We need to start games with the urgency and intent we showed as soon as we went 1-0 down against Coventry.

I agree, we haven’t put together a great 90 mins, Newcastle was a good performance but we rode our luck, and have I other matches too .

The positive is, we are doing good without really hitting top form.

I still think these players can produce more quality football on a more consistent basis.

That maybe Coming now with Garner, KDH, barry in good form, jarred back and confidence coming from good results.

300 word non reply.

Ive no idea who came up with the original saying John. If you want to know, ask Google.

Your second question. Hard to tell really, only 2 look like regular goal scorers, 3 at a push.

It is an odd list that youve put up, as it doesn’t cover the majority of players that are likely to start or combine.

Johnson is sub.

Barry starts

George starts

Dewesbury hall starts

Armstrong or Hackney is an either or for me. Armstrong offers more work rate/defensive discipline, Hackney offers more guile but could occupy space garner & kdh like to take up. The centre midfield is still finding its way for me.

To play attacking football, Mykolenko needs replacing, probably Tarkowski, an acceptance that Rohl will make mistakes, probably Garner & Dewesbury hall in centre midfield with a top 10 ahead of them, and a lot more output from George & specifically Dibling.

Ian,

Who set that ruling up?

"You play to your strenghts"

Armstrong,Hackney,KDH,George,Johnson,Barry.

Are their strengths in defending?

Yes or no answer will suffice

yeah paul ,gets on my tits people like this and he’s got the cheek to say i have’nt answered his questions…bum steer merchant

i think michael kenrick is onto it as he references ‘people who know top sportsmen’ in one of his recent posts .

BTW i would be made up if we won league or fa cup you can put a cup on a bus and parade it around the city !

you can’t really do that with a european qualifying place …

what is the question i haven’t answered John.

John we played lots of times in stuttgart .

I was there pre season watching the toffees all changed there now.

I believe the good side of the international break is that most of our depleted squad will have a rest – and give another month a good go.

Bollocks Ian,could be plums.

You speak both on a regular basis,but dont speak at all when you have no comeback to a fair question.

Memory bad Mark,worked on a lot of sites around Germany,never that far south.

Stuttgart is in the back of my mind?

I don’t think we’ve played well in a complete league game, yet. The Coventry game summed us up this season. When we knocked it around, we looked good but too often we wasted possession and just aimed long balls up to Barry. It took us going a goal down to buck our ideas up. We seem to be slow starters and we need to do something about the corporate seats in home games because those seats are half empty as the second half starts which doesn’t help the atmosphere.

You can’t judge anything after 10 games. Under Ancelotti we were 2nd on Boxing Day until we came down with the decorations. As others have said, we were in a great position last year with 7 matches to play. We can only look at how we are playing and I don’t think we’ve been all that convincing. We have shown good character to get back into games but I still don’t know what our style is.

I expect us to finish around 11th or 12th unless we can bring in some quality in January.

Manchester Shitty haven’t been scoring enough goals recently either. So far our one and only striker is bettered only by Haaland. Did statistics predict that? Another hat trick from Barry and he’ll be in France squad as the Prems Wonderboy goalscorer!

Bollocks is what I think! Statistics are only useful for defining the past not the future. They dissolve into nothingness when luck, referee errors, shots that hit the bar and bounce into the net off the goalies arse or VAR can’t quite get the off side law right and it gains or costs points.Take every game as it comes. When we play the shite 6 of the buggers might have the flu, that would be "statistically" unlikely but it wouldn’t half be lucky for us! We know we ain’t Barcelona and we know we ain’t going to win the league but just be happy we ain’t doing too bad and let the future take care of itself.

If it was munich i always got lads in free tents normally alongside the 18th mad days john.

Plato, John, may be Spartacus as well.

Ian, Michael wrote it as a statement of fact. It isn’t, it is a groundless opinion, which surprises me as he is usually a lot smarter than that.

He would have us believe that a Premier league club spends their focus entirely defending without a shred of substance to back it up, other than George now tracks back a bit better – whoopty doo.

To be honest, I expect better of him than that. If that is fact, which it isn’t, would you not expect to hear from players or coaches, past or present, that would complain about those methods? there is only one thing scousers love more than footy, and that is footy gossip.

To answer your question. It would appear I have seen far more training sessions than either you or Michael. I can support that by having seen them at Finch Farm, Goodison, and Bramley Moore from invitations, but also what the club put on social media, and what current players, ex players, ex coaches, current coaches, and Moyes have said or written on his training methods.

I worked on the sites in Germany in the 90s.

My mate was a golf nut,i wasn`t bothered but went with him on a day off.

Bumped into a scouse caddy who heard us talking and ended up bladdered after he took us in a free booze tent .

Its a long shot but…….

He’s a very good player and can score goals . He has tough opposition but an injury or loss of form for someone, and I think Hall is a shoe in for England.

About 20 times john

Mark,

Were you a caddy on the European tour?

This could be an example of a small world if you are.

Did you work the German Open?

It’s all down to one man’s opinion-Tuchel’s. He has his picks and most of us would pick 6 or 7 of the same shoe-ins

all the time but the rest could be a different matter. JamesTarkowski has been tremendous this season but Tuchel

goes for Burn and Hill (who?) as replacements. KDH has been brilliant but Tuchel makes excuses about his picks.

Quite honestly I don’t think a foreign national should be allowed as an England manager and the same goes for cricket

after all none of the players are foreign. The quality of English players in the Prem. and elsewhere has never been better

so Tuchel should have no excuse about not being successful with what he has or anyone else for that matter.

