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They were truly awful from what I saw. That miss from Dwight McNeill early on was worse than anything our attack served up yesterday.

Sorry but this is just bollocks. There were other occasions when he did hoof the ball when there were no other options. There was no real danger and a pass out was a perfectly viable option in that situation. He had time to control it and pick a better pass, but the simple fact is he switched off and fucked up spectacularly. That was 100% on Macca and nothing whatsoever to do with tactics or instructions.

That's the curse of SJP I'm afraid. Seems to be the case every time we play up there.

Oh fuck off Pope. You were absolutely fine a moment ago.

With the greatest of respect, so did I.

Everton 0-2 down at home to Brighton and down to ten men.

But he had other viable passes available to him. He didn't need to hoof it. So the decision to pass the ball wasn't in itself a bad one in that situation, but of all the passes he could have made, he chose the worst possible one. I'm not having that it's down to tactics and instructions. Any half decent keeper should have been able to complete a simple pass there.

Joelinton really is a cock isn't he. That looked deliberate, after their handbags earlier.

I don't think you can even pin this on RM's tactics. It's not like Newcastle pressed us hard into the mistake - there really was no danger. It was just horrifically casual from Macca when he had time and space to do much better with it. It's as if he just switched off when the ball came to him.

We wouldn't have even got a corner if that was Che. That's a decent effort from Arma.

Why was it bizarre?

So this co-commentator doesn't like play-acting when it works against Newcastle, but he recommends they should time-waste as much as possible now to hold on to this lead. Who is this prick?

Yeah I assume so. No need to play a back 5 against ten men. I'm expecting KWP to go to RB and Stephens to LB.

Was it Joelinton? He was squaring up to Bednarek ahead of that terrible FK.

The giveaway was bad enough to begin with, but what the actual fuck was that pathetic attempt to save the shot? He just flopped to his left. For the love of God, please can we sign a new keeper before the end of the window. And I don't mean a stop-gap loan until Baz is fit again, I mean a new, competent number 1. All of our good work pissed away in an instant by a player who shouldn't even still be at the club, let alone on the fucking pitch today.

Oh Macca. That's horrendous.

Looks like we don't even have to wait for the second half 😒

Def needs a bit more practice

Yep

Of course the Geordie co-commentator doesn't think it's a red card. BBD didn't do anything - Schar headbutted him. Easy decision for the ref.

Everton 0-1 Brighton

Well we're winning the possession contest 68/32 at the moment.

Couldn't tell from the replays I saw.

First blood to us but offside. Was Smallbone's shot on target? Would it have been better for Stephens to leave it, knowing he was offside?

And that's OK, as long as BBD and Arma get a few between them, as well as the midfielders chipping in.