Dyche's Everton humbled again in the Capital

Absolutely awful but as safe as houses by virtue of no-one being in charge of the club and no money to pay him off.

The positives and cause for hope for me were Dixon at right-back, and Armstrong towards the end. I'd also expect more in the future from Ndiaye and Lindstrøm.

With Branthwaite and Garner coming back, and O'Brien surely with a future, dare I hope?

The truth is that Dyche's record at Everton is not better and in one or two instances, significantly worse than the posse of managers who have come and gone since Moyes left.

However, his record at Everton matches almost perfectly his own career record, losing more often than he wins and winning on average only about 1 in 3 or 4 matches.

It does not seem to occur to him that this is his team selection, his tactics, his training regimen producing these results and that perhaps he may be doing something wrong.

I think that, if Textor comes in, Dyche's feet won't touch the floor on the way out… and will anyone really miss him?

Onana said that he enjoys playing for Unai Emery because he will help improve his game. Can you imagine anyone other than a centre-half saying that about Dyche? I can't.

We need a seasoned coach who will guide players to producing their best.

Put in the new players before they get ruined by whatever it is Dyche does in practice.

Gana
Sigurdsson
Richarlison
Bernard
Rodriguez
Digne
Gordon
Gray
Townsend

McNeil
Harrison
Garner
Iroegbunman
Doucoure
Ndiaye
Lindstrom
Calvert-Lewin
Beto
Chermiti

Can we see it?

The three groups of players that have been the core of the club since 2014?

In 10 years we've gradually reduced the quality we've been serving up, much like the food quality at a restaurant, if the quality of product keeps reducing over time then the institution will close down and cease to do business.

Reality in the fact it's 7 conceded in 2 games,is a tough pill to take, but today was a tough fixture.

Hopefully v Doncaster, this can be a moral booster for what is a massive 3 points v Bournemouth.

Possibly a little unfair to blame our problems on the Cherries. Although two-up at half-time 28 Novermber 2015, via Funes Mori and Lukaku and late in the game, we thought we'd won 3-2, only to concede an even later equaliser, a 98th-minute goal by Stanislas.

The team that day:
Howard, Coleman, Stones, Funes Mori, Galloway, McCarthy (Cleverley), Barry, Deulofeu (Lennon), Barkley, Kone (Gibson) and Lukaku.

I'm insisting that the Bournemouth game was a major turning point in our history and we haven't been the same since.

His results are two defeats from two games. He literally couldn't have had two worse results. Given that we now know his team selections have returned those results, we can definitely say that a team featuring O'Brien, Ndiaye and Lindstrøm could not have possibly done any worse.

He keeps referencing ‘experience' as reasons to select poor players. They are experienced — experienced losers.

If the recruitment of these new players was done without his agreement and this is his way of trying to prove some kind of point, then it will cost him his job I'm afraid.

The fact he is insistent that Michael Keane is a Premier League player tells me he can't pick a player. In fact, throughout his managerial career, I cannot think of many players he's ever managed that have gone on to any kind of top level. Trippier maybe, and he didn't buy him, Eddie Howe did.

When Branthwaite and the others come back from injury, they will improve but it's time to banish some of these players to the reserves and offload them. When you shop in the bargain basement, you normally get inferior cast-offs. I feel sorry for the club but the owner has really destroyed it.

The only vague positive is that he chose Dixon over Holgate. Otherwise, it's just another piece of evidence that the doom boys might actually be right this time.

It's our experienced players that are the problem... so bollock them all... privately, eh, Sean.

Midfield was anonymous, Calvert-Lewin isolated up front; we looked marginally better when the subs came on. Not panicking yet but we're gonna have to do a whole lot better than that woeful display.

And congrats to our right-back for his senior debut.

I am quite moody after the game here in Lagos, Nigeria.
Very, very unfortunate.

Yeah, I forgot that, thought the lad did well.

What a right infuriating ginger twat! But I do think he'll keep us up and have confidence in him! I'm so torn!!!…

Pickford is a shithouse and is around 30% of our problem. He's not as good as everyone thinks. He took Sunderland down and almost took us down 3 times. England bail him out because it's a team of superstars and he's the teacher's pet.

I want a 6'-6” cool bastard who comes for crosses all day… Bin Jordan now while his stock is [somehow] still high.

We are at home to Bournemouth next week; do your job, get your team selection and tactics right instead of "woe is me".

