Cannon fodder for the new Champions

The new Premier League Champions in full party mode, with Everton somewhat reluctant guests at the big party, Vardy scoring after 5 mins, King adding another, and a dubious penalty converted by Vardy before he smashed another spot-kick over the bar. Mirallas scored Everton's consolation.

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Gareth Barry failed a late fitness test to see if he could play following a groin injury
Leicester City 3 - 1 Everton

The new Premier League Champions were crowned at the King Power Stadium, with Everton somewhat reluctant guests at the big party.

Pennington and Niasse started again with Oviedo coming in while Besic dropped to the bench where Hibbert failed to appear. Connolly and Dowell had to await more opportunities from the bench.

For the new Champions, Jamie Vardy returned after his 3-match ban to join in the celebrations, with Ranieri having used just 18 players in his victorious storming of the Premier League.

The razzmatazz included Andrea Bocelli belting out Nesum Dorma, and the Everton players trouping out first to form a guard of honour for the Leicester City team, the King Power awash in alternating sections of blue and white flags to welcome their Champions.

Everton kicked off amidst continuous Foxes chanting that made the game secondary. Lukaku tried to dribble through and ended up tacking Okazaki. Baines was upended on he sideline but recovered well enough. But some poor passing out of the back gave the ball away cheaply to the home side.

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Out of nothing, 5 minutes in, Vardy danced through to convert an easy undefended cross and add to the embarrassment Everton were clearly feeling as party interloppers.

Everton tried to respond with Niasse beating his man but crossing well beyond Lukaku and Baines did no better, finding a defender with his cross. Likewise Lennon from the other side. Everton resorted to strolling about and Niasse poking one through but Lukaku lazily offside. That led to a free header for King, straight at Robles, off a superb cross by Mahrez.

Niasse was not impressive, passing straight to his marker as the Interloper struggled to string much together against a relaxed home side who were just playing for fun. Lennon did well to block Foulkes from a clear strike on the Everton goal.

A half-decent move down the right saw Oviedo play in a superb cross for Lukaku to convert at the near post... except that he was hopelessly lacking in conviction and completely missed the ball.

The party atmosphere continued unabated with Everton seeming finally resorting to a long ball that won a corner which Stones might have converted close in.

Another great cross, this time from Baines seemed laid on a plated for a determined centre-forward but Lukaku just watched it sail past him and into Schmeichel's arms. Leicester were given a soft free-kick that Mahrez curled wide.

Mahrez was next to dance through the static Everton defence and lay back a simple conversion for Andy King, Easy peasy.

After that, it was Barkley with a lazy, horrible pass straight to Vardy, and almost another given away. Stones was then poor trying to block an attacker and King almost curled one in from the corner.

Everton were summed up by a nice ball from Barkley that smacked off Niasse's heel instead of initiating a break. It was lamentable stuff all round as Everton looked a shapeless and dispirited sight in the pouring rain.

Everton strung a few passes together around the Foxes area until Lukaku decided to pass the ball straight to Mahrez and they were away, Pennington forced to foul for a yellow card. Mahrez fired the free-kick wide with a deflections and the corner was headed over by Morgan.

A particularly dismal and inept half from Everton, the like of which we have become only too familiar with under Roberto Martinez, who must his role at this party is that of chief clown, such was the paucity of his gameplan, fitness, training, preparation, etc, as manifested by his charges. The only stat that matters to Martinez was well in his favour, however: 64% Possession.

From the second-half kick-off, Everton got behind the Foxes and it looked like Niasse had the easiest of chances to lob Schmichel but it the ball straight at the keeper's head! Lukaku then tied himself in knots at the far post, trying in vain to backheel the ball into the Leicester net. Cleverley was booked for a heavy challenge, and he then gave away a dangerous free-kick with another poor challenge, Foulkes firing well over from long distance.

After at least showing some intent, if not delivering, Everton then descended back into their meaningless possession game, Oviedo getting forward only to lose the ball. Cleverley did better, winning a corner, that Oviedo played deep, headed in by McCarthy and then headed on by Lukaku, but from very close range, palmed away by Schmichel. Another pathetic cameo, Niasse recovering the ball on the touchline and letting it hit his legs and go out of play.

Vardy, offside, made one of his trademark dives under the slightest of touches and he made it three from the spot. Gibson then made a rash lunge to stop Mahrez, and a clear second penalty in as many minutes, but Vardy skied it horribly over the bar.

Ulloa almost scored with a glancing header off a corner after Oviedo had fired in well enough from the edge of the area, pushed away by Schmeichel.

Osman replaced Barkley with 10 minutes left. Mirallas played in Lukaku but the Big Man was far too slow to get his foot on the ball and it was whipped away from him. At the other end, Ulloa came close a couple of times. Pennington made a few key interceptions.

Mirallas finally produced an end product with a couple of fortuitous bounces on the way from the half-way line to the back of Schemichel's net. A consolation.

Everton under Martinez had no answer to the football The Champions had used to good effect all season, and slunk off at the end as Leicester City were presented with the coveted Premier League Champions trophy.

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Christy Ring
1 Posted 07/05/2016 at 16:46:05
Martinez starting Oviedo at right back again, that says everything about Martinez, CLUELESS.
Kerry Frahm
2 Posted 07/05/2016 at 16:46:59
The season is gone so let's play Oviedo out of position again and make the young guys watch from the bench again?
Beyond even really caring about the result and just like Martinez obviously with this team selection, I am struggling to even look forward to next season.
Hope we have a nice new kit to look forward to?
Tony Byrne
3 Posted 07/05/2016 at 16:53:03
Hibbert not even in the squad! Oviedo at right back after the lads horror show at Anfield. Fair enough if he was starting one of the kids at right back.

Words genuinely fail me.

Phil Sammon
4 Posted 07/05/2016 at 16:59:16
Just how bad does Oviedo have to play before Martinez realises he's not a right-back?
Dave Older
5 Posted 07/05/2016 at 16:59:29
Where is Hibbert?? Injured? Spoken out of turn to the incredible one?? Oviedo at right back??? Well what can you say.... On the plus side we are playing two up front for the first time in ages....Let's put in a decent performance today, it's been a while since we have done that.
Keith Glazzard
7 Posted 07/05/2016 at 17:04:05
Perhaps Roberto is a tactical genius after all.
Perhaps.
Alan J Thompson
8 Posted 07/05/2016 at 17:08:18
Obviously trying to get a few players fit for next season!
Colin Hughes
10 Posted 07/05/2016 at 17:23:23
I don't think we will lose this today, it's the Everton way to get results when the pressure is off and it doesn't really matter.
Paul Andrews
11 Posted 07/05/2016 at 17:23:46
Unbelievable that. The emotion obvious.

Made up for Leicester, shows it can be done.

Trevor Lynes
12 Posted 07/05/2016 at 17:38:02
Colin..you must be a fantastic optimist :)

We do not have cover at right back and this has been the case for years.So Lukaku and Niassie are both starting ????

Max Middleton
13 Posted 07/05/2016 at 17:39:31
Agree with all concerned regarding Oviedo, the guy is a tryer but he shouldn't be in the squad never mind the team, same goes for cleverly, just not good enough!!! weak links, just as I type this, Ovieo asleep for the goal. Martinez you really disgust me with your selections. And why was gibson dropped??? Absolutely disgusted with this farce of a man
Barry Kay
14 Posted 07/05/2016 at 17:40:30
How long do we have too put up with this shit? The man is a dickhead of the highest order.
Ray Smith
15 Posted 07/05/2016 at 17:42:19
Colin 10#

Don't think Leiecester read the script!

Patrick Carty
16 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:06:23
This is a joke, fucking spinless.
The player's don't give a shit so why should we.
Mike Moore
17 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:08:48
Anyone got an abacus? Fuck off Martinez
John Parker
18 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:08:55
Whoever scouted Niasse should be sacked immediately.
Ian Riley
19 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:11:07
Leicester players been on the sauce all week. What are we on? Worrying thing is we are miles apart as teams.
Colin Hughes
20 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:11:28
I retract my previous post, looks like we couldn't be arsed again, and with another certain defeat coming on Wednesday as Sunderland stay up mathematically with a win it looks like 15th or 16th for us this season.
Trevor Lynes
21 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:11:49
This side are rubbish and all our so called 'potential' stars are being over shadowed by a team who work for each other.

I always had confidence against virtually every side we met a season or so ago, but now I would be apprehensive about facing any team from any division.

Mike Keating
22 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:12:46
Osman and Gibson warming up FFS
Neil Lawson
23 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:14:51
The gulf in performance is vast.

Can someone remind me what number Lukaku is so I can spot him on the pitch.

Ian McDowell
24 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:14:52
I'm turning off after 35 mins. An absolute shameful display. Many players out there aren't fit to wear the shirt. Everyone stay behind next week for the lap of honour and boo. Shame on the players and manager for the derby game. Shame on them for the cup semi. Shame on them today.
Max Levy
25 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:16:19
Diabolical. Shameful. Embarrassed.
Frank Sheppard
26 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:16:46
We might as well come out for the second half wearing Wigan shirts......
David Mosses
27 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:17:46
What a joke, playing Oviedo at right back, can't believe it. Why did he not play Gibson at right back he's got a right foot and can defend. I think Martinez has been told he's going that's the only reason I can think of for this team selection.

I can't wait for the season to end, I feel sorry for all the blue supporters who have gone. Just blew for half time and you can hear the boos.

Nigel Rickman
28 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:21:09
If that Niasse bloke is a professional footballer I'll show my arse
Peter Jansson
29 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:21:55
Seriously. I have followed Everton since the late 70s. If they don't get rid of that clown Martinez before this season is over I will quit being an Everton supporter as I simply will not waste my life looking at this crap.

This man, his abilities and his tactics are absolutely useless. Totally absolutely useless.

Eric Owen
31 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:25:35
I noticed some Everton players laughing as they came off at half-time.Why? It's nothing to laugh at unless the poor way they are playing is to force BK to fire RM.

I don't think the players have any idea what it is all about the way they seem to be stretched around the field. Bring on some of the kids. They might not have learned how to tippy tap and keep kicking the ball back to our goalie.

Nigel Rickman
32 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:27:03
You can bet every other team with nothing to play for, at this stage of the season will be giving the kids a go. But not this idiot , we have Osman, Gibson on the bench. Connolly didn't put a foot wrong the other week but not to be seen since.

If dickhead is still the manager next season then I won't be watching anymore .

Frank McGregor
33 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:27:26
Please,Please get young Dowell and Connolly on just for something different to look at.

Sure hope the board are pro-active and have the new manager lined up already complete with new backroom staff.

By the way is it possible to transfer Lukaku like this coming week a complete waste of space.

Albert Jones
34 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:27:37
Never mind Martinez being totally inept in every aspect of football management but, these 11 wankers should be, at least, taking note of how to play AS A TEAM!!!

Completely embarrassed, but, who cares "Ching-Ching" another packet in the bank account, and I think I'll pull a sickie - the old "feeling' me hamstring Boss' works every time. TWATS!!

Colin Hughes
35 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:29:26
Players have got a lot to answer for as well but Martinez takes ten times the flack they do.The biggest mistake he made was keeping that Stones against his wishes. Whoever is boss next season we need two new centre backs as a priority.
Phil Sammon
36 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:29:35
Who was laughing, Eric?
Craig Walker
37 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:31:42
This Everton team deserve to be where they are. Not good enough. There are no positives. It looks like we have been on the pop all week, not Leicester. Shameful! Fed up of my weekend being ruined by overpaid shit footballers who think they're good. Sell Barkley, Stones and Lukaku and start again.
Neil Lawson
38 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:31:51
Pressed send before I could even commence my rant.

Why bother. Asked my wife to hurry up our meal so I don't have to watch to the end....The end came months ago when Martinez escaped the madhouse and no one told Bill not that it would make any difference

John Parker
39 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:36:13
Andrea Bocelli would have made a better attempt at that Niasse effort...
Andrew Jones
40 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:43:34
Another very poor, clueless display, no passion or pride again. Lukaku doesn't want to be here and Cleverly is shite! Surely we have a young natural right back?
Zoid Clark
41 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:44:32
Sell Lukaku only, he is the only one with an attitude problem. He is all about himself, it's a team sport Lazy Lukaku.
Mike Keating
42 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:44:53
Commentator on Talk Sport reckons the consensus in the press box is that 'the Everton team are trying to get their manager the sack'
Craig Fletcher
43 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:46:16
The saddest indictment of Martinez's reign is Niasse. £13.5 million for him. Absolutely diabolical.
Patrick Carty
44 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:46:29
Blow it up ref and put us out of our misery!!!!
Anto Byrne
45 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:50:21
It's not that bad we are only 2 down and a great away record and this will be a phenomenal result given our injury crisis, definitely missing Jags and Barry and Coleman and Baines and Lukaku and Barkley and Cleverly and Lennon. Young Dowell is having a blinder. COYB.
Paul Burns
46 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:50:56
Is this what trying harder looks like?
Jesus!
Downright out, the club's rancid at every level.
Steven Segerberg
47 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:52:44
Think my 8 year old son would do a better job than Roberto. He certainly would be more honest about our performances. "We are rubbish" is what he just said to me. That just sums up our team under this manager. Hopefully this performance will finally speed up the process of bringing in a new manager to lead our leaderless squad.
Paul Birmingham
48 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:53:21
Typical lazy, and uninterested approach to the first half. You'd think we'd been on the raz, Leicester look twice as sharp. Still this worst season in recall is almost over. Have we ever put together a full shift over 90 mins on the last 2.5 seasons? Like the weather this is as poor as it gets. Let's see what happens after Norwich and if the board show any sparks of life.
Nigel Rickman
50 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:54:38
Totally agree, they must be playing to get him the sack, can't think why they're this shit.
Johan Elmgren
52 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:55:43
Don't blame the players, they haven't had anything to play for for months in the league... There's only one person to blame.

GET THE CLOWN OUT NOW!!!!

Andy Crooks
53 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:56:32
To start Oviedo at right back is beyond belief. To the ninnies who thought Martinez was being fucking " bullied", I would suggest that this talentless shyster has robbed our club of enough money. I think it is time to bully the useless sack of shite out of town. I cannot believe, that telling a failure who has been paid a fortune for producing fuck all, that it is time to go, doesn't " sit well", with some Evertonians. He is a shameless,money grabbing, fraudster and not another club in the premier league would have tolerated his ineptitude.
John Hammond
54 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:58:49
Surely this is the end for Martinez now!!
Mike Moore
55 Posted 07/05/2016 at 18:59:32
Andy Crooks...well said #53
Craig Walker
56 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:00:01
Robles punching the air because Vardy blasts over. Get a grip! Shameful. Punch the air after beating them. Embarrassing performance!
Paul Hughes
57 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:02:04
Watching this shit in a bar in Newy York, no fight, no passion, no pride in the jersey... embrrassement! Sunderland and Norwich play the U21s.
Ciar�n McGlone
59 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:02:35
Horrible performance and inept management.

