Everton v Peterborough United

See what they have to offer… as the current first teamers offer very little.

Chermiti is out injured, and will likely be missing for a few weeks.

Looks like he will play Calvert-Lewin then with Broja pulling up last game.

I'd like to see the young lad Omari Benjamin given a spot on the bench, he's done really well since his move from Arsenal.

Dixon was another I'd have wanted to see start, but tbh Patterson needs minutes to see if he has a future with us.

Throw Keane up there alongside Beto.

In today’s press, Gordon has said that he regrets playing for us because he was cup-tied when he joined the Skunks.

No one will pay for him this month when he's free to speak to clubs now and go for nothing in the summer with a very nice signing-on fee on his hip.

Not "Dom is injured" or "Dom has injured his ankle", but "Dom has reported an ankle injury".

The Premier League games are more important.

The hard-boiled eggs are getting sacked anyway and tomorrow's result is nowhere near as significant as what has happened over the last couple of months.

Have you thought how wonderful for morale a decent cup run might be and a deserved reward for the 3,000?

This will be the first, and last, trip to Goodison Park for The Posh.

If TFG let a win against Peterborough United at home affect their judgement, then we really are in the proverbial – surely not.

I think we can have both here.

We can't afford to let him leave in January, even if he can walk away this summer… it's up there with Mourinho coming to Everton.

But, if we win tomorrow, Dyche will then get the next two home games. We can't afford to lose them.

I have something much more subtle I could let you borrow. 😉

1) Youngsters playing and performing well and a comfortable win by 3 or 4 goals. (Unlikely. Armstrong will start but no other young players.)

2) A lucky or scruffy win, perhaps on penalties, provided by the majority of the usual suspects. This one could satisfy most of us. Progress to the 4th Round at home to Accrington or Salford under a new manager.

Don't over-complicate it, you'll feel better, and your posts might make sense.

Besides, nobody knows how long Dyche will get whatever the results. TFG may already be chatting with a replacement for all we know. And even if he does stay for a couple more games, that doesn't necessarily mean we'll lose them.

The only thing it almost guarantees is that we won't be any fun to watch.

I would like to see Patterson, Beto, Lindstrom, Harrison, and O'Brien all start. Need to rest and protect Pickford, Ndiaye and Mangala.

If we get someone else in on 6 months, it's going to be a nightmare. What if they're worse than Sean Dyche – we're sunk. I think we'll look a lot better once we can move Garner to right-back and put Young at left-back.

Paul, you have zilch inside knowledge and evidence for saying this. Why not just listen to wiser heads who are telling you that tomorrow will make little or no difference at all in the grand scheme of things,

Why don't you grab yer coat, hop in the car, and drive to Big Rob's to ask him what he thinks of your posts.

I have never ever and will never hope that we lose a match, any match, U12, our ladies ...

I'm giving Paul the benefit of the doubt that he didn't really mean it. Win tomorrow, new manager comes in and takes us to Wembley and keeps us up!

Speaking of which, Liam, how did your boy's career turn out?

I don't like saying it myself. But the longer game is more important.

So what are you going to do if we beat Villa and Spurs and Dyche is reprieved until the end of the season?

Or shouldn't I ask?

In my opinion, the problem is our midfield, put Dixon at right back, but Garner is a massive loss in midfield, his pace and attacking threat is what we're missing.

We have no one to support our striker, Doucoure isn't the answer with his lack of skill, Garner is.

Wishing your lad all the best... only 17, plenty of time to soar higher!

Pickford, Mykolenko, Branthwaite Tarkowski, Young. Ndiaye, Mangala, Doucoure, Gueye, Harrison, Beto.

Predicted score 1-0

YAWN 😴

I wholeheartedly agree about Garner, and I'd put Iroegbunam in the same category. He has a lot to learn about defending, but our attack was better when we had him dribbling out of the #6 and moving the ball up quickly.

Our dependence on Route 1 began when we lost those two.

I run my lads sunday team up until last year and have 3 lads who've got contracts at Blackpool, Huddersfield and Harrogate this summer. Another few doing non-league like mine. They'll all find it difficult to make a living out of it, but one thing I drilled into them is to keep playing until you physically can't anymore, no matter what the level. You'll only regret it when you are my age. Great group of kids.

The one lad I'm sure will make a living was our CB, but in rugby league. He's signed for Leeds Rhinos and he's an absolute monster. Some competitor that kid and a joy to coach.

A win tomorrow would be a good pick-me-us-up. P'boro are like Wolves. Lots of goals scored and conceded but more conceded. 3-0 for me and then ten days or so for the club to think about Dyche and a couple of players please.

Goodness. Another Spurs injury - Bentancour - and this looks like a head injury. Stretcher out.

Maybe we should all go and watch Liam's son instead?

U23s v Chesterfield away, weather permitting. He'll probably be sub though. 🤣

I remember us playing Huddersfield a few years ago, a night game. My lad went and when I picked him up at our local train station when he arrived back.

He said him and his mates bailed out at half-time to go back to Huddersfield town centre because the pubs were that good!

Non-league is awesome. I envy your lifetime of such experiences. Marine is my second team after Everton. Pete Mills introduced me in 2017. He's been going to their games for 65 years.

