Galway saint

Just got back. Absolutely abysmal and in no particular order : 1. shocking debut from holgate. Self evident why he couldn’t get in a poor Everton team. 2. The slow aimless passing at the back is not providing control and it just allows the opposition to reset. We have to be able to mix it up and move at pace but it so often appeared to be on the edge of calamity. To have some much possession yet to concede 5 goals is proof that it’s not working. 3. Martin should watch the next game from the stands so he can see how easily we are caught out up field when the opposition win back the ball. It was embarrassing as two or three passes and they were through us. Need to play Charles as a holding player. 4. Defensively we were shambolic. I’m hoping that was down to holgate and he won’t play much again but it was amateurish. I didn’t understand why when holgate went off we ended up with Charles at RB, and Manning on the left of centre. 5 Mara was hopeless and contributed nothing. However surely better to play him as CF if you are going to play him as AA is not productive there. 5 Bazanu should have saved a couple but we know his fallibilities and the club have chosen to ignore it for now. However whilst he cost us a couple of goals I put the blame for the defeat squarely on the manager. Totally outthought by Mowbray. 6. Thought KWP was the only one to come out with any credit. We’ve no played 5 and conceded 4 and 5 in two of those so that tells its own story.

You were probably one of the clowns who thought last summer’s activity was a 9/10. let’s see what the squad looks like at close of play tomorrow

I personally think keeping che is more important than KWP or ABK. It allows Armstrong to play as an 8 and gives us some presence up top. Really don’t want Armstrong up front as he’s weak there but has been good as the 8.

All the comments from RM were that he had bought into things. Seems a very odd move so we save a few quid and get a loan fee but lose a 20 Goals plus striker

Yes that’s why I said it would be stupid to have Ballard up front during September. I didn’t say that is what the recruitment team would allow to happen and I don’t think for a moment they would do that. Cut the abuse as well. Theres no reason for people to not post critical comments if that’s how they feel about a situation - contrarian views are a good thing

Stupid more like

Sounds like a SR move. Sell your only credible striker and bring in as his replacement a guy who has had a very serious injury and isn’t able to play for some time. I really hope this isn’t the case.

Fingers crossed 🤞 will have been a great window if we can manage it and get the lad in from Aberdeen

Striker or two, CB, RB assuming KWP leaves, decent back up keeper, CB. flip it round - which of the signings screams ambition bearing on mind the funds realised. there doesn’t appear much desire to invest a significant chunk of that

They are all loan signing and holgate has been poor for Everton

Fair enough but it’s what we do with the proceeds. At the moment there doesn’t seem a great deal of ambition

Seems incredible that having had two years to sort out a decent striker we are still scrambling around for one with less than a week to go and our only real link is someone from Aberdeen

Do we think he might be sold ? My concern is that one of the big boys come sniffing

Do you really believe that ? They own the club so of course they will be involved in signing off on things

But in my view the losses are self inflicted through their own ineptitude

SR don’t do the easy and obvious - it’s been a shit show since they took over so I don’t see why the transfer window will be any different

We’re looking at Defoe

Great post

Wasted so much

Tall paul et al

Yes but your analysis assumes the people running the club know what they are doing and/or want the club to prosper they have always intended to sell anyone of value save smallbone ( for some reason)

He will go as well

We will ship him out on loan - the whole Tenor of the club feels down with Holgate, Fraser etc

Great news really. am sure we can get che out of the door plus sulemana on loan. The one that worries me is ABK. He’s the one decent senior player l we might not get rid of which is a worry. Good news we have not signed anyone of any note to date and hopefully we can hang onto tall Paul and bazanu albeit the latter looks increasingly vulnerable to a move