2020/21 Tom Davies

[BlueDraka]

Yeah at least wait until ko before slating him

Not slating him. I'd love him to come good. But in 4 years has not offered anything. No physical presence, no passing range and attacking threat. Like I said would love him to come good but have seen nothing in him yet

 

[Groucho]

Has anyone decided if he’s been terrible or great today?

 

[ToffeeTim]

Its a great chance for him and he has to perform. If he doesnt, it could be a long time before he gets another one.

 

[Sharpattack]

Has anyone decided if he’s been terrible or great today?

Terrible.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Nobody here wants him to do poorly mate.

We just know that's what we are going to get from him after 4 years of the same.

It's only natural for supporters to ask to see something from him when he's contributed very little since his first few appearances. That's not Carlo's fault, it's his.

We all hope he does well today. We just don't have any reason to believe he will based on his past 100 appearances and most of us have written him off.

Well let's give the lad encouragement then, not just slag him off.

OK there's been 5 pages of comments in this thread since the team was announced, and it's good to see that within them there are some encouraging ones. But when I made that post there was a page of pure negativity.

 

[Efcjake]

Well let's give the lad encouragement then, not just slag him off.

OK there's been 5 pages of comments in this thread since the team was announced, and it's good to see that within them there are some encouraging ones. But when I made that post there was a page of pure negativity.

Probably because most of us are Everton fans not Tom Davies fans.

 

[orly]

Terrible

 

[Barnfred 55]

I don't blame Tom. As you said, he doesn't pick himself (sadly - because I wish his performances made him an automatic pick). But Carlo isn't to "blame" either. This is what he is left with when we have a few knocks. A last resort. Davies's continued presence is an indictment of the last three years and how the club has operated in that time. If he is still in the side this time next year, he will either have developed into the player we all hoped he might be in 2017, or Carlo will, indeed, be responsible.

Here's hoping the lad has a stormer today.

I'm not saying it is Carlo's fault mate. We have three central midfielders out today when you include Gbamin, and presumably he didn't feel that Delph was upto 2 games in 4 days. I was just trying to deflect some of the animosity towards Davies.

 

[4737carlin]

Paying well

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Paying well

 

[orly]

The build-up to that goal was another illustration of James Rodriguez's influence on Everton.

With Tom Davies playing ahead of Everton's defence, the hosts passing had become a bit short and slow. Rodriguez probably realised that, grabbed the ball off Davies and pinged a long diagonal, which got Everton into the left corner of the pitch. Shortly afterwards, Gylfi Sigurdsson crosses from the same area for Dom Calvert-Lewin to head in.

The Colombian is winding up some of the Brighton defence, but he's showing his nous already

From the BBC

Save us James from the awful Davies

 

[Efcjake]

Call it off lads. We are off to the Pickford thread.

 

[sageyefc]

Been fortunate to have doucoure clearing up alongside him, been bypassed to often

 

[blueblue]

Playing well.

 

[Walken]

So clearly not good enough, too slow to get near a second ball. The drop off in quality with Ritchie, gomes and Allan off the pitch is palpable