Mid-table stalemate at Vicarage Road

Not sure what else needs to be said. We need a new manager.

We have two defensive midfielders all too often opting for the easy ball, square or backwards, thus allowing teams to jog back and take up defensive positions while we pass it around nowhere near the danger area of the opposition's goal.

Barkley's job is to pick the ball up and drive it forward but he gets no support and then goes out wide where two defenders wait for our winger whose final ball is woeful. I would sooner they lumped it forward Wimbledon style and push some tall timber into the box, eg, Stones and Funes Mori... even Jags. We never see it as it is so one-dimensional – if we can't get it to Lukaku, who is held up with three defenders, we have no other game plan.

This really is a piss-poor team with some very good players. How about some average players to make a very good team aka Leicester City? 11 Tim Cahills or Mike Lyons.

Under Moyes, we had an average team of players who worked hard and got results. Had Moyes had a bit more bottle, he could have really achieved but he never went for it. 1-0 up in the FA Cup final and in the semi-final over the RedShite but blew it trying to defend a 1-goal lead.

I'm sick of the hard-done-by unlucky shite. Neither Moyes or Martinez is good enough for Everton. It looks like this season is a write-off and they are holding on for a cup win but it's the Premier League where the money is and the riches of Champions League football.

Next season, we have Leicester City and maybe they will have the ambition to go to the next level. At Everton, 14th is acceptable.

He simply cannot be trusted to get it right, Roberto has so many failings as a manager, why has he been allowed to carry on for so long?

The silence (over the results) between Kenwright and Moshiri is what is killing us. That and Kenwright's "What a manager" comment is what is making the pessimists come out in droves.

It won't happen, but oh for the courage to kick him out now and to install someone just to refresh and to organise until the end of the season... and to give us a chance at Wembley. I truly believe that the players would react and respond positively and we may just have two performances to remember for the rest of our lives.

And then I woke up!!!

A much more sensible selection would have been to have picked Lennon on the right, his best position and Mirallas on the left where he operates regularly and is usually pretty effective. Square pegs and round holes. I despair.

I have watched Barkley closely and I reckon he is becoming a luxury player and only shows very rare flashes of his supposed potential. He has dried up as a scorer and obviously lacks stamina for a proper midfield role.

Lukaku cannot do everything alone and he must have support from one of the players at least. He plays better with Kone as now Deulofeu has stopped being creative. Personally I would rest Barkley and play a strike partner up front. Barkley is contributing very little and hardly ever closes down or chases back once he loses possession.

Apart from Stones's error we defended well and it was the attacking midfield who let the side down IMO.

How the feck can a back pass that happens – a couple of phases before a goal be the fault for the goal. Just like saying a misplaced pass in mid-field lead to a goal being scored, rubbish! Just look at the piss-poor defending for the corner, shocking.

We should all be certified for following this football club, while Bill calls the shots and Martinez is manager.

Man Utd or West Ham? It won't make any difference. We do not have the mental or physical strength to beat either of these teams. Our season was over before it began for the last two seasons.

The only thing that the board will understand are banners, boos and boycotts. Empty stadiums make headlines and negative headlines lead to reaction. Goodison Park needs a mass exodus at half-time!

I believe that Martinez will go if we lose the semi-final and I also believe that Mourinho is a realistic possibility.

So Jose at Everton, and the chance to awaken a sleeping giant may not be that outlandish.

'Neil, Excellent post mate, now please write a similar letter to Jose Mourinho explaining how we are about to get new owners and how he can take us places with the nucleus of our current squad. Tell him to write a six-page application for the job.

If the new owners have the best in mind for Everton they will have monitored Jose's employment status and the sooner they decide that he is the man to take this club forward the better.

I can think of no other manager that will put the steel back into our backbone – I admire what he has done at the so called 'big clubs' but let him now prove himself to be the really great manager that he perceives himself to be. There is a blank canvas at Everton for him to start drawing plans for immortality.

Personally I think he is a big egotistic prick – but hey haven't we suffered one of them for the past two years!'

