Southampton v Everton. 26th April at 12.45.

[The T-Dex]

Lukaku is my fume scapegoat. And Deulofeu. But they are still young.

 

[Del]

I hope I can be a Premier League manager like you lot one day

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Most disappointing aspect about today was , we had no desire or tenacity

This exactly.

We were playing a Southampton team with nothing to play for and who had Rodriguez & Schneiderlin out yet they made us look like absolute mugs. Absolutely no legs or desire from the team. It's as if they were just going through the motions when we are supposed to be fighting for a CL place, and that for me unforgivable. They couldn't even stay on their bloody feet!
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[Huyton Layne]

I'm going to type angry things about him, should I do it here or in his own thread?

Both. Let yourself be heard

 

[paulbefc]

Apparently there was no pressure on us in that game though. lol.

I suppose you could argue we were 4(?) points behind them (the favourites for fourth) at the time and so the pressure was arguably more on them.

Sunderland was perhaps more of a pressure game we won. Although they're probably going down and we were fortunate to win.

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

Its not missing out on the CL that is gutting its missing out on the CL money, like it or not we were going into the transfer window a step behind as to go into next season with the same squad would cost 20 plus million never mind improving it. We are going to need 2 strikers to start with.

And this is the problem with the game in a nutshell. Money. Money = corruption.

Our stadium hospitality is not right for FIFA fat cats. Goodison has the best atmosphere in the country but the corporate facilities are not up to scratch.

Love Everton, hate football.

 

[Rook]

They put two headers on an absolute plate for him today both from 6 yards and he cocked up both chances, are you excusing him those dire efforts on the basis that our midfielders should've scored 3 instead?

Not excusing him, he was terrible today and that is putting it kindly. But he's also the 1st honest to god striker we've had in forever that scares opponents. We didn't go on our run to get in a position for 4th until he came back from injury. Even the best strikers only score around 0.5 goals/match in this league.

He had a hell of a lot of company today though. Pre-Injured naismith was good, McGeady had a few nice touches. The rest, awful.

 

[DanEFC92]

So now you've gone from saying the pressure was off to it was a 'different kind' of pressure.

You don't have a clue what your own stance is on this.

Arsenal at Goodison was massive and pretty much every blue on here would say so.

They wanted us to lose against City to spite Liverpool. I wouldn't pay attention.

 

[Joey66]

Where is the fume of furious typing going to be directed today then?

The team performance - it was very poor we looked tired got off to a disastrous start and it went down hill with the REF not helping us either, but on reflection the season is over for us champions league wise with performances like that we looked like relegation candidates today we were that bad!

 

[LinekersLegs]

Its down to fatigue mate, Barry and McCarthy have played nearly every minute this season same with Lukaku besides the injury period, notice it during any time we have 3 games in 8 days that they all have a bad game in their. Lukaku however i think is utterly goosed from leading the line on his tod atm, the injuries to Kone and Gibson have come home to effect us badly now

Agree, Lukaku was poor before his injury, really picked up after his rest and is now fading a bit. Barry in particular at 33 has had a very tough season.

 

[Tubey]

So now you've gone from saying the pressure was off to it was a 'different kind' of pressure.

You don't have a clue what your own stance is on this.

Arsenal at Goodison was massive and pretty much every blue on here would say so.

Never said that - davek spoke very clearly about pressure when in a controlling position and expecting to push on. The games against Arsenal and United are very different circumstances to Palace and Southampton. The ability in this squad is massive and we've proven it again and again, but the mentality to apply it falls over in certain situations over and over again too and that's the point being made.

 

[Azzurri]

David James saying McCarthy should have been booked for diving when he got pulled back.

Lawl.

 

[ianefc]

Now means that the City game is basically us handing Liverpool the title or destroying any chance of 4th.

Ace.

it would have been win lose or draw, we had to take 4 points from this game an city 4th is gone now so all we can do is help them a little in the title race which we would f had to do anyway

 

[The T-Dex]

I hope I can be a Premier League manager like you lot one day

Calf raking incidents would treble.

 

[Arsenal Mike]