You’ve lost me with that one, Dave. Although if I can help, I will!

Tuchel looks like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. In Germany, he’s considered a very difficult character—he has often left a trail of wreckage behind him whenever he’s departed a club. That said, he’s actually quite competent, even if he does occasionally make poor tactical decisions. I’ll just be glad when all our players return in good health.

Tuchel is just another overpaid England manager who wings it with his selections.

He has a plethora of English talent to choose from and any manager in England could do the job and get some decent results especially against the poorer footballing nations.

He is a bit like Moyes at times with his perplexing decisions.

Both teams have qualified and so it makes sense to leave some players out of the squad or on the bench. Personally it suits Everton who don’t have a deep squad so they don’t need any injury problems from nothing games.

thanks harry , i appreciate your reply…

and paul g. thanks for the tip on montenegro , i’m looking forward to spending my winnings – all £1.20 of it !!

Harry could you tell me how to get off a service I’ve never ever used but keep getting notices of people they’d think I’d like to have conversations with and they tell me to use my password to discontinue using them even though I’ve never had a password to begin with.

That’s fine Harry we all have different likes and dislikes and I find reading stats gives me too many points to disagree with their outcome.

Latest banner news from Toffeeweb: ‘Nigel Martyn backs Jordan Pickford for another five or six years as England No.1 despite Trafford competition’.

I enjoy watching Spain like I enjoy watching Brighton. Nice big win for Spain please and the German looks like an ugly demonic twat and Trafford looks old and shite.

Garner is nowhere near as good as Rice or anyone else he might replace but JB is.

Yeah Mark

Age is catching up with me.

She told me your a solid 7, Brendan…

Jarrad Branthwaite and James Garner have both been dropped from the squad.

I don’t disagree, Dave. I do find the data fascinating though, particularly as it’s now the be all and end all for most Premier League clubs – and the successful ones at that.

Hi Phillip,

We’re keeping an eye on all comments regarding ads etc. It’s a really tough time for publishers at the moment, there are closures and redundancies all over the industry. The owners are trialling a new revenue format and I’ve been told to keep a close eye on user happiness/experience as we do so.

I’m pushing for changes regarding the homepage format, increasing media content, and making the pop-ups easier to exit.

Hope England get battered ,plus can’t stand the Kraut

Interesting Paul. My own view is that the manager, knows everything about Pickford, who has played in two European finals and two World Cup semifinals, in his England career. He needs to know if he can trust Trafford, in these big games and although it’s a big game, you could also describe it has a dead rubber, because England, have always qualified for the quarter final, in this competition

Not arsed about england but like to see Everton players ,playing well for them ,even though its the poison chalice of if they do well or potentially get injured,plus the ear whispering a la barmby . . Why are you at Everton ? . .Living here in Catalunya will be good to see Pedri have his usual sublime game

If he thinks Burn is a better centre half than Branthwaite he definitely hasn’t Christy.

I have no interest in the England national team,saying that I hope they get twatted tonight.

Pickford on the bench and Branthwaite and Garner dropped from the squad altogether, shows Tuchel hasn’t a clue.

It shows Tuchel for what he is and it isn’t England manager. He claimed last week he wasn’t putting branthwaite in because he wanted a consistent defensive line up. He then drops his number one goalkeeper in the most important game of the new international season.

It shows his inconsistency as a manager,says one thing and does another. Defenders want a consistent goalkeeper. They learn what and when the goalkeeper will do, it gives defenders confidence. All said and done Tuchel seems to be to much into his own self importance.

If England lose he will probably blame everyone else.

Michael I’ve been saying that since he got here last season but most have welcomed him and think he has done more than enough to make Everton a better team even this season ! each to their own.

I thought the last outing v Spain told us a bit about both keepers, so this selection doesnt really sit with "proof of contest at the highest level".

I like Traffords development, him choosing to go to Leeds rather than bench warm at City, if Tuchel plans one half each and says so, it would take some heat off.

Tarks been immense.

I’m happy to have been wrong, last year I thought his performances dropped off alot and thought it was age catching up and an irreversible decline, back to his best, maybe giving him the odd rest would benefit us loner term during the season.

