A POINT! We got our first home points of the league campaign... and it's only October! Wooohooo!!!

If this is what he can acheive on only £35k a week, imagine what heights he can take us too when fully recompensed & focused on £70k a week. At least our superb chairmen has got that covered & I?m sure he?ll be signing shortly.

I can?t fathom those who think our current form will see our super talented squad struggling against relegation. Today was a valuable point in our push for 4th spot against a massive team with big aspirations themselves. Remember what KK said they want to be where we are.

THANKS Ken & Moyesey for all your hard work in the summer to get us where we are now.

SHIT, I feel all light headed, what am I writing??? I think Doddy must have put something in my Chang!!!

Looking at the next two fixtures against Arsenal and Man United, it's looking very bleak. I am worried at the mo and it this continues, then it's going to be a relegation battle this season. I do think Baines, Jags, Pienaar, Osman, Fellaini had decent games. I was please he scored today.

I'm telling you for sure, if Carsley was here, we would not have these frailties in our defence or forward line. If Felliani is worth £15 mill, Carsley is worth £20 mill.

We've got to get this position sorted very soon and that means dropping Fellaini.

And also Carsley had years of experience behind him; Fellaini is only 20 and when you come into a struggling team at that age, it's going to be hard work, believe me ? especially when you make the most elementary schoolboy mistakes that we do.

It was the same for Rodwell. He is a young lad who was expected to come into a team that had been ravaged through the sales of too many key players, to make a big difference, and the fact is he looked completely out of his depth positionally against Portsmouth and Blackburn.

Our manager should not have let so many key players leave the club during the summer without having the slightest inkling of what he was going to go with for this season and as a result we look a disjointed, inept and immobile team.

I could pick out individuals that have been here for years such as Tony Hibbert being our worst right back in recent memory for the amount of times he is caught ball watching or the amount of times in his seven years in our team that he gets out-jumped on that back post by the opposing man, and that's not getting started on his ability to put the ball out of play every game from a pass/cross when under no pressure from anyone.

I could say our goalkeeper is having his worst spell since he joined the club and that is not helping matters at all. I could say that Lescott has struggled woefully from third season syndrome rather than second...

I could say we should never have sold Andy Johnson because only now are we realising and seeing that we can no longer thump the ball into no-man's-land near the corner flag for AJ to chase the usual lost cause. We don't have that kind of pace anymore.

I could say why, in Moyes's 6½ years have we never had any genuine wide players for either the right or the left midfield, the ones he has signed have never been up to the task, such as Simon Davies, but he has never corrected that problem, which is why we are left with the likes of Anichebe stuck out there ? or Cahill on Thursday.

Moyes has to take a fair whack of the blame for all that has gone wrong over the summer. I for one am really staring to lose faith and I wont even bother listening to the Arsenal game as I am well used to the fact now that Everton do not spring a surprise and win that calibre of match and it's exactly the type of game we havent won for a decade, no win at a top four club since 1999.

Come the Fulham game, it will be a six-pointer at Goodison and we may as well get used to the idea of it. Ignoring the fact that a relegation battle is on the horizon is just plain stupid. Maybe Ipswich fans called George Burley the messiah too. After all, he got Ipswich fifth just nine months after getting them promoted on an even smaller budget than David Moyes.
Just food for thought...

Tony, if Fellaini is a box-to-box player, who was our holding player today? Watch out, Gerrard and Lampard...

Fellaini is not defensive, he is box to box. He was in the box yesterday and scored a goal, pretty much the same as what Cahill does in a match, Cahill does little in the way of creation or doesnt offer pace but he arrives in the box late and scores goals. I'm not for one minute suggesting Fellaini will get the goals Cahill has got but to say he is shit and cant play the Carsley role is ignorant.

As far as I can see Castillo was brought in to play that holding midfield role and with his international experience you would think he would be given more games, I certainly found it weird when Moyes picked a full back ( Neville) to play there ahead of him on Thursday.

