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• It looks like the strategy is taking punts on young players, as the financial constraints are an issue, as is the attractiveness of the club relative to the competition. Everton simply don't have the transfer & wage budget to buy lots of quality players, and cover the volume of players that they wanted to get in. The wage bill have increased at a modest amount, and still dwarfs other clubs. Liverpool's wage bill is nearly 2.5 times bigger. No point in our history will that disparity have been greater, nor their ability to spend what 4 times the transfer spend last summer? Moyes has talked around bringing in a £60m striker, vs bringing in 3 players of say £30m, £20m and £10m player. They've gone with the latter. It is easy to be critical of that decision, but it is the type of decision that has paid off for Brighton's, Brentford etc in time....
  Ian Bennett in What we learned from another heartbreaking derby defeat for Everton
• Geoff, 41, yes Van Dick pushed Tarks forward and under the cross that he would have headed clear. What is happening at corners should not be allowed and rules need to be changed to stop it. All the pushing pulling and holding by both sides are fouls and carry on when the kick is taken. It is happening every game nowadays. There must be a big increase in goals scored from corners because of it....
  Clive Rogers in Everton v Liverpool: Player Ratings
• Brian (53) and Ian(54) Gana Gueye and McNeil were both tiring, the three players I mentioned have been used by Moyes but Rhol hasn’t been used since a very good game at Villa, Alcaraz came on ve Palace earlier in the season and helped to change the game, Tim has ben used a lot by Moyes— You and Ian didn’t think they would have made much impact, Barry and George proved they never made any impact. I think Alcaraz could have taken McNeils place on the wing even though it’s not his position, is right back O’Briens position? No but Moyes plays him continually there leaving McNeil to mostly play as a defensive winger, Ndiaye was taken from his favourite position where he was constantly marked by two men when he was switched this freed the Hungarian to go into midfield and put Liverpool,in an attacking mood and changed the game as much as us losing Beto and Branthwaite. Moyes watched this and never made any move to stop it, an extra centre midfielder or two might have change...
  Dave Abrahams in What we learned from another heartbreaking derby defeat for Everton
• That’s the standard answer Dave, the players on the bench aren’t good enough.After the Villa game, people were posting things about how James Garner, had the energy to run all the way around the world (or words to that affect) and guess what Rohl, ran further. He must have run that hard, he needed a long break, because he hasn’t been seen since.Alkaraz, got a run last season and my guess is that our points tally from when Moyes came in last season until the end of that season, is probably a higher points average, than what we have achieved this season?KDH, had to leave Chelsea, because he couldn’t get a proper run in the team, but since he’s came to Everton, and played for a manager who has got confidence in him then, he’s proved how good he can be, but if you are not getting a fair go because the manager, doesn’t trust you then it can be very frustrating being a footballer.Our midfield was tiring badly. N’Diaye went out of the game when he went to play on t...
  Tony Abrahams in What we learned from another heartbreaking derby defeat for Everton
• Brian/Ian, Based on last summer’s signings, what is the club’s football strategy?...
  Steve Brown in What we learned from another heartbreaking derby defeat for Everton
• When VAR was introduced it was to clear up obvious errors. Since it was introduce many rule changes have created numerous grey areas. How long can you pull a shirt for "subjective"how much is reasonable force "he needs to be stronger" again subjective, assistant referees flagging marginal offsides then keeping them down when obvious and a player gets injured. Of course its usually the Sky darlings who get the benefit of the doubt. Never more obvious than on Sunday. Why can't we get back to if you gain an advantage unfairly then its a foul. I finally watched a recording of Sunday and noticed an incident I missed at the game involving Barry and Van Dick where St Virgil held and pulled Barry's shirt several times to allow his Keeper to recover and clear the ball, no surprise ignored by officials. Even Danny Murphy hinted that Tarkowski was fouled during the winning goal. It will be interesting to see how the officials perfom when we play Spurs if they need a win to stay up...
  Geoff Cadman in Everton v Liverpool: Player Ratings