01 Feb 2026 09:47:18
Whilst this is a rumours/banter page and everyone is entitled to their opinion—and I do enjoy reading the different viewpoints—some of the takes on here are genuinely wild. Sack Moyes? Seriously? Have people already forgotten the last four seasons and the absolute dross we were forced to endure?
Is the football brilliant? No. Could we play better? Absolutely. Do we all want two proper full-backs and a striker? Of course we do. But this is clearly a work in progress, and we all need to show a bit of patience. This squad wasn’t built overnight, and it’s not going to be fixed overnight either.
We only have to look back at the money that’s been wasted—buying three number 10s, signing sub-standard players, and ending up with a completely unbalanced squad. Moyes and the club need time to clear out the dross, rebalance the squad, and build something sustainable.
And to be honest, I didn’t want Moyes back in the first place. Players and managers returning to a club rarely works out. I’m delighted to be proven wrong though—and right now, in Moyes I trust.
If, at the start of the season, we’d been offered mid-table safety with an outside chance of Europe, we’d have snapped their hand off without hesitation.
01 Feb 2026 10:20:40
Spot on Preston.
01 Feb 2026 10:41:03
I think most of what you've said is entirely fair, but the point is that many of us have lost faith in Moyes being the one to take us forward. He may well have steered us clear of the rocks, but that doesn't mean he knows where he's going.
Last night's team selection, playing 4 centre backs and a teenage centre mid at right wing, resulting in a sum total of 0 shots in the first half, is a perfect example of why people don't want him.
I understand it feeling entitled to see the progress we've made and still be unhappy, but I think the football is too poor, the tactics too predictable, and the direction too aimless. Plus, if we're being brutally honest, our position this season flatters us, because so many other teams have been So bad.
01 Feb 2026 11:20:58
Have to say, I’m with you, Preston. He’ll have less excuses next season of course, as we hope there’ll be a second overhaul.
01 Feb 2026 11:35:17
The selection wasn’t what I’d of picked but maybe it shows the unbalance of the squad after years of mistakes.
I’d point to what moyes did at west ham, took them from relegation fight to win a trophy in Europe. Their fans wanted him out and look at them now!
I’m not saying moyes is going to be the man who takes our great club back to where we feel it should be - challenging for major trophies. But I do feel that the next couple of years needs to be a stable and he is the man for that.
We all want better and love to have it now but fans should be careful what they wish for. There is no divine right to success and it will take a bit of patience.
01 Feb 2026 11:42:22
Seams a don’t lose don’t win mentality with Moyes unless Patterson wasn’t fully fit I can’t understand like many that bizarre team, ironically the managers after Moyes served up football just as bad, and yet we’ve come full circle and back with Moyes.
I doubt where winning anything with but I fear what happens after him, proof is the last several years and a look where West Ham are. I’m not saying history will repeat itself but who knows.
01 Feb 2026 11:46:19
We’ve been a work in progress for over thirty years now, and in that time Aston Villa have been relegated and played in the Champions League. So just how long is it going to take exactly?
That performance yesterday was all down to the manager being negative and stubborn. It’s almost like he didn’t want to upset his centre backs so he found a way of playing all of them. Now people might not like Patterson but he brings a better balance to the defence, and not giving Aznou a chance is simply baffling.
And what’s happened to Merlin Rohl?
I defy anyone to tell me that what we watched yesterday was progression it wasn’t, and had Dyche done that you would all be on here today screaming for him to be sacked. For me Moyes is a slight upgrade on Dyche and that’s about it.
01 Feb 2026 11:57:07
Every week i look forward to the 2 hours of watching Everton.
Every week i'm left disappointed because the manager chooses to play the sport in the most negative way possible.
Points good, league position good. But let's not pretend it isn't sheer luck. Some of them wins we’ve been battered, you play the same game 10 times and you lose 8 of them. League is also strange this season with lots of teams similar points. we can be bottom 5 in a matter of weeks.
Not sustainable at all. We have good enough players to play passing football, not just hoof diagonal, depend on set pieces and defend our six yard box + hope for pickford worldie save x2/3.
01 Feb 2026 13:59:23
We’ve heard this before. Anything good that happens is luck, anything bad that happens is Moyes. Daft.
01 Feb 2026 14:59:50
We must have been 'unlucky' to almost get relegated last few seasons in that case. Gained Grealish + KDH who are significantly better than what we had under Dyche. Football is the exact same, as is the tactical set up.
01 Feb 2026 15:16:40
Not a big fan of Moyes, but if we have been let down by anybody, it's TFG, or at least, their so call expert recruitment team, IF their is money to recrute players, loan or buy, there have been numerous deals that have been done elsewhere that would have been good value and would have strengthen our side .
01 Feb 2026 15:23:55
Did they let us down in the summer? KDH? Grealish? Or are we ignoring the good signings to fit the narrative?
01 Feb 2026 17:43:08
No, they just spent £42m on a player that does not not belong in the premiership.
01 Feb 2026 18:32:39
As is often the case, we’ll just pick out the negative bits then. Let’s forget tying top players down to long term contracts too.