You can be forgiven if you had poor technique. It's alright to have a horrible first touch. It's even ok if you can't hold the ball, but your total lack of respect to the team for not tracking back is unforgivable.

The worst I've ever seen the team play. Ever. Even during Mike Walker's time. This has to be the worst.

If we are so short of cash, why was he even considered for a new contract? Before today's game, we might even have got half a mill for him. Now, nobody would even let him sell a programme.

You can just see it coming, a lot of big names are going to leave this summer. Shit creek without a paddle!!!

He would have left on a free in the summer anyway and chances are the new contract isn't that much more per week than the old one.

Wishful thinking on my part maybe. Personally I would have been happy to see him leave for free after his performance today.

I have to agree with James. I think Mr Moyes and his coaching team need to be confronted with the challenge to justify their "faith" in players such as Victor Anichebe. Could he kindly identify those features, normally associated with the attacking professional footballer able to play at the top levels, and precisely where we might see evidence of these in Anichebe's current make up?

Anichebe does not award himself contracts; does not determine his own training schedules and certainly does not pick himself in the team. It is beyond comprehension that we have a young man so bereft of even the basic skills, after a significant years of "preparation" chosen to lead the line at Everton.

Whatever the problems with Yakubu and perhaps Vaughan how in the name of all that is sane can Anichebe be the preferred option? Beckford for all his limitations has at least the assets, sadly lacking in Anichebe namely manoeuvrability and enthusiasm!

The same applies to players such as Billyaletdinov. Could those responsible for investing some 9 million pounds ? 9 MILLION POUNDS ? in this player kindly tell us that, of all the players available in the UK never mind the whole of Europe (the world??), why they opted for the Russian?

There can be few weaker, slower, more tactically ill-disciplined players seen at Everton for many a year ? who even gets himself pulled up for the now unheard of "foul throw-in"!

And finally I hope Mr Moyes and Saha sat down and took note of a centre-forward blessed with far less ability than Saha (Davies) who showed this malingerer of an Everton centre-forward what real professional commitment is all about.

With few exceptions (Baines?) this was an utterly abject performance which brings nothing but shame on the whole sorry mess that appears to be Everton Football Club at present.

Who pushed them through the ranks? Who decided they were good enough? Who watches them week after week and still thinks they are good enough? Who puts them in the team? who decides what tactics they will be part of?

Moyes may not be able to do much about Osmans frailty but surely he should be able to change Vics whinging attitude.

Get him to watch a few videos of his game to show what is getting up the fans nose. I even wonder if the lad has a clue or even cares about the low esteem he is held in by the supporters. For that matter, why dosen't the older players take him to one side about it.

EFC have toured the USA twice and have been prominent in the USA but it?s a tuff nut to crack with no PL team succeeding to date. The tour of Australia was a success with attendances being the highest of the pre-season tours.

Randy Lerner is a Villa fan and has been since he studied in the UK so what is it you actually want because every post that you and others hit always goes back to your hatred of BK and the board.

Some people just wont let go, EFC were crap yesterday due to the players playing SHIT, yet the same players are taking all the money we have out of our club and yesterday they are to blame ? nobody else, simple!! COYB

I am glad that I am not the only one that felt this way as I was screaming at the TV just 10 minutes into watching his attempts to hold up the ball and link up play.

Even if you argue that his ability is League One standard, surely this combined with daily training with PL class players would mean he is able to use his feet to play football. When passed to, as John pointed out, his sole focus was to back in to the opposing defender with his arms and frame rigid. The ball would then richochet against the wrestling players, obviously Vic is hoping that this is going to rebound favourably for his team but NEVER did. Surely his touch cannot be that poor that he has decided it pointless to try and control and sheild the ball before finding a blue shirt in the advancing midfield.

Maybe forgivable if you take the view that he did not pick himself, but combine it with totally lazy off the ball movement and the impetous ground pounding after he had thrown himself to the floor. I'm sorry but this is a performance that means he should never wear this great shirt again. I've never thought Vic should be in an Everton squad as the combination of sub standard skills and bad attitude is not worthy of the club.

No one had a good game but it was impossible to bring other players into the game in the system with Vic up top.

On the note of Bily, I agree much improvement is required but I see enough to make me believe that there is a player in there in a firing team.

If he plays again I will not watch Everton again. I felt sick to the stomach when he started the match. He only completes 50 percent passes, falls over, and disrupts the balance.

No finesse, positional sense. 2 goals in 36 matches. Doesn't track back and is so clumsy, the referee blows his whistle even when he hasn't fouled. He cost us the first goal.

I thought Moyes learned from the last time. I am really at a loss with Moyes this season. His substitutions have been baffling when we have played so well. Against Arsenal he just completely lost the plot.

None of our so-called stars did any better than Anichebe so don't lay the blame at his door for a surrender to a very poor Bolton who would have been taken to the cleaners on that showing by every other Premier League team. We lost virtually every 50/50 ball and the passing of all the players was slow, laboured and amateurish.

Don't blame Vic for the displays of Cahill, Heitinga, Fellaini, Osman etc etc. Arteta was better than most as was Distin, Neville and Baines... but they were all poor and none of them put the passion into their play that is always required in physical battles.

We have spent nothing on lots of strikers and you get what you pay for... even when we have spent in the past on the likes of Johnson and Beattie they have been woeful buys in the main.

DM looked haunted throughout the game and he must be making himself ill watching well paid players not performing against poor opposition. Supposedly we get money for a finishing place in the league... well we will be losing £5,000,000 this season that should have been given to DM to freshen our stagnating squad up.

We lost Gosling for nothing and let Pienaar go for peanuts (pardon the pun). We are spiralling out of control.

If I was Beckford, I would be off. I would put in a transfer request straight away because it's pointless being here. He looked pretty angry when he come on. What's the point of him being at this club, if he is behind Anichebe?

Beckford has scored goals, and still not given any confidence from the manager. I'm so angry.

As Christine stated, the point where he just lost the ball and walked back had me delirious with anger.