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• Mark Steers #2, I have to disagree with you, the person who actually should be blamed for Jake O Brien being sent off is James Tarkowski. His run attempt back to goal was frankly pathetic. No urgency, no desire. If that is his fastest effort to backtrack to get goalside (of Jake) then he should not be anywhere near the starting eleven. We can all see how painfully slow Tarkey now is, but his trotting back took the biscuit, with a full on sprint back, even at his pace, he is goal side of Jake and the referee gives Jake a yellow, not a red. Tarkowski gave up in my opinion, unforgivable, and Darren Hind called it correctly....
  Graham Hammond in David Moyes accepts Jake O’Brien's red card
• For the last 30 years, this club has suffered low accountability and dumbing down of expectations. That needs to change - people need to stop making excuses and hold people at all levels of the club properly to account for their performances. I have been more critical of TFG than the manager, and more critical of the manager than the players. But at all levels the circular excuse making has to stop. That includes us as supporters, as it has been excuse after excuse this week following the Brentford defeat: The new signings are no good - blame the recruitment team, not Moyes. The home form is no good - blame the players, not Moyes. The away form is good - praise Moyes, not the players. We didn't invest in the squad in January - blame the market, not TFG. We have squandered opportunity after opportunity to solidify a Top 6 position, and the home defeats to Spurs, Newcastle, Brentford and Bournemouth were a joke, as were the draws with Leeds, Wolves and West Ham. 18 points...
  Steve Brown in You Need to Mean Them, Barry!
• Mike, I agree with you. Ever since the EPL was created, with Everton as a founding member but the only one ('95 aside) not to have regularly vied to win a trophy in way over 30 years of its existence, the club has been run into the ground in terms of acquiring trophy-winning signings fit for immediate action or development. That's not the sole fault at all of the various hack managers Kenwright/Moshiri signed on the cheap since the past century, no, it's down to him and the legion of phony Everton-supporting piranhas he took on board and sucked up to in his quest to get £millions into his own bank account, and f*** the club and its fans. In the world of football for decades Everton are now mere nobodies and it's going to take mega-bucks, AND know-how spending it, AND a dynamic young, successful manager who is bizarrely unaware of his own worth before it changes for the better....
  Don Alexander in You Need to Mean Them, Barry!
• Tony #21, absolutely no argument. The sooner Jake and Jarrad establish themselves as our 10-year centre-back pairing, the better! But that, of course, will require a quality right back. I can't wait to see who we get in the summer. ...
  Mike Gaynes in David Moyes accepts Jake O’Brien's red card
• Jim #99, we had plenty of patience with Lookman. So did the clubs that followed us in trying to get him to become a professional (Leipzig, Fulham, Leicester). The penny finally dropped for him when he got to Atalanta. He was nearly 25 years old. It had been more than four years since gave up and loaned him out. He finally became a star in Italy, and good for him, but do you seriously believe we should have kept him from 2018 through 2022 hoping he'd mature? That would have been borderline insanity, would it not? ...
  Mike Gaynes in You Need to Mean Them, Barry!
• Wouldn’t worry about him, Don, mate, he’s an angry little man venting about his own life issues via football. ...
  Philip Devlin in You Need to Mean Them, Barry!