I’ve been advised that I’ll get some information from Arena on fixes on Tuesday, as they have a meeting with the Engineering and Product teams to discuss our requests.

Sadly,its like watching a favourite boxer taking blow after blow but wont go down. Great site for Evertonians TW ,but the powers are asking Michael to fight with his hands tied behind his back. Keep fighting mate.

Nice one, Jeff. I think the two sites will continue to provide for the needs of Evertonians online. As you have noted, ToffeeWeb will continue to provide a more than daily stream of hopefully the more meaningful and relevant news stories, including a big focus of live companion coverage of each match. Truth is there really is very little news at the moment in the dismal depths of this three-week international borefest, with nothing to talk about or debate, and any interest some might have had in watching never mind discussing such blockbuster matchups as Wales and Denmark has dwindled away to nothing. That might be my fault as I completely forgot about last night’s games. The switchover to Arena’s comment system has been very problematic, probably a lot more so than anyone would have imgained. What should have been a simple transition has tuned out to be a horrible mess with the sort order defaulting to Best and no Oldest option. But we’re pushing hard for some major changes…

I tried for the first six months to get on Evertonia but was rejected time after time— Michael is the one who is trying to keep Toffeeweb afloat if he goes it will be the end of Toffeeweb.

Wales Online gave Johnson a 6 out of 10 rating, saying: “Got into some good positions at times and had a couple of sights at goal, but couldn’t quite find the invention needed as the game wore on.” Y Clwb Pel Droad gave him 7/10, saying: “His best performance in a Wales shirt for some time, looking confident going forward while also putting in the work defensively.”

Let’s be honest Brendan, this site is a dead duck, it’s a mess, if I was MK I’d be onto LL tomorrow asking for a job on Evertonia, MK would be ideal at Evertonia with his daily input, it’s what it currently lacks as the articles are slow, but their comments section is second to none! Nobody is even on here tonight talking, debating, slagging off, it ‘s fucking finished mate, next week’s live forum is it’s last hope.

You can Jeff But “a couple”…. poetic licence I get. Let’s just not stretch it.

Can I just point a few people over to Evertonia, there’s a couple of interesting threads developing there with a really good comments system going on.

Pitiful is what the headline is Michael, because like I have already said, City’s cheating never stopped Everton winning anything, mate. Why do we support Everton, Is it to see the club making money or is it to hopefully see the club competing for honours? We already know that Kenwright made himself a fortune, overseeing the longest barren spell in our history, but what did we get?

Little thought my lad has just come up with. Are Uefa investigating city now ? If the PL have found them guilty, surely that effects their involvement in European competitions? If they qualify for CL this season, but a point deduction applied next season, they could win the CL and be relegated. A European ban must surely be one of the sanctions, along with a transfer ban & Point deduction or expulsion. If they broke PL rules surely Uefas rules were broken too ? Hate the way it’s becoming political. Because these are owned by Abu Dhabi, they should get off lightly? They’ve built few things in a rundown area in Manny? Come on !! They haven’t even bought the Etihad off the city!!! No the opposite applies, city are not holding their hands up ( like EFC ) They haven’t compiled ( like EFC ) They don’t want to except their punishment (like EFC) They think they are above the rules, and enough money can get them out of this . If the regulator cant shit out on this one !

England were good but Croatia were woeful., they gave us all the time in the world to do what we liked.

Tony, off on one of your pitiful bleats again? It’s always been about Money, Tony. From Catterick paying a record fee for Alan Ball… back to 1892 and the dispute with Anfield Road landlord John Houlding over the rent… and we all know what happened then!!!

Meanwhile, over at Evertonia, everything is hunky dory. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?

Hi Alison? Any chance you could click on Account (upper right) and change your Display name to ‘Alison McHugh’, please. Thanks.

I saw that as soon as I logged on this morning, Eric. What a shit show! And I think it is affecting the Homepage list also, Eric. None of the movers and shakers are on duty at the weekend, so we’ll have to hope somebody can fix it tomorrow.

MICHAEL. Yes! I’d do away with the reply personally I think it’s that, that is the biggest difference with how people look and interact with threads. I’m thinking people like to just scroll the whole thread, so much easier .

Think it’s most interactions that make up the best “league” Replys & likes.

If there was ever an article to prove what the most important thing is to everyone in this modern world, then this one would win it for me Patric. Everton, might have lost money, but how many trophies did it stop them winning? Money – money – it’s all about the fucking money, and pretty soon we are going to find out how much money talks. Jessie J – Price Tag; seems like everybody’s got a price – I wonder how they sleep at night – when the sale comes first and the truth comes second! Can anyone remember when it was not just about the money-money-money and people used to smile more?

Recent Comment list has gone to shit again, no updates!! And I mean on the 50 post list, not the Homepage list.

Hi Tom, they expected a decent showing from Croatia! I thenk they were just outclassed. Can I ask a favour: could you click on Account (upper right) and enter your Display name as ‘Tom Bowers’ please. Thanks!

Hi Derek, keep ’em coming! Can I ask a favour: could you click on Account (upper right) and enter your Display name as ‘Derek Thomas’ please. NSNO!! Thanks!

Hi Pete, thanks for registering! Can I ask a favour: could you click on Account (upper right) and enter your Display name as ‘Pete Ambrose’ please. Thanks!

