Sheaf Saint

McCarthy definitely MotM for me. With Pickford being dropped by Everton, does he now get a chance with England?

They are doing to us what we did to Everton last week. Overloading us every time they come down that side and it's too easy for them to get in and play balls into the box. I'll be surprised if they don't score any more TBH. It's coming.

No, clearly a weak link. A shame because he had a decent ish run last season and looked to have improved, but he's regressed badly this season.

Is that Cabbage Face formerly of this parish?

Can I assume that doesn't include the MLT goals where the ball was rolled to him first (like the Wimbledon one where he flicked it up before smacking it) And didn't we beat Everton 4-1 in the Pellegrino season, when Unsworth was their manager and they were utterly woeful?

One more goal and we'll go second!

Yeah I thought it was a bit quiet on the other thread!

Total negligence from the ref there. Can't believe he still let Villa have the FK afterwards.

Agent Targett!

Looked to me like Adams didn't even touch the ball. That's a ridiculous decision

Not after Liverpool secured a late win against WHam we can't. Best we can hope for now is second, and that would require us to beat Villa 5-0.

Yeah, there's no way that anybody could possibly come back from a horrendous knee injury and ever be a successful part of a Hasnehuttl team is there. A shame really, otherwise that Danny Ings could have been an excellent signing.

Remember also they've got Targett at LB. We know very well what his weaknesses and limitations are, and although I would be reluctant to change a winning team, I think playing Theo on the right would be the best option to exploit them.

Indeed. If he really was as unfit and unwell as some are claiming then surely he would have been subbed long before the 87th minute.

Me neither. If you watch the replay very carefully he put his hands up to plead innocence first, then deliberately extended his right leg outwards on the next stride. It's barely noticeable, but you can see his leg go out in an unnatural direction and his foot raise up to a higher angle than his previous strides. It was obviously intentional, and his behaviour upon being shown the card clearly proves his head was gone. Reducing the suspension is an absolute joke.

I'm still gobsmacked that MOTD chose not to bother showing the disallowed goal from Armstrong that the lino took an ice age to decide was offside. It looked blatant in real time on Sky but the replay showed it was actually much closer than it first looked. And it was a great finish. Just bizarre.

This is from my nephew in the Everton U23s...

Yep, watched the first one and thought it looked really good. I really don't get the hatred some people show towards Disco. It's far from perfect, granted, but the biggest problem people seem to have with it is "It's not Star Trek". But it very much is IMO. Much more so than the Kelvin timeline movies anyway. It's a shame people have to judge it based on their own expectations rather than on its own merits. When TNG started, a lot of people hated it and dismissed the idea of a balding English actor playing a reserved French captain of the Enterprise, and its first two seasons were mostly awful. But after it had found its feet and fans grew more attached to the characters, it eventually it became the best loved ST series of them all. Disco feels much different because it's much more cinematic looking than previous ST series, and due to the on-demand nature of TV viewing, it is serialised rather than the episodic "alien of the week" format that people were used to previously.* We've had the first two seasons of character development now, and the producers rectified the continuity problems at the end of S2 (explaining why nobody had ever mentioned the spore drive or Spock having a human sister before). Now we get to see this crew in a time period that has never been explored before in ST canon, and I'm really looking forward to how it pans out. * - on that note, I'm looking forward to seeing the Strange New Worlds spinoff show, featuring Pike and Spock. The studio have said this will be much more like the episodic and optimistic vision of the original series, and I thought Anson Mount as Pike was really good in S2 of Disco.

I follow the main Everton forum (Grand Old Team) quite a lot because my nephew plays in their U23s. They are actually a very knowledgeable bunch, much more so than I have seen on some other teams' forums, that's for sure. Of course they have their share of bedwetters and drama queens, but football forums would be boring places without them. Why shouldn't they be confident? They've got an excellent manager whose influence is now shining through, they have started the season in really good form, and they are one of our bogey teams who we never seem able to beat. They have every right to be confident really. But so should we. Should be a good game.

OK that was absolutely pathetic from Bednarek.

Well that's wank. How did he manage to get that shot away with so many of our defenders in the way?

Nice run from Theo with a decent effort from Adams on the end of it. Chelsea very good going forward but they're vulnerable at the back as well.

He's now telling his supporters he is completely immune and will kiss everyone. This after it was revealed he was planning to emerge from hospital and rip off his shirt to show a superman outfit underneath. The man is completely unhinged. You can clearly see how desperate he is getting by looking at his Twitter feed over the last week. It's horrendous even by his own pathetically low standards.

I can't wait for Batman to come along and tell us this is absolutely fine because "all politicians lie".

Interesting to see that there is a unanimous opposition to this on the Everton forum as well - seeing as they would be one of our peers in the "top 9 but not top 6" group. https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/proposed-changes-to-the-premier-league.111306/