There's a growing feeling amongst Evertonians that Davey was a man of his time and that his time has now past. There seemed to be more angst among supporters yesterday that he might actually sign that bloody contract than he wouldn`t. Certainly more than a few of us would not be confident of his judgement in the market or his ability to get the best from mega stars ? however much they cost.

Well, Davey has set the hare running ? "Come up with the money," he seems to be saying, "otherwise we shouldn't be on the same pitch as that lot over the park." But is it really that simple? Would a massive cash injection make you automatically believe that Moyes could see us challenging them for honours at home and abroad? Personally, I don't. I think I might want to keep about £17M of it back to get us a more enlightened manager!

OK, so we?re all disappointed that Davey has taken a while to chew over the small print of the proferred new contract but that?s no reason to turn on the man who has done so much for our club and is only taking care to safeguard his future in its service. In any case, his present agreement doesn?t expire until next February, for crissake!

As far as his expertise in the transfer market is concerned, his record is on par, if not better than any of his ?second tier? colleagues and if he looks a little enviously on what that man across the park has been given to spend, don?t we all?

So instead of sounding off and holding the man responsible for everything short of the outbreak of the Second World War, let?s cut him some slack, shall we? After all, he?s a bit pre-occupied at the moment preparing for a game on Thursday.

Given that Moyes appears to have given up, maybe we should bite the bullet & appoint someone who can re-invigorate the squad. I take on board what you say about managers & money but given the size of the contract offered to Moyes I?m sure someone proven could be tempted. Many foriegn managers are on poor money by comparison to the EPL eg Slaven Bilic is on approx £60k a year, so I?m sure we could afford to attract someone talented.

On a corner that we had yesterday, Liverpool had every player of theirs defending in their own penalty box, so what do we do? Have 4 of our players well outside the box! Why? 4 players defending against nobody, and to make things even worse, we then didnt even win the ball outside the box when it was inevitably headed away, because our players were too far back!

We bottled it yesterday, I would sooner have seen us play like we have all season so far and defend badly but at least look like we are going to score at the other end!

When will the penny drop with Moyes that Lescott and Arteta are fed up with being played out of position. They were happy to help out initially but are now going through the motions, nothing else. Andy Johnson admitted he didn?t like getting played wide right and didn?t like the long ball. He joined the long list of strikers who have suffered the same fate i.e.: Rooney, Radzinski, Bent, Beattie, Vaughan and even more recently poor Victor has been asked to play wide right. Moyes will even ask the young Rodwell, a centre back, to play wide right.

The man is reckless and we wonder why we look a shambles. And when it comes to tactics and substitutions the guy is so inept.

There have been ?calm downers? on here all summer & now into the season making excuses & telling us things will be ok when players are back or settled in etc but it just doesn?t work like that. I just don?t think you can say things like ?the season hasn?t started for us yet? with the inference being it?ll be supposedly ok when the season does start for us ? whenever that will be? It doesn?t work like that because the competetion is so great & the margins between success & failure are so fine in the EPL.

A few years ago I was on holiday with an Arsenal friend of mine on the first match day of the season. At the time we we always fighting relegation & they were always 1st or 2nd. As we waited on results it struck me how desperate both of us were for points on the board even in this first game. There was NO room for poor starts or error anymore wherever you were in the prem?.

This poor start to the season has already cost us a European place & if we don?t win against the barcodes then with our next run of fixtures we are in big trouble. It's ok saying players will be back BUT others will be injured or suspended by then so on balance we will be no stronger.

As for your list of worst teams only the barcodes look more shambolic than us. West Brom are poor but I was at the our opening game & for large spells they completely outplayed us.

We needed to be ready to hit the ground running from day one (Yes ? back in August) just to stand still as the lost ground cannot be made up.

It became clear to me that Moyes was hoping to nick a point yesterday and as for making a substition. For pities sake, how long does it take! Saha was ready to go at 1-0 and by the time he gets on it?s 2-0!!

My last point is that you do not deserve respect you EARN respect.

On a different note I find it strange that the likes of Man City and Newcastle continually find investors and despite our Blue Bill looking 24-7 for investment we never seem to be on anyones radar, hmmm.....

So here's hoping there's time for a change of heart. £4 Million a year, Davey? You are surely taking the piss!