To better monetise the website I guess, or to reduce the owners own IT input. Or both. Follow the money.

You can understand why the club went for Harvey. But they really should have gone and got a better manager. We were the best team in England at the time. Bobby Robson would have been ideal.

Is Arena a newly formed company? I’m thinking that if they were an established platform running for several years all these teething problems would have been sorted long ago and it would pretty much be plug and play. Is it this lot (www.arena.im)? They seem to have launched this in 2024 if so and should have the bugs ironed out by now. They also say it’s customisable, which doesn’t seem to be the case if changes have to be reviewed and approved by them.

I don’t beleive that Paul and it’s not what I said. Other websites will be using Arena, it’s not exclusive to Toffeeweb, so it’s my bet that another customer asked for Best first and that’s why they changed it.

It’s not as good as Reddit

Eric, do you really believe that ‘some’ on here wanted things to be sorted by ‘best’. My hunch is that nobody wanted this and that none of us were asked for our input. ‘Best’ is the dictates of these Arena people for whom this is convention mate.

“They assess feasibility and impact on everyone.” This is the problem. We want Oldest first, some other customers want Best first. They change for one they change for all. Not everyone is going to get what they want. I don’t mind viewing Newest first but it would be nice to have it as default as it was when the system first went live. I guess some customers asked for the change to Best as default. Arena are not going to change it back and forth every week so we’re likely to be stuck with some unpopular options.

Erm Norgaard is the only genuine 6 that we have. I’m not defending erm someone who has yet to kick a ball for us in the PL, but ‘worst signing we’ve made in a long time’ is utter bollocks.

What did Dave say Dale? I can’t find it mate.

Agree on Grealish Derek

Staring Colin Harvey?

Easy, Sean. The lowest cost option may still be here. This is somewhat a coordination problem with the inertia being, we are already assembled here. Move around, you get fractures and defections. There may be some ways to ignore certain functions, keep posting routines tight and make our way through this phase without losing too many in the community. Give it some thought, make some serious well-phrased suggestions to Michael and Harry. I’m thinking they just bought a setup that could make sense for an academic type blog where profound comments deserve a sidepath with responses and running discussion. Except for the width offered on that, can”t make sense of that at all.

Does Moyes even know what his ‘best’ 11 is – there were plenty of times in his 1st term that it seemed that way (do we for that matter?…some might say its the 11 that despite Moyes – wins the most points) Let’s say Moyes plays A in position Z, is he there as a Sq.peg /Favourite or is he a genuine Zer So we now have players ABCDEF & H+ G (G being Grealish obvs) trying for positions VWXY&Z But if the Midfield is actually G + WXY&Z??? Moyes hates too many options at the best of times, so God help him with all those permutations, then you add a tendency to shoehorn in his favourites. My perfect world solution is Moyes & Grealish out – which, with Ownership issues, won’t happen this season…and maybe not even then! Let’s hope Moyes stumbles on to/is forced into a formula that works

Eddie Howe at the end of the season. It’s clear to see

Does anyone here have any IT brains who can start our own site? I’ll donate to a crowd fund to get it going… surely we could do better than all this malarkey…. The game’s gone, now the fan site’s have gone too… why can’t we chip in and start another new site with the focus around fan discussion and not advertising betting companies for a working class team. You know, “the people’s club” and all

This. Is . Wank… the old system was fine and actually felt like a chat room at times when people could have conversations. Now it’s just a copy of Reddit.. Maybe we’ll get used to it but crikey now I have to click around to see comments etc. Up The Unbeaten Toffees!!!!

Oh!!! I don’t believe it! Another incredible strike. No idea who the hell he is either. Just an absolute beauty! 4-1 Mfuni … who the fuck? Man City reject. Excellent win for Coventry City!! That’s 2 wins now after losing all 4 at the start.

Asante with a fabulous shot, keeper beaten, smacks off the face of the post! I’ve never heard of most of these players.

Oh my goodness… Ellis Simms smacks one after a penalty appeal and a clear foul! Incredible advantage played by the referee. VAR not getting involved. They would for sure if that had been us! Coventry 3 – 1 Newcastle!!!!

