The Right Attitude!!

If you look at the effort Pienaar and Cahill make as an attacking force compared to Arteta, there is no comparison. I know it will bring howls of derision but I would rather have Osman (when fit) than Arteta in that position unless we see some significant improvement from our little Spaniard, at least Osman will give it a go.

1) Inefficient, there is no arguing that;
2) Goes down to easily;
3) Sideways player and, as many point out, we are too slow ? for me, Pienaar is one of the main culprits there... he takes on men occasionally, but to what result?
4) He runs a lot, but he is lightweight nonetheless, his defensive contribution is next to nothing.

And not to be overly critical, he's is one of our top 6 players, but I think he receives too much credit for his efforts. He somehow reminds me a bit of Steve McManaman in his last months with Liverpool. He looked great, but he never really made the team any better.

But it is our attack that is woeful. Saha is simply rubbish, I'd rather have Marcus Bent for heaven's sake! Yak and Becks must be given a chance to start as the current formation is simply not working and costing us points.

I think the team doesn't have faith that we can score more than one and so tend to close up shop when we do nick a goal rather than risk exposure in the forlorn hope of scoring another ? something I suspect is reinforced by the manager.

There was one incident in the Sunderland game (second half) which basically summed Everton up this season. We were attacking and put about a dozen passes together. The ball was bobbling around in their penalty area before it came out to Neville on the 18-yard line. Any other player in the whole of the PL would have instinctively wellied it towards the Sunderland goal as it was sitting up so invitingly. But not our Pip... he tried to pass it again through a crowd of players and guess what ? the chance was gone and Sunderland broke out.

That one little passage of play just summed up our team at the moment and it's so frustrating. Some of them are like rabbits caught in the headlights when it comes to attacking whilst others have the proverbial "nose bleed" when in the final third.

We need to rediscover the "attitude" we had when beating Man City and Chelsea at home last season when the team went through a period of "attack, attack attack". Why can't our beloved manager recapture that attitude? After all, we're using the same set of players.

I?ve always liked Moyes for his honesty and hard work, but his hell-bent desire to RE-act instead of PRO-act is driving me absolutely nuts. At 1-1 v Sunderland, with the game there for us, I was crying out for some sign of real intent from the manager that we were going for this.

But I knew, like everyone else on this site, it would only happen after conceding. That game was only ever going to end 1-1 or 2-2. The fact that we DO score ? or at least make clear-cut, genuine chances ? when we have these periods of attack only makes it worse.

For the Baggies, Yak AND Becks/Saha up front, Cahill driving from midfield. And from minute 1, not minute 81.

The main difference in that game between us winning rather than drawing was Danny Wellbeck's all round performance... he was superb. He was strong on the ball, held it up well, link-up play was excellent, he had the confidence and attitude to take on players and most of all finished the chances shown to him. God if only we had a forward like that on his game at the moment... rather than having to rely on 7 goals from Cahill.

Team on team, I think we were the better team, especially considering we were the away side... we just haven't got that one player at the moment that can convert our chances into goals. Take cahill out of the side and it's hard to see where the next goal is coming from.

We play a 4-5-1 system and it's only been in recent games that Moyes has actually been going for it in the latter parts of games... who would've put money on us having 3 attackers on the pitch against Arsenal with 25 minutes to go? Okay it took 15 minutes for the team to touch the ball again but is Moyes starting to get the right attitude and give it a go? You never know, he might even start playing 2 up front against the lesser teams at home.

In all, the squad and the quality of football is so much better than where we were 5 years ago... Moyes in my opinion is still tactically inept ? especially when it comes to substitutions, I hate those really late pointless substituion he loves making, but I really believe in the last few games he's starting to turn a new leaf. Maybe only due to the fact we were losing but maybe just maybe he may learn from this.

I thought against Liverpool we were under the cosh a bit in the second half but Moyes was forced to bring on a second striker which totally change the dynamic of the game. Our useless hoofs out of defence started falling to a player in a blue shirt which took the pressure from our team.

I really don't know what our fans really expect from a team with such limited resources. Moyes has risen our expectations to want Champions League and when he doesn't deliver it he is a Disney character. I think we should be thankful we're not in League 1 or 2 like some other big clubs.

Moyes actually gives us not just a dream but a real chance or European and Champions League football. You may mock but this season is so tight that when we start playing the attacking football we're capable of 'CONSISTENTLY' we should shoot up the league.

I love being a blue... you've got to admit it's never boring!!

I would play Tim and Becks on Saturday ? both UP FRONT

Also, if Arteta continues to be ineffective, I would play Tim as an orthodox midfielder and put Becks up top with the Yak. Tim would still get a few goals and hopefully this would put a rocket up Mikel and get him back to being our best player. Surely it's worth a try.COYB.