If Moyes stays then the club needs to support him. I do not think this means we need to go out and spend mega-millions but we must be prepared to pay wages comparable to other big clubs or we will continue to lose our best players. We may still need someone with financial clout to achieve this. As regards Moyes successor why not groom Phil Neville over the next couple of seasons.

I'm sick of "well, who could do better?" Who knows... but something has to change and fast. As my mate said to me yesterday (who is a Norwich fan), "God, you lot are grim to watch" and I couldn't agree more. I used to defend Moyes but I can't now.

I expect the usual pathetic moans about Blue Bill etc, etc no money etc etc but that does not disguise the fact that Moyes was given money enough to buy a trio of the best goalscorers in English football. A short time under Moyes was enough to send their careers plummeting.

I reckon He has a bloody nerve to foist the likes of Beckford and Anichebe on fans who pay good money to watch proper footballers.

However I have started considering for some time whether Phil Neville will be the next manager. Neville has clearly been getting his Uefa coaching badges. I remember seeing him photographed in the papers last year speaking to Mourinho when Inter visited Man Utd in the Champions League. He was believed to be networking within the game and researching the role.

Phil has been employed in the media working for BBC Radio 5live and also on Sky. I believe Phil is leaving no stone unturned in his pursuit to be a manager and I think he will get that opportunity at Everton.

Whether Moyes will go in the summer is clearly being debated. Even supporters of Moyes (incidentally, I am) should admit this season has seen massive underachievement. Ironically we may finish higher in the league this season than last, yet I have never been more pessimistic about Everton's future.

If and when Moyes goes, like Walter Smith, he will be asked for his views on his successor. I think he will point towards Neville. Kenwright may be sold on the idea as he will be cheap and won't have to negotiate with anyone outside the club.

Now whether Neville would make a good Everton manager is a different interesting argument but don't be surprised to see him appointed player coach or similar role in the next 18 months as he is groomed as successor.

After the last couple of games, if Man Utd still want to offer us £25 mill for Rodwell, snap their bloody hands off!

I'd rather keep Fellaini who has started making noises that he wants to stay. As a word of warning to those wantaways, the grass is vary rarely greener... Does anybody remember that little African midfielder we had called Stevie something or other? Went to Spurs... I think he works at the drive through MacD's on Queens Drive now!

What about Pulis? He has done a great job there and they don't just hoof the ball, that's lazy journalism.

Especially comical is the idea that not having finished above Moyes in the league might preclude somebody from the job. After all, I don't recall Howard Kendall finishing above Gordon Lee prior to being appointed, or indeed Moyes ever finishing above Walter Smith. Perhaps there's only one thing for it ? if Moyes ever leaves we'll just have to replace him with ...... David Moyes!

There have been too many negatives to outweigh the postives. 11 wins so far from 35 league games ? that may be fine for less prestigious clubs but not Everton. Bolton are two points below us, Fulham three, Stoke five (and they are in the FA Cup final). Liverpool (who were meant to be having a nightmare season) are 7 points above us with a 10 goal advantage.

We are 14 points from 4th place which is the same difference between us in 7th and Wolves in 19th. So if Moyes is doing such a great job, raising our expectations, with little or no money, with a small squad and injuries and with the clubs ahead of us better financed then why do the tactics and general play have to be so dull and predictable?

So few of our players can pick out a pass at normal pace and even when they have time on the ball often can't control the ball properly and don't move intelligently off the ball. These should be fundamentals at this level. Just watch most average European teams and they can control a ball, pass to a team mate and move into space.

We lack creativity in most areas and as Moyes has signed most of the players either his team are at fault or his tactics. A great coach can make average players better ? we just seem to have too many average players who are stagnating...

We can only hope the Board would make the right choice, but who can honestly say that Moyes's previous record had them hoping he would be selected as Smith's successor? Back then he was just a promising young manager that the Board took a bit of a gamble on ? I doubt they envisioned he would have us finishing as high as 4th in only his third full season in charge.

Personally, I've always been biased towards the appointment of former Everton players to the manager's post, but there aren't too many doing a decent managerial job at the moment. Mind you, that may change by the time Moyes does eventually leave, as I can't see him departing anytime soon.

I don't give a flying fook if they know Everton or not ? that should not be a major consideration.

Why not get Kendall back for a 4th time? He has been our most successful and knows the club better than anyone... dear me, deluded, some people!

After watching Beckford umpteen times before signing him, was Moyes blind to the fact that the lad cannot trap a bag of cement?

Had the RS not signed Carroll or Suarez, I doubt if our two would get within a mile of their first team.

Davey Jones deserves a crack.
Martinez still has an attacking style that would work a treat with better players than his current Wigan squad.
Lambert certainly has his teams playing good passing football, despite the quality of player at his two clubs being inferior to Premier League standard.

What is clear is that all three of the above options play an attacking brand of football that involves passing and creativity ? remember the School of Science?! The likes of O'Neill, Pulis, Warnock play old style hoofball, no better than what we play now. I watch a fair bit of Conference football being up in York and our pattern of play isn't much above that level if I am brutally honest ? it is often effective but it will always be limited ? hence no trophies.

While I don't hate Moyes like some, I am tired of his brand of football, and I honestly think he knows he is out of ideas, out of money and is just pocketing his hefty wages waiting for an approach from Utd that will never come.

I mention the rather "outlandish" idea of someone like Ryan Giggs simply to perhaps raise the possibility of "thinking outside the box". As you well know, Giggs is continuing to defy the ravages of age and performing well at the top level and I have no idea as to when he might decide to undertake his stated hopes of taking up a role in coaching and management.

I simply suggested him as I sometimes think we worship too readily at the altar of experience and continue to perpetuate the managerial roundabout bemoaned years ago by Neville Southall who referred to an insane football industry where managerial failures were often readily rewarded with further opportunities and further lucrative contracts etc on the grounds that they "have experience".

I may be mistaken but I also feel that the managerial reach of the old Catterick and the Shankly days seems to have gone. Except in very rare and prestigious circumstances, contracts, finances, and even the purchasing and selling of players etc are often the domain of others and not simply the manager. It appears to me then that the managerial task should be much more focussed on the nurturing of talented footballers through a professional approach to youth policies, top coaching regimes, genuine skills development etc. Through his experience of over 20 years at the top level at Man Utd, I feel that someone of the stature of Ryan Giggs may just possibly have that "experience".

Everton have had their share of "experienced" managers over many years. In the last quarter of a century, it has resulted in one FA Cup victory! (I hasten to add that this is obviously NOT the sole responsibility of the manager but many HAVE played a part in much of that underachievement!)

As I stated initially, however, whatever happens post-Moyes, whenever that may be, much depends on Everton getting their house in order. SHOULD Mr Moyes leave I was simply suggesting that instead of trawling through the "band of the usual suspects" we could perhaps think a bit more creatively and courageously for it might just be that this "experience" element, although an important element, may at times be just a little over-hyped.

I'll also repeat the point that English football doesn't seem to value this at all, and instead just wants to appoint famous ex-players regardless of their actual abilities as a manager.