Dyche tired of talking about xG: ‘You have to score’

The limitations imposed by the P&S rules are starting to bite. Having said that, I don't see the point of bringing in Chermiti and Dobbin with 2 minutes left to play.

Dyche's frustrations should at least result in some drastic changes in the setup. Godfrey, Onana, Harrison and Beto to make way for Patterson, Gana, Dobbin and Calvert-Lewin, me thinks.

Get them in for extra training with someone who knows how to score. That means bringing someone new in because we've had no one like that since Lineker.

We destroy strikers because we are too nice and too emotional. A striker should show no fear and no emotion yet we seem to encourage more of it and wonder why our strikers keep spaffing it into the stands.

Roll onto where we are now and the same 11 get picked every week regardless of performance. This leads to complacency, lethargy and a lack of edge.

As others have commented, the lack of options and the small squad have all led to this but Dyche doesn't help by not dropping underperforming players and giving the fringe players a chance.

DCL needs to be taken out of the limelight for a bit and give Beto a run, McNeil needs dropping as does Harrison for starters. We need to get some competition for places back and Dyche needs to give the kids and fringe players the chance to cement a place. Godfrey is doing a solid job defending but we need a RB who can overlap and support in attack as well.

Continuing to do what we are doing isn't working!

His subs are far too late and like for like once Plan A is out the window. The players don't seem to enjoy what they are being asked to do or the style of play he chooses to implement so the buck stops firmly at his door.

It's now 10 without a win; IMO, should be gone end of the season even if we stay up.

He was awful last game and has been getting gradually worse each week. He clearly can't play on the right side. Shift him over to the left… or to the bench.

That is a problem. Granted he could have better players. An increasing problem is the lack of concentration in injury time.

It is a regular occurrence for 9+ minutes now and Everton players need to be aware of this and concentrate.

If we find a goalscorer, then we are in the mix at the top, not the bottom, of the table.

Give Beto an extended run. There are goals in that fella. Calvert-Lewin will look after himself and young Chermiti is going to be interesting.

The players need a mental shift but so do we as fans. It's a reciprocal reinforcement. Believe in them and they'll believe in themselves. Obviously, there are no guarantees but it gives us the best chance.

We played some good stuff yesterday, you know.

The stats evening out across the season to a sensible level, to bring our shots-to-goals ratio up to middling to average, instead of despicably poor, should see us on an impressive winning run.

The team have to continue to give every effort for every second and every minute of every match. Should they do this, and the stats do even out, it shall be wonderful.

I won't hold my breath of course, 'lies, damn lies and statistics' and all that.

We must stop helping our opponents by being so profligate in front of goal though, to prove this team are not relegation fodder.

UTFT.

Calvert-Lewin needs a bit of overtime on that one, then he might not be so profligate in front of goal.

Godfrey is good with last-ditch blocks and tackles but in all other respects is much worse than Patterson. He rarely gets forward in support and, when he does, his crosses are woeful. His heading ability for a so-called centre-back is also woeful.

I don't think it's technique, it's mental dread.

Watch the footage of the ball bouncing off the wrong side of his head when running onto a perfect McNeil cross vs Luton just begging to be buried then tell me that's not bad technique.

He's not going to blunder every header but a top pro shouldn't blunder any.

They obviously feel the pressure and it is affecting their finishing. Hopefully we can get a result on the road and bring some of that home.

In the past few days, Dyche has been reported as saying his regular forwards have a personal choice as to whether they try to improve but, a day or two later, it was reported that Chermiti has been required to undertake extra coaching at Finch Farm in order to improve enough to be worthy of a starting place.

I don't recall anyone who's spent their young years at Everton ever looking like scoring from outside the box – for decades.

Shooting hard and accurately is a technique that can be easily learned from coaching. Amateurs know that – so why do so many in our squad fail to grasp that nettle, and why does a rightly increasingly desperate manager allow it to continue?

If you keep doing the same thing over and over again when things are going wrong, why expect anything to get better?

Sort the team out. You're paid Rock Star wages, sort it out, for fuck's sake!