I'm ashamed to say it, but I bought some of this man's snake oil.

Craig Fletcher
61 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:05:28
Mike (42) we have been rubbish today but if the players are intentionally under-performing sadly that will be a reflection more on their individual character than how they feel about the present manager to me.

I no longer want Martinez at the club, but these are well paid professional footballers for heavens sake. Have some pride.

Paul Birmingham
62 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:06:19
Keystone Kops said they were looking for actors for a remake. Buster Keaton and Co couldn't do any worse than this shower. Deffo no chemistry, so one fight, no guts, no passion, no hope. This Everton team is scared of its own shadow. Yet another crap show and ruined weekend. Garbage!
Colin Hughes
63 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:06:26
Only Villa and Newcastle are worse than us in the premier league now and it has been that way since early March. We are just lucky it's not a 42 game season like the old days or I think Sunderland would have had us.

Can't see it being much better next term as the majority of this squad will still be here and they are simply not good enough to wear the shirt.

Mike Moore
64 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:06:28
#56 At least hes showing some pride Craig unlike the rest of the shite
Craig Walker
67 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:08:02
Ross Barkley beats a man then runs 20 yards and passes the ball to a Leicester player. Sums him up. Fed up of people telling me he's a great player.
Terry Davies
68 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:09:37
Aston Villa must be wishing they could have played us every week since Christmas!

Strange bringing on Gibson and Osman hasn't transformed things. At least he brought a couple of our youngsters to find out what an away bench is like. Bloody hell!!!

Stewart Lowe
69 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:09:40
I am all for players under performing to get the Manager sacked on purpose. Its their way of bringing the inevitable forward and making things happen quicker. If the continued to play attack minded football and to the best of their abilities it would mask Martinez's faults for even longer and god forbid yet another season. Sadly, I have been cheering the opposition on for months as I just simply want Martinez out. COME ON YOU FOXES
Peter Jansson
71 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:10:45
Martinez has absolutely no aces in the sleeves left. Gibson, Osman, Niasse... Where did the plan go wrong? Or was it no plan?
Dave Ganley
72 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:10:51
Zoid if you think Lukaku is the only player with an attitude problem then you havent been watching Everton. Most if the players need to have a good look at themselves. Nothing short of disgraceful all season....and last season while I think about it. Maybe Martinez is the catalyst for all the problems but the players play with absolutely no professional pride and absolutely no respect for the fans.

Somebidy wrote on the live feed how disturbing it is at how shit we are.....how right he is!!

Tony Rutherford
77 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:13:03
Just get him out!
Peter Jansson
78 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:13:52
Leicester fight more than Everton even though they have been partying for a week!!
Denny Kerr
79 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:15:46
I don't think we have ever witnessed an Everton team so devoid of any passion on a consistent basis,as this group of players. It is an absolute disgrace to serve up this dross to the loyal fans of this once great club.

It is there for all to see, that this team has had enough of Martinez and we, as Evertonians certainly have! Well said, Andy Crooks (#53).

Neil Lawson
82 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:23:09
Two complaints:

1) We were awful again. Yet again. And again

2) I keep posting. Nothing offensive or inappropriate, but rarely are they put up. Perhaps I am to posting what Lukaku and Niasse are to striking... invisible

James Watts
84 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:25:54
Can't wait for next season under Roberto as I'm sure his position is even stronger now!
Rick Pattinson
85 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:26:49
What a steaming pile of crap...every one of em...no guts..no fight nothing clueless...this isn't a great underperforming team like everyone keeps saying...its crap.....from the keeper to the striker..

Deulofeu and Mirallas are the only two exciting players that id keep and they rarely see 45 mins...

Niasse... WTF...he looked like a Plymouth argyle player ffs... McCarthy...wtf does he do????? What does he do????GRRRRRRRR

Sean Kearns
86 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:27:31
Barkley is total dogshit. Hands down the worst player in our squad. Does NOTHING with the ball every week. No goals, no tackles, no forward passes. So over-rated it's pathetic... If Kevin would have played every match this season I'm Barkley's pisition, we would be top 4. Martinez is a Grade A Certified Prick and must go. Spanish twat
Gavin Johnson
87 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:27:40
Leicester do things simple and do them well. God only knows why Martinez thinks our boring possession game with no defence is superior. This is the kind of football we should aspire to instead of being the 2nd rate Arsenal wannabe's we'll always be while Martinez stays in charge. Arsenal will never win the league with this style so what chance have the imitators got?!
John Salmon
89 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:27:59
Gutted, and as for a change of manager the players have to look at themselves, never mind the laughing at half time whilst walking off, show some respect to the supporters. Also at the last match at Goodison just go home after the whistle applauding this shambolic lot, they are just laughing at us.
Sam Morrison
90 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:28:26
I'd say only Robles looked like he was bothered. Lukaku and Barkley stank the place out.
Andy Ellis
91 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:29:26
How is this clown still anywhere near our club, we were an embarrassment again, BK hold your head in shame, you are a disgrace. Players are also a disgrace, getting paid thousands to go through the motions, got more effort out of my u11s this morning. Laughing stock, Sunderland must be wetting themselves, just need to beat us to stay up, another away day party.
Paul Hughes
92 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:30:27
Andy Crooks (53) I agree with every word. Sack the fraudster tonight!
Paul Birmingham
93 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:30:28
Past now or never, after Norwich, needs a descision. The players have gone and are scared of playing. They have lost their appetite to be footballers for EFC. Collectively players, coaches and managers need to be honest and look at the facts.
James O'Connell
94 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:30:51
Collymore said it all on the radio. This team are playing to get the manager sacked.
Jay Wood
95 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:30:56
So relieved Everton were able to take advantage of playing against a hungover Leicester who had been partying all week...
Stephen Brown
96 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:32:06
A performance like that in front of the watching world will hardly encourage a decent manager to come to us! Why would Koeman want to manager that shower of shit! Disgraceful performance from all but Robles and Mirallas!
Tony Rutherford
97 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:32:54
Just get him out!
James Watts
98 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:32:56
Good news people. He can't bang on about our away record now ... every cloud and all that.
John Keating
99 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:33:16
Been going the match since 1960 and have never been embarrassed to support Everton until last season.

I feel I know what it was like for Judas. If anyone asks me if I'm an Evertonian I reckon I'd deny it and say no. Have I really fallen this low?

Robert Workman
101 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:34:12
How we have lost twice to this excuse for a fotball team is totally beyond me. Of course 4 penalties in 2 games helps! Maybe someone could check this, but I cannot believe that any Everton team has ever had this number of penalties given against them in 2 games against any team, let alone one so poor as this lot?

Spurs must be distraught that they didn't win the title this season.

Mike Keating
102 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:34:59
I think Sunderland fans will be doing cartwheels around the Stadium of Light at the prospect of playing us midweek; Barcodes probably already resigned to going down for the same reason.
Maybe we will end up with Benitez after all!
Martin O'Sullivan
103 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:35:07
It is still actually getting worse, tactics were rubbish some team selection was shocking and the players just going through the motions. It is just terrible to watch. Please get rid of Bobby.
Patrick Carty
104 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:36:37
Leicester had 33 attempts on goal today and I think Liverpool had more a few games back. How much longer do we have to suffer.

We are a complete shambles of a club from top to bottom. Everton are nothing without the fans so somebody on the board better take action, and fast.

Anto Byrne
105 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:36:39
Lovely goal from KM, whomever sanctioned Niasse transfers needs to e dismissed, gross incompetence of the highest order.
Dan Nulty
108 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:39:39
I can only guess they were laughing about the fact that Martinez has to be sacked after that performance. Absolutely woeful. Position is untenable. He won't resign though, his pay off will be massive.
Brian Williams
109 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:39:48
Get that imposter of a fucking manager out of our proud club before he completely destroys us. Please Mr Moshiri do the right thing!!!!


Bun McGale
110 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:40:30
Well done Leicester, you beat an absolute joke of a side today. I was actually gutted when Vardy missed the penalty because I was cheering on Leicester today in a bid to hurry the exit of Martinez. I was equally gutted by Mirallas 's consolation because no doubt Martinez will see that as an incredible moment and something which bodes well for the future. Guess what... the future with Martinez is comical.

The problem with EVERTON is and always has been BIll Kenwright. People on here talk about the media not bothering with us, why would they? We have had the same manager for 10 years and were just happy with being also-rans for the top 4 not the league. Who can blame them? We then have a real chance of pushing on when he decides to walk ('walk' I said; not 'sacked') and we bring in a relegated manager with an FA Cup win under his belt.

The stats from his time at Wigan told the truth of anyone at the club could be bothered to read it up. They could of got a person in with a bit of pc knowledge to look it up for about £100 or less and presented it to them but No! Bill Kenwright knows best. Where is the team now? Absolutely hopeless and exactly where they should be with the manager at the helm.

People on here talk about Duncan Ferguson, David Unsworth, Eddie Howe taking over but absolutely are against the idea of the likes of Martin O'Neill taking over, WHY? What has the former mentioned done that warrants there chance of getting such a prestigious job and I say Prestigious because in my mind it is.

What have people got against Martin O'Neill? won everything with Celtic when Rangers still mattered, got to Europa final and brought Villa within an inch of champions league. What makes Eddie Howe such an attractive proposition? He brought Bournemouth to the premier league and that's it, Oh, he's an Everton fan, so what? David Unsworth? Duncan Ferguson please get a grip.

The problem with Everton is Bill Kenwright and the poison he lets filter down through the fanbase with fans putting forward people who have done f.a. in the game worth note when you are looking at being the best and Everton's badge is a joke because from what we have been served it is nothing but the best so in a way it kinda is true. So don't blame the media, they only go by what they see, even Leicester showed ambition by taking on Ranieri who is a well respected coach throughout Europe.

I am so annoyed by the lack of ambition shown from the club it beggers belief. The fact that Martinez still in a job after the 4-0 drubbing at Anfield was the lowest of the low and all dignity left that night. Until Everton show ambition then this place was not change. Rant over.

Philip Yensen
111 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:41:59
I have to defend Lukaku. Game after game the shite that's around him can't give him the regular sevice and support he deserves. Stones, Barkley, McCarthy, Niasse, Oviedo, Besic get shut, the last game of the season next week,Goodison park will be empty if that useless fucker is still in charge. We could have put all our youngsters out today, there might have been some spirit out there.
Barry Kay
113 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:43:25
Ronnie Goodlass, well said on Radio Merseyside you are the only ex-player apart from Neville Southall who says it how it is. Spanish fucker not got a clue.
Jason Barker
114 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:43:45
We are truly awful. The frustration from every player is palpable. It's as if each one of them thinks that every other team member is shit and they can't wait to leave. What a miserable state of affairs
Mike Allen
116 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:43:53
What a shambles... what a manager.... what chairman... no respect for the 3000 supporters who went today.
Anto Byrne
123 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:53:02
Hey we have the chance of finishing 16th if we don't pick up any points from the last two games both teams are fighting for survival and they way we are playing its a dead cert under this clown we will lose. Can see Naisy scoring a hatrick.
John Codling
125 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:53:14
I didn't think this our defending could get much worse, wrong again. Defence opened up time after time,we are lucky to have got off so lightly. We could have used today to blood some youngsters, we were on a hiding to nothing, so the phenomenal one carries on as normal, I dread to hear the verbal shite he will inflict on the nation.

Is Bullshit Bill's so called illness Dementia by any chance, because there has to be a reason for standing by this Catalonian halfwit. I have loads of Geordie mates who are clinging on to the hope we can help them. I am so fucking embarrassed with this dross.

As for manager selection, I would accept Coco the Clown before this cunt.

Mike Hughes
126 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:53:23
RM - "disappointed we never turned up"; "we were affected by the celebrations".

The next question should have been, "are you considering your position here?" or "when are you leaving?"

A total joke of a 'manager'.

John Daley
128 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:53:58
"I am all for players under performing to get the Manager sacked on purpose"

If I was the new manager then those fuckers would be first out the door.

They're being paid (handsomely) to do a job, perform professionally and represent the club. Whether or not they like or respect the manager, or think he's a bigger nob jockey than Noel Edmonds, is neither here or there. Any Everton player who intentionally refuses to put in their full effort and doesn't give a flying fuck about rolling over and being humiliated, week after week, while match going fans are forking out their hard earned wages to watch such shameful shite, deserves even more scorn than the one sending them out on the pitch. In fact, if it were true, it might explain a few things and, simply on that basis alone, I'd even be tempted to say give Martinez another year just to teach the weak, yellow, backstabbing, wankers a bit of a lesson.

How anyone can say "I'm all for it" is beyond me but, then again, maybe it's just me because "cheering the opposition on for months" would make feel like something of a cunt as well.

James Watts
135 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:57:32
RM - "disappointed we never turned up"; "we were affected by the celebrations".

Now listen carefully 'oh what a manager'. NO. WE. WEREN'T. We were affected by your stupid team selection, tactics & fitness levels (if you can call it fitness). We have been playing like this for over 2 years. Now fuck off out of our club. NOW!!

Keith Glazzard
136 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:57:50
The starting line-up was totally bewildering. After 5 minutes a few things became apparent. Playing without a midfield. A very bold tactical innovation. Particularly against the league champions.
It was a disgrace.
Gibson and Besic were avaiable for selection, along with McCarthy and Cleverley, no problem with them. But, oh no, we can't fill midfield, that would make us look defensive. Perish the thought.
If it wasn't for Joel we would have lost by 5 or 6.
And Mirallas din't need Roberto's team to score for us.
Says it all really.
Colin Hughes
138 Posted 07/05/2016 at 19:58:28
Apparently there was murder in the away end according to a caller on Radio Merseyside who was at the game. She announced that our stewards took a hiding and kids were terrified.

Our club is a fucking walking calamity under this regime.

David Hallwood
140 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:00:34
Best squad in 30 years??
if we look at our record against the top 6 in the last 2 seasons its:
P24 W1 D8 L14 F19 A39 Pts 11 from 72.

