Cheltenham 1-5 Everton. 7th Jan @ 19.45.

[ArtetaMagic]

Barkley, Duffy, Velios and Hitz in. Keep the rest as it was

 

[Netromelo]

Heitinga just deleted a tweet saying he has a small injury and will miss the game.

 

[Del]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/everton-boss-david-moyes-will-hand-1522148?



FFS, why can't he just treat this like a normal game? It will be a tough game. He never learns does he? The Leeds game showed that.

What did the Leeds game show? The only massive changes to our team that night was playing Junior at CM, Oveido and Gueye started but they can hardly be classed as kids

We had Felliani,Naismith,Vic,Mirallas,Colman,Distin,Heitinga,Jelavic and Pienaar on the pitch at some point, Most started

The truth is we had a poor game in nearly every postion on the pitch, It had nothing to do with resting players, Leeds battled more and wanted it more on the night

If we can not rest 2-3 first team players against a 2nd Div side they we have major issues

 

[efc1878efc]

If we start Mucha, I have a feeling we could become another FA CUP "Slip up" .

oh well either way ill be there.

 

[Slavan]

Cheltenham's preparations for Monday night’s FA Cup third round tie against Everton have been hit after the club suffered a burglary at their training ground.
Thieves broke into the Seasons Conference Centre and ransacked the dressing room, taking wallets, watches and phones belonging to the players.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-20929874

Will it make them more determined?

 

[ToffeeBlueNose]

anyone else a bit jittery after all the giant killing this weekend? We need a professional approach to this game because if we treat is as a gimme then we could end up with egg on our chin.

 

[efc1878efc]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-20929874

Will it make them more determined?

Yes, We are going to now loose.

 

[Allezfan]

We're a better team then they are, though.

Even our fringe players will be on more money and have better prospects then their best players.

Treat them with respect by all means, but we shouldn't be sacred.

 

[ToffeeBlueNose]

We're a better team then they are, though.

Even our fringe players will be on more money and have better prospects then their best players.

Treat them with respect by all means, but we shouldn't be sacred.

The mental strength of some of our fringe players scares me though and given our lackluster approach to teams considered 'smaller' than us it's by no means an easy game. We are Everton we will make life difficult for ourselves.

 

[Allezfan]

The mental strength of some of our fringe players scares me though and given our lackluster approach to teams considered 'smaller' than us it's by no means an easy game. We are Everton we will make life difficult for ourselves.

Think that's overstated to be honest.

We beat them more often then we don't.

 

[ToffeeBlueNose]

Think that's overstated to be honest.

We beat them more often then we don't.

you cannot deny that we put in better performances against the chelsea's, spurs, arsenals, and mancs of the league than against the readings, stokes or wigans that is not even debatable this season surely?

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Would love to see us give them a good old fashioned passionate ass-whooping.

Eight nil to us, no mercy. Osman with all the goals.

 

[Allezfan]

you cannot deny that we put in better performances against the chelsea's, spurs, arsenals, and mancs of the league than against the readings, stokes or wigans that is not even debatable this season surely?

We drew against Arsenal and lost to Chelsea. While we beat Villa, Sunderland, Newcastle and Wigan.

The difference is expectation.

 

[ToffeeBlueNose]

We drew against Arsenal and lost to Chelsea. While we beat Villa, Sunderland, Newcastle and Wigan.

The difference is expectation.

even in defeat against chelsea we played a lot better than in games, especially 2nd half performances, against stoke, reading, wigan, norwich. I'm talking about performance levels not expectation, i honestly think we are complacent against sides deemed as relegation candidates.

There have been times this season apart from a few games at the start when we were on fire that have been truly awful to watch and a reminder of the start of last season. For some reason all our players have off days on the same day and have games when they are all on fire at the same time.

My point really though is treat cheltenham with respect and we should win comfortably.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Big Vic will slot hat trick tonight