Listen to Moyes's pre-match presser for Spurs game

Pray for Everton.

This is not a criticism of Moyes, btw.

Patterson has to start; Young can't play two games in four days, and offers nothing going forward.

We are in trouble whichever way you look at it.

I think that would be transformative. Even on loan, from a Real Madrid, or Man Utd. A quality player who can stroke the ball around.

Oh I know… get paid £12M, whatever happens!

Hoping, by him talking about crosses into the box, that Patterson gets a game against Spurs. I know I sound like a stuck record.

I think he realized properly what has been happening all season and I am sure his mood was out of frustration. Calvert-Lewin and Harrison have to go out of the starting line-up as they both offer nothing to their supposed roles.

The injured players can't return soon enough, and a couple of new signings by the end of the window and bring in February with a reset.

Me too, though I'm sure he would have added that it is purely medicinal, and he has a prescription for it!

Mainly to deal with all the pain from the knives stuck in his back, and from being blamed for not being an international class RM, CM and RB all rolled into one package!

So many home games with no reward has become commonplace over the last few seasons.

You need goals to win games even one on some occasions but nothing has changed in the finishing nor the creativity dept.

Signings are crucial on offence otherwise all the good efforts elsewhere are of no use.

Ndiaye is the best of a bad bunch but just doesn't get used as much as he should.

Moyes has problems to resolve quickly if we are to get clear of the bottom three. With DCL and Beto doing very little and Chermitti almost a no show how can we ever get a goal or two.

Surely TFG are going to sign some cheques soon otherwise just sacking Dyche will have been of little conseqence.

Their midfield is quite depleted at the moment so a chance for Harrison Armstrong, Ndiaye and Beto to break them down through the middle with Malanga and Gana keeping it tight behind them.

Then drop Doucoure and put Harrison Armstrong in that position.

He looks like he's been up until 5 am playing Football Manger to see if there's any clues to bargain players we might be able to afford.

If we don't add some creativity to the midfield, it's hard to see how we win games. The better teams are going to wear us down with possession, we may hold out for some draws, but teams at or around our level know they can sit back and we have nothing to offer creatively going forward and are susceptible to the counter.

Pay the money, Friedkin, to give us a chance, fuck the PSR, take points deducted next season, if it means we survive, one to two half-chances a game is not keeping us up!

Too many managers have seen CDL as their saviour and he's let them all down - get him out of the door soonest and save your job, Davey ! The Friedlings don't mess about !

It's the most I've seen us try to keep the ball and actually build up some moves in a while.
It'd the most I've seen our fullbacks trying to get forward this season.

Without reinforcements its not going to turn around in a few days.
But let's look at positives !

I'm not sure a manager who takes over a team who have always been out of the bottom three because of a superior points hall and a superior goal difference to it's rivals (despite playing less games) can in any way be described as a "miracle worker" simply because he keeps us up.

I cant escape the feeling that the panic button was pressed prematurely among the faithful and in turn been pressed by TFG. If the probability of relegation wasnt here before. it certainly is now.
Moyes needs to come in and cajole performances from players who have contracts running down and who will feel they owe him nothing because don't know him from Adam.

Tough gig. He needs our support

So disappointing to see our returning manager already talking about the bloody 'positives' of the hulk 'getting contact' on goal opportunities as though there were points awarded for pathetic kicks!

Be warned, Davey, he'll take you with him out of Everton if you're not careful!

When Dyche left, he had 14 of his own signings plus Tarkowski, Keane and McNeil as his former Burnley henchmen here.

Moyes hasn't made a single signing to date so he's going to quickly find out who and where we need massive improvement.

The winger situation needs absolutely rectifying, the lack of pace pisses me off.

The centre-forward situation also pisses me off as we've been far too persistent and far too loyal for far too long with Calvert-Lewin.

Colin (30), we just have a massive difference of opinion about how confident anyone could be that we would remain ahead of the relegation favourites without a radical change in performance and form.

I'd like to see Patterson but I'm interested to see whether Moyes will make that decision.

In attack, Harrison and Lindstrom are pretty interchangeable. And I still can't see who comes in to do Doucoure's role... unless it's two up top or there's a shift in formation or Ndiaye's role.

This selection will be more interesting than the first. He was never going to do too much changing of personnel against Villa. This is one will be an iteration of his thinking…

Personally, I would start with Patterson at right-back, he has the pace to combat Son.