Former player Ashley Williams attempts to Hammer Everton

Up there with Beglin, Murphy and quite a few others these days.

All in all it was a bad move and was part of what has proven to be a period of poor transfer buys which is impacting Everton now.

What he's said, is in my view about Everton's aspirations. Arguably they have them but perhaps his tone is based on the monies spent and Everton are worst off in terms of finances and squad strength over 5½ years after Farhad Moshiri, era started.

Hopefully the reality and perspective of Everton's transfer market performance and arguably financial prudence, over this period will see better policy in the future.

But, hand on heart, most of us (myself included) live in hope eternal for Everton in all matters on and off the park.

But we shall see. A tough game on Sunday v Man City.

There were times when Everton won these games regularly. That's a long time ago now. But let's see which Everton turn up.

I deliberately did not open his column online so as not to give it viewing numbers. Petty I know but it is the disregard I feel for him and his like and what they have done to the club we love.

And in further defense of Williams the pundit, he's right. We are miles away from top four, and West Ham are clearly much better. They have built better and bought better than we have over the past couple of years. They are in Europe. We're not.

And there's nothing "misleading" about the comparison, Kevin. You're right, Everton are at the beginning of a new era, but Hammers are 2 years into theirs. We will catch up, hopefully sooner than later, but right now it is what it is.

But it's a squad game nowadays, and I do think they definitely have a better squad than us right now.

It's a position I suggest he adopts now.

This is the second article he has put his name to in the last couple of weeks criticising the club. Yes, I agree we're looking pretty awful right now, but if he can't come up with any inciteful reason behind the mess or some pointer towards improvement then he should keep his nose out of it.

He is a symptom of our decline and not a victim of it. If the BBC want someone to talk about the club from a seasoned Evertonian then they should ask Osman. Wheeling out this idiot and loosely branding him as a former blue is insulting. I'd rather read something about us from an even bigger tit like Jim Beglin. At least when he sneers at us you know it's because he simply hates us.

October 28:

“Their problems started with the Achilles heel – the inability to defend a corner. There was so much panic and it was so un-Rafa like. He's got to change things quickly and ensure that they're more robust without the ball and the players need to step up too because some of them have been all over the place for a while.”

Leon Osman savages Everton; picks out ‘Achilles Heel'

Coming from Osman makes it palatable for me. Rightly or wrongly, I think his heart is in the right place when it comes to us.

With Williams, it feels more vindictive. If he was commenting on Wales or Swansea, then I feel his words would carry more weight.

West Ham Utd were the better team the other week and deserved to win but there wasn't a massive difference between the teams. In fact, if Everton and West Ham had swopped one player from each side to the other, Everton would have swamped West Ham.

Bowen going on the wing for Everton and Iwobi going on the wing for West Ham: Bowen was in probably every move West Ham made going forward and Iwobi did very little for Everton.

Delph has to stay fit. And we have to get Calvert-Lewin back asap. Mina too please as we currently lack height to defend set-pieces.

No, it's not our current manager's fault for the squad and FFP problems. Moyes certainly got a lot more for his £70M net spend than we have for our net £250M (ish).

Time will tell on Benitez but, for my money, he hasn't filled me with a great deal of confidence. Let's see where we are at Christmas.

If it doesn't work out for Benitez, then fair enough – but very harsh to judge him right now given spending so far and injuries to our few top players.

I'm annoyed with him over Rondon though – it felt wrong to bring him back to the Premier League and it's another wage drain if he doesn't add anything. Probably the biggest stick to beat him with right now.

But given Moyes's record for collapse under pressure, I don't think any serious student of footy considers The Hammers as genuine competitors – more like this season's flash in the pan... there's always one.

Anyone who knows anything about media will understand that the desired impression was to connect Benitez with the quote. I'll return to this point in a moment.

When I read the gibberings of our former 'player' (I just wonder what Dixie Dean, Alan Ball and even Graeme Sharp would have said to him if they had ever had the misfortune of being on the same team as him), I soon realised that this was stultifyingly ill-informed vomit of nonsense from an ex-'Evertonian' with a jaundiced view of his time in a blue shirt.