But what an absolute rocket from Botman. Struck it so sweetly… roof of the net. Fantastic strike. This game has gone crazy… the lilac pink Skunk Maggots throwing everything at Frank’s fledglings. Ellis Simms on now for Cherif.

Ooo.. that bloke Cherif hit the ball so crisply there, and it fairly flew into the Newcastle goal! That goalie Nick Pope was well beaten. Oh but what a terrrible miss just then! Someone once said, “It’s a funny old game…”

With all due respect to Soren, I don’t think that his post is the best so far! Sorry Soren.

Branthwaite cannot play full back, and take him out of the centre and we are weaker. Moyes continues to make poor use of subs. I’ve been critical of Dibling but in his limited game time he has shown a totally different mindset this season. Hackney, Dibling, Alcaraz all need to be rotated into the team for more than 5-10 minutes at the end.

Feel for you MK. Very open and honest observations on your part that lay it out for all of us. They really help to rationalise and show the reasons why we are where we are. I do hope that at least some of your wishes will see the light of the day but I also get the sense of banging heads against a wall. The one thing we are not clear about is why this happened in the first place when the only thing wrong with the old system was the posts that we did not like. I’m assuming filthy lucre is lurking somewhere and the French lads chased it. Agree completely, it’s not good – plain wrong – that these Arena people are customising the site for only them and their conventions. Great advocacy MK.

8 Goals in 7 games. Hes still here

I think that everytime Tarkowski and Keane play together we ship goals. It’s obvious the manager doesn’t rate Obrien at cb but was quick enough to put him at right back. Why couldn’t M Niles play left back yest and Garner right back, leaving the Tarkowski Branthwaite partnership as it is, Jarred will never be a left back as long as hes got a hole in arse so he was wasted there. The picking Johnson ahead of George is equally as baffling George was playing well before the Ipswich game yet Moyes left him out. Some of the managers decisions at times make you scream, but ill guarantee this if Mykolenko isn’t fit on Sat and he picks the same team Chelsea will slaughter us, they’re full of goals we were lucky it was Hull yest because quite frankly they were shite, but still breached us twice.

https://x.com/barlowjacob/status/2109686442901320165 People who live in glass houses

Brian harrison you say one of the worst strikers your funny you . Come back and tell me that when goal 20 goes in later in the season . Barry is not our problem i will tell you . No goals in midfield is our problem .

Just to warn everyone to get a bet on us not beating Coventry. Just entered our first Forever Blue + Ballot for tickets. First game I took my son – 1994, Coventry – Lost 2-0 Following season took him again – 2-0 up from a Duncan double, long stoppage for their player getting concussion totally disrupted us, they made it 2-2 and only going to be one winner but thankfully the ref ended our misery before they scored. Why do we do this to ourselves?

“The Comment System is a shared product used by many partners, so changes like these need to be reviewed by their Product and Engineering teams first.” That is an absolute bollocks of an excuse for poor design that does not allow the customer to set their own parameters. I think most of us could get AI to write a better version with the options requested in here, and basically free.

This new TW system is crap i don’t like it.

Up to us. Moveup Media. Ai? Umm. Too old!

Superb explanation MK. And glad to identify Moveup Media

Everton under Moyes is like what it says on the tin its his way or no way thats why most players get picked simple . Well Everton have had this problem for a while and its simply no goals in midfield just genuine GRAFTERS just like moyes loves . Garner only shots he has at goal are 25 yd free kicks . Armstrong well someone needs to show him a picture of a GOAL. Grealish stop eating yourself and start shooting at the goal . Johnson he gets slagged but he does look like he has goals in him . So come on Moyes change it up a bit earlier . George . Alcaraz . might get you a goal Davey

What is learned is..why the fuck did we buy Johnson he offers nothing at all..and why not start with players that have recently showed improvement..George and Dibbling. Hackney should be a definite starter..and we should speed the play up..too slow for me..UTFT!

What Dave said!

