Blues bounce back after early shock

Roll on Wigan at the JJB, we've not played too well there in recent years. Look forward to us going and imposing ourselves on what will no doubt be a dodgy pitch.

Still think Moyes shot himself in the foot over the League Cup but fair dos this league form is excellent and he deserves credit for changing things today, getting a result and playing some cracking football.

Really pleased.

Great result and sitting pretty but it's a long haul and as shown at Leeds we lack in depth. Let's just take it one game at a time but cause for celebration tonight after a comfortable victory.

Anyone who still thinks Howard is a top keeper is deluded, he used to be but the amount of mistakes he's made and goals he's cost us over the past year or so is shocking.

Baines is without doubt he best full back in the league if not the world.Some of his link up with Pienaar was excellent. I wouldn't swap out left side for anyone elses.

I'm really pleased for Coleman, he was motm for me today and deserves a run at right back. Mirallas will become a big player for us once he's been here awhile, not everything he did came off today but I love watching him. He never stops trying things and always wants the ball.

I think Jelavic needs to be told not to work the flanks or come deep for the ball. The fact is he is average outside the box but world class in it. He should do nothing but stay on the sholder of the last defender and just concentrate on putting the ball in the back of the net but most of all stay on his feet and stop diving.

And I disagree about Jelavic. He works tirelessly in pulling defences around and out of position. When I played defence (I know, it was only local league stuff, but nevertheless) the easiest to mark were those who stayed within a few yards of you.

I have no arguments about what Osman done,I seen it the same as you today. I thought he kept things simple and played the right ball (if a little slow sometimes) but he does go missing for large parts of the game.

I was a defender as well and agree, I hated those little shits that wouldn't keep still but I was always playing against 2 strikers so if one went wide there was always someone in the middle to get on the end of things. His movement is great and he must be a nightmare for defenders but if he receives the ball outside the box he can't really do anything with it.

BTW Great win today, some of the football exceptional, and we've got an easy run-in (kiss of death I know, until late November)

Weird.

Wigan 1-3 Everton next week. Get your bets on.

They're poles apart in as much the type of players they are. Hibbo is the archetypal defender. Old fashioned , has learnt to tackle well and anyone in Europe who has kept Ronaldo (used to be called Sasso) quiet, is a good if not great defender in the true sense of the word.

Now Coleman is of the younger style with the emphasis on attack. So we have a dial M a (for murder) Do we go for the younger and more attacking lad or do we go for the older yet better defender.

The down side for Hibbo is lack of attack however, if you look at last season many fine crosses from the right came from our hibbo and caused damage to opposition defenses.

The problem as I see it for Coleman and I saw the same thing with guys like Arron Lennon and SWP is that all the hard word in the attacking mode is done but the final execution has always left much to be desired. I see this as Colemans main problem.

Jesus, if he could get this right and a partnership developed down the right with Mirallas, then with Gibson (and don't forget he's as new as two or three of them) in the centre we could be looking at a potential yearly top four side.

Once that happens then the upward spiral of success will have been selected by the Everton management.

I'll have some of that please.....

We are 2nd in the league and know one will shift us this week, I think.

COYB

The opponent was very lightweight, the central midfield not the battle many games seem to be. It suited Osmans style and good for him. Not sure about Coleman, for me he seemed to give the ball away a bit, but he seemed a big improvement on last year, also to be fair, big Vic seems a bit mre committed.

All in all, a pleasant game, wish we had gone a bit more for it in the second
Half but hey ho, 3 goals, 3 points and second in the prem.

Thanks, Ian

After Swansea all I could think of was 'a great display', felt the same about 'that half hour' today and the Utd and Villa games.

(jesus if we'd picked up where we left off at half time today, in the second half, 6 or 7 was a genuine possibility).

One (other) thing I did enjoy today was that after going a goal down, we didn't panic which we sometimes do if/when something goes against us (a goal, an injury etc).

Against Leeds, their goal seemed to be the cue for us to fall to bits - passing, invention, shooting, the lot.

Saints goal on the other hand seemed to be kick up the hole we needed.

If we could improve our final ball, I think someone soon could be on the end of a real hiding.

Enjoy, it may not last, but while it is what it is, enjoy

COYB

It does not mean that you hit that target and then that is what you settle for, because we haven't clearly, but that is what some people want to read it as because it fits their anti-Moyes agenda - it's a process of targets with that one as the first one. In the same breath Moyes said he asks for more from the players and that he wants to also encourage that from the supporters too. It's part of his methodical philosophy.

