O`Brien has been treated very badly by Moyes. He has willingly sacrificed his own game for the good of the team by manfully holding the right back fort. We all know what Jake cant do, but He has never really been given credit for what he can and has done. He was perfectly entitled to ask for a run in his natural position at some stage and was entitled to a quiet explanation telling him what he needs to do. By freezing him out and then going public with his reasons. Moyes merely shows what a small man he is. Meanwhile; Whipping boy Keane hasnt been at the scene of the crime as we continue to ship goals every week. Jake played well, Branthwaite has been ill-used and is now injured………Yet the common denominator in this car crash of a defence continues to escape criticism. This team CANNOT play any other way until Tarkowski is removed from it

Yeah this is the problem with fans having a big voice. Talking about managers who “seem” to be decent and have worked under very different conditions to the one at Everton. We’d be fighting a relegation battle with both of them. Frank Lampard has already achieved more than both of these managers and look where we were with him. Cov were way better than Ipswich last year and Andrew’s has had one season as a manager. Not one good season: one season at an incredibly well run club. Stop blaming the manager for the shit show that is Everton.

I know this is lighthearted Nigel, but I’ll bet you a virtual pint Man U finish above us.

As will at least 14 other clubs on current form Paul. Id take 5th from bottom now. Hopefully we buy in January,otherwise its a lower finish than last season.

Villa paid £47.5 million for Jackson and we were going to pay £40 million for whatshisname Bologon? Hmmm By the way Jackson will in my opinion score 20 goals. He’s mustard since Emery has been managing him.

Its a temporary fix mate. Look, dont get me wrong, he would probably come in and do well. But that isnt taking the club to where we want it in the medium / long term. Probably the same with grealish. There are players out there, whos stock is rising, and will be a better answer than Richi. We cant keep looking back. If theres a difference between Everton vs Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford, it’s that. Sell Semenyo, buy Rayan. Theres a plan that looks forward. Selling beto for richi, ndiaye for Grealish, isn’t a 3 Bs plan.

Ian, Richalison is out of options. We showed interest in the summer when he thought he would get other or ‘better’ offers. He also thought he would get the bonus/loyalty payment as a parting gift from Spurs. Instead he’s been stuck in the reserves. Even a loan deal would suit both parties. He’s getting a fresh start, we’re getting a decent player who won’t cost an arm and a leg. While his match fitness may not be 100%, he’s rested, which means any injury concerns would be allayed.

I know it’s a revolutionary idea Mark, but maybe read the article properly. Your post is not even related to the points Patric was making.

Junior Kroupi back from long-term injury to partner Rayan and Evanilson. Bournemouth won’t be below us in the league after the weekend, and by Xmas their be 10 points ahead of us.

And if my granny had wheels she’d be a bike. Coulda, shoulda, woulda…didn’t.

Moyes is 63 not 65 Mr. Steers. It matters to get things right. Otherwise, Heaven forbid, it might make some think that your posts are erm not to be trusted. Bournemouth are one point behind us Mr. Steers with the same goal difference. One. They have a nice run of fixtures coming up and their current league form is much better than ours (not to mention crushing AC Milan). In fact, it’s quite the reverse: Bournemouth 2 wins; us 2 defeats. Bournemouth’s first XI is stronger than ours, greater balance, greater depth, no square pegs. Sadly, I predict with some confidence that Bournemouth will be looking down the table at us come end of day May 30.

Going back 15 yrs to his first spell, there was a belief…amongst some, but not all…that we had a decent team if only Moyes would let them play a bit – Die Handbremse lösen. Nothing, including Moyes, has changed. I’ll use that Mice, Mause, Moyes thing if I may – very apt.

Actually, I didn’t do anything at all… Something must have gone wrong beforehand. Since I fear that my poor English might potentially trigger World War III, I always write in German and then have it translated

Whatever you did with this post fixed the German title thing.

Some seem to think they can.

