Nai(more)smith

He's a squad man at best, but don't write him off just yet. It took Jagielka & Baines a few seasons to fully adjust. He could yet be a useful squad man for us.

He should be moved on in the summer for a nominal fee or for free just to get his wages off the books. If I was him I'd look to get back to the SPL, or else a top end Championship club.

From what I have seen he is deceptively good in the air so I don’t agree with what you say about his heading, watch how many headers he wins when Jaggs does his hoof ball trick. He may not be quick but he’s not slow either, he always puts a shift in closing the opposition down and does tend to find him self in good positions. I think in time he could get us 5 to 10 goals a season.

Let's not forget that the likes of Baines, Arteta, Fellaini, Pienaar, Jaggs and the likes took about a season to settle in. Naismith has only come back from a serious injury at the start of the season, give the lad a break and judge him next season.

While Mirallas is injured I still think he is our best option on the right side of midfield and I trust Moyes’s judgement.

Let's hope we can get £1-2m for him from one of the promotion chasing clubs in the Championship, or maybe back to the pub league over the border!

Let's loan him out to Leeds and bring Barkley back.

I think the one redeeming feature he has, is his ability in the air. Hard to prove without going all stat-tastic I know, but when I've seen him play (and I admit to being in the 'get rid' camp), for a little fella, he's good in the air.

If we got an offer of £2million for him in the summer, or thereabouts, let him go. He is a square peg in a right wing round hole, but he is still a substandard square peg. Good for a Wigan or Villa maybe, but not Everton.

I like to think I was more pro-Naismith when others had already decided he was pants, but his last few performances were shock-bollocks.

Sometimes the 'needs time to adjust to the PL' line comes out all too quick for signings coming into the league but does this apply to him or is he just a wrongun?

Can't fault his effort, and is doing a bit of a McFadden out of position on the right but at worst should be giving £2m or there abouts to the coffers a year from now.

We can't judge him properly until he plays in his correct position. He is not a winger, never will be. The same happened to Osman and nearly every other play we stick out on the wing.

As already said above, he wins most of his headers from Jag's hoofs upfield, but does nothing much else.

His second touch is usually a tackle but it would be interesting to see him have a stint behind Jelavic.

He isn't a winger but I haven't seen sufficient evidence that his flaws are due to being out of position. He's better in the air than you would think and he works hard; positionally he is okay and maybe played centrally would chip in with a few goals.

Judging a player is not rocket science... From his first game it was quite obvious that he was out of his depth.

What worries me is that Moyes can't see this and keeps playing him.

And this has been the main reason why Everton can't control midfield. When Neville gets the ball, it is either sideways or backwards or given away to the opposition then eventually back to Howard who then has to hoof it away.

And with Neville in midfield, Osman looks lost, vulnerable and lightweight because Neville is not a holding player and good passer of a ball.

How can fans praise someone like Anichebe after a good performance upfront but then absolutely blast him when he plays rubbish next week on the wing? Naismith is not a winger, perhaps he could get away with being a wide forward but we don't even play that formation. He's played his whole career upfront or as a Number 10 yet when we've needed striking options this season even Vellios has got on ahead of him.

It could well be of course that he's a victim of a lack of squad depth with no-one else to really play on that wing but – especially when Fellaini was suspended earlier in the season – would it have hurt to have given him a run behind Jelavic rather than putting Pienaar there moving Anichebe to the left and keeping Naismith in his graveyard shift?

For what it's worth, I still think he possesses a decent finishing instinct like Jelavic does, and if played behind the striker would put that to good use, he would also allow us a bit more mobility on the break than Fellaini currently does.

He's been awful, right enough. However, I would reserve final judgement until this time next year. A full year in with a pre-season should show us what he's got. New club, bad injury won't wash then. Until then he should be played from the bench if resources allow.

I was very disappointed to see him come on in the Cheltenham game when we had the game in the bag though. He gives it 100% but really should be warming the bench and not starting games. Coleman is getting better at RB but if Mirallas is injured, I'd prefer Coleman plays at RM with Neville or Hibbo at RB, than have Naismith starting. Hitz can go in the middle instead of Neville.

Would also be nice to see Oviedo given more of a run out – let him and Pienaar swap wings every now and again just to give the oppo something else to think about maybe.

Playing out wide really exposes his lack of pace, and I would like to see him played centrally, just before I am convinced he is as bad as everyone makes out.

I remember Jagielka in midfield when he first came – he looked like an amateur.

Jelavic couldn't play on the wing, neither could a lot of Premier League strikers, doesn't mean that if a chance drops to them in the box they won't stick it away though.

You get a few strikers blessed with pace and touch that can do a job on the wing but very few. Just because Naismith looks bad on the wing doesn't mean he wouldn't play better as a central striker or number 10.

If Naismith is allowed to play to his strengths and make late runs into the box with less involvement in the build-up play, he could do okay, but he's not going to play ahead of Fellaini. It can also take time to gain confidence and the belief required when coming back from injury and joining a new team. He needs time to settle in and adapt, played in his preferred position, and then he might be of some use to us.

We dominated against a very negative Swansea team that did nothing more than park the bus – if Distin or Jagielka had scored easy headers then we would have easily won. Southampton was one of the worst performances of the season and everyone looked off colour.

Against Bolton untouchable Fellaini was back in midfield and we looked even worse. Football's not as simple as putting your biggest players in the middle of the park and pretending you have a boss physical midfield. Fellaini and Rodwell got dominated most games whereas Osman has allowed us to control most games this season. As soon as we start playing badly however it doesn't mean people can just bemoan our lack of a 6 foot monster in midfield. Stoke have loads of them but still don't dominate any games.

James Martin, I agree with a lot that you are saying, but if you go back only a little more than 12 months on here, you'll find that most of us weren't happy to give Fellaini four seasons to gel. I, admittedly, was one of the ones calling for him to be shipped out after about two seasons. I think aside from a few goals, he was truly awful in the first three seasons, and really has only showed his true value this season.

Just to stress as I tried to do in my last paragraph, I wasn't trying to totally destroy the guy, more questioning why he was regularly starting games ahead of others who seem, well, better.

After such a serious injury, not once, but twice, I think we need to give him a break here. I agree he does not fit as a winger at all, and Moyes is pretty much forced to because Barkley is out on loan.

Naismith is a forward, and Moyes probably knows it too, but until Mirallas, Gibson or Coleman come back, Naismith will probably continue to play there.

I think it is time Oviedo got his chance on the left and Pienaar was shifted to the right. All-in-all, Naismith is quite young and can still find form and fitness, but it will take time.