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Raymond Fox
1 Posted 25/10/2025 at 12:48:07
I have a feeling we will win this one, but I think we are going to need to score 2 goals.

They are a very decent side and have scored 14 goals to our 9, so it's going to be a difficult game against possibly the best manager in the League.

The neutral view is:- Everton 11/8. Spurs 2/1. 11/5 Draw approx odds.

So we are fancied to win the game but for it to be a tight one.

I'm going for a 2-1 win, it's time we scored a few.

Paul Kossoff
2 Posted 25/10/2025 at 15:15:29
If we have a go at this lot, we will beat them. They have a couple of wallies in the defence, and Grealish and Co should take advantage of that.

Beto or Barry? Either one, by law of averages, are due to score, but I think it's about time Moyes listened to me. I've been saying play a false 9 set up with no recognised striker.

Let any of the forwards take that spot when the chance comes, they are all better on the ball and at finishing than Beto or Barry.

Right-back is the worry: against Man City, twice O'Brien was pulled central and left the full-back slot empty; he's a centre half and will naturally go to his position. Play Coleman against Spurs.

I hope we don't do this old, first half bad, second half good against this lot as we will slip up. As Raymond says, 2 - 1 to the boys in Royal Blue.

Andy Crooks
3 Posted 25/10/2025 at 15:30:06
Like it, Paul!!
Paul Kossoff
4 Posted 25/10/2025 at 15:39:11
Ta Andy. Today's joke:

I could immediately feel it getting wetter and wetter.

I took my finger back out and within seconds she was going down on me.

"I really need a new fucking boat," I thought to myself.😁

Frank Sheppard
5 Posted 25/10/2025 at 16:19:15
Right-back is indeed a problem, but not as much as centre-forward.

Time to give a series of starts for the youngster, as yet unproven, scored lots where he was before, and is good in the air, and has good movement……

Rather than the frustrating and underwhelming, tried and found wanting, poor in the air, with poor movement and ambles round like a tourist alternative.

Mike Gaynes
6 Posted 25/10/2025 at 20:15:43
Ndiaye nominated this week for African Player of the Year.
Ralph Basnett
7 Posted 26/10/2025 at 06:37:28
I would start Barry; if Moyes sees something in him, that first goal might be the one to start something.

Beto is about as much use as a pair of boobs to a nun.

Liam Mogan
8 Posted 26/10/2025 at 08:58:41
I hope Moyes has some sort of plan apart from his usual sit back and play on the break approach against 'big' Champions League clubs.

In my opinion, we need to be more proactive and versatile in our approach. Especially in targeting opposition weaknesses.

Take the RS's recent implosion. It was obvious to anyone who had watched them the back end of last season into the start of this that it was coming. Their defence is creaking, especially exposed against a high line and direct balls into the box. The midfield can be easily by-passed on the transition.

Yet we just sat back and did nothing in the first half, allowing them control and the inevitable. We need more than this tired and hackneyed approach, especially at home.

Got no axe to grind with Moyes (overall, he's a decent manager), but he does need to widen his approach and be more fluid at times.

Robert Tressell
9 Posted 26/10/2025 at 09:04:57
Liam, you are totally right. However, our lack of pace and width makes it extremely difficult to do what you are suggesting.

Unfortunately, our strange summer recruitment leaves us with some talented players, but less equipped to take on the big boys than some teams with possibly inferior players but the pace and width to stretch opponents.

Paul Kossoff
10 Posted 26/10/2025 at 14:04:35
2-1 win for the boys in blue.
Si Cooper
11 Posted 26/10/2025 at 14:20:26
Looking at the League table and Spuds’ typically patchy performance, this feels like a ‘nothing’ game that has quite a lot riding on it.
Lose and we’re left hovering just above the detritus, win and we are still clutching the coat-tails of the ‘elite’.
Hopefully the players are still ‘connected’ more to the Crystal Palace game than the Citeh one.
The new stadium must remain our ‘holdfast’. Come on you ‘cock-baiting’ Blues!
Jim Wilson
12 Posted 26/10/2025 at 14:41:48
Pawson is referee!!!!

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