From my seat: Norwich City (A)

11 years of David Moyes... it's now time for other fans to experience the Moyes phenomena. I'm not a Moyes fan, have never been that struck on the man. Hopefully he can go somewhere and get success, I just feel it will never be at Everton... ever!

This can't help the morale of our small squad but, in saying all that, I still think when we can get our best 11 out we can be a match for anyone. So COYB — let's get back to winning ways on Tuesday night.

You do not deserve anything from a game unless you earn it, and that means the players have to play with pride and passion to represent the shirt they wear for 90 mins+ and the manager to recognise that some players are not playing well and replace them — not in the 70th min but a lot earlier. Norwich's manager made three changes before Everton made any and turned the game while Moyes and Round seemed to have no answer.

I will not jump on the bandwagon on the comments about the merits of Naismith as he does not pick the team. One thing I am wondering about is comments from the Everton team was once Coleman was fit he and Mirallas were to provide Plan B as Baines and Pienaar are starting to be closely marked, so after Moyestells Mirallas he needs more from him, why leave him on the bench???

A lot of the fans complain about our style of play and tactics but I thought for large spells in the game we tried to do things the right way while they goof the ball up.

I must admit I was happy with Howards performance for a change, he showed the bravery required to be a top keeper by coming out to catch the ball instead of punching it or not coming out at all like in the past, maybe this MMA training is finally having a benefit.

I am worried about this Oldham game coming up though, we keep conceding from set pieces and long balls into the box. Feallini and Distin are not marking tightly enough. Smith will have a field day. We need to play the same game as them and grab hold of their player. If the ref allows them to get away with it then we should play them at their own game and Howard needs to be ruthless and clear out their defenders if need be.

I think we all watched the same game: for 70 mins we looked in control and never in danger. The substitutions were baffling and changed the game as we looked more disjointed after. With 10 mins to go we all knew what what likely to happen, when will he learn?

I was forward to seeing Mirallas and Jeli start up front together, they are our two most experienced forwards, I've no idea why Moyes doesn't fancy them together?

Positives from yesterday, Howard played well, Coleman looks the part & Fellaini put in a shift.

I must add a comment on Naismith's performance, especially in the second half: he had countless opportunities to bring the ball down and make a pass to a blue shirt but chose instead to swing his leg and boot the ball back to them. At this level, it is not acceptable.

My prediction is we will beat Oldham then get turned over by Wigan, finishing 10th if we are lucky. I feel like ripping my season ticket up. I'm sick of it now.

Don`t think i`ve ever seen such a lethargic side who show no desire to get the 2nd goal let alone a 3rd or 4th! We just seem happy to go through the motions and try and walk the ball in instead of being clinical and put the game to bed.

Although the Moyes lovers will disagree, I believe this attitude stems from the manager because I can`t believe that he lets this happen most weeks without seemingly not doing anything about it.

Having read other threads on Toffeeweb, I know I wasn`t the only one who could see yesterdays outcome happening long before it happened because of our inability to kill teams off

Even watching the `famed` telepathic partnership between Baines and Pienaar is now wearing thin. Admittedly it does look good on the few occasions it does comes off but i`m sick to death of watching them just `tippy tapping` it to each other when the opportunity arises to get the ball into a dangerous area.

Even though on any given day we can give anybody a game, the difference between us and the really top teams is that they`ve got a more clinical mindset to get the game won as quickly as possible instead of our dour approach of just trying to hang on to what we`ve got

The club should now move forward and appoint his successor and introduce him to Moyes during the 3rd week in April so we have a smooth handover.

It would now be a backward step for the club to retain his services. If one of my employees entered my office and told me he no longer wanted the job, he would be gone at the earliest opportunity.

After applying early pressure and looking dominant during the first 3rd of the second half, we seemed to go in to hoof ball mode. I lost count of the nr of times the ball was tip-tapped - on these occasions between Coleman, another (various players), Gibson and then back to Jags who just hoofed it up to nobody. It was just like we forgot how to play. We certainly don't have the target men for hoofball anyhow.