Martinez must go but I have a feeling that Martinez is Kenwright's line in the sand as Moyes was being his men. He is a very stubborn man. Getting Moyes back would be a betrayal for Blues who want us to progress not time travel backwards. Man Utd would be insane to give Mourinho a job and he isn't good enough for our club, he is a megalomaniac who bullies ladies. He lacks class completely and can only operate only with far higher a budget than Everton could give him.

As I say though, Martinez will stay in his job as long as we keep buying the product. When it comes to it, you only truly accept mediocrity when you pay to finance it. Sorry guys.

There are huge obstacles to the Special One taking over at Man Utd, not least Ferguson, and others and the influence they all wield.

Concerning Everton, there is growing talk in London that he could be tempted by the challenge of making us great again. Might just be media talk, and gossip, but we have never had a Billionaire as the main man before.

And Jose does like billionaires until they sack him!

Interesting though, it certainly summarised my feelings about Martinez; in fact I thought the article could have been written by a consortium of TWebbers... So with any luck the message will be reaching the ears of those who make the decisions.

Confidence at a low point and no fighting spirit apart from one or two. I thought Lukaku gave his worse performance of the season; disinterested is being kind.

Barkley is having too many touches when he is in possession with a packed defence in front of him; he can have as many as he wants if he is driving onto a back four having broken the midfield line. For me he is at his best when he plays one and two touch in midfield.

What can we say about Stones. After a solid display defensively last week he goes back to the silly mistakes. We had scored in the 46th minute,and he does that in the 47th minute? Clear the lines and get the half time whistle.

Talking after the game one lad said "he is playing to orders". I'm not having that.If he is the player some people say he is,although the majority in my opinion are starting to realise the penny is not dropping with him,he would not play that pass. He can't help himself.

Looks like it will be Stones and Funes Mori for the derby game. They will be all over Stones with their pressing game, let's see if he tries the foolishness then.

Robles showed he is a good keeper with a couple of great saves. McCarthy is a poor player in my opinion, he just does not want the ball. He puts himself in positions where he can't receive the ball when we are in possession.

Deulofeu... confidence shot; Lennon ineffective in the position he played. Martinez got that wrong, worse, he didn't react to it. Deulofeu and Lennon should have been told to switch wings as the left back was there for the taking.

Another disappointing day.

I thought he should have turned parallel to the touch line and somewhere in front of him should have been one of the best over-lapping full backs in the competition and also a tricky Spanish winger. Failing that, if he had hit the corner flag at their end the 40 seconds would probably have passed.

Stones is a good player in the making but he's fast becoming a goal-a-game man.

This is total and utter bollocks. The league table never lies. Never. We are 14th because we are the 14th best team in the league. And consequently, you are the 14th best group of players.

Maybe the biggest fault of Martinez is getting these players to think that they are better than they actually are. When it comes to the crunch, we do not have the heart, desire or capability to get one over the teams above us.

The longer we think that this will all one day just 'click' into place and we become world beaters, and ignore all the hard work and commitment needed, the further we will sink and sink and sink.

So to Martinez, your entire coaching staff, and most importantly the players, its time to take a long hard look at yourselves. You think you're god's gift to football? Well, I'm afraid to tell you that you're a million miles away.

You're hurting the most important people in the world. The people who sacrifice their time, money and sanity just to be able to watch you play for 90 minutes. The fans who travel thousands of miles in the hope that today is going to be a good day.

So please, do us a favour. If you're not interested, then have the decency to leave. There is only so much more heartache that the fans can take. You're not as good as you think you are.

If we swallow the hype then Barkley is a world class football talent. Baines and Coleman are two of the best full backs in the league. Baines is a set-piece specialist. McCarthy is a ball-winning centre midfield player. Deulofeu is good enough for Barcelona, eventually. Lukaku is a £70 million player. Stones is a £40 million central defender. Mirallas is class.

My view is that none of these are true. Steven Gerrard at Barkley's age was controlling the midfield, scoring goals, winning games. Barkley is too greedy and has no awareness. I would sell to the highest bidder.

Baines hasn't been the same player without Pienaar. Coleman was good 2 seasons' back getting forward, getting goals. Not anymore. He's been sussed out.

McCarthy doesn't win the ball back and gives the easy ball every single time. A glorified David Batty but with even less talent. He covers a lot of ground but achieves nothing. At the weekend he did his usual trick of scoring a goal in April/May but that will be it for the season.

