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• Think Rohl a massive plus for next season.rnMust play in some capacity...
  Phil Wood in Pre-Season Friendly v Stuttgart was lively but Everton just could not score
• Kevin (67), still far too easy in my opinion. It’s not just defensive mids who are allowed to tackle. rnrnActually thought we really missed Merlin when he went off and Harrison Armstrong did little wrong as well.rnrnMark (68), we had a very exciting 15 minute purple patch but I don’t think we deserved to win that game overall....
  Si Cooper in Pre-Season Friendly v Stuttgart was lively but Everton just could not score
• I watched some of the Leeds friendly before our fixture and it struck me after watching DCL\'s opening goal from a low cross and then our own Beto missing several sitters from crosses that we do miss this fully fit DCL....
  Gavin Johnson in Pre-Season Friendly v Stuttgart was lively but Everton just could not score
• Eric. Too right!!...
  Jeff Spiers in Pre-Season Friendly v Stuttgart was lively but Everton just could not score
• Perhaps I'm missing something not being a multi-millionaire football coach/manager, but in my very simple world calling someone a “striker” means absolutely nothing, unless they’re actually reasonably good footballers, who have the ability to score goals on a reasonably regular basis, and with the best will in the world Beto & Barry are neither? So unless we pay a kings ransom to purchase one of these proven “strikers”, surely it would make more sense simply picking our best players, who can at least kick a ball in the direction of the goal & turn a ball across the 6 yard box into an empty net? It’s not Astro-physics & not as if we haven’t done this previously with what people in modern parlance call a “false nine”. Because we have the likes of Ndiaye, KDH, Garner, Röhl, Hackney, George, etc who’re already one up on Beto & Barry, as they’re reasonably good footballers, plus they can all shoot. So let’s play them in a formation that allows them freedom to b...
  Eric Haworth in Pre-Season Friendly v Stuttgart was lively but Everton just could not score
• Mark. If I\'d have been playing, we would have been 3-1 up at half-time!...
  Paul Hewitt in Pre-Season Friendly v Stuttgart was lively but Everton just could not score