Everton v Stoke. Boxing Day at 15.00.

[R.Reddington]

Trip to Newcastle on Sunday

 

[ah11984]

Can the people still calling these dire performances "bad form" stop being so damn delusional!!!

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Just pmsl at the whole circus today.

Coleman and Baines - what's happened to them?

Jagiella, the captain, nowhere to be seen when the referee was bottling decisions all over the place.

Standard backwards and sideways football.

Barkley absolutely horrendous, same with Naismith. No need for Barry and McCarthy playing together.

Lukaku drifting out wide constantly.

Relegation dogfight it is. Six points off 19th and it's nearly 2015.

 

[toffeejack]

id be doin more than booing if i was there, thanks alot martinez

i think there would be a bullet right between mason's eyes. not even sure where i'd get the gun from.

at the end of the day, you can blame martinez all you like, we had about 8 or 9 injuries in that one game with every decision going against us. he can pick bad formations and players out of position, but the players are playing utterly terribly week in week out. everyone's to blame, no point in having a scapegoat here.

 

[LocalNative]

Expectations are being set too high. We're no better than those around us.

 

[toffeemax]

No positive post match spin in this press conference, Martinez needs to come out and say that that was woeful. He needs to look at playing out and out wingers and not barkley on the left.

 

[Walken]

Expectations are being set too high. We're no better than those around us.

burnley?

 

[moosed]

Where was basic today ?

 

[Toffee-nerd]

It's 4am here, I start work at 8.30 yet I'm up watching that [Poor language removed] [Poor language removed].

Disgraceful.

Same here mate. I'm not doing this anymore, sick of being tired and a grumpy old cart the next day. Back to England in Feb too so the next day I'll be tired, grumpy and 40 quid poorer. Everton ey.

 

[L4Everton]

Awful that. Again. Wouldn't mind but not even seeing any dislike being shown. Took a clobbering from Stoke and smiled all the way through it. Gutless, heartless, passionless, circus clowns. Has a club ever fined an entire squad a weeks wages each?

 

[KevMirallas]

Signs were there in preseason. The football has been turgid all season. The results now seem to be reflecting that, but worse yet I just don't see the spirit in the team to break out of it.

I dunno what happens from here. Moyes teams had a habit of recovering from slow starts well, but I don't know if a Martinez one will.

 

[sarath]

West Ham are [Poor language removed] 10 points clear of us!!!!!

 

[arch stanton]

it seems the plan is pass it around a bit and something good will happen. When we get closed down (which every team have cottoned on to) we dont have anything else. We NEED to mix the play up, some long and direct, some passy passy. Mason was shoite.

 

[Jozzy]

Expectations are being set too high. We're no better than those around us.

Our squad is much better than everyone currently around us.

I still think anything but a too 7 finish is a failure all things considering. I just know this season is really looking like it'll be a failure.

 

[faddy the blue]

Get to 40 points FFS.