Shukes

Get the F in Betttoooo!!!!!

Told you it would be worth starting him.

Come on boys, don’t care how unfortunate it is…. We need it.

This would be a gritty away performance. 

F you Dunc….. you did this!

3 hours ago, Matt said:

If we're very poor at converting chances, then the chances aren't good enough. 

Exactly. I had this conversation with a few others. We have been so poor that any chance we get we feel should be a goal. 
Dom had a chance the other week that people are shouting it’s a free header. They discount the big curly hair guy jumping into him and moving his body slightly while in the air to put him off. When I pointed this out I got…. He has to be stronger there!

I asked how you can be stronger while actually already in the air, but that went over their head.

Desperation affects our view because we want goals so badly. Dom has missed a lot of chances that if he was confident should be putting away. But he isn’t missing open goals each week.

Beto had a clear through one on one and the ball is actually in my back garden. 

On 01/03/2024 at 11:31, Romey 1878 said:

He's been on the bench all season.

Can’t score from there. 

Get him on the bench and show the young lads that if the can score goals down there they get a chance in the first team.

What was his sending off for?

Just now, patto said:

Unfortunately we don’t have much upfront Chermiti and Okoronkwo are our only options Okoronkwo has only just come back from injury and won’t be fully fit. 

I like the look of Chermiti. Seems to have a bit of aggression about him.

Okoronlwo looked to he flying in the reserves. He looked a man in a boys team so I hope he doesn’t come back and carry on where he left off. 
Maybe he’s one for next season.

Dobbin will probably have a couple of years growing out wide. 

On 28/02/2024 at 07:50, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

We have been watching different games then.

In fact I would go as far as to say DCL probably committed the worse miss of the season full stop, was it City at home where he was unmarked inside the six yard box and somehow manage to hook a half volley over the bar?

The other night he had two headers inside the six yard box and never managed to get either on target

Yes DCL is comfortably our best striker but you are trying to make out he is clinical in front of goal when the reality is he is far from it

DCL is a good all round striker and there is a lot to his game but his finishing is his weakest element

I’m not trying to say that at all mate. I think you’re trying your hardest to make something out of nothing mate. 
 

Im not going to argue anymore. Dom is hands down our best option for me. But he isn’t a natural goal scorer by any means. That shouldn’t be up for debate.

Beto is a three legged kangaroo on skates for me and offers the square root of nothing. Honestly for me that miss was absolutely terrible, but no surprise.

For me it’s time to start trusting the youngsters for a few matches and seeing what they can offer. If they offer nothing, we’re in the same boat.

12 hours ago, Matt said:

Why? We've barely spent anything of late and we can project increased revenue of BMD now we know the move in date to justify paying more up front.

We still need to earn the money first for FFP though don’t we. And as we’re about to be charged again, I would guess we still have work to do. 
Just me presuming, but I would imagine we have certain meets set for us that have been agreed to get back into green.

But that is me completely making it up in my head.

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

21 hours ago, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

I also think DCL is our best striker just don’t agree that we should stop using Beto and for the record DCL has also been guilty of missing quite a few sitters of late

 

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.

14 hours ago, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

Thought he looked more of a goal threat than DCL in twenty minutes than DCL has in the last 20 games tbh

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.

1 minute ago, Palfy said:

McNeil is the most invisible for me but I agree about Gana unfortunately he’s going off injured. 

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

Just now, Btay said:

 Not sure mate, I must have missed that. As I said though none of them have been good. I suspect he was carrying this knock which explains why he hasn’t quite been his buzzing self.

Hopefully Onana can get us ticking on the ball though..

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.