S-Clarke

Nah, I wouldn't want to tarnish him with these wankers. Let him live on the glory of the Fontes/Chaplows/Rickies/Hammonds etc. He doesn't deserve to have to manage this lot. We're in a bit of an odd position really, need to start planning for next year but it's hard to that until we start shifting the rats, which we can't do until the season is over. It's a shame we can't start doing it now really.

It's going to be tight for Everton, more so than last season in my opinion. Pretty clear now that it's two from Everton, Leeds, Forest, Leicester now. I think Forest will struggle, last slot is a slog out between the 3 teams you'd probably least expect to be relegated. There will be a surprise one this year.

I'd have Jono quick over Adam Armstrong. Danny N'Guessan would get in before Elyounoussi as well. You watch us offer new contracts to both of them, just watch.

Worst performance of my lifetime, in a game where we needed to show some guts and effort we produced the most pathetic showing of 'football' i have quite simply ever seen. Forest at home was bad, but it wasn't as 'last chance saloon' as this one - but we still didn't show up. Rickie, Hammond, Fonte, Chaplow, Guly, Morgan, Lallana, Kelvin will be wanting to kill those bunch of tossers. All the hard work those guys put in to get us where we were has been undone by the most pathetic bunch of wankers we have ever seen.

When you think you've seen the worst of these tossers, they produce that. Honestly, worst performance of my lifetime that one. Just because of what was 'potentially' on it (although unlikely, we needed to make an effort of it). But it was gutless, wimpy and just same old. I don't know what we are, what we're trying to do, or what goes through those players minds. This has the feeling of a really, really, really catastrophic relegation that we may never recover from. Bournemouth and Brighton will both be in a higher division than us next season, whilst our South Coast derby will be against Plymouth. Let that sink in for a second. Sack the lot of them.

Easily worse, 10x worse. There's nothing good about this side, horrible dislikeable bunch of losers.

This is the sort of performance which makes me fear next season to be honest, this performance is catastrophic at so many levels.

That was a better lot, this lot is the worst of the worst. They will proudly live in the realm of our worst ever PL players. All of them.

We've not even reacted to the goal, this is shameful really.

They'll be patting themselves on the back at the end of the game due to some nonsense statistics.

Fully deserved that, fair play to Bournemouth - they've gone for it. We are nowhere near and haven't been all season.

That would require the players taking some form of responsibility, so that won't happen.

A standard Adam Armstrong hit and hope, to go along with his run and hope. Your typical kick and rush player, but with less refinement than that of Shane Long. Bloke doesn't deserve to play in the top 2 tiers. I'd offer to pay up his contract.

I'd understand, to a point, the keep it tight calls if we're like in November or December. But this is different, we can't keep playing the same ponderous approach waiting for an opening, we have to force it, we have to take responsibility, but my feeling is that these players are cowards and none of them want to take responsibility so they pass it to the next person. Selles line ups are weird, but I'd argue that you can only do so much with this bunch to be honest. They really are terrible wimps.

He's been pretty shit tbf, but I'd keep him on but surround him with better. Adams, Sulemana - will probably see a different Alcaraz. There's only so much a player can do when you're surrounded by the frauds we have masquerading as premier league attackers.

Because they're still paid a hefty sum to work for my club. They've jacked it in for years though, it's not like it's just this game.

So, so, so, so bad. When are these bunch of morons going to take responsibility? They just pass it around as if there is no rush, no care, no urgency. That attack is the worst attack we've ever fielded at this level, I'm embarrassed by us. Bournemouth's attack is on a different universe than what we can muster. I don't know what else to say really, I just want us to be put of our misery and scrap the bunch of them. I dislike this team more than any other. Bunch of losers.

Seems like the ''Who do we have to endure in attack this week?" tombola has landed on Armstrong and Elyonoussi. Should be a laugh. Work commitments mean I'm not there, but it's possible that work will be a distraction for a change. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think it's going to be pretty.

If you look back to 2005 we ended up where we were because of the defensive frailties as you said - we tried to cheap our way to a Killer replacement after he had that serious injury. It didn't work and we ended up having to endure bloody Jacobson and Davenport swanning around at the back, Claus really missed Killer too. The parallels with this year are similar, but the opposite end of the pitch. We're not amazing defensively this year, don't get me wrong, but we've tried to cheap out in attack and 'get by' which has ultimately killed us. In 2005 we had sought after attackers in Crouch, Camara and even Phillips (and Beattie for half the season), but I can't think of any of our 'strikers' who would be sought after this year. We've not given ourselves a chance.

What a huge bonus that would be for us! Quite easily one of, if not the worst CM I've ever seen play in the PL for us.

Oh for sure it can be traced back to previous seasons, the lack of investment under the Gao years hindered us - but it was made 100x worse by the horrendous use of the little money we did have. We've kind of fast-tracked the decline this year though with lots of poor decisions, but like you say we're not here just because of Rasmus and co - it's been brewing for a while, it's just whatever they've done has sped it up (not ideal). Had we got a proper striker in the summer we may have ridden out the storm this year and grown from there, but sadly everything has been allowed to catch up with us.

I remember 2005 vividly, unfortunately. From Marcus Bent making it 2-2 at the death for Everton, to bloody Ruud scoring against us on the final day. (And the 5-1 smashing by Watford in the cup that season). But we did have some good moments, the result against Boro at their place, beating Spurs at home, the last min draw against Palace, the last min win against Norwich with that Camara goal and obviously Blackstock scoring against the Skates. Less said about the away game. We were in with more of a shout in 2005 though, made more of a game of it and certainly had more points at this stage than we do now. We won't be taking it to the last day this year that's for sure, and that's why it's pretty obvious we've been down for months. Clubs on 24 points at the end of April do not survive. No precedence for it and there never will be.

It's the goal scoring situation, which has been highlighted even more by adding an inexperienced GK in between the sticks who lets in any shot on target. We don't stand a chance. Obviously you can look at Jones and go WTF, but I do still believe our problems go back to the summer when we screwed up the striker hunt and decided to go with Adams and Armstrong - no wonder we are gone.

We have been for many months, I came to terms with it when we lost to Forest way back. Looked pretty certain since then really. I'm just going to watch the rest of the season with zero expectations with an 'on the beach' mentality preparing for next year, only we can get ourselves into a relegation battle and end up with nothing to play for in the final 6

For all the internal clamour about us being so 'well run' and ''sensible'', we have probably made some of the worst footballing decisions in the country over the last few years. Nathan Jones, Moussa, McCarthy, Forster double contracts to name just a few. Terribly run.