Match Thread Everton v Watford - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[bring back the catt]

TBF the problem isn't the u-23s being awful, it is senior players being undroppable. Bad performance should - must, really - be punished ruthlessly, yet a succession of managers (Moyes with P-Nev, Martinez with Kone/Alcaraz, Koeman/BFS/Silva/Ancelotti with Iceland) have tolerated it from some players even though not punishing it destroys team morale and cohesion. The youth know they won't get a chance, so they are going to do what Small or that kid who went to Angers did, and the senior players know they won't get binned off so aren't arsed either.

Simms, Dobbin and the rest might be crap, but without giving them a proper chance we are never going to get better. If Simms is fit for the Wolves game, he has to start. If he isn't fit, Dobbin has to. Picking Rondon again would be a complete disaster.

This is oh so painfully true.
Not too long ago, the England 20's team won their World Cup with FIVE Everton players in the line up, with one other in the squad.
DCL is the only one to graduate to the Everton first team, but only because of garbage management not to use the fee receive for the sale of Rom. The question is, what happened to the other players? How is it a player can be considered good enough to represent their country, and then be deemed unworthy to develop and play for their own club? One or two maybe, but five out of the six? Dom the exception, but purely out of professional incompetence, and mis-management, and misuse of finance.
Were they really not good enough, or, and I suspect this to be the case, wasn't sufficient quality coaching being done for their development.
I've typed this many times that this club is run like a toy shop. Their is inbred incompetence at every level as there are personnel employed at the club mainly because they 'get the club'. It is true, but, the club they did 'get' was twenty years ago, and that is were the club has remained.
I don't want employees who 'get the club', I want employees who Get Results.

 

[marsh]

It's a good job we have the world's greatest ever manager to turn things around and not an ex kopite who has just been managing in China, otherwise we would be in trouble.

 

[Groucho]

As an aside, the ref genuinely was crap.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Same old,same old,bloody cowards picking up top dollar,what a sorry mess we are,yes we have injuries,but that total capitulation is an absolute disgrace,I couldn't care less if I never see Digne, Keane,Davies,Rondon,Iwobi,etc ever again in an Everton shirt, without Mina we cannot defend set pieces/corners,the manager too has to shoulder a lot of that today basically sitting on a lead,taking both Gray and Gordon off was madness just saying come and have a go at us which credit them they did.

 

[terryefc]

Gordon and Richarlison were very good...Allan as well aside from colliding with Godfrey.

Richy I'll give you. He was my MOM but the bar was very low. Not impressed by Gordon and never have been. Has no end product and seems too weak.

 

[BlueToff]

Watford are the first team in Premier League history to be losing after 75 minutes and still win the game by three goals. The previous record was also against Everton, who led until the 74th minute against Newcastle but lost 4-1 in January 1997.

 

[deipnosophist]

Just woke up and seen the result...the only thing I can say is...


...Everton that

 

[ToffeeTim]

As an aside, the ref genuinely was crap.

Think we are truly clutching at straws to blame the ref...

 

[PhilM]

As an aside, the ref genuinely was crap.

Lots of atrocious decisions, but we didn’t help our selves with some theatrics that Bill would have been gushing over.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

I've just paid for my season ticket...................................................For Warrington Wolves 2022. Come on the Wire

 

[Runub]

Just woke up and seen the result...the only thing I can say is...


...Everton that

Maybe go back to sleep again and when you wake up it will all have been just a bad dream

 

[mahermi1]

As an aside, the ref genuinely was crap.

Yeah I thought we were the away team the way he was ignoring us, Gordon got no protection at all from their grunts.

 

[Daz1878]

Just back from this. What an utter disgrace. Would be a sacking result if he hadn't just taken over. Playing Rondon for 90 mins should be a sacking offence in itself, to be honest.

 

[thebluebullet]

Just been watching Skysports highlights on YouTube,as expected the comments are just full of gloating laughing RS.

 

[mahermi1]

Richy I'll give you. He was my MOM but the bar was very low. Not impressed by Gordon and never have been. Has no end product and seems too weak.

Thought Gordon was one of the few, who could actually hold his head up today mate, winning before he went off.