Onto Booby; this is his 7th season as a PL manager, his teams have conceded 416 goals, which is 1.58 goals a game or 3 conceded every 2. That means we'd (or any team Booby manages) would have to have a front line of the Barca 3 and Ronaldo to score enough to stop the leaks at the back.

A bit pissed off at the mo.

Bob Heyward
143 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:02:43
Woeful. Just hope the Board are on the case with the replacement. At the soonest practical opportunity, El Clown must be fired and his replacement brought in.

A clear new direction from a new manager that can excite the players, combined with early doors player investment, is vital. If not, the decisions that lead to a player exodus will be cut and dried by July.

I think Koeman, de Boer etc were reasonable solutions had we replaced Martinez last year. But we're past that stage now, with our young, experienced backbone, encouraged by El Clown's consistently OTT hyperbole, all seeking experiences worthy of their 'phenomenal talent'.

Instead, we need a manager who has more than mere 'potential' - we need a winner who's reputation preceedes him. Only such a headline grabber can possibly hope to re-fire the confidence of these players to remain at Goodison whilst building a winning platform for future seasons.

For my money we should push for either Löw or , sorry to say it, Benitez; both holding the reputation, experience and x-factor that might just pull together this talented bunch back into a team, once more.

Teddy Bertin
146 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:05:51
Congratulations to Leicester. They're a credit to football and they're everything that we're not: direct, passionate, solid at the back and a real team.

Everton have embarrassed themselves again. I hope Lukaku goes in the summer for big money for him. We need the egos out and some quality team players in. He clearly doesn't want to be at the club and doesn't want to play for the manager anymore.

Paul Hughes
147 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:06:15
This shambles was in front of a global TV audience. Moshiri's investment is dropping like a stone. He has got to ensure that this regime is ended today.
Amit Vithlani
148 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:07:37
"Let's be realistic: Koeman is our best option"

Koeman and realism in the same sentence whilst BK is in charge?

I have my doubts.

BK being BK, at this moment the man is probably fondling his genitals at the following thought:

Link

Grant Rorrison
150 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:08:55
Low - Shit manager at club level, only doing alright with Germany because he has some of the best talent in the world available to him.

Benitez - Couldn't manage a win against Aston Villa today in a do or die fixture. Almost certainly getting relegated.

They both sound ideal. Maybe we could have two managers like the RS did in the 90's with Houllier and Evans? :P

Jim Bailey
152 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:10:12
People, it has long gone past the point of blaming our phenomenal one. It's becoming increasingly obvious that Kenwright (and I'm genuinely sorry if he's in bad health) is the man to blame for this.

1-3 down to Leicester, worthy Champions, and we bring on Gibson and Osman. Honestly, it's not even funny any more.

I said on a previous thread a couple of weeks ago that Kenwright has become an embarrassment to this club, irrespective of any previous input. If he really believes that Martinez is the man to take this club forward then we are well and truly fucked.

The silence from the board is an arrogant dismissal of the fans feelings, BK should do the honourable thing for his "beloved club", resign, hand over the power,whatever is needed and take the idiotic Spaniard with him.

Humiliated doesn't even come close to how the VAST majority of fans feel. Someone, do something for fucks sake before we become a phenomenal Championship side in a good moment because we avoided relegation again.

Jim Bennings
153 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:13:14
I said it last season but was quickly shouted down when people were banging on about the best squad in 30 years...

The squad of players assembled between 2006-2009 was indeed the best in terms of variety, heart and passion.

Players like Lee Carsley, Tommy Gravesen, Mikel Arteta, Tim Cahill, even cult figures like Marouane Fellaini....where are those type of players now??

Look at the striking options we once had??

Yakubu, reserve strikers like a sublimely talented Louis Saha, even useful squad player's who would put a shift in like Andy Johnson, James Vaughan, James McFadden..

The defence always had leaders of men in it like Stubbs, Weir, Joey Yobo, a young athletic man mountain that was Joleon Lescott..

This squad now is pansy like lightweight shite.

Where are the options, what midfielder creates anything, what midfielder has a brain or pace, what midfielder could score a header like Tim Cahill???

Its a grossly overrated squad overseen by a totally inept shite pile of bullshit in charge of it.

Sack Martinez and sell any of them.

We need a massive wholesale clean sweep..

Charlie Lloyd
154 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:15:32
Just one word....

Awful.

Matt Muzi
155 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:15:49
I am not going Sunday my seat will be empty, I would urge every other season ticket holder on here to do the same.

Craig Fletcher
157 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:19:20
Jim, the main difference between today and 2008 is fight, heart and steel. Watching us this season I'm reminded of the Wizard of Oz.... we may have the ability, but we lack football intelligence, heart, and courage.
Colin Malone
158 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:19:31
Let's hope RB has gone before the Norwich game or it will be embarrassing on the lap of honour. I will be leaving 5 minutes before the end. Sorry I never said goodbye Tim Howard.

James Watts
159 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:19:59
You are certainly not alone Neil (145). But to cheer you up, just seen this stat on twitter:

Everton last 2 away games:
12 shots for
68 shots against

Gerard Carey
160 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:21:31
Was it our Captain that came out during the week talking about "Pride"!?, that the team would show it in the last three games. Utter shite!!!.
Clive Rogers
161 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:21:46
Kenwright should resign after handing over this shambles. He has sat there for 20 years and I can't think of one single thing he has achieved, just steady decline.
Les Martin
162 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:22:41
We can give Leicester a week on the booze. And Everton will still lose!!

We are an absolute shambles, disorganised,and disinterested as the season ends.

I predict two more defeats, playing as we are, as we will get nowt at Sunderland, and I expect Norwich to beat us at home. Then the boos will tear the roof off at Goodison.

Peter McCann
164 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:25:53
There are a million things I could say. But the main thing is we are just not a team. The players have give up as if they are as pissed off as the fans. It's shambolic.

At one point we had a free kick on the half way line and the player went up faced our own goal and played the ball back towards goal and we were 3 nil down!

When Rooney left, I was heartbroken but when Lukaku goes I will simply want to know what we got for him.

We all know Sunderland will beat us on Wednesday and that says so much about how far we have fallen. I have said before the next appointment so critical as it will sum up where we are going for next decade.

Brent Stephens
165 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:26:31
Amit #148 - don't tell me. You took that photo and then walked on by?
Roy Johnstone
166 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:26:55
Meaningless possession game. Kinda sums up the last two years.
Anthony Jones
167 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:27:55
Jim, 153, we are probably all frustrated today, but are you taking the piss?

"sublimely talented Louis Saha"...
"cult figures like Marouane Fellaini"...
"James McFadden"...
"young athletic man mountain that was Joleon Lescott"

You are waxing lyrical are Moyes' Boys like our very own RM!

David Greenwood
168 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:29:08
Lap of shame Colin. Lap of shame.
Amit Vithlani
169 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:31:46
Brent 165 yes sadly I could not stop, as I was on my way to a gunfight!
Brent Stephens
170 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:32:56
Amit - with a ...?
Stewart Lowe
171 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:33:35
If I hear the word INTENSITY from Martinez one more time I will shoot the guy
Jim Bennings
172 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:34:05
Anthony

Maybe you didn't watch that team then mate!!

Saha was held back only through injury but the man was international class and Lescott was truly immense for three seasons at Everton which resulted in a 24 million pound move to City.

McFadden and James Vaughan and Andy Johnson were all superior to Niasse and Kone, who offer absolutely nothing other than a good joke.

And yes cult figures like Fellaini who Evertonians idolized for four years because he offered something different and compare the shite McCarthy, Barkley and sideways Cleverley and Besic offer now...??

I'd take Fellaini any day mate!!

Sean McCarthy
173 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:35:18
That was embarrassing. No passion, no fight, no real effort. So many of that side are simply not worthy of a blue shirt. Oviedo, McCarthy, Pennington, Lennon, Gibson, Robles, and most of the bench are championship players. Niasse isn't even that good. I think we were royally shafted by shady Russians paying £13m for him. The poor lad seems to know it too. He couldn't get off the pitch quick enough when he was subbed!!

Barkley was as anonymous as ever. I'm sorry but I simply just don't see it. The lad barely moves!! And the only time he ran with the ball he did was he always does.... pass it to the opposition!! Don't give me all that "Ross is a blue" nonsense. We're all blues but none of us are good enough to be 1st choice at a premier league side!! If city or whoever come calling in the summer with a big fat cheque I'd back their hand off before they realise what an overhyped overweight luxury we can ill afford to carry week in week out!! "A diamond"???? Don't make me laugh!!

Lukaku looked like he was already on the beach and barely broke sweat!!

Robles given vardy stick for missing a penalty was embarrassing!! FFS we were THREE NIL down!!!

Finally Roberto....deluded nonsense every time someone puts a mic in front of him. If he thinks today's performance was so poor because (in his words) "we lacked the intensity and performance levels of last week" then god help us. Last week our performance was anything but intense!!! It was like an end of season testimonial. If he stays as manger we can kiss goodbye to any of our better players and get ready for the championship. Our Champions League away form is not much better than our Championship home form. Enough of the bullshit....

Somos mierda no fenomenal ........ That sums him/us up!!!

Rob Nunn
174 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:36:40
Peter (164) .... agree with everything you said but you hit on the nail on the head when you say we are not a team. We are not and never will be under RM
John Jennings
175 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:36:45
Roberto Martinez, get out of our club.

On the way home from the King Power after hopefully watching the last away performance, if you can call it that, under this totally demented and delusional losers management.

Roberto Martinez, get out of our club.

Paul Birmingham
176 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:38:43
Total car-crash write-off of a season. Change definitely needed and a fresh start and some belief, passion and pride is needed. Never felt so drained of hope and frankly it's become so predictable every game.

There's no lasting positives to take into next season aside from Moshiri's place on the board but his input when it's released will be interesting.

Rick Tarleton
177 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:38:58
Well, Roberto, you sure showed them what a fluke their triumph was. We were third best (second was too close) in every aspect of the game. Robles and Cleverley looked as though they cared. Sorry about the rest.
Mick Davies
178 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:39:32
Anthony @ 167. Jim was right: all those players showed character, pride and, or ability, something the present bunch are doing their best to hide (if they have any). Even our captain's now don't show any leadership, and although I was glad to see the back of Moyes, and believe he held some players back, at least he made them play for the shirt.
Keith Meakin
179 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:39:34
We really need to sack Martinez & all off his coaching staff, a season of to many injuries, players under performing and the whole team never looking 100% fit. To play Oviedo at right back & Niarsie out left just smacks of a Manager who hasn't got a clue. As soon as I saw the team sheet I put my money on Leicester to win, easy money.
John Grills
180 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:40:20
Can only agree with all of you. It's embarrassing to watch Everton at the moment.

I'm actually glad the league was settled before we went to Leicester today, would have been awful on any other team chasing the league to have to rely on our shambolic team.

John and James (128 + 135) agree completely. The lack of effort from the players is appalling. Martinez knew Leicester would be on a high going into the game, this was his chance to show that Everton still have some fight, this was his chance to show his supposed flair and managerial skill.

The result and performance showed exactly why we have had such a bad season. Lucky indeed the league season isn't more than 38 games else we would be down on this form.

Jim Bennings
181 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:40:51
Massive overhaul needed this summer starting with the manager but we need to stop being sentimental to players who are now past it at this level and will not be getting any better.

No new contracts for the likes of Gibson, Pienaar, Osman, Hibbert, get shut of mediocre players who aren't good enough to take the club forward, sell Stones and replace him with a man that can jump, be physically strong and actually DEFEND..

Flog Lukaku and replace him with a striker that will give his all every time he sets foot on that pitch like Vardy does at Leicester.

Cut our losses on Niasse, accept he's not good enough for this league and attempt to sign a lad from the Championship like Andre Gray at Burnley (just an example, I know they came up) but at least it won't take years to settle in and he'd work hard..

We need a whole new blueprint!!

Clive Lewis
182 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:42:40
Was at n he game we were truly wiganised relugation fodder. Martinez has not got a clue, Its emabarrasing how a team can be so poor. Roll on next season. Under Martinez I doubt anyone will go.
Steve Woods
183 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:43:06
Clive # 161

"Kenwright should resign after handing over this shambles. He has sat there for 20 years and I can't think of one single thing he has achieved, just steady decline."

I agree with that completely. The only thing he has achieved in those years has been his recent trousering of how many tens of millions for his shares?

Not a penny or an idea or a vision has he put into the club. For me he can't go soon enough. He has left no legacy beyond the dilapidation under his chairmanship of this once great football club.

John Belshaw
184 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:46:13
Today it looked as if it was Everton, not Leicester who had been pigging out for 5 days on Ranieri's famous pizzas washed down with Italian lager! An absolutely pathetic showing.

The Blues, but for Robles and some poor finishing could have, should have lost by 6 or 7 clear goals!

Bill "What a Manager" Kenwright and Roberto "Phenomenally Incredible" Martinez should both do the honourable thing and resign from their respective positions with immediate effect.

Now is there a rest home out there for retired snake oil salesmen and clowns, anyone?

Colin Murphy
185 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:47:08
One of the ways I think we can show the board or feelings on Sunday is to leave the ground 10 minutes early or make sure we are not there for the lap of shame, let the team and the back room staff come out to an empty stadium, to show them what the stadium will be like if we continue to play in this vein and employ Martinez and his back room staff.
Peter Roberts
186 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:47:25
Feel really sorry for the likes of Lukaku... picking up 75k a week and getting stick from fans who feel aggrieved watching them put in 20% effort.

I really hope he can find a club that will play in a way that his poor first touch, lack of ability in the air and an expectation of doing some work will mean he can continue to just focus on scoring in the area.

Tommy Coleman
187 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:50:09
The players have completely gone.
Out classed in every way.

What are the Board waiting for?

Paddy Howlin
188 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:53:16
How anyone at the club can justify retaining Martinez and his coaching staff after the past 2 seasons is beyond me. Club 'legends' like Sharp, Snodin and Stuart should hang there heads in shame. We are unfit, tactically inept and heading in only one direction. The results, stats and league table does not lie.

However the longer this sorry situation goes on, it's clear the manager is only one part of the problem. The players have clearly stopped playing for him and no longer believe in any of his shit. However they should not be excused for the displays of the past 3 months. Pride? Don't make me laugh.

