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Yep. In Ralph ball, attack is the best form of defence. It'd be a good plan if we had an attack. We haven't, yet he still doesn't realise that his focus should be on our defence.

No!!! Come back AA, all is forgiven 😂

Very good pairing. Everton will be fine this season, and may well surprise a few of the big boys.

I was with you until you asked for players on their correct positions only to then put AA in down the right!

Surprised by that! Good luck to the lad though.

Thanks for the updates MB 👍

Futile squabble...Ralph ain't taking his job!

Yep...the mentality of "let's stick with a failing Ralph cos we can't think of anyone better" is ridiculous. He's a busted flush...and it's hard to see anyone doing worse.

I can't see RH moving anywhere internally...he either stays or goes, hopefully the latter. As for Poch, I can't imagine for one minute he'd come here to work with our players.

Position

You mean he's good, and ready to play premier league football?

Let's say they match what we offer, why would be leave to come here? Their squad is probably better and their summer signings have been better. I can't see that we can offer him anything that they can't.

Bottle

Who was out of position?! Valery. Djenepo. S Armstrong. Aribo. Your point re the new CB makes little sense to me. He's played a season in the Bundesliga. He's a proper CB. Are you honestly advocating playing Valery ahead of him? Would you really rather see Djenepo start at LWB/LB ahead of Perraud who may have given us an hour there? It's pretty obvious that you're out on a limb here mate.

That's my hunch.

Play your best team. Players in position. Bollox to excuses. The too many debutants line is bullshit...play your best team.

Cumulatively, the Ralph various Ralph debacles aren't far off it for me. The only bonus is that Ralph's brand of football isn't as soul destroying, although the results are.

Do you find our form from we tailed off last season to now, the humiliating nine nils, the bonkers team selections, etc, any less painful than the Branfoot days?

Yep. Two actual CB's at CB, an actual RB and LB, 3 actual midfielders, 2 actual 10's, and an actual striker. It's not complicated, and I'm staggered that there's any argument against it. The mind boggles.

Do you seriously disagree with him? I can't imagine you'd have much support in arguing against a CB at CB and a LB at LB rather than the mess we had this afternoon.

That's like staying with a shit girlfriend just cos you haven't got a decent replacement lined up. He had to go ages ago. He's still shit. He still needs to go. Today is/was pathetic.

Madness to suggest that today's team is an upgrade on last season's. We were shit then, and are worse now.

Hit us up with a motivational post please Whelky.

We are. We haven't upgraded our starting eleven. People have got excited about us signing a lot of promising youngsters, but todays starting eleven highlights the reality of the situation. Djenepo at wing back, Valery at CB, and AA up top ain't in improvement of our team, quite the opposite.

I think Aribo will play up front.