Everton banter 5

13 Sep 2026 00:00:33
Getting a point away in London is nothing to be scoffed at, but it’s the way we go about it that frustrates me.

Soak up pressure, barely hanging on at times and make a Spurs side derived of confidence look alright. You wonder if we played with the ball on the ground and had Grealish on earlier, would we have taken more than a point…

13 Sep 2026 09:34:12
I don't mind the soaking up the pressure part. I expected Spurs to throw everything at us at home to try and get their first win. Thought we looked well organised and sharp in defence. At 60 minutes, the game was there for the taking. I'd have taken off Barry and Johnson myself, and put Grealish and Alcaraz on.
Anyone know what's up with Rohl?

12 Sep 2026 22:47:32
Didn't see the game. So did we go for a draw or did Spurs give us a game?

13 Sep 2026 11:30:16
Spurs and Everton bored everyone inside the ground and the millions watching across the world to absolute death yesterday.

12 Sep 2026 21:09:41
Can someone tell me why we stopped playing football and resorted to hoofball?

12 Sep 2026 21:19:53
Especially when JP's kicking was as bad as it was!

13 Sep 2026 00:12:53
Well, the good is that we got an away point and we did not let them score. Also, we are unbeaten after four games.
The bad is that we did not score, and I fell asleep twice.
The same lame tactic that we employed at the end of last season, let the opposition control the ball and the game, treat them like they are Barcelona and just boot the ball aimlessly back to them, especially in the first half.


I just believe that we can and should play better.

12 Sep 2026 21:07:00
Moyes post-press conference: "Tottenham stopped us getting Europe". No, you bottled it against Sunderland and you said if something was riding on the game with Spurs, you'd have approached it differently.

Criminal.

It is as if these fools don't realise everything is recorded on the internet these days.

13 Sep 2026 08:13:20
If you looked at his press conference, he said our record isn't good. He had a plan, and that plan only let Spurs have one shot on target in 90 mins. He did his part in the tactics. Players didn't do theirs in attack.

13 Sep 2026 19:55:39
This has nothing to do with what I initially posted.

Moyes said Tottenham stopped us getting Europe. They didn't. We already spaffed it at home to Sunderland, who before the game were 2 places below us in the table.

12 Sep 2026 18:45:30
55 minutes in, Spurs are here for the taking fs show some balls.

12 Sep 2026 18:58:04
Grealish on.

2 options: take Johnson off, who looks poor and has had no impact and is likely to make none, but more experienced.

Take George off, who scares defenders to death and can make a moment out of nothing.

Moyes will always go with the more negative option.

12 Sep 2026 19:39:13
Another negative approach from Moyes, yes defensively strong, but we will never win games playing like that.

12 Sep 2026 20:39:29
Made me sick when 5 mins after the Grealish George sub, he then takes off Johnson and puts Hackeny Rm. Disgusting management. We had the game in full control as Johnson missed that big chance, then we didn't touch the ball again for final 25 mins, and invited Spurs on.

12 Sep 2026 19:25:19
Stevie Wonder could have scored Johnson's chance.

12 Sep 2026 22:04:51
Verrrrry superstitious.

12 Sep 2026 23:30:27
I thought Johnson was missing most of the game. He kept standing near Barry in the centre instead of the wing.

12 Sep 2026 23:51:16
Moyes out!
Subs cost us the 3 points yet again Dave and his negativity he's clueless.

13 Sep 2026 07:46:18
As much as I want a change in manager, as much as this was negative football, as much as his substitutions are sometimes baffling & as much as individual players were poor. We are still unbeaten & not many predicted that after four matches.
There are four, maybe five players who are starting this season who didn't last season. That takes time to bed in properly. We all know that we have the players to play a better brand of football, but we won't get that under Moyes.

Let's see who comes in January & whether the manager gets a new contract.
Personally, after the past 6 or 7 seasons, I'll take a boring upper mid table finish without looking over our shoulders. The ambitions of tfg will unfold over the next 9 months & that's the time to have a go.

UTFT NSNO. ? ? ?

12 Sep 2026 18:42:16
Don't understand why he hasn't started with Hackney, get him on the pitch and we will score.

12 Sep 2026 18:15:09
At last Brennan Johnson is having a good game for Spurs.

12 Sep 2026 18:29:05
Mykolenko is having a blinder for Spurs too!!

12 Sep 2026 19:30:14
Were we watching different games? I thought Myko did his job very well today.

12 Sep 2026 19:38:03
So did I, DJs.

12 Sep 2026 19:43:55
Thought he was really weak first half.

12 Sep 2026 20:01:10
He's a terrible defender, who is caught out of position so many times, but on a plus side, having a guy who can play RB properly gives the team proper balance.

12 Sep 2026 20:04:09
Thought Myk was good throughout.

12 Sep 2026 20:31:59
He was all over the place in the first 20 minutes and couldn't really get to grips with Savio. To be fair, though, every player was the same as we sat far too deep and invited the pressure in the opening stages. He grew into the game, though.

12 Sep 2026 23:01:22
Course he is, but this lot have an agenda.

13 Sep 2026 05:25:33
Man of the match.

12 Sep 2026 17:43:32
Standard Moyes approach that everyone expected. Let's hope we get the 0-0 he’s after.

12 Sep 2026 18:18:44
Spurs looking good, we haven't turned up yet, get Jack on and Hackney on early enough in the 2nd half, and I fancy us for a result. Mykolenko has been given the run around and is way off it, Barry is just Barry and Johnson has been non existent. It's what I expected from listening to the press conferences, to be honest.

12 Sep 2026 18:23:07
It's there to win. We need to play with some swagger, Grealish for Johnson and have a go. They aren't solid at the back.

12 Sep 2026 12:49:43
Cmon you Blues, time to give Spurs a walloping. Bring it on.

12 Sep 2026 12:39:14
I might be wrong but did Man City only get to where they are because they bought loads of players before the FFP was bought in so when they sold them it made them have a load of money. Or is it down to the owners and their sponsorship now or was it a bit of both.

Similar to Chelsea when Abramovich pumped loads of money into them. I know you can't do that now unless you get a generation of kids like utd did where we aren't having to spend £100m a season.

12 Sep 2026 13:26:17
City's owners got their cousins to sponsor the ground and shirts for £800 million over 4 years or something stupid like that. It's them sort of deals they were doing. We will never find out. They will get a fine and 2 transfer window bans, which won't bother them coz they probably have 1 billion pounds worth of players just sat on the bench.

12 Sep 2026 16:43:37
If they were getting anything meaningful in the way of penalties for their 115 breaches of PSR, then they'd have had it by now. This will end with a light penalty for small breaches of little consequence, much to the embarrassment of the PL, who are realising they've picked a fight they are roundly losing.