How exactly are we going to ‘bin' Jordan? Who will replace him?

I'll be interested to hear from those there if there was anything to take from it.

Or we sign Ramsdale.

As if!

The last two results are a mere consequence of the owner/boardroom organised demise of our great club.

It's been going on for decades but it's now getting worse by the day, and hope therefore diminishes accordingly, both within and without the club.

I heard today that Everton haven't won a game in any of the last three Augusts. Sounds about right.

Dyche was in post for just the last of them.

Before him, under Moshiri and his very own much-trusted Kenwright, we had Lampard, Benitez, Ancelotti, Silva and Koeman through the various Augusts - results perishing from a very bog-standard start.

So, we're very, very skint under Moshiri, and will be for years to come even after he buggers off, given the antics of him and his trusted one.

But let's all bollock the admittedly massively hampered manager eh....... like it's all his fault?

Nah!

Pickford kept us in the Premier League for the past 3 years

There's a lot of bullshit posted about Jordan Pickford. His mistake yesterday was unfortunate. But it was just that: a mistake.

Jordan Pickford, more than anybody else, has kept Everton a Premier League football club since 2021. Some of the abuse he received on here, while it's stuff he'll never read, was unacceptable. It smacked of ingratitude and stupidity. Do better.

And he's mental — always pointing at his own head and saying things to our defenders that seem to be inaudible as he's mostly just talking to himself…

All opinions; I value everyone else's too. I just don't think he's as good as it all seems, that's all… and he's a wool with a twatty haircut! 🤷🏻‍♂️

There's a lot of truth that the off-field shenanigans are having a major adverse effect on the footballing aspect at the club, but it is the manager's job to navigate a way through that. I know the Premier League is tough, and that Everton are currently one of the poorer teams in the league, but that doesn't mean we should just accept our apparent fate.

The fans didn't put all of their energy into the last two or three survival seasons to see the team disintegrate before their eyes and watch on as the boss moans and groans about lack of money, lack of support from the fans etc. He should take a leaf out of Lampard's book in ensuring that the fans stay onside and he could do that if he wanted to.

In Dyche's recent utterances, I'm not sure whether he's blaming people within the club or whether he believes the fans are being unrealistic in their expectations. I don't know any Evertonian in person or on forums such as this, who expects us to make Europe anytime soon, in fact most of us would snap your hands off if we could guarantee finishing anywhere outside of the Bottom 3.

We are also aware that failing to create chances in too many games will make the season a long and arduous one. The current defensive frailties can be fixed, if and when the injuries to important players subside.

I don't know where Dyche is getting the idea that the club and its fans aren't humble enough for his liking, but just because we're not a small town club like Burnley doesn't mean we as supporters aren't very aware of what we are and where we are.

But he was already loaded and almost certainly will be again, as is the case with just about every Premier League player, manager and coach — accomplished or not.

It therefore stands to reason that, if or when Dyche gets the boot, the only candidates to replace him will be spent forces once again seized upon by Moshiri as a genuine saviour to his exorbitant losses and fatuous attempt to somehow add value to the financial crock of shit he's delivered in spades to himself and every Toffee for years and years to come.

Dyche and other football "professionals" just won't lose. That's our role, of course.

The only thing to take from that game was the debut of Roman Dixon, who I thought had an excellent game. Some of his tackling was first class and, although he gave the ball away once or twice, he did as well as could be expected for his first game. I'm sure he will be an able stand-in right-back, and who knows, make the position his own?

Other than that, well the least said the better. An absolute brain-stormer from Pickford just about summed up the afternoon. Why on earth let the ball run across him, knowing full well he was being closed down by Son? Clear the ball first time, for fuck's sake!

And then McNeil, as soon as he fucked up in the centre of the field, you just knew from the breakaway they would score. Cue a mass exodus of blues fans, us included, and it's very rare that I would leave a game before the end.

But how much can we take? There was no threat up front whatsoever. We had a mini spell of pressure, forcing about three or four corners on the bounce, which ultimately led to nothing. Calvert-Lewin yet again on his lonesome up front.

Doucoure might as well have come and sat with us in the stands, because he was totally innocuous all match. Gueye and Iroegbunam showed plenty of effort, and overall were probably our best players.

So a disappointing performance led to a lengthy journey home. A right cock-up with the trains led to some cancellations and / or delays out of Euston. All because of bloody cows on the lines!! Our train was delayed nearly an hour, and then seemed to take its time heading north. I eventually got home just after midnight.

