What we need, the missing element...

[fozzy]

Please no. Not Rooney.

Yes Rooney!

But if you think kone is better then fair does!

 

[Toast]

We need a nark. In the refs ear all game, Peter Reid type, yeah, in my Everton history, but Carra and Gerrard were the best in the business at it.

As a club, we are just too bloody nice.

 

[marsh]

Plenty said that about Andy Gray mate and all were wrong.

I don't like him. And think he's crap now tbh. Leave us, have his best years at United n then come back when hes past it... No thanks!

 

[fozzy]

Rooney

We need a nark. In the refs ear all game, Peter Reid type, yeah, in my Everton history, but Carra and Gerrard were the best in the business at it.

As a club, we are just too bloody nice.

 

[marsh]

Yes Rooney!

But if you think kone is better then fair does!

Everyone back to hating kone again yeah. Our fans love to hate

 

[marsh]

We need a nark. In the refs ear all game, Peter Reid type, yeah, in my Everton history, but Carra and Gerrard were the best in the business at it.

As a club, we are just too bloody nice.

To be fair though we carried on playing when they had men down today which we never normally do

 

[Toast]

Rooney

You don't need to convince me pal.

 

[ToffeeTim]

We need snidery and lots of it. We don't win fouls smartly, we don't concede fouls intelligently. We have lost our bite and are a soft touch.

 

[chicoazul]

The more I think of it the more I think the lid who wrote this thread has a point.

Where today did you see anyone on the team leading and urging the team on? Someone taking responsibility and getting right in the middle of it with the opposition. Even someone to lift the crowd and the tempo of the game?

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

called it...

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

The more I think of it the more I think the lid who wrote this thread has a point.

Where today did you see anyone on the team leading and urging the team on? Someone taking responsibility and getting right in the middle of it with the opposition. Even someone to lift the crowd and the tempo of the game?

Barry, actually...Stones, to an extent.

 

[Axlswhk]

The more I think of it the more I think the lid who wrote this thread has a point.

Where today did you see anyone on the team leading and urging the team on? Someone taking responsibility and getting right in the middle of it with the opposition. Even someone to lift the crowd and the tempo of the game?

We need to play Besic. The crowd will get wild if he did a "phil on Ronaldo" tackle even if we were trailing. That will kick start our season for sure.

 

[tim cahill]

Rooney would be a big upgrade on Kone for sure and we do lack a bit of leadership. But he wouldn't solve our rubbish defence.

 

[The Esk]

The missing element is that mental strength that all winners have.

Lack of mental strength is demonstrated in three key areas

• Inability to take advantage when on top in games
• Inability to perform consistently over 90 minutes, too many times we have a poor period or half
• Individual errors - we must concede more goals from individual errors than any other team. All goals conceded today were down to individual errors, FM, Stones/Howard, and Coleman.

What do we do about it? Some of it is down to not having an absolute leader on the pitch to grab control when things get tough, some is down to young players, but the majority of the blame must be down to mental preparation and training. You can train mental toughness, but it takes a certain type of character (Sir Alex for example) - I am not convinced Martinez for all his positives possesses those traits.

 

[Scolari]

We have too many players who do not contribute when we don't have the ball. Either the front 4 needs to do more defensively, or one of them needs to be dropped.