Mike, imo Armstrong will take Hackneys’s place on Monday.

David Moyes plays talented young players, sets up the team with positive intent, and we win handsomly. Go figure.Hackney was very good, George turned in a better performance than Grealish has managed recently, and Dibling played better than Johnston has managed in any game since he signed.As I predicted last week, the young players are finallly selected (including Dibling in his first start since Wolves), and the Moyes apologist in chief is on complaining that they are ‘not good enough’ as they didn’t perform like Saka and Semenyo.This is despite Maitland-Niles, Mykolenko, Garner, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish and Johnston turning in multiple poor performances this season that should have seen them dropped. At least pretend to apply some level of objectivity and consistency in your arguments.Great performance, right selection, same team again in the away fixture.

I only saw the highlights (not on my streaming service). How did Norgaard and Alcaraz play when they came on?

I agree on your man of the match.A great display of leadership from Tarks tonight.

Half a dozen games? This isn’t Sunday league, it’s top level professional football. Even young players are expected to step up and take their opportunities when they come, and to attack their responsibilities at both ends of the pitch. Nobody gets six weeks to prove themselves. The club can’t afford it in the world’s most intense competition. If the player wants to earn more minutes, it’s his job to give the manager a reason to put him on the pitch every week. Today Hackney and Dibling had equal opportunities to do that. Hackney came through. Dibling did not. We will see Monday how Moyes judges their efforts.

Given the agression at times I think Monday’s encounter is going to be a good watch.

He’s a MFer / Wingback. He’s seen the lay of the land with Moyes and the MF and how – up to now – a ‘real’ MF player like Hackney struggles to get minutes. So he’s opted for the best deal for on field action he can get at the moment – which is at RB and fair play to him.Because Moyes is never going 3 at the back plus wing backs as long as his arse points to the ground

If a player is “slack with his passing” three games in a row, should it be described as unusual?I was hoping for a Wolves-like stormer from Dibling after his two passive appearances off the bench against Chelsea and Arsenal. Instead he was again anonymous, and it was Hackney who stepped up with aggression.

You are totally correct pete, how dare they show attacking posture of any sort, when we all know that the way to win football games is defend, defend, then do a bit more defending.

LOL

Jordan Pickford might not agree with you, but I certainly see your point.

They were not the better team. Both teams had moments, we put the ball away.

How mature.

H H should be a starter now …. we gave them plenty of shooting practice 1st half ..3 well taken goals …barry garner & KDH excellent and i thought myko was motm….

Time will tell with all young players. So far l havent been impressed with Johnson, however l still think he has contributed a fair bit more than Dibling.

Utter rubbish! How can you judge players on the first 90 minutes they have played for weeks? All players need a run in the team before they can be judged, not the odd full game here and there. Are you suggesting Johnson has produced more than Dibling for instance? In your latest defence of Moyes I note you make no mention of how well Hackney played, but that doesn’t fit with your Moyes is always right narrative does it? How about we concentrate on our attacking flair for a change, instead of our defensive prowess? Of course the young players need to be aware of their defensive duties, but not at the cost of losing all their attacking flair.If Dibling and George showed no improvement after say, half a dozen games, then I could go along with your argument. But not after one full game here and there

Get in.

Sorry, guys un gals… not sure what I did tonight but it seems to have broken the comment system.A lot of it is not working for me… Arrrgh!

Great result, hopefully we can kick on🤞🤞

Actually looks like we have broken the Arena Comment System. I can’t get any replies to open!

What we saw is proof of what many of us knew already: Hackney should be starting every week.

H

Good game but two main issues which should be noted by those who think George and dibling are ready for full 90mins in PL. George showed the odd flash but as a player in a Moyes side he has to show willingness to get back and get involved in the defence. In all the times I have watched him, when on the pitch, he never once has shown awareness in defence or got involved. Tonight he was also lacking when it came to ball retention (overall not good enough yet).. dibling was another who showed flashes of what he could do but again was wasteful, giving the ball away far to often. He never once attacked the bye line and made a decent cross, which is what he’s on the pitch to do. He has had ample opportunity to prove he can do it but as yet hasn’t done it. This is why Moyes is still reluctant to play both dibling and George from the start ( unless he has to). Rest of the team played well and deserved the win. Plenty of spirit and decent football.. COYB..

That was much better than we’ve seen for a long time.Sorry, folks, that we have lost a lot of the earlier posts on this thread. We tried something different and I forgot how this would mess things up. I’ll see if I can get them back.

I thought that was a well orchestrated victory Billy. More possession and more shots is not all that is needed to win a game. Craft and graft can carry you through.Three well taken goals and a dedicated defensive effort satisfied me.KDH back on song and Thierno Barry looking like a £30 million striker on a fair number of occasions. He certainly did a few things that Beto wouldn’t have.Just have to keep our composure against Fleetwood and we will be dreaming of Wembley.

Are you serious Billy, the best team lost. They were all huff n puff, and we clinically took our chances, for once.

John agreed, Barry with an assist and a nice finish, hes working hard,Good finishing tonight for all 3 goals, pity we couldn’t keep a clean.sheet but we no have an opportunity to reach a semi final, come on you Blues

I cant make head nor tail of where these posts go, on the live forum my name isn’t coming up and it was hard to find, anyway good win, some good finishes tonight, good assist and goal by Barry

Made up for Barry.Pinpoint assist and a top class finish.Worked their socks off the kids.Great leadership from the skipper.Rode our luck at times but the victory,in cup football, is what matters.

Sadly toffeeweb has frozen, but massive improvement, and good to see earlier substitutions by Moyes, Hackney has to be a regular now.

Pardon?Pinpoint assist and a lovely finish

The better team lost but were through…that’s all that matters!!!

Good finish from barry lovely ball in from dewsbury.hall 3.0

2-0 up but we still are so disjointed…I think!

Gave somebody £10k!

If this isn’t sarcasm. What game you watching mate?? He had a goal and an assist in 10 minutes and has been our brightest player first half.

Don’t concede or we’ll get flustered. Rode our luck at times but at least we’ve looked to play forward and have taken our chances.

After a shaky start that`s the best half an hour of football i have seen from us for a good while.The exuberance of youth.Don`t rein them in David please.

Come on you blues

Hackney is having a stinker

No improvement so far boring to watch

Awful! Just awful. Hoof ball galore!!!

He never turned up for training without permission .

Please just WIN this Blues…the route to the final is ours to grasp NOW.

Grealish letting the team down, already!?

Are there any free streaming websites working

What did he do

Live forum not working tonight!?

Apparently the game is live on Sky Sports+ which is channel 504 on virginmedia. You need to press the red button on your remote control to access the game. Then scroll down until you see Everton vs Newcastle and click it…

Fucking grealish and his baggage. I never wanted him here, and looks like another gazza ginola signing.