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

iirc, he came back, played 10/CM.

He and Kendall kept their respective teams in the 1st Div basically on their own.

The next season Best disappeared, Kendall didn’t and United got relegated

If he IS in to redemption then he should be working his arse off during the International Break ready for squad consideration – if selected.

So delighted that I get an extra lift from some idiots who gave you -5 for that comment, John.

TFG are looking to sell for £200-300 profit, which is over-valuing the club based on turnover by roughly 40%. So this is not going to be a quick sale.

They will not make a net investment in the squad going forward, so probably David Moyes is the best man for the job in the short term. I actually think he should remain until the club is sold as he can manage a small squad and carve out results to keep us mid-table.

But, if he stays long-term the young talent we have will not get the minutes they need and their value will drop.

The barcodes only looked dangerous when crosses from our right side came in. And Jake hardly stopped any of them. He’s not a good right back.

You may be right Dave, but we don’t know what prompted it. Therefore, I prefer to suspend judgement until I do.

We are all human, including Jack, and that is regardless of the money he earns. We need him back and fully fit as TFG are not spendng money on this squad.

I want to see more of KDH and Hayden Hackney in harness. The big decision is who loses out to accommodate that pairing?

“But Monday’s win was still based hugely on workrate and attitude. The quality was there, too, but there was just a lack of composure in the big moments. However, the reward for creating so many decent openings came when Lukas Hornicek spilled Tyrique George’s shot, and Thierno Barry was there to tap home.

That is the kind of luck you make when you keep attacking, when you keep executing a well-though out gameplan, and when you don’t step off just because you did not get your reward straight away.”

Agree completely. This is how things looked to be shaping up in pre-season but we then seemed to lose a significant part of that impetus in games when the season proper started. Personally I thought this happened, at least partly, because out-of-form or not quite fit favourites were rigidly employed. It seems things may be back on track but I still think more of our squad can be utilised more routinely and that would benefit us in the long run.

Can you define ‘dominated’ please Brian, because it was actually 52% to 48% for them.

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

And yes we all hope Jack sorts his demons out – if only for the sake of his family and himself.

Aug 2025 he was our most expensive player by a long chalk

Today he still is…where ever he is.

Rumour has it that City put a ‘No Backs’ clause in our deal so we’re stuck with him.

Apart from the money (and the small squad obvs) if he never kicked a ball for us again I wouldn’t worry too much.

But there’s no use in cutting your nose off to spite your face.

So from a short term on field point of view…his mental problems are a long term thing… we beast him round the training field for 3 or 4 weeks (this should be in progress now – if its not then theres bigger problems afoot) sweat out what ever he had and get him fit.

He then comes back in the Squad on probation

If he can’t hack the short term fix, it’s obvious that his mental problems need long term professional help.

They will – it’ll be Goodbye

First it was Yukubu, now it’s Barry Horne all trotting out ghosted versions of the party line.

Moyes is going to get a minimum of 2 yrs extension – I’m not a fan and i might moan – but I’ll get over it.

I don’t see us having a change of manager any time soon for a number of reasons in my opinion:-

TFG will not risk changing the manager while they are trying to sell the club – more likely they will give Moyes a one year extension and sprook Everton as an established and “stable” club – Moyes being the “stabiliser”.

Any new owner will want to keep Moyes on board until they get their own behind the scenes people settled in. That just makes business sense.

Any new owner may even decide during that transition period that they like Moyes and back him as far as they are able given our current profitability, with funds for new players.

Moyes isn’t going to resign – even if our current owners drive him to distraction. It is not in his nature.

No new manager coming here until next summer transfer window at the earliest methinks.

Acelotti got us to 12th and 10th in his seasons after significant investment in the squad. Current manager has got us 7th so far on a shoestring – but yeh, let’s bin him.

There is no vacancy.

You didnt Eric.

But that is the only logical position to overlap Grealish.

I also asked you what formation you would play to allow George to overlap Grealish?

Don’t think he did PJW.

When West Ham let him go he said something along the lines of not taking on a club battling relegation but I don’t think he said anything about retiring when his current contract ends.

I agree Darren that JG might be our most gifted player at the moment. However, he is also our most unreliable and unprofessional player at the moment mate.

No seeking attention mark. I really don’t rate Howe. But I would get a new manager in the summer.

My view is that Howe would be a great appointment. He has previous of working with nothing to pull Bournemouth out of the depths and he’s shown he’s a winner at Newcastle. Just my opinion though.

But it won’t happen. I’ve said before that Moyes is an unambitious Premier League owners dream. He will likely keep you in the division at a very low cost. That is success for these people.

I don’t see TFG being ambitious so I’d expect Moyes to get an extension of at least a year

Why do people feel the need to say I’m at this or that game? Does it make their comments somehow more authoritative and valuable and insightful?

Stop seeking attention….