Personally I'd get rid of the majority of this so called 'golden generation' and rebuild from scratch. What is the point of playing Osman, Hibbert, Howard etc? Also time for Kenwright, Woods, Elstone to go. Moshiri needs to take control and usher in a new era. Wipe away the stench of mediocrity that has gripped this club since the early 1970s (84-87 was the only time we bucked this trend for over 40 years now). This mediocrity is basically the so-called 'Everton Way' that Kenwright seeks to cherish so much and has many an Evertonian think that 2nd best (or the shite we are being served year after year of his time as a director, owner or chairman) is acceptable.

Time to being a winning mentality and ruthlessness in to the club. It should start by sacking the most incompetent manager in our clubs history immediately. His P45 should just say NSNO. Please let's apply the club motto for once and actually aspire to deliver what it means. If not, I really fear for next season.

Paul Thompson
189 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:54:15
I've watched some rotten Everton teams in my 50+ years, but I don't think I've ever felt as embarrassed as by this shower and their delusional manager. Sunderland will batter us.

It's a pity for Norwich that they'll already be relegated by the final game because they'd be looking forward to 3 points as well. Shambles.

Guy Hastings
190 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:55:22
Each one of the so-called, self-assuming 'big names' played as though they were deliberately driving down their transfer value in order to get a move. I have a horrible, horrible feeling the Martinez will be with us at the start of next season.
David Denby
191 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:55:28
Bill, Bill, Bill how can you not see the direction you are taking this club in? Your manager is taking us down. How in the hell do you not see this?

How are we stronger? How have we progressed? Champions League? You're taking the piss. You've done well for yourself out of the club you say you love now it's time to pass it on to a proper businessman. Step aside Bill and save yourself a lot of grief. You'll be doing us all a favour.

I have felt more depressed as an Evertonian but I've never felt so much frustration. Go Bill, take the two Bobby's with you and let this club be something again.

Eddy Bernard
192 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:55:38
Craig Walker 37 & Jim Bennings 153 Spot on, too many players are overated and that includes Lukaku, Barkley and Stones.

Whoever takes over from Martinez will get the same inconsistency and disinterest from certain players. The club needs a clear out from Top to bottom.

Eric Myles
193 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:55:54
I had the choice of going to The English Football Pub to watch the game or going to San Siro to watch Inter.

First Everton game I've missed seeing in about 10 years but I just knew it would be more of the same.

Christy Ring
194 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:56:51
When Martinez started Oviedo at right back, after his two previous diabolical performances their, showed his arrogance, and we saw a team absolutely toothless, no shape, no ideas and an embarrassment to Everton FC.

I blame Kenwright who has treated us fans disgracefully, the 'What a manager' tells us everything we need to know, he thinks he's fucking untouchable, and he should be chucked out with Martinez.

Andy Crooks
195 Posted 07/05/2016 at 20:58:22
Stop this unjustified criticism of our coach. It is not "the Everton Way". We do things differently. Really, really, incredibly differently.

Steavey Buckley
196 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:04:35
The omens were bad as soon it was announced Oviedo was at right back, from then on, it got worse. Players found it hard to pass to each other. Missed a couple of easy chances. For a lot of fans their loyalty is at breaking point, if not broken already.
Stephen Brown
197 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:04:53
Shameful performances by management and players! Even our really crap sides of late nineties had some heart and some players you could really get behind and respect!

I can't think of any of the players on today's showing that I'd be sorry to leave! Stones and Lukaku especially! Their lack of effort and professionalism from so-called world class players is deplorable! If the fees talked about for these two are correct then sell ASAP.

Des Farren
198 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:05:42
John @128, I could not agree more. Martinez is the main issue, but a team of players, Robles excluded, who just refused to make any discernible effort for 90 mins is inexcusable.

Anyone on here who thinks this will change with a change of manager should think again. Any player who would use the spurious excuse of not respecting the manager for his woeful lack of effort should be discarded.

Colin Glassar
200 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:06:24
I've just watched the game and I must admit I'm proud of our manager. Yes, proud. When the heavens opened up and Filbert st was under a deluge, Roberto stood tall and got a good soaking whilst Claudio hid under a hoodie, the big Italian wimp. What a manager!! He deserves a new contract just for that IMO.
Christine Foster
201 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:08:04
Stuff this for a game of soldiers. Humiliated, Disgraced, Disgraceful. Leaderless. Tactical dross. Unfit for purpose.

I could a page with similar and every one of the comments would be accurate. It was never going to be our day, but no coordination, shocking defence and non-existent attack. In fact I could count on one hand how many players turned up for Everton today. I am ashamed that we have a board that lets this happen on their watch and does nothing, says nothing.

I am ashamed that we have a manager who has alienated every supporter, some feat that, just ask ToffeeWeb, its been the only thing we have all agreed on in 7 years. A man who has lost the changing room, lost the fans, lost the plot and still he is there.

Evertonians never protest enough, they vote with their feet. Normally a full house for the last game of the season next week, I suspect it will be half empty. Cancel a lap of honour, we don't want your thanks for supporting you, we love our club but you have let us down. Disgracefully.

The players have lost faith, lost heart and if the idiot of a manager stays we will see a mass exodus no-one wants to play for him.

Lastly, a note to major shareholder. You have been conned by a con man. Clear the decks as quick as you can if you want to stay in the Premier League.


Andy Meighan
202 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:08:46
Kenwright must be sitting there laughing saying to himself: "These dickheads think I'm going to sack Bobby... Think again; I know he's a good manager – he's just been unlucky this season. He'll easily turn this around next season..." We all know he won't, of course.

But Kenwright hasn't got an ounce of respect for us. In fact, I'd go as far to say he hates Evertonians. Why else would he let us suffer like this? It's shameful performance after shameful performance and yet they allow it to carry on.

I've said this many many times. Kenwright will not sack Martinez. Not a fucking prayer... the "What a manager" quote after the Chelsea cup tie was two fingers up to every matchgoing Evertonian.

And that one sentence told me everything I need to know about the way this shabby little club is run. Like everyone, I desperately want him gone. But I'm afraid it wont happen.

Pete Cross
204 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:09:03
Has there been any post match RM comments yet ?.
Patrick Carty
205 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:09:33
We are in a moment. The manager feels that he is in a stronger position now than when he arrived. How are we expected to keep listening to this bullshit?

Teams are putting us to the sword, week-in & week-out, and nothing is changing.

I don't even get mad anymore when we are beaten and that's not right. Please leave, Martinez, and do the right thing.

Andy Crooks
206 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:10:35
Christy, Maritinez starting Oviedo at right back was second only to the performance of the wretched coach at Southhampton the Christmas before last.

That, in my view, was the worst performance by a coach I have ever witnessed at any level of football. The fact that we pay this bewildered cretin millions to try and repeat it is...., fuck my anger level has over heated... there really are many more important things to burst a blood vessel over.

Colin Glassar
207 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:12:43
"Very disappointed", Pete.
Dave Abrahams
208 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:13:13
Craig (#56) just a small point: Robles was punching the air when Vardy missed the penalty because Vardy was offside and cheated for the penalty. Leicester were winning far too easily – they didn't have to cheat as well.

Leicester just had to turn up. There was no threat from Everton, they were totally uninterested, some more than others.

They should look back on this period in their career with shame. They might not want to play for the inept Martinez, but there are other ways of going about it, like getting together as a team and telling the man his tactics, coaching and fitness regime are rubbish. That should have been done weeks ago when when Baines had a go at the club's 'chemistry'. The whole squad should have backed him up.

We'd have won more games without this manager than with him. I felt sorry for the supporters who went today and I've said that a few times this season. Along with a few more fans on here.

Trevor Lynes
209 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:15:16
Football must be the only job where an employee can shirk his job and get the manager sacked.

Collectively the side has become the worst in the league and it is only the failings of other teams that have kept us out of the relegation fight.

These supposed athletes are Royally paid to work for 90 minutes a week yet quite a few cannot maintain their efforts and visibly tire at the 60 minute mark.Of late we have started every game abysmally and it is an embarrassment for every supporter who pays to watch this abject show of complete apathy.

I have seen far worse Everton sides when we suffered relegation but the money paid to these preening pansy's is an insult to working people.If Martinez is sacked it cannot excuse the shocking displays by the players.I would empty quite a few out and start a complete overhaul during pre season otherwise we will be in danger.

Si Mar
210 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:15:34
I also hope the players don't get out of this blameless, professional pride springs to mind and they too have been an utter disgrace, excuse my language but fuck them Robles maybe excluded.

If football and my love for Everton wasn't so ingrained in my blood then I'd walk away from it this evening.

Everton Football Club you break my fucking heart, fuck you.

Terence Tyler
211 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:15:38
I firmly believe the club will want to avoid a toxic situation at Goodison for the Norwich game; a mutual arrangement will be concluded between club and the manager before this game takes place.
Andy Crooks
212 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:16:52
Colin, my mother-in-law also stands out in the rain and gets soaked. She is tactically inept but has, yet, to babble at a press conference. I would like to throw her hat in the ring as new coach. How far is Liverpool from Belfast?
James Watts
213 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:17:10
Pete (204). He is blaming our 'performance' on getting caught up in the Leicester party.

It's been a hell of a party for the last 2 and a bit years, if you ask me ...

Mark Griffiths
214 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:17:13
Absolutely diabolical state of affairs at our great club. To be honest, it is a bit like watching a dying animal on the side of the road that needs putting out of it's misery.

The only consolation for me is that it is nailed on he is gone in the summer and it makes sense with the possibility of the June severance pay thing and the 'quietly' out the back door scenario with the distraction of the Euros.

I guess we just have to be patient – what are the odds on him gone this summer because it will happen, trust me.

Christine Foster
215 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:17:27
'Toxic' is right Terence... we are already there.
Mike Moore
216 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:17:47
We are the slowest, most unfit, inept team in the league at the moment (including Villa), with the most clueless deluded manager in our history, how can BK not see this?

I genuinely fear for us, this is the man that brought in this clown and, being the stubborn arse that he is, won't be doing anything about it, Moshiri is our only hope in steering this rudderless embarrassment from doom.

Paddy Howlin
217 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:19:20
Never mind the lap of dishonor next week, the club should be ashamed of themselves for even contemplating having the end of season awards dinner on Thursday. What the hell are we going to celebrate this year now Liverpool have got our 'last English team in Europe' title we apparently won last year? Awarding mediocrity – that's the Everton Way.
Peter Carpenter
218 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:19:40
PATHETIC SPINELESS SHITE
Peter Gorman
219 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:20:24
http://www.Evertonfc.com/news/2016/05/07/Robertos-reaction

The club apparently welcome comments so why don't you all do yourselves a favour and tell the nice man what you think of him.

I doubt any will be published but they surely will be read.

Peter McCann
220 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:21:59
I have watched Everton for nearly 50 years. There were always players you wanted to get the ball from Johnny Morrisey Alan Ball Martin Dobson Bob Latchford Dave Thomas etc etc etc but at the minute there is no player on the pitch who excites me or who I want to get the ball to and that says so much .
Alan Williams
221 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:22:01
He will be gone by Monday, rumours are spreading that he has offered to fall on his sword.

I'm not going the Norwich game – I just put my tickets on StubHub... I've had enough. Let's hope the rumours are true.

Steve Guy
222 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:22:03
Piss awful. "Get out of our club, get out of our club, Roberto Martinez get out of our club !!!" .......I knew it would be bad when poor old Oviedo got hung out to dry (again) at right back. Tactically inept.

Surely even from the Boys Pen it should be friggin obvious this is the worst manager and worst performing team in decades, if not all time.

Lukaku actually looked as poor as Niasse which was going some. Midfield non-existent. Defence all over the place.

Robles might be a decent goalie if the other 10 knew what they were doing. Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks.

By the way Vardy is a graceless little rat faced twat. Just sayin.....

Joseph Walsh
223 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:22:46
Literally what will it take to get him out of our club?

He should have walked after the derby – possibly the worst performance I have ever seen from our team.

He is the realistic option to go but the root cause of all our woes is Kenwright. It is agreed that 94% of us believes Martinez needs to go. However, Kenwright creates more of a mixed reaction. I remember on TW some of us on here singing his praises for bringing in Moshiri. Yet all he has done is pull the wool over everybodies' eyes again.

He will never relinquish power of this club. He got an investor not a new owner. That's why it took him 12 years to find somebody!! I wonder how much real and genuine interest we actually had from serious buyers that he turned down because he wanted to keep hold of his train set?

The silence is deafening. Our very own Nero fiddling quietly with his Boys Pen rattle whilst Goodison implodes. WE need to be reminding Kenwright every match day that he needs to go too.

As fans we are too apathetic. We moan on forums and to our friends in pubs but then we renew our season tickets and leave it to 100 of our fellow fans to protest and all the time Gordon Clegg in his arrogance ignores us.

Like a few others commenting here too, the players need to take responsibility. I know Martinez sets up the team and fitness levels etc. However, they have been woeful and are clearly playing to have Martinez sacked. Complete lack of professionalism. I won't shed a tear when Lukaku or others departs. Just watch if we do get a new man in charge the transformation in those remaining players will be dramatic.

The whole club needs an overhaul, from the Board, players, commercial team etc. I was actually gutted Leicester won the league because that is another team along with the so called big 5-6 or whatever it is now and the likes of West Ham, Spurs and Southampton that are way ahead of us in attracting players, fighting for Europe, more money and better stadium.

Whatever it takes ... Tennis balls, handkerchiefs, banners, silence, walkout - let's do it but don't just aim it at Martinez - include the board too.

Surely, they cannot do a lap of "honour" can they? Still, I'll live in hope and check on here hourly as usual to see if he has gone.

Tom R Owen
224 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:23:01
I watched tonight's game with a huge sense of shame. Bill Kenwright (of whom I am a huge critic) and Roberto Martinez should also be ashamed – and if both have any integrity, they should resign their positions this evening.

Damian Nolan
225 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:24:25
I noticed that on today's kit the elephants were white. How apt. We have a team full of them.
Terence Tyler
226 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:25:16
Danny Kelly. TalkSport: "Like the junior doctors, Everton footballers withdraw their labour."
James Brand
227 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:29:04
So Leicester spend the week on the piss and STILL beat us...
#Martinezout
Stephen Williams
228 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:30:58
After yet another non-performance, Martinez’s goose is cooked so I won’t waste my breath on him. Koeman please. Of much more concern was the sub-plot of the squad and investment that’s needed:

Goalkeeper – Robles ok for a No. 2 but we need a proper No. 1, new GK required,
RB – Coleman will do but we have no experienced cover, additional RB required,
CB – Funes Mori not good enough, new CB needed,
CB – Jagielka good enough but not young enough, additional CB needed,
LB – regrettably Baines is no longer fit enough, Oviedo not good enough, new LB needed,
LM – no natural left footed wide midfielder, new LM needed,
CM – Barry ditto Jagielka, additional CM needed,
CM – McCarthy not good enough and hides from the ball, additional CM needed,
RM – Mirallas could do a job but never convinced he’s a genuine wide player, new RM needed,
Striker – Niasse, no comment, new Striker needed,
Striker – Lukaku good enough but fear he’ll be playing elsewhere next season, therefore new Striker needed.

