Everton vs Watford

I like it.

We may need a modern day Graham Stuart or Gareth Farrelly.

The players need to shut up with the sound bites get out there and do it.

I stated a few weeks back I'd play Rooney as the holding midfielder, seeing as he seems to be dropping further and further back. Let Tom Davies and Vlasic, both young and energetic, be the legs running forward from midfield and feeding Mirallas playing wide. Sigurdsson just behind DCL feeding off any knock downs as DCL seems to win a lot of balls in the air.

Subs .Stekelenberg. Williams, Lookman, Sandro, Klaassen, Niasse, Gueye.

Need to give Schneiderlin a rest altogether.

Totally agree with you.

However, a win tomorrow will be followed by the international break.

Whoever takes the helm will devoid of the nucleus of the squad to impose a foundation to build upon.

IMO international break has actually come at the wrong time!

So the 12th man will be there. And we will be behind the side more than at any other point this season. I Have no doubt about it.

Agree Niasse Rooney behind him , our only 2 scorers in the 9games so far and most likely to score tomorrow.

Fancy Sigurdsson to get one tomorrow , will,part with a tenner on him scoring.

The money has come 5 years too late to build a dominance and begin a legacy. So more of the same then, league position 5th to 17th, and a couple of thumpings by Liverpool each year.

After supporting Everton for 35 years, I'm very very close to calling it a day. I think I have stressed enough over that time to now call it a day supporting Everton, I'm genuinely beaten.

Andy@3: With those line-ups, we could beat anybody. Especially the 1970 one. Substitute Darracott.

The biggest problem with this team’s confidence comes from the fear of getting turned if they give the ball away. That, and the lack of pace in wide areas has accounted for Schneiderlin’s refusal to take on anything more risky than a 20 yard sideways pass all year.

Jag’s is one of the fastest men in the squad according to Calvert-Lewin and needs to show some gumption and support the midfield by closing the gaps behind them. The sooner we can get Galloway back from loan to play left back the better too.

Lastly, I don’t have a problem with playing Rooney or Sigurdson in the centre forward position but we need to go with Wingers-cum-strikers ie Sandro and Mirallas, if the ‘9’ is going to come short so that the gap behind the centre half can be exploited by wingers who are trying to get in to goal scoring positions.

My team:

Pickford
Holgate, Jag, Keane, Baines
Davies, Gana, Schneid
Mirallas, Rooney, Sandro

Above all we need a clean sheet. 0-0 might sound dire but I believe we would look back on a result like that as a turning point in our season.
COYB

Watford are a few light injuries and Deeney’s Suspension.

UTFT!

Watford are no mugs; nor are any team in the Prem for that matter; again it will be down to picking the right combination of players; while that sounds a bit obvious; I mean players who will battle without being stupid, (yellow and red) no ball watchers, or giving away free kicks in dangerous areas.

There will be enough to contend with; as given the chances Watford will attack; and dare I say it, at the moment pose more threat than we do.

I have been thinking back, and I can never remember us being this low in the League since the Prem was formed; maybe wrong on that but it's frightening after having spent £140M; a figure that many sides , like Watford perse, could only dream of, I despair, but still retain hope.

We need to stop being "scared".

It's been clearly shown that our majority shareholder might be a shewed businessman in certain areas of expertise, but, he is not a reliable or competent judge of footballing matters, as he has demonstrated on various occasions with some of the statements he's made which have been almost Martinez-like in their naivety and poor grasp of the game's realities.

If he had truly delved deep into the record of Koeman's managerial career, the sackings, the player unrest, walking out on clubs ♧ ft NHS didn't go his way, there were sufficient red flags firmly visible that would have made him think twice before offering the man such a lucrative contract. To offer him & £6m a year when his only league titles as a manager came years ago in the Dutch league was profligate at best, suicidal (as it turned out), at worst.

Koeman clearly grabbed the money, but even then, only after completing his second holiday of that fateful summer and from the day he arrived, made no secret of the fact that we were nothing more than a stepping stone on his way to (as he saw it), managerial greatness with Barcelona!

He never made any attempt to immerse himself in the club as a whole, rarely if ever watched the U23s or junior sides in action and it quickly became clear to those who were aware of his previous records that he'd learned nothing in terms of his man-management from his disastrous spells at Valencia and AZ Alkmar.

If anything, as we've learned since his departure, he had actually got worse, and had become an archetypal bully and was so full of his own self-importance that the players couldn't even sit down to eat until he and his sycophantic cronies were served first.

