Everton Banter 4

08 May 2026 07:39:01
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07 May 2026 21:03:59
I've just seen transcript from an interview with Rohl after the Man City game. That's 1st time in a long time he has played on wing by all accounts. He also said he knew he was fast (he surprised me when he blew defender away) and a more interesting point.

He is more than comfortable playing in the right back position. Could he be out new Jimmy Garner for excelling at full back?

07 May 2026 17:50:09
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07 May 2026 07:39:01
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07 May 2026 00:13:38
Look I don't want to p*** on anyone's parade especially those who believe Moyes is the next coming of the messiah, but can anyone explain to me why we boot the ball upfield when we have the kick-off? It goes right to the opposition within my eyes the message that "you can have the ball, we are going to defend".
The difference in the tactics between the first half and the second against City is like night and day. We are so much better moving further up the field and attacking more.
What a difference the team is with two youngish players, Tim and Merlin playing.

Does anyone believe that Tim would have been playing if Gueye was not injured? Will be interesting to see if Tim keeps his place when Gueye is back.
We need 9 points from the remaining games. Let's forget the defensive tactic, David, and let's have a go. Play like we did in the second half against City. We can do it. Please use Armstrong, Alcaraz, Aznou, Dibling and even Graham off the bench with sufficient time left on the clock for them to have a chance of impacting the game.

07 May 2026 07:43:50
If only Mike.

07 May 2026 11:46:14
It's a well trodden path this one.
For what it's worth, I believe there's a large space for opinions between 'he's the Mesiah' and 'he's sh**e'.
We make predictions as if playing youngsters guarantees a better outcome when we have no idea if it will.


We'd all like to see more young players coming through and having an impact, of course, when they get their chance, they have to take it, as Rohl did on Monday.
Let's start with a win on Sunday, and a more positive approach in the first half.

07 May 2026 12:52:41
For what it's worth, JB, I think that he is a good manager and is as blue as all of us. He has taken us from the bottom of the league to at least mid-table and close to a European spot.
He is also, frustratingly, a one-tactic manager. He relies heavily on his proven players, is too defensive minded, and does not use his whole squad effectively, especially the younger ones. To sum it up, a lot of the football is boring.


He is unlikely to change his tactics. New players will help if he plays them. I expect him to get a one year extension.
An ideal scenario in my opinion would to get Lee Carsley in as a Coach under Moyes with the objective to make him our Manager in the future. He has a great knowledge of young players and would be able to help with the recruiting and their development.

07 May 2026 15:42:23
Mike, I agree with all of that. And the Carsley point is a great one.

07 May 2026 16:32:46
Yep, good post Mike. He's not the future, but a safe pair of hands when it was very much needed. Seems to be a harmonious dressing room too. I suppose a lot depends on who is available and who would come to us. Carsley, you'd expect, would. I'd bite your hand off for Iriola but I suspect he has suitors elsewhere.

07 May 2026 19:06:21
I certainly don't think of DM as the Messiah, but I have no doubt he has done a superb job with the players available to him. I want to see him given a couple of windows first before looking to replace or keep him, he deserves that at least.

07 May 2026 20:05:31
You want to give Carsley the job, not sure that's a good idea. He has very little experience to be getting the Everton job full time. That's a massive risk. We should be looking to get a top tier manager, someone who has experience running a big club.

That would be a massive leap for Carsley. He should prob take a job in League 1 or 2 and work his way up.

07 May 2026 20:29:44
I admire your positivity GB, I really do. We just have a slightly different viewpoint while both hoping for the best for our club. I believe the squad we have is pretty decent. They showed in the second half against City that they can do well against one of the best. On another day Ndiaye would have berried at least one of the two chances he had.
Moyes with his negative tactics, putting players in positions they are not suited for and not using at least one or two of the youngsters in the starting eleven is not playing to the talents we already possess.

We will never know, for example, how a defense of Patterson, O'Brian, Branthwaite and Aznou would perform. Patterson is not great, but he is a natural right-back and the only game Aznou was in, I thought that he played very well. Merlin and Tim showed what we have been missing, and I hope they play in our next game.