I know there are other players not mentioned such as Stones, Barkley, Deulofeu, Cleverley etc but they will be needed within the squad so can’t step into the 1st 11 without needing replacement.

In all that adds up to a massive investment and, notwithstanding funds from player sales, I’m just not sure that even Moshiri has deep enough pockets.

Conclusion: This shambles won’t be fixed in one summer and could well take 2 or 3 seasons of investment and restructuring before we have a truly competitive squad. We better get used to the idea.

Jon Cox
229 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:31:17
Jim, just let Anthony watch this. At the end I was no Moyes fan but just look at some of these players.

I know it's easy to make things look good on you tube but some of this stuff would slaughter what passes for a squad these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRtC5nvIS24

Damian Wilde
230 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:31:22
Anyone who thinks he will be here next season is as mad as he is.

This is humiluating and embarrassing. The board are a disgrace. Sod this do it at the end of the season nonsense, do it now! Kenwright is a joke, he hired him and won't fire him! Worst I have ever felt as a Blue

I'm not going on Sunday, empty seat. Fuck of Roberto.

Edward Wallis
231 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:32:06
The whole thing has turned into a complete mess, bad feeling amongst our great family created by silence of board and the fear he will be here next year. Whoever comes in will have to start again with the amount of players leaving.

It could be 2 to 3 years to get back to when El Shithead joined. It will need our patience and support..but the board need to appoint somebody with pedigree and we can believe in non of this potential shite. NSNO

Tom Evans
232 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:34:57
My mind is a whirlpool of emotions. For the life of me, why oh fucking why, have the people in power not been able to see the blindingly obvious and acted to rid us of the blustering fool of a manager.

The players have given up on the prick and are stealing a living at the expense of us, the long suffering fans. I think my rage is at the arrogance of the board in their refusal to accept that they are making a massive error in not making the change.

Ah fuck it. Fuck them all...

Now where's that third bottle of Merlot. I've had enough for today.

Kieran Kinsella
233 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:35:37
Last day of the season could be a cringeworthy acid bath or it could be a new hope. If we fire RM, stick Joe or Unsy on the bench then we diffuse the hostility. Then wheel out Hibb, Howard, Osm, Gib and Pienaar for their farewell game. Throw in Dowell, Pennington, Davies etc since it's a dead rubber anyway so they might as well play.

After the game, keep the carnival atmosphere going by putting Kone, McGeady, Niasse, Kenshite and Woods in the stocks so people can hurl cabbages and tomatoes at them. This probably won't happen cause BK has lost his mind.

Keith Meakin
234 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:35:48
Piss Poor Planning results in Piss Poor Performance, Manager & coaching team at fault. Do you really think this team would've performed as badly under Ranieri & his coaching team. I THINK NOT.
John Keating
235 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:37:31
Steve
Vardy may well be a graceless little rat faced twat but by fuck I wish he were our graceless little rat faced twat !
Gareth Evans
237 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:40:03
Just posted on the EFC website that until the Spanish clown is relieved of his duties I am not purchasing any tickets for games (home or away) or any merchandise. This is the only way I can see how we as supporters can force the hand of the club, by depriving them of our money.
Xavier Spencer
239 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:45:05
I counted at least seven 'incredibles' in this pathetic excuse for an interview.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36239490

Dave Bowen
240 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:45:17
Please drop Lukaku. Every game he's played since the Chelsea cup game, he's managed to knock £10 mil off his value. Lazy twat
Colin Malone
241 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:47:41
Let's wait before you assess players ability. Vardy would be shit in this set up. Let's wait till we get a proper coach.

Please get shut, it will be cringeworthy embarrassing at the end of the Norwich game.

Derek Robb
242 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:47:52
He stands alone in his little box at the side of the pitch; he seeks no advice from his coaches. He's in a little deluded world of his own.

'The Prophet of Doom'...

Time to go.

Ray Jacques
244 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:49:52
Si 210 your last two lines sum up my emotions.

We will be relegated next season.

Christopher Marston
245 Posted 07/05/2016 at 21:51:05
It is so blatantly obvious the players want him gone. Why have they not got rid yet?! It's as if they want us to be shit!!!!! What board wants their own team to be shit??!!!!!!!!
Dave Ganley
246 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:00:11
People keep going on about a toxic atmosphere at Goodison.....well if el messiah is still in charge next Sunday we will see exactly how toxic it can be I think. I'm not looking forward to it to be honest but if that's what it takes for the board to wake up and realise how much of a joke we have become under his idiotic reign then so be it. I don't feel soŕry for Martinez for whatever comes his way. He deserves everything he gets for thinking its all about him and driving our club into the ground. The arrogance of the man and the little intelligence he credits the fans with when making his insane comments just shows how little he understands this club and how little respect he has for us. I cant believe he is still here. Even the red echo is questioning his being here after today.. . When that happens you know its bad!! I cant abide him and how much he has set back our club. Its in no better state than when Walter left. Huge mess for the next incumbent to put right. Fucking shameful from everyone from the board downwards.
Si Mar
248 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:01:42
Ray 244, I hope and I don't think it will come to that but these overpaid players will start playing under a new manager, I could use stronger words but it would be moderated!

Fuck them, the greats words of Alan Ball seem not to matter, I know he lost the dressing room weeks ago but there should be an element of passion however small.

Is this the same season where only a short while ago Goodison was rocking after wins against City and Chelsea in the Cups or have I got that wrong!

Chris Morris
249 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:04:27
Ashamed and Embarrassing...be a man Roberto and walkaway.

Barkley gets it and rightly so but the boy tried tonight (Along with Baines...True Blues) and with the right Manager should be whom we build our team around.

Even through the dire 90s it didn't seem to feel this bad.

Sort it Bill.......

Patrick Murphy
250 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:08:27
I have argued pretty recently that certain star players should be kept in order to build the team around them, but after the last five or six matches and a few more besides, I wouldn't be bothered if any or all of the squad were shipped out. If they can't be bothered to play for the shirt they shouldn't be wearing it.

Roberto cannot stay as Everton boss that much is obvious, but the re-building that needs doing is quite frightening because it's a struggle to pick out more than two perhaps three players who have at least given it a bit of a go.

Sad times for Evertonians and it might have to get worse before it improves.

Colin Glassar
251 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:09:27
This is no longer a team, it's an ex-team. A bunch of individuals who play together like complete strangers. This is a soulless, ghoul-like, apparition of a toothless banshee.

The life has been sucked out of this former team. There's no spirit, no togetherness, no heart, no sense of purpose, an empty shell if you like.

This was like watching England with "The Wally with a brolly" in charge, although in fairness to our soon-to-be-former-manager he did brave the elements.

We need a spiritual (in the football sense) revival. We need a fire and brimstone manager to resuscitate this sorry cadaver of a team. We need a mix of Dr Frankenstein and Billy Graham with a dash of Erwin Rommel thrown in. We need, in other words, a fuvking miracle to get us out of this hole.

I shall start lighting candles to illuminate Moshiri in these testing hours and as for BK and his beloved, ten hail Mary's and four ave Maria's .

Damian Wilde
252 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:10:41
Just watched it Xavier. How many times did he say 'intensity'? Not sure why he is obsessed with this word when we never show sny intensity...EVER.

He said this performance contrasted with last week's...we were shit last week.

Also, he carted out the great away form line W5 D8 L4 - shit away record.

Clown.

Ian Bennett
253 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:10:48
Woeful performance - again. Relegation form written all over it. Cleverly could have walked today to make it another red card. Discipline, team spirit, work rate, skill, tactics - Issues all over the pitch. Totally outclassed, I felt sorry for the travelling army again.

Like the end of the Walter a Smith years, your just hoping for a 6 or 7 to get rid of Martinez.

Robles - did his best. Totally exposed by players not remotely interested
Baines - struggled again. Too many crosses coming in on the left hand side. Just show Mahrez down the line...
Stones - shakey without Jags. Before everyone turns on him, he is a young lad being brutally exposed by a manager with no defensive nous what so ever.
Pennington - I don't think the lad will make top grade. I want to give youth a chance, but I just can't see it, although having Martinez doesn't help his case...
Oviedo - is no right back. I don't understand why you'd play him in that position
McCarthy - offered little...again
Barkley - ditto, clearly disillusioned
Lennon - just not top grade
Cleverly - ditto, lucky to stay on the pitch
Niasse - £13.5m pissed up the wall and £50k a week until 2020... Bakayoko, Kone, John Spencer, Mo Johnstone - welcome to the select group of duds.
Lukaku - out muscled, checked out months ago
Gibson - the only lad who can pass in the squad. Oh for a fit lad who could play 50 games a season
Mirallas - must have worked Martinez out months ago. Plays for himself, but l'd have him ahead of others keeping him out every week.
Osman - another kick in the teeth for giving youth a try

Peter Carpenter
254 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:11:19
Looking on the bright side......
'He is the only one who can keep his head held high' - referring to Matthew Pennington. The implied criticism of the rest (and other things he said) must mean he knows he is finished and is sticking the boot in while he can.
No point in prolonging the agony for him or us, finish it tomorrow morning. Monday at the latest.
Don Alexander
255 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:15:18
If nowt else I hope Moshiri has his accountancy head on.

At kick-off today 9th place was theoretically achievable at the end of this shambles of a Martinez season.........again. Tonight we're 12th, £5 million or so worse off IF that's where we end up (double that if we end up 15th).

So, from his point of view what more math is there to do? Does he now want to seize the incredible, phenomenal moment now plainly before him or does he want to risk seeing his money growing in matches against Cardiff, Preston and Bristol City the season after next?

I've been to 1st team league games at Goodison where the crowd was consistently way short of 30k (and way back even then the stadium looked shite as a result).

Mr Moshiri, it's beyond the time you need to wake up and get very active............with respect, for now.

Colin Hughes
256 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:16:53
Everton's top brass are crafty bastards, why do you think they put the family enclosure on the Goodison road side of the ground where the dugout is situated sometime in the late 1980s? After the period of success they were expecting it to go like the 70s again with us struggling and LFC to continue dominating.

There used to be some right nutters that used to stand in the enclosure straight out of the blue house half tanked and they wanted them away from the management.

Nowadays all you get is families with kids munching on crisps and Everton ladies behind the dugout.
Paul Setter
258 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:17:59
Yawn... Same old same old. Players that really aren't that that great and as for Barry chuckle..... I couldn't care less if every single one of these clowns gets sold, for me all overrated if he continues to play talentless dross like McCarthy and Cleverley are surprised by the the outcome.

I would rather see my 2 year old in midfield than than James (I'm not good at literally anything) McCarthy
Charlie Lloyd
259 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:19:04
There was a degree of effort going on but this is a team in a bad place. There is no hope if the leader isn't relieved of his duties.

Martinez out.

Ray Jacques
260 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:19:47
We drew with the RS in October and I was disappointed as I thought we had better players and a better team. We all said at the time we would probably only take Sturridge from their squad. How times quickly change.
Yet again we regress whilst others act. We have a low ambition attitude ( hate the small/big club tripe). Compare Lallana to Barkley, you would say the latter is more talented yet the former is.now playing like a world beater whilst the latter is a useless lump. Can the 6 % on the poll who want RM to stay explain that?
We are rancid and small time from the top
Steve Bingham
261 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:20:15
The best way of showing the board what we want is to boycott the Norwich game . An empty stadium would make the loudest noise of all !!!
Mike Hughes
262 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:20:32
In my lifetime there has never been anyone associated with Everton F.C. who I disliked more than Roberto Martinez.

Go through the list of candidates - Walker, Keeley and several others - and dislike is too harsh on them. They weren't up to it or fate conspired against them. But water under the bridge and all that.

But this guy really pisses me off big time.
He's an incompetent leech, hanging on to his job and sucking the lifeblood out of us.

David Connor
263 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:24:11
Never in all my forty+ years of watching EFC have I seen such a bunch of spineless over-paid and over-rated twats represent our club as I witnessed today.

We need a total clearout from top to bottom. Half that squad are Championship standard at best and that manager needs locking up in a lunatic asylum for the bullshit he comes up with.

The board need to act immediately or we will dissapear without trace very soon under this fools guidance. He literally could not run a piss up in a brewery. We all need to voice or anger a disgust next Saturday regardless of how many kids the coward plays.

This rot has to stop and stop now. Voice your anger now or go and support someone else. The club is ours. Don't let this lot fuck it all up.
Bob Cumiskey
264 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:26:07
Just walked in from another long and unenjoyable away day. Right now I really hate supporting this club. Gutless, clueless and an embarrassment to its band of loyal fans. I can't believe I have signed up for another season of this garbage.

Can at least 1 person of the 6 percent who would like RM to stay here next season respond and advise me why I have nothing to worry about in relation to next year if he is still here. Please tell me as all I can see is a massive relegation fight.
It's time to go, Bobby Brown Shoes!
Sam Hoare
265 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:30:53
It's cruel to everyone to keep this charade going on. No-one is enjoying this.

We have gone horribly backwards since Moyes left and all the spirit, fight and passion is gone. Very sad.

Ray Jacques
266 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:32:40
Chris 249, with respect the true blue angle is bollocks, this is professional sport. Am sick of all the proper Evertonian shit. Do you think Rush, Fowler or Owen were arsed about the boyhood blue shite every time they stuck it to us .
Get a winning mentality in the club for the first time in 30 years and appoint Benitez. DSick of the losing mentality
Les Netherwood
267 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:32:49
What can anyone say about that performance? Two down and playing at walking pace...backwards...sideways. How much more of this dross do we have to put up with?

Lukaku waits for the ball instead of moving towards it, Barkley is too slow and only half interested and Stones has been ruined by Martinez, and always plays backwards.

It is well past time for Martinez to go.....Kenwright also.

