James

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.

Completely agree, but if we'd have done the same transfer business under Hughes we'd be sunk for sure.

Its surprising as he looked decent enough for Basel in games against Man City etc. I was genuinely excited when we signed him but he's been garbage so far.

It is concerning that, if Austin departs, we are one bad tackle away from having to rely on Shane Long or an unproven youngster for goals until the end of the season. It's a risky business to slim down a squad that's as low on quality as ours. Our first XI is clearly good enough to stay in the league but beyond that we suddenly look extremely thin. Got to hope Ralph can keep up the intensity of performance from now until the end of the season - we've taken a gamble that's for sure.

Interesting timing but he had to go.

Agreed. Heads should have rolled in the summer but instead they patted themselves on the back and continue to serve up the same old **** to a long suffering fan base paying an absurd amount to watch absolute dross.

Agreed. A lot of them really don’t seem to care either. Exactly the same as last season except we might not be able to find someone as bad as Swansea to bail us out this year.

God that was absolutely pathetic. Keep up the good work on the training pitch Mark...

He took of Ings and put on the immobile Austin which killed all attacking momentum. That was a bad decision.

Poor from Hughes, Cedric and most of all Hoj. Going down on this evidence.