New Year musings

Come on, ToffeeWeb users ? the revolution needs to start here!

Pienaar does try to dribble past opponents and gets himself fouled more than the others but Arteta has become very poor and just makes safe short passes and never takes any responsibility apart from dead-ball situations. The big problem that DM has is that he doesn't have any alternative but to persevere with Arteta and hope that his form improves.

We have no bright young player coming through and forcing himself into contention for a first team start. Obviously the new players who arrived must be no good, otherwise they would be playing!!

It really galls me to say that we are totally inept in front of goal and no-one, apart from Cahill, has any confidence. This is not a new problem and our professional players spend a lot of time training to improve their basic skills which must include shooting and passing accurately.

I yearn for us to hammer a team at Goodison by four goals with one of our strikers hitting a hat trick!!!

Of those left, I think admitting they were wrong about Moyes and Kenwright is too much, in the last week some fellas on here were still talking about European qualification.

Some of the stuff defending Moyes is barely credible, until we're sitting in the relegation places nothing will happen.

I cannot take anymore of your tactical ineptitude and negative outlook. Going to the match home and away used to be the highlight of the week; now it has become a living nightmare.

We are now an absolute joke and I just wish all of us supporters would wake up to the fact that it's not just about having no money/being skint/BK. What it is about is a manager who doesn't have the guts to go out and try and win the game but sets up not to conceed and nick a goal if where lucky.

I am not expecting us to win anything but I would like my team to play with some guts and pride ? and actually play some football. Do we know our history? ? it appears not; we seem now to accept mediocrity as the norm.

You have a point on the tactics and style of play but please don't believe Moyes has anything to do with the fundraising and signing players on the dotted line ? he only provides names to BK who does that.

Tony, #8: I think that Leon is right, that it is only likely to happen once there is a major reaction at Goodison Park. Like him, I need to get to grips with this facebook malarkey... I've just got past the semaphore stage!

Alan, #12: I didn't intend to give the impression that Moyes doesn't share the blame for some of the transfer dealings (and the inactivity at crucial times as well) or for his responsibility in what we see on the pitch. But it is the Chairman's job to take decisions in the best interests of the club, including choosing or firing a manager, and Bill has already stated that him and David Moyes are great buddies. So if a new manager is to come to Everton, Kenwright first has to decide what to do.

He is unlikely to bring a new manager in because from all accounts, he's broke (well, in football terms) but he has a Billionaire (another friend) sitting on the board, who doesn't appear to want to put any money into the club. So we are stuck with the current situation until and if Kenwright does the honourable thing and goes.

So what, you may say, but Hodgson has been at Liverpool 6 months, Moyes has been at Everton around 9 years, with no prospect of changing his preferred playing style, still has the same weaknesses in the team we have had for several years, I still believed up till today that Moyes could change and go in a different direction; now, I don't believe he will, Spurs next week will be a watershed for Moyes and Everton.

We cant go on like this, a decrepit stadium with absolutely no plan by the board to improve it, a manager with seemingly no plan to change the tactics, that he must see are not working.

I agree with all you've said about David Moyes as a manager. We are watching sterile, boring football and the players know we are. If we look at their body language, it screams to me that we're half-beaten before we start. It's a bloody mess and you are bang on about last season. Once Donovan went, we lost the plot.

What saddens me most is Moyes's statement that he will keep on doing what he has done to date. Lord help us.

Right now, we are moving in the wrong direction but the one question is... Who would you replace Moyes with? Can you honestly say there is someone available who will take us to were Moyes hasn't or can't??

Look at the managers who are available: Allardyce, O'Neill, Brian Laws!! The boys need to pick themselves up quick and don't need us calling for Moyes's head.

You mention top coaches from abroad, how many top players do we sign from abroad? I feel it would be a tough ask trying to get a foreigner in.

To me, Moyes is very lucky... as there's no-one to replace him.

I actually do not see quite as much brightness in the player you mention as is being hyped... he should really be the finished product by now.

Anyway, if you see someone being frog marched out of the Upper Bullens, it'll be me being dragged out by BB's thought police. I'll be shouting for the fucker to give our club a chance and bugger off back to tinsel town! Ok, so he's a fan, aren't we all. But within our ranks, you can still get a possessive little toerag who thinks that the club is his alone.

By the way, I read your bit about facebook and I'll have a go at it this very week.