The point I am trying to make is, after 6½ years in charge, Moyes still hasn't got the look or shape of the team anywhere near right; we play half-decent football for the quarter of a match then, like yesterday, when we are dragged level, we have no other answers other than to revert to long-ball-type.

Give Newcastle their due, at least even at 2-2 they were knocking it around on the floor and two players I wouldn't mind from them is N?Zogbia and Duff.

As I said under Moyes we have never corrected our wide position area by bringing in men who can go past a full back, even Pienaar is not that type of player who is going to go past one or two players, Pienaar's main strengths are his deftness of touch, likewise Arteta, likewise Osman... there is nobody there to get behind a defence and I am sorry but David Moyes is the manager, Everton have currently the sixth most expensively assembled squad in the Premier League so he cannot keep blaming money, and he has failed to rectify too many glaring problems in my opinion.

I hope you can come back before that first game in November and tell me I was wrong but you have no chance it just wont happen, Arsenal, Utd and Bolton away, how many points are you expecting from those games?

I think that if the club had stated early in the summer that we wouldn't in real terms be spending any money, that after initial disappointment we would have pulled together. All I got from Moyes's interview yesterday is that he is just going through the motions and wonder if we would be better off parting company.

He is a good manager but something tells me he's lost that desire he once had in abundance. If that's the case let him move on and maybe club and manager will rekindle some passion. But then again, this is Everton and we can't believe anything until we see it with our own eyes. I may have him totally wrong and that's the problem at our club. Who the fuck would know? Bullshit, Bullshit, and more fucking Bullshit...

Now I was never Moyes?s biggest fan (especially his tactics) but to blame him for yestersday's shite is fucking madness. He sent out a good side (on paper) to do a job...... they did, and went 2 goals up. And then the SAME team fall apart....and you fucking blame Moyes????

I?m sick of this shite of protecting the players all the time, it?s become a joke. I?ve heard all the excuses now for the players who play for us..... Oh he?s carrying an injury... Oh he?s been played out of position..... Oh he?s not getting the service.... Oh he needs more games under his belt.... Oh Moyes hasn?t signed his contract..... Oh it was very fucking cold yesterday....

Come on, lads, get fucking real. We have a team of average players (because that?s all we can afford) and half of them couldn?t give a fuck, simple as. I suppose yesterday was Moyes's fault because he had Neville sitting in the stand.... FFS. Also, I just can?t believe this Carsley thing. Last year, both he and Neville were the most slagged of players week-in, week-out.... he has no pace.... he has no vision.... he can?t pass the ball 2 yards.... he?s too fucking old..... Now this year we?re shite cause he was sold??????

I give up! Look closer guys...it?s the players...THE PLAYERS!!!!!!!

All that money from the Rooney deal and look at the season we came up with in 2005-06. One goal scored by the end of October, out of three cup competitions at the first time of asking, and losing games 4-0 to Bolton, West Brom and Aston Villa. As soon as Moyes has money to spend, he still can't get it right.

A good manager at a club that doesn't have expectations in my opinion.

I?m fed up of listening to people defending him on here, "it?s not Moyes? fault, it?s the players fault", what sort of argument is that? Who buys the players, chooses the team, tells them the tactics and is paid a fortune to motivate them and get them prepared?

Also the amount of times Moyes throws players in who aren?t match fit is astonishing and does anyone know why he does it? I do, it?s because he hasn?t signed enough players as back up for when players are injured and it?s costing us goals e.g. Tony Hibbert against Standard Liege and his marking for both the goals against Newcastle!

Don?t get me wrong some of the players need a kick up the backside, especially Yakubu because unlike the rest of the team he doesn?t play with any passion or commitment whatsoever, he is one of the laziest players I have ever seen!

They need more than a kick in the arse mate. It?s the same all over football today... not just Everton.... the players get too much protection. The likes of Sky et all make excuses for these players all the time.... Andy Gray is typical... Player misses open goal... Gray says, "Oh I think there was a bobble on the pitch there" ? give me a fucking break will ya!