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

[evertony]

Watford fans are going to bring snakes into the away end according to papers, still fuming that we have Silva

How many will they get in their two mini-buses?
We should take some oxygen tanks and wave them at Paper Lungs when he makes his only dash down the byline on eight minutes thereafter which he’ll be puffing out his hoop and getting subbed.

 

[Billysgingham.]

Watford fans are going to bring snakes into the away end according to papers, still fuming that we have Silva

But they sacked him.

 

[Rob17896]

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Watford up next, no rest for the wicked in the month of December.

A last minute defeat and a draw against a very poor Newcastle side sadly has us looking over our shoulder, with City and Spurs after this we could really do with all 3 points here. Teams are coming to Goodison and not just parking the bus, they are parking 2 buses and we are sadly being very wasteful infront of goal.

After a great start Watford have faded a little recently 4 defeats and a draw in their last 5 games suggests we should put these to the sword, if only the footy was that easy.

Goats 11 to start :

Pickford
Coleman - Zouma - Mina - Digne
Gana - Gomes
Iceland
Lookman - Tosun - Rico​

would not have Tosun in a pub team even though a pub team manager bought him.

 

[Rob17896]

What?!!!

No need to throw the towel in. Watford are a decent team but aren't in great form.

We are going to have high and lows this season. It's a transition season where we could very well end up 6th and qualifying for Europe. That would be way above expectation in August. A lot of that is down to United falling off a cliff but also we've placed ourselves in that position to be best of the rest and capitalise if any of the Top 6 have a bad season.

We'll get better as the season goes on. But we'll also have poor games. Not all the pieces of the puzzle are there yet. Going to take a few seasons of building before we can make it a Top 7 and we can provide consistent Top 4 challenges.

A 1-1 last night doesn't make us a bad team. Or one who can't beat Watford or put a good run of form together. Conversely because we matched the RS and went toe-to-toe with them for a 45 minutes, doesn't make us better than them.

Said it before and I'll say it again, one of the things that holds us back is the extreme nature of our fanbase. Every slight knock back is a disaster in some people's eyes. Every slight positive is built up to be more than what it is. Just need to concentrate on improving week by week, month by month. Season by season. Then we'll come a decent side again. Viewing everything through the prism of the recent derby game is killing some people's rational thought process.

It is NOT down to UTD falling off a cliff. They are a moderately decent team as are we.

 

[DanEFC92]

TON TON TON

 

[billyblue80]

Will take any kind of win

 

[ExpatinBangkok]

I had us down for an easy win last week, so I'm going for a Draw or us losing 1 - 0...we still struggle too much with teams that we should be beating routinely.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

1-1

 

[deipnosophist]

I had us down for an easy win last week, so I'm going for a Draw or us losing 1 - 0...we still struggle too much with teams that we should be beating routinely.

we are not very good in night games...

 

[RomanReigns]

i hope watford lose and elton john cry's to sleep the john lewis piano playing z cars stealing pile of .....

 

[Seathestars]

Come on blues

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Did I read that there was at least 1 goal scored in every game in the top leagues this weekend?
Nailed on 0-0 it is then

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

It’ll be 9am or so in NZL on a Tuesday morning when this game kicks off. I’ll be working, will only check GOT at 11am when the game will be finished, praying for good news. Up the Toffees.

 

[Deulofeumygod]

Must win. More nervous now and it’s on tv for the world to see.

Nervy 2-1 to us

 

[BlueInNZ]

It’ll be 9am or so in NZL on a Tuesday morning when this game kicks off. I’ll be working, will only check GOT at 11am when the game will be finished, praying for good news. Up the Toffees.

Im going again with my plan to see the line up then go media embargo until an evening "live" kick off with a beer. Not worked well lately this plan; I found out by some bizarre way that RS had beaten us by a freak goal so that was spoiled. Last time against the bar codes I thought delayed coverage started at 7pm. Got myself set up only to realise it started at 9pm. Stayed up for that, players run out, hand shakes, then blank screen...... nothing. Waited 20 minutes watching a blank screen drinking beer and still nothing. Ended up watching motd highlights. We have it just as hard down under being a blue.
Although funny thing today, got stoppedby the bizzies at a booze road check. Got yacking to this lad, talk soon turned to footie. He was a blue as well. Better class of bizzie down under.