Peter Thistle
268 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:41:58
After watching that "performance" don't just sack Martinez, sack the players as well. We were and are a joke while he remains manager.
Chris Morris
269 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:43:08
Thanks Ray..... Agree with the winners. We're serial losers at least those two show some heart unlike the rest of that sorry bunch and somewhere to start as clutching at straws is where we are!!!!!
Dick Fearon
270 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:46:04
A few months ago the RS were just as bad then along came Klop.
Colin Glassar
271 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:47:00
That sounds great Ray. Replace one manager who was relegated with another manager who looks like he will be relegated. That would be soooooo Everton.

Sanchez Flores is now favourite to take over.

Francis Gibson
272 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:50:20
For the first time in my life, I'm embarrassed to be an Everton Football Club supporter. Like most of you, I've been through a lot with this club over the years, but this is the worst I've seen it, the lowest I've felt.

I look at the board, the manager and most of the players and realise that I quite simply dislike them. We are well and truly in the shit, and it's a long road back to being a decent side again.

Terry Maddock
273 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:54:45
45 years I have been going the game..I have NEVER seen our defence so inept. Our last 4 league games shows 103 shots against and 31 shots for.. ( 9 on target in 4 games) we are relegation fodder... Do the decent thing RM and clear your desk.
Tony Dove
274 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:55:04
We have probably seen a number of games over the years where the team has performed just as badly. Never though on an occasion like this with countless millions watching worldwide. I am ashamed of my
Club tonight.
Ray Jacques
275 Posted 07/05/2016 at 22:55:43
Colin , Benitez isn't responsible for Newcastle being relegated, in fact (parden the pun) he's given them a chance of staying up.
Steve Guy
276 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:05:20
58% possession. How cruel that we should be beaten so comprehensively ! It's all about possession apparently. Sticking the ball in the net and keeping clean sheets: what's that all about ? Leicester won the league with the lowest possession ratio ever; clearly a bunch of cheats.

Mike Green
277 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:06:34
Watching today it occurred to me that we might have been specifically booked for today's game.

I made some enquiries and it turns out we were!

Wedding season is well under way now so you're out of luck until 2017 if you want the boys in blue to make your special day, but lots of Sunday's going after next week for First Holy Communions and weekdays for Bar Mitzvahs, Anniversaries and Funerals.

Saturday's are traditionally the boys days off where you will most likely find them at the races. Somewhere they've not been since 2014...

Daniel A Johnson
278 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:10:34
Barkley today was just baggage he offered NOTHING.
No tackling back no marking no attacking threat NOTHING.

Niasse never mind match fitness he cant even do the basics, like pass, trap a ball, control the ball, run with the ball. Look at what Leicester paid for Kante and Mahrez and contrast with the £13M blown on Niasse. The scout responsible should be sacked.

Look at Ranieri today talking with his coaching staff at all times. Whereas our Captain Ahab just stands there arms folded running his one man show talking to no one he's ARROGANT.

I would like to sit with Kenwright and ask him as a chairmen of a club how can he justify keeping Martinez when every team in the premiership would have jettisoned him long ago? Its the Everton way no doubt, the fact that Martinez still has a job demonstrates what we now are, a small club, a relic, left behind with no ambition, living on borrowed time, and our past history.

I firmly believe Kenwright wants to stick by Martinez so he can say misty eyed when he wins the premiership I told you so, I never doubted etc etc. Unfortunately for us, Martinez lost the players last season and we are now seeing the death knell of his reign except we have an impotent chairmen who is to stubborn and vain to sack "his man".

For all the pros and cons of te Moyes years we had one thing.... self respect. The players put a shift in for the badge. Martinez's biggest failure is how he's robbed the team of pride and effort. There is a resignation of defeat now even prior to kick off eerily similar to Aston Villa.

He's a nice guy apparently.............what a manager.

Tony Williams
279 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:16:20
Are we as fans to blame, we go every week and pay a lot of money to watch this rubbish, if we stayed away perhaps the powers to be would pay heed.
Andy Codling
280 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:18:10
Just seen his interview and finally he has said " the performance is not acceptable" rather than spouting garbage , too little too late, he does look like a man who knows his fate. I think he would have had had more respect if he hadn't spouted nonsense for months and months.
Colin Glassar
281 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:18:29
Two more games to go. One more week left. This nightmare will soon be over.
Andrew Presly
282 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:19:13
Nice way to sign off the season we lost Howard Kendall. Thanks to all the paid staff at the club, really good tribute lasting all year.
Anthony Jones
283 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:20:26
I am sorry, Jim, but the Saha we picked up was on his last legs, Mcfadden was shite, Lescott was prone to blunders, and Fellaini is a donkey.

Don't let your emotions fool you. We have a decent squad. Roberto has philosophised the life out of them. We don't need an entirely new squad. You are hysterical.

Bob Heyward
285 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:28:26
And who's that Colin #251 Back to the future with Moyes? Aye, right. Perhaps you'd like Hughes or Pulis?

No. Enough with the 'manager who's got potential' recruitment policies of old.

They're a not playing a as team but our squad does have potential. The owner does have cash. The Club has a reputation for treating manager's with respect and giving them time. Put all of that together and we have enough, maybe, to lure a higher class, more rounded, experienced, winning manager; somebody a bit more inspirational than a shouts-screamy type.

At this crossroads, it's all about ambition and inspiration. If we show it, maybe we turn this mess around - and perhaps quicker than some would expect. But if we lack ambition, i.e. by appointing Moyes Mk2, then we just confirm what Stones, Rom', Ross, Seamus etc are allthinking - that we're just a mid-table selling club.

Callum McNab
286 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:31:46
Andy seen it as well. He also said " we didn't do th basics" end of season and we still can't even do that Bobby, what does that tell you.

As regarding him being sacked, it's a must but also the regime also needs to go or were back to square one.
Phil Walling
287 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:40:13
Martin O'Neil is now the odds on favourite at 4/5 to be the next manager of Everton FC. All the usual suspects feature in single figures whilst Lowe is out at 10/1.

If the new Moshiri regime are determined to take the Randy Lerner route to disaster, they could hardly make a more significant choice.

We can look forward to being decidedly underwhelmed by the brave new world, it seems !

Mike Green
288 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:44:44
Phil - O'Neill can't possibly be manager. He has too many Morris Dancing commitments and has agreed to captain Little Sherbourne Golf Club next year. A complete non-starter.
Brian Denton
289 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:45:54
If bookies are making O'Neill such a short priced favourite, it must be on the cards.

I hope he can get some tips from his cousin, the tv Supervet, on putting new life into old dogs.

Chris Morris
290 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:49:27
Or Eddie Howe. Just seen their defending, as good as ours! Please God no!
Andy Crooks
291 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:49:29
Phil, if it came down to MON or the hapless Martinez I would take Martin. I would like us to,perhaps, be more forward thinking but I have a good deal of respect for Martin O'Neill and I would be happy to see him at our club.

Gavin Johnson
292 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:51:01
I agree with Anthony. I think you're looking through blue tinted spectacles there Jim.

Once Martinez's gone we'll be fine. He'll be quietly released like Big Sam was at West Ham last summer.

We'll be bringing in quality players to replace Howard, Osman, Hibbo, Gibson, Pienaar and McGeady. The problem will be replacing Rom and Stones but no player is bigger than the club and tbh the way Rom has been playing since the Chelsea game, I'd be more than happy to bank £55-65m.

We'll get a lot of money for the both of them and the new manager will have a huge transfer budget which be the envy of most managers in the league, not to mention the wages that we've showered on Moyes and Martinez. That's why I think we'll bring in a top manager this summer.

Personally I don't blame Martinez. I blame BK for not releasing him after the semi. It was called a defining week for a reason.


Mike Green
293 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:53:57
Hello Andy Crooks, hope you're well mate :-) Who would your best realistic choice be? I'm a bit lost....
Colin Glassar
294 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:54:35
Niasse has a better chance of being our next manager Phil.
Mike Hughes
295 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:56:38
Martin ON is another Moyes type.

Organised but limited. Better than what we have but so what?

We need to take the opportunity for someone who is a winner, not an also ran.

Push the boat out for once.

Colin Glassar
296 Posted 07/05/2016 at 23:59:30
I think Moshiri's short list is; Pellegrini, Koeman and Sanchez Flores.
Gavin Johnson
297 Posted 07/05/2016 at 00:00:57
I'm just waiting for the odds shortened on Steve McClaren and Tony Pulis. They may as well be considered since we've had Mark Hughes and Martin O'Neill as favourites.
Anthony Lamb
298 Posted 07/05/2016 at 00:01:55
Should this shameless collection of individuals have the audacity to contemplate a "parade around the stadium" at the end of the last game against Norwich, then there are two possible actions that those who bother to go to the game could take which would certainly bring pressure to bear on the Board. Either, the stadium empties completely at the 85th minute or, if they do insult supporters by doing their "walk", then for all those in the stadium to turn their backs on them in silence.

This would certainly bring the attention of the wider public to this sorry state of affairs at Everton and also send a message perhaps to the Board, manager and his staff and players that the supporters will not have their loyalty, traditions, and support for the club taken for granted and patronised any longer. Genuine support for the club may well mean that it is time for some drastic action by the support base because it is long past the time when the "let's get behind the manager and the players" mantra can be trotted out.

Of course if the manager is dismissed beforehand it may lessen some of the anger. But there is a need for root and branch reform at Everton at every level. I know nothing of the new shareholder but I certainly hope that he can exert enough influence to address this immediate managerial issue, clear out the deadwood on the playing and coaching staff, and get some true professional standards to permeate the club. It is intolerable that this shipwreck of Titanic proportions has been allowed to go on for so long.

Paddy Howlin
299 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:06:06
A couple of words that come to mind when I hear Martin O'Neill's name mentioned as next Everton manager 'frying pan, fire, jump straight from'. Aston Villa decline started with him wasting millions on squad players and never playing them. Sunderland have him to thank for many of their problems. Maybe in 1998 or 2002, but not now.

De Boer is the only realistic and exciting prospect of all the names I've seen linked that we should consider. However, until we sack the current Baffoon, it will be just a pipe dream.

Christy Ring
300 Posted 07/05/2016 at 00:08:22
I don't know who is making O'Neill favourite, what did he ever do, Moyes was better, and I don't want him back.
Mike Green
301 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:15:11
I would probably have a quiet word in Hiddinks ear....
Brian Porter
302 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:19:48
Watched the game earlier and just came back hoping to see some good news, a headline reading MARTINEZ FIRED or similar. No such luck. Just what does the charlatan have to to get the bullet? It has to be blatantly obvious, even to BK and his acolytes, that the buffoon has lost the players as sure as night follows day.

Enough is enough! He should be released immediately and a new manager installed in time to take over all transfers and pre season training.

Roger Helm
303 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:23:29
When I think of this shower wearing the same Royal Blue shirt as Young, Ball, Latchford, Kendall, Sharpe, Reid, Steven, Watson and even Mike Lyons, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I renewed my ST but I'll not go back to GP until Martinez and his favourites are gone.

Ben Attwood
304 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:25:07
Why was a winning team changed? It is not like we are winning every week.

Why is his joker still in charge? It has been 2 weeks since the derby disaster and the semi yet he is still in charge. Why? Please don't tell me beating Bournemouth was good enough to justify keeping him in the job. We have lost 3 out of the last 4. The expectation is now that we will lose. This is back to Walker / Kendall mark 3 / Smith days. Terrible.

These last 4 games of the season could have been used by the new manager as meaningful games to get the team ready for next season against teams who have something to play for rather than the pre-season experimental games which offer no idea of how a team performs. We have played and beaten many a team pre-season only to then have been properly mullered when the proper games start.

What a joke! We are next season's Aston Villa!

OR I may be having a bad dream and will wake up soon:-
Leicester winning the league
That poor team from across the park in a Euorpean final
Trump becoming US President

Kase Chow
305 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:28:48
I hope the Everton players watched the celebrations and were embarrassed.
Jimmi James
306 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:29:36
Just a bloody disgrace as usual.
David Midgley
307 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:38:02
The players individually aren't up to it,
The players as a team aren't up to it.
The manager and his coaching staff aren't up to it .
The chairman and his board aren't up to it and it looks as though Everton Football Club isn't up to it.
John Crook
308 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:38:34
Let's relax. The Board are clearly waiting to sack him, with dignity, at the end of the season. Kenwright will feel responsible and therefore embarrassed. He is a proud man and was no doubt hoping he could sack him whilst maintaining the illusion he's a good manager but the fans made his employment untenable.

Unfortunately he won't be able to do this and will be devastated. He is a true Evertonian but his hunch just hasn't worked out. We shouldn't feel any bitterness towards the Board they thought it would work out its in their interests for fucks sake! Let's be cool, we've only two more games to endure. Always has been a roller coaster being a blue.
Colin Glassar
309 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:41:31
All will be revealed after the Norwich game. Be patient, the end is nigh.
James Watts
310 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:48:08
Wish I had your optimism Colin (309), I really think he'll be here next season. Well the start of it anyway.
John Critchley
311 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:48:50
Can't everyone reading this site just walkout in the 78th minute (1878)? Fuck that it will hurt their little feelings that we won't be there to give them a round of applause (for their season's hard work... not!)

But 11,000 people have voted, they want him gone; if you are one of the 11,000, tell everyone around you the game ends on 78 mins, and let's all walk out! Kenwright will shit himself.

In my opinion, he's an arrogant, trainset-hugging, self-centered prig! Who is only in this for his own gratification, but that's just me.

David Griffiths
313 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:04:53
Martinez is unquestionably the worst manager in Everton's history, bar none. And a man with not a shred of integrity or decency – if he had, he would have walked away long ago. Incompetent manager and deluded in the extreme. How can Everton still employ him?

I'll tell you why – because Everton have the most spineless, unambitious, self-satisfied, small-minded, smug board in football. Small club? We'd better get used to it because it's here to stay. What a manager!

Michael Kenrick
314 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:12:41
John (#311),

"Only in this for his own gratification" – and the matter of shares sold... worth a cool £22.75M. I'm not sure many fans have really twigged to this yet, so I'll say it a bit louder:

££££££ TWENTY-TWO AND THREE-QUARTER MILLION

He's made out like a bandit... yet he's STILL calling the shots. And getting a free pass from many of the fans who still think he 'saved' us. Time for a massive demonstration next Sunday, please.

Oh, and Kenwright still has almost the same number of shares to sell for another wedge. He stands to clear £45M or thereabouts when all's said and done.

In it for his own gratification? I think there's a bit more to it that that!!!
Gary Poole
315 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:17:44
Sorry, I haven't followed the thread but I just have one thought that I need to exclaim -

MARTINEZ OUT!!!!!!!

