Premier League Week 9

West Ham 2-0 down at home to Brighton. Another sacking coming up?

Possibly, Tony, but let's not get carried away if Slaven becomes available!

Two highly rated young(ish) managers (Koeman and Bilic), Tony, who are now both staring into the abyss.

Bilic getting sacked before Koeman. Another club in the hunt for a manager.

You just know that Ancellotti will go to WHU while we discuss the merits of Big Sam versus David effing Moyes.

West Ham goal difference is now worse than ours and we move up to 15th if they don't score!!!

Looks like the end for Bilic. The West Ham board are meeting today to discuss his future. You don't arrange a meeting the day after being hammered at home to say "Your job is safe"!

Watford is actually having a go at Chelsea! 1-1 now. That Silva dude knows what he is doing imo.

Watford have had a great half against Chelsea and Cleverly has had a very good game. Why can't we play like that.

Silva is certainly 'hot' at the moment. Strange that I read this week that he had little input on the players Watford signed 'in the window'.

Must be a bloody good coach, then!

He has no input, Phil. The Watford model is that they are owned by the Pozzo family. Watford is one of several clubs they own.

Their model is to sign lots of young talent and move them around their various clubs to develop and sell them. They then take money out of the club. It's all about making a profit from player sales. Which means they will only be too happy to sell Silva.

As for the purchases, I'm sure if Silva found a gem, they'd sign him, but they already have a scouting network setup that spans their family of clubs. So yes, he has very little say on signings other than to perhaps request they move certain players from their other clubs, now that Watford has rapidly risen to be their biggest club and certainly best money maker.

Like I said... Watford are not afraid of the Premier League Champions!

Yep, get on that phone to Silva now!

Should be out of sight by now – they're battering Chelsea!

Marco Silva for Everton please.

Watford reducing football to a simple game. Play short one twos and move into space once you play the pass. The key is the distance between the players when making those passes. They're usually 10 yards from each other at most, not 20-30 yards like Everton players.

This is what amazes me sometimes. We go to Chelsea expecting a 5-0 drubbing whereas Watford turn up and have the balls to have a go.

For me the players have to take the lion share for our appalling attitude at times. There is a massive psychological problem at Everton that still hasn't been a addressed since the Moyes era.

Exactly David, you can see the coaching right now. This is what we need. We don't need to sell everyone and start again, we need a manager who can coach the players and sort it out on the training ground. For sure, we should still sign a striker and a couple more players in January, but someone like Silva could salvage this squad.

But why should professional footballers need coaching in pass and move, Steve? I think what sets Watford apart and what set Leicester apart a couple of years ago, is the opposite of coaching: they do the obvious things well, at pace and without fear.

Arguably Watford are not as talented as us, but boy oh boy are they organized! Cleverley pulling the strings and showing our £45mill man how it's done!

I'm watching Watford here getting tore into these so-called superstars, refusing to stand off and give them space and admire them which is what we do. Grit, fight and a willingness to die for the cause, and no shortage of skill and bravery.

Then you think of the shite we've been serving up, it would make you weep. No heart, no fight, no pride in the jersey... overpaid, overhyped cowards not fit to wear the shirt.

Watford will rue those missed chances. They should have won this game.

Sad times watching the Chelsea manager jump into the fans when they score. Yet we have a Dutch bellend who says "Everton" instead of 'we' or 'us'! Koeman out and take the jock and front bench with you.

Yes, Watford should have won that... at one stage they were all over Chelsea and missed some very good chances.

In the end the score flattered Chelsea and Watford had them on the ropes.

4-2 Chelsea. Hard on Watford that. They could easily have won that or drawn if chances had been taken but Batshuayi (should he be an Everton player if the transfer team had done it's job?) the difference. Could have had a hat-trick. Heard they were letting him go in January but that may be looking doubtful now. I think hes got 7 or 8 in all comps this season.

It's the kind of defeat that if Koeman had suffered, we could accept. We don't lose like that, we roll over and try to keep the score down.

What a game that was. Watford shot themselves in the foot by missing at least three clear open-goal chances. I think it was the same player each time too, crazy. That was what football should be, entertaining!

Watford had 'em on the ropes but let them back into it.

Silva might turn out to be another Bobby Bullshitter... time will tell!

Leicester, Bournemouth, Huddersfield all winning. Bottom three, here we come.

Fun stuff at Huddersfield. Route 1 for their second goal. Love it. Jose looking sad.

I never thought I would say this, but I want us to play the same way as Watford playing this season!

Lukaku turns provider at Huddersfield, brilliant cross from out wide. Hudders now under the cosh...

Yep Silva is flav of the month. No thanks.

4 mins of Fergie time for Jose, desperate stuff as Huddersfield hold on for hopefully a great win!

Yes! Well done, David Wagner!

Rafa up to 6th with Newly promoted Newcastle and no money spent. Fat Spanish Waiter getting things done though.

Never thought I would say this, but I want us to play the way watford are playing this season.

Fantastic goal from Boufal to win it for Saints, running through half the West Brom team from deep in his own half... Brilliant!

I have a vague recollection of a player in Blue doing something like that once against Newcastle...

Spurs 2-0 Liverpool after 12 minutes! ... small mercies.

Spurs 4-1, isn't it sad when that becomes the highlight of the day?

At least Spurs are cheering my day up.

Some “consolation“ seeing media darling Klopp on the sidelines. He's got a right cob on.

Fuck the Red Shite, I couldn't give a flying fuck about them. We are in the shit and fuck them.