Duncan is absolutely a legendary player to many Evertonians. Yes he was sent off a lot, yes he was injured a lot, and yes he never fulfilled his potential. He was even a liability at times, but that doesn’t detract from his legendary status among many of us. I’m 53, so have fun memories of Duncan playing for us in the mid 90’s when I was in my early/mid 20’s – I was the right age and the 90’s was a magical time for a lot of people. Duncan is absolutely a hero to me and many people of my age.

Dave More chance I’ll go to watch Liverpool !!!

Clive you see Evertons problem was someone on Evertons payroll called Coleman has caused this on going Right Back problem by not retiring 4 seasons ago . You see dyche had no cash so pretty much he sort got by with ashley young doing the job Coleman was getting paid to do ok. So enter Moyes 2 years in and still no Right Back signed gross mismanagement because money has been there . Since moyes took over he gave Coleman more money when he should of emptied him out no he has used O’brien. Garner .Rhol .A NM. Yet still no Right Back shows how bad Moyes is he will do it his way

spot on re Moyes .. he is our weakest link … or was till he signed Johnson … jeez how bad is he ? How does he start before Dibling, George , Alcaraz FFS. We’ll lose these guys if we don’t get rid of Moyes. Garner and Armstrong (who is gonna be top draw) need benching for Hackney and Rhol. Our bench looks better to me nearly every game than the starting 11. Tarkowski mistakes more and more prevalent. Gonna start being costly

Phil you are not one of the fans who would have Duncan back here as manager are you? Because only recently on these threads there was a fan who wanted him back— with Leighton Baines as his assistant- Jesus wept!

Clive I doubt if O’Brien could do any worse than the others who have played right back for Everton this season but being honest I don’t think he is a full back and has hardly stood out when played there and in one game he gave Arsenal their 1-0 win with a stupid hand ball in the six yard area and they scored from the resulting penalty.

Sam I thought the great Tom Finney had played in the European Cup for Glentoran but I just checked and Tom played for Disterally (sic)in that competition.

I think O’Brien has to start at RB against Arsenal. Definitely not Rohl as he is simply not a fullback. The midfield is struggling this season to be creative, and it is time for a change. Armstrong could be given a rest and Hackney brought in. Dibling for Rohl on the right. What is the point of signing players if they are not going to play.

John Collins -from 31 minutes ago — Yes John I realised that, just having a gentle wind up with Brendan!

The pride of East Belfast they are known as Dave. I dont think Brendan will be going

I cant see anyway that Moyes adopts anything new against Arsenal he will play the same way we did against Chelsea, he is to set in his ways to change. We all think that Hackney, Dibbling, George and possibly Alcaraz should have been used on Saturday. Why Moyes thought bringing on Norgaard would change the game is mindboggling. But Moyes knows 2 things he went get his contract extended while the friedkins are in charge and seeing they want out theywont want the hassle of sacking him and looking for a new manager.

Apparently not

Will you be going to see them Brendan ? Duncan gave a storming speech about what he’s going to do with them— I think I’ve heard that speech before— at least twenty times by other managers when they’ve taken over another club!

Real time last night as the Spurs game was being played Eric. The table was altered according to the latest score in the Spurs game. you understand that dont you? Who is Uncle Paddy?

Our game was played Saturday John, their game Monday so your ‘real time’ is out a bit.

They are indeed. My mistake.The site i looked at had the table in real time as the match was being played Who is Uncle Paddy?

Hi Eric, when the player’s lack of confidence means that he looks terrified when the ball comes near him it is time to rotate him to the bench. This is the case with Maitland-Niles and Johnston in recent matches who are picked as first team starters regardless of form and confidence. I was watching the Overlap and Gerrard said when his form and confidence dropped – not often enough! – he preferred to be rotated onto the bench for a spell. I think the case with Dibling is different. He was never given the minutes last season, starter or substitute, to build up his confidence. Now that he has matching the right mindset with good performances, he is still not getting picked. Moyes loves tried and tested premier league experience and his natural caution will always lead him to pick a seasoned pro playing badly over a young talent playing well.

Last season the refrain on TW was that players with lack of confidence need more game time to improve, Dibling being the prime example. But now you are saying that they should be dropped. I’m confused 😕 both can’t be right?

But didn’t we have something like ten chances in our last game? Or was that only Barry’s chances?