If anyone thinks that such negative influences can be washed away in a few weeks or months, we may be in for some nasty surprises. It's as if the club has entered a period of collective depression and depression in any firm can take a long time to cure, and in some ways it never really goes away.

So back to my original point. The man to blame for this whole fiasco is the man who brought this cold, unapproachable bully to our club in the first place, Mr. Farhad Moshiri. He even, in my opinion, left it a month too long in getting rid of Koeman and as a result we are even worse off, results wise than we might have been if he had acted during the previous international break.

Now, he has one chance to correct that mistake. He must talk to, and listen to people who know more about football than he does and make sure he makes the right choice if we are to stand a chance of climbing away from the relegation zone. If he gets it wrong again then money or no money, he will find himself vilified by the fan base, in much the same way as Koeman is now more. For everyone's sake I hope he succeeds this time round.

I think it will have to be an "Everton man" who isn't on the current payroll or in the media circus.

I'm all for apportioning blame for this sure mess that we find ourselves in but Moshiri is not the villain, it's Kenwright.. as ever. A lazy appointment of a man who had got his team relegated, he should never have been near this club in the first place. Kenwright should hang his head in shame but he won't because he's no evertonian. He's just a parasite who needs to fuck off out of our club for ever. But he won't. We fans must have broken many mirrors and came across umpteen black cats to be saddled with Kenwright.

I just can't see us beating Watford today as I just can't see us scoring or not conceding. Hope I'm wrong. What a mess we have been left with.

If he’d had joined Hull City 6 weeks earlier he’d have kept them up I think.

Both would accept the job I think. They know that football is fickle and if Watford or Burnley go on a 5 match losing streak. They will be sacked too.

I think they are both good managers , committed to the job.

Silva would get us more goals and more flair. (Eventually)

Dyche would get us organised and hard to beat.

The midfield would comprise Siggurdson, Baningime and Davies. Central defence would be the major problem if Keane is unavailable as we have the two veterans or one with a youngster (Holgate or Feeney) against a side that usually has strikers good in the air.

The bench then virtually picks itself.

The manager has to tell the playground bully, Rooney, to play a proper number nine role, and stop running around the pitch like a big kid looking for the ball. Either that or drop him altogether. He's roaming around the pitch taking up everyone else's position.

Don't see anything better than a draw today. These will rip right into us.

Gueye
Schneiderlein

Lookman or Vlasic
Rooney
Mirallas

Niasse

I'd go with senior players to dig us out of this hole. They just have to step up over the next 5 games.

We're 2nd from bottom (horrified) to coin a modern phrase "shit just got real".

We have three recognised goalscorers and all have their weaknesses, but Rooney is leading scorer and Niasse is next...and then we have Sandro who can score goals alright but is not yet up to this league yet. I hope we start with Wayne and Oumar and have Sandro and DCL on the bench today.

DCL's done a sterling job on his own up front but the football we've been playing doesn't give him a lot of chances. and I think Wayne and Oumar are the berst hope we have of putting away one or two of the chances we hopefully make.

Let's see if Siggy can do the job of creating them. Definitely hope Mirallas plays (as frustrating as he is) as he can also find the net when he's in the mood and I think he might help Bainsey protect the left. I think Bainsy is too often left adrift now when he makes the forward runs, that were a great trade mark of his, along with his dead ball kicks.

I hate to see the kids thrown in when we're in such dire straits but I think today, they'll all be up for it and give us the energy we need and we'll be behind them anyway. Beni and Davies in the midfield for me.

I heard someone say last night that this is the most important game in our history! Well I think that's way off the target. There's the two last games of the season where we escaped relegation, leave this game in context.

It'd be brilliant to get a win, of course it would; but today, whatever the result, I want to see everyone who come onto that pitch in a Blue shirt, come out with the attitude...NO SURRENDER! They fight for every ball, they chase every lost cause and they get right in the face of every Watford player. That should be a given.

By the way, Dave Abrahams...correct!

Example: Must-win game at Lyon? That will be a lineup with no striker, then.

As Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry once famously said, "A man's gotta know his limitations". Unsworth should remove himself from the frame now.

I would start as follows

Pickford

Martina Keane Jags Baines

Mcarthy Benni

Lookman Rooney Sandro

Niasse

With Sandro, Lookman and Niasse we have some pace. Niasse at home with the support he has had will run his heart out and has a massive point to prove still.

