Danjuma takes up the rallying cry

Does anyone really feel that Everton are hard to score against?

Does anyone really think that our players work hard enough off the ball to try and stop the opposition from crossing and shooting?

I'll be honest: prior to last week's game at Sheffield Utd, I thought we may have kept a clean sheet against a team that we should have enjoyed playing against as it becomes a battle, not an intricate pass-and-move lesson like Man City etc etc.

The fact is that Sheffield United almost scored three goals against us but for Pickford. Sheffield United are not known for scoring bags of goals

We are too easy to play against and, until that changes, it's hard to take too many positives.

Right on. Straight talk about the focus point. We obviously have enough to get back into games and have been in position for points. Figuring out the assignments after loss of possession is the key. If we can get someone to do a McCarthy diversion there is enough pace to prevent cut throughs. Then it's just down to maintaing shape recovering to our end.

I just might go find some cheap ass Yank beer called Cobra for when he scores. Didn't Fred ‘the Hammer' Williamson do their commercials in the 70s? I think I've seen some Cobra 40 oz in the last few years at some gas stations.

Also, I think we will see something we've not seen for a long time this season. A bit of threat from the bench. If Beto starts, then Calvert-Lewin and Dobbin for the last 20 minutes will cause problems and get a few important goals. If Calvert-Lewin starts, Beto and Dobbin to the same effect.

Good to hear optimism amongst the players. Beats the negativity that is growing like a festering boil amongst the supporters…

Good man, it's great to hear positive vibes.

Good to hear positive language from the players. Hopefully they grow in confidence. Starting next Sunday.

I see Heitinga has joined West Ham? A decent coach by all accounts.

After the Arsenal game, I can see us steadily edging towards mathematical safety.

We used to have plenty of Number 10s a couple of seasons ago: Sigurdsson, Rooney, Klaassen... and now we have none. One month ago, we had plenty of wingers… and now we have 1 fully healthy - him and just 2 more, McNeil and Harrison. 2 of them are on loan...

This is the bloke who shafted us at the very last minute to go and join Spurs. Probably didn't get any decent takers and decided we were his last resort for a move.

I'll await judgement on his footballing abilities and contribution at the end of the season.

He is obviously loving it at the club and we need a few more like him instead of the two cowards who have just abandoned us.

Now they are pricks.

Take all this with a huge pinch of salt and let's see how they all do next game.

Talking the talk is one thing walking the walk is another thing entirely. Fingers crossed it's the latter

Not Pickford though. he plays for Everton and they don't count. Not media darlings, just a team and supporters to take the piss out of, as often as possible.

I don't think you'll see the level of acclaim, that you might want, however, according to the Everton OS:

Jordan Pickford has been nominated for the Premier League's Castrol Save of the Month award for August.

The Everton keeper's incredible second-half stop against Wolves on Saturday 26 August joins a shortlist of five other impressive saves, including Jose Sa's in the same game, as well as efforts from Guglielmo Vicario, Mark Flekken, Alphonse Areola and Alisson Becker.

Just after the hour mark, Wolves winger Neto delivered an outswinging free-kick from the left side of the Everton penalty area. Pickford had to react quickly as the ball deflected as it bounced, firing towards the Blues goal.

The England No.1 sharply reached down to his right, palming the ball away with a flick of his right hand in a world-class display of goalkeeping.

It's a prize that Jordan has won previously, notably for keeping Nunez at bay in a derby game at Goodison last year.

He's terrible.

As I say, he at least has held up a degree of his side of the bargain so far so he can be afforded some slack. If you're tired of what the players say on the official site, the best thing is to just not read it, either there or here!

I believe it when he and Beto say they have respected us as fans, want to play in front of us and fight to change our results. More importantly, I believe that they believe what they are saying.

Some clued up and less gullible fans clearly don't. But it's hard to carry that 20:20 insight on unwarranted personal insults.

Give it half a dozen games eh?

We should have a ToffeeWeb predictions table on who will be the next player to throw a speech out, have a fantasy league table.

I am going for Ashley Young for the next one, got to be in it to win it.

If we keep performing and once the new forwards settle, the results will come.

Pienaar Tony. Currently coaching the AJax U-18s. I'd love him to be at Finch Farm. And to repeat myself, coax Leon Osman away from his pundit job and get him on the training ground.

