Match Thread Everton v Watford. 8th Aug at 15.00.

[Jayhow15]

this is what you get for not signing players before the season starts

We signed players, there's one on the pitch now.

Its 23 mins in FFS

 

[Tchnique]

This is like watching paint dry. Off the ball movement please ffs.

 

[wfc]

Quite pleased with our side so far. Are you usually this pedestrian, or are the injuries taking their toll?

 

[Big Fat Sam]

I'll say it again, like I do in virtually every single game he plays in; Ross Barkley is about a tenth of the footballer he is made out to be.

Plus Barry is a waste of space.

 

[LostLegend]

The 10% of GOT preseason optimists are all quiet after the first 20 minutes of the season. Safe in the knowledge that a comfy 12th lies waiting at the end. Optimistically speaking.

It's almost as if you want us to lose just so you can say "I told you so"

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Sake Howard.........Take all friggin day abar it why dontcha?

 

[RFUS]

Is it me or has Martonez dropped one here, he would have had at least 24hrs to plan a team with no Baines, who when Martinez usually sends his teams out is the only width offered on the left of his teams. Even with wingers fit last season we only ever saw one at a time, now my point is Cleverley and Galloway offer nothing going forward on the left, so if it had to be a CB at LB surely Oviedo, who has s bit of pace and a left foot could have gone ahead of him. That way Cleverley could have gone CM and Barry could sit on the bench.

Definitely a problem. Not helped by the fact that all our other wingers are injured. Without a marauding left back we have no width or dynamism on the left.

 

[LocalNative]

Playing Barkley, Barry, McCarthy and Cleverley all in the same XI is nothing short of ridiculous.

 

[BigBlueConk]

Agreed to work today so following on my phone. BBC said it was failure to deal with an easy cross that lead to the goal? Sounds familiar.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The lad had a yard of space at first, so our lads backed off and gave him 5 yards to get the cross in. Beauts.

 

[Walken]

Quite pleased with our side so far. Are you usually this pedestrian, or are the injuries taking their toll?

a little from column A, a little from column B

 

[Saint Domingo]

Get Osman on.

 

[AlE]

Absolutely nothing down the left...

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Playing Barkley, Barry, McCarthy and Cleverley all in the same XI is nothing short of ridiculous.

This.


This


And This again.

 

[riddick]

I hear grumbling but can't tell if it's booing. There's no way I would be booing right now if I were there.

 

[Garrick]

Quite pleased with our side so far. Are you usually this pedestrian, or are the injuries taking their toll?

This is the entirety of 14/15 rearing its ugly head.