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Ref telling us off for time-wasting. On 19 minutes. Have we turned into WBA tonight?

An actual diving save from Forster. Wow!

I've just gone for the fall-back option of First Row sports. Poor resolution and foreign commentary, but at least it's reliable.

Well I've come to the conclusion that Flawless TV is possibly the most inappropriately named service ever. I've tried multiple regions on my PIA VPN and can't get it to work at all. Load of sh!te.

3-5-2 then... VVD, Hoedt, Yoshi Cedric, PEH, Romeu, Lemina, Bertrand Redmong, Long

As have quite a few Everton fans on Twitter, by the looks of it... https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/935845666408009728

So he really seems to have lost his grip on reality in the last couple of days. First he has started to deny that his "Grab them by the pussy" moment ever happened (having previously accepted it and apologising), then he tried to resurrect his completely debunked old theory about Obama not being American. Now he is re-tweeting inflammatory videos posted by Britain First's queen of ignorance and hypocrisy Jayda Fransen... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-retweets-british-far-right_us_5a1e9cd9e4b0cb0e917caaa1 I wonder what he is trying to distract everyone from now?

Allardyce confirmed at Everton... http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11671/11148852/everton-agree-deal-with-sam-allardyce-to-become-new-manager Reading some of the Everton's fans comments about this in Twitter - it's hilarious.

We already knew that though. He admitted when he signed that he saw us as a career stepping-stone. He's got a long way to go to prove himself worthy of a big money move yet though. He was very good on Sunday, but one swallow does not a summer make. He will need to show that level of performance consistently over a season or two before he starts attracting champions league suitors.

I think it is perfect logic actually, for three reasons... 1. He scored two goals on Sunday because the Everton CBs were shocking and left him completely unmarked to get on the end of those crosses. He won't get anything like that amount of space against Man City. 2. If our gameplan is to park the bus and hope for a counter attack, then he is not the right man to play that one up front role. Would prefer to see Gabbi or even Long in that role. 3. I doubt he would be able to play 3 games in a week, and would rather see him kept fresh for Bournemouth next weekend where he will be able to find much more room to operate amongst their defenders.

But it still crossed the line. So it was on target, but only by the faintest of margins

Yes it would. If you're looking to apportion blame to anybody, then VVD slipped when Sigurdson turned back onto his right foot. If he hadn't then it's possible he could have blocked the shot, but we'll never know.

Yeah I don't think anyone can lay the blame for it on Forster's doorstep. But.... If you look at it in isolation, despite us being so dominant yesterday, we still somehow contrived to let Everton score with their only shot on target.

How about we follow the Tories' recent idea of diverting our foreign aid budget to the Israeli armed forces instead?

But you're comparing apples with pears here. Neither of those players play in the same position that JWP did yesterday, and neither of them would be as effective if they did. Positionally speaking, the player you should be comparing him to is Tadic, and JWP was more effective there in 90 minutes yesterday than Tadic has been all season IMO.

So why do you feel the need to be abusive towards the person making that point then?

Play the ball, not the man. His point here is extremely valid. Redmond has been utter dogsh!te this season and on current form he absolutely does not deserve to start ahead of Boufal in that position.

Edit: wrong thread

There we have it. Everton have been utter sh!the for the entire half, yet somehow we have contrived to let them back in it. Good finish, but FFS they have been so bad they should be dead and buried by now. Awful from us to allow that, but oh so predictable. I very much doubt we will win this now.

No.

Right, I've signed up for an account with flawless and installed the Kodi add-on. But when I try and go in to the football schedule I just get a message saying "update coming soon", and nothing happens. Any ideas anyone?

Or in Dalek's case, much longer than that

The annoying thing is, we had the opportunity to get rid of him without the need for a pay-off when that corruption scandal broke.

I think this sums it up nicely. Yes it has only been 13 games, and if we were truly seeing signs of a clear plan/system and effort from the players then yes, by all means give him the time he needs to prove that it will come good. But quite simply, we have not improved in the slightest in that time (if anything we've gone backwards) and there has not been the slightest suggestion that MP has any kind of plan to improve performances. He looks out of his depth and devoid of any ideas how to change things He talks absolute nonsense and seems to believe that his system is working and that we've just been unlucky, when everyone else can see that's not the case He doesn't inspire the players, many (most) of whom are playing well below the level we know they are capable of I've never been one to succumb to knee-jerk reactions in the past, but I cannot see even the slightest glimmer of hope that things will improve with the current manager/coaching set up. There's no spark, there's no real effort and there's no passion from the team. That simply has to come down to the manager and his coaching staff. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That is exactly what we are seeing from this manager currently, and therefore he needs to be replaced ASAP, or else we could end up with an even worse season-long record than we did in 2004/05.

If you bother to read the link on Batman's post directly above yours, you will see that a national newspaper (albeit a crap one) is now reporting on how disgruntled the majority of our fans now are towards Pellegrino. So yes, by that measure it has been a success.