Everton 1-2 Bolton. 4th Jan @ 20.00.

[Boss Lid]

jesus, I`ve got tickets for spurs and villa next week, not looking forward to that !

 

[Dublintoff]

Not looking forward to my flight over on Sat against non league opposition, looks out bottle of bleach for the game.

Im flying over with my lad on saturday aswell. They fcukin better put on a performance and score some goals or i will seriously consider telling my young fella to just choose a different team. Thats how raging i am.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

We essentially lost 0-2 there - the Tim Howard goal was unbelievably fortunate.

 

[billycopper]

Injury problems fair enough, but too many players not doing the business. Neville, Saha and Cahill should have to fight for their places.

 

[BlueLlama]

Remember this - our game was horribly influeneced by injuries meaning we re-shuffled several times. It was awful to watch but then the wind was swerving the ball all over the place

 

[faddy the blue]

No clue. I'm fuming at the defending in the 2nd half.

What the **** did saha do? What the **** did Cahill do?

The moment he saw that he had a chance to bring Cahill on after Rodders got injured, he brings Mr. Free Entry into the team.Why wouldn't you give Mcfadden a chance? FFS!..
Hoof, hoof and all hoof in the second half. Welldone Landon, Straqula, Baines and Howard.


I don't expect 10000 for tamworth...I'm not arsed who we face next in the league, just give em a ****ing walkover.

Kenwrong, Moyes, Hibbert, Neville.....................OUT!

 

[Abraders]

We were badly badly gash.

But with saying that, we lost the game after all 3 subs completely ****ed up our formation - i mean come on saha, straq AND Cahill. Put Neville in midfield too and well what can you expect.

Neville, Cahill and Saha are past it. Straq isn't hitting the ground running - althought for me he IS showing promise.

Edit: Forgot to say though. It was MOYES who chose to bring on cahill.

 

[markp]

Moyes has gone stale,players don't seem like they would die for him no more,I reckon they are bored of his tactics,training etc.

 

[Dublintoff]

It was only him who kept us in it first half mate

I dont care. The game is poised at 1-1, which is bad enough at home to them and he ducks out of a challenge with ngog and punches instead of an easy catch, and its 2-1. I shouted it at the screen as he did it, terrible decision which cost us.

 

[evertorial]

[video=youtube;4diAQSrJNs0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4diAQSrJNs0&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[Bigmaclad]

Pass the bleach.

 

[Deathspike]

I've said it time and time again, our problems have nothing to do with playing 4-5-1.

More or less, we've been sloppy on possession, we've given away too many free kicks, and we've been sloppy with defending as well. Had none of this been the case, we still would be better off in the table than we are now.

This season we haven't had TOO much choice in terms of our midfield options with Arteta and Pienaar being shipped out. Cahill is better off being played higher up the pitch, Fellaini, Rodwell, Neville, and Heitinga are all defensive mids or center halves and Barkley is still VERY young. Our only other options are Osman, who is injured now, and Bily in the center of midfield which is not guaranteed to work.

With all that being said, we're still 11th place with a game in hand. In January, we need to either blood Barkley or we need to buy/loan some sort of creative, central mid. I think with Vellios, Stracq, Big Vic, McAleny, Donovan, and Big Vic all able to play up front we will be alright if we don't get another striker.

One other thing is that the injuries absolutely killed us in this match. You can bet Saha would have come off for Big Vic by the end of the match. Ossie was pretty bright in the first half as well.

 

[froggyted]

A truly awful display , horrible season hitting a new low along with our attendance tonight , woeful stuff , can forget about doing anything in the league now , what little hope we did have coming into this , gone .

Totally, totally agree. Kenwr*ght can hang his head in shame for the lack of quality at our Club now.

We're gonna get stuffed by Spurs, and probably by Villa too. How long before the masses on the terraces realise that things aren't good enough and we're going nowhere but a downward spiral?

Only saving grace was Donovan's performance in the first half - quality. And Howard's goal of course. In fact, Howard was quality, too. He might just end up our leading scorer at the end of the season.

Did everybody's stream go down about 15 minutes before the end? I tried them all and they wouldn't load, i guess they were blocked, looks like i've wasted my £7.50 at livefootball.net. Or did some kindly fat controller decide to end my misery?

 

[Tin-Tin]

No matter what team/subs/tactics are used, there is no excuse for the persistant long ball. We couldn't control the ball or play a simple pass and the lack of ideas and movement we have is worse than any other team in the league.

 

[Lien]

I've said it time and time again, our problems have nothing to do with playing 4-5-1.

More or less, we've been sloppy on possession, we've given away too many free kicks, and we've been sloppy with defending as well. Had none of this been the case, we still would be better off in the table than we are now.

This season we haven't had TOO much choice in terms of our midfield options with Arteta and Pienaar being shipped out. Cahill is better off being played higher up the pitch, Fellaini, Rodwell, Neville, and Heitinga are all defensive mids or center halves and Barkley is still VERY young. Our only other options are Osman, who is injured now, and Bily in the center of midfield which is not guaranteed to work.

With all that being said, we're still 11th place with a game in hand. In January, we need to either blood Barkley or we need to buy/loan some sort of creative, central mid. I think with Vellios, Stracq, Big Vic, McAleny, Donovan, and Big Vic all able to play up front we will be alright if we don't get another striker.

One other thing is that the injuries absolutely killed us in this match. You can bet Saha would have come off for Big Vic by the end of the match. Ossie was pretty bright in the first half as well.

I admire your optimism pal but the amount of times I've tried to look at things like this only to be let down is ridiculous.

We have run out of excuses. We are a team with a few good players playing diabolical football and a manager in charge who is overseeing that, money or no money. Hence, we are losing games. Hence, we are moving backwards as a club.