Carey 6

I don’t know why though, Murray wasn’t bad & Carey certainly wasn’t after returning. I remember being told some years ago pretty confidently that Skuse was returning but makes sense as to why it didn’t happen now.

Scott been a bit off it recently I reckon. Hopefully gets a goal to gain some confidence soon.

Yeah perhaps it is that. Could’ve had 2 assists on another day.

Palmer looked quite good in both the games against us I reckon. Not followed how he’s been getting on overall there, but it is a shame we couldn’t get consistent performances out of him in the time that he was here.

Ratings for that first half according to whoscored. Always think their average ratings are reasonable & a lot better than you get elsewhere, removes any bias you may have. Would love to know how it’s exactly worked out though.

Bentley must come back into the side.

Did very well for the goal but not too sure about how good he was passing wise yesterday. @Davefevs any stats? I thought he was the worst on our team for it yesterday.

Sorry where do the bad attitude/big headed claims come from? Have I missed a story?

Perhaps, obvious link is Eddie Howe’s Newcastle but I still don’t think the fee would be massive, granted you do seem to get a sort of tax on English players though. Maxwell Cornet & Emmanuel Dennis looked quite good for Burnley & Watford respectively last season & I don’t think the two of them went for much more than 20m each either.

I would be. We’ve been saying this for the last 4 transfer windows haven’t we? I think the best chance we have is Bournemouth going down and someone moving for Kelly, even then Bournemouths negotiating point will be weaker with him only having a year left & having just been relegated. Also depends if we have a straight sell on clause or a sell on percentage of profit. Can you see him going for much more than the £13m we sold him for? Dwight McNeil was relegated with Burnley last season, was 22 years old, had 3 years to run on his contract and went for £20m.

I just think your original response to the poster could’ve ended after you asked the question. I think it would be harsh to drop O’Leary after playing well, so I would probably keep him in goal personally. But overall I think Bentley is the better goalkeeper of the two of them & shouldn’t have been dropped in the first place.

He’s rarely poor for Everton. Had a dodgy spell a couple years ago where he made a couple of mistakes but their fans think he’s brilliant. He won their player of the year last season by the way. He is always class for England though. You see a big drop off in standards whenever any other keeper comes in I reckon.

Because Bentley is the better keeper in a lot of peoples opinions. Having a different one to you doesn’t make it embarrassing.

Pearson hooked Tanner early last season at West Brom away and got pelters for not waiting until half time. So I can understand why he did wait today, especially with a player newer to the set up than Tanner was at the time. Was a similar level of performance today as we saw Sam Bell have against Birmingham last season. Doesn’t look ready to me.

Said in another thread the other day he seems to have lost any sort of composure he had last season. It reminds me of the Semenyo we had in 20/21 season where everything has to be hit as hard as possible. Needs a goal soon because I think more will follow when he gets one.

To think some hoped we would draw them in the cup when we have the potential to put in performances like that.

Just posted pretty much this. I don’t think changing the manager will achieve much at all.

As we’ve seen tonight, we have such a small pool of players that are actually up to playing in the Championship or at a decent standard. The fringe players like King, Klose, Martin aren’t good enough & Kadji, Bajic & Low all looked miles off it. I know a lot want Pearson gone, but I don’t see anyone coming in & improving us with the current squad. Hopefully when we get the likes of Naismith & Kalas back, along with Wilson (who hasn’t looked great but will at least give Sykes some competition) we see a big improvement in our style of football and the results we get.

Won’t happen. He’s still playing in almost every game. Would surprise me a lot.

Didn’t travel with squad

No Atkinson again today which I’m a bit disappointed by. Hoped he would be back in the side.

35-55 man squads have to be named as a FIFA requirement before naming your actual squad for the tournament, the previous cap was 35 but was increased this time round. Southgate was ridiculed when all the original headlines came out about it but nations like Germany/Spain have done exactly the same - That's just two I've seen, wouldn't surprise me if every nation did the maximum amount. Can't see Webster making it, but I wonder if we have a small fee add on for X amount of England appearances.

Seems to have gone back to Semenyo from 20/21. Lacking a bit of composure which he had last season. I'm sure when he next gets a goal a few more might start going in again.

Got a fair few last season but still never thought he was any good. Should’ve been released end of last season, was only going to get slower which I wasn’t sure was even going to be possible. I’m sure they looked at other target man types in the summer but didn’t manage to get any over the line. It’s one of the top priorities for me in January if we can do some business.

Love telling them they’re basically Leicester City & won the league on a one off.