Tell Rooney to stay in position and not go chasing with Beni and Macca cleaning up.

3-0 if thats the starting side ! Guaranteed!
Me for manager and I will do it for £600k not £6 million!

Never thought that would ever happen to me, and it’s not something I like. I want to go the game to see some action. Some players being brave with the ball, and some players being even braver without the ball. I want to see honest endevour, and I want to see excitement.

It’s what we go the match for, it’s why we fell in love with both Everton, and Goodison. Silva said why should he leave Watford, for Everton? I’m not sure if I want him, but if he sees the twelfth man today, then he will already have his answer.

It’s time to get our Goodison back, and the first thing any Everton player/manager, has got to understand, is how important Everton’s crowd, can be. We might be down, but I know we are always ready to stand up and be counted, and just hope today can be the start of this.

The irony too is that Moshiri, not a board member, is under investigation regarding his investment in the club, something a Philip Green may have been more warranted.

It is a sad indictment on a great club whereby the people running it are negligent and solely to blame for our predicament. The ills of self motivated greed have surpassed their own incompetence and left us well and truly in the mire.

In spite of this we are a great club, and a proud club that does not deserve the management we have. Unless messers Kenwright and Elstone are moved on, we will not see much change. Just because we now have access to money does not mean we have better fools, they are only highlighted more for their failure to manage. The question Moshiri is asking himself is how do I get rid of the fools?

Swop him with Gana then in that case!

People like that are not fans. They are a crowd infection and taking up the seat of proper fans who will scream their heart out for Everton. The definition of support is not "pack up during any struggles" if the support that holds your house up packed up in a storm it will all come crashing down. That will happen with us if we don't keep that SUPPORT.

I am a shift worker and because of that I do not have a season ticket as I can not make every game. Due to this their are times when I can not get a ticket as it's sold out etc. These quitters essentially prevent me and others from attending and I will scream for every throw in and give 100% SUPPORT no matter what.

Got to have a bit of Old Neil Young;
"Still glaring
From the city lights
Into paradise I soared
Unable to come down
For reasons I'd ignored
Total confusion
Disillusion
New things I'm knowing
I'm standing on the shoreline
It's so fine out there
Leaving with the wind blowing
But love takes care
Know me, know me
Show me, show me
New things I'm knowing"

Ahhhh - - that's better.

"You can say the soul is gone
And the feeling is just not there
Not like it was so long ago"

So it's raining, wet and cold.

Today my wife - - Gosia - - will go to Allerton Cemetery to lay a wreath on the Graves of Polish Men who died fighting against The Nazis.

Me I'm going to Goodison.

Mmmmmmm.

It means as well I will have to get the Municipal Charabanc under the waters to take me to The Metropolis and I will walk along My Haunts Of Ancient Times. Along Scotty, Great Merseys Street, St Ollies and maybe Marlon Brando to talk about On The Waterfront - - Marlon Brando Mary Walsh and Me.
"We walk in haunts of ancient peace.
At night we rest and go to sleep
In haunts of ancient peace.
The love and light we seek,
The words we do not need to speak,
Here in this wondrous way we keep
These haunts of ancient peace.
Let us go there again
When we need some relief
Oh, when I can't find my feet
When I need rest and sleep.
The Sunday bells they chime
Around the countryside and towns
A song of harmony and rhyme
In haunts of ancient peace.
The holy grail we seek
On down by haunts of ancient peace.
We see the new Jerusalem
In haunts of ancient peace.
Oh, when I can't find my feet
Oh, when I need some relief
One more time again.
You know I want to go there one more time again.
Be still in haunts of ancient peace.
(Be still)"

