2025/26 Jarrad Branthwaite

[pfim]

Garner offers more offensively than JOB and Rohl will learn his trade playing alongside Gana. I agree I think it would improve us as a side.

Garner has been our best CM and Rohl has played 46 minutes thus far. I don't think Garner plays RB unless one of the three CBs gets injured or we're down a goal.

 

[Saint Domingo]

But that wasn't what the club were going to do, that's the point. Most people were able to see what the choice actually boiled down to and so were basing their opinion off that, others were living in a fantasy land where the alternative to re-signing Keane was making a signing who significantly improved the squad. Everybody wanted that, but most were intelligent enough to realise it wasn't on the table. Not all though, sadly.

Will have to agree to disagree. There’s more players in the world than Adam Webster who could have replaced Michael Keane as a better squad option at Everton without jumping all the way to ‘keeping Keane or signing Saliba’.

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

On the bright side, he'll probably never leave at this rate.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Ah yeh, my bad, the greatest striker in the world tricked him so he must be terrible.

If he’d have done him with some outrageous piece of skill you’d have a point but suddenly slowing your run into the box to buy a yard from the defender is pretty basic centre forward play. Also I’m not the one arguing he’s been terrible this season, you’re arguing he’s been great, so when I put forward an example of him not being great you then can’t scorn an argument for the extreme binary position that I’m actually not making.

He’s been ok in my opinion, decent in some games, poor in others. Wouldn’t say he’s been terrible, wouldn’t say he’s been great either.

 

[Lanolin]

Will have to agree to disagree. There’s more players in the world than Adam Webster who could have replaced Michael Keane as a better squad option at Everton without jumping all the way to ‘keeping Keane or signing Saliba’.

But you’re still missing the point. That is who they were going to sign according to their own client journalists. Whether you think you could have found somebody better is completely irrelevant, the club had narrowed it down to those two options and like I said initially (and at the time) it was very obvious that would be the case, and the reaction to Keane re-signing was based on that (correct) assumption.

 

[Nymzee]

If he’d have done him with some outrageous piece of skill you’d have a point but suddenly slowing your run into the box to buy a yard from the defender is pretty basic centre forward play. Also I’m not the one arguing he’s been terrible this season, you’re arguing he’s been great, so when I put forward an example of him not being great you then can’t scorn an argument for the extreme binary position that I’m actually not making.

He’s been ok in my opinion, decent in some games, poor in others. Wouldn’t say he’s been terrible, wouldn’t say he’s been great either.

And a perfectly good enough PL backup CB that's doing his duties well whilst Branthwaite is out. We've missed him, but not as much as I thought we were going to.

 

[preposterousvelios]

How is it insane? On form, right now, Tarkowski is out of the team for Branthwaite. If you think otherwise you have an agenda.

I posted stats just for views; they are of course hard to read at face value. Low score for tackles per game doesn't mean he's crap at it, he could only attempt 1 per game. (He's won 4 of 5 defensive third tackles just for ref).

It's not an agenda. We had one of the best defences in the league last season, largely due to the partnership of Branthwaite and Tarkowski. Start of last season was the same with Tarkwoski struggling having to play next to Keane, seen the same happen to Mina while he was here as well.

As you say stats can be hard to read at face value, but I know what I see when he plays. He unsettles the rest of the defensive line. He's never been able to form a partnership with another cb at Everton because he looks an absolute nightmare to play with. He's alright facing the opponents goal winning headers and making clearances, but he often leaves big gaps behind him and when he has to turn and move he completely loses his bearings.

Watch an actually good cb like Branthwaite who always looks assured, makes it look easy, knows where to be. Then watch Keane and you notice, he's always slightly out of position, wrong body shape most of time getting caught flat footed or with his back to the ball.

As I said, he's improved a bit this season but we desperately need him out of the 11 imo.

 

[14_dollars]

We are in deep trouble if this is true.

 

[davek]

Garner - JOB - Keane - Mykolenko

I'd go with that.

Of course we could go with Dibling as a right wing back (which IIRC S'ton tried?) and play JOB - Tarkowski - Keane as the back three. Then again, Moyes...

 

[Ring master]

Garner - JOB - Keane - Mykolenko

I'd go with that.

Of course we could go with Dibling as a right wing back (which IIRC S'ton tried?) and play JOB - Tarkowski - Keane as the back three. Then again, Moyes...

Everytime someone puts JOB. I think for a splitt sec who the heck is that like he's a new player

 

[Charro]

How is it insane? On form, right now, Tarkowski is out of the team for Branthwaite. If you think otherwise you have an agenda.

I posted stats just for views; they are of course hard to read at face value. Low score for tackles per game doesn't mean he's crap at it, he could only attempt 1 per game. (He's won 4 of 5 defensive third tackles just for ref).

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Tarkowski still a lot better than Keane at defending.

 

[davek]

I like Tarkowski, he's a proper good snide and all round nice fellow etc.

But he's played like a complete amateur since the end of last season.

 

[ToffeeScot]

His injury issues make it feel more and more like we should have sold him rather than give him a bumper new contract despite how good he is and has been for us. He changes the game for us in terms of how he can put us on the front foot from the back and his defending in general but should we have took the money and invested in two CBs instead?

 

[Joey66]

I like Tarkowski, he's a proper good snide and all round nice fellow etc.

But he's played like a complete amateur since the end of last season.

Both slow as the game goes on - v a very good side - plus our full backs our naff.... excuse the one out of position ...

 

[davek]

Left field shout - and I mentioned this yesterday - I see a CB in Iroegbunam.

We might have to start thinking that way too if we get an injury to Keane.