I said after last Saturday, that we can't be having too many performances like that, and I will say it again, we definitely cannot have any more performances like today.

Only two games in, and I'm hearing that Paddy Power are already paying out on anyone who's backed us to go down. So come on Everton, make Paddy Power lose an absolute fortune in payouts and prove him wrong!

On top of that, we have a manager whose recent experience points to a perpetual state of teetering on the edge of survival, reflected most notably in his tactical style. No wonder the quality players that remain want to abandon ship.

I agree with Don @23. The appalling decision-making of Moshiri at every level has brought this club to its knees. Players and players' agents watch games and read the newspapers. Why would you want to come to a club that is in a hopeless mess?

Don't get me wrong. Only in a Football context. Negative, Clueless. Outdated Shit-bag.

Burnley were the Pits of the Earth. No surprise that we are.

But today was all wrong, we're not done after just two games in. Finished? I ain't listening to that…

These inadequate players and their rapacious agents have for years come to us in droves precisely because they correctly identified Kenwright as the knob he always was, but newly endowed with a dickhead fortune from Moshiri and his string-puller since 2016.

Inadequate and rapacious people couldn't believe their luck. They signed in droves and then sat back with their mega-contracts providing them with a dream world without the sweat of actual performance on the pitch, and who can blame them?

The training ground made it crystal clear to these inadequates that every one but them, in their own opulently well-off mind, was inadequate — so what was the point of trying and risking mega-wealthy career-ending injury in favour of such a forlorn cause as Everton?

Many of us realised it at the time but even now, after getting rid of tons of what we all term "deadwood", we're still swamped as a club by even more deadwood. We've long been sussed as a decades-long soft touch by the real sharks running successful clubs.

If you didn't know better, you'd think those allegedly in charge of our beloved club have for decades been the very personification of inept-to-a-mega-extent (caveat - but with only one decades-responsible shyster having become more than very wealthy as a direct result of Moshiri's gross ineptitude, at our continuing expense).

Dyche and Thelwell have a mountain to climb to avoid relegation before we move into a state-of-the-art but never-to-be-owned-by-the-club stadium.

In short, courtesy of Kenwright, his controllers, and Moshiri and his controller, we're fucked for years to come in terms of trophy-winning, and everyone in high-end football has long since realised that.

It's just more than sad that Moshiri is not among their number — and Kenwright never was either.

Respect mate. If you are feeling like that then we should all be worried. Is it any surprise that the members of the 3,000 on here are among our most loyal, reasoned, and must-read posters.

And at the other end of the spectrum we have the deeply thoughtful and articulate remarks of Sean Kearns:

"Pickford is a shithouse and is around 30% of our problem … Begovic will do for me… or we sign Ramsdale … and he's [JP] a wool with a twatty haircut 🤷🏻‍♂️".

Ramsdale, who has a bigger reputation than Jordan for brain-farts like the one we saw yesterday!

"Shithouse ... wool ... twatty haircut".

Admittedly, we are dealing with a very high and deep level of analysis here that covers all the main points.

And you think Jordan is an under-performing joke shithouse Sean?

You are so right about that.

There's not another club in the Premier League that would allow players like we have over the years hang around stealing a wage for so long.

We put trust in players that were finished years ago primarily because we have become like a sentimental charity.

It's little wonder really that we are where we are in this present day.

So, in your weird world he was 0-0 today.

We are only two games in… have only one point less than we could have realistically expected… have scored one less goal than we could have realistically expected.

We are not doomed… we are a struggling Premier League club.

While I generally agree with most of your posts, especially denigrating the Maggot and the long-lasting damage he has imposed on the club he purportedly 'loved', I do lay some culpability with Dyche's team selection.

Doucoure has been a passenger for as long as I remember — pops up every now and then with a conveniently important goal, then morphs back into 'Gravy Train Stowaway'.

Harrison will run all day like a Duracell Bunny on 'speed' without producing much at all. It beggars belief why we re-activated his loan, and not cheaply either.

Keane, well past it, that is if he ever had it in the first place, and well guilty of a potential mistake in every match, should only be used in emergencies, till he is no longer sapping our wage bill.

With the exception of Harrison, Dyche has had no say whatsoever in the signing or acquisition of these players, yet is wheeling them out. Okay, we are very thin as a squad, but it's not as if we had no alternatives.

