Elston Gunnn

We got no finishers. None.

Onana and Harrison on soon for Young, surely, and .... McNeil? McNeil with no right foot, yet again.

That was good from Godfrey.

Nowhere close from Garner.

Yet another miserable pass. A consistent problem: it’s a passing game, and we can’t pass.

Yes, we have a bunch of 6-pointers later in the season, but this is a match that we should win.

American announcer comments this would be a good point for Everton, as it would get us above the drop zone. Has it come to this: We hope for a home point against a weak Palace, and then root for ....... Liverpool to beat Luton Town on Wednesday?

Heard some boos there at the whistle, unfortunately deserved both for that final ball and for the overall play.

You’re right, I should have been more specific, as our players have difficulty identifying the place on the pitch where goals are scored.

Don’t blame Young for trying, but Godfrey was right there.

Upper left corner, please. ...... Nope.

Look at that miserable pass from Godfrey. Pretty discouraging.

Harrison, good heavens, pathetic.

Godfrey cannot keep letting Doku get to the byline. Disaster coming there.

DCL returns the mistake-favor to McNeil by ignoring him.

Better cross from McNeil would have given DCL a chance.

I’d think it surely is crucial, given that we’re 17th, owing to the 10-point deduction. Moreover, our play has been inconsistent, and just now we’re missing Gana, Doucouré, and an in-form Gomes. Still, our players have had a bit of a break — last match 10 days ago —so I assume Dyche will set out his strongest 11, which might mean Harrison in Doucouré’s spot with McNeil and Danjuma on the wings?

True enough, though start-times for most Everton matches must be brutal for all our fans in Honolulu.

We’ll have 3 matches from Sat to Sat, so pushing the Fulham match to Wednesday would mean one fewer day between the Fulham and Spurs matches. So Everton would gain a day before Fulham, but lose a day before Spurs. Even more complicated, the midweek match will be evening, whereas the Spurs match that second Sat is the early match, 12:30. Change would give more time to prepare for Fulham, but cut prep time ahead of Spurs match drastically. Either way it’s very crowded. Hope Doucouré and Coleman are available by then.

Without knowing any poster on TT, I could see from the way longstanding posters interacted with Bill that he was an institution on TT. Even when, maybe especially when, people disagreed with him, their respect for him was obvious.

Including their passing, which is crisp, accurate. We’ve already made at least 4 poor passes, badly weighted, losing potential opportunities moving forward.

If so, I rather like this development, as it appears the FA (or whoever) is embarrassed by the VAR intervention, and is trying to deflect from Pawson’s rumored anti-Everton bias. But in trying to deflect, they’ve simply drawn more attention to the situation and rendered it ever more suspicious. Unless it’s just some BBC Sport scribe having a laugh.

Not sure what to make of this, but it’s somewhere between weird and suspicious. This BBC Sport article says the VAR ref was Michael Salisbury, not Pawson. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67892373

Ok, bear with me here. Do I understand the possibilities to be: no ban, reduced to 1 match, stays at 3 matches? If — if — there are 3 options, I can see overturning the red (no ban) is highly unlikely; and I can see keeping the 3-match ban is the most likely. Yet the immediate and maybe universal buzz is that this was a horrible call, so if — if — there’s an option to reduce the penalty to one match, I’d think that would be given some consideration by the embarrassed EPL. Though ...... I take the implied point that the EPL is beyond embarrassment in its vendetta against EFC.

I’ll be interested to see if the penalty is reduced from 3 down to 1 match. I assume that is a possibility, yes?