Everton banter 8

26 Oct 2025 18:50:52
Different ref, a VAR team that looks at all incidents and an opposition keeper that doesn't make several worldies and we get a result. No doubt the usual naysayers will go to town, I thought we chucked everything at them in the second half. We don't have the quality to be more than mid table this season.

26 Oct 2025 19:05:06
Refereeing decisions were correct. We were far too slow and predictable. They doubled up on Grealish and Ndiaye and we had nobody in midfield to make the most of that.
We allowed Spurs to dictate the pace of the game, and again made changes far too late.


Our team selection and formation when playing at home is far too negative, and we don’t appear to have a plan B when things need changing.

26 Oct 2025 19:18:54
Not having a half decent striker is killing us as well J B, spot on with your post mate.

26 Oct 2025 19:20:04
The lack of formation changes and subbing like-for-like worries me JB. We need a striker / someone who can lead the line. If we don’t get our act together, we could be closer to relegation than the top half.

26 Oct 2025 19:23:59
Well you can blame the ref. You can blame bad luck and a good goalkeeper and the loss of our best defender to injury but the bottom line is that they scored three and we did not score on our home turf. Apart from one or two obvious players we were slow and laborious. Too much back passing and booting the ball to no-one in particular, a mid-field that failed to dominate and two strikers who can't finish.

Spurs looked as if they could score from every corner.
We are better than this and Moyes better find some tactics that work better against teams like the Spurs otherwise even mid-table will be difficult to achieve.

26 Oct 2025 19:34:54
Everytime we score Var gets involved and disallows the goal. That goal should have stood for us as the goalie made a meal of it.
As for their 2nd goal Van de Vin pushed Pickford and guess what? no Var. Ref was a joke.

26 Oct 2025 19:52:31
Ndiaye was offside and he effected the goal by impeding their keeper. Pickford needs to be a lot stronger there. Couldn’t imagine Nev getting pushed off the ball so easily. Anything in the six yard box the keeper should be clearing the ball and anyone who gets in his way.

26 Oct 2025 20:53:53
Agree JB
Good to have a fair opinionated post instead of knee jerk vitriol.

26 Oct 2025 21:00:11
I agree Pickford should be stronger. But free kicks get given for fouls on the keeper week in week out with minimal or no contact. Today it was a clear shove and it's hard to think if wouldn't have been given the other way around.
Also, if we're saying Ndiaye was offside wasn't he offside from O'Brien's header? And what happened just before O'Brien headed it? He very clearly got shoved, 2 hands in the back.

Now it didn't matter because he headed it in - except that if they're saying there was an offence in the next phase of play (offside) why are they not taking it back to the blatant push?

26 Oct 2025 21:10:59
Waterloo it was offside. Decisions were correct.

27 Oct 2025 06:18:20
I can understand why they disallowed the goal. Some other decisions however were absolutely debatable. As many have said, and we can all agree, a striker is a must in January. In the summer, you’d expect full backs and a new DM to follow.

26 Oct 2025 18:43:51
Dithering Dave strikes again, leaves it too long to change things. Same predictable boring lineup against a very overachieving Spurs team. Half our team are 6 foot 3 or more but we can't defend set pieces, no creativity. People talking about only being a striker away from Europe? That's hilarious. We are 14th, we are going to lose to Sunderland, tough home game vs Fulham, then we have Old Trafford, Newcastle, Bournemouth away. Be amazed if we get more than 2 points from that run in.

Decent start has been ruined, it is once again another relegation scrap, very disappointing. We are nothing without Jarrad Branthwaite and some of our fans want to get rid of him, just hilarious. Disastrous result, awful performance at home and never looked in it.

26 Oct 2025 18:51:14
Spot on Swan. Davey is useless, Davey has always been useless and Davey needs to go. Bye bye Davey.

26 Oct 2025 19:15:57
Bad result and bad defending today.

26 Oct 2025 19:26:35
And here it all starts, like babies in the play ground he should of done this he should of done that, Jesus's geet of your perches we are a mid table team at best, not eroupe or one of the big boys, just a team who cannot score because we have 2 donkeys upfront.

26 Oct 2025 19:54:18
And its attitudes like that will keep us there. That squad is easily good enough for top ten. If you know how to use it that is.

26 Oct 2025 20:59:48
Sunderland are in the top 4 with a mostly championship squad. Bournemouth are top 4 and lost most of their backline aswell as having only 1 really capable attacker.

The idea that mid table is the best a team with Pickford, Gana, Ndiaye, Grealish and KDH can do is nonsense.

26 Oct 2025 18:43:34
Yet another crap season ahead for us - so sick of this year after year after year - seriously need hats the point - we have been hopeless since start of the premier league - look at bornmouth / Brighton / Brentford / Sunderland / Newcastle - all spent far less than us over the years and yet play decent football and can score - we are embarrassing.

26 Oct 2025 18:48:38
Newcastle have spent far less than us over the years? What?

26 Oct 2025 21:03:44
And the rest of them have spent half the time in leagues below the premier league since it began. Weird comment.