I've been very critical of the old boys club in the past, but if they are capable I don't have objection to ex-players being employed. But choose the right ones.

I can't escape the fact that he is only a loanee and will be gone in 8 months. Or is a purchase option part of of the arrangement?

What I'd do right now to have another Kevin Mirallas.

Or rather you'd just have sideways Sid's like Onana and Gana and Garner who we all convince ourselves that the XG's are amazing but when you look at their actual contribution during the games live with plain old eyes it tells a different story.

Outside of Beto, I think Danjuma will be the only other Everton player to score near 10 goals.

Calvert-Lewin will probably get 5 or 6 that's if he ever puts a run of games together.

I googled Jack Harrison and this is what the first result showed up...

'Jack Harrison is the people's hero. He's omni-competent, tenacious, unstoppable, and yet, just a regular guy. He is valor in the physical with single minded devotion to a cause bigger than him on and off the screen. This is largely due to Jack holding a black sash in the dark ancient art of Kune Tao Kung Fu'

Guess this is not our Jack Harrison :)

I trust Dyche to slowly clean up the disgraceful mess that he has been left, from the top end, and believe it would be so much better for our football club if someone else was starting at the very bottom because the whole structure needs to be aligned imo, mate.

If Everton got Arab money tomorrow, then I would still want them to sort out the club from the bottom and spend a lot of time properly building up the club.

I would invest millions into the academy, even if I don't totally agree with the present system, because I believe it starts concentrating on kids way too early in their development. (There is always a contradiction of sorts, in this crazy world!)

This is all it takes for Waldorf and Statler from the Muppet Show to show up on TW and give the footballer a good kicking. Maybe the comments aren't aimed at the old guys, maybe they're to keep kids interested.

As a lad I couldn't wait to read Charles Buchan's Football Monthly, I'd devour anything relating to football in any paper or magazine and, if it was about Everton, even better!

So maybe the miserable old sods on here can just skip over Danjuma's comments and say eff all, there are plenty of kids who no doubt hoovered it up and enjoyed it.

Christ on a bike, find someone else to moan at.

"Have they ever had one of the fans on the official site giving their opinion, and by fan I mean somebody who isn't and never has been a paid employee of the club?"

And as soon as they did, what would said poster be saying...?!

Name names you charlatan!
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ps. I wasn't a schoolteacher so I'm in the clear.😇

How's Melbourne?

OK, there may be one or two stereotypes used there but as I've never been to Melbourne it's the best I can do.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

Link

The lad seems genuinely happy to be here, he's contributing, and he went to Spurs because we faffed around sacking Lampard and Tottenham jumped in and got it over the line.

I honestly couldn't give a toss that he went to a team chasing a Champions Leaague spot rather than trying to avoid relegation. He's not an Everton fan, most players would probably do the same.

I'd sooner hear a rallying cry from him than a moan about the club. He seems a real character, good luck to the lad. I'd kill for a player like Mirallas, pace and a goal threat, and I love his goal celebrations.

And greetings from North Wales!

I've been to Sydney. That'd be a pretty accurate Sydney guy if the hat was pink. My bird at that time had booked us into a backpackers hostel in Kings Cross. 😳

Everton are quite easy to play against and although they may start scoring more regularly now, the art of containment is a big problem.

Poor passing and tackling needs a big improvement otherwise they could still be in the league's lower echelon for quite some time as even teams like the Blades rub their hands at the prospect of playing Everton.

Usual drivel from the club website. If we are relying on the likes of Danjuma to keep us up and rally the troops we are in trouble.

God, I feel old!!

UTFT!

Also Dominic out training in the sun, looking like his normal handsome self and not the elephant man.

https://www.evertonfc.com/galleries/3677408/blues-train-during-international-break

I may have missed it and Lyndon might well think it, but I just don't see it here, though I'll have another look.

And well said Jack 60, a thought for the Jones family.

Some nice words from Harry Kane regarding his friend Dele and his chances of re-launching his PL career...

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/38354349/harry-kane-backs-brave-dele-alli-revive-playing-career

Lyndon #27 laid it out pretty plainly afterwards. although John K. will probably see it differently!

A bit frustrating that we have strengthend the front line at last and now the defence is vulnerable; we need a centre-half and a left-back… it scares me that, if Branthwaite or Tarkowski are injured, we are stuffed!