“We lacked the quality to get a goal” - David Moyes on the Manchester United loss

"Narrowly" is our middle name under Moyes, we even draw "narrowly".

Then why did you have your two slowest players at centre-back and your quickest best centre-back at left-back?

"We weren't organised well enough off the ball."

How about in-game management and recognizing this during the game?

Why not put Garner back into midfield to strengthen up, Mykolenko on at left-back and move Branthwaite to centre-back?

Why not have Armstrong's youth, energy and vigour in midfield instead of Gana who clearly looks like he's struggling?

If you needed to counter their pace through the middle, there's some suggestions, Davey.

That's why Garner, Dewsbury-Hall and Armstrong should have been the midfield last night. If you haven't the conviction to pick your most attacking team, instead of copping out and picking your best midfielder at fullback, and your best centre-back with pace at left-back... That's how Sesko scored.

And playing Armstrong as a winger... totally senseless. And yet again trying and justify playing Gueye and Iroegbunam, who couldn't even get a pass right.

A total cop-out by Moyes.

The total salary of everyone on TW is probably less than Moyes earns yet we appear to have a far better understanding of what is wrong and how to fix it. More importantly, how not to create it in the first place.

And someone on the other thread wins a prize for predicting he would say exactly that.

Moyes predictable?

Are you sure? ;)

Why on earth are we playing two of our better players out of position because we are still, after all this time, full-backless!

Three good right-backs: Jimenez at Bournemouth, Munoz at Palace, Aina at Forest. We'll still be trying to persuade Tete to join us…

Moyes's main priority is defence. It's all hard work and graft, closing down, passing sideways and backwards for most of the game.

Terrible football.

The sooner he is gone, the sooner we can progress.

Poor Davey is being hung by his own petard in making so much progress. You have to feel for the guy, especially as our home form is so 'eminently fixable'.

He's actually using the Bowie/Eno cut-up technique that played a big part in the classic 'Berlin' trilogy. Always looking for new initiatives is the Master of the Mediocre.

With the battle cry of "we could be heroes, just for one day".

Our lack of quality up top could be our downfall once again.

Hopefully this will be addressed during the summer. Along with a couple of full-backs the manager can actually trust.

There was a moment before their goal, they broke away and we were lucky not to concede... So, Moyes and the players already knew that they were switched off, they needed to be cautious.

There's some material to analyse from this game, and I hope Moyes will be able to see the missing round peg.

Tarkowski needs to be put out to pasture -- he just gets slower week by week. I know Keane gets a lot of stick on here but he covered the run of Mbuemo while Tarkowski was left for dead by Sesko, so Mbuemo only had to square the ball and it was odds-on a goal.

Unless injuries occur, the team for Newcastle will be the same as last night, but with O'Brien returning to right[back and Garner replacing Tim Iroegbunam.

Andrew #9. Spot on. Being the isolated Everton striker cannot be much fun. Calvert-Lewin filled the same role admirably for several years until injury took it's toll.

We only seem to have about 35% possession (or less against the better teams) which tends to explain why we create so few chances.

And please don't get me started on our "strategy" for corners.

We haven't got any best players apart from Branthwaite, and now he's been shunted out to left-back.

The rest of them, I wouldn't bat an eyelid if any of them were sold in the summer. That squad is average at best... and that squad has contributed to this shocking home form.

4 players out of position.
The shitest midfield combo we could field.
What's a full back, Davey?
What's a substitute, Davey?

Keane kept pace with their breakaway. Donkey Tarkowski and not one midfielder was in sight.

Davey "I knew they'd do that" Moyes admits he knew they would do that, so he put slow, slower and slomo as a centre spine (Tarkowski, Gueye, and Useless Tim Iroegbunam).

Keep the effervescent George out of the frame until its too late.

The game was nowhere near what you spewed as your post match analysis. However. What's a lie? No FDR chiefs to witness this damnation.

Barret-Baxendale-Kinnear was or wasnt there. Matters not a jot. He'll lie like you, Davey, to impress whoever gives a shit at FDR.

