Everton vs Swansea City

I note that we are widely being laid at 20s to make top four and for 'super-pessimists' 1000 /1 is on offer against relegation.

7/2 is the best offer available on a top six finish and I have managed to negotiate 2/1 for my favoured top seven come May. (Money for old rope!)

Place your bets!

Mirallas has been the biggest disappointment this searson so far but I wouldn't be surprised to see him get a goal in this game. I'd rather see Bolasie on the left and Lennon on the right. 3-0.

That's my guess... am I wrong? I really hope the players have a different mindset to you.

Because if he has a spell, and all strikers have them, when he doesn't score, who the hell is going to take his place? Neither of our wingers have been regular scorers, and the midfield doesn't produce many goals either.

The question is: Are we set up just to provide goals for one man, or do the rest of the team lack the quality in front of goal? Whatever the answer is, then we need to change something so we are not so reliant on one man.

Not the most positive of guys when it comes to Everton, are you, Peter! I'll be positive and predict a win. Might be wrong like -– ops, it's catching.

A couple from our Rom will do me.

Robles (last game a cleansheet)
Coleman, Williams, Holgate, Baines
Davies, Gana
Dowell, Barkley, Bolasie
Lukaku

See how youth responds to watching the senior team repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot.

Even at 10/1 I wouldn't bet on Davies starting, nevermind my whole teamsheet.

Deulofeu has to play; Robles is better than Stekelenburg; Galloway should be brought back and given a game; we should have bought Shaqiri.

That said, he can prove me wrong or the team will lift his game up. Looking at our team, it's a great time to play against Swansea at Goodison Park. COYB.

Stekelenburg
Coleman Jagielka Williams Oviedo
Idrissa Cleverley
Deulofeu Barkley Bolasie
Lukaku

Robles, Funes Mori, Baines, Davies, McCarthy, Mirallas, Valencia.

I'd give Oviedo at least a half, and bring Baines on early in the second half... Ease him back in.

Deulofeu deserves a start, Mirallas hasn't done much with his string of games.

On a side note – I think we should look at Dembele from Celtic as a striker target in the summer window... Looks very promising & still very young.

That has been the problem for years – there isn't a goalscorer in midfield with the exception of Mirallas and he seems to have dried up since deciding to please the manager and run around like a headless chicken.

I will be very disappointed if Stekelenburg starts after his atrocious showing in the last two games but, apart from that, I think we all know the team picks itself.

Peter (#20) – "I have been an Evertonian far too long, 60+ years, to let a silly little thing like misguided optimism distort my thought processes."

What's distorted them, then?! Like you, I have been a blue for over 60 years. So you missed the successful years? Or you don't like to think of them? "Misguided optimism" – Bali is such a lovely place but you never seem to have a positive thought in your head.

Come on Everton, do it for Peter!

I am going to find the Swansea players who have never scored a goal at any level and get a couple of quid on them scoring! Let's face it, how many times does that happen? Some unknown scroat who couldn't hit Kim Kardashian's arse with a tennis bat, manages to get a goal against us!

No-one from that shaming at Chelsea deserves to be safe. This is an opportunity for our coach to be bold. Give some lad a chance!

I don't care what the doubters have said previously about him. No-one captains the Spanish U21s and is their top scorer to boot without having a special something.

He's the all time top scorer with 16 goals in 32 games. In the top 10 goal scorer list come names such as Raul and Morata... Previous captains like Thiago... Xavi...

He needs a run of Premier League games and to show what he is more than capable of.

He's more than earned a chance and I think tomorrow's game would be ideal.

Slate the manager as much as you want – it's about time these lads got their act together and did what they're paid to do – win matches.

Starting tomorrow.

I would also give Robles a chance.

I hope that he'll give Tom Davies a start; like many, I think tomorrow's match is perfect for him. With McCarthy just coming back from injury, there is no need to risk him against a team who we should comfortably beat.

Baines straight back in and Robles deserves a start also.

Everton's problems have been in midfield and, with Ross being up and down with his form, we never know what the next game will bring.

Luckily Gana is back and Baines so there may be better options with the offence but it always helps if you can get an early goal... If that ''early'' goal is a winning one in the 89th minute, I will take it.

Oh and I do remember when we were successful – that's why I am so disappointed with what we are now and how the team hardly ever even seems to try.

Soups? Heinz Cream of Tomato will do me.

The airport was always known as Denpasar then (don't know about now) -– in fact I think the airport code was officially based on Denpasar?

But Bali being mainly Hindu its not so easy for Muslims to get away with things. Like I said it was a long time ago when you were here the beaches are all sand now. Oh and Sanur is calm it has a reef just offshore and Bedugul is a lake in the mountains.

What about that bet you offered me, that he would be in the top assists this season? I offered you Mirallas with him.

They have both proved that they are not the players we can count on. It's a good job you didn't take it on!

For all it's pain, it's marvellous being a Blue – especially on 3:00pm Saturday kick-offs... wonderful.

“From a little spark may burst a flame... as one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind" – so said Dante on his way to Paradise... just like us good souls on our way with fellow Loved Ones on our way To Blue Heaven.

All written before I have had a pint at TDH.

I'm taking a couple of mates and one is taking his little lad for his first Goodison experience. I'M as nervous as anyone!

I just so want him to enjoy the game and see us win... so if anyone sees an excited 7-year-old in Row NN in the Main Stand, it'll be him. I'll be in the Lower Gwladys biting my nails.

I'm pretty sure he has managed a draw and to go with the 3 losses so we aren't set up to save his hide this time. Honestly we have to beat this team by two clear goals, they suck and are playing awful. Take it right to them.

Cheers to George McKane, great post. I hope the post-match, and post-pint, sentiments are even rosier!

Subs: Joel, Deulofeu, Mirallas, Cleverley, Valencia, Funes Mori, Holgate.

It looks like the January window can't come quick enough for us. We need some quality players in ASAP. I think the young lads like Davies and Holgate need a run out too.

Koeman has a huge job on his hands, let's back him and hope Moshiri opens his wallet in January!!!