Sheaf Saint

Anybody still believe Everton are too good to go down?

He set up the first goal with his first touch, and scored the second. He did win it for them.

It's violent conduct. Should be red.

Gordon could have jumped that sliding tackle and got to the ball, but it seems that playing alongside Richarlison is starting to rub off on him and he goes down far too easily.

Yes, the underlying issue is that our squad is of extremely limited quality and the manager is forced to select unreliable players who are prone to brain farts.

I'll take that. Especially after how comically bad we were in the first half. Decent result all things considered. And Burnley have dropped Everton into the relegation places just in time for their trip to Anfield. Delightful.

Brighton doing what we have so often done and come out for the second half like rabbits in headlights. They are there for the taking now.

Indeed. Our good run a few months ago came when he and Salisu were at the top of their games. When they're not, we become so easy to play through.

Absolute fucking shambles.

After 30 mins there's only been one goal so far in the Championship.

When you try to be really careful opening a cereal packet and this happens...

Every time they got a corner, Cork was interfering with play by backing into Forster, but the refs let him get away with it every time. For their second goal, FF might have been able to position himself better if he didn't have to literally push Cork out of the way first. Add to that the obvious foul on JWP while jumping for the header, it was a shitshow all round from the officials. But let's not kid ourselves we would have got anything out of the game even if that goal was disallowed. We were shit all over the pitch and deserved to lose at least 2-0.

What's happened to him? During our spell of good form a few months ago he was putting in MOTM performances week after week. But recently he has gone massively off the boil and when he doesn't perform we surrender all control of midfield, and we can't drop him because we literally have nobody else in the squad who can play his role.

Well I kinda expected us to lose tonight but I didn't think the performance would be this bad. Everything has gone to shit since Salisu got injured and Broja stopped trying. It's easy to blame Ralph but anyone who has to select a CB combination from Bednarek, Stephens, Lyanco and Valery immediately has their hands tied. In CM, Romeu looks a shadow of the player he was during our decent run, and Stu & Ely just don't create enough. Let's face it - we have a severely limited squad cobbled together on a shoestring budget, and any manager would struggle to get them playing consistently well.

No, but perhaps KWP was spent and the only logical like for like change was Tino.

You're assuming it was tactical.

He has been for quite some time now.

Adams immediately improves our attack.

Oh fuck the fuck off.

Well one thing we have learned over the last two games is that an out of form Broja playing as a lone striker simply doesn't work.

Cork showing straight away that he has been ordered to shithouse Forster at corners.

That's bonkers. It clearly wasn't working so what does he expect will happen?

Watching the replay of the second - Cork's reaction is very telling. If he knew he didn't touch it then why didn't he celebrate immediately with the rest of the Burnley players? Looks to me like he knew he got a touch and expected it to be ruled out.

The only consolation I can think of is that the last time that happened, we won 3-2.

This. When he doesn't play well, we look awful.