Stoke v Everton. 4th March at 19.45.

[Jacob]

Injured in the warmup apparently. Getting treatment on the pitch

Cheers...knew Id seen his name down on Sporting Life

 

[BernieWright13]

Barry horne doing co-commentary. Funny that....

 

[diggerdestroyer]

IF WE WIN HERE YOU CAN ALL HAVE £5 OFF ME.

I accept your offer. This is now a legal contract.

 

[toffeestillidie]

Why can we never play with 2 out and out wide men like last season, Mirrallas on the bench again, Naismith out wide.

Does this actually make sense to anyone?

See the thread about how pretty much none of the top teams in the league play 2 wide players. It's just not necessary with full-backs supplying most of the width. Even Moyes did it with Osman and Pienaar in the wide positions pretty often.

As for today, I'm happy Gibson is in, think he'll be crucial to breaking down their defense.

 

[scratchnsurf]

stoke midfielder glen Whelan injured in warm up, got excited thought it was howard

Easy mistake to make.

 

[FTY]

Win this blues

 

[BernieWright13]

This is gonna be like watching paint dry again but I won't care as long as we win. Does everyone think he's made the right call leaving barkley out ?

Rb been pretty ineffective most of the season. Not alone in that tho is he?

 

[tadpole]

My god, has it really come to this ? From the school of science to the dreaded 3 man central mid - where did it all go wrong ? Romelu, I hope you're feeling up to creating a few chances for yourself, because looking at that team I can't see where a goal is going to come from. Didn't the fact that we failed to score, or create too many chances, against Chelsea and Arsenal suggest to you Roberto that more direct tactics would be needed in the must win game against Stoke ? I can write the script for this game already - I hope I'm proved wrong - but I suspect that if I am it will be down to the players rather than Martinez's tactical brilliance.

 

[ForeverEverton]

See the thread about how pretty much none of the top teams in the league play 2 wide players. It's just not necessary with full-backs supplying most of the width. Even Moyes did it with Osman and Pienaar in the wide positions pretty often.

As for today, I'm happy Gibson is in, think he'll be crucial to breaking down their defense.

Not been convinced with Barkley or Naismith wide this season

 

[griffla]

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but WTF is going on with Kev?
Is he being left out of the side because of contract issues/being a tool about taking penno's?

 

[FTY]

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but WTF is going on with Kev?
Is he being left out of the side because of contract/being a tool about taking penno's?

Heart's not in it

 

[BernieWright13]

I would enjoy it if we won tonight, dunno about anyone else.

A win with a performance to be proud of would be something else

 

[bainesontoast]

Whelan injured for them - Not sure if that weakens or improves them!

Its one less thug to injure someone for us. One of their players most guilty of being technically limited so puts his foot in to compensate.

 

[FTY]

Looking at that team walking out then...how average have we become? Forget form, that team is chocca full of mediocre players

 

[paulbefc]

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but WTF is going on with Kev?
Is he being left out of the side because of contract/being a tool about taking penno's?

He has been left out along with Barkley because they have both been sh*te for all/a large part of the season, no more so than against Arsenal at the weekend.