Spurs are 4 points behind us John. https://www.espn.co.uk/football/table/_/league/eng.1

Spurs a point behind us John? We have 10, they have 6. You’re lucky you did have ‘Uncle Paddy’ as your maths teacher.

None that I can remember Tony.

How about this new approach from the manager? 1) Select players who are fully match-fit. 2) Select players who are in form and performing. 3) Take players whose confidence is low out of the line-up. 4) Aim to select players in their preferred position unless there are injuries. 5) Start every game with a positive intent rather than to contain. 6) Use substitutions to change games. Radical stuff, but based on these criteira one or more of Grealish, Garner, Norgaard and Branthwaite would be rotated out the team (fitness), Maitland-Niles and Johnston would be on the bench (confidence) and Dewsury-Hall would not be an ever-present (performances). Hackney, George and Dibling would also have made more than 5 premier league starts between them this season.

And here we go again on the non-legend merry carousel. Step right up. Prepare to be amused. I think that I know how this will end. But to his credit Ferguson has slipped even lower down the league ladder and quality of footy to try to scramble something resembling a winning record. ‘ … but Ferguson ultimately won over the board with his long-term vision’. He’s never been anywhere where he has had anywhere near the time to act on. a’long-term vision’. Dear Lord Mr. Millar, just ask him how he sees the first month going. I just hope that my beloved Marine never fall for him. They’re surely too well-run for that?

Oh, and that Nørgaard should never play for us again. Absolutely nutty ridiculous. Moyes put on Norgaard knowing that he was nowhere near fit ahead of what would have been far better options. This is down to Moyes. Norgaard gets kudos for not refusing to play. What kind of mind judges a player on the basis of coming on unfit for his debut – YES DEBUT – with 5 minutes to go?

3) Rohl was played instead of George / Dibling / Johnson because of the threat from Chelsea’s left back Chavarria, who actually didnt play. That just about sums everything up!

If Kunal I could answer this mate. Yes, of course he would Mr. Steers. Chelsea was the worst performance of the season so far. I’ve noticed lately that you have not been slow to tell others that they talk ‘rubbish’ Mr. Steers. Well, my hunch is that we would not have scored if Chelsea had gone down to ten men. In fact, that would most likely have woken from their last-third-of-the-match plus 11 slumber where they literally trotted to victory. We are what we were on Saturday, the squeaky team who sneaked past the mighty Ipswich. The thin poor team that luckily started the season with happy fixtures and is now dipping toes in reality.

4 points John, not 1 mate

As I wrote on another topic. Grow up Moyes and stop your tantrums with Jack O’Brien. As per Iain’s comment earlier, play him in the back 4. He’s far better than Maitland Niles, who should be on the bench. Although I like Jack Grealish but not on the left wing, move him inside and put George in the left wing position. Use Dibbling on the right wing from the kick off.

I’ve had enough, Everton will hardly ever be champions again. The club has lost its big-team mentality, and the fans don’t react to it. It’s already been 30 years without a title.”

Unfortunately we will not see a new manager this season. TFG are in ‘sale’ mode, Moyes is seen as safe bet to retain PL status. The sale when it happens will not be quick. We are confined by TFG to a season of safety first, survival based football.

Yes, he won 1 of 18 at FGR when they were already bottom of the league. They had been promoted the previous season. They were then relegated from League 2 to non-League the next season, so a pretty poisened chalice. ICT had financial issues and he worked their without a salary and left the day they went into administration. So a team currently 3rd in the table is his first decent appointment with the possibility of success.

I would have thought the best time to blood Norgaard and give him some game time would be when a game is won, not sending him out to try and rescue a game against a competent side (which is all I thought Chelsea were in all honesty). His lack of match fitness was painfully obvious as would be expected. Barry needs some serious practise on his finishing skills and unfortunately lacks composure, that cross was put on a plate and if you don’t take them at this level you’re going to get your come uppance! After they scored we looked flat and needed an injection of positivity, I like Hackney as he tries to play forwards and make something happen. Johnson missed that chance at the end which wouldn’t have made any difference to the result but he can’t buy a goal for us or Wales at the moment. I thought Jordan could have done better with the first goal and his kicking was abysmal by his usual standards. All in all a pretty poor day at the office.

Spurs plum bottom have just gone a point behind us. They will finish above us this season.

