Shukes

Even if we get taken over, we will still struggle to put anymore money into the squad at least for the next 12 months.

He has missed a few, but I wouldn’t call them sitters. Come on… you would have bet money on a ten year old to get that on target. I honestly think Dobbin or Chermiti would have scored those chances, I wouldn’t have expected them to score the ones Dom missed. Time will tell I suppose. Beto will either stay here and make an impact… or he won’t and one of the others will step up. If either of those happened I would be happy.

Myko for me. Outstanding recently and loved his aggressiveness. Branthwaite was good, but him and Tarks let to many free headers in the box for me. They didn’t take control like they usually do. They were always going to equalise through a header.

Honestly? He literally had two clear easy chances and somehow managed to clear rugby goal posts. He was given chances I agree. But that wasn’t due to him at all, that was due to other players creating the chances. He was a million miles away from converting them. I respect your opinion mate of you think he is anywhere near the standard. Myself though… I’m think Dom is light years ahead of him and would like to see others given a chance ahead of him. He isn’t our future at all.

We have to stop putting him on the pitch. It’s ridiculous. The armchair fans are even calling for him to start before DCL now. I get he isn’t at this level, and that’s not his fault. But running like a headless chicken after a ball every now and again is fooling people into thinking he works hard. I watched him yesterday not even bother to go for easy balls and that’s not acceptable. And his pathetic attempt/attempts to stop the cross for the goal were laughable. Imagine if Dom missed the chances he missed. Our fans would be relegating Dom to non league status for those misses. We need to be bringing either Dobbin or Chermiti into it now.

Branthwaite you absolute beaut!!!!!!’

How has no one got on the end of that? Can’t take being an Everton fan for much longer ffs.

How typical. Take Dom off and we get a Dom chance that goes to Beto. He’s like a three legged Kangaroo with a head the shape of a fifty pence piece. Jeez we’re lucky there.

We’re sitting way to deep now. Inviting them in. We need to get out faster.

Game is opening up a bit here. We could Nick a goal.

Great crops from McNeil and what a strike from Doucs.

Brilliant bit of football from both there.

McNeil just hasn’t been the same for a few weeks now. I would be tempted to put either Dobbin or Chermiti out wide.

We’ve been finding it hard to play through them. Hoping that Onana can give us a bit more energy now and try to drag us up the pitch.

Come on Onana, surely you have something to prove now. Should be fired up for this.

Wasn’t it Gana who layed the ball right across thier penalty area twice to Doucoure from throwing a to put us right at there door? But then inevitably the ball was played straight back to Tarks. Drives me nuts. Garner to. Always sideways.

Most definitely. tackles in our box, moving the ball forward, passing the ball into thier penalty area. best player by far. Would love to challenge our fans to find the stats on our players passing. And have a friendly bet that Gana is top three at the very least.

Surely Gana has been the best player on the pitch? Everything has gone through him. It’s Garner and Doucs that are hiding again. Take one of them off. Preferably Garner… terrible so far. Slowing everything we do down.

I have been doing this in the kids training recently. Showing them how to run to the line and pull it back, the stay behind the ball and are now finding out how easy it is to meet a ball rather than have to step backwards to receive it. How pro footballers haven’t worked this out is beyond me.

His Pickford impersonation wound me up. We worked out of defence fast and had momentum, the ball came to Onana and he completely killed it and sent it right back. A few players had a moan and he held his hands up and said calm down…. Becoming a proper scouse!

Young and Harrison are just not at this level. Harrison look a like Davies used to… runs a lot, works hard…. But absolutely no quality. Young has obviously a football brain on him, but his body just doesn’t seem to know how to link up with it. Past it and needs to look into coaching or deliveries.

Going to be wildly unpopular here, but I’m changing my mind and thinking let’s cash in. I know he scored last night, but was it just me that thought he just slowed us down? He will only ever play a safe pass, never tries to thread it through. He is just so safe it slows our impetus down. If we could get 70 for him, I would snap there hands off. And now we have Garner. I think Garner is going to be Gana’s replacement, or could be if we cashed in on Onana.

It’s because people watch him waiting for him to lose possession. Once that happens they feel validated. He is generally our most accurate passer of the ball, and the one that will link play between defence and attack. Another one of those that you miss more when he isn't there.

Gana for me. Because he’s a favourite of mine and Palfy hates him.

Well deserved point there. We battled and worked hard, just lacked quality. It felt like we matched them on the pitch all game. Doms starting to look sharper as well. Looked more progressive today. Was good to have Gana back, even if we have to put up with the odd shot. He make our middle look a lot stronger. We just need to be a bit braver with the ball. But all in all a good performance. Would have Richarlison back tomorrow.