What is more sinister is that the BBC do not seem to be able to mention Benitez as Everton manager without stressing the dissatisfaction felt by Everton supporters at his appointment.

I have seen enough, heard enough and feel enough to surmise that Benitez is trying to shake things up. And about time. Certainly there will bumps in the road ahead – and I echo the sentiments about Rondon, but I will give him a chance – and there will be times when Benitez's appointment will be questioned. But the BBC pundits and correspondents are determined to see Benitez and Everton part company.

Now, there will be the usual chorus of 'conspiracy theory' to my assertions, and the inevitable debate about the BBC's bias towards the filth, but I can only call it how I see it.

I think the filth, their supporters, and the red-tinted media are perhaps a little concerned that there might be a little bit of them now inside Goodison. And they don't like it. And they fear it.

When Newcastle were taken over recently, the BBC were falling over themselves to shoehorn Benitez into the job. Sure, they can live with Benitez at St James' Park, but Goodison... that's too close for comfort.

I loathe the BBC Football department(?) from Eddie Hemmings to Brian Barwick and beyond they have done their best to skew reporting on the filth for generations. Can you remember 1987? We had just won the league. Within weeks of the filth signing Barnes and Beardsley, the BBC (and only the BBC) had christened their new line-up as the 'Team of the Century' and they hadn't even kicked a ball. Can you name that team?

Surely the team of the century will trip off your tongue... No, they were scared. They had put up with us winning in 1985, but 1987 as well... that wasn't in the script. So, they started to steer their own narrative to re-install the filth 'back where they belong'. Lord Reith would be turning in his grave. Impartial? Nonsense.

And Ashley Williams just did another little bit of 'their' bidding. Idiot.

Well said, sir!

On the Sports side, the only one I don't mind is McNulty. I don't always agree with him, but he rarely speculates and is normally accurate. I always tend to take notice when he posts something as it is likely to happen.

The media are doing everything they can to cause a rift between our manager and the fans With the derby on the horizon, watch it ramp up even more... they will throw Benitez into the mix, Captain Virgil... they are going to hit us with everything, mate.

Disregard Everton having the likes of Pickford, Godfrey, Digne, Doucouré, Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin missing for games this season, the media are oblivious to all those. But, sweet Jesus, when Virgil was missing, they never let up about how just one player cost them the league last season, how unlucky they were to have a player missing, yet we have had a good 4 top-notch players out at the same time most of this season, but the media ignore that and instead try cause a rift with the manager and supporters.

I cannot see what else Benetiz can do, with the hand he has been dealt. He's been unlucky on the injury front and had a lack of funds last summer.

The only pundit who I have time for who seems to at times defend us is Ian Wright.

We get better and it mostly goes away. We don't – then we're fair game. But you'll always get the institutionalized rs thing by virtue of being anti-blue... or is it the other way round?

And let's be honest, to my knowledge, he's new on the pundit panel, so he's doing it for effect. He has to get his name out there, so use something that will do that.

And let's be double honest. He didn't write that. A few BBC PR/Publishing folks will have interviewed him and then put the words together with his name on it. He won't have "written" those words, just given a vocal opinion that's been turned into an article. Still his view though, but no doubt twisted for effect.

I too wait to see how Moyes handles this. Has he finally found his place and broken his ability to break down when the spotlight is on and the expectation is there? Let's see. He has the platform and has the team. And they are doing very well if they can maintain the momentum.

Will this finally be the moment he breaks his glass ceiling and stops being football's nearly man? Finally puts the debacle of a career he's had since leaving Everton behind him?

As for Ashley Williams and his comments... they were about as good as his football.

All that bull about leadership was proven wrong with his inept performances. Now he's an expert in the sport of football? I don't think so.

Yes, we deserve criticism, but the millions we paid him, he should have more respect.

My heart sinks when he appears on TV. He's not as annoying as Micah Richards, but he's so fucking dull.