Garbutt backs Blues to pull away from danger zone

Fuck "Luck", just go out and play some effective and entertaining football.

The tactics are shite and thatÂ’s our biggest problem. Not luck

It wasnÂ’t a dodgy pen, an offside goal or fortunate ricochet so where did luck play a part?

SHUT UP AND WIN

What is this Â’poor meÂ’ mentality? It stinks.

And as for Howard. Unbelievable the crap he's come out with. The performances have been really good according to him.

In the meantime, roll your sleeves up and grind out a win. Sadly I just canÂ’t see it happening, unless we have a massive stroke of luck.

None of the players even want to be here let alone play for this guy. Our hands are tied with RM. Sad...

At Wigan, he got away with season after season flirting with relegation; the Wigan fans accepted that, an odd win here and there and then stave off relegation – great season.

CanÂ’t we as supporters do anything to save our club? Obviously grinning Bill and his cronies donÂ’t seem bothered. Our ex-players at the club surely must have a word and explain to soft lad what this club means to us fans... and what relegation would do to this fantastic club.

I feel we are in quicksand and no-one gives a fuck but us fans.

I've heard this sort of complacent nothing nonsense too many times to give a shit anymore... Though, to be fair to you, Luke, if you told it like it was like at Newcastle, I'm pretty sure Señor "nice guy" would drop you again.

Whatever happened to, dare I mention it, just needing a change of luck in these games we're so nearly winning (?!) to climb the Premier League and push for the top four? That was the pre-Christmas script spouted ad nauseum, by players and management.

We don't need a change of luck anywhere near as much as we need a change of : over rated, cringe-worthy, clueless & blinkered manager and totally inept chairman who has overseen this omni-shambles of a season.

That would of been a bit of reverse psychology. Rest of the teams to play would then be complacent and we would win the next 11.

I see Barry has come out with the "WeÂ’re in danger of being dragged into it" line. Got news for you, pal: We are in it and big time. And we all know whatÂ’s going to happen at Stoke, donÂ’t we. Will they admit then weÂ’re in the brown stuff? I doubt it...

"We're going to work as hard as we can, for ourselves, the fans and we will prioritise keeping our status as one of the longest serving Premier League clubs – we are Everton, for God's sake!" Or something to that effect...

He's also saying we are in a precarious position and need to start winning and also alluding to teams shutting up shop at Goodison but away from home the onus is on the home side which suits Everton on the counter.

Nothing wrong with this. Really hope this lad signs a contract.

The part I would take up is saying Stoke will play the way we want them to, so it will be easier for us? Stoke will play in a way to stop us, maybe alter their normal game to stiffle Everton's play. RM does not seem to do this, he has one way, and as has been said on here until all are fed up hearing it, we have been found out; they will play to frustrate us and wait for the mistake so we can go home feeling very unlucky yet again.

Pity you do not get points for bad luck and phenomenal work as we could be be near the top, but you don't so look where we are.

Here's hoping with a downbeat heart that we will play well and win, I keep hoping but, the more I see, the less I expect; so sad and so frustrating.

This is THE MOMENT. Wake up Roberto and start doing your job!

If we lose tomorrow and fuck first leg up against Kiev then will RM have to beat Newcastle to save his job?

"The boy's are all really embarrassed and deeply disappointed by the results this season and the simple fact is we haven't created enough to win matches nor have we defended like a team to stay in games for long enough after taking the lead.

"We all need to take responsibility and we accept we are in danger, looking over our shoulder, there can be no more below-par performances or results, we can't blame luck, we can only blame ourselves and apologize to our supporters for this season."

How much more honest and refreshing that would be to read or hear, rather than the usual dross that merely insults the supporters intelligence.

Pity that the team didn't think that was necessary in the past few months.

When a young play comes out questioning the manager and demanding more, he gets punished whereas really that's the attitude we want rather than the Martinez - Barry mutual appreciation club of utter mediocrity.

Loving it.

Aren't players allowed to have a laugh on the bench? Why should they sit there stoney faced with a worried apprehension about them?

Do we fans do this? I know I luagh at jokes around me in the ground when we are getting beat, in fact the jokes/funny quips come more frequent when we are.

Having read Garbutt's interview, Precis the text into no more than one sentence being careful to retain fundamental meaning and expression.

"We are all crapping ourselves."

I'm addition we're shipping goals at a 1-2 ratio (for every 2 shots the opposition scores 1). Sorry but those a stats add up to relegation. We wait each weekend for the golden dawn but all we get is golden showers.

Ok if it was a one off, but we are giving away sloppy goals every game! That suggests a more serious problem than just bad luck. Worryingly, the manager and some players don't seem to be able, or willing, to acknowledge it.

Don't worry, It's not a dodgy ink it just comes like that when you do a "copy URL from Facebook

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The lad Garbutt is not to blame because it should be the senior players who have played all season and been part of this mess that come out and actually apologize for the truly shocking standard they have served up since day one in August.

I tell you one thing here and now, a honest interview would be much greater received by the fans than all the usual tosh about "bad luck " or "needing the ball to fall for us in the box"

I just want one player to come out and say "look the lads have all performed poorly this season, we don't know why but we need to, and will look into it and we certainly need to find other ways of playing"

The fans need a honest interview or no interview at all, we don't want players who have blatantly underperformed all season coming out blaming pointless factors like luck.

Its not luck that we have won just TWO football matches in the Premier League since the middle of November.

Honest would be great but who’s to know what they honestly think? It seems to me Martinez likes to keep everything positive, no matter what, rightly or wrongly, depending how you view that kind of thing or are they saying mostly what they are nudged to say by the people who employ them... In which case, they might very well believe it’s just a little bit of luck not going our way (the more they are told it the more they believe it)

What price a midfield of Steven, Reid, Brace & Sheeds right now... reckon they'd all still outpace Barry. Reid would finish Adam. Got to fight first, then play.

Time to go more direct, introduce Roberto's master plan... Hahaha!

The players need to now take responsibility and up their game If the manager comes out and says we are in the shit and the players need to up there game then the players might do so. Wins are what counts now not performances!

It was as if they decided to ditch Roberto's first half plan of possession football in our own half which is over complicated and always doomed to failure. Let's hope the players take the initiative tomorrow and get the ball forward and go for the win.

While I don't expect Robles to become possibly the greatest GK ever as Brady is as a QB, I did believe that with Brady they could win the SB; Bledsoe... no way. The similarities are the same for us: Robles in, we stay up; laughing boy in goal, and we go down.