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I think Sky Sports hijacking Kenwright and Moshiri after the game tonight and trying to get them to sack Frank live on TV is absolutely disgusting. How many times do you see reporters speaking to owners and board members after games likes that. It's a stitch up, and it stinks.

Was thinking exactly the same thing during the match

tough one, really though one. think I'm just gonna pass this week.

It's a complete lack of intensity that lost us that match. Every single one of them needs to be showing more on the pitch. The amount of passes back into our half is an absolute disgrace. The amount of times players receive the ball, put their foot on it and then have a look around to see what they wanna do with the ball. Gray a prime example of this and someone who should be pushing forward a lot more. The amount of lazy backward passes and pure half-hearted from him today, really pissed me off. But that goes for all of the players. Fuck confidence, fuck coaching, fuck tactics, fuck the board - today's on the players. They can't hide behind Frank, the board, Moshiri, or anything else; every one of them needs a good kick up the arse.

See what happens when you up the intensity a little. West Ham just started to up the pace a little and boom! FFS! We're so piss poor.

We're so slow in possession it's ridiculous.

Between two clubs? Not filling me with confidence that!

We'll be the richest club in the Championship next season.

Not sure if this was posted already https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/15/questions-mount-over-alisher-usmanovs-links-with-everton-fc

That's exactly may point. In a year's time, we'll be saying exactly the same thing and looking for the next quick managerial fix. At some point, you have to stick with something through the rough patch to get to the other side. And God knows we are in a rough patch. I honestly think that with a fit DCL this year we wouldn't be in this position. The season has pretty much played out very similar to last year, only this time round we have Maupay instead of Richarlison. Of course we're in the same, even worse, position! Again, I'm not trying to say Lampard is the answer, I'm just not convinced that anyone else (who we could realistically afford or who would come) could do much better. Add on top of that our dire financial state and I can only come to the conclusion that what it would cost to change the manager (and all his staff) would be better spent on improving the squad and getting in the best quality striker we can afford. If DCL gets injured again, were are 100% down. Our only chance of staying up is finding extra firepower up top, cos there are not enough goals in this squad! New manager or not, we just do not score enough goals. Let's say we do sack FL tomorrow (Monday), who here seriously thinks we'll have someone lined up already? What are the chances we'll have someone new in place for West Ham? What are the chances that Bainesy will be 'given a go'? Ok. I'll concede (even though a doubt the board have such competence), we sack FL on Monday and have a new man in by the end of the week. Best case scenario. That still doesn't leave much time to bring in new players that the new manager wants who we don't have money for anyway. It's also just continuing our recipe for disaster that has lead us here in the first place: chopping and changing the manager and creating a disjointed, confused, hodgepodge squad. How can this be answer? Whatever money we have I would be throwing it all at the best striker we can get our hands on.

If you keep twisting, sooner or later your gonna go bust, at some point you just have to say stick to have any chance in the game, even if you still only have 14. I very much feel that is the hand we have been dealt and the one we have to play right now. Even if we dealt it ourselves and have nothing up our sleeves. I'm not saying FL is the Messiah who will save us, far from it, but I just don't see how changing the manager once again is gonna save us. With the millions it would cost us to offload him I would much rather put that money into better players in the squad. Better players + same manager has a much greater chance of staying up than same players + different manager, at least in my opinion and taking into consideration our financial mess. For me, I think I'm (reluctantly) sticking on 14 and hoping to high heaven the dealer goes bust.

If anything after this weekend, the result and the protests, I hope the powers that be really start pulling their fingers out and getting some attacking options in this week, as we need it - on many levels. A decent transfer in would give everyone a lift before the next game.

I think you've been very generous with those points there! We need a huge turnaround in form to even consider getting anywhere near 40 points. Is DCL gonna stay fit and be the difference for us between now and the end of the season? Can we bring in sufficient quality firepower before the end of the month that can guarantee us more goals? These are the two questions, at this point in time, that will dictate whether we go down or not? Sadly, I'm not confident that the answer is positive in any regard.

Thought he looked absolutely broken at the end of the match. He didn't sound broken though in his post match. Disappointed? yeah; broken? Probably not.

Sad result. Just sad. Thought we played better than I've seen recently, which admittedly is not hard, but are just a really poor team. Sad. Again soft goals. How many times do we let in early second half goals. Sad. I honestly think Everton will finish bottom of the league this season. Sad.

Why do I continue to do it? I see it's a link from the echo, but I still click on it. Then spend the next 5 minutes looking for the actual article (which is of questionable quality to start with) amid the excessive number of instrusive ads and links to other non-articles. The content in the page unreadable as it keeps jumping around as more and more ads keep loading in the place you were trying to read. Fuck that shit. Fuck that site. Rant over.

Aren't Burkenise people from Birkenhead?

It's been as clear as day for a long time that the problems on the pitch go way deeper than who is the manager is. How many times in recent years have we heard players coming out and saying it's not enough - and it's the players saying that!! Seamus sticks out as one last year, amongst others, but look at Conor Coady's last interview - it's the same thing. It seems to me that there is a deeply ingrained (and sick) culture at Everton football club. It seems to me a kind of phone-it-in laziness, a lack of real commitment and lack of understanding of who they are playing for [Everton aren't we!]. Conor goes on about this in his interview, but what strikes me is are the repeated phrases about a lack of "personal pride", a lack of "standards" - and I quote, "It's up to us as players to set standards in our personal pride in what we do every day and we don't have that at the minute." He repeats these phrases several times, and for me, is basically admitting that the players at Everton are just phoning in it, every day! This is a culture thing, and as much as you can argue the manager is responsible for implementing the right culture, the players (as well as the whole back room staff) still need to get on board with that. I really don't see how sacking Frank and bringing someone else in is going to change anything. We are so far gone, it's unbelievable. We have a long, long road back to the echelons of English football. Chopping and changing is just prolonging the inevitable. We need to start building a solid structure within the club, philosophically as much as technically or financially. I still think Frank can play a key role in shaping that. Will he make mistakes along the way? Surely. Will his head be the one on the block if it all goes tits-up? Of course. It's easy to get rid of the manager, you just sack him - but that's the easy option. It's a lot harder to get to the root of the problem - it's the half-arsed, uncommitted, here-for-the-paycheck shirkers with no personal pride and a glaring lack of professional standards who, like dried on dog turd, are a lot harder to get rid of!

Has there ever been a vote where no one actually voted for anyone?

Love this!!

Anyone wanna discuss how this guy is just totally taking the piss out of all the current PL strikers? 20 goals a season? It's October, and he's already done and dusted!! Robots should not be allowed to play in the men's game. This is the era of gender equality after all!

Arsenal 1-1 Everton Maupay

Don't worry, I wasn't offended. I don't think I have any chance of winning the cash prize anyway. There is a cash prize, right?

To be fair though, I think the Tuchel sacking was a little too early. Whereas, for example, getting shut of Rafa was way too late!

I have the approach to most of these so called pundits along the lines of the old adage 'Those who can, do; those who can’t, preach.’ (sic)