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Rewatched the game and it didn’t improve my mood. The assistant ref who kept flagging decent attacking moves as soon as they’d started needs investigating. Some were so close he couldn’t possibly be sure they were offside and that means you let them get played out, doesn’t it? I hope the club compiles a dossier of the marginal calls that didn’t go our way. Can’t say for certain that we were cheated but even if it was just incompetence it’s got to be aired if things are ever to improve.

I think, going by the number of posts on Evertonia, that ToffeeWeb is more thought of than Evertonia although Evertonia is more gentlemanly than the down to earth ToffeeWeb where a spade is called a spade. I do miss some of the posters on Evertonia though.

Patric, why don\'t you and the whoever you are editors dedicate a thread to our reactions and suggestions for this site?

Brilliant post Brent – 16. I hope you\'re doing well mate more than a year on.

Don, you seem to be talking about two potentially separate issues: Players shirking and players getting poor direction/ ineffectual treatment. I suppose clueless physios could lead to both happening at the same time. If that’s what Martinez found when he came then I’m not surprised he cleared them out. The question would be, why were the replacements no better? Did he rely on the same recruitment team? You obviously need a specialist to identify whether you have anyone of the necessary expertise in the applicants. My own experience of physios is that it can be a very mixed bag despite them all having the same qualifications, and like most things in life if you find one you can really rely on you do everything you can to keep hold of them. Finding the good ones in the first place is the trick. Some recruiters don’t help by treating their hires as untouchables because they don’t want to concede they did an inadequate job in the first place. That intransigence will probably be more persistent where performance is actually difficult to objectively measure. A brilliant physio who has a squad full of crocks may look worse than a poor one who just happens to have to look after a group at their physical peak.