James

For me Ralph looks like a man who is totally bereft of ideas. We’ve been playing with this degree of lethargy for weeks and despite us now playing with the strongest team we are going to have available the rest of the year we are making the same mistakes and playing with the same stupid tactics. The idea of selling some of the Crown Jewels in the summer and replacing them with players from the South American leagues in the £10 million bracket is frightening frankly.

Shudder to think how many Leicester will put past us playing like this.

This is trash. No chance in the semi playing like this. Jesus.

Crap again. Forster should have saved that.

Pretty dumb challenge by KWP there. Can’t blame Ralph when players make stupid decisions like that.

Lose to Bournemouth and I think we need a change. Ralph is out of ideas. Doesn’t know how to change it.

Of that list I’d go for Thomas Frank. Not sure he would leave Brentford to join us though. Gerrard would be great but won’t happen.

Forster back to acting like a sack of spuds. Should have got to that.

Richarlison went into orbit there. Embarrassing player.

The easiest way for Everton to get the ball back is to look for a way to force us to pass it to Redmond. Awful performance so far.

Ref has turned this around for Wolves basically single handedly. Gives a pen at one end against Bertrand and then not against Dendonker. I don’t understand the rules anymore, neither do the refs, neither do the players. It’s a joke and the game is becoming a complete farce. VAR needs to be removed.

Got to be said Stephens at right back always causes us an issue. Doesn’t have the pace or tactical awareness to play there but you get what you wish for when you leave yourself so short of cover.

All over the place now, what has happened to us this season? Crap.

It was Bednarek no?

On the bright side, at least at least no fans travelled to Manchester mid-week to see that....

Agreed - we got hammered either way and deserved to lose but my god we’ve been let down by Mike Dean and the sorry state of Premier League referees in the last weeks. For the best league in the world the standard of officiating is absolutely appalling.

Mike Dean 30/1/2021: “No that doesn’t look like a penalty and a red card for stopping a goal bound shot”. Fast forward 3 days to a plush Old Trafford Man U home fixture....”Yes, let me give a penalty and a straight red card for what looks very close to a dive”. The man is a corrupt prick. Football is becoming absolutely pointless. VAR is not fit for purpose and should be scrapped immediately. Really feel for Ralph - he is being embarrassed here by the incompetent Gao.

That’s literally not the rule. What a joke. Embarrassing.

If VAR can’t call that as a penalty then it’s pointless. The fact it’s still responsible for these ridiculous decisions almost 2 years in is a joke. Game is gone.

It’s Mike Dean on VAR, enough said. The man is an utter cretin.

The club’s mouthpiece also said we were going to use the Virgil money to sign Walcott, Daniel Sturridge and Cenk Tosun (who, if I remember correctly, had almost signed for Everton on the day the article was published). The reality was we signed Carrillo and almost went down that year as well. It’s just spin - until the club actually stumps up some real money for some quality players who will help us out of this downward spiral - words are completely meaningless.

Surely Ralph can’t come back from that?

Shocking performance by Atwell but he’s an awful ref. Bet it barely gets a mention on MOTD. About time these big club refs got pulled up for blatantly nosed performances.

He’s absolute shi*te but appears that criticising him is sacrilege on this site.

Stephens has been a liability for ages. Not good enough for where we want to go. Idiot.