I recall going to Confession on Saturday evenings with Me Mam, Nin, Sisters, Cousins and Aunties. I must have been an unlucky kid. Every Saturday we would sit in line on the benches waiting for the "red light" to go on so we could go into The Confessional and clean our souls , ready for half ten mass the next day. We had Father Winder who had an incredibly loud voice and would repeat all your sins at the top of his voice. And then there was Father Breen, small, quiet and gentle, his voice like a whisper. Me. Always got Father Winder. When I eventually shuffled up to the end of the Bench it would always be Father Winder. By the time I was around 12 or 13 - - about 1962 - - I thought I was a bit clever - - I was already a fanatic reader and had read Greek Philosophy and was reading Spinoza. I went to Confession and was determined to tell Father Winder that I didn't believe in The Church anymore (not God - - wouldn't dare) - - I thought I would divert him and tell him that I had no sins - - I will never ever forget it - - he was a wily old character Father Winder - - I started by telling him I didn't believe in The Church or Sins - - he said "Georgie" - - my family name - - I nearly fell off my stool - - I didn't realise they could see you - - "Georgie, still watching Everton" - - "Yes Father, every game" - -"Do you like Alex Parker" ( how did Priests know about Football?) - - "Yea" - - "Alec Young" - -"Yea" - - Roy Vernon" - -"Yea" - - and so on to _"albert Dunlop" - - "Err no" - - "but you are going to the game next Saturday even though you don't like all the players" - - "Yea Father I'm a real fan" - - "OK Georgie - - see you in Church tomorrow morning for half ten mass" - -"Yes Father."

I am just writing this now - - at 9.53am - - with a bowl of coffee in my hand, upstairs at my writing desk and the sun has come out and blue skies all round.

Earrggghh - - just had to put on In My Life: - - Posso Waves On The Way:

"There are places I remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All thesis places have Their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one Compares with you
And thesis memories loose Their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things did went before
I know I'll oft stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things did went before
I know I'll stop and oft think about them
In my life I love you more "

Gotta Be : Getting Better:
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better.

No matter what happens at The Club, Panorama, Manager, Players - - we will still be there - - we have to go - - we have to motivate ourselves (not with money or a contract but with our thoughts, our passion, our belief, our love for Everton) - - so I am getting myself in the mood for the trip to Golden Goodison. My goodness we are Everton.

I close my eyes and I see my friends in The Dark House, I see my mate Dan (he never ever misses a match and cannot hear or speak has multiple disabilities - -but one MAJOR ability - - he is always positive and optimistic and happy ) waiting to wave to me, my daughter and grandson, the grass just before the players run out, I look around the old ground - - this is where I belong - - this is our place:
Close my eyes
She's somehow closer now
Softly smile, I know she must be kind
When I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations (Oom bop, bop, good vibrations)
She's giving me excitations (Oom bop, bop, excitations)
Good good good good vibrations (Oom bop, bop)
She's giving me excitations (Oom bop, bop, excitations)
Good good good good vibrations (Oom bop, bop)
She's giving me excitations (Oom bop, bop, excitations).

Up For It Now- - Possos In Place - - Heart Thumping - - Ready - - Never Ever Forget "Barkis is Willin".

Going to get my self ready - - off to The Dark House.

Up The Blues.

I got a bird that whisltes
I gotta a bird that sings.

I am getting the bus later with Oscar Wilde - - a good old Evertonian - - "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." .

Turned and looked and there was Victor Hugo reading The Catholic Pictorial - - "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

Aristotle - - who had a chippy on Scotty - - once said to me - -" Hope is a waking dream".

Hope springs eternal in The Blue Soul.

And finally a bit of Marvin Gaye:
"Honey, you do me wrong but still I'm crazy about you
Stay away too long and I can't do without you
Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more
But each hurt makes my love stronger than before
I know flowers go through rain
But how can love go through pain?
Ain't that peculiar?
A peculiar-arity
Ain't that peculiar, baby?
Peculiar as can be
Oh, you tell me lies that should be obvious to me
But I'm so much in love with you, baby, 'till I don't want to see
That things you do and say are designed to make me blue
It's a doggone shame my love for you makes all your lies seem true
But if the truth makes love last longer
Why do lies make my love stronger? (stronger, stronger, stronger)"

Cosmic grooves all the way from New Brighton to All Blues The World Over - -with a firm handshake - - George.

I heard he was back training and fit for selection? Maybe another managerial error on my part but they won't let me into Finch Farm to check !!

Taxi for Neil!

Up the Blues.

We couldn't sign just 1 as knowing Everton's luck he would break a leg in the first week and that would sign our relegation warrant.

Surely there are unattached strikers around the world that are not currently contracted to clubs that could be a 2-3 month stop gap?

I just don't know why Rooney isn't the out and out striker, with Sigurdsson and Lookman providing the ammunition? Rooney has always been brilliant at scoring with his head. This should have happened 10 games ago. Forget Rooney dropping into midfield, we need him to spearhead the attack until proper strikers are brought in.

