I'd like to see Niasse in the starting line-up for the next few EPL games, even if it is just for the energy he can provide. if he's a diamond, he is a very raw one but we have to give him credit for his effort and attitude.

Rooney was a worry! Too often too slow to the ball, leading to rapid counter attack positions for Watford. Something quite noticeable was also that regularly our players were getting in each others' way and on quite a few occasions we would see 2 or 3 Everton players going to the one Watford player as they were building attacks, leaving too many unmarked opponents. In fact , this seems to be a common fault this season - we're leaving far too much room for opposition players to either be in or move in to.

Regardless, Phew! A win at last! Well done Unsy and the team.

It seems pretty clear at the moment we try to shut out and concede possession for an hour (don't trust our centre backs? Or are our subs too lightweight/inexperienced to make an impact in the first half?) then bring some pace on as they tire. Niasse had no chance of getting into the game until DCL came on with two on him, then they both scored, I think we could think of making those changes earlier. Rooney was too often the cause of (threatening) breakdowns rather than a creator/linkman across the front/striker, he was trying to do everything.

Nonetheless - we CAN score good goals without a main striker, Niasse HAS got ability that catches defenders out though not as a target man for the long ball (all the opposition has to do is stop him turning). I would be happy with Unsy till January, though I have to say that was not the case after 60min.

Yesterday, he was asctually playing on the left of a front three. But it looked like a 451, because he, and Sigurdsson to be fair, were both racing back. He was charging up and down that left flank all of the first half. I would like to see the yards covered stats, because he really put a shift in, maximum effort for sure.

His passing is superb, his touches too. But what seems to happen, to me, is that he tires. Some players seem to tire gradually, and slowly they start to become less effective. Rooney just seems to blow up, and suddenly he cannot pass, his touch is gone and then he seems to play on adrenalin and starts diving into tackles he does not need to make, and should not be making.

I thought Rooney did ok the first half. Second half he seemed to tire quickly, and then he seemed like he was trying too hard.

What we need to do with him, is somehow to persuade him to play upfront and only upfront. To play his position only. Sure cover the flank, but the left forward should not be diving into tackles on the left of his own box.

Have I missed some news about Ken Buckley? Haven't seen a report from him for a while.

Agree with Steve on Wayne. He really was running up and down the pitch at the beginning. Then, just like that, he looked shot.

The win was the best part. But have to add, that Goodison roar (and mine) got so loud there, my wife sat down to watch the last half-hour. And laughed at the end at her white-haired old man acting like a little kid. Ah well.

I wonder what effect Mirallas and Schneids getting the boot had on the squad?

Let hold off who is avail right now ? I don't feel any younger this morning !!

Defensively we were again a complete shambles. Pickford creates problems by rushing prematurely off his line, clearing the ball erratically and palming the ball to the feet of opposing forwards. Keane is too ponderous and weak to be a top class central defender. That he has now been drafted into the England squad says everything about the paucity of decent centre backs currently available.

In central midfield we have improved in recent games but still lack the ability to control a game for sustained periods, looking wide open when we lose possession. It was disappointing that yet another manager saw fit to select both Rooney and Sigurdsson in the same starting eleven. Neither can get around the pitch to any effect and the inclusion of both deprives the team of any pace or width to support the attack. Taking them off allowed us ultimately to win the match but we will rarely be as fortunate as we were yesterday.

The priority in the coming games must be to sort out the team as a defensive unit with the aim of recording a couple of clean sheets away from home. I remain unsure if Unsworth has sufficient experience and pragmatism to do that with this mixed bag of a squad consisting of old players past their best, expensive misfits and young players not yet ready to play every week.

Michael Keane for example continues to show some abysmal positioning and tendency to watch the ball and not his man. For example go the 20 min highlights on the OS and go to around 13:14 and you will see a moment when Gray spins Jags to get in behind and meanwhile Will Hughes saunters into the box. Keane is so busy watching the ball 30 meters away that he is no within 6 ft of Hughes who would have had the easiest header, totally unmarked had Gray's cross not been a foot too high. I hope someone shows the clip on repeat to Michael and says 'stop worrying about the ball 30m away (!!) and concentrate on the players in your vicinity running into scoring positions as all semi- decent centre backs should do'. He's got a long way to go before he convinces me that hes a £30m defender.

This will give the decision makers time to see if 'Our Dave' has got what it takes as well as discovering which of the Dyche/Howe/Silva 'beauty parade' can last the course.

The best we can hope for 2017/18 is survival.

But for today its a massive relief !

Add to that the fact that the players were in a state of collapsed morale after Koeman's reign of terror, at an all time low after the Arsenal defeat, and I honestly wonder just what people expected from Unsworth. I doubt ANY manager could have come in and achieved an immediate run of positive results. Everyone seemed happy to see small signs of revival at first under Unsworth but frustration at two cup defeats and one in the league quickly turned to dissatisfaction.