Young Roman Dixon proved that giving youth a chance in desperate situations can and does pay off, even when on the losing side.

O'Brien for Keane (unused sub) Lindstrøm for Harrison, although introduced when the death sentence had been passed. Ndiaye for Doucoure, again introduced when even Harry Potter couldn't have changed the outcome!

These are all simple questions/observations levelled at Dyche, plus throw in his timing of subs, who admittedly has been sold a crock of shit and given no support from that greedy Anglo-Iranian dodgy dealer, who, like The Maggot was, is only interested in what's in it for him.

The club and team is secondary to that mercenary despicable character. So, while many of us share some sympathy for Dyche, he is totally to blame for his first two team selections, when although limited, did have other, and better options available.

But as has always been the case over the last few years, they will come to Goodison on a mission to pile pressure on our fans and players.

The only hope is that home vs Bournemouth is more of a Dyche type of fixture, clearly now he's out of his depth against top 10 teams (stretching to top 15 likely).

We have just lost badly, really need some evidence of hope on Tuesday.

We "have only one point less than we could have realistically expected…… have scored one less goal than we could have realistically expected".

I empathise in that we want to stay calm and have hope but that one-point one-goal comedy routine is not the way to do it.

With those expectations we might kick off at the Dock against Oxford United.

How low will we go to try to be sunny?

Appreciate the effort mate, but ....

The one that still gets me was signing Jonas Lossl as third-choice keeper. His wage went from £15k to £37k a week and the only time he set foot on the pitch was for the warm-up.

That was another Brands signing.

It's not the result that is worrying at this stage of the season, it's the lack of chances being created.

This time last season, we were creating loads of half chances and not taking them; this season, we aren't creating anything which is a massive worry.

Doucoure is a passenger which is a big worry as the system is built around him and his energy.

Glad to see Dixon getting a game instead of Holgate and Armstrong getting a few minutes.

We will look better when Branthwaite and Garner come back into the team.

But come Saturday against Bournemouth, it'll be the same old story: his mates will be brought back in.

I've just watched his presser after the match yesterday and while he was right that Spurs have invested heavily, does that mean, Dixon apart, we have to stand off them and admire them?

No it doesn't, throw some tasty tackles in and let them know they're in a game. No, we do the opposite.

I just hope to god the club is looking at an alternative to Dyche, and please not Moyes (been there, done that) because this fella will sack himself with his stubbornness.

Jack Harrison was a relatively competent player under Bielsa at Leeds, I believe he once scored a hat-trick at West Ham in 2021 and I always recall him being a player along with Luke Ayling that I liked the look of.

It's the kind of signing that used to work out well under Moyes and you'd be thinking "That was a canny move, that was" but nowadays it just all has the same feeling to it.

"Dominic Calvert-Lewin toiled fruitlessly up front with precious little service."

Does anyone think Dom toiled in the Spurs game? Apart from Dixon, did any Everton player toil?

After only two games, we are already at the stage of saying the next Premier League game is a must-win. Anything less than a win against Bournemouth and we really are in trouble.

Dinosaur Dyche and his Neolithic game plans are definitely on the verge of extinction. Sack him now, no, but surely even he must realise that he has to change his ideas or he will be replaced.

Paul Ferry is right, with his "How low will we go to try to be sunny" remark.

Normally, I think you know what, all we need is... When such and such are back we'll be fine.. when we get a bit of luck all will be well... Once we start taking our chances etc.

Well, we're not unlucky, we're not missing chances. We are fundamentally a collection of very average players totally shot of inspiration and confidence.

Danny, if you read this, get your report in and somehow find a silver lining!!

Dyche should come out and be honest if he does not believe he can keep us in the Premier League.

If he feels that both the club and the fans are not allowing him (in terms of resources and space) to do his job, then he should be upfront about it and step aside for someone who is willing to accept the circumstances and challenges.

Him, Holgate, Keane, Doucoure are going to pick up around £70M or so, for the worst standard of football this once great club has ever seen.

A perfect marriage of poor leadership at the top, poor recruitment at the middle, and poor players at the bottom.

For most, the new stadium offers some hope that better days may be ahead. Without that, I am not sure where we will have all been.

Realistically, progress is years away, and will depend on sound management from the top.

Personally, I would not blame any player who wanted to move on as everything is against the club developing.

There are no other really shite teams in the Premier League this season. There aren't three teams worse than Everton.
There is no money.

