Changing of the Guard?

I honestly believe if we had started as we had against Man U with the team all fired up (which they should be), we would have won yesterday. But you could see Newcastle gradually growing in confidence and realising they could win if they took the game to us, which of course they then did.

Also, our formation, surely after the positive ending to last week, we could have selected for something more adventurous than 4-5-1?

If you watched the Spurs V Wolves game, you will have seen the exceptional width that Spurs were able to call on and so many of their chances came from quality balls from the wings, simple tactics but effective. Yesterday our width was non-existent with Osman and Pienaar coming inside more often that not and so we are reliant on our full backs in this dept.

For yesterday, why not play Gueye on the left and Coleman on the right in a 4-4-2 formation? Arteta and Pienaar in the middle and Beckford and Yakubu up front?

I felt sorry for Beckford yesterday, it's kind of hard to know how good he could be in a formation and performance that left him totally isolated.

I am a Moyes fan but yesterday he got it wrong. Let's take a few risks.

In the summer I genuinely believed we had done everything required. i.e secured Cahill, Arteta, Rodwell and hung on to Pienaar. Though I thought about the lacking fire power, I was sure that one of our 6 strikers/forwards could do enough. I thought that a top 4 position was possible. But it has been completly shocking.

Ok the first 4 games we actually played well for the majority. But Today, I am just gob smacked. Dare I think that Moyes has gone far enough. I have done so before and he has proved me wrong. Surely, I hear some say, it is far to early to suggest that.

One thing that is for sure our pre-season preparation under Moyes does not seem to be good enough. But the big worry is that our strikers are not getting any service. Moyes needs new tactics. Our 4-5-1 is the same as the last 6 or 7 years. We are becoming predictable.

Prehaps I am panicking!

Yep, that is exactly what I shouted once the first ten minutes were up and we then started to sit back and let Newcastle United dominate.

I screamed it as loud as possible, from the 2nd tear of the Main Stand, which by the way is now like a fucking ghost town because we have fuck all to shout about. My only hope is that it was loud enough for that tosser, the manager of EFC, the man who stands so fucking proud, to hear it as well.

That was a dire team performance, the worst I have seen at GP for sometime. The midfield were utter shite with not tackle between them, all five seemed to not give a fuck, MA being the main man and captain should of told them so but he was also too busy doing fuck all. £65k a week for what?

For player marks I would give the midfield five fuck all, a big fat zero and then I would fucking fine them - basically you do fuck all you get paid fuck all. As for Osman, well this is not even funny anymore. He is shite, the opposition knows he's shite, I mean he's a free man for most of our corners and whenever he has the ball any one from the opposition just body checks him (over he goes) and they have ball back. Fuck, even Osman probably knows he's shite himself.

And for more laughs we play the big fella up front whilst a striker sits on the bench and Moyes states that "the Yak is fit but not match fit". So fucking what. The big fella is NOT a fucking forward.

Moyes, that was Newcastle United you coward. You lose Cahill and therefore pick a defensive CM to play upfront, you play Arteta so deep he may as well be the goalkeeper. Heitinga and Billy must fucking hate you because they both do NOTHING except look at you when you start screaming your defensive shite from your little box, with Round trying to look invisible.

Hey Moyes, (1) those players you were screaming at really don't give a fuck - and (2), they are probably laughing at you.

Everton, playing at Goodison Park, played for a draw and that is unforgiveable.