I missed the second half but it sounded like a consumate victory. [This is really just a test comment… looks like the latest problem we have is that the Recent Comments widget has done a neat Cinderella move and gone walkabout from midnight last night!]

Philip I wasn’t referring to when the mass changed from Latin to the native tongue but a more recent one. Yes I was a lapsed Catholic until I decided to go back to the church, although I never stopped believing even though I never went to mass, and I’ve been going ever since I went back around 40 years ago but going to church doesn’t make you a good person but it helps to try and make you a better person than you were— sometimes!

I think the Spain performance and Croatia performance tells you where they are. Close, but no cigar. Spain away in November will be the acid test. The soft back 4 will need to step up significantly to beat the best.

Phil Roberts (Kelsall) you say “My understanding is that Kenwright bought the club, sold off the assets to bring in cash to keep the business alive rather than taking on loans” All the toxic loans that TFG just got rid of came about under Chairman Bill, he loaded the Club with debt. and “the value of the club rose from diddly squat in 2000 to a significant amount in 2014” All down to the increase in revenues from broadcasting, EVERY club went up in value, nothing to do with Chairman Bill. Incidentally, Chaiman Bill DID NOT mortgage his house to save the Club.

The answer to the latter is yes. Ha! No one else does but ha! Well, it was true, I saw the ‘1’ for a while. Maybe that has been reset after a lag or the functions specs changed.

Eric, can you figure this out and announce it so I can start gaming it? Btw, can I like my own posts?

Some posts with 3 likes come after those with 2 or 1.

That’s what I would have thought but it’s not working like that.

I think Croatia have peaked and need a total rebuild…and England shouldn’t get too carried away, they aren’t ‘that’ good. 7 goals flatters them.

I still think England, are going to have to find a centre forward to replace Harry Kane, if they are finally going to win a major tournament, but they are definitely on the right path. They definitely blew a great opportunity in America, partly because the longer the game goes on, the less time Kane, wants to stay up front and play centre forward, imo, but hopefully Tuchel, has learned from that last tournament and he can lead England to success in the 2028 European championships🤞

So I can post but Michael K & Jeff A…not so much. Quality counts…

I was impressed with that Michael. High ,aggressive press.A spell in the first half they won possesion back time after time. Good fast movement off the ball and the quality of the final ball.

John Thanks for that mate. Been raucous here all week!

Not with Tuchel in charge Tom, he’s symptomatic of most coaches in the top jobs these days, a total coward. When he’s in a tight spot he reverts to pragmatic defensive thinking, it’s easy (like tonight) when 4 up at half time, but go 1-0 up in a semifinal with 30 minutes to play, we see the real coach and what he can do, Tuchel failed big time. No way back for skeletor for me , he’s useless.

It’s a reply exactly like this, Jeff… it’s ‘nested’ below a main comment. Sorry but that’s the English word used for this structure. See Eric’s comment below. He gets it!

DALE . Yes and Michael did point to that, we could just ignore the reply option and just post at the top, using the name of someone you are replying too. The like or dislike vote is a bit of a gimic.. but I’m like a big kid, I see a button, I want to press it !!!

Let’s hope that tarks getting out all his mistakes in a friendly defencive collapse, before the real stuff gets going again. The kid took his goal well though.

Posts are only shown in order of most recent until one gets a “like” or a reply and after that it’s “Best” posts first.

dave as a lapsed R.C. I am remotely interested (just ! ) the old latin mass went on for ages and just as you thought it was ending it went on and on ! yahoo e mail format has just changed and somehow restored a load of deleted e-mails grr grr. anyway i must put a bet on switzerland v slovenia ..

Pace, movement and prepared to release the ball. Simple game.

first time I have seen England play a really good game. Quick and decisive. More often than not england have resorted to playing backwards and sideways. Players losing the ball, tapping the ball back and forth with no intent. One of my biggest gripes is the passing back and forth around our own penalty area and as a result ending up in trouble. England against Croatia today was a totally different side, although they did have one or two close calls when again the backs decided to pass back and forth on the edge of the area croatia could easily have punished us. Aside from those odd issues england were top notch. Croatia have good players but were made to look like amateurs. The early press and goal put Croatia on the back foot and instead of sitting back England continued to apply pressure and a good result was achieved. Let’s hope that level of performance is seen in future games.pickford did well when called upon and being there seemed to give more confidence to the rest of the team

What is a “nested “ reply? It’s bollox like this that frustrates the life out of people, speak English FFS

6-0 now, and Jimmy Garner on

The score line so far tells you everything. This is a very good English side against a very poor Croatia. Tuchel is very lucky to have such a talented pool of Englishmen to choose from. Hopefully one day they will be able to beat the likes of Spain and France in competitions like this.

John (in reply to me below), this is some of the best football I have ever seen England play. Gordon, Bellingham. Saka and Kane… very strong front line. It’s like they’re playing 4-2-4. Each of them has scored: H. Kane (8′) Goal 8 minutes J. Bellingham (21′) Goal 21 minutes A. Gordon (39′) Goal 39 minutes B. Saka (45′) Goal 45 minutes

Great finish Michael. Top player. Do England always play so high under Tuchel? I don’t watch them much tbh

Eric M. Likes and replies?

Such a good strike by Kane. Smashed high into the roof of the net in a situation where most players try to place it around the keeper… and usually fail. Wheeas Gordon has already had two chances, delivered both low down and too close to the keeper.