Grant takes loan assignment at Doncaster

Meanwhile Howard, Barry, Osman, Lukaku... all are afforded countless poor performances without question.

You wonder what the coaches are telling the players, nobody at Everton seems to be giving any confidence to Tyias Browning, he is still playing like he doesn't believe he should be on the pitch.

It's all down to Tyias himself; I'm afraid he'll never improve if he doesn't find this belief, maybe it is just the lad's nature, but it will be a shame if this belief isn't installed in him.

That said, Baines was probably a similar type of character but his demeanour changed with experience and success. He had to go down to Wigan before he came back up. Just the way he is, Ty could still come good, the more exposure he gets the quicker we will see an improvement in his confidence.

It also helps if you are in the right place at the right time, as illustrated by Brendan Galloway and Harry Kane. With Baines, Garbutt and Oviedo off the scene, young Brendan was thrust into our left back spot and we found a star. Harry Kane was the same. After six loan periods where he didn't look particularly special but kept working on various parts of his game, he was the last man standing in the Spurs striker department and took his chance with glee.

Unfortunately, as you have pointed out, Tyias Browning suffers from a serious lack of self-confidence when with the senior squad. He's happy with his mates in the U21s and requests to play with them. Hibbo has given him a lot of advice and support but the only cure is a regular first team berth which is not possible while Stones and Coleman are fit.

I can't see us ever losing the lad. He's been with us since age 10 and only wants to play for Everton. According to Unsy, he is the best one-on-one player at the club and this crossed my mind as I watched Coleman and Stones getting the runaround in recent games.

I don't know what's happening with the talented Kieran Dowell, Dave, but Tom Evans has definitely been earmarked for special treatment. No surprise here. I've been looking out for young Evans since he was 13 when my son came home from work with glowing reports from the lad's dad. Let's hope he fulfills his early promise.

Harold, I went to the U21s match last week but he never came off the bench, I'll catch him before the season is out, hope he is worth waiting for, Evans that is.

This lad was sensational in pre season if you remember the Dundee game and he was in the first team squad for the first couple of games of the season. I've watched this lad from a very young age and I think he could become a Pienaar type player except operating from the right as his vision, touch, balance are all top class.

From what the Echo journalists say as well RM thinks the world of him.

Evans is a different type of player more of a goal scoring forward whereas Dowell is more creative.

John, Kieran Dowell is my great hope from the youngsters. Much can go wrong, of course, but my word — he has immense promise, a really elegant player.

Dowell has all the skill in the world and a great passer of the ball but he just doesn't look for the ball, doesn't make himself available for the ball. When he gets the ball, he knows what to do with it, but never fights for the ball.

I have not seen him this season so maybe he has improved in this department but, in the past, this idleness was a major flaw in his game.