Deulofeu can beat a man but then just fizzes the ball across the area, hoping someone gets on the end of it. A good winger would have his head up and put the ball where it can be attacked. My 5-year-old son has more stamina.

Lukaku has two modes: goal-getter or pudding. Predictably, he's turned into the latter mode after his Champions League comments.

If Stones was as good as he thinks he is, he'd be at Real Madrid next season. Get shut whilst we can still get a decent fee. Every performance in a blue shirt lowers his value.

Mirallas is greedy and should have been sold after the penalty fiasco last season. There was clamour for him to be played and he got sent off against West Ham. Get rid.

On top of this, we have Cleverley who offers nothing – no attacking intent, no ball-winning capabilities, no leadership, no drive, no organisation, no nothing. My mum is 77 and would offer us more in an Everton shirt.

Robles and Howard are the worst keepers in the division. Fact.

Barry can hold his head up this season but he's slower than a tax rebate, goes sideways too often, doesn't offer any goal threat and gets too many bookings.

Jags has been a good servant but doesn't offer enough leadership.

Funes Mori has done okay this season to be fair apart from the odd lapse.

Oviedo is an honest pro but is too injury prone.

Kone and Niasse are not good enough for any other premier league team. Why did we sell Naismith and spend more money on Niasse? I will never fathom that one.

Why are Pienaar, Hibbert, Osman and Gibson still at the club?

Do we really have the talented group of players that we all are led to believe we possess? Which of our players would get into the Spurs team, as an example? Lukaku, maybe. His performances over the past 3 games have been Championship standard rather than Champions League.

I think we're far closer to having to have a massive clear-out than we are to being real contenders. I don't believe the shite that Sky Sports espouse because they watched a few games 2 years ago.

By the way, you missed out Lennon – he will be upset to know you don't care.

Barkley for instance. Take a look at Sighurdsson at Swansea and Eriksson at the Spurs over the weekend and how much they influence games.

He's a fine player Barkley but in a football context is not intelligent enough. He disappears when we most need him and very rarely takes the game by the scruff of the neck. He flatters to deceive.

I totally get what you're saying about McCarthy. He can run around all day long but again rarely makes things happen or drives the team forward.

With Lukaku we don't always play to his strengths... he's hopeless with his back to goal. Give him a ball to run onto, put it in front of him and he will more likely score. Surely the rest of the team know that? Look at Vardy. Would he play most of the match with his back to goal?

The ball winners and play makers in that team know he's as fast as fuck and play the ball where he can run onto it and use his pace.

There has been a problem with lack of playmakers at Everton for years now. I remember watching the Arsenal game at their place in Martinez's first season. We were very very good, even out passing Arsenal... However, despite this, it was clear to see that something was missing when we got near the penalty area. No one had the guile or craft to do something different. Barkley can do it occasionally but not to the same consistency as say Courtinho, Firminho or Eriksson or Sighurdsson etc.

Lukaku has been a let down these last few days but to be fair he doesn't often get the service... give it to him and he will deliver.

If players are not performing for whatever reason then pull them... put someone else in their place. They can't expect a place if they're coasting. If they want a Wembley place then earn it.

As for the defence, they need help and if they need a specialist defensive coach then get one. David Weir, Carragher even (it's just business) or Neville (no not that one, the other one). We shouldn't be too proud when it comes to improvement.

Dan - that was me, holding back. For what it's worth, I was Roberto's biggest fan in his first season but my opinion of him as Everton manager has worsened by the week. The final straw for me was the capitulation in the semi-final against Man City.

The whole squad needs an overhaul, Martinez isn't the man to be doing it, hope Moshiri thinks the same.

On the other hand we have a Manager who hasn't a clue how to use his subs or who to use, he doesn't seem to have a plan at all but cant seem to alter the team mid game to react to the opposition. To be fair to the players, they must be given instructions pre match and they stick to it. Let's be honest the players cant just take it upon themselves to ignore the Manager and play how they want can they?

Bottom line is it comes down to the Manager who by definition cant bloody manage. lets see what he says now on Sky Sports.