Everton Banter Archive August 23 2014

23 Aug 2014 23:19:44
Osman was awful as were the two centre backs no more Passengers please roberto I have been critical of osman in the past but everyone must agree he is now totality out of his depth and if he bobby Carrys on playing Ozzie we will suffer he is getting totally overrun

{Ed025's Note - im with you richie, im a fan of leon, but today he was very poor..

Our lack of command in the air at the back, was there all last season, at 6.4 and with good reports about his perfomances on loan, it must be time to see if duffy can perform at the top level!

23 Aug 2014 22:34:23
Guess I really feel a little angry we threw that away lack of fitness is not really an excuse, very disappointed in jags he is off the pace since before the WC, really thought Naismith played well butrely showed we need another win striker! Time to fill in the missing links before the season closes

23 Aug 2014 21:36:52
Martinez says we effectively ran out of petrol after 80 minutes. Backs up the lack match fitness after a poor pre season.

Roberto got his substitutions totally wrong! McGeady should have replaced Pienaar not Osman who was off the pace and totally ineffective.
Besic should also have been introduced to add bite and skill to our midfield when it is fairly obvious some of the team are still struggling for match fitness.
No point realising issues when the game is over.

23 Aug 2014 20:58:14
As rubbish as I feel I think there is a negative and a positive from that match,
Negative- we're not fit enough
Positive- we'll get fitter, let's move on, no point dwelling in the past, looked great first half and tired hugely, better times are ahead, let's just hope they arrive sooner rather than later

23 Aug 2014 20:55:11
We got out of jail today and are very lucky this game wasn't a little later in the season as we'd have been finished off long before Giroud got on the pitch.
I know your all gutted tonight and understandably so but your going to be well in the hunt for top four place in April and May.
Good luck for the rest of the season, well apart from when you come to us of course, I think we need it more than than you

Hell of a game gunner.we passed you off the pitch in first half but it was arsenals game in the second half.i enjoyed it apart from result but end of the day your no mugs so well done and good luck for the season

Cheers mate a game of two halves today well done and good luck for the rest of the season.

23 Aug 2014 20:25:25
Not doing ratings, feel sick after that, if it was liverpool, city or chelsea 2-0 up at half time they would of won 6-7 nil, but because we are gutless we fail, yet again, jagielka and distins partnership is becoming most taxing, we are too nice and lack a killer instinct which seperates us from the actual top four contenders, osman should never have been brought on, i'm not targeting him, he wasnt bad but besic should of come on, even if it meant atsu had to wait longer for his debut, we needed a player who wouldn't sit back, positives? Today proves arsenal still have awful fans that only sing near the end, other positives? Wilshere was scared sh*tless by mccarthy today, ozil proved my point of how overrated he is, I will be shocked if he is still in the prem in two years time, we need to think about our defence, we need centre backs, jags and distin are starting to regress and will need replacing, stones is there, alcaraz isn't a spring chicken, time for tyias browning to show his worth

Got to agree with the back 2, you can excuse distin to a degree with his age but jags as been awful for some time now.I would look at Micah richards to replace jags as I can't remember his last good game.

It makes you sick, the problem is that with ten minutes to go sitting here in the US you just know that they are going to score. Why doesn't Martinez see the same, Stones should have been brought on and given us some stability in the middle of defense. Neither Distin or Jags can defend crosses. Time for one or both to be replaced if we have any chance at the top five again.

I have to totally agree! All the substitutions were shocking. Barry had an excellent game but you could see he was flagging in the last 20 minutes.
Got to say I'm loving Naismith

23 Aug 2014 19:48:30
I'm so disappointed, we were brilliant first half and woeful second half. Caught sleeping at the back again. It's not good enough for a team wanting to finish in the top 4 we need to be able to see a game out until the end. Gutted because of the lapses of concentration and the inability to get up the pitch during the second half, playing defensively. We desperately need another CB IMO

23 Aug 2014 19:23:17
we need to learn when we have the 3 points in the bag and hold on to what we have.

Twice this season and enough times to cost us 4th place last season we've tossed 2-3 points away.

what's the point in having defenders on the bench if we don't use them