, Broja, Valencia. Apart from the first 3 on the list the rest were an absolute waste of space, so is it any wonder we have struggled to compete for honours never mind mid table security.