So frustrating!

It's not like we are playing badly but I've said it nearly every week, we score the 2nd goal and we've won, but we invited pressure after a solid 1st half performance.

I thought we were at a turning point at half time, an impressive Coleman added to my positive feelings but as usual nothing is simple with Everton and we ended up screwing up again.

Plaudits go their manager, bringing on Kamara gave them attack, maybe we should've put Mirallas on earlier to try and get that 2nd goal. I wouldn't've taken off Jelavic, even with his struggle for goals he is very good at heading balls out of our box, something we could've needed in the final 10 minutes.

It's a shame we lost, I was angry, disconsolate but not stunned. I got over it though it's not worth getting upset about. We have more games to play, the season is not over yet, all it takes is for a couple of results to go our way for a change and we are right back in it, we aren't that far behind now either.

The only plus points over the past couple of months have been Victor up front and Seamus Coleman bedding into the left back role. Baines has gone off the boil and the left side of the team is not producing the goods. The guy from Glasgow, fee transfer during the summer, does not look as if he will cut the mustard but his confidence like that of our centre forward looks shot.

It you list the team on Saturday and put beside each player the cost of acquisition only the Belgium will have a truely big number beside him.

If the season panned out in the normal manner, bad start and good finish, and we were sixth with 11 games to go morale on the site would be better.

We are now in a race for sixth spot with Liverpool and West Brom and given our away fixtures include, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea and Liverpool I would not be too hopeful of a top six finish.

Unless we make it all the way in the FA Cup it looks as if we will fall short of European football again this year.That will have inevitabel consequences with respect to the manager and certain stars on our team.

Wednesday is the biggest game of the season as a win could still turn things around!

The transfer window is where we are going to lose the hard work to get in the top five or six. But we didn't strengthen, the board or Moyes buggered about. Looks like another wasted season, still no investment.

Mid-table mediocrity is all we have to look forward to, unless investment is found.

This is the same bunch who provided our best season start for years.
Only Hibbo and Anichebe are injured so what excuse is there from the players ??

The board SHOULD have signed at least one player to supplement the squad and so far have loaned OUT four players since January.
All I read on the site is an unmitigated attack on Moyes for refusing to sign a new contract until its due.
He is called arrogant for trying to get this wayward board to provide some funds.
He is obviously frustrated and so am I

All the rest of the clubs are buying players and loaning in players to provide impetus for the rest of the season.

OUR BOARD ARE DOING NOTHING !! BLAME THEM !

I just cannot understand how/why he picked Naismith and then let him stay on for the entire 94 minutes?! And when everyone on the match day forum were howling for a change as we could see Norwich coming back in, he takes off Jelly and brings on Kev. Team selection and substitutions have totally changed it for me.

TBH I'm not particularly bothered about Oldham. If we beat them then we'll end up doing a Reading against Wigan.

He's clearly not going to stay so should leave now. We're not going to get relegated and not qualify for Europe. So why not let things freshen up for the remainder of the season and see where we go from there?

I have been an Evertonian for around 65 years. In the past, I have helped clear the snow off the pitch, been a pools agent, and generally helped out at Goodison until we emigrated in 1980. My only regret is not being in the Gwladys St at every home game anymore. I think we WILL get our act together starting with Oldham because things can only improve, so, once again, Keep The Faith.

They had a game plan that involved letting Jags get the ball and watch him hoof it straight to their back 4. They just let him stroll with it time after time because they knew within a few seconds he would give it back to them.

We have no pace when Mirallas is on the bench and no-one seems to be able to hit his shot hard and straight to save their lives... no-one in this team will worry Goal of the Month anyway!

Bainsey gave the ball away 6 times on the spin in the first half and Pienaar is becoming less and less influential. Fellaini already knows he is off and Naismith would struggle in the Championship. That aside, we appear to have no Plan A — let alone Plan B — and players who looked great (Gibson, Jelavic) now look to the standard that we normally end up with.

Someone needs to bring in new ideas and fast