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He would be the logical choice given we are targeting young players and apparently 🤣 want to press...

Fan's just as guilty for turning on ralph, was a good manager that had been hung out to try by chronic underinvestment window after window. They need to own it as well. 13th xG and 15th goals conceded when he was sacked - and that is despite the injuries, gelling a new young side, and playing all the top sides. Absolute car crash since.

He absolutely has to go. I think we might need Brentford to do us a favour here and absolutely hammer us. Remember, Jones picked this defence, the unfamiliar players, and the tactics - but at the end of the game he is going to blame the players not himself.

He does need to be sacked. Going down rock bottom with this Tuesday at the helm.

If he keeps playing like that he'll be dropped soon enough, can't have anyone but the manager taking plaudits. Ditto players like Diallo and Ely let him point at the players and innocently blame them rather than accepting blame.

Our best attackers are a central midfielder and a kid with no end product... Impressive really.

I don't share your confidence.... 😆

Djenpo did last week for starters. Its a new "feature" under Jones.

Watching us line up with a back line including Bree, Perraud, and "Janny B"... and remembering Nathan Jones' adamant statement that he always leaves squads stronger than when he arrived

Sean Dyche showing just what a class manager he is. Lucky we played them before he was appointmed.

And with our passing he's rarely involved. Needs to be more central and actually completing some passes for the team.

Diallo again... how many times is that now. No excuse.

Diallo WTF!!!

Diallo is like playing 10vs12, he just passes the ball to the opposition.

Ely wtf. And orsic in the reserves. Manager is clueless?

Horrendous defending.

I know its hilarious. Can't stand them as a fanbase. The very simple reality of a worst case for Everton is this. They get relegated, run into the financial reckoning they are very clearly due, go into administration, and someone buys them out because they will then be a very large club with a high growth ceiling available at a great price... 🤷‍♂️. And then they get to do what we did and enjoy a few years on their way back to the top - all of which will come with a very new shiny stadium in their case. Actually the worst case is they get stuck with Moshiri and Kenwright wasting millions chasing after the playoffs year after year - like a championship portsmouth 😍

Whilst we can all agree that players should have tracked back and the defending was shite. I think its important to again reiterate that all of that is the blame of the manager. He put a bunch of players (some of them playing their first games together) in a strange formation, and clearly none of them had any damn clue what they were meant to to defensively. Ralph would have accepted the blame for that first half, Jones exclusively blamed the players.

Agreed generally on baz, and on there being no need for insults! His view was partially obscured for that shot and his defence did nothing. And generally I am with you and Toussaint on baz anyway. He's not that bad a keeper and actually makes some very good saves and often gets the ball pushed away from the danger area, even when its hit straight at him - something that can't be levelled at our last few keepers, he also doesn't make major howlers like them imo. He is also atrociously defended for most of the goals we concede. Often free shots, unmarked players on the end of crosses etc.The major complaint i have about him is when he gets flustered / under pressure at the back and his quick kicking goes awry - villa being a very good example of this. But against that hes good at coming off his line and much better at coming for crosses than macca for example. He's young and will make mistakes, but he's clearly got a lot of potential. Fans are going to have to take the good with the bad because bluntly there is no one else - and we aren't losing games because of the keeper, we're losing them because JWP is our best attacking outlet.

Ralph was blamed for Tino's ACL by some on this forum, despite it already being demonstrate that he was rested in some of the matches leading up to it 🤣

Been skimming over his highlight reels and looking into his stats a bit more. Think he's going to be a class signing, but he is still raw and will be frustrating. Fans will need to remember he is young and will make the wrong decisions a reasonable amount - still a very exciting player. Can see us lining up with Him, Edozie, or Orsic as our wingers and offering a lot more threat going forward. JWP should be getting a lot more set piece opportunities this coming half of the season thats for sure! We actually have a rather solid team now, even with the injuries. Baz is okay despite what some say. KWP, Perraud, and Bree is a decent enough set of fullbacks, with cover from salisu/lyanco and tino to hopefully make it back at some point. Sali, ABK, DCC are three good CB's for midtable prem sides, and Jan and Lyanco give good enough cover ultimatley. Lavia is class JWP is class. And between Alcaraz, stu, and diallo we have reasonable depth at CM. Edozie, Sulemana, Orsic are decent wingers. Aribo, Armstrongs, Ely offer decent depth. Che and Onachua will be enough in the CF role. Shame we wasted a month to get here, and it may be tight, but i think we'll stay up now.

Is that why we we waited until the last hours of january to sign strikers? 🤣

Isn't that aimed at our fans....

You don't need 40points to stay up this season FFS. The bottom 7 sides haven't managed to get more than 18 points with over half the games played. 18th is going to be down at around 34-35 points tops i reckon - certainly nowhere near 40!!! Or if it is 40, then all hell will have happened at the top of the table to be dropping those points to the bottom sides...

Went for 6, and I am surprised to see it being rated so highly by others at the moment. We signed our striker at the very last minute having wasted a month of fixtures. Its also not proven how good he will be at this level, he is a long way short of your Gakpo's and Ramos' re ability and playing experience to date. Not that fast, not great touch, but a beast in the air. The jury has to stay out on him i'm afriad - although fwiw, i do think he'll score important goals for us. Not convinced that our two wingers are significantly better than what we had already, and Orsic has barely featured which is a worry. I think Edozi is our best wide player, and we all hope that the new guy will play alongside him and Onochua in a front 3 i'm sure? Alcaraz i think looks class, but is young and will likely be inconsistent. No CDM, which means one injury to Lavia and its almost certainly GG for our prem status. In summary, despite being happy that we've addressed most of our key targets, we've spent a lot of money and none of the players are proven premier league level ability or necessarily ready to play for us every game. So between the manager and the delayed business, we've ultimately ended up dropping key points vs the likes of Fulham and Forest, and surrendered a cup semi final. None of that should be making an 8/10 month of footballing business IMO.