Bowler strike seals Premier League 2 title

So this is what it feels like to fight for a league title

Does anyone know if it's on Everton TV? I have looked and can't see anything, I think for a Club of our stature the Media side of things wants revamping. Every time in the summer pre-season they show the pre-season games, but you can almost always guarantee there will be some cock up 'due to technical difficulties' whereas other clubs seem to be way ahead of our Cave TV Set-Up!

Even Clubs in Scotland Dundee, Hibs, etc, all have better TV facilities than we do.

Our commercial, both in branding and in communicating is possibly 5th rate.

So I doubt very much there will be any coverage of the youngsters which is really poor from our own official website. When they do the service / streaming is so poor it just leaves you frustrated.

If they win some honours they may get a couple of paragraphs but otherwise the only news you ever hear is when someone signs a professional contract.

It would be interesting to hear who Unsy thinks is worth a shot in the first team.

That winning feeling at any level can help bread confidence. Good luck to the lads!

I like what I see from him every time he plays.

I've planned for a 4 o'clock start and an 8 o'clock finish, but if we are a few minutes late getting underway, it will still finish at a reasonable time allowing for further discussion, and of course an extra tipple for those who require it.

A copy of the plan is on its way to you, feel free to ring me to discuss it. Best wishes John,

Dennis Adeniran very impressive. Halloway and Broadhead not having a bad game. Bit disappointed with the front two of Sambou and Hornby.

Lets hope we cling on and win the title again

Thanks Srdjan, like Brent said his link didn't work! Not the greatest game but at least we have a goal on the board, they will have to come out more in the second half, so hopefully we can open them up again.

Couldn't you have sold tonight to the missus as a romantic night out under lights, live entertainment and a Clayton pie thrown in..?

Points to Unsworth with a smile on his face.. Unsy points back.

Really didn't like how we withdrew so deep and allowed them to come on to us. Messy tackle for their penalty. Sorry for the slip by their lad, but...it gives us silverware.

There's some good lads in this group, but a few also disappointed me tonight.

Thought Brighton's LB Cochrane was MOTM but the boys showed the way for the first team now with two championships in 3 years.

Brian W, very impressed with Josh, took his goal well and should have had another.

Was actually a good game considering what was at stake. As Derek says, there are a few good lads in the U23's. Might be worth trying one of two out in the first team. However, I believe they still have another trophy to aim for, so no point in denting their confidence!!

There's a lot of talent in the side and I can see any one of Feeney, Gibson, Gordon, Broadhead, Bowler or Hornby making it into the first team friendly fixtures this summer.

We're spoilt for choice. I've always Anthony Evans and he's another who might get taken a look at. I'm not familiar with Astley, but I hear he's rated by a few people.

Let's just hope at least a couple of the lads can make it to the first team and join Tom Davies and Mason Holgate. I fear Dowall and Kenny might not make it, at least not for club contending for the top 6.

Did you watch the game? Brighton was a handful, but we had many a chance to get a second goal.

We were still carving out chances when with 20 minutes to go, Rhino brought on Matty Foulds - a defender - for Frazer Hornby - an attacker. It completely changed the dynamic of the game.

We started to sit deeper and deeper with absolutely no out ball. The defence just hoofed it forward where it fell unchallenged in the Brighton half as there was no Everton player pushing on beyond the half way line.

Inevitably, Brighton kept coming at us wave after wave and we had many a dodgy moment, not least when we conceded a penalty that their lad fortunately for us slipped when taking and ballooned high.

I thought it was a strange tactic to employ with so much of the game to play when we were still causing them problems going forward. I'd go as far to say it was uncharacteristic of how Unsworth normally sets up his teams.

I think it is a completely legitimate observation to make that Unsworth's substitution and tactical switch nearly cost us securing the title last night.

Did you watch the game? Brighton was a handful, but we had many a chance to get a second goal.

We were still carving out chances when with 20 minutes to go, Rhino brought on Matty Foulds - a defender - for Frazer Hornby - an attacker. It completely changed the dynamic of the game.

We started to sit deeper and deeper with absolutely no out ball. The defence just hoofed it forward where it fell unchallenged in the Brighton half as there was no Everton player pushing on beyond the half way line.

Inevitably, Brighton kept coming at us wave after wave and we had many a dodgy moment, not least when we conceded a penalty that their lad fortunately for us slipped when taking and ballooned high.

I thought it was a strange tactic to employ with so much of the game to play when we were still causing them problems going forward. I'd go as far to say it was uncharacteristic of how Unsworth normally sets up his teams.

I think it is a completely legitimate observation to make that Unsworth's substitution and tactical switch nearly cost us securing the title last night.

Gibson who came from Newcastle looks a class act. He appears to have the leadership qualities to be a wry good captain. From what I could hear in the Park End he was the one cajoling his team mates for greater focus and effort in the final stages, even after his own mistake for the penalty.

Bowler came from QPR and is an old style wizard of the dribble with the ability to give defenders twisted blood. He seems to have matured physically in the last twelve months. If he makes goal scoring a consistent part of his game he will be a player to be reckoned with.

Bowler and Gibson stood out for me and look like they could have a future. Not so impressed with Galloway, though.

Even less impressed that only two of the four refreshment counters were open when Everton must have known the Park End would be pretty packed.

Well done lads and hopefully a good future in the EFC first team for a few of these lads,and elsewhere in football.

It is a HUGE step to Premier League football, and so many promising and gifted young lads fail to make it. The Premier League demands consistency week after week, not one great game in ten. Fame attracts them to women, night clubbing, newspaper following, cameras and mobile phone clippings showing them in various poses not liked by club managers, all sorts of distractions.

Only the 100% dedication to their trade gets them to the very top... so many fall at these hurdles.

Kenny, Robinson, Holgate, Pennington, Connelly, Williams, Davies, Dowell, Calvert-Lewin.

I doubt this lot will be as successful (they strike me as a good team rather than talented individuals), but if we get sell on clauses for those who move on and get a few playing ourselves then we'll have done well.

It's a far cry from a few years ago where 1 or 2 seemed to stay somewhere in league football and the rest drifted to non league or out of football completely.

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