26 Oct 2025 21:12:56
It will not be crap, we will finish top 10 thereabouts.

26 Oct 2025 21:14:49
Yep, we have spent more than Newcastle in last 10 years. see here

26 Oct 2025 18:42:47
Not one for knee jerk reactions but Moyes is not going to take us forward. I never wanted him, his substitutions are too late and strange and he is well past his best, if he ever had one. Spurs were missing half their squad and have been awful and just walked away 3-0 winners.

Oh for a young and progressive coach. TFG don't mess about. He will be gone by Christmas. And on another note our back 4 is crap and has been for a while.

26 Oct 2025 18:46:56
Mykolenko is a championship level left back, O’Brien should not be at full back and Tarkowski has been well off it.

As for Moyes, a young attacking coach would be great, but something tells me that if they do get rid, it’ll be for another pragmatic saviour for the season.

26 Oct 2025 18:49:58
Our back four aren’t good enough and our lack of a goal scorer means we’re starting with our boot laces tied together, we made spurs look brilliant there and they are far from it and they had a hard game during the week, when is it going to be our time fs, also most refs at home seem to be robbing us.

26 Oct 2025 19:08:11
We can only put a team out with the players in our squad, it’ll take time to build a better one.

26 Oct 2025 18:33:49
The non existence of a recognised striker and a terrible referee wearing a Spurs shirt was our downfall once again today, Moysiah will come under pressure soon if he doesn't come up with some new ideas up top, we are slowly slipping back down the table back to where we've been in previous years. Ndiaye by far our best player!

{Ed025's Note - some of our players never turned up today Elvis, KDH was awful, Pickers was like a vampire when it comes to crosses and Garners distribution was very poor mate..

26 Oct 2025 19:12:16
Pickfords never been good in the 6 yard box. Moyes doesn't like alcaraz and the lad has energy off which we are lacking. I thought the central midfielders were very poor and he should of changed it at half time.

26 Oct 2025 18:20:54
Shocking sub's, shocking team selection, shocking tactics, GB won't like it but Moyes will be gone before the end of the season.

26 Oct 2025 18:31:08
You hope mate.

26 Oct 2025 18:35:57
Well his formations and team selections have cost us against Wolves could easily have cost us against Palace and now today against Spurs.
He has one formation and won’t move from it. Losing 2-0 and he just changes like for like, we are just so bloody predictable.

26 Oct 2025 18:39:35
As soon as Beto went off the attacking stopped. Projects shouldn’t be playing in the first team.

26 Oct 2025 18:45:12
The team has no pace, we only play one way. We need speed and energy, we have Alcaraz there, and he brings him on with 4 minutes to go.

Awful awful awful.

26 Oct 2025 18:47:04
Moyes will not be gone. This is the slump, expected but just early. We will not be relegated, we have a good Squad, we need a striker plus backup. Wasted buys! one of which I just don't understand, Barry (weak and a whimp) , Dibling (a lot of money for a backup) is the one I don't understand, taken to the cleaners once again.

26 Oct 2025 12:56:23
Strikers since 2018 Richy £35 million, Moise Keane £25 million, Joshua King £2 million, Salomon Rondon £free, Neal Maupay £12 million, Youssef Chermiti £12 million, Beto £21-5 million, Armando Broja £free, Thierno Barry £27-5 million, few Bob there please can we have Richy back.

26 Oct 2025 18:04:16
I think out of all those only Richarlison was a success. I’m willing to give Barry time to develop and the benefit of the doubt but the rest have all been poor.

26 Oct 2025 18:39:38
Worrying how bad we’ve been on recruiting strikers. Shocking in fact.

26 Oct 2025 19:42:00
Never had a decent forward since Lukaku. Yes Richarlison was ok but he was embarrasing the way he used to roll all over the floor like all of the south American players in the prem.

26 Oct 2025 12:40:51
Hope Beto scores a few today.

26 Oct 2025 11:50:39
Looks like Roma are trying to get Ferguson off their wages bill, think we doged a bullit there, never rated him, one good brack out season, three years ago, went to w/ ham and they could not get a tune out of him.
Hope we have the brains to not renew our interest.

26 Oct 2025 07:58:21
Morning Blues.
Match Day COYB ??
Everton 2-0 Tottenham (They have like 11 players out)
Tarks
DBH.

26 Oct 2025 08:50:23
A victory would certainly put us in a good position in the league, even with issues we have up top. I wonder whether Dave will be tempted to pop Alcarez up top today?

26 Oct 2025 09:37:30
I understand he hasn’t been as good as the turn of the year and he clearly won't be our striker moving forward but I’d be surprised if he doesn’t start Beto. He hasn’t been good this season but he does actually do things that create chances for himself and others, like if he didn’t get his header on target against Palace Jack wouldn’t have scored the winner.


I’ll be there today rooting for him and the rest of the team anyways. Until January he’s the best we’ve got who plays up front.

26 Oct 2025 09:39:33
I’d like to see Garner at RB, nothing against JOB he’s a good player but he’s not a fullback. Garner’s delivery is exceptional and would give us an extra dimension.

However, I would imagine Grealish in the Charly and no other changes.

26 Oct 2025 07:39:03
{Ed's Note - Shappy has posted a new article entitled, Manchester United Overview So Far This Season