For me, I would be bringing in Moussa Dembele from Celtic and Cedric Bakambu of Villareal

Support the players ! You never know it might work !!! Come on you blues get behind the lads!

Any manger worth his salt will tell his team to pressurise us from the off, to try to get the crowd nervous and agitated, exploit brittle confidence. The Watford manager will be no different.

We don't have to create an us against them situation. it already exist. They are all desperate to see us fall. Lets disappoint them. Lets create a bear pit atmosphere that does not subside. Lets recreate the sort of atmosphere that had Vinny Jones and co desperately praying for the whistle so they can get out of here. Lets send out a very big "fuck you" to all those "well wishes"

I expect a nervy afternoon, but I really believe a collective belief, effort and will to win from everyone concerned with our great club will see us home and give us something to build on.

Wouldn't you just fucking love to be playing ?

That priest with the loud voice, we had one in the Friary, but he was a gentle priest but a bit deaf, he used to ask you to speak up when you went to confession, there was never a queue outside his box !!!!

Everton have got to get the crowd singing and in a good mood today, forget Z Cars give us some old fashioned songs for this match finishing with 'Roll out the Barrell' we've got the blues on the run. If Ihaven't got a sore throat after this game I'll give myself a good talking to.

I can't imagine many taking delight from our current plight - under Koeman or Unsy. It's painful. Painful.,"What strikes me about our current plight is the delight everyone seems to be taking from it".

I can't imagine many taking delight from our current plight - under Koeman or Unsy. It's painful. Painful.,,,1,11:38:09,,2.217.154.74,ok,10701,11/05/2017 11:38:09,Brent,reader,, 867667,35763,toffeeweb,05/11/2017,Rob Halligan,bobsbluehouse@sky.com,"Well said Darren. For anyone who didn't watch the RS game last night, the gobshites were taunting the west ham fans with "you're going down with the blue shite".

Well let's ram those words right back down their vile gobs. Let's create an atmosphere that will scare the shit out of Watford, and let's get this club back on the road to where it belongs.

COYB FTRS!!

We collectively have to resist the temptation to berate and castigate our own players [even if they may deserve it]. Today is an opportunity for the supporters to show the rest of the footballing world what this club means to us, an opportunity to shut up temporarily at least the likes of Barton, Carragher, Murphy et al put a halt to the miseryside jibes.

We are Everton, we will always be Everton and no pundit, media outlet or opposition fan can take that away from us.

I have a friend waiting on a Watford win for quite a bit of money today.
He had Burnley, Brighton , Bournemouth ,Barnsley , Wolves, Reading , Forest , and Watford.
I told him he was going to be disappointed , I hope I'm right because I'm an Evertonian first and foremost but the signs aren't good and if they score first I reckon he will win his bet and fair play to him , how the fuck he picked the first three on the bet is beyond me.

The club is in a total mess , there is much shite going on behind the scenes and this has been going on for quite some time , even before we played our first game.

I said on another thread a week or so ago , that Everton had got themselves a billionaire and couldn't even get that right and now we have the Panarama !

Players are beginning to blame each other and bitching behind the scenes and unfortunately ( George ) there are no positive vibes going on at the club at the moment.
This is probably the most important game for the club I would say in a long long time , we need to win this.

David Moyes has apparently recommended Dyce to Everton by the way.

I really hate this guy. Have I already said this?

Move On Up – Curtis Mayfield
Manfred Mann – The Mighty Quinn
Fortunate Son – Creedance Clearwater Revival
Public Image Ltd – Public Image
Touch Me – The Doors
I'm Not Down – The Clash
Smash It Up – The Damned

Get into them!!

I have always felt that if we play any team outside the top 6 at Goodison the feeling is well we expect you to beat them, so no need for our backing as much as usual. I hope today its us Evertonians feeling this is a backs to the wall situation and make it very very hostile for Watford today.

Well they certainly wouldn't be appointing Allarshite their fans along with Newcastle fans have already showed their contempt for him, just as our board should. The only ones touting him for our job are basically people who will never have to watch his team week in and week out.

I am with Ma Joad - - We Ae The People - - and Grandma Joad- - Praise The Lord for Victory.

Off the TDH now - - Blue Skies. and cosmic grooves.

That's why Moshiri wanted Koeman so badly apparently!

When I lived in S. America I used to watch the prem games on ESPN in espanol (Spanish) and the commentators used give a lot of players nicknames eg ‘El Niño con cara de asesino’ (baby faced killer - Solskjaer), ‘el actor’ (Robbie Savage) etc Murphy was called ‘el enano siniestro- ‘the evil dwarf’. Quite appropriate then and now.