Branthwaite and Calvert-Lewin will be sold… but the club is unsellable.

Paddy Power already paid out on Everton being relegated. I know that's a publicity stunt but that's where this is heading.

The same as last season — all our players look unfit compared to other teams. How is this the case when Dyche clearly does not work on passing and tactics?

It provides laughter and entertainment value — especially for fans of other clubs.

And his excuse? "Give the lad a rest" — I'd put my house on it.

Pickford's car crash dawdling, gifting their second, killed the game.

Spurs aren't fantastic, Leicester showed that, when you get amongst them, then they look very ordinary. But they have good players who, given the freedom of the park, will look good, and they have good attacking options.

So why subservient, why sit back and let this happen?

In part it comes from Dyche's set-up, the defensive "sit back and soak it up" set-up we have deployed under his tenure. Works occasionally when defence is solid. With Keane etc, it isn't. It's an inevitable loss waiting to happen.

In part, it's confidence, lack of, that plunges further when we go behind. In part, it's the lack of quality we have such that we can't seem to impose ourselves on other teams.

This subservience that Dyche refers to, but speaks as if he has no part in it, is the bad habit we need to break. Play further up the pitch, upset teams through hard work and tenacity, but be built on sound defence.

A few draws/ wins will breed success. Subservience needs to be replaced, and Dyche needs to understand that he is the one to take the lead… he is not an observer.

What do Harrison and McNeil offer us on the wings? They spend most of their time defensively helping our full-backs, and Calvert-Lewin is totally isolated.

Dyche can forget about Plan A, play 4-3-3, and bench Doucouré and Harrison.

I'm not Calvert-Lewin's biggest fan but it must be horrific playing upfront for Dyche's Everton, especially with the 3 numpties behind him supplying nothing. We don't have full-backs overlapping or wingers getting to the byline and getting crosses in.

It's all small margins, hoping for a set piece and trying to keep a clean sheet. It's so frustrating to watch, and as for his interviews with the press, I honestly must watch a different game to the one he's seen.

Besides the derby, I've hated watching Dyche's Everton, and I can't wait til we move on from him,

Does anyone think Sean Dyche, given his career at Watford and Burnley, is either of those? Of course not.

Nothing will change until he goes. In 10 years, he will still be managing teams in the bottom third of the table or the Championship. It is who he is.

Villa did it the right way.

Sacked Gerrard who was a disaster and appointed one of Europe's finest managers in Unai Emery, then gave him backing to buy seriously good players.

We sacked Lampard, appointed Dyche who had in his previous season won 4 games between August and April with Burnley.

It's why I say at Everton we are always happy with the status quo.

Defence: We have two decent centre-backs. One is out injured, the other is playing injured.

For some reason (and I do begrudge Sean Dyche for this), we are choosing to play Michael Keane rather than Jake O'Brien. I'm choosing to believe that like last season, he will soon learn his mistake and Michael Keane will be banished back to the shadow realm.

We have one left-back, who has been pretty much injured since the derby. We have one young right-back, who has through circumstance, shown he may be worth a damn. We then have two pensioners who we're retaining because we're too fucking poor to buy anybody else.

Midfield: McNeil has been poor for a year. But there's nobody else, other than Harrison (play Harrison on his left foot, Sean, please).

Our middle options are compromised right now. Tim Iroegbunam has been fantastic, and Gana has been Gana. Garner is out injured.

Doucoure persists in being used as a No 10 (Why, Sean?), when he's been shit since his return, and he should be used as a No 8.

Harrison and Lindstrøm are our wide-right options (with reports of Lindstrom not setting the world alight in the U21s).

Attack: look at Calvert-Lewin against Liverpool. Then look at Calvert-Lewin against Brighton and Tottenham. Look at his output, and his body language. The man is checked out.

If we had any money to replace him, or sense, we'd ship him out. He no longer cares, he's not producing, and we should look to the future.

Beto is still Beto, and if we're lucky, we may be able to trade for a more suitable replacement. Chermiti showed promise at the back end of the season, and then in the summer. Naturally, because ours is a cursed club, he was injured before the start of the season.

Where is Dele? He was training 2 months ago..

It will be interesting to see how they perform against lowly Doncaster who gave us a good game last time out. I don't expect much. Maybe Calvert-Lewin will wake up and realise he is in the shop window. Why is he playing at all? Waste of space.

