John Stones

[sageyefc]

Poor today

 

[Dithering Dougie]

Yet again he switched off at a few corners today, the penny needs to drop John boy.

 

[Pabbers]

Whats the point in having a £50 million defender in that back 4!!!

 

[marsh]

Why does he do a Hibbert n back off about 30yards when someones running at him. Does my head in

 

[daz4matty]

Whats the point in having a £50 million defender in that back 4!!!

We play with 2 defensive midfielders every game and still leak goals for fun.
Stones is missing jags but as a team we are weak defending

 

[Pabbers]

But atleast stones' highlight reel will look good

 

[edge]

we have let more goals in than anybody in the top half that tells you how good are defense is, and thats with two sitting midfielders.

 

[Coffee and TV]

Martinez has done a good job making Stones into a great ball playing defender but without Jags next to him the actual defending part looks lacking.

 

[james2805]

Didn't think he was too bad myself.

Mori shouldn't have been so handsy for the first penalty. Gave the ref the decision to make.

Howard shouldn't have given Vardy the opportunity to dive over his legs.

And the third... Firstly we shouldn't have taken the throw in quickly as Stones was off the pitch having been pushed into the barrier section... We subsequently lost possession... Coleman trying to clear.. gets handballed clearly and bounces luckily into their path where Stones would usually be.

 

[Shagster]

But atleast stones' highlight reel will look good

For all Stones little cheeky nutmegs and relative comfort on the ball, he is far off being a top class defender in the class of Terry in his prime - and we need that now. Tony Adams was skipper of the Arse at 21 for all his flaws off the pitch, Stones is now where near the defender he was ...yet.
Will he get the coaching at Everton?

 

[mlyons]

We play with 2 defensive midfielders every game and still leak goals for fun.
Stones is missing jags but as a team we are weak defending

We haven't played with two defensive midfielders for a couple of months now.

 

[sageyefc]

Needs to improve his aerial game and not get overly cocky and overplay. Still love him though

 

[Screech]

End of the day, Everton's ability to perform at the cutting edge this season will largely dictate the future club commitments of players like Stones, Lukaku, Deulofeu. Despite my many facetious comments of late to the contrary, I am exceedingly disappointed in Everton's heretofore failure to articulate such performance. In short, this team is failing to deliver, vis-a-vis its talent, with results on the pitch. If such is not reversed quickly, a once in a generation golden, golden, opportunity will escape us....Everton that.

Christ it's like that episode in Friends where Joey discovers the thesaurus.

 

[Shagster]

We play with 2 defensive midfielders every game and still leak goals for fun.
Stones is missing jags but as a team we are weak defending

Honestly if we're serious about moving forward with Stones, then his future lies in the defensive mid role with a more natural CH behind him. Palace and Leicester turned up with Delaney,Dann, Morgan and the other bloke - who coped with our 'expansive' attack in both games without having to string two passes together

 

[daz4matty]

Honestly if we're serious about moving forward with Stones, then his future lies in the defensive mid role with a more natural CH behind him. Palace and Leicester turned up with Delaney,Dann, Morgan and the other bloke - who coped with our 'expansive' attack in both games without having to string two passes together

Stones will be a great centre half but not with martinez as manager.
He needs a manager that understands how to defend