Armstrong looks the real deal, and just needs a goal now to settle him when he’s in front of goal, when he fills out at 22-23 he could be running games for us .

KDH & Garner now starting to perform at their best, which coincides with our results & performances improving .

The wings are where we need a bit more improvement now, George done OK but needs consistency, Dibbling just needs games, Grealish needs to go up in levels to deserve his place, Rohl looks a better RW option than Johnson who massively disappointed me, I expected more .

Barry, oh Barry …. I always thought we’d get an improvement second season from him, he’s still got loads to work on, but he’s doing it, and getting better with games & confidence.

It’s mad to be chopping and changing your keeper, you need consistency with the defence, it’s England’s weakest point, so adding more uncertainty rotating keepers makes no sense.

Choose 1 stick with them!

Pickfords distribution hasn’t been as good of late, which can be the only reason I think, but we’ll see If Trafford can stand the pressure.

At least he can’t be scapegoat if they lose.

Be glad when the shit fest over.

This is good because I think they will get slaughtered.

Flip flopping between keepers is no good for the team

Do we?. He doing fine at the moment PG

Joelinton was intimidated for the league game the following Monday,couldn’t wait to go over and smile at Tarks,did it early in the game.

We need to get rid of this fucking German Hewey

Tarky has been the player who kept Everton from being relegated. He brought steel to the team and actually shouts at his own team mates , something we hadn’t seen for years . He is the teams minder which is as important as any skill. The way he flung Jolynton to the floor was memorable! Not many throw Joe about. As long as he has a quick defensive partner , he should be first name on the team sheet .

Think Trafford is now tuchel first choice keeper. Pickford had a good run.

V Spain. This is significant.

Will say, however, that there is not a single word in support of this in MK’s article.

I imagine that they might exist given MK’s certainty, but quote them for us Michael.

I think Spain will be very happy to have a goalkeeper that they knocked 3 past . I’m not a great fan of Pickford , but he should be starting. Weird choice by Tuchel

Trafford made an awul gaffe the last time I watched Leeds, Ian… wasn’t that a couple ofweeks ago?

I think Tuchel has made the wrong choice but, hopefully, it will spur our Jordan onto even better performances.

I don’t think he will be handing over the gloves permanently without a hell of a fight.

Not sure why so many are raving over Trafford to be honest.

Alcaraz’s 6 is for putting up with the way the manager treats him — should have been a 10. Grealish shouldn’t be getting graded he doesn’t deserve to be here!

Not eating enough iron in your diet

Used to get eight pop ups a day when I was young. Lucky to get one these days.

Me neither Eric. I’m desperate to have one.

I don’t get pop-ups, what am I doing wrong?

It’s just you Brendan

I mostly use a small screen to read t w but since the pop ads are taking up to three quarters if the screen it’s very frustrating.please stop , even when I click then off they just go to the full screen.😭

could be someone wrote it for him ! just read this jack

john its 2 pop ups and x ing them is giving me repetitive strain injury

no one has ever thought ‘what this site needs is more pop ups’

almost as annoying as some bragger or blagger who keeps repeating he has known top sportsmen all the time

Come on Jack, score the winner in the Merseyside derby, as football is a funny old game I’m going for £100 to get the winner. Odds in football are never as you think. If they were, there wouldn’t be betting sites. COYB

well not very often. So when you did, what was it like 😂😂

I wonder if we signed Balogun or Zirkzee would we be doing as well as we are?

Lack of team speed and ball skill.

Although, not as bad as it has been the last few years.

Agree on my phone. What a pain.

Never see them on my computer.

Perhaps it’s just me but when I see this rating stuff… I think about how my wife would score me in the bedroom.

To be fair I don’t have to perform in front of 50,000… well not very often.

More action (or inaction) for Blues on Saturday night:

◆ Johnson did little to nothing as Wales crashed to defeat in Norway
◆ O’Brien is on the bench for Ireland in Austria; no Seamus Coleman

◆ Graham is on the bench for N Ireland against Ukraine

◆ Mykolenko is at left-back for Ukraine

◆ Former Blue Issac Price is playing for N Ireland