Square pins in round holes? and the holes win

For what it's worth, I would sell Rodwell to raise funds. I fear he won't be that good so let's sell him before everybody else realises.

I NEVER for one minute fooled myself into believing we had a strong squad at the start of this season. We have had absolutely no cover at all for Baines and he has been our best player, especially when he had Pienaar in front and supporting his runs.

Our defenders are in the main superb and all put themselves on the line in every game; when any of them make a mistake its highlighted... but our 'offense' :0)) make hardly an effort so nothing is expected from them. Our defenders deserve a big bonus for carrying the rest of the mob we had out there against Man Utd.

I just learned that Davies has played three full seasons for Bolton without missing a game through injury. Sturridge is a brilliant loan player for them and has just about every asset a proper striker should have. Chelsea have so many top strikers they could afford to loan him out (why didn't we try for him?).

Then again, the loan system (which I hate) only works one way for us... OUT!!

Dave Cooper, what do you expect the Manager to do? Not bother playing someone in that team because he doesn't have a specialist for that position? Maybe we should have just played the game with seven players.

The only sensible piece in this arcticle is that Victor Anichebe who is not only not good enough for the Everton but is not up EPL standards. The rest the article is absolutely pointless. Nothing personal just fact!

I wouldn't let Anichebe work the turnstiles. You could put the toffee lady in the striker's position and achieve the same result.

Firstly, I think Moyes is basically a good manager of limited resources, which we all know is the future of Everton FC. He infuriates many by his strange yet predictable choices of choosing to play many players out of position. This is not a new trend and is a reflection of a small squad but also may show that perhaps Moyes has a list of players who he thinks are good enough to play in the Premier League and he plays those players before others, even if they have to play out of position. Now we can say that it should not be a big deal for professional footballers to play out of position. Certainly 30 years ago, players appeared to be more adaptable and willing to play anywhere for the team. Those days are sadly long gone...

So ?what would I do?? Firstly, there is nothing at all wrong with how we have defended all season. Jags and Syl have been playing out of their skins defensively so no place for Heitinga, who I think is only a good centre back. But both Jags and Syl have remained reasonable fit and played most games so, to accommodate Heitinga, he is played out of position, unlike in previous years when we have always had an injury there.

So, leaving the back 5 alone, given what Moyes had available on Saturday, I would have played Neville and Ozzie together in midfield with Neville picking up Rooney as and when he dropped into midfield. I would have left Rodwell on the bench, no matter how good a player Moyes thinks he is. Playing Coleman as a 2nd right back to help Hibbert and look after Evra (if he had started) was a reasonable call plus Seamus would always get forward and not expose Hibbert in two-on-one situations.

On the left, I would have been brave and played Magaye. We are safe from the drop, we never win at OT, so what is there to lose? Magaye might have been a surprise but certainly no worse than Bily who we all know, when he plays wide, is shite. So a midfield of Seamus, Neville, Osman and Magaye.

I would have played Bily in the hole behind Beckford. So, before everyone disagrees, let me explain myself. Bily must be able to play somewhere or he would not be a starter for Russia. For them, he regularly plays in that position so he should know what he is doing there. The huge problem is that Moyes bought him as a winger, not as central attacker, and so has never considered him there, which I know must sound amazing. But we have no idea what goes on in training from Monday to Friday, we only see the finished product come Saturday or Sunday. So if he doesn?t play there in training, he is never going to play there on match days. But, week after week, he comes on as sub and plays wide and then does nothing. He must be itching to get back to Siberia!!!

So that leaves Beckford who I said before is not a target man but against Manure is going to have to challenge better for long balls from our back four. In between the hopeful punts, with Ozzie in midfield and helped maybe by Bily, he would have got better service. But there is no excuse for Beckford?s lack of enthusiasm. He is not good enough to play the ?prima donna? role. But, with some service along the floor and into spaces, he may have been less pissed off.

So it is the same 10 players who started with Rodwell swapped for Magaye. In this way, less players are playing out of their ?true? position where they have most of their strengths. As a coach I have always believed the more players you can have playing in their best positions, the better chance you have of being successful. If Cahill was 100% match fit then I would have him in Bily?s position but clearly he is nowhere near fit? not the old Timmy Cahill ?fit? who has been consistently our best player over the past 5 years.

So, long winded, I know? but what else is there to do on Easter Monday???

1) the only reason Baines didn't get forward is because Valencia had him on a fucken spit all afternoon.

2) Jagielka "only position is center-half" ? Bollocks, he was a journeyman who had played all over the place for Warnock. Moyes took him and molded him into an international center-half.

3) This is the funniest ? or maybe just the most desperate ? every time somebody wants to big Coleman up, he`s a right sided midfield player "who should be young player of the year"... then, worra ya know, as soon as the next in a long line of "square pegs round holes" post gets put up there... he`s a full back again.

4) Rodders is also out of position because... err... because... err, well, because he is, that's why. It doesn't matter he`s never played a competetive game at the back, we are slagging Moyes off and we need to make the numbers up... so he`s a defender.

5) SAF may well have played Neville in midfield all over Europe but when Moyes does it he's a full back... or a defensive Midfield player who`s playing with Rodders, another "Defensive midfield" player... who by the way was earlier described as a sweeper who plays "IN FRONT" of the back four???

6) Moyes is described as friggin stupid because Bily is six foot and could "WIN THE ODD KNOCK DOWN"!!!

7) Ossie ? that perennial square peg now apparently has a hole... "but he was played in the Cahilll role at OT" ... SURELY YOU MUST HAVE SEEN IT???

8) Beckford was played out of position because he was "being asked to do a job he`s not good at" ? I think he means engage the center back.

9) Then the tired old "Played a weakened Man U" card was played. A pathetic claim as only Viddic out of his first choice line-up was rested.

No wonder people are starting to find these Moyes bashing posts increasingly difficult to take seriously.