I get it mate, it was no golden age the 90s Paul. That day of the final, I’ll never forget. I’ve said before, I grew up sharing a room with my older brother who had a season ticket through the kendal title & European winning timed, the team posters on the walls with all the trophies. I thought growing up it would be a matter of time before we were winning titles, that’s what everton did I was taught ! So to beat UTD with that team, lt felt like, we are Everton we do win stuff, that’s what a young me thought anyway, only over time the significance has grown on me, because when I was younger, thought I’d see loads more trophies before I’d got to my age now !!

Who remembers the comments fron 3 weeks ago….”could be worse we could support Spurs”….”a laughing stock Spurs” Etc etc. They have just gone a point behind us. I like a bet. I’m having 2 bets tomorrow. Everton bottom half finish. And Spurs to finish above Everton. First one is buying money

Watching the big man on the overlap the other day, a great laugh, stories and honesty. Think the modern game has probably passed him by to be a manager at the top levels. Wish him well though!!

The connection between Everton and Glentoran goes back a long way. My own memories are of Alex Young managing the club for a season in 1968, and then Tommy Jackson’s time at The Oval in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I’m sure there were others who pulled on the Glentoran shirt before going on to wear the famous royal blue of Everton. It’s a special link between two proud clubs, and one that’s always meant a lot to me. So I genuinely wish Big Dunc every success. He’s taking charge of a club that my grandfather and father both supported, and I know many Glens fans are excited to see what he can achieve. Here’s hoping he brings the passion, pride and fighting spirit that made him such a legend at Goodison.

Do you think Harrison Armstrong, would have been booked if he had been playing for Chelsea, and had made that tackle at Stamford Bridge, Ian? I said it the other day but if I hadn’t been with my young daughter, I probably would’ve walked out the stadium, and not came back. Where has the leveller gone in football, when you now get penalised for a honest full blooded tackle?

Thanks, Brendan, I’ve done a piece on that. Superb play by Rudoni for Coventry forces an equaliser for Franks lads. But Marmoush bangs in a corker to put spurs back on top.

The three old Everton players, Harvey – Kendall and Royle have all understood us Evertonians, and what we need, much better than anyone else who has ever been connected to the club, in my near 52 years watching Everton play. Harvey, was the innovator, Kendall, the adopted Evertonian, and Royle, another Scouser, who understood that Everton, should always try and play with real aggression. Run hard, tackle hard, battle like fuck and engage the fucking crowd. Take Saturday. Chelsea have spent a lot more money and have a lot more quality than Everton, but other than the time that Harrison Armstrong, got booked, how many times did Everton, try and knock Chelsea, out of their stride?

Off topic but Big Dunc has been appointed manager of Irish League side Glentoran.

Madisson with a tasty strike to put the Spurs 1-0 ahead against our Frank. His first goal in more than 18 months!

He never done a tap at bournemouth i was about 30 yrds from him at the end of the game and he could barely put his hands together . Oh his dad said he was happy at Everton and woulf not consider Saudi yes thats right.

David, please don’t take this the wrong way, but I think the difference might be that you were 15 in 1995; I loo back at the Gordon Lee period when I was 15 as a ‘golden age’ for me mate.

Loved this side. It’s the only trophy I can can remember us winning. So its special to me. I loved the dogs of war title myself! A Horne or Big Joe Parkinson, wouldn’t go amiss in our midfield now Tell 15 year old me that this FA cup would be the only trophy I got to see us lift for over 30 years, I wouldn’t of believed it, I don’t think most football people would at that time.

Mark Clattenburg and Mike Dean, along with David Moyes, are both in agreement that Morgan Rogers should have been sent off against Everton at Hill Dickinson Stadium on Saturday. If it had been the other way, a red card all day.

N’Diaye, turned down a king’s ransom to go to Saudi Arabia, so I don’t think his decision to leave Everton, was just about money. I watched him in his last ever game for Everton, running hard until the end, so my own view is that the club wanted to sell him just as much as he wanted to leave.

Ndayie sold himself simple he even wanted to go to Spurs . Money grabber thats all he was i hope no one claps him pure rat. I wished he would of signed for Spurs plum bottom . But kama got him City would bite your hand off just to be in the prem league not going to happen.

The mad thing kunal if the ref would of done his job correctly we would still be unbeaten . Stone cold sending off Rogers then would you be writing your post .