Match Thread Everton 2-3 AFC Bournemouth (Sat 31 Aug 3:00 PM)

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Right, time to try and forget this horror show and try to get something out of this weekend

I’ll probably fail, but still

 

[TrachyBlue]

We are the absolute laughing stock of English football

And rightly so, unfortunately

 

[anton66]

The house of cards keeps collapsing with a destroyer of football at the helm. He has no idea how to setup a game plan and even more no idea how to defend a lead. Pathetic.

 

[Bkk Andy]

We are the absolute laughing stock of English football

Today we are. Tomorrow we'll be forgotten and irrelevant again.

 

[Bluebonic]

Absolutely shell-shocked after that! After all the screanming and cursing were out of my system three questions came to mind…

1) Why do we employ so many ‘professionl athletes’ who cannot compete for longer than 80 minutes? No other team in any of the four leagues runs out of steam like we do?
2) Why do our considerable tall and muscular centre halves struggle so badly to deal with. Rosses?
3) Why, when two nil up and suddenly coming under the cosh at the end, do none of our players take a booking for the team or time waste, to break up the flow of the oppositions play?

My brain is wrecked after that, one of the most entertaining Everton performances for a long time, yet we spewed our rings up and handed it over to them.

 

[Gotagotmug]

Not reading the room but an attempt at some positives:
- Ndiaye can beat a man, play a forward pass, and genuinely looks a cut above the rest.
- Tim Iroebgnum looks great (for 80 minutes)
- We played some of our best football under Dyche between the 45th - 80th minute.
- Branthwaite coming back should make the back line a little less useless.
- No Everton for 2 weeks, so that's two safe weekends.
- I thought I had got numb to Everton being Everton, but this current state of shock and anger has made me feel something.

That's about it really. I can't believe how disgraceful that final 10 minutes was.

 

[ste d' indica]

I feel like this club only exists to find new ways to torture us now.

 

[Bkk Andy]

Right, time to try and forget this horror show and try to get something out of this weekend

I’ll probably fail, but still

I didn't have a single crap weekend during the off-season. But that feels like a lifetime ago.

 

[HTCHERO]

Coleman showed his age late. Myko is worse than Young. Tarks hasn't been good this year. Keane is still Keane.

Myko clearly isn't fit and Coleman has been poor for 3-4 years on my view

 

[ValBlue]

Another 3 shipped at home

 

[joseph]

2-0 up at home against a no-mark team like Bournemouth and the players start peeing down there legs. No leadership from top to bottom. We're in deep water here.

 

[Toffeelen60]

Still in shock can't believe what I've just seen, from our best performance for ages tooour worst collapse I've ever seen from any team manager and players left on pitch wtf was that

 

[MinkyJoe]

Well that was a real kick in the teeth...Mykolenko criminal for the first goal.

However we don't need to be too downhearted, from what I saw, (most of the second half), until the capitulation we played really well, looked very bright, playing with intent and snapping into challenges.

We are going to be absolutely fine this season, a kick in the teeth for sure, but ultimately the only real cost to us might be we finish thirteenth instead of twelth.

 

[Mr PEN86]

People

My 8 year old grandson’s first game. Don’t let him down Everton!

I'm sorry man

 

[heatmeiser]

Another 3 shipped at home

Could have been 4 or 5 too but for a few incredible Pickford saves, which are obviously irrelevant now, but they were proper saves