Dutch Master rates higher than a Spanish Impressionist

Spanish Impressionist is a very good analogy for our manager, intransigence is another of his traits that could put us in a very precarious position this year.

I'm not looking forward to Boxing Day.

Lukaku is totally out of sorts and although heÂ’s not getting any good service his all round play is dire. Kone should at least been given this chance to offer something different.

Why he plays EtoÂ’o and Naismith in the same team is beyond me and playing Barkley out wide is just a joke. Two fullbacks now nullified by everyone and two holding midfielders creating nothing we lack any guile going forward.

I hope Stones, McCarthy and Mirallas are not too far away from fitness and, with Ross playing central, Kone up top, improvement surely canÂ’t be too far away.

But in that moment it became clear... it isn't the players. It's the system.

In the beginning I was against Martinez but last year he did a good job of converting me and this year I have found many reasons why things aren't working.

Should have stuck with my instincts.

Last season seems a distant memory and I hope we can turn it round but IÂ’m struggling to see how the way we are playing.

I thought it was great when I first saw it but I think it was a good decision to take down the mural of Bobby on the Top Balcony!!

The squad we have are not GOOD ENOUGH to play how he wants to and the guy and his staff CANT SEE IT,whether on the training pitch or in games! I cant really bad mouth him/staff as its not there fault they are out of there depth and not experienced enough. They are not good enough coaches to "dumb it down" so players take the style/tactics on board and learn quickly.

The intensity needs to be upped in training drills by several notches-read kendalls and Cattericks books to see how they approached training-it was no different to a match scenario and if you pissed about you ended up on your arse,no quarter given Roberto.

Our players work hard,press harder,and use the ball quickly and progressively when they get it back. That's when we are at our best. This manager does not even see that! Unless you get 200milion put in your mit in January and you can go and buy the players to play "your" way Martinez,ask for some help and stop ruining our players(who on the whole are good lads)by employing poor ,negative tactics and not getting the best out of them!

My family and I are at Finch Farm tomorrow for a tree planting for my late brother,a blue and the reason I am too. A day of mixed emotions beckons.

Eto'o and Barkley both wanted the same space and nothing, nothing at all went round the back of Southampton defence. In fact Eto'o was also a complete and utter waste of time.

I don't want to say anything about Distin, Jags and Howard as they had a horrid day as they always do against Long, who terrorises the life out of them and Pelle learned quickly yesterday about how to go about it.

Lukaku – looks lazy but frankly didn't get one decent pass all game, until last 5 mins when he got a stubbed pass , turned and goalie saved.

Martinez just seem to stand further and further back in the manager's area completely in shock. Graeme Smith his assistant came over about 3-4 times around the 60th minute to speak with him, obviously about subs but went back with his head between his legs.

Could be classed as irrelevant but our warm up was a complete joke compared to Southampton's, we came out 10 mins later after them, players and coaches spent most of time chatting, they did about 3-4 sprints, a couple of keep ball and went back in.

I know your feelings tomorrow will be for your brother but if you get the opportunity try and speak to Mr Martinez and explain your feelings to him in a quiet way, explain the way the majority of Everton fans are feeling at the moment and express your hopes that he will do something to change what is going on.

Possession means absolutely nothing if the stat in the top left hand corner of the TV screen isn't what you want.

The boo boys got hammered against QPR (perhaps rightly so) - but the frustration of this painfully slow, tika taka, going nowhere, keep-ball, eminently readable and predictable game we play is horrible.

Someone above says we don't have the ability to play that way and I agree, we keep the ball all day long without the nouse to slide in the killer ball or drag defenders out of position and instead pass it round aimlessly until it goes back to Howard, who then take the opportunity to fire a hopeful punt up field from 90 yards further down the pitch.

Would that punt not be better from the byline into the box? But no, we keep the ball under a misconceived notion that somehow possession wins games.

We've now got more talent in the team that we've had for many a year, but it's nullified by our fear of losing the ball and perhaps taking the odd attacking risk or two. The talent we do have demonstrates every week that it isn't suited to the slow, slow patience and possession-based game that RM seems intent on us playing.

This was followed up with--Perhaps most alarmingly of all is Martinez's inability to acknowledge what appears right under his nose.

The club should give all the supporters that travelled down to Southampton their money back including travel expenses.