Match Thread Stade Rennais vs Everton (A) 5.30pm, Saturday 28th July

[maccavennie]

We fans have known this for a couple of years, what are the people running the club doing?

Not much by the looks of it. Just not having it that 2 weeks before the season we have to put up with a past it Jagielka, a massively declined Baines and a pathetic excuse for a pro footballer in Michael Keane.

 

[Slippin Jimmy]

Our team look exhausted in these matches. Are they doing full training sessions before each match or what?

Not even the fitness coaches know what they're doing

 

[Papa Shango]

Holglate obviously has to start...

He is not the answer either.

Decent young prospect. If we are pinning our hopes on Mason Holgate we are in more trouble than we realize.

 

[streeky]

! team compact playing to their strengths, against a team of individuals with no shape and a suicidal formation. This managager is a snake oil salesman like the spanish clown martinez.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Problem isn't the manager. It's the players. No pace and no ability to read the game to make up for that. Schneiderlin, Keane and Jagielka are all not good enough.

To an extent, but Marco isn’t a build from the back type, and is also historically a one-season appointee. Building has not been his forte

 

[kizzi]

i'm worried we shouldn't have picked a modern attacking coach like Silva. our full backs always pushed up, slow defenders, no protection... we need a standard back 4, maybe start 3 center midfielders and hoof it to richarlison for counter attacks.. its not a coincidence we are getting 4 goals scored on us, most of them counter attacks

 

[HokieToffee]

Richarlison was the only one playing with a pulse out there outside of maybe Gana. Sandro is awful, as are almost all of our defenders and Dms. We need Digne desperately. And also a replacement for Schneids

 

[dancing llama]

We're still winning preseason 24-9 on aggregate though lol

 

[willjo]

That was horrendous. Need the other 5 silva wants asap, hope Digne wasn’t watching that.....

 

[BigBlueConk]

The problem is the players.
Didn't help with Koeman.
Struggle ever since.
Carry on Struggling. The unfunniest Carry On film ever staring Everton FC.

 

[Eggs]

..I suppose with that 22-0 win we are just about winning pre-season on aggregate.

 

[ToffeeDan]

So, to recap...since December: - on our travels:

an appalling 0-0 draw at (to be relegated) West Brom, 1-2 defeat at Bournemouth, 1-2 cup defeat at Liverpool, a dismal 0-4 defeat at Spurs, a pathetic 1-5 defeat at Arsenal, a 0-1 defeat at Watford, a 1-2 defeat at Burnley - a brief hiatus of a 2-1 win against 10 men (to be relegated) Stoke, a 1-1 draw at (to be relegated) Swansea, a 2-0 win at Huddersfield.. and a 1-3 defeat at West Ham..

and, now, with a clean slate.. (after whipping a bunch of farmers 22-0).. a scarcely credible 1-1 draw at Bury, a defeat on penalties to a rank poor Lille, a 0-1 defeat at Porto, a pathetic 0-3 defeat at Blackburn and a 1-4 defeat at Stade Rennais..

And you all keep telling me that everything is ok?

 

[Lelouch]

I’ll take that as a compliment from someone waisting a Saturday evening fuming and winging about a preseason game.

It’s preseason ffs. Get a life.

I was on the same boat as you before this game, "It's just pre season" but that is our pretty much first team getting annihilated by a mid table french team, We offered nothing creative apart from some Richarlison moments, Any average Joe walks through our midfield. Our Defenders with a 5 yard head start getting burned.

We are in trouble lad.

 

[mawders]

clearly we need a manager who is going to put defense first, no nonsense stuff, ugly football that doesn't lose you games. Does anybody know of such a manager who might be free at the moment?

 

[daza_1973]

You can throw the bed wetter aspersions around all day on here, but that group of individuals are running out at Molineux in two weeks time - the transfer window has been open for four weeks and we have one new player.
It's time to start worring