Everton Banter 2

15 May 2026 11:13:26
Another classy 2 years from our club. Allowing our crocked captain to remain captain and to even offer a further year with no more than hope he'd get on the pitch. Maybe he's played 3 or 4 hours these last 2 years but it's the first 15 of his 17 years that he'll remain a legend here.



Enjoy a long summer and hopefully DM was wrong, implying you're not outwardly keen to become a coach. Either way thanks Captain.

15 May 2026 13:48:53
Spot on, Fbs, and nice to see you're back. I have missed your posts. 👍👍 Hope he gets a few minutes on Sunday, even if it's just the last few minutes, because the place will erupt and would be even better if we are winning.

15 May 2026 16:04:34
Good point that, Ron. And Moyes does like making late subs, so would be the perfect ending to a quality player and human being.

15 May 2026 16:21:01
I can remember when he was on loan at Blackpool the year they got promoted to the Premier League and Ian Holloway thought £200 grand was a good price for us to sell him for. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

15 May 2026 11:07:10
SC23. What a bargain and a club legend. Enjoy your retirement. Hopefully will return to club in a coaching capacity.

15 May 2026 10:56:53
I was lucky enough to meet Seamus at the last ever training session at Goodison Park with my lad. He was a gent as you’d expect. My lad told him ‘my dad’s got a tattoo of you on his foot’. He said ‘are you kidding!’
Great player, great servant, great advocate of the club. Legend.

15 May 2026 08:26:44
If Everton can’t get into Europe this season while Spurs are 17th, Newcastle faltering and Chelsea having a nightmare - plus top 10 qualify, then we can’t rate this season as a good one.
Yes, it’s nice not looking down, but we have some very dull performances and dropped so many points.

Moyes' plan
1. Let’s get three centre half’s in back 4.
2. Barry for Beto 70 minutes in.
3. No attacking subs until injury time.
4. Sign/Loan young players but don’t put them on the pitch and definitely don’t consider the academy/under 21s.


5. Play for 0-0 - if start losing, start playing attacking football.

Really like Moyes - but need to change the way we play - need to be more on front foot and not be scared of passing/possession - there are managers around who are available - do think Moyes is a good guy and has definitely steadied the ship - I just don’t see him able to take us to next level playing the style we all want to see.

15 May 2026 09:04:24
Finishing in a European spot will always mean that there are big established teams that don't. Qualifying for Europe would absolutely be an achievement in my opinion.

I share the frustration on playing style at times. I'm prepared to give him another window to improve the squad and, hopefully, the performances. Tricky to play attacking overlapping football with no full backs that have those qualities.

15 May 2026 08:01:18
Morning my fellow Evertonians. As concerns our pressing need for a striker, I was not overly enthusiastic about the big Ukrainian lad Artem Dovbyk, but having watched him play in matches and also his assists and goals from open play I am not as pessimistic as I once was. He has a decent turn of pace for a big fella and can turn in quite tight spaces and always seems to head in the direction of goal and appears to be a team play hofs up the ball very well, is decent in the air and is definitely physical enough for the Premier League and is tenacious in front of goal, so if we are looking for his signature he could be a good fit.

What do my fellow Evertonians think 🤔.

{Ed025's Note - i have not seen him to be honest TB, but i will certainly look out for him now mate..

15 May 2026 08:34:37
I think, if we persist with this punting it up to a loan striker, then it doesn't matter who we get.

{Ed025's Note - thats a fair comment BMD..

15 May 2026 11:13:01
When I played youth football, my manager and coach would both go scatty if anyone played ball over head height unless it was a cross into the box. But also the main formation was 442. So at least there was 2 strikers to aim for. Yet Moyes has everyone hoofing it up to a striker who can't win headers, leaving our wingers and attacking midfielders to chase for the ball.

Just pass it around the ground, for heaven's sake. And if we don't have the players who can do that, then sign some that can. I've never worked at NASA, but it's not rocket science.

15 May 2026 14:33:34
Doesn't help when our wingers pass it back to O'Brien or Mykolenko, and neither know what to do from there. 1 O'Brien is a CB, so wouldn't really expect him to bomb forward or be very attack minded. 2 Mykolenko is Championship at best.

Can someone tell me how many assists he has for us, please, and it goes back to Tarks or Keane then Pickford because the other team are pressing, and Pickford just hoofs it up field and gives it them back.

15 May 2026 23:54:05
Agree, RonMac. How many times have we taken a short free kick around the opponent's box, and it ends up back to Pickford before it even enters the opposition box.

15 May 2026 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - SaintGGsy has posted a new article entitled, Saints, the EFL, and the spying fallout

16 May 2026 06:22:57
And yet, the Club has given him an extension, they're so stupid, these top class football Clubs, they never ask our opinion.

14 May 2026 17:57:56
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new video entitled entitled, C U Next Time - The Carrick Files}

14 May 2026 15:07:45
Before we go handing Moyes a new contract, might be worth noting we have won 5 of the last 17 games.
We are told Moyes has the last word on transfers: Dibbling 40mill, Merlin 20mill, Barry 30mill, the full back from Byermunic 7mill.
So that was 100mill well spent. 🤑

14 May 2026 19:11:05
Terrible stats not helped by stupid money on players our scouts approved while on the Guinness, Moyes and his Staff need to hold their gabds up as well.

15 May 2026 03:50:52
Ok, may I suggest that we have a truce for the next two weeks on Moyes, the players and wasted money etc. What we all should want is two big wins to finish up the season on a high. This will give us 55 points and the possibility of a European place. What comes after that is out of our hands.

15 May 2026 07:47:42
We still have a good chance of Europe 2 veery winnable games coming up COyB.

{Ed025's Note - so were Palace, Brentford and West Ham GB, it does not always turn out that way mate, to win in this league you have to be brave and not be content with draws or narrow defeats...and certainly not set up to not lose..

15 May 2026 19:05:22
Bournemouth, Brighton, and Brentford have all been on pretty good runs of late, hence moving well ahead of us in the table. Out of the top ten, it is only Chelsea and us who are not in winning form.


Also, Fulham and Sunderland are only one point behind us. Heavily relying on the results of many other teams if we are to make Europe, even if we win the last two games.

16 May 2026 07:20:31
Add Newcastle, Spurs, West Ham, Leeds and Wolves (all at home) to that list Ed. Shocking to think how many points we have dropped and how we could have been much higher il the table.

{Ed025's Note - very true BR..

14 May 2026 14:41:36
Pickford Travers King

Wan Bissaka Alebiosu
O’Brien Tarkowski
Branthwaite Keane
Diouf Mykolenko

Garner Gana Armstrong
McTominay Tim
Kdh Rohl

Bowen McNeil
Grealish Mane

Beto Delap Graham

This is how I’d like to see our squad next season if Ndiaye does join Man Utd, change the formation slightly and have Garner sitting with McTominay and Kdh going box to box causing havoc, and that’s Mane from Wolves not Sadio, loan Dibling to West Ham for a season then sell McNeil next year.

14 May 2026 14:16:19
If West Ham go down we should be all over Bowen and send Dibling there on loan for a season.

14 May 2026 16:09:36
What's in it for them?