We shouldn't expect miracles.

There are lots of reasons why this horrific start to the season buried our collective heart but we need to thank David Unsworth for finding the program that will kickstart our heart.

I will never think it was a smart move to fire Koeman but I do have to admit that while the results have not been great under Unsy we have seen for the first time this season glimmers of spirit and ease on the ball not quite joy but less fear from the players.

We are fragile and brittle at the back I think the sudden aging of Bain's. Williams and Jags has been one of the fundamental problems that has rippled through a team that was given a mountain of a fixture list to start the new season with. We just never got unpacked.

I have not given up hope on any of the new signings I hope Klaasan and Sandro can be eased into the team and can become the players that we expected. Give Unsy till the end of the season maybe we only get into the top 10 but incorporate the players we have get them playing in a style that we can build on. I hope we will not even contemplate bringing an old hack like Allardyce or a young hack like Dyche. Lets continue to kick start our hearts.

But when the chips are down, our inferior manager manages to get it right, and our hopeless centre forward batters his way through fouls and demoralisation. Meanwhile, Mourinho is losing it and the ManU fans are starting to see the side of Lukaku that many of us loathed - great at scoring the third and fourth goals in a 5-0 win, crap at fighting for success.

Everton FC is currently a shambles with a terrible mix of over-the-hill, too-young, overpaid imported players without a clue as to how to play as a team. However, as Joe Royle showed (and maybe the great 80s team also did) you don't need to have the world's most talented collection of prima donnas (interestingly, it literally doesn't make sense to have more than one prima donna, but ManU - and maybe Liverpool - have quite a collection), to win. You need "the stomach for the fight"; that's what Leicester had.

I think Unsworth could be very important for this club in regaining its soul and its connection to the fans. Remember that in 1967 Celtic won the European Cup with every player born within 30 miles of Glasgow. I'm pretty sure that they weren't all the best players in the positions they played, indeed I suspect it's quite likely none of them were. So what could it have been that drove them to win?

I'd rather give him time than have some mediocre no-mark like Allardyce as manager.

A fantastic line, and says succinctly everything I tried to explain in a long post elsewhere.

Encapsulates the very reason we should have some balls and wait before making a dangerous leap for another manager so soon.

I was always a supporter of Unsworth as player because he gave one hundred percent every game. As a manager of a Premier league I am still uncertain. Does really know the players? I just don't understand why he doesn't play Vlasic. I don't think he has had one bad game since he came. I would hate him to lose confidence. It is tough for any young player to regularly play well. It must be even more so if you are from a foreign country trying to adapt to the culture.

I would really like Unsy to succeed but He seems to be unsure of his lineups. With the present Everton bunch of players it must be very challenging to decide who should play where. He really might not have enough time to show what he has in his magic box.

Instead we ended up going into our EL campaign without a recognised striker, so we were effectively hamstrung and hog tied before a ball was kicked. It's almost as if Koeman deliberately threw away our chances in Europe in order to make a point that we needed a centre forward, when we did in fact that one, but he happened to be on Koeman's black list, so the team was made to suffer. Just another example of Koeman's appalling arrogance and self before club.

Not that I think we should sign him but a John Terry type of player would fit the bill for now.

Sometimes mangers (whether on big $$$$ or not) need to analyse situations better than Koeman, in the case of Niasse. Koeman showed (to me at least) that he was not true value at Pds 6m pa. Mind you, I think this kind of money is obscene for anybody, who is not at risk of losing all in a business, and so there might be lots on here who disagree with me!?

Chris - 31. It's not so much that we beat them. It's the way we did it, plus of course the morale boosting tonic of the 3 points.

Those citing lack of experience as a reason not to give Unsworth a chance at least until the end of the year (and I have said it before on another thread) remember Zidane had no managerial experience other than with their reserves before taking charge of R Madrid. I realise obviously that we are not RM and Rhino is not ZZ, but you take my point I'm sure, and maybe see some parallels?

We watched the match, as we watch all the Everton games, on TV in Johannesburg and never have I felt so dejected then hopeful then relieved and finally elated as we won 3-2. It brought back memories of that Wimbledon get-out-of-jail game.

As an aside, I see the Ken Buckley articles "From my seat" have been missing. Is he, god forbid, not well??? Loved reading all his match reports.

Unsworth is steadily turning the ship around & changing the morale & attitude of the crew, whilst finding out which ones are up for the fight. There's a way to go yet, but we'll reap the rewards over the next couple of months if Unsworth is left in charge.

Whether he can then show enough until the end of the season to remain in post for the long term remains to be seen. However, in the absence of the big name touchline star that Moshiri would prefer, Unsworth is as good a bet in the interim as we're likely to get.