Moyes welcomes Alan Irvine and Charlie Adam

He was a midfielder all his career but is apparently joining as a "set-piece" coach - which I wouldn't have necessarily thought to be his forte, given his playing career.

Time will tell - no doubt.

Happy to do it as long as he does a decent job

Ah, never mind. If he can just teach our guys to clear the first defenders on set-pieces, I'll be thrilled.

Although there is a very, very, very simple solution for this, it's very rare that you see the front man clearing the cross under any real pressure.

Irvine and Adam joining Moyes's coaching staff, let me be the first to say “Jobs for the boys”!

It stinks.

How many times have you seen a bad corner end up creating a chance, by simply putting a player at the near post, to flick on or put pressure on a bad ball?

Adam can also be our dirty tackle coach.

Just to add fuel to your fire, am I right in thinking that Charlie's agent was Kenny Moyes, brother of David?

“The pair know each other well. Moyes' brother is the agent of Adam, while the ex-Gers, Blackpool, Liverpool and Stoke midfielder lodged with Moyes's family when making his way as a youngster at Ibrox.”

I was the set piece taker on every Sunday league team I played on for 30 years, and the only times I couldn't clear the front man were when the area around the corner flag was a mud hole or a divot and the ref wouldn't let me move the ball out of it.

It staggers me that so many professionals playing on tailored fields can't elevate the ball over one guy. We had a final free kick chance at Bournemouth and Young couldn't even hoist the ball into the mixer. Drilled it right to the first defender. Too easy.

Dave, why does it stink? Don't most managers hire assistants they already know and trust? Would you expect Moyes to do a bunch of job interviews and hire guys he doesn't know?

Fleetwood sacked him as manager 22 December and before that he was Burnley's loans manager - maybe he worked for the Provvy too doing doorstep loans?

For me, we were better under Moyes when Irvine was assistant manager. Round was far too negative.

Moyes has been in the game for a very long time, do you think he doesn't know plenty of coaches, has he worked with Adam before? Possibly he got to know him when he allegedly lodged with him.

What has Irvine done lately? The Scottish coach worked with him at West Ham; were the two of them let go together or did Moyes resign?

He let the whole set of very experienced coaches go at Man Utd to bring his own men in… that worked out well – although he was never good enough for the Man Utd job.

I hope, for the sake of Everton, Moyes knows what he is doing bringing these coaches in, and that includes Baines.

Just a thought: if you're looking for a free-kick expert, there's only one name, Sheedy?

He got a bit cocky while at the RS but otherwise always seems fairly sensible to me.

Can't believe Moyes would just bring him in for the ' old pals act ' alone. Hopefully we can build on Sunday's result, but, it won't be easy or a given.

Adam as set piece coach just doesn't add up. Most clubs who have a set piece coach, seem to have an expert in that part of the game - not just some random ex-player.

Successful offensive set pieces are not just about the delivery but the positioning, the movement, the blocking etc. The one at Arsenal is apparently some sort of set piece Rainman, with a whole host of 'plays' and 'counter plays'. It's almost on the scale of American Football and their 'Playbooks'.

It's a different discipline really and not just limited to corners/free kicks. Next time you watch Arsenal look at how they maximise their throw ins. If the ball is in the opposition half, it never gets thrown backwards, always forwards, but aimed at getting the ball on to the floor and into danger areas.

At the other end, Brentford do loads of work on defending set pieces with their coach and I believe they have the lowest number of goals conceded from them. Watch their pre-gamr warm ups. They spend 5-10 mins practicing positions and responsibilities for defending corners.

This decision on Adam does really seem a job for the boys decision, as there is no evidence whatsoever that he has these type of skills.

That's the level of detail those guys go into. We get Charlie Adam who has written over 16,380 betting slips.

Let’s give Adams a chance eh? As well as being a superb set piece taker himself, he played under Stoke’s Pulis who maximised set pieces long before there was a specialist job in that area. Hence he would have been exposed to that aspect of the game.

Chuck in coaching badges that I expect he’s earnt.

And lest we forget ‘In Moyes we Trust’ either has merit or it’s a stupid sound bite.

I’m happy to trust him for the moment. Let’s get behind him eh?

I hope you're right though and he's a success. Nil Satis and all that.