We play crap football because our main playmaker is out and our other better players are out of form. AND the board don't give a fuck otherwise they would’ve given Moyes cash to spend when he needed it most (at the beginning of the summer) NOT 3 weeks in.

So to summarize....PISH! This whole summer has put me off the Premier League, the likes of City and Chelsea have FM’d (Football Manager) it so much that it's not football anymore — it's the teams with the most money wins! Think I'll taking up watching Walsal — at least they got some passion!

The recent good finishes have left us craving for further progress. But the step from 5th to 4th, is much bigger in my eyes than 18th to 5th. Without serious investment, it can only be considered a dream as opposed to a serious ambition.

My hopes for this season rested on Fellaini, Vaughan & Saha coming good. I thought with a full pre-season under their belts, they would show us the next level of their game. Unfortunately, it seems no different to last season. The other players are also performing in the same vein if you actually look at their performances, only Baines seems to have dropped a little.

So now I am pinning my hopes on Bily being able to give us another option, and the return of Mikky and Jags giving us the stability and confidence we are so desperately lacking. To get back to where we were, we need to start defending like mad men again.

Yes it was great to see Yakubu back — but he was only given 10 minutes!!!!

I agree we have a good squad — but can Moyes get the best out of them? I am beginning to find his tactics far too predictable and far too cautious. Yes playing a loan striker has worked well in the past — but if you stick to the same tactics all the time, then sooner or later other coaches/managers will find it easier to counter your tactics. Moyes must be more willing to change tactics and be more imaginative.

Now is not the time to start calling Moyes but it has to be said yet again that he is very conservetive when it comes to subs. When Walter Smith was playing 7 defenders, we were all disappointed.. now it's happening again! Keep the ball on the ground, pass and move, keep it simple, play people where they were bought to play.

Pre-season after pre-season we struggle for form. This year was no different. New players seem to take time to adjust to Moyes and his system, Felli, Yak etc. Once the new lads get used to his way of playing I've confidence Moyes can turn it around. Confidence in the team is lacking at the moment, Arteta's set back is a blow but hopefully Bily and Peanuts can bridge the gap until he's back.

Losing Neville may be a blow as he organises everyone else though it may force us to go 4-4-2 which might open things up a bit.

Let's not hit the panic button yet; In Moyes We Trust.

Dan says we need "serious investment" to progress. You say our "inability to fund" the team is going to cost us this season. I am happy to agree with both of you. (Realists of the world unite...).

Richard W, however, has I think been on some American happy pills.

Let's not kid ourselves, we edged the first half but it was pretty dour stuff. When Fulham got it down in the second half and played it to feet, we simply couldn’t compete. Ironically, we had easily the best central midfielder of either side available to us but forgot to play him.

When Fellaini came on, he needed time to warm up but, when he did, he controlled the ball beautifully and showed some deft touches. We actually had someone who was comfortable holding up the play but also with an eye to a killer pass. Sadly the player who would have benefited most from his presence was the guy who made way for Fellaini himself. I sometimes wonder what on earth Moyes is thinking of. We desperately needed Fellaini dictating things from the middle of the park but instead we were treated to Neville.

We had absolutely no width either and with Fulham having to play a rookie keeper one would have thought we would have been looking to bomb crosses in all day long. Yet we rarely mustered a threat from wide areas, truly shameful. It has to be said that on this occasion Moyes was completely and utterly clueless in his tactical approach to the game.

More worrying, his approach to games is becoming all too familiar as are the personnel he chooses to invest his faith in, regardless of the options available from the bench.

The Fulham game was deja vu of so many games aginst them. In the first 20 minutes I was amazed how many times Duff was allowed time by Baines to curl the ball in with his left foot and more than once Dempsey nearly got something out of it but did Moyes do anything to stop this? No way! And we all know what Duff did later.

This is similar to events that mar Hibbert's game — poor marking and slow reactions. Everton have real problems and they may stay this way for some time even after Arteta, Jags and Yaks plus the new guys get together in the same team. It may be Xmas before it starts to come together and that is a reality. They will have to claw every point they can to keep their heads above the relegation zone.

Everton will continue with the hoofball mentality simply because only one man can really score from distance and he (Rodwell) will now be pushed further back. Yaks will take a few games to regain his best form but may benefit from the strong running of Peanuts — hopefully sooner than later.

People keep saying that we are performing very badly this season, and I do agree. But in the last match, were we really worse than most of the back end of last season? I think this position of winning by one goal, or losing by one goal is quite tight. We are obviously on the wrong side of that margin. The difference being, a lack of confidence.

Success is built from the back, and we have gone from Jags and Lescott this time last year to Distin & Yobo. Regardless of their individual qualities, it takes time for any defence to gel and learn each other's game.

I understand this might be interpreted as positive spin, but it is genuinely my opinion. I don’t think we are quite relegation candidates yet.