07 May 2026 21:03:08
Dino, mate, read my message a little more carefully. I said bring him in as a coach under Moyes with the objective of making him manager in the future when he is ready. In the meantime, he would be great at identifying young players and coaching them. Isn't that the way Arteta learned at City?

07 May 2026 23:05:57
How did Arteta end up at City? I'm guessing it's the Spanish connection

08 May 2026 08:09:21
He learnt from Pep. I can't see Carsley learning the same off Moyles.

08 May 2026 10:20:13
Actually, I would not want him learning off Pep. So Dino, it was a suggestion, which you obviously are against, which is your right. So what is your solution?

08 May 2026 11:58:29
I am not arguing with you, mate tbh, you know as well as I do that it will be Moyes again next year and we will finish mid table again with the odd win here and there. Moyes has a 37% win rate in his managing career which isn't great. I think Glasner deserves a chance at a good club but not sure what his intentions are for next season.

Dyche has a 34% win record, Moyes only 3% more, which says a lot. Glasner is near a 50% win rate and he has been coaching Palace who sell any good player they get.

09 May 2026 11:21:05
If Glasner came in then there's at least half the team who are not capable of playing his style of football. 😂

06 May 2026 19:27:12
Price being linked from West Brom £20 million. Not bad business since we let the lad go for nothing in 2023, only 22. Well done to the lad for going abroad for 1st team football then joining the Championship.

Any takers? Not seen much of him to be fair. I know he scored a couple at the start of the season. Box to box midfielder — does he improve us? I don't know. Fulham want him as well.

06 May 2026 16:53:45
Givern City's second goal. Please can we move O'Brien to the centre of defense. I don't much care which Muppet we drop.

06 May 2026 18:40:57
Don't think Tarks has been at his best this season. Seems to want to battle with people rather than concentrate on defending.
O'Brien needs to be moved back into the centre, though it probably won't happen till next season now.

06 May 2026 19:16:53
Agree, BMD, but only 3 games to go, so nothing going to change.

06 May 2026 14:07:13
Just read we're the only team not to have a VAR overturn in our favour this season. Has a team ever gone a whole season without one since VAR introduction to the Premier League? Think this damning stat does validate our feeling that we've been screwed by decisions this season.

07 May 2026 15:45:44
Historically we are a club for firsts I suppose.

06 May 2026 12:40:29
See a 71yr male fan has been arrested for suspected racial abuse of Semenyo. If guilty, hopefully he gets a lifetime ban.

06 May 2026 16:00:32
From Nottingham, apparently?

06 May 2026 18:41:13
Regardless of where the fan is from, deserves punishment if guilty.

06 May 2026 18:43:11
From what I have read, he was reported to the stewards by other supporters, so kudos to them. Don't need this nonsense in sport.

{Ed025's Note - absolutely BMD..

06 May 2026 18:44:54
Has to be a lifetime ban if he has racially abused anyone. There is no room for that sort of nonsense in any part of life. Well done to those people who called him out on it and reported it to the stewards.

{Ed025's Note - you are right BR..

07 May 2026 15:47:22
Imagine being 71 and still not knowing how to act decently 🙄

06 May 2026 10:29:54
To be fair to Moyes, Tim was off the pitch and the ref was ready to play on so we’d have been down to 10 against them and if he’d decided to try and see the game out without subbing him he’d have been criticised so he was dammed either way.
As I’ve said that ref was ready to play until they scored and stretch that 6 minutes as far as he could.

The only way he’d have blown up sooner is we’d won the ball back and were in danger of making it 4-2. Anyway, it is what it is. We move on and Palace on Sunday UTFT.

06 May 2026 11:08:06
At the end of the day we defended very badly for their last two goals nobody came out to challenge Doku and we already know that tarkiski and Keane are brain dead as regards reading the game

06 May 2026 16:02:05
All three were poorly defended, but then the lads did well with the other two hundred.

06 May 2026 16:48:28
Well, it is the third game that we have let in a goal that has lost us valuable points in overtime. Nobody's fault but our own. It has to be sorted.