David Griffiths
316 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:21:46
It needs to be a demonstration the like of which Goodison has never seen before – bigger than the Coventry game in 1998 – with EVERYONE on the pitch and giving full vent to their feelings about both manager (if he is still there) and chairman. Nothing less. Sad that it's come to this but if it doesn't happen then nothing will change.
Mick Davies
317 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:24:39
Anthony Jones @ 283, "McFadden was shite" . . on what scientific evidence do you base this astute and profound observation? I assume you never actually took an interest in his play: his crucial goals at Kharkiv, Blackburn, Boro and the majestic late "SkySports goal of the season" v Charlton stick in my mind; stunning strikes against Villa and Fulham and even a double save off our goal line with headers from strong shots looking certain goals.

His interplay with Arteta, Osman and Cahill c. 06-07 was breathtaking and although he never fulfilled his potential due to injuries, being played out of position and sometimes lacking concentration, I don't know how you can use the word shite after watching the so called 'Golden Boys' these last 2 years . . please don't denigrate ex-players who at least won us games and made too many sub' app's due to competition (Beattie, Johnson etc); competition that the likes of Barkley, Lukaku and McCarthy don't have
Mick Davies
318 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:34:48
£22.75M!!! and more to come, at his age and with his 'alleged' illness? If he was such an Evertonian, he'd put some of that back to help the club, I'm wondering how much he's made over the years in his shady dealings with that gutter rat Philip 'BHS robbing' Green.

I trust Kenwright with Everton as much as I'd trust Martinez to answer a question with a straight answer

Dave Clark
319 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:37:40
I've just listened to a recording of the Radio Mersetside phone in. It annoys me and I really don't understand why people say "protesting and fly pasts are not the Everton way". So let me ask "what actually is the Everton way?!"

Maybe the Everton way is to say nothing while we have the worst stadium in the Premier League. Maybe it's to say nothing when we haven't won anything for 21 years. Maybe it's to accept having a Manager who got his former side relegated. Maybe it's to accept mid table.

Please tell me, what is the Everton way?! Because I for one don't want it!!
I want people to protest in any way they can, fly pasts and all! Please protest unless you like the Everton way that is?!

I know the RS protest and it does them no harm.
Ron Marr
320 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:46:03
I'd like to thank the person(s) who paid Andrea Bocelli to sing "Time to say goodbye" for BK and RM before the game.
Jack Mason
321 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:49:31
'££££££ TWENTY-TWO AND THREE-QUARTER MILLION"

That needs to be said again and again. This is a man who tells everybody about his love for the club but is profiting out of it. Call me old fashioned but that's not love. That's business. Hang Martinez for sure for being an incompetent fool but the anger should be directed towards the man who is responsible for all this.

John Daley
322 Posted 08/05/2016 at 01:58:42
"I think Moshiri's short list is; Pellegrini, Koeman and Sanchez Flores."

"All will be revealed after the Norwich game. Be patient, the end is nigh."

What is that all about?

I think his three favourite sexual positions are doggy style, missionary and the pogo stick pastry spread.

He hasn't told me, I haven't spoken to anyone Far's Had and it's not like I've actually witnessed the swordsman at work first hand.

Nevertheless, I just wanted to put it out there and frame my own guesswork in a manner that might give the misleading impression that I actually have some inkling of what's going on, or could be in possession of some insider info/pillow talk (possibly gleaned from going deep 'undercover' at grotty, Salo style, sex parties at geriatric billionaire's gaffs) without expressly saying as much.

Got no idea why really. Bit fucking weird I'll admit.

Nick Page
323 Posted 08/05/2016 at 02:12:04
I sincerely hope all you keyboard warriors are directing your angst to Bill.kenwright@Evertonfc.com

His secretary probably bins them though.

That's our Bill. Blue to the fucking core.

Bob Heyward
324 Posted 08/05/2016 at 02:14:11
John #308 Well said.

The bizarre sight of the demo' at the last home game, with only 100-fans venting, along with the failure of the tennis ball protest, shows that the overwhelming majority trust that the right decision will be made at the appropriate time to can El Clown, I.e. after the last game.

If he's here after that point, then fan action may become a factor – but it won't because he'll be canned very soon after Norwich.

One question I should ask though is where all these vehement anti-Martinez out types where last January, when it became obvious he was a busted flush? Seems to me that we fiddled while Rome burnt, only to get all hysterical when it was too late.

Dan Davies
325 Posted 08/05/2016 at 02:34:24
Mr Kenrick has hit the nail on the head. Finally. Let's drive this home once and for all. We need a massive change at EFC. It starts today!
Jack Mason
326 Posted 08/05/2016 at 02:35:32
Nick @ 323.

You've answered your own question there mate. Better people than myself have been looking for answers for years now. Sending it to an anonymous email address won't help.

Personally, I think Martinez is gone already and if it takes £45M to get rid of Kenwright I'd be happy with that.

Soren Moyer
328 Posted 08/05/2016 at 03:24:12
Kenwright & Martinez OUT! GET THE HELL OUT!!!!!
Brian Dagnall
329 Posted 08/05/2016 at 03:24:36
Just before he goes, I wish someone would explain to Mr Martinez what "ïncredible" means. It means beyond belief.

He describes yesterday's performance as incredibly disappointing, particularly after last week's performance full of character. He really does talk nonsense. We were better against Leicester than we were against Bournemouth despite the scores The football we have been playing every week for some months now has been terrible, but it can't be beyond belief if it happens every week, now can it?

Jack Mason
330 Posted 08/05/2016 at 03:35:33
Brian @ 329.

Have you ever read 1984. It's doublespeak.

Phil Walling
331 Posted 08/05/2016 at 04:35:33
Thank you Michael for REALLY spelling it out.Kenwright is in it for the money and has found his 'angel' in Moshiri.

'Aston Villa on Merseyside' his most profitable production. EVER.

Derek Thomas
332 Posted 08/05/2016 at 04:58:45
The unspeakable in pursuit of the uncatchable.
Jack Mason
333 Posted 08/05/2016 at 05:10:06
"I love talking about nothing, it's the only thing I know anything about"

Roberto Martinez, sorry no, Oscar Wilde.

Peter Barry
334 Posted 08/05/2016 at 05:25:07
Everton stack up the 'possession' statistics by meaningless passing backwards and forwards and sideways in their own half with no penetration or threat . As Leicester have proved this season 'possession' , Martinez's GOD, is a meaningless statistic if you can't attack or defend.
Peter Barry
335 Posted 08/05/2016 at 05:52:57
I just emailed this for a second time to BILLY LIAR,

I will continue sending you this email until you wake out of your STUPOR and do something about this BUFFOON Martinez who is DESTROYING Everton.

Dear Mr Kenwright or should I call you Boys Pen Billy,

Strangely I don't recall seeing you in the Boys Pen back in the day when supposedly you and I were both there but then we both probably looked at lot different in those days. But as you can see I like you am a lifelong Evertonian I am now 70 years old having been taken to my first games as a seven year old back in the mid '50's by my Father himself a lifelong Evertonian and my Grandfather ditto.

I have stood on the Gwladys Street end and sat in the stands for hundreds of matches and also on my worldwide travels followed Everton on hard to hear worldservice broadcasts in the Kalahari desert and in the Persian Gulf and all over Asia and now watch when I can here in Bali where I live on the worldwide TV networks that broadcast the Prem live.In all those years I have derived much pleasure at our League, Cup and European triumphs and also of course suffered innumerable disappointments, as is the nature of football, but I have previously had no complaints about it at all knowing that that is the nature of the beast.

But that brings us to YOUR Chairmanship and YOUR choices of Mangers, Moyes and Martinez, both of whom were just not good enough. Moyes was a steady hand but lacked the ambition and drive to take Everton to the next level and the deceitful underhanded backstabbing way he left still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Now we come to Martinez, who in their right mind would take a Manager that has just seen his team relegated and hand him control of the team he purports to love, its just not logical, and so it has proved to be Martinez has performed exactly as he has done in all his time in the Prem, and his record was there for all to see.

So do the decent thing Mr Kenwright put him and us long suffering Evertonians out of our misery and get rid of him NOW. Before he leads us in to the Championship.

Amit Vithlani
336 Posted 08/05/2016 at 07:17:26
Brent - I was on my way to the gunfight with a feather duster ofcourse. Like the present manager's tactics, I thought giving the opposition a light tickle whilst taking a few deep wounds could be a winning strategy...
Paul Goodchild
337 Posted 08/05/2016 at 07:19:40
Why is he still here? I don't understand. His treatment of Mirallas this season is a good enough reason to sack him on its own.
Jack Mason
338 Posted 08/05/2016 at 07:48:14
@ Peter 335.

Good on ya mate, heartfelt and sincere. Hope he reads it.

Colin Glassar
340 Posted 08/05/2016 at 07:49:53
John Daley, the truth is out there but rememember, they can't hear you scream in space. I have been to the top of the mountain and I have seen the promised land. Believe me, the times they are a changin'.
Phil Walling
341 Posted 08/05/2016 at 08:13:29
If, as the bookies have it, O'Neill comes in, it won't be for the better, Colin, I promise you !
Ian Hollingworth
342 Posted 08/05/2016 at 08:19:25
Danny Kelly. TalkSport: "Like the junior doctors, Everton footballers withdraw their labour."

So if the players truly are being shite to get him out the maybe us fans need to do our bit at the Norwich game?

Roger Helm
343 Posted 08/05/2016 at 08:19:57
So many keyboard warriors but so few willing to demonstrate at the ground. Do you think BK reads any of this stuff?

He sees 38,000 people turning up at home matches, seemingly 25,000 (if you believe EFC statistics; I don't) renewing season tickets and a small demonstration by about 100 fans.

He feels no pressure and probably sees no reason to change.

Jack Mason
344 Posted 08/05/2016 at 08:43:12
Stir it up Roger @ 343.

Keyboard warriors, I presume you're talking about supporters who haven't said a word in years or the supporters who stayed behind after Bournemouth.

My view is, if someone has a view they have every right to express it. Behind a keyboard or not. And if they do they shouldn't be shut down for it.

As far as staying behind after the match, I think that was very dignified and if more people knew about it, the numbers would have been larger.

Of course, the opposite view is, we can all sit here and cast judgement and call ourselves customers. With no say in the future direction of the club. My view is, I think you'll be surprised about just how much influence we have.

Mark Murphy
345 Posted 08/05/2016 at 08:55:38
Colin Glassar, I've just spent all morning looking without joy for the words "Martinez gone", but your snippets are giving me hope...

I do believe you know something so can I just ask – will you be happy if what you have heard does happen?< Is it good news or meh?

Fingers crossed we get someone who at least gets the Derby!

David Hayes
346 Posted 08/05/2016 at 09:01:02
Please everyone, post your comments on the OS. aswell they cant censore or ignore all of them. Lets show that we will not stand for this in what ever way we can.
Lee Whitehead
347 Posted 08/05/2016 at 09:11:30
Tell you what beggars belief:

6% of people who voted on this site want RM to stay on as manager.

What fuckin' planet are you on? He is killing our once great club.

GET RID NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Tony Abrahams
348 Posted 08/05/2016 at 09:24:26
Michael K, how dare you criticise the man who saved us?

Brilliant Michael, and still more people will like him than don't. He's put us in a better place though, they say, but didn't Everton used to exist to win trophies?

The saddest part of Kenwright's interview, when he said "What a manager", was when he turned to Moshiri, and said "Wembley!?" Yes, Bill, but only because the semis are played there now though, mate!

I drove up Winslow St, the other day, and that picture of Kenwright on the timeline "that froze", made me feel sick. Sad but true, this man never saved Everton, he's played loads of people like fucking idiots, and completely lowered expectations in the process.

Yesterday's Champions, a club with very little history when it comes to being successful, have been into administration and won three cups since Everton last won a thing.

Be careful what you wish for? For a club that used to fucking win things, and a set of fans that used to demand a team that played with effort.

Michael, I promise now on ToffeeWeb, that I will give next year's season ticket money to any successful campaign, that finally rids us of a phoney called Kenwright.

Eddie Dunn
349 Posted 08/05/2016 at 09:40:31
The manager picked Oviedo at right back, despite his previous calamities in that position.
Leicester targeted him straight away, and scored.
A mistake by the manager.
We started against a team who play on the break, with two up front, leaving the midfield short of numbers.
Another mistake.
Post match Martinez criticised his players, with the exception of Pennington. A clear sign that he has lost the dressing room.
There is surely no way he could be left in charge of this team.
A halfhearted effort from our side after the clarion call from Jags the other day.
I stopped watching on the hour, and just put it on the radio - it was too painful to witness.
The lethargy, of some and the incompetence of others was too annoying.
The players may well be hoping for the boss to be sacked, but they are also culpable for the dreadful displays of late, and should share their part of the blame.
Unfortunately Niasse seems short on ability- he put in two woeful crosses into no-man's land, when in the box.
Lukaku was not much better.
Barkley looks lost.
The club needs to make an announcement before the Norwich game or the atmosphere could go toxic at Goodison.
If I hear another clown mentioning "The Everton way",I will have a stroke.
Jack Mason
351 Posted 08/05/2016 at 10:29:19
Eddie @ 439.

It's a euphemism. It's the Kenwright way.

David Connor
352 Posted 08/05/2016 at 10:35:33
"We never perform like this away from home" claims Bobby Brown shoes... The trip to Anfield didn't exist then? What a total tosser. He should have gone after that alone.

What a bunch of gutless twats we have running our club. Act now or face life in the Championship because without doubt that's where we will end up with this fella. His record proves it. He is utter garbage.

Joe Clitherow
353 Posted 08/05/2016 at 10:45:02
Colin 340

Took you fucking long enough to get up whatever mountain that was given the arguments you and I had over 18 months ago when you were defending the prat.

I guess there's no zealot quite like a born again zealot.

I never wanted him as he is perfectly true to form now with his "philosophy" as he has always been. He had me wavering a bit through his first season, I wavered back after the shambolic first 4-0 hammering ( yes, the FIRST one, like one is not enough for a managerial career). I wanted him out proper when I saw his attitude towards capitulation in the 3-0 Carling Cup against Swansea whenever that was.

The clear reason was that it was absolutely apparent that here was a man who picked and choosed the matches for his own gratification rather than trying to win every game. That's dishonest and disrespectful management, swindling the fans and his true colours have become ever more apparent since.

