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Just now, Romey 1878 said:

4-3 Bournemouth.

Just beautiful. 

From 0-3 this is a huge result. Luton must be absolutely crushed after this.

3 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

No, let’s go for a Bournemouth 4-3 .

I’m greedy & feel we can still catch them

A straight red for Solanke in the 90th minute would be nice though.

3-3… now just stay this way please

25 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

I blame Tom Lockyer and his dodgy heart for this by the way.

Bournemouth were in great form at the time of the original game and it was 1-1.

Thanks, Tom .

2-3. Great game for the neutrals to be fair 

15 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

I give up, Luton are amazing…

Jesus Christ .

0-3…

9 hours ago, Matt said:

Well put it this way, before he was injured we looked like a coherent team. That's not down to athleticism alone. Also look at some of his strikes of the ball. He's not David Silva but his technical ability is much better than he's given credit for.

I’m just going off what seeing the last 18 months here mate, his first time passing and ball control. He is great at getting after flick ons and that but as soon as he gets in space like a traditional #10 I don’t feel that his is strengths.

2 hours ago, Matt said:

Doucoure is a much better footballer than people seem to realise

I don’t agree mate. I’ve said on many occasions I appreciate his physical attributes but I see his technical ability as quite poor.

I was happy Gray left & still am. Late to match busses during a relegation scrap & played the game for himself.

Harrison has been a let down, let’s not fall in to the easy trap of blaming Dyche’s “style of play” we have played plenty of attacking football.

The problem is our players who support the striker all have huge short comings. Harrison loses the ball in the attacking third so much, Doucoure has little to no technical ability & and McNeil has 1 foot & zero pace.

7 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

Agreed. He's more than on the wane and is still the most sensible option.

Personally, I would tell Patterson he's got until the end of the season no matter what to show what he can do. That way he knows he's going to play every week for the next couple of months and he doesn't have to force things, or worry that a mistake will cost him his place to not be seen again for a while.

Edit - it’s a real credit to Coleman, I have so much respect for him as a player & a person. I just don’t want to see him hung out to dry & in a position where he gets any blame for performances if we were to be relegated.

I agree on Patto - he didn’t really do anything wrong to warrant being dropped, especially when you compare his performances to that of Young & Godfrey.

I am really surprised that he hasn’t been brought in to the squad. Myko is a prime example, the lad looked out of depth in every department & now looks a quite assured PL player.

At the very worst case, playing Patto for the remainder of the season will boost his value. Any team promoted to the league would be likely to try & snap up a promising young, international full back with PL experience.

2 hours ago, Matt said:

I'm hoping someone like Real come in for him, he's certainly got the potential

I think with Carlo at Real it will help us as he seems to be big admirer. Hopefully he tells them to get him in at any cost.

Ideally I wouldn’t sell him, I think he is better than stones was at his age but if it’s a needs must situations.

Personally I think the prices getting thrown around for Onana are mad - he could get there but I think it’s hard for him to show that here.

19 hours ago, Boston Toffee said:

I think a healthy Seamus would be our best option at rb down the stretch.

It is just mental though from a succession/planning standpoint that this is still the case.

12 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting sick of seeing him doing that stupid jink on the tips of his toes as if he's going to go past his man (what does that mean I hear you ask! ) and then either just fall into the defender or pass it backwards.

I was really pleased with his signing and thought it was a sensible move (and it still is to a certain extent because we didn't buy him) but I sincerely hope I don't see him playing for us next season.

The player I thought we were getting vs the player we got is a massive difference. Hard worker yes but technical ability has been disappointing.

1 hour ago, Palfy said:

There’s not much to add to what’s already been said really, if we don’t start converting our chances then we go down it’s quite as simple as that really. 
Our next game we need to change the formation to try and change the outcome, we can’t change the players we are stuck with what we have, irrespective of whether we think there good enough or not we’re stuck with them. 
Instead of going out with the same formation every game, let’s try something different like a 442 or a 352, Dyche’s got 3 weeks to work with the players on different formations, I hope he takes the opportunity to do it. 

I love a 352/343 formation but our team is just technically awful. Plus it means either Keane or Godfrey as the third CB, unless Dyche does with Coleman.

Agree with you though mate, 3 weeks of solid work & I really hope we see something after it. 

He’s a honest type but he just reminds me of that guy a mate brings in to the team who plays rugby and just looks for the hard man tackle but is a liability on the ball.

Not good enough in the air to be a CB. Not a good enough footballer to play any where else.

4 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

You really think Simms was the future of Everton? Really?

I'm disappointed with Cannon being sold though, but I think he also wanted to go and play first team football properly after being given a taste of it on loan at Preston.

Cannon is a big loss for us. Feel like he is going to be a proper player.

1 hour ago, Romey 1878 said:

Stop playing him. The lad isn’t even a CB, never mind a RB.

Patterson is raw and makes too many errors… this dick head has cost us 3 goals in our last 3 games.

He’s shit.

100%

Well, it’s hard enough going to United away without giving away 2 penalties.

Theres no more comfort in saying we played well or we created plenty of chances. Not going to blame Dyche for this one, players are not doing enough.

Tactics wise I will say that we need to find a way to get away from Doucoure & Godfrey in the starting team. Doucs - I love his running & work ethic but he offers us nothing in build up play or ball retention. Godfrey is just a rash defender with limited technical ability.

Our strikers will surely relish having Gomes playing that 10 role as he can see & make passes.

2 minutes ago, badaids said:

He’s been better this half, as in totally anonymous and not ballsed anything up.  TOUCHES WOOD.

In a game where we have dominated the ball and had fullbacks in attacking areas he is null & void. Should have been off in place of Garner of whom could have gone to RB.

And Godfrey still remains…

Not sure how Godfrey has stayed on after a triple substitution 

If he drags Beto before Doucoure…

Seriously Doucoure 

Poor ball from Godfrey but the runs in the box were even worse there.

Just now, Shukes said:

Not exactly sure what to make of that.

Weve actually been pretty good. McNeil looking really lively.

But defence has been woeful.

There is so much space for us to exploit. I feel this is a game not so suited to Doucoure.

”No changes made by either team” honestly just get at them

1 minute ago, badaids said:

Well I only saw the last 8 mins of the half but that was embarrassing.

Strange enough we have been the better team & threatened more in general. Just 2 absolute shit show moments.