Silva: We gifted the game to Wolves

One of many. Time for Marco to earn his wage or fuck off, to be quite blunt.

Are they just brainless? It's instinct to jump and attack the ball whether you are zonal or man marking surely to God?

Will coaching them make a difference or do they just genuinely not like defending as personalities?

It's hard to imagine leaders of men and granite bastards like Dave Watson, Kevin Ratcliffe, Alan Stubbs and Richard Gough relentlessly conceding these types of goals on set-pieces.

Silva changes nothing and is a busted flush.

I started this season full of hope and was happy to give him as long as he needed but he has lost it. He lost it last season after we showed interest in him at Watford. He has done the same since the derby this season.

It's fucking crazy how we play; the team is full of talent and they don't seem to know how to play together.

Brands really has to earn his money over the next few months, Silva is a waste to space and we deserve something much better.

The way we play is killing the fanbase.

Sort it out, Silva, or fuck off.

He's not in the same league as Roberto Martinez when it comes to spinning and spouting though.

He just can't seem to find a rock big enough to hide under at the moment.

Wolves have a Portuguese manager and a number of Portuguese players. We just have a manager and coaching team that can't organise a team!! We haven't really had a defensive coach since Alan Stubbs left.

If I was captain, that's what I'd be demanding on the pitch.

Something more fundamental is wrong with our club and I suspect Ferguson and his mate Kenwright are something to do with it.

If the players can't execute the zonal marking plan and instructions week after week after week, something is busted .

The defensive plans and instructions are great in theory, but the opposition amazingly seem to know how to counter our strategy every single game.

We lose because of it. Confidence is drained because of it. Marco Silva may lose his job because of it –if he doesn't wise up.

The zonal marking and instructions to the defence are too confusing. Defenders are thinking more about the plans and instructions and the zones than the reality of the dynamic and changing situation unfolding in real time. Our defenders are carrying too much mental clutter and need to get back to the basics of defending.

Its got to the stage were every free-kick or corner seems like 50/50 that the opposition will score.

Marco! Change before it is too late!

We are not boring but predictable. Who next in the hotseat?

I see no green shoots of recovery. I see no style of play that gets me excited. I see poor organisation, a team of individuals who do not help one another out, and a persistence with zonal marking that shows Silva to be Quixotian.

Half a season is not enough time to turn things around completely (unless you are Ole Gunnar Solskjaer), but I thought we'd be moving forward at least. So, with a grimace, I say it's time to get rid. Silva's not the man to take us forward; in fact, I am starting to believe he's not the man to take anyone forward.

Put your smallest player on their biggest lump. What kind of a tactic is that? Talk about destined to fail.

Thank goodness we have such a frenetic, creative forward line to take our minds off the defensive deficiencies.

I don't know the answer and neither does anyone on here with all due respect. It has to be though, a number of things, poor management, poor attitude, a general malaise around the club a curse put on us by some shaman?

Whatever the factors are they need addressing, we need to be run as a professional outfit, ruthless and one-track minded. We are none of those.

It's churlish to blame Kenwright, he just turns up like the rest of us these days.

The visit of Man City may be his downfall, if they turn up properly then, oh my god, we are in for a night...

As Duncan was the best header of the ball I've ever seen, I can only imagine that Silva has told the players to stand still, watch the ball and just hope it drops to them, whereas Duncan would make a little run, jump, head, job done.

I'm not seeing any one-twos, no balls through the middle to Gylfi where he should excel at turning and shooting, no through-balls for Richi to run on to, no nothing, just headless chicken football.

Marco's tactics suck; sack him – give Duncan and Unsy the job till the end of the season... it might just have the Ole Gunnar effect.

Duncan may well have been a great header of a ball, when he could be arsed earning his money, but his best talent has been scrounging a living and he is a fucking superstar at that.

There is some disease/curse running through the club but, as sure as hell, Denise Barrett-Baxendale, Kenwright remaining as chairman, and Marco Silva are not the solution.

We need a hard nut who relates to the players, wont take any shit from Kenwright or the board and runs the club just like Moyes used to.

At the moment, it seems like too many different factions are at work within the club and none of them helps teambuilding.

“I don't quite know what Everton are anymore.”

None of us do, Jermaine.

Duncan should be with his pigeons.

This system and personnel have been used now by Marco since August; it is now February... GO FIGURE, MARCO!!!

I dare say only the spectre of relegation, maybe even actual relegation or Moshiri pulling his investment, à la Lerner, would pull the club together.

A joyless experience, one many feel obligated to.

Arggh!

Again, he clearly picks a team, a formation and sits back... (and it's just so glaringly obvious – and THE ONLY recurring theme for me – just now!!!)... to simply let the game play out like its fucking Football Manager or something!!!

Doesn't he, at least, get mad with the players that they're going to get him the sack, because he can't get them to apply his 'play ethic' with any 'work and fight ethic'???.. Or does he just know how impotent he is, and so his teams are, in this – absolutely fucking essential – department???

He's clearly just another one of these ten-a-bastard-penny merchants who come in to our league, flatter to deceive a short while, then when their team goes back to their shit ways (Yeah ours again!!!) – has NOT ONE idea of how to instill ANY battling qualities into their charges!!! I don't even think that he thinks its part of his job, or what's needed... like setting up what on paper is a half-decent team will – SOMEHOW – see it all magically come together!!!

