Everton v West Ham. 22nd Nov at 15.00.

[Donald Twain]

Just rewound it. Lukaku deffo off from Barkley's shot

I didn't need to as I'm great

 

[wellillwill]

yeah he was a mile off, i was shocked when it wasn't ruled out, but then i think because it came off the west ham player then that means he is onside????

He's considered onside if it's a deliberate attempt to play the ball (a la Stevie G against Uruguay putting it on for Suarez) but that seems a little iffy....

 

[davek]

HT summary: we're lucky to be ahead and WHU are hard done by.

*laughs*

 

[toffeejack]

Agree with all of that, hope he does come out for the 2nd half and is played in behind Rom. Shift Naisy wide and get Ross on the ball where he can hurt the opposition. I think the team in general need to be a bit less sloppy on the ball, been very wasteful.

neither of ross or naismith are good wide though tbh. based on the season so far, why should naismith be shafted out wide to accomodate for ross? in the main our wingers aren't good enough and their backups are a bit meh, hence why this is such an issue.

 

[DRM]

Lukaku for one or two more.
Someone off as well.

 

[VentureBrosEFC]

one of the nbc live extra commentators has been horrible...anyone know who it is? i'm guessing an ex-RS.

Gary Birtles and he is the same commentator that called a professional (in the champions league) a buffoon and criticized how he wore his jersey.

 

[peteblue]

Lukaku was offside. When barkley hit it he was in an offside position irregardless of the deflection. If lukaku was in an onside position when barkley hit it but was offside when deflected by the defender, he would have been onside.

Did the ref give it.......

 

[Wat Tyler]

Birtles still moaning!!!

 

[potato]

Same passage of play though. No way a defender should be punished for a deflected defensive block.

ye i guess so, bad officiating which benefitted us for once i guess

 

[streeky]

Hibbert is basically making it open season on our left side. Our back four generally looks out of sorts. Kev, as you might expect, has had a quiet game. Wouldn't take McCarthy off. He's been our most solid player. That whole thing over the tackle was handbags. Lukaku really can't hold up a ball, can he? Nervous here. We need another goal or two to settle nerves.

hibbert has no defensive cover in front of him at all. what can the lad do against 2 men

 

[Tubey]

Just rewound it. Lukaku deffo off from Barkley's shot

He does this more than Jelavic FFS

Still, 1-0.

 

[peteblue]

We need Etp'o on to make some intelligent play. He'll fashion a second goal for us.

He'll scare the crap out of them.......

 

[TrixyStevens]

These are woeful grocks everton, kill them.

 

[icburns]

just seen the red card the west brom fella got,

may just be me but i think that was soft as well

he didn't put any feet into the tackle he just ran into the player like a wrecking ball and took out the guy. yellow at worst.

SAUCE:
http://zippy.gfycat.com/EachJadedIndochinesetiger.webm

 

[toffeejack]

We are looking nervy with the ball at the back but overall they haven't been under real threat from West Ham apart from the sloppy passes. Correct that and West Ham will be struggling to create apart from lumps into the box. Bit of tinkering needed with the midfield needed.

yep, stones and alcaraz are the opposite end of the scale regarding comfortability on teh ball compared to jags and distin, hibbert is very slow in this area and howard is woeful so to be expected

 

[Rook]

just saw the tackle. Jeesh that was 50/50 and his studs weren't up. Defo not a red, Barkley on the other hand hell I wouldn't have had a problem with him being thrown out for that dive.