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• We’ve got a young kid knocking them in for fun and a slightly older kid that couldn’t hit a barn door with a banjo. Surely Braiden has earned some minutes in the first team before the end of the season. Get him on the weights preseason and he could be the new Tony Cottee....
  Jay Harris in Everton U21s beat Watford in the final minute of extra time with a brilliant diving header from Braiden Graham
• Dean Johnson (10): ‘Destroy a young player before they're ready... that's what’.Barry is 24 in the Autumn. He is not a ‘young player’. He is in or near to the middle part of his career. This is what we have. A player who has come through the development cycle of the ‘young’ player and he is, well, not very good. His Derby run-out was nothing short of appalling. In a world where all options are on the table he should be as far from starting as I am from Erbil.However, I’ve watched David Moyes OBE grow and develop since 2002 from being Moyes mark 1 back then to becoming Moyes mark 1 now. He will pick Barry. The interesting thing for me is who will replace hopeless and hapless Barry when he is subbed or what sparkling out-of-the-box tactical rethinking by our DM saves the day.If I was in DM’s shoes tomorrow because he took the day off to buy up all of the available footy cards in which he appears so no one will ever see one again:https://www.tumblr.com/scotsf...
  Paul Griffiths in Beto blow — Moyes confirms forward to miss West Ham clash
• It’s a totally different game playing out wide Mark, especially when you’re a 6foot 5inch, unit, and if he never had good concentration levels then I don’t believe O’Brien, could have played the position for so long the way he has done. He has switched off a few times, another was the goal that wolves scored (I think) but the biggest problem I have watching Everton, playing with O’Brien, at fullback, is that he often stays back, and he sometimes stays narrow, and this means that whoever plays in front of him has to do an incredible amount of running....
  Tony Abrahams in As Moyes returns to West Ham, is history repeating itself for old dog who won’t try new tricks?
• If Moyes plays George or Charlie up front tomorrow I’ll eat my hat. You can put your house on the fact he’ll play Barry despite knowing he’s gonna offer nothing up top and just skulk around the pitch. C’mon Davey, show us your metal...
  Mark Ryan in Beto blow — Moyes confirms forward to miss West Ham clash
• It didn’t, imo, matter about the other four Michael, because at the end of the day, the most important person is the player that is going to be receiving the ball, so you might say Jake, was unlucky, but I just don’t think he was clever enough. Pickford, had a radius of about twenty square yards, O’Brien, who was the obvious pass just ambled out wide, instead of getting himself back onside before breaking forward, in behind the Liverpool defence. When Si, mentioned reactive, my first thought was that a very well drilled team, also knows how and when, to be pro-active, and I could imagine a manager like Simeone, taking a player off for wasting such a great opportunity, which is what I still think Jake O’Brien, did, last Sunday. We will never know if it cost us the game but, he definitely wasted a massive opportunity, by being lazy, or by not being completely switched on, and casting my mind back to the thousands of Evertonians, who were going completely berserk, my own...
  Tony Abrahams in As Moyes returns to West Ham, is history repeating itself for old dog who won’t try new tricks?
• Looks like a young Alan Ball...
  Mark Ryan in Everton U21s beat Watford in the final minute of extra time with a brilliant diving header from Braiden Graham