Lovely new facilities await in the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock. None of our existing bunch are worthy of going there but, next season, our Championship rivals will be thrilled to play there and they will probably up their game as a result. More losses then.

Rant over… but I am truly brassed off with football.

Dyche has to change formation and team selection- there has to be consequences for playing badly. But there is a long way to go.

Virginia
Dixon
Tarkowski (1st half)
O'Brien
Mykolenko
Lindstrøm
Iroegbunam
Harrison (he ain't no winger!)
McNeil
Ndiaye
Beto

And we win... don't fuck it up, Dyche... give us all something to cheer!

But 22 shots faced, 7 conceded. One in three shots are going in.

Jack Harrison: 12 touches, and completed 50% of his passes.

Tim Iroegbunam: 22 touches.

Calvert-Lewin has not registered a shot on target in two games.

Beto had 3 touches in 18 minutes… Just embarrassing.

Doucoure 13 touches.

I haven't so far joined the mass calling for him to put out a positive side who will go out to win and compete but we must start doing so before it is too late.

We live in hope but I'm not hopeful. The players need some direction from the manager or else they will continue in their couldn't care less approach. The longer Dyche persists with his current ways, the more difficult it will be to get them thinking and playing winning football, ie, properly!.

Any wonder I am brassed off with it as Dyche doesn't change? He has proved it over and over again.

A good summary of the season so far and why we are bottom. Not looking as though that is going to change any time soon, based on your summary, either.

Depressing isn't it?

Dixon has Seamus and Baines to guide him, so hopefully is the first choice right back. Some small mistakes can be coached quickly. His positioning is good and he's got the instinct of when to go close which Young gets wrong a lot of times. Young has probably the worst tackle in the penalty area I can remember seeing when at right back. Seems better at left back for some reason though.

By next summer should be no more Keane and Doucoure who I think can't contribute to this team, in a team that wants to move up the league and get at least mid-table. With Keane it's low-block only or get done. With Doucoure it's 50/50 if the ball sticks up front and shots on goals are a rarity these days. No more Harrison next season as he can't fly down the wing and becoming less effective as all Premier League players seem to be getting marginally quicker again.

I think Lindstrom, Ndiaye, Tim I, Dixon, O'Brien(?) and Armstrong will get much more game time as they keep showing up the favourites with better pace, ball control, and decent passing. The manager will have no choice but to play them and the team then evolves in a team that plays more on the floor in the oppositions half. That's the hope I see. If the team is losing he has to play the subs earlier to rescue games. Over time this will mean the subs are better players and he has no way back after a few times of this reactive substitutions because everyone will see some of the subs are already better and need to start. Just like Dixon proved over Young at right back. That's how I see it anyways.

None of Europe's finest managers were ever coming to Everton and, if they somehow did, there was no money for them to buy "seriously good players".

>Not one of us is happy with the status quo, not a single one. So, what's your point?

Being honest Everton unfortunatey have seen a slow demise in the Premier League. Kenwright's involvement was the worst thing to happen to the club along with Heysel certainly since the war. The football in the last 30-odd years has mainly been dire, low scoring with no silverware apart from Big Joe in 1995.

The limited stuck-in-his-ways Sean Dyche I don't feel will manage to turn this around. He did stabilise Burnley for a few seasons but there were also two relegations. A 31-year-oid manager got the better of him last week and beat Man Utd yesterday. Sean is being left behind.

I'm rambling I know, but as we all know Everton takes the stuffing out of you.

Now's the time to be brave and let the best man win for each position in the team as the new lads look ready.

Would another manager (better — not saying Pep, just someone with more than one idea, one tactical plan and one way to set up a team) get more out of this squad?

I didn't think so last year, but I believe the players now realise themselves that it's not working, they are crying out for different approach.

We won't get a change unless we are cut adrift at the bottom, or late in the season and in the Bottom 3.

It's early days but goals conceded shows our work rate needs to improve big time.

Over the summer, I lost some weight and my blood pressure came down. Sadly I didn't want the season to start. It's here and we must stay positive and together.

Any new owner will get rid of Dyche.

If it is going to happen and I know we're only 2 games in, it could well be this season of all seasons with all its leaving Goodison emotional baggage just to add insult to injury.

Dyche has avoided it twice... and a third time may beckon.

Or we win the next 2 games and it's all smiles going into the international break, at least the 2-week break will give the wallpaper time to dry properly on those cracks.