I wish he would put emphasis on staying in all competitions at least until the New Year as well though.

Onwards and upwards...

Thats it. Thats all it ever was. Have a look at the red shite and you will find that once all the other teams worked out out how the SHITE played then it wasn't that hard to put them in their place.

By the way you may be a troll but I couldn't give a shit anyway. MY dad was Jaguars Paw......

The two matches we have lost this year were aganst teams that sat back and put everyone in midfield and we just can't seem to thread the ball through them.

We could do with more muscle in midfield - we may get it from Gibbo but we're never going to get it from Naismith.

Thought Coleman and Mirallas had a great game down the right hand side. At last that side of the pitch is providing a threat. With regard to Coleman yes his defensive play does need to improve, but that will only happen if he plays more games there. People forget that he came into professional football at a late stage and he still needs to learn his trade at right back. For the third goal he showed good pace and determination, followed by a great cross for Jelavic.

Very impressed by Mirallas today. He looks much better on the flanks rather than behind the main striker. I like his directness and his willingness to run at defenders. Great play by him for the second goal today. Second highest goal scorers in the league – just behind United. Oh to have Arteta playing in the centre of midfield with the rest of this team.

Sort it out will you Moyes FFS

I mean, forget Hibbert, I know Coleman has much to learn, but let the boy develop his defensive side of the game and see what the right flank can do.

Past vs Future, Old School vs New School – always stick to the innovative football.

I then suggest you look up the dictionary definition of 'mantra' and 'policy' since you don't seem to understand the difference.

PS if you want to know what is total shite then I'd suggest you actually took the trouble to find out that the place I think you were trying to find an Evertonian for a pint against WBO (whatever that is?) was probably the Winslow and not Wilmslow which is about 36 miles away down the M62.

Being a child of the eighties and watching first hand the unbelievable side of that era, I can, hand on heart, say that this side is quite simply the best side since that time. Some of the interchange of play is astonishing. Players flit from position to the next. We keep the opposition guessing.

Brilliant stuff... Please keep it up!

COYB

I honestly think Coleman is the answer to our perrenial right back problem.

As good as Hibbo has been over the past decade or so, we've all known he's not the answer.

I think the Hibbster will struggle to get back in the team after Colemans last two or three games

Gibbons return is now really exciting me as frankly I can see him preventing the kind of free running goal chance Rodriguez spurned. I can also see him providing an even more solid line in front of the back four and allowing Fellani even more time to play his best game. Howard worries me, he hasn't started the season that well despite the good performance at Swansea. I'd rather see Distin return for Johnny but options are looking better with Coleman looking a totally different player today after his dismal show at Leeds. Yelavic showed the crucial difference that is a quality finisher when from a similar position he finished superbly and Rodriguez failed. Games turn on these moments.

If we can just keep it going at Wigan we will then have two weeks to settle in the top four before the shite come calling....I'm looking forward to that now.

I don't mind genuine praise. If you are going to get the fake stuff like The Independent guff then I'd rather nothing (stopped the long ball and magic happens).

What am I missing? Table looks normal to me!

I'm baffled by the plaudits given to Osman: again, he gave the ball away quite a lot (especially when we were going forward and had committed men – a real speciality of his), tackled indifferently.

It seems to me that for every one good thing he does, he does 4 or 5 bad things. But Moyes and most on here seem to think he's great. As I say, I'm rather baffled. I feel we have two classes of player in the team at present – and Osman is definitely in the lower category (unlike, say, Fellaini, Jelly, Mirallas, Bainesy etc.).

I was pleased in particular with coleman who looked a threat. If he can work on his defensive side, I think we have a decent full back. I'm still not convinced he carries enough threat to be a right winger.

Mirallas continues to impress. Seems to have confidence and I'm sure he'll score 10+ for us this season playing as a winger.

Main downside for me was the failure to close the game in the second half. 3-1 up at home to a side who could well get relegated we should be pushing for 4 or 5, not taking our foot off the gas and inviting them onto us. Sides who believe they should be challenging near the top of the league don't do it. Neither should we.

Having said that, imagine a CM partnership between Arteta & Gibson... Premier League winning side or wha'?

I'd like to see the contenders for Moyes's best eleven right wing spot...