Allardyce pleased with first win

Enable a successful raid on Mordor with a winning plan and love will abound! COYB.

Will that next win be at Anfield though? Unfortunately not. At least the league table looks more respectable this morning.

Altogether now, "We found love in a hopeless place."

A good win and another couple of goals to help confidence and get us up the table. We have to keep chipping at that –9 GD.

Onwards and upwards. COYB.

This is an area he has to do the convincing in if he is to persuade me he is not here for a re-run of the movies he's made before at Palace, Sunderland etc.

If he hauls in his usual brigade of rescue heroes, then I think we have every right to be irked. He must break with the short-termism his tenures are associated with. These type of signings offer no more than a sticking plaster.

Can he do that? We are not his usual rescue basket case; we are our own special brand of craziness. He should already be looking up not down.

We are desperate for a left back, centre-forward & centre-back in the window. So Everton's aim should not waiver, regardless of manager or position.

Granted the January window is difficult but Everton must get three quality players in.

You are exactly right, we must bring in a goal scorer, left-back and a centre-back if we have any chance of improving as a team.

The jury is still out on Allardyce, and should be for quite a while, but I will say, it's a nice change to actually hear the manager explain his tactics and make some sense.

There are some really poor teams in the Premier League this season, and that alone will probably see us safe, but that's surely not what we want to settle for...

Over to the owner and the board to step up. I live in hope.

Lukaku wasn't my idea of a grafter but he had an obvious presence, speed and power when he chose to use it, thus keeping our opponents wary of taking too high a defensive line. That's not the case this season, and I mean no criticism by that of any of the tyros we've played up front. It ain't their fault at all.

If and when we sign what Koeman wanted we should see a distinct improvement all over the pitch. If we don't I don't think even Howie Mk 1 could challenge for a European place.

If he choses to bring in those you mention then he will deserve all the criticism in the world. He cannot use the window as an excuse not to find the quality we need.

If he is to shake is own self made image then this is a point that cannot be brooked. He must find quality, not journeyman who clutter the squad and suck up wages.

I can't think of any Club prepared to offload their best strikers, left backs and central defenders mid season.

He might get a few overpriced average players in but I doubt there'll be any top class additions until the end of the season, unfortunately.

To date that, erm, that ain't going to plan. You rightly point out that the World Cup is an aid to us to find players hungry to get on their national team.

Full back; Betrand, Chilwell or Shaw.

Centre-forward still Giroud – I really can't think of any other – not getting any game time at Arsenal. Last World Cup?

Still a big fan of Vardy. Hard target but deffo worth a look at.

Sam will raise his sights because he will have a bigger budget and higher expectations of him.

This guy is a natural leader and will know what he needs to do.

That centre-forward you talk about is Calvert-Lewin – apart from the "hard-case" bit.