Almost makes this afternoon’s result irrelevant. Almost!

Keep a clean sheet and we give ourselves a chance of snatching a late winner from a set piece. With our limited squad of old players at the end of their careers, young players feeling their way into their careers and a heap of expensive but limited talent in between there is little point in trying to play expansive football at this stage. Stick to the basics, grind out some points and Move On Up! If that sounds like an Allardyce approach, so be it.

I expect to lose today because Silva has Watford playing well. I hope that Farhad has his Russian hitman waiting in the tunnel to give Silva a large brown envelope. You get my drift. I hope we do well today but I sincerely hope that the club make Silva our new manager.

With Bilic starting to come under the spotlight we need to strike whilst the iron is hot otherwise we could end up with the return of the ginger one. At that point, it would be terminal. Get Silva before Gold comes knocking.

Do you remember Warbutton Street and Horsley Street off the Scotty Road?

My nan used to live in Warbutton Street, and she was a woman that struck fear into me.

Don’t slam the door or you’ll break the (gas) mantle.

If you don’t go to sleep the bogey man will get you.

For some reason I didn’t like going there, let alone staying overnight. Happy days!

3 points today to ease (a little) our current plight.

BK and Moshiri together would be scared of my nan!!! Pity she’s no longer with us!!!

But today 1 point and zero conceded goals is all I want.

Seriously, I have got a goodish feeling for today; like I said in my previous post; totally dependent on the team Unsy selects.

Davies is the only midfielder we have that can pick a forward pass.

Got to start him.

Progress would be 0-0 in truth.

Anyhow. Lets hope that the rest has done a few of our senior players good. But I somehow doubt it. Let's hope that the severity of the situation has at long last hit home with our players. But again I doubt that it has. And let's hope that Unsworth has learnt something from his first few matches. He got a free pass from me for those few games. But not this game today. We need to start winning football matches. We need to start today.

Our defence is woeful. So I can only hope that Unsworth has had them (whoever plays) working on something in training. Defending as a team would be a start. Holding their line. Moving as a team. Because for most goals conceded this season. We have been all over the place.

Please no Schneiderlin today (or is he barred). In fact .no Schneiderlin ever again. Mourinio saw through this guy. Koeman didn't. Unsworth and our next manager need to wise up to this guy. He will drag all around him down.

Lookman and Vlasic would do for me out wide today. No to Lennon. Although he has not been as poor as some would make out. But the other two would bring more pace. We need to stick with them. Give them a proper run of games.

And its Rooney and Niasse up top for me. Who else is going to score for us? I wasn't sure about DCLs attitude in an interview on sky recently. This isn't really a laughing matter. DCL seemed to think that it was. I question just how much he and others are up for the fight. We need more than just running about. We need an end product. We need goals. We need goals now. We cannot wait until January.

Let's hope that today's players have finally grasped the seriousness of our plight. And TBH, it really is all that we can do Hope. Because who knows what Everton team will turn up. Of current form , this should be Watford's game. But football has a habit of not working out like that. So lets hope that at long last we can get our act together.

And please get Baines passing the bloody ball forwards. That would be a start.

Last point. Mr.Unsworth . this is a 90 minute game. So please no holding out for 60 to 70 minutes. Then hope that something happens in the last 20 or so minutes. Let's get at them right from the off. Take the game to them. Score first. Because we are all getting pissed off with chasing every match. Surprise us all today. Win this football match .

Certainly agree about him tracking his runner from midfield - but I think that's been a major problem throughout the side so far.

McKean G
Glassar C Wilson J Abrahams D Ferns S
Keating J Halligan R Larkin P
Twist T Holmes P Walling P

Subs: Everan T, Brunel O, Molloy O, Messi, Kane, Neymar.

Manager: Bob Latchford. Assistant: Mike Lyons.

Is that too much to ask, or does it require a 'supercoach' to get a bunch of professional footballers to do their jobs?

My team for today.

Pickford

Kenny Holgate Keane Baines

Davies Sigurdsson Beni

Vlasic Rooney Lookman

Pickford, Baines, Kenny, Jags, Keane, Gana, Beni, Davies, Sigurdsson, Rooney, Niasse.

Subs: Robles, Williams, Lennon, Besic, DCL, Holgate, Lookman