Bring me Roberto Martinez!

All have faults in their game, some more than others, but for better or worse they have been given a chance to claim a regular starting place.

And Tim and Ndiaye have pretty much established themselves already as team regulars.

Dixon, O'Brien and Mangala will also if they are given a run in the team.

We were utterly woeful and memories of those final weeks under Roberto are hard to shake. I could never have him back, as much as I loved the spirit he instilled in the team in his first season.

We are in enough shit so the guy who wouldn't practise corners is something we do not want right now.

The other name that keeps crossing my mind from our motley crew of coaches is Marco Silva.

He played a swashbuckling brand of football and Textor would have to pay to get him out of Fulham, yet he was more pragmatic than Martinez.

No.

Bobby Bullshit?? Nice one!

He respected the club (still does; never said a bad word against us) and gave us the best moment we've had in years… no, not beating Man Utd at Old Trafford, but the toe-to-toe mauling of Liverpool at Goodison which ended up 3-3. "Sin miedo" personified.

But he just didn't have the money to disinfect the club completely of Moyes types absolutely essential to maintain the impetus of Lukaku, Deulofeu, Barry and McCarthy.

Nonetheless, "never go back" applies to Bobby as much as it does any of our past managers. He was the right man at the wrong time; that ship has sailed – it's time to look elsewhere.

Bobby Bullshitter managed to take a very decent team and make it worse with each passing season. He even managed to do what Dyche did which was to toss a 2-0 lead away late on at Goodison and some of the football played in the latter stages was atrocious!

If the players hadn't openly ignored his instructions and reverted back to a style that suited them better, we'd have been relegated under Martinez.

Very good first season with a team that he inherited.

If we are to go back to a former manager then it should be Marco Silva; however, they do say that you should never go back.

We should stick with Dyche for the season, he will keep us up. Make a call on a new manager next June when someone like Potter would have time to implement his ideas during a full preseason.

If Dyche is removed now, we are looking at a David Moyes or a Big Sam solution as we must stay in the Premier League.

If only so I can sing Roberto's Blue Army again… haha.

I listened to Moyes talking about how he coined the phrase, "The People's Club" on a clip that I was sent earlier today, while he was in the studio with Timmy Cahill and Andy Gray, and to listen to him talk about his Everton squad, you would think they had won quite a few honours.

Lyndon's description of Martinez is a lot more like mine than Barry R's, although it was mostly a pleasure watching Everton during his first season. I'm not sure if Marco Silva is anywhere near pragmatic enough, Andrew, he was the manager who I personally believe was let down the most while in charge of Everton.

Barry has got a point because Martinez definitely needed backing more after his very good first season (even though we signed Lukaku on a permanent basis) but then I think of players like McGeady and Niasse… and then I have a completely different view.

I remember Philip Carter, the club was that skint, the fans were having a whip-round to help sign Terry Curran. I remember Peter Johnson losing a fortune gambling on cheesy-chips. I remember Kenwright playing thousands and splitting the fanbase. I can't wait to get rid of Moshiri, even though I'm very grateful for our new stadium.

I remember being a little boy and seeing Sir John Moores getting out of a big car outside the Players Entrance on Goodison Road, with a lovely big blue and white scarf around his shoulders, and more than anything I want a man like this!

(With those big-ass tires and a huge push bumper for clearing the streets of RS.)

The first 2 games were disastrous but, after that, in spite of having a weakened squad, the team has played good football, except for the defending which were mostly individual errors.

I can sense the team is clicking into gear and when we have Branthwaite, Broja, Chermiti, Patterson, Coleman, Mykolenko, Gana (and possibly, Dele Alli) back fit and we get the likes of Tarkowski and Garner fully fit, then I believe we have a very decent squad and I don't think we will be folding easily.

Dyche deserves to be given an opportunity to work with this squad because he is not a Dy-nosaur as being made out. Pragmatic, yes, but clueless ? I don't believe so.

If we really have to change a manager in the summer, I would keep an eye out for Aberdeen's Swedish manager - Jimmy Thelin:

Pressing, passing & elite coaching – Thelin's Aberdeen revolution

Dyche is very much a marmite character. Personally, I think he's a decent man, very knowledgeable about the game, and perfect for us at the time he came in with everything going on at the club. He was probably spun a yarn about the club but imagine his experience of working in football meant he knew the basket case of a football club we had become and he still took the job on. Bit like Frank Lampard. Why wouldn't they. Forget the financial incentives.

Both knew that Everton Football Club are a massive club and given the opportunity to manage the club they both jumped at it. The person who turns us around will be a hero. Villa took a while and now they have Unai Emery, a manager many on here derided. If he wins something there even better.

Whether Sean Dyche deserves to manage us is a different matter. We just to have to realise we are where we are at the moment and support him while he's with us. That's not to say I want him to stay long-term. The football has to improve but from what I can see from the limited highlights I have seen, the team has played some reasonably attractive footie or tried to, perhaps apart from the Southampton game, and if we had taken some chances, we may have been a bit further up the league. Surely, things will improve once the illnesses and injuries have abated.

Re blooding of players, as has been pointed out to you, quite a few new players have been blooded, but I agree with your "You aren't good enough to be a first-team player" comment in regards to sending out negative messages. The problem is that we all want instant impacts now. If a young player isn't up to speed straightaway, they stand a chance of being jettisoned. The days of giving a youngster a prolonged series of matches to get up to speed are long gone.

I''d take a 'Roberto Martinez' type of manager but one who knew the beauty of defending. Would we have enjoyed Arteta's Arsenal's 10 man second half backs to the wall performance that so nearly won them the game. And around 12% possession in the second half.

Martinez first season was great to watch and yes, his comments, mostly in the second season, did get laughed at. Clearly, he was struggling. A little like Sean Dyche is now which is the reason horvhis nonsense talk.

I agree again with your 'I'm simply saying a manager who talks his players up will always feel better to me.'

However, whilst your 2 examples of managers who did this, Mourinho and Ferguson, are valid, it's so much easier to talk players up when they are some of the world's best and in a successful team. Moyes never had a chance at Man Utd, the players never took to him. Admittedly, he probably did loads wrong as well.

I'm glad you didn't start with your Benitez comment. I would have ignored the rest of the article. :)

My only claims to fame are meeting George Wood outside the player entrance as a youngster and Andy Burnham at Euston on the way back from Goodison.

It looks this is going through so brighter times could be ahead.

Mike, a royal blue Mustang?

I did enjoy Roberto but felt he benefited massively on the years of defensive rigour Moyes had instilled; by the second season it fell apart.

I read a post a while back from a Burnley fanzine during Dyche's time there, the complaints about style of play, noise, favourites etc, could have been written last week… in fact they were. Nothing has changed and the same complaints about the same players.

Dyche was brought in to do a job he has done, admirably, but just because he has done it does not qualify him to take us forward. He bought us time and kept us alive but whether or not he can change or adapt to win games convincingly is a moot point. I am thankful he got the job but that job is done... Thank you for that. But now it's different.

Massi Alegri
Joachim Low
Graham Potter
Xavi

Xavi grabs my attention….

Danny, I met Georgie Wood, Asa Hartford and Eamonn O'Keefe in the Royal Oak on the East Lancs Roaad after a game once. George was great company and absolutely hated the RS.

Yes, they played nicer more entertaining football. He's never proved he can sustain a club long-term in the top half of the Premier League… or build a defence… or have a Plan B.

But he made a good living from one FA Cup shock win!