Isaiah

That loan signing from Villa not even on the bench. Bizarre bit of business that one.

A post from United's forum: "Also, without McT being available and Matic’s limited capacity to barely last 60 mins, we are soft as feck in midfield.We will need at least a couple of goals, or we’re stuffed" Leaving aside how that guy obviously doesn't know how impossible we find it to score goals, energy in midfield will be key, because he's right that United are very weak in that area right now. Plus their defenders always have a mistake in them (I know, I know, so do ours). But they're there for the taking provided our players want it. Lampard needs to get his subs right bearing in mind how United have a tendency to tire towards the end these days. Keep some pace on the bench and introduce it on the hour mark.

*ahem*

Winner in the 9th minute of injury time. Man of the Match for the guy who chained himself to the post.

That's the spirit! "If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through" - General Melchett.

Brentford are on the slide and we have a bunch of games in hand over them. I'm not worried, we're obviously in a bad state but we're not going to be relegated and next season under Frank will be far better than this one.

Ye gads, a bench! An actually useful-looking bench!!

Tidy and efficient.

One of the many positive feelings I took away from today's game is how good it is to see our manager celebrating our goals like a fan. It's been a fair few managers since I've seen that (Ferguson aside).

Delighted with the win. Wish to hell this was a league game though.

The more I read about the finances of this deal the more I think the people running Everton have done a fantastic job here. Which has got me listening out for the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

This. I always laugh my arse off at the naivete of clubs who insist on performance-related bonuses when they offload their shite to us. Besiktas probability thought they'd played a blinder when we offered them an extra 100 million if Cenk scores 5 goals in a season.

From what I saw of that Spurs documentary he can sometimes be a bit petulant. Eric Dier had to tell him to stop acting like a spoiled kid... ...so hopefully he leaves that at the door because the last thing we need is trouble in the dressing room.

Dug this up from a couple of years ago. He says his best position is #10. https://www.spurs-web.com/spurs-news/its-not-the-same-dele-reveals-his-favourite-position-and-implies-he-misses-departed-star/

And it's Everton, so we'll probably pay it.

Happy with this. My optimism is cautious but nevertheless this is the most positive I've felt as an Everton fan in a long time.

Someone on Twitter suggested Emma Hayes who's just won FIFA'S female coach of the year award with Chelsea Women and one of the replies was "Why not, she's used to taking charge in a dressing room full of fannies." Made me chuckle.

Of those listed, anyone from Rooney, Lampard, Potter and Martinez would be acceptable to me (voted for Rooney). But honestly, I don't think any of them are turning this ship around unless there are fundamental changes made in how the club is being run.

Moshiri's probably on the phone to Kenny Dalglish.

Just as he was putting together the Everton gallacticos. I was looking forward to seeing El Ghazi linking up with Rondon.

"Tosun’s lack of minutes for Everton this season have convinced him his future lies elsewhere" It took him 4 years of running down his contract and banking a wage that no other club in the world would come close to paying for him to realise this? God I'll be so happy when we finally clear out the last few dregs of those nightmare signings we made when we suddenly had cash and spunked it up every wall we could find on the likes of Tosun, Walcott, Bolassie and Iwobi.

That picture of Thiago Silva was taken 20 seconds after he saw our lineup.

Suspending the season until the end of the January transfer window seems the most responsible course of action to me.