Recently, my wife asked ChatGPT—in German—why Moyes’s teams often play so defensively. To our surprise, ChatGPT remarked on the fact that we were talking about a “Mäuse” (mice) team—a play on the name “Moyes.” And, at times, that’s exactly how it feels. It’s hard to pinpoint what our actual strengths are. We often hole up in defense, reacting to the opposition rather than taking the initiative ourselves. Everything is geared toward preventing goals; even our attacking players are constantly forced to defend. That drains a great deal of strength and energy. Perhaps it’s time to give younger players—like George, Hackney, and even Dibling—more playing time and, crucially, more freedom.

It’s not you Rocco, I guess you open TW as a translated page and type in the comment box, then copy/paste to Translate and then it’s probably Google linking your translation to the page automatically? Try typing the German directly into Google Translate and copy/paste into the comment box. If that doesn’t fix it revert to the original English page and paste the English there. If that’s too time wasty then don’t bother ‘cos it doesn’t detract from your message.

If they’re good enough they’re old enough?

What do i think. The sorry fact of toffeweb giving a large part to the betting odds of the red shite is really too much. M k have you no say on here anymore.

Or it’ll be a sell to buy scenario. Who do we need more, Armstrong or a striker?

We will likely struggle to find a good striker in January as well. It would be easier if there were a European Championship or a World Cup next year; players who are currently warming the bench elsewhere would then be on the market, eager to showcase their abilities for their national teams—much like Grealish last season. As for Barry: at every club he’s been with, he really hit his stride in his second year. I don’t see that happening this season. On top of his shortcomings, he also clearly lacks confidence; his body language after missing chances says it all. I wish Moyes would “put him out of his misery” sooner in matches and bring on Alcaraz or Keane to play up front instead.

Brainstorm from me. Meant to write Andrews. The three of them will finish higher than Moyes Your welcome. Is that the Norwegian band?

What are they good at? As far as Moyes is concerned, enough of them are good at doing whatever he tells them to – next topic please.

But, we didn’t… I’ve been a very big defender of Moyes and I’ve not turned on him, but Everton set back and were extremely negative after going 2-1 up against Hull. that is the mindset that ultimately costs points

Rob Edwards? Aha. That’s all I need to know. Thanks.

Very kind of you Greg,thanks. Edwards. Rose De Zerbi. In no particular order.

i have’nt checked but surely carsley has never managed in club football ? will we ever change the attitude of he played for us so he must be good so let him have the job.. i would have gone for glasner but he ain’t having a good time at forrest..

ian we don’t prioritise goalscorers they very rarely track back ! we need more midfielders to warm the bench .grealish’s wages not a problem though for this joke of a club…

this carsly thing is doing my head in why would you get rid of a experience manger who is not been back up by tfg and get a inexperience manger that you want because he was good player for everton I’d even Rather martin O’Neil than take that chance and I don’t want martin O’Neill learn from west ham mistakes but I would like 4.4.2 tactic when we get another stricker

What about you, Harry?

And who would that actually be, John? Feel free to offer your opinion.

That arl chestnut 6 goals in 9 games 3 were against an absolute shit Championship side who rolled ove for us. Lets not the facts get in the way of the worth of the lad…he’s fucking awful and its embarrassing to watch him lead our line week after week. Kinnear wants absolutely fucking for signing this piece of shite, and yet I keep hearing from so called fans, one who by the way I know and love so well that he will come good, he wont and never will. You can tell in his interviews that Moyes thinks hes shite, but he just wont admit it.

Even if we’d beat Hull, which we should have, things would look different.

John the problem we have is simply our so called best players are all defensive minded . Garner and Armstrong should be taken on a tour of the Hill Dickenson and someone should show them the 18 yards BOX. They just never go in it its beyond belief. Also if they where sitting deep and picking runners out then that would be great but they dont Barry works his socks off and everyone moans at him at least he is making chances for himself . We need a quality midfielder who can go beyond and not stuck around the centre circle .

If Barry had taken half of his big chances, the position in the league might well look like a different position. Can you manage for that?

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 😂