Whose fault is it? Dyche's intransigeant tactics which have indoctrinated the players? Or Garner's for not the brains to vary the routine? There you have the player's fault versus the manager's fault argument encapsulated.

I always feel anxious when get a corner or a free kick close to the opposition's goal because the breakaways are not properly covered.

I feel very anxious when we are chasing the game, I think it is down to both the manager and players.

I use it as an example to highlight the growing intolerance towards Dyche. I'm not excusing him of mistakes with team selection, dire tactics and late substitutions but he doesn't make players miss chances or fail to engage their brains.

The players have to take responsibility sometimes. It's not always the manager's fault.

Yes, I agree entirely with that, I think Dyche overall is doing a good job with the small squad he was left with and not being able to add to it in January.

He makes mistakes like all managers, even the best, Man City hammered Liverpool at Anfield last season but went hellbent on winning the game and left themselves wide open to Liverpool's breakaway goal even though a draw would have been a very good result.

Everton do it far too often and it is down to Dyche with his pre-match talk to make the players realise that and for the players to be sensible and professional enough to be aware of the danger on the field.

Of course I'm not suggesting that we have been playing some sort of champagne football but, for the most part, we really have been creating more chances than our opponents. It's extremely frustrating but no manager can put the ball in the net for his players!

I highly doubt that our forwards are practising shooting drills any less than other teams but, at this point, it feels more mental. Like a curse or a hoodoo over certainly players that is consequently making them stretch or tense or rush.

For example, with the McNeil chance on Saturday, the ball is actually played through to Harrison in a really good spot, he could easily have shot straight away across goal and, if he gets it right, then it's in the corner but instead he takes a touch and waits.

He does find a good ball (that McNeill should definitely score from) but his unwillingness to take the initial shot speaks volumes (keep in mind Soucek scored from a far less likely place). Very few players out there believe they can score at the moment.

That is why I would stick with Beto for a while. He's not as good an all round player as Calvert-Lewin but, at the moment, he looks the more likely to score and seems to get into decent positions, even if his technique is rusty.

McNeil and Harrison really need either to step up or take a rest. It's a real shame that Danjuma has been injured and I think if he'd have played as many minutes as Harrison or McNeil, then he'd have at least 4 or 5 goals to his name by now.

Right now, we can't really bring in players to watch, we need them performing.

We signed Campbell and he had an impact.
We signed Jelavic for £5 million, he had an impact.

I mentioned months ago, in January we could and should have got Shankland from Hearts. We could have got him for the same price we got Jelavic all those years ago.

My mate John McGinn. who I raved about. went to Villa for nothing.

We spent God knows how much on Beto? We really have to wise up. We don't beed to spend millions on players.

I give you Coleman, Sheedy, Reid, Harper, Gray et al…

Footy stats are probably the most misleading guff out there.

Stones is also a prime example but I believe Moyes was very reluctant to sign him when we bought him.

We have to use every penny on getting players who can come in and make an impact. “Potential” can come later.

I mentioned just some of the players we signed who were crocked or over the hill but did the business. We have to look more at the Cahill, Neville, Tarkowski market and hope we can pick up the odd gem like Branthwaite.

Shankland might be the answer if we are relegated - twice. He is very firmly in the Alfredo Morelos "good in Scotland" brigade. Not one for the Premier League.

I do however agree that good attacking options don't need to cost a fortune. Very talented players can be sourced from low cost markets (which needn't be hugely exotic either), and especially at U22 level.

What's your opinion on Adam Idah from Celtic? I watched him a couple of times and he stayed close to the goal, scored a few, all inside the box, and seems very useful in the air.

However, the only player back in our own half was, incredibly, Gomes; who should have been at the edge of the West Ham box and who was going to be, and proved to be, utterly useless at defending a break.

Both him and our wonderful DoF want sacking now before it's too late. Get Carsley back, I beg you!

Derek, that's your opinion, back it up with facts. You are confident we will be relegated. Why? If it wasn't for the deduction, we would nearly be safe. Carsley??

I can see him potentially following Southgate's path. There were even rumours of him taking the Ireland job. It's possible he would like to remain in international football than the circus of club football.

His recent change of tone gives me some hope the penny has dropped.