Bottom line though I would rather the Everton players not risk injury. The Prem. is the only thing that really matters.

And tidal waves couldn’t save the world from En-shitt-ifi-cation

Mark I don’t think you’re on the wind up but in what capacity did you/ do you work with these stars?

That may put some people’s minds at rest?

what’s with the popups time to leave the site i think

I can get this shite on dodgy streaming sites Toffeeweb’s soul has gone

John someone told you on TW and you never picked up on it and he’s the only one to work it out

I think he might know someone iwho knows me but maybe he was clever and worked it out logically i dont know but its no wind up i have probaly worked alongside the biggest star in the last 25 years thats not me saying its him who believes he was .

Put them out if their misery Mark, tell them who the top sports stars are.

Im going for Alf Tupper

John im not winding anyone mate.

There winding themselves up 1 in paticular john .

Mark.

Your deffo on the wind up.

Your getting responses so it’s working 😬

Steve lots of good words.

You see Barry is a big man i think 6 foot 4 and clearly more developed in the top half he probaly takes about 13 in boots im just guessing so he will never be twinkle toes in the box .

But what you said running staight on he looks like scoring all the time just Romelu he has said he watches lots of videos of Harland and Romelu he’s addicted to being the Best which is a great thing to have.

Im going to annoy a certain few on TW but i have worked with very big sports stars and when they where coming up the ranks they all had these traits .

Barry will continue to try to be the best he is addicted to it i can see it so im going to back him .

It’s tough to beat those teams over two legs though Mark

Mark,

Agree mate.

if you go into a game thinking you cant win,you wont win.

I didn’t do this, but I’ve been made aware of a wonderful song about Thierno Barry: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1435622428546684/?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&fs=e

We could’ve beaten both of them last time we played them. In City’s case should’ve.

Not a shock in my opinion no. We’d be underdogs yes, but not a shock.

Do you sit in on the training sessions then Ian? Because you seem to suggest your answer to everything is correct and everyone else’s view is wrong.

Maybe other people have the same insight as you, or maybe they just view it differently. But your view most definitely isn’t correct 100% of the time, no one’s is.

Are you Moyes in disguise? Moyes has never in his career set up teams to attack. We might have been more adventurous in our last 3 games and I sincerely hope it stays that way. But I very much doubt it will. I think what you mean when you mention players not doing what is asked of them, is they are being asked to defend. It’s what Moyes does, he has always set up defensively

Will it be a’shock’ if we beat them Mark?

More pop ups than a match day streaming sites now 🙄

The Barry pyjamas mate😀

Remind me? This new format doesn’t link this reply to whatever it was I disappointed you with?

City and Liverpool have both lost to lesser teams recently. We can beat either with the right approach.

Let’s beat Fleetwood first then see what happens. There have been much bigger shocks in the cups than us beating them.

Fair play to Moyes for sticking with Barry (not that he had much choice!) – but he has given him the right mix of criticism and tough love, and Barry seems to have responded. I shudder to think what might have happened to Barry’s development of someone like Ronald Koeman had been the manager. ‘Return your locker keys, son’.

His output and contribution is massively improved this season – 10 goals and 3 assists.

Positives:

His movement and runs this season are much better.

He is getting himself into goal scoring opportunities consistently.

He is a good finisher when he runs onto the goal.

His link up play is improving and he is contributing assists.

He looks physically stronger and fitter.

His confidence is getting higher.

Improvement areas:

He is not a natural finisher – 13 big chances missed.

He cannot sort his feet out quickly in the box.

He is not an instinctive finisher.

But right now, he is the most important player in the squad. If he gets injured, we are screwed.

Mr. Steers does this all the time Philip. He has been in ‘sports’ for thirty years; he knows ‘a top sportsman’. Somehow, if true (because, as you say, he has been asked 10?, 12?, 14?, 16? times to give us names and his actual role ‘in sports’ – but he never does), this gives MS more authority to comment than mere mortals like the two of us.

This, together with his Moyesturbation, makes it pretty easy to ignore him, I suppose. And remember that Mr. Steers constantly calls the opinions of others ‘rubbish’, because, I imagine, these lesser toffeewebbers have not done time in ‘sports’ and don’t know ‘a top sportsman’.

It’s a weirdly strange mix of opinion on here.

One says our current position means we won’t get relegated . Hmm, maybe I’m too bucket half empty when I think, even if it’s improbable, it’s not exactly impossible.

The someone says we cannot win the League Cup (or whatever it is called now) because we have to get through the RS and City. I suppose that’s logical but this bucket half empty fan would like to have hope and worse teams than us have beaten both of them. It’s possible.

Then mention of a tough run of games against sides likely finishing above us. Top sides then, a mismatch, knife to a gunfight job. Then I see Brentford and Brighton in that list. Well sure, they have been playing very well but seriously, and no disrespect, are we content to think small clubs like that will invariably finish above us. My bucket is filling up.

Finally the optimistic talk that TFG might fund a serious January window to push for Europe and my bucket empties again. Not happening, guys…

as i’ve seen previously here on tw when asked who exactly these ‘top sportsman’ are this spoofer goes quiet

end of chat

be careful phil – the eternal ultra optimists can be quite hostile to anyone who casts any doubts on their beliefs like rabid maga supporters.their opinions are all that matter. !

No, Michael, that’s YOU, hoping that we’re in trouble come next May. Why the actual fuck would any so-called Everton fan look at where we are now and go “oh we might be relegated”? Get a fucking grip of yourself.

Moyes teams played some great stuff in his first stint too. I think it peaked in the 07/08 season, but 08/09 was also good.

You never answered my question Ian.

Again.