Again, its what I now truly think of as the 'Armchair Football Manager Syndrome' and its driving me up the fucking wall!!!

So... absolutely, yes, he can fuck right off... and right now!!!

If the defenders aren't doing it are can't get their heads around it, then they are the problem. I don't know which it is. I just know that against Millwall there were ‘zones' with no Everton players in them!

Walcott playing today... What the fuck? He is so low in confidence and out of form yet two of our most creative players Lookman and Bernard are sitting on the bench. James McCarthy should have had some game time long before now but yet never is given a chance to get himself any match fitness. Even young hungry youngsters like Baningime and Dowell would be better options off the bench than say the likes of Sneiderlinn but unfortunately they are not even at our club at present.

I'm not against Zonal marking but the starting position of our defenders looks all wrong when defending set plays. Surely Silva has to take responsibility for this. It doesn't matter whether you are man-marking or using zonal, the players have to attack the ball but, if your starting position is too high leaving a big gap between the defence and goalie, then it's always going to be really difficult.

Jenas is right. Who are we now? From the kick off we just launch the ball aimlessly forward and in recent weeks Digne started firing long throws into the box more in hope than anything. Are we a team that likes to try and play football or have we decided to go against our principles and become like another shite long-ball team like Stoke or Burnley. It's a bit of both at the minute.

I'm very worried that Moshiri will panic and be badly advised by the likes of Kenwright and replace Silva with a dinosaur like Moyes or, as he did the last time, with Allardyce. I would have faith in Brands to get us a decent manager for next season but in the interim period give Arteta a go. It could be like a turning point like Ole at Man Utd.

We have to aim higher than this. Look at Wolves and how they're playing.They are not resorting to the outdated tactics of the likes of Allardyce to get some stability. They're building a team with skilful players and playing a nice brand of football. We actually have some real quality in our team with the likes of Gomes, Lookman, Bernard, Digne. Good footballers but the problem is that Silva seems to be unable to now get our team to play with any cohesion or confidence that is why he I believe he needs to go.

We've already shown earlier in the season that we can match the league leaders away from home whilst playing decent football. only for a poor goalkeeping error we should really have won that match. The talent is there but unfortunately their potential is not being fulfilled under Silva.

Silva has got to change, and bringing in someone to try and help sort out the defence, might not be the worst decision to make, the way things are panning out right now?

I cannot believe we are going to go more games without any prospect of keeping a clean sheet and ultimately winning a game, our only salvation is that there are a couple, maybe four teams worse than us at present so we should avoid relegation.

On a plus note, I would like to thank the manager and team for helping me to embrace disappointment, ridicule, and crush any hope or expectation I had with Everton. I no longer allow it to ruin my weekend.

It is so long since I have been able to watch MotD – has Jimmy Hill done anything with his beard?! You have to laugh or you really would cry...

Predictable and pathetic, the players are scared of their own shadows. They are scared of playing and don't believe in the Everton cause.

The song Blind, by Talking Heads, sums up the state of this club.

“No sense of harmony, no sense of time”, that's this team and tactics. Every week the same after match review, it's so predictable like, the set-up of the team.

I don't see any sacking imminent unless there's some mega scoring defeats the next 2 games, but what ever they do at Finch Farm, must change.

The club is in dire straits, without doubt, but the manager must take stock and hold his hands up and stop playing in this "can't be bothered" manner.

It's killing the club and there's no joy, hasn't been any joy for donkeys years now, watching EFC.

Is it too much to have a rethink and admit it's not working, and start fresh before the team sinks further into the abyss?

How do we sell this club to the new players we have brought in, when we can't even go for 7th now with 13 long hard games to go. This feeling is reminiscent of old Allardyce territory where we genuinely didn't know where the next point might come from, let alone 3 points.

Every team from in the country now knows to get crosses and free kicks into our box as often as possible because we can't deal with it. I did rally behind Silva in the end after not being happy at his appointment, but he has become so predictable, I can't any longer.

Can't we get a tried and tested manager next time that's won lots of trophies, rather than this long line of pretenders to the throne? Not some chancer who won Micky Mouse trophies in much weaker countries.

Exactly, how many times do we lose things in the "moment"?

Fucking idiot, I hate the way he sets up defensively. It's crazy and after so many goals conceded at set-pieces it's also unprofessional – unless he wants to get sacked and another pay-off??

We were too close to our own goal line and made it easy for Neves to float a ball between our back line and the goal.

When the kick was taken we were flat-footed, which is inexcusable, but we should have been blocking the runs so the runners couldn't meet the ball.

The whole piece was naive from start to finish. I don't put this solely down to the manager, I put it down to inexperience on the part of the goalkeeper and a lack of winning mentality, concentration and leadership on the part of Seamus Coleman and others.

A huge No to Ferguson, Cahill, Stubbs, Neville, Unsworth etc. Great if you want to set us back 5 years. No pretenders to the throne.

These are millionaires with no confidence in their selves as Premier League football players. It doesn't take much to knock them off form, which is very concerning. No matter what manager we get in, it's still Everton and their own psyche.

The last several years with below-par performances and more derby losses or faux pas (Pickford etc) have created a type of long-term negative psychological profile.

The long-term solution lies with better scouting. Hungry, young players from lower leagues always seem to have a point to prove regardless of their talent. What I wouldn't give for a Cahill.

I am not sure the players know what it is the manager wants, or if he is not getting it across, or they listen and don't buy into his methods.