Match Thread Notts Forest 0-1 Everton. Sat 12th april. 3pm

[Martin Alvito]

Against a team that gives up so much possession Doucoure is a liability. It isn't even an exageration to say there a Sunday league players better on the ball than he is.

I'm not. Your Sunday league must have better washed up players with no knees than I.

 

[NorthernBlue]

Another game that’s there for us to win but we just don’t have the quality to do it. Just like City and Liverpool away.

 

[rpm164]

Get Alcaraz and McNeil on as soon as possible

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Says a hell of a lot about the quality of this league that these are third.

This is why if we get recruitment right this summer we can make a dent in them European placements.

The league is absolute tripe.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Its a joke. If Forest is good enough be third the whole league is not very good. To say the least!

We are 15th

 

[lungo]

If we could play the ball forward half as fast as we play it backward, we’d win the league

Even backwards its not very fast it only looks fast when you compare it to the forward game. Everton needs at least 7 new players.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Patterson, alcaraz, chermiti, Beto iroegbunam and a half fit McNeil should be starting ahead of Harrison and doucure.

You left out everyone reasonably resembling a midfielder older than 17 in the youth teams

 

[Kraken]

I think we are doing alright.

Two points -
1. The ref is terrible.
2. I’m done with doucoure, he provides and produces nothing again. I’d be happy to not see him play for the rest of the season.

 

[TheBigIguana]

We are 15th

Which is quite the accomplishment given we employed one of the worst managers in football for half the year

 

[NathDogg]

You left out everyone reasonably resembling a midfielder older than 17 in the youth teams

Then as well mate, sorry, was just looking at the bench.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Patterson, alcaraz, chermiti, Beto iroegbunam and a half fit McNeil should be starting ahead of Harrison and doucure.

That’s too many players on the field

 

[Vintage]

Would take Gibbs-White in the summer

Doubt he would take us though

 

[Frenk]

Beto, Beto, Beto

 

[DanB90]

I long for the day we can go for decent footballers over willing runners.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

When a manager has been here a few weeks, I’ll take the “Doucoure must be showing something in training” shouts, but at this point he could be Maradona incarnate in training every session; his performances are consistently bad enough on the pitch that continuing to pick him is legitimate managerial negligence.