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I wouldn't be too hard on them, there are loads of people in the professional media who seem incapable of asking an open question.

My hero!

On the replay you could see the assistant only comes into the picture just as Gnonto scores. Well behind the play. I imagine Boro will be considering their options.

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Certainly you will get more chance to play against better teams but if the opposition is playing conservatively it seems to me you need to be more aggressive, pressing higher to force errors. Instead we tend to turn passive, passing the ball around at a slow tempo. Which suits them fine.

I was delighted when we signed him as from what I'd seen he looked a confident and classy defender with Premier League potential. The best is yet to come I reckon.

One of the most encouraging performances under Manning I thought. It does puzzle me though that we seem to play less conservatively against the better teams than against the poorer ones.

Quite so, though Everton fans are so fixated on the conspiracy against them they seem not to have noticed that nor their £550m in third party debt. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/16/everton-takeover-777-gets-extension-to-repay-160m-loan

Have you noticed though that if we play well it's down to the game plan and if we don't it's down to the players?

Anyone wanting to hear from Steve should tune into Guernsey radio, his station of choice. I think he likes the tough questioning he gets there.

@ExiledAjaxhit the nail on the head in the MDT. There is no Manning style, our approach to any game is determined by how the opposition set up. Which is why we play with aggressive intent in one game then revert to pedestrian football in the next. He just will not consistently play in a way that suits the players we have. He even out ranks LJ in the over thinking stakes. Though he no doubt thinks it's sophisticated.

Jon backtracted and said 10th would be success. No doubt he will adjust that again as the need arises.

If Liam picks King over JKL Tinnion will presumably be furious.

So did Millwall for that matter.

Remarkable isn't it how some people simply ignore the context a manager is operating in? Liam has inherited a stable position and doesn't have to spend his time slashing costs, clearing out a bloated squad, changing the toxic cuture and so on as Pearson and Gould did. It's up to him to make the most of it.

Perhaps Everton fans could take time off from complaining that the world is against them to tale note of things that shoud really concern them. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/12/everton-paid-30m-interest-lender-rights-media-funding-links-with-tax-exile-documents-suggest See also my post above about 777 Partners. Points deductions are the least of their problems.

Sheffield United will be welcomed back to the Championship with a points deduction. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/11/sheffield-united-deducted-two-points-by-efl-for-defaulting-on-payments

As Jurgen Klopp said, a high press is the best number 10.

Imagine my shock when I read that 777 Partners don't actually have the money to buy Everton. Who'd have guessed it? https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/10/everton-takeover-thrown-into-fresh-doubt-as-777-asks-for-more-time

Fining a club that has overspent always seemed a ridiculous idea to me. This article makes that even clearer.

He consistently demonstrates that he doesn't understand the PSR regs. Like any number of journalists he gives the impression he has never read them nor indeed independent commission decision. "It's not fair to punish a great old club like Everton" doesn't qualify as journalism imo .

A hero of mine as a youngster as I played centre half. He was built like a brick wossname but not as tall as most centre halves of his day. His positioning was excellent though. I remember him marking Tony Hateley, a renowned target man and header of the ball. When a high ball was played up to Tony, Dickie would just take a step back and pick up the flick on. Hateley was baffled and rendered ineffective. Thanks Dickie and may you rest in peace.

Because again it is the opposite of the kind of football he claims to want to play. Though my point was that so far if we play poorly he blames the players. A characteristic I didn't like with LJ and don't like from Manning either.

I'm sure Liam will assure us his game plan was spot on but the players failed to execute it. Again.

Steve in fact cited Brighton as the template but seems to have learned nothing from Tony Bloom. It's his club and he'll do what he wants even if it is demonstrably wrong. Great benefactor yes; great owner no.