Now I have a brick in their new patronage wall, just a few inches away from Jose Mourinho (who donated when Spurs played at Marine in the FA Cup) and a club shirt celebrating their partnership with Cancer Research UK. So cool.

I wish you were picking the team!

I called in to watch Bootle playing there towards the end of last season on a Friday before an Everton game. Nice little ground with a decent club house and bar.

I love Rossett Park – refuse to call it The Arriva Stadium or Marine Travel Arena (yuck) and my time in the old shed. Glad you went there. Did we win?

Somone I know who used to play for them mentioned it to me when I was over in Liverpool for Xmas.

I always tell him he should do better. (As my dad did to me!)

I played my last game at 60, a testimonial game between parents and a joint staff/ex pupils I'd coached at a north London school for 30-odd years.

The added bonus was my daughter played in my team – and before the dinosaurs chip in, she's a two-footed midfielder, currently captaining Islington Borough ladies, who has played at a good standard for 20 years.

She'd dribble rings round most of the begrudgers amongst the ToffeeWeb crowd.

Also, I had Sebastien Bassong, a parent at the school, play a half for each side. Which was nice. Play as long as you can.

There isn't a whole lot of open land in and around Crosby. A seafront stadium to match ours! Maybe something is getting knocked down?

1-0 to the Blues.

Not surprised tbh, the abuse they get is off the scale. Hope it's a bit better on the other side of the Atlantic.

And wouldn't it be nice if we put on some joined-up footy to show that we can do joined-up footy.

I think the comments about Garner and Iroegbunam on other threads are apposite. We could do with them.

Now you're better going to the smaller villages like Holmfirth, Slathwaite or Marsden.

We can't inflict our playing style on young terrestrial viewers before the watershed.

I'm not criticising, I loved soccer, played it.

But being Irish, hurling was huge in our family, and my dad also played, but he never put pressure on any of us, just supported us.

That hurling is a hard-as-nails game! So is Gaelic football.

Whenever I'm in Spain, I can't access it.

Just saw this, however: Everton v Peterborough will be available to watch live on the BBC Red Button. Live streaming of Everton v Peterborough is also available via BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.

It's on ESPN+ over here.

Marine put a good amount of the Spurs windfall into upgrading Rossett's facilities -- they got the best artificial turf money could buy, and now the kids play on it too. But a new home? Wow. That's big. They'd better get out of the relegation zone!

Unfortunately the referee situation is equally grim over here. I hear about it from league organizers wherever I've lived. I catch crap from players on occasion, but after 48 years on the whistle I give it right back, and they generally only try me once.

Tony #49, congratulations on having such a brilliant daughter. And a captain no less. Coach Dad has great reason to be proud.

Mind, if some on here get their wish and we stick Keggers the centre-half up front, I may just stay in the pub!

Getting knocked out by them would be the end of the ginger Simeone. He is reminding me of Martinez when he was in his tailspin.

I cannot listen to his crap anymore.

I think we quit too soon!

The all-Ireland hurling final was shown on BBC last summer, for the first time, and they couldn't believe it. The fastest and best game in the world, 82,000 people at the game, played by amateurs!

Then go with Mangala, Armstrong and Ndiaye in midfield with Harrison on the left Lindstrøm on the right and Broja up front. I would also play Young at left-back.

Hopefully that lineup should score some goals??

I've almost forgotten what they were like in midfield, it seems a world ago.

However, I only came on to increase the list of the injured and missing. According to the web, these players will most probably be unavailable for selection tomorrow:

Coleman, Garner, Iroegbunam, McNeil, Lindstrøm, Calvert-Lewin, Broja and Chermiti.

That means we will only have Beto as a 1st XI forward (if he's still around?) with Jack Harrison and Ndiaye in attack.

In midfield, we only have Mangala, Gana Gueye, Doucoure and Armstrong.

The good news is, other than Seamus, all the defence are available as well as all three goalkeepers for the bench.

I wonder if this means we may see another one or two U21s get selected for the matchday squad?

Despite the injuries the fit players you list are all players who are and have been playing at a level well above any Peterborough player. Most of the injured should or would have been rested for this anyway.

We should win regardless and if we don't then it's the last game Dyche will manage at Goodison.

Beto should be champing at the bit, even if he's after a move. As should all the others to finally get a win. Don't care about our league form, we're playing a bottom-table side at home two divisions below us. Give the fans something to cheer about and get a comfortable 3-0 win.

Definitely start Patterson. If he's not good enough to start here, he shouldn't be at the club.

There's also a bunch of the Everton youth coaches in town who are going to swing by.

Why didn’t we go for Potter 💁🏼

81 + 77 and still competing ???.

That is seriously, seriously impressive. What are they feeding you Yanks ? I played vets football until I was in my mid fifties and often came across formidable characters in their sixties.
I only stopped when I overheard my lad and his mates chuckling away in the bar after a "frantic" semi final they had come to watch. They were describing the entire match as like watching a still photograph.

I should never have listened to the bastards. You're a long time stopped.

I have this weird feeling he'll get sacked if we get smashed in the derby, much in the same way Marco Silva had the guillotine brought down on him.

If the Friedkin's were to do that though, I do seriously question them as it's exactly what you would expect from the previous owner.

You can get after that 81 year old Yank.

We cant have them beating us.

What would you want/expect the Friedkin's to do to be different/better than the previous onwer?