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, N’Diaye and Lindstrom 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 premier league player tells me he can’t pick a player. In fact throughout his managerial career I cannot think of many players that 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

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

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

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!

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 division, 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 three.

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 subsides. 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/coach - accomplished or not.

It therefore stands to reason that if/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.

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 FFS! 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. DCL 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 Tim 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!

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