Gavin Johnson
354 Posted 08/05/2016 at 11:04:08
Frank De Boar's agent as confirmed that De Boar would be interested in the Everton managers, if it comes available. He'll do for me.
Gary Ashworth
355 Posted 08/05/2016 at 11:21:05
The fact is we were playing the Premier League Champions on their home turf, in front of an amazing set of fans, who didn't stop cheering for 90 minutes and beyond. The day was Leicester City's... I wasn't expecting a win, but I was hoping for a decent performance. We clearly miss Barry, Jagielka, Funes Mori and Coleman when they aren't playing. In saying that, the squad hasn't been the same ever since we played Arsenal.
Daniel A Johnson
356 Posted 08/05/2016 at 11:23:38
lets face it regarding Martinez were probably the only club in the premiership who would have a protest against the protest.

Some fans seem to think speaking up is disrespectful.

Its YOUR CLUB you put your money in so you have a right to have a fucking say.

KENWRIGHT OUT MARTINEZ OUT

Dave Jones
357 Posted 07/05/2016 at 11:37:48
Seven days & counting…….
That’s all we have to make sure Martinez is gone and we can RE-BUILD… we definitely need to do this now. The Sunderland game will be another one, that will be all about the other side, the media will be focused on their survival. So we only have the Norwich game to protest collectively. We are all already aware of Chairman Bill and his cronies tactics, of suppressing discontent by confiscating banners, kettling and then drowning the voice of our supporters.

As some of you know, I am one of those running the Adiós campaign to SACK Martinez NOW! We are on Facebook ,Twitter and @ www.adios.org.uk. We are not only running a petition (which also gives us email access to those who sign) but free downloads to your phone with one simple message… adiós.
We are not fussy, download your own image.

Billy can’t confiscate everyone’s phone and what an image thousands of fans holding their phones …United with one clear message… even if you’re not sure, load it anyway and be prepared. The more of us who show our disapproval, the more Chairman Bill will have to act, make no mistake he is running to the protection of the summer.

This is not a negative, destructive whim of a few disgruntled customers but a realistic, progressive 5 point plan by supporters of our Great club that despair at how it has lost its mojo:

1. This starts with removing Martinez immediately.
2. Install an interim manager for 12 months to stabalise and install discipline, professionalism and fitness in our team.
3. Secure all of our current players of benefit to the club and clear out the rest.
4. Confirm Stadium plans by the end of 2016.
5. Identify and sign a manager of pedigree, someone who is a winner and who will bring back the electric atmosphere to Goodison. This will be our most significant signing yet and we will have to offer a tempting package. Whatever it takes, to stop this slide and restore our club to a position to WIN trophies. We need a winner with a winning mentality.


It’s only a plan but at least we have a plan. The board by their lack of action will give Martinez one last chance and we all know deep down that means, a survival campaign… PROTEST!
7 DAYS & COUNTING…….

Andy Crooks
358 Posted 08/05/2016 at 11:42:49
Mike , # 293, I would take MON ahead of Martinez but I believe it is time for someone different but safe. The appointment of Martinez, a man whose arrogance and stubborness relegated Wigan, was gross incompetence. I believe we should pay whatever it takes to get Koeman.

We have the promise of investment, the core of a good squad and the most patient supporters in the world. Also, I have no time for Kenwright but I imagine he is a good chairman to manage for.

Martinez has wasted years here. They will soon be known as the dark days of Martinez. With the right appointment good times are ahead.

Oliver Molloy
359 Posted 08/05/2016 at 11:54:24
Dave jones,
Martinez will be sacked so calm down, it is inevitable.
Johnny Rainford
360 Posted 08/05/2016 at 12:13:44
Andy #358

why stop at Martinez mate... surely nothing to show for a 16 year tenure should become known as "barren years Billy" lol.

Jesus and to think they use to talk about the 70's as being our barren years.

Kenwrights period has become a nightmare which until recently I thought we would never wake from. Please Moshiri, do something soon.

Terence Tyler
361 Posted 08/05/2016 at 12:14:06
Now having time to think about when Martinez will be sacked. I feel to be fair to the other teams who are involved in the relegation battle.The parting of the ways will happen some time after the sunderland game, and before the toxic situation against norwich on sunday.
Dave Jones
362 Posted 08/05/2016 at 12:14:56
Oliver 359. We are calm. Calm but fed up with all this chatter without any foundation. What possible evidence do you have to support that Martinez will be sacked? At best Chairman Bill is working on bringing in a defensive coach... knowing him its Carragher on a job share!
Garry Corgan
363 Posted 08/05/2016 at 12:20:18
Dave, I can't join your adios campaign as I don't believe installing an interim
Manager for twelve months is the way forward. If anything, the uncertainty and lack of authority would give many of our better players even more of a reason to leave.
Paul Andrews
366 Posted 08/05/2016 at 12:27:19
Ajax coach Frank De Boer would 'love' to manage Everton

For once in your lives, Everton, act swiftly.

Ernie Baywood
367 Posted 08/05/2016 at 12:32:05
Yes, while I'll applaud any effort to hold the board to account, I'm not sure an interim manager achieves anything.

There are players who need to be replaced, moved on, signed and retained. Why have someone do that who is only here for the short term?

Identifying a manager is always going to be a gamble. I just think you have to make the call on the best info and advice available. 12 Months doesn't make that much easier.

Colin Malone
368 Posted 08/05/2016 at 12:37:02
One of the many things you can say about Martin O'Neill, is a fucking big load of PASSION guaranteed.

Why did he leave Villa?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2010/aug/09/martin-oneill-aston-villa.

The owner Lerner never had the same aspiration as O'Neill.

Dave Jones
369 Posted 08/05/2016 at 12:55:38
Disagree look at Chelsea. Brought in a known quantity... have a look at their position when he came in and what position they will end up in next week. One time relegation candidates.

We need to allow Farhad Moshiri to settle in over the next six months, he has a lot to digest and even more issues to solve. I'm sure a change of manager, was not on the top of his list at the time of agreement but things have spiraled out of control.

We are not an attractive proposition to top managers around Europe and accept it or not, we are about to go through a process of change off the field. The fact that we have a weak, directionless playing staff, has now also got to be dealt with in the short term. 12 months is more than long enough, ask Leicester City FC. We are the polar opposite of them of course. No plan B? We have no plan, period.

Paul Kossoff
370 Posted 08/05/2016 at 13:45:30
I honestly think every one of this squad needs a good kick up the arse and told to shape up or ship out, and I include all the favs, Baines, Jags, Coleman, Barkley.

Everyone of them regardless of who the manager is should be ashamed of the way they have performed or not for the last two seasons. I really feel for the fans who pay the hard-earned money to see this lot.

When a so called athlete can choose whether or not to play to standards with no punishment given to them, as in fines, then something should change in a clubs set up.

Mollycoddled, arrogant, self-centred, over-paid, spoilt, over-rated, any negative name you can come up with can be given to this sorry lot.

At least Martinez has an excuse, he actually believes in himself, deluded or not; the players have no such excuse.

Dave Abrahams
371 Posted 08/05/2016 at 13:46:01
Michael ( 314) yes Michael a massive protest is most definitely needed and I am 100 per cent behind it in whatever form.

But let's think about it, if the protest is during and after the Norwich game, Billy Liar will not cancel the "lap of honour" he will use it to see Evertonians arguing and fighting with one another over the protest, he thinks only what is best for himself and I doubt very much he will be at the game, he only wants the glory and the limelight, there will be none of that for him next Saturday.

I want a long and loud protest, it might seem hysterical but the future of Everton FC is at stake if the situation doesn't change from NOW. So let there be a protest but let it, if we can, be organised so we all know how, and when it will happen and in what form,

I am getting on a bit and I've still got a voice.

Dave Jones
372 Posted 08/05/2016 at 14:00:30
Gerry 363 The adiós campaign is to rid us of Martinez now.
Our 5 point plan is just that a plan, which is adaptable to the majority view. Yours is welcome but please join us in sending a simple message to Martinez, which can't be lost in translation ...Adiós
Phil Jeffries
373 Posted 08/05/2016 at 14:56:33
Just heard that Koeman left out their best striker Pelle from their squad last week because of a poor attitude in training.

The more I hear, the more I like about Koeman. Although if that was the case, Lukaku would have been dropped for the last two months with half the squad!

Soren Moyer
374 Posted 08/05/2016 at 15:06:08
We need to stage a massive demo next week regardless. NSNO.
Bob Heyward
376 Posted 08/05/2016 at 15:16:23
@Dave Jones - I'm sorry Dave. I appreciate and agree with your goals (except the 12-month interim manager that I feel is coUNter-productive) but I just can't agree that the Adios Campaign is the way to deliver it. It just sounds like something Newcastle fans do.

If El Clown remains after Norwich, I may support action but only if it is likely that El Clown is getting another season. That said, I just cannot believe he will get another season... nobody in their right mind would allow that.

Anthony Jones
377 Posted 08/05/2016 at 15:59:22
Mick: Scientific evidence doesn't really apply to a subjective summation of the effectiveness of a pro footballer.

But, if it makes you feel better: I performed a multivariate analysis of results with and without Mcfadden in the side that featured multiple key performance indicators.

The conclusion: He was shite.

Brent Stephens
378 Posted 08/05/2016 at 17:33:16
Dave #371 " if the protest is during and after the Norwich game, Billy Liar will not cancel the "lap of honour" he will use it to see Evertonians arguing and fighting with one another over the protest"

I agree, Dave. I'd like to see:
1. Nobody entering GP until 3.15 on the day (no hankies, tennis balls, placards etc needed; all shown on TV). The only organisation needed would be sufficient friendly persuaders just outside the turnstiles. Our lads would feel like they are playing away so should be 3 up by 3.15.
2. After entry at 3.15 a continuous chant of "Roberto Martinez get out of our club", while still applauding any good football from our lads (35th and 76th minutes).
3. All staying to applaud the players at the end.

Tony Williams
379 Posted 08/05/2016 at 18:05:28
I have always been a supporter of Blue Bill, but I wonder, if he was employing someone who was ruining his company whether he would be so understanding and patient? I think not.
Oliver Molloy
380 Posted 08/05/2016 at 19:21:47
Dave @ 362,

I have no evidence but I will bet you a tenner he will not be manager of EFC come the start of the new season. It is only a matter of time.

The best way to protest in my opinion is NOT turning up for the last game. Are you on for the bet?

Dave Jones
381 Posted 08/05/2016 at 22:56:57
OK Oliver, here's the bet I will donate fifty (number of years I have supported this Great club) pounds to an Everton charity of your choice, if he's gone by the beginning of next season. No smart comments like Chairman Billy's Happy Clappy Society, or Support for Victims of Bobby's Bullshit or even BOOO: Booze, Olli's Only Option to recover after every game!!

If he is still here, since you are so confident, you have to appear on Toffee TV in your kecks in August…

We'll try anything to get rid of Martinez. How about it Oliver?

Les Netherwood
382 Posted 08/05/2016 at 23:12:44
How can anyone want Martin O'Neill as manager...look where Aston Villa and Sunderland are now years after he was them. Get Koeman if we can.....he is doing really well at Southampton.

After yesterdays dreadful display how can Martinez keep his job? The players need to be free of his influence also....he is ruining them with his stupid tactics and slow slow build up.

We need to to free of Martinez and Billy the Blue...the real menace!!

Paul Birmingham
383 Posted 08/05/2016 at 23:16:02
Let's keep tight and be respectable. No argy bargy, and no assumptions, but we are past the junction of no return in terms of 1st team leadership. Next week or else another reason to decide?

What's Our Name?

Dave Jones
384 Posted 08/05/2016 at 23:16:20
Bob @ 376. Funny how you mention Newcastle, too little too late. Enough said.

Next season's EPL will be a totally different competition to this. All the top five or six established clubs will have re organized. Worse still, teams that we considered smaller or perennial bottom half of the table, have overtaken us over the last two years, so we have to re-build. Make no mistake this will take time and is a gradual process and there are no proven managers at this level available.

If one suddenly becomes available over the next few weeks that’s different… But are we really an interesting prospect for that calibre of manager?

David Edwards
385 Posted 08/05/2016 at 23:53:55
Decided not to post till now - felt, like many others, that we were just repeating ourselves - so what could I add to the many articulate posts already made since the Leicester game.

However, starting to think we might be seeing the end game at last. Martinez's press conference suggested a dead-man walking, with no attempt to support his players after such a bland display. Then, the response of the away fans, along with Greg O'Keeffe's article in the Liverpool Echo - makes me think even Bill and the board can't ignore this now!

If they had any common sense, they would announce Roberto's departure well before the Norwich match - to save everyone the distress of seeing the club torn apart and an embarrassing 'lap of honour' on the day.

However, if the board haven't got the message, then we really have to be 100% solid with our chanting, booing and maybe even a mass turn-up late or leave on 78 minutes. Nothing complicated like hankies or tennis balls - just good old-fashioned protesting. For the first time I believe the clown is going before next season.....but let's face it, this is Everton - so nothing is sure! As we say, it's the hope that kills you!

Stuart Gray
386 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:06:34
I have watched the Blues for 50 years now. I can't remember ever feeling this low.

Roberto is a nice guy, but clearly not he man for the job. It's sad that the board may now let him be thrown to the wolves with the lap of 'honour'!

Like most here, not sure what will happen, but not sure letting this carry on is right for any of us, Roberto included.

Oliver Molloy
387 Posted 08/05/2016 at 00:08:08
Dave,
Are you sure ?, if you are fifty it is - and if I'm wrong I will donate the money to the Alzheimer's society.
Forget about me on Toffee Tv in my kecks as you put it - that isn't going to happen.
Agreed ?

Colin Glassar
388 Posted 09/05/2016 at 00:13:25
David, there are rumours that Moshiri wants him out before the Sunderland game. He wanted to leave him until after the Norwich match but after the recent humiliating defeats sounds like he's had enough.
David Edwards
389 Posted 09/05/2016 at 00:29:26
Hope the rumours are right, Colin - fingers crossed!
Paul Birmingham
390 Posted 09/05/2016 at 00:30:17
FFS so what? Same old... but, after next week's farce, let's see what happens. Hope is in the Air?
Ray Smith
391 Posted 09/05/2016 at 22:08:05
Dave 384#

In the current climate I am prepared to go through a rebuild programme.

How could it be worse than what we currently have.

Those that want to stay under a new manager (whoever) stay, those who don't, go.

A new dawn may take a couple of years, but there will be hope and expectation, rather than looking over our shoulders avoiding the relegation trap door


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