Ronaldo

I do too, it's fantastic. Though TRon claims he was desperate to sign Tiote in the summer and there are quotes to prove it.

Just hopefully none of yours.

He can probably climb a flight of stairs unassisted this week because of it.

They do share similar weaknesses, but Pardew isn't nearly as bad, in fairness.

Nowt wrong with an ego unless it isn't compounded by emotional security and intelligence. The great managers like Ferguson, Mourinho and Ancelotti have that ability to question themselves and admit when they're wrong, even if it seldom occurs. The likes of Souness and Pardew don't have that and that's where ego becomes a big problem.

Taylor is fine as long as he has someone like MYM or Colo alongside him Quite confused what you mean by this, dude. What do Colo and MYM have in common?

Taylor won't be out the team. I think he'll cope fine next season provided he gets the games in.

AVB has grown on me, must say. Top bloke and obviously a very good coach.

Wum v Wum. Clash of the light flyweights in ere.

No.

Yeah, fair play to him for that.

Think it also had a lot to do with Ba wanting to play centrally. A manager worth his salt would have found a way to accommodate both Ba and Cisse centrally without resorting to the tripe that Pardew did. Alright, the wide options were poor so a conventional 4-4-2 was always going to be tough, but hey, why not try it for 7 or 8 games on the bounce (and completely kill Shane Ferguson's confidence by subbing him at half time every week?). I know. Just saying, the Wigan game probably wasn't his only reason.

Think it also had a lot to do with Ba wanting to play centrally.

Got his facts right as usual.

Ba has nothing to do with it. We were on something like 20 points from 20 games with him an ever-present.

Lovely, lovely human being.

We don't help ourselves by floating each and every single corner in, would do us good to drill the odd one in with pace. I completely agree that the organisation is poor, but the deliveries when well-intentioned are also usually poor and we don't have anyone bar Taylor who attacks the ball in the air. The personnel at hand just isn't conducive to scoring from them. That said, you would expect us to get at least 2 or 3 from corners by default. How conducive were Oscar or Suarez to scoring from aerial crosses, yet both managed to do it in the space of 90 mins today. Even our own little Gouffran scored from a clever cross from that brainless moocher Cisse yesterday. Being abnormally tall isn't a massive asset among the top strikers in the game today. Who on earth mentioned being tall? You want us to bring Carroll back for what reasons then?

As stupid as this lot often are, there's no chance of him staying if we go down.

We don't help ourselves by floating each and every single corner in, would do us good to drill the odd one in with pace. I completely agree that the organisation is poor, but the deliveries when well-intentioned are also usually poor and we don't have anyone bar Taylor who attacks the ball in the air. The personnel at hand just isn't conducive to scoring from them. That said, you would expect us to get at least 2 or 3 from corners by default. How conducive were Oscar or Suarez to scoring from aerial crosses, yet both managed to do it in the space of 90 mins today. Even our own little Gouffran scored from a clever cross from that brainless moocher Cisse yesterday. Being abnormally tall isn't a massive asset among the top strikers in the game today. Who on earth mentioned being tall?

I thought Harry got an easy ride from the press. Looks like par for the course next to this nonsense.

We don't help ourselves by floating each and every single corner in, would do us good to drill the odd one in with pace. I completely agree that the organisation is very poor, but the deliveries when well-intentioned are also usually poor and we don't have anyone bar Taylor who attacks the ball in the air. The personnel at hand just isn't conducive to scoring from them. That said, you would expect us to get at least 2 or 3 from corners by default.

To be fair there were 3 players on Carroll when we lost to City at home shortly before he left. He still scored and bossed them all game.

Evra's a quality header of the ball on the end of quality deliveries. None of that applies to our lot.

Of course it is. But is it unrealistic to have 2 or 3 players in the squad with proven track records of hitting double figures in a season? All of those chasing top 7 do. Who in that Everton squad hits double figures a season? currently only Fellaini on 11? Swansea? West Brom? That a completely invalid point. Its not even remotely true. Fellaini, Jelavic and Anichebe will all do it this season. In the league alone they've got 6 players on 5 goals or more. We've got 2. Jelavic/Anichibe on 6/7 goals each. Your sure they will each get 3/4 goals more before the end of the season?! Honestly man You've seen jelavic this season right? The reason we don't have any other goalscorers is that we play with one up front completely isolated, and hump long balls up to him. Never mentioned Swansea's scorers but West Brom have Lukaku, Long and Odemwingie. All 3 would stroll into our matchday 18. You mentioned "teams chasing the top 7" So they are in there. VERY debateable if they would stroll into our matchday eleven at all., Lukaku easily would. The other two are on the bench at worst. He probably would. But then equally Colo/Debuchy/Mbiwa/Santon/Cabaye/Cisse/HBA/Sissoko would stroll into theres. Its an irrelevance. The point is that we have players capable of scoring goals, but we do not utilise them. no goals from a corner all season?! how many does that account for? Crossed free kicks? We only have 1 player (Taylor) is remotely good or dominant in the air in fairness. Really? didn't evra score from a corner for Man Utd? It's our rank set pieces, not the personnel. This guy, man. Easily the most Ironic statement I've seen on here. Evra scored from a corner so it's nothing to do with our players, we get it.

Of course it is. But is it unrealistic to have 2 or 3 players in the squad with proven track records of hitting double figures in a season? All of those chasing top 7 do. Who in that Everton squad hits double figures a season? currently only Fellaini on 11? Swansea? West Brom? That a completely invalid point. Its not even remotely true. Fellaini, Jelavic and Anichebe will all do it this season. In the league alone they've got 6 players on 5 goals or more. We've got 2. Jelavic/Anichibe on 6/7 goals each. Your sure they will each get 3/4 goals more before the end of the season?! Honestly man You've seen jelavic this season right? The reason we don't have any other goalscorers is that we play with one up front completely isolated, and hump long balls up to him. Never mentioned Swansea's scorers but West Brom have Lukaku, Long and Odemwingie. All 3 would stroll into our matchday 18. You mentioned "teams chasing the top 7" So they are in there. VERY debateable if they would stroll into our matchday eleven at all., Lukaku easily would. The other two are on the bench at worst. He probably would. But then equally Colo/Debuchy/Mbiwa/Santon/Cabaye/Cisse/HBA/Sissoko would stroll into theres. Its an irrelevance. The point is that we have players capable of scoring goals, but we do not utilise them. no goals from a corner all season?! how many does that account for? Crossed free kicks? We only have 1 player (Taylor) is remotely good or dominant in the air in fairness. Really? didn't evra score from a corner for Man Utd? It's our rank set pieces, not the personnel. This guy, man.