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I have gone with Doucoure, closely followed by Allan who once again played the captain’s role the only voice we have on the pitch, but that couldn’t complete with the power of the Duke were would we be without hard work . I know but I won’t say, oh fuck it why change a habit of a life time Qatar

The leather disintegrated on them 50 years ago Bill

To be fair although we didn’t click as well as we would have if DCL and Richarlison were playing, I never felt we were under pressure or we could lose this, some commentator from the beeb said some Everton players didn’t even get a sweat on Norwich were that bad, being a blue I would say because we were that good

I think knowing that he takes the record of most drivers championships won if he wins this year is slightly getting to him, but I’m confident he will come good

We sell more umbrellas than sunglasses .

And he works his nuts off, who needs James sorry I just couldn’t resist

We’ve always wanted youngsters to get an opportunity your wish has been granted, Gordon, Braithwaite, Simms and Dobbin.

Everton 2-0 Norwich Townsend

I do, I want hard working players with ability and a brain as well.

Seriously

Great post, the perception by some that if you didn’t want James in your team you lack ambition is ridiculous, personally I was tired of watching us play with 10 men and hoping 11th might do something now and then, and as the weeks went on that got less and less likely. It would seem that 99.9% of clubs in Europe could see that and weren’t interested, shame more on here can’t see he wasn’t a force anymore that had deserted him years ago. Or the other excuse why he should be here even though he’s weak on the pitch is he’s great for marketing, oh fuck off another ridiculous statement.

Mate it would be boring if we always agreed, I’m happy to agree with you as well as disagree with you

Nearly everyone was against me and my views Koeman, I don’t think I was far off when I posted that, just took most another year to realise it

Not with me mate you need to look a bit closer I was more than happy with him in September 2020 before the end of October 2020 I was having my doubts, I’m no fool mate I’m not completely taken in by someone who shines in his 1st 5 league games then does very little in the next 19. It’s becoming more clear that he wanted to leave even before Ancelotti left, and if we do finish in the bottom half of the league how do you attribute that to Benitez, he’s just got here this isn’t his mess and Rodríguez was most definitely not going to change it. For me he was never a hero and he isn’t a villain, he came here started well and finished poorly wanted to leave and got his wish, I’d rather he was prepared to take a wage cut and went to Porto before transfer window closed, to give us a chance of getting someone in who wanted to be here. If you’re such a James fan and pissed with Everton then you know where he’s gone so enjoy your time watching the Qatari league I’m sure you’ll be much happier.

What you trying to prove here Steve?

I agree about Allan and Doucoure, how long can Allan carry on playing at the intensity he does I don’t know possibly another season 2 at the most. I don’t see Gbamin taking over from him to be honest I don’t see him ever being a regular in the team, which is a shame really after all the bad luck he’s had to endure.

One 30 year old Colombian who did very little after a magnificent 6-8 game start with less than a year left on his contract wants to leave and that means the club have no ambition, why because they have allowed it or because they never begged him to stay. Is every player who’s left this club done so because the club has no ambition, I really don’t understand that argument that we are shit because we lack ambition, the money spent the managers changed show ambition, with poor decision making the club has invested heavily but we’ve had the wrong people making the decisions. Why are we less ambitious than Spurs West Ham Arsenal Chelsea Leicester Man City Man Utd or who ever you want to name why I don’t understand.

There was no turn of phrase he was asked a straight question he didn’t know the answer someone else had to tell him, your only trying to find excuses for him because you know it’s showing he has no respect for the club, and that clearly doesn’t suit your argument. He’s gone of his own free will he hasn’t been pushed out he walked out, he’s gone to a very poor league for one thing the money that would appear more important to him than the football, he could have gone to Porto the team he dreamed of going back to but he wasn’t prepared to negotiate on the money, someone with a reputed 65 million who would give up his dream because he wouldn’t accept somewhere in the region of 50k a week. I don’t think any on here is doubting he had quality but he wanted to leave and he’s got what he wanted and kept his money at the same time and now he’s just history.

Exactly.

He was speaking in Spanish when he said it not English, now you know that how do you stand.

What type of stir do you foresee?

I think Tosun and Walcott were Brands signings along with Gomes Delph Iwobi and Bernard, Brand’s has over seen probably more poor signings than Walsh and for definitely more money, Walsh has been gone for 3 years but will be blamed for the shit we are in until the tide turns then you will be praising Brand’s for the turn around even if it takes another 3 years. My hope is that Benitez rides all over Brands the team improves and the owners realise they don’t need Brands.

Agreed they are, yet they aren’t or weren’t considered big players that were being looked at by clubs of our size and stature, Benitez is possible the first manager who has bought players in for the positions that need filling, as he said I would have liked money because I could have got a better standard of player, in the past we have just been buying players who have had one or two decent seasons or who have a good past but are close to their sell by date, but most seem to have been bought with no concern as to how they improve or fit into the team, Rafa has shown if you buy players that you need to play for your system they don’t have to cost millions.

I’m more concerned that we don’t lose to Norwich now that would put the skids under the team’s confidence, Rafa didn’t have much to choose from but put players out who have played in the the PL a fair amount of time’s, they should be doing better against the likes of your QPRs to be fair. He held back Gray Doucoure and Allan to give them a rest, and put Iwobi Gomes and Davies in they should be doing better than they did against that opposition same as Holgate and and Godfrey. I won’t be blaming Rafa for the lack of good options due to 5 years of miss appropriation of funds, it’s like we are relying on the same 11 players to be fit and play every single game, take 4 out due to injuries and we are fucked really after spending over 500 million since Moshiri took over, yet we blame Rafa who’s had nothing to spend and we call the 2nd round of the league cup our final, Christ we are in a shit state.