Watched the highlights today. What do they work on with Barry at Finch Farm? It can’t be finishing! Anyone else think that Tarky gave up when the Hull player went through for their first goal. Surely a pro should chase back in case there’s a chance to clear. I remember Gareth Barry doing that in one of his first games and saved a certain goal. If I was a manager I’d be demanding that from my players.

I reserve my self important blowhardary for only the most moronic of posts these days. I like to think that if you take enough of them to water you may get one of the people who post them to think. Yeah I know….

The midfield is a real strength of ours and I can’t really agree with the premise of the argument in the OP. I think we’re currently playing our strongest 3 in there, but accept that they are essentially 3 ‘no.8s’ rather than suited to specific roles. The issue on Saturday was Keane at centre back and a centre back playing full back. That’s what cuts down all the options. Finally, of the 7 players we have to play in those 3 midfield positions, Norgaard would currently rank 7/7 for me. I hope he surprises me, but given that we were already strong in that position, sold a promising young player to accommodate him and desperately needed reinforcements in at least two other positions, Norgaard is currently the worst signing we’ve made in a long time. Partly because he’s a symbol of what a brain-dead, shambolic transfer window we had.

Wrong all the way thru. And you’re a dead bore, too. Aim your self-important blowhardry elsewhere.

What is wrong with this team? 1st six games last season – 69 shots – 18 on target 1st six games this season – 95 shots – 30 on target. That is 50-60% more. OK who as abducted the defensive David Moyes and replaced him with that White haired Scotsman?

Can’t agree with ‘one of his poorest performances…’ Armstrong was outstanding both halves, and the only one trying to make something happen in an overall poor first half. If Barry had taken his chances on Sunday and at Bournemouth, then I think we’d be reading different articles. However, I’m also the opinion Moyes does not use the bench and fringe players enough. It cost us the last 6 games of last season and to now leave George and Dibling out for Johnson is baffling. In the few minutes he got on Sunday, Dibling walked past his full back to get to the by line. I’m struggling to remember Johnson doing that ever? Along with Hackney, they both deserve more minutes.

This is all confusing! Why fix it when it’s not broken? 😬

I dont think we have cat in hells chance Dave. There are too many gaps in the squad, never mind whether moyes has got it or not. And probably hasnt. A club with a modest amount of ambition & is well run, will hit the jackpot this season. Thats what frustrates me most. Opportunities not being taken.

We are too slow- Rohl added a lot when he played wide right and Jack needs a player breaking ahead of him to draw the full back and allow Jack to move inside with the ball. Johnson is not a first team player and George or Dibling should be given a decent run. Hackney should play- too good going forward to sit on the bench. We now have some decent pace in the squad and Moyes needs to give it a chance

We have a small group of players two misstakes did not help” wasted “chances did not help the course . Where we was making good chances and not wasting them does not help also still remain unbeaten IF we had won we could be 4th keep the faith

I thought we looked unbalanced all round. Johnson instead of Dibling was a major mistake as he offered nothing and doesn’t help AMN either. Putting Jarrad at LB was another major mistake. The lad has known hamstring issues and the CB area is weakened significantly by him not being there. Would have preferred James Garner to play LB and give Hackney a long overdue 90 minutes. By not playing wingers it brought extra pressure on the MF hence they struggled to show their true form.

Michael. Seems like you guys are having a nightmare with the changeover. Hope people keep their frustration to constructive criticism, as we can all see you guys are as frustrated as the rest of us. The reply option is a good idea, but couldn’t a reply be posted as a comment too, putting it at the top of the newest sort order? Saving the need to open the reply manually. Just a thought . Keep at them mate !!

Thanks, Mark, your continued support and posts are much appreciated.

Michael, I do feel for you, having read this. Must admit having been a fairly regular poster on here, recently not so much. It seems common now, that website ‘improvements’ end up anything but that. You’re far from the only example and I don’t think it is all based on fear of change. Having heard your lament, I’ll try to persevere because I think there are good people with good intentions trying to run this day to day and hope you don’t end up joining the long list of things that have ended up worse than they used to be.