Match Thread Brighton v Everton - Sunday 15th October, 13:30

[KaiserEFC]

Will be a pitiful attempt at playing football. Might win it 1 nil

 

[TheFinnFan]

We will lose this but good thing is it will fasten Koemans departure

 

[GwladysBlue]

Is the $64,000 question that there's no sensible answer to... other than apart from Indian TV, nobody likes us

It's a disgrace.

Should be thinking about the people who actually support the club in this country.

 

[AndyC]

It's a disgrace.

Should be thinking about the people who actually support the club in this country.

Couldn't agree more mate.
I find it incredible that nobody is covering a Premier League fixture - is this a first ?
Hell will freeze over before a Man Untied (spits) or RS (spits again) game goes untelevised.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Another Everton match I am dragging myself to, hopefully not another dispiriting performance and result.

We are at must win stage already. Hopefully we prioritise some pace and power in the final third and Sigg in the number 10 role.

Pickford
Kenny Keane Jagielka Baines
Davies Gana
Vlasic Sigurdsson Lookman
Calvert-Lewin​

This is exactly the team I would go for. Pace and creativity out wide hopefully and a bit more of a forward threat with Davies in midfield. No Williams either

 

[wikofootball]

Everton win by 3.0 feeling optimistic

 

[Jamo Martinez]

6 pointer this.

 

[billyblue80]

Its a must win. But the way we are playing I can see them winning. Come on you blues prove me wrong!

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Would accept any score as long as Koeman doesn’t say “But yes that’s football” at the end of the game

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Would like to see
===Pickford====
Kenny===Keane===Jags===Baines
===Schneiderlin===
Gana=====Davies
===Siggurdsson===
Vlasic===DCL

Bench: Stek, Cuco, Tubby, Rooney, Klaassen, Niasse

 

[Sona]

Would love to see this:

GK: Pickford
RB: Kenny
LB: Baines
CB: Keane
CB: Jagielka
DM: Gueye
CM: Davies
CM: Sigurdsson
RW: Vlasic
LW: Lookman
CF: Calvert-Lewin

SUBS
Stekelenburg
Holgate
Schneiderlin
Rooney
Mirallas
Sandro
Niasse

Would offer width and pace both on the pitch and on the bench (Mirallas & Sandro to come on in the wing positions if needed).

Plus, no Williams in the squad.

 

[Soap]

1-0 loss.

 

[blue61]

Bore draw at best. Rooney to get man of the match for using his experience and tending the turf at half time.

 

[GwladysBlue]

It's quite funny and equally alarming that most people's teams don't feature Rooney, our biggest wage earner.

Absolute terrible signing.

Everybody in football knew he was finished, so we go hand him £150k p/w.

 

[Kenshin]

It's quite funny and equally alarming that most people's teams don't feature Rooney, our biggest wage earner.

Absolute terrible signing.

Everybody in football knew he was finished, so we go hand him £150k p/w.

The issue is himself though. He looks good doing what he is doing but he isn't fast enough or arsed enough to play as a striker and gives the ball away too many times to be a midfielder. Perhaps if the team had real attacking movement and pace we might see him be more effective but overall him playing means our record signing doesn't play in their best position.

I mean how crap are we? Break our transfer record for a player and treat him like just another player and shoehorn him into the team.

If Rooney genuinely played where he was meant to then maybe he would make more teams, but he has a tendency to basically wander off wherever he wants and not offer anything significant in a the game.

I'd even take him as the phantom captain on the pitch but he is silent