Coz the team aren't fighting relegation doesn't make the fans bellends.

Last season, I said "How are we going to get Tarkowski out of the team so we could get Branthwaite and O'Brien in?" Out the blue, Tarkowski got injured and missed about the last 12 games...

Can it happen again please because now Tarkowski has the captain's armband, he is in the safety zone -- just like Coleman has been for the last 4 seasons.

Everton now need someone who doesn't care about all these hangers-on and losers... Simple: let's start fresh and have a proper go before we end up with a half-full wonderful stadium.

The owners must stand up and boot Moyes out and support the new manager with some top players... simple!

Serious question: Are we doing this to thank him for his previous stint with us, thanking him for returning, or for what he has done this season???

I simply don't get the adulation for a man who left us, came back, and is serving up this rubbish. Why are the fans in love with David Moyes? I've been supporting the club since 1962 and I'd like an explanation.

No matter how badly we play, we get the same excuses. Get shot of defensive Dave as soon as the final whistle blows in our last game.

But why the fuck are you on about Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?

In context, perhaps you are trying to refer to our great leaders, TFG? The Friedkin Group? Or have I missed the point completely?

Not without due cause as I've been struck numb and dumb for the past 24 hours after not only watching but trying to generate coherent commentary on last night's shit show.

I thought the football could not get much worse to watch... but clearly I was wrong.

Perhaps this Barret-Baxendale-Kinnear of whom you speak is the combination harbinger of zombie football past and present? But must it also be our future for the foreseeable under Dour Dreary Davey???

I apologise. My mind keeps switching the letters TFG into FDR

Buggered if I know why. No hidden meaning. Please don't try to work it out.

Like Moyes cant help transfering CH into LB.

CM into RB or CM into RW etc.

Your description of the thing that happened Monday night, was exactly what I saw too.

To me Kinnear is just a male version of the useless B-B. Those three words just seemed to fuse together naturally, like three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, War Famine Death. Conquest having fucked off to pastures new a long long time ago.

I hope you can forgive my Moyesyness.

The noise was insane from the supporters, and now the stadium is like a mausoleum. Moyes’s abysmal team set-ups, selection and tactics have killed the atmosphere stone dead.

He hasn’t been helped by The Dividend Group, the only owners in the Premier League whose ambition for the season is not to qualify for Europe. As an interesting contrast to us, Roma signed 3 forwards in January.

Lovely place Rome. Friedkin Snr and Jnr must enjoy a lovely plate of pasta and glass of red wine before enjoying watching a match in the winter Italian sunshine more than a game near the chilly Mersey.

That can be the only explanation for neither of them turning up for a single game since they bought the club.

Bowie copped it from William Burroughs! Moyes could call his team selection method Presbyterian Tombola.

He proved that with the Villa game away, played Patterson at right-back, Röhl in midfield, and the team had a good balance to it.

As soon as he has plenty of options, he has a brain fart and starts playing centre-backs as right- and left- backs, a centre-midfielder on the left wing, and our player of the season at right-back.

I have no problem with Garner there, I think he does a great job defending, getting up the pitch, and coming inside as well... but we need him in midfield.

That was a very poor Man Utd team performance and he blew it with playing Branthwaite at left-back, Armstrong on the left wing and both Iroegbunam and Gueye starting -- both too similar, great tacklers but poor passers.

If Branthwaite started at centre-back, Man Utd do not get that breakaway goal; if he started with George out on the left, Armstrong moved to the centre of midfield along with Garner with either Gueye or Iroegbunam on the bench, Patterson right-back, the team would have been more balanced.

We handed that win on a plate to Man Utd.

Forget the narrow defeat, the Manager has to take responsibility for that defeat.

At home and play 3 centre-backs, 5 centre-midfielders, 1 striker and 1 winger, leaving out all the full backs form a choice of 4, and another winger from a choice of 3!?

That's even weird by the standards of the Walter Smith days.

Hence -- the lack of quality to score a goal!