Dwight McNeil earns the adulation of his manager and teammates after Burnley display

I often feel like a scratched record, but we are talking about a player who was banished earlier in the season when Grealish first arrived but, if we are to really improve, we need a stronger squad of players that the manager wants to integrate instead of isolate, which I personally feel is sometimes the case with Moyes.

Maybe Palace coming in for him and knowing that he his now in the shop window has given McNeil a lot more confidence, so hopefully we benefit between now and the end of the season.

He did okay... nothing more, nothing less.

Your second paragraph says it all, hardly used in the first part of the season then expected to be on his toes from the off.

Dewsbury-Hall had a very good 5-game spell before he got injured, he's slowly getting back to that good spell but it's taken him a few games to get there.

It's like before January he knew he wasn't getting a sniff with Grealish and Ndiaye nailed on for the wide spots. Now even if his time is limited, he knows he has to show what he's about.

I think the reception he got showed what our crowd is all about. You will get ripped apart for not giving your all, as he rightly has at times, but give your all, and they show you what it means!!

It must be said, Ndiaye had one of his better games except when he went for his own score when he had two options -- the less was Beto on his left but McNeill was totally free on the right.

If Beto or Barry had done that, they would have been rightly criticised.

There is an opportunity to gain a move at the end of the season, so hopefully it will work out, as he is not good enough to make us better next season, in my opinion.

Your a hard man to please.

If McNeil did okay and nothing more, how did the rest of the team play?

Are you expecting prime Barcelona from us?

McNeil is an honest pro who has a lot of positives about his game. During the Dyche and Lampard eras, he was vital in keeping us up. He isn't Messi... but who is?

He's done the lad no favours.

I said at the time when Dwight was getting loads of stick off plenty of fans that Moyes would use him and need him during the rest of the season.

He needed him for the last two games because he knows he can trust him to do a good job up and down the field and he definitely doesn't trust Dibling.

George is an attacking player and he deserves more than the paltry few minutes he got the other night particularly with Dwight tiring after the shift he put in.

The training ground is there to get them fit, no matter how they perform. Alcaraz and Rhol haven't been treated right by Moyes after playing well where it counts on the field.

His favourites and experience comes first with him, youngsters are mostly picked when he has no other options, or they are played out of position like Armstrong and Alcaraz, or even Rohl when it comes down to it.

I think this explains why a lot of people aren't convinced Moyes is the right person to take us forward because he will always favour experience over youth, and pragmatism and stability over style.

Some people are happy with this; others not so much, but I do think it gives a fair reflection on why people are disagreeing over the manager, because it's not as if he isn't doing a good job.

Completely disagree with about the training ground is just to get players fit. If you don't give 100% on the training ground, then how can the manager trust you on the pitch?

You mention Alcaraz and Rohl not being treated right, well for me neither get in the side ahead of Gana, Garner or Dewsbury-Hall. As for Moyes only picking experience, he picked Armstrong ahead of Alcaraz, Rohl and McNeil.

The reason he doesn't select Dibbling is quite simply like a lot of our young players, they aren't yet ready, as their performances so far suggest.

Rohl had his best game and hasn't been seen since, with the most significant thing being that he ran more than any other player in the game against Villa, so he is dead lazy in training?

Dewsbury-Hall might also be a better player than Alcaraz but it doesn't mean that Alcaraz isn't good enough to be getting more minutes either.

Integrate, don't isolate, give your players more confidence and show them that you trust them by giving them a bit more game time and hopefully everyone can reap the rewards, including the manager.

Surely the job of any manager is to always pick his strongest team, not just chop and change, to keep certain personel happy. Look at Arteta at Arsenal they have at least 8 players who start every game if fit and I don't see Arteta bringing to many kids in. You say about integrating players well surely that's exactly what he has done with McNeil, most managers who were willing to sell a player wouldn't normally play him within a couple of weeks of trying to sell him. You mention Alcaraz and Rohl needing more minutes well Moyes sees them everyday in training and obviously doesnt think they warrant any minutes at present. Just like Dibbling he only gives him a few minutes here and there because basically he doesnt trust him.

A 15 year old kid has made a few first team appearances for Arsenal this season mate

Dowman has played 27 Premier League minutes. 1 minute vs Liverpool, and 26 minutes vs Leeds in a 5-nil win. So let's not over-egg that Arteta is playing kids.

He is a talent, and has been injured. But let's be clear, Arteta will be picking his best team to win the Premier League title.

Makes no difference how long he was on the pitch.

Seen his first touch from a 40 yard diag,he killed the ball with his heel.

That alone made my mind up on him

I'm not asking the manager to chop and change his line-up, Brian, because I don't think this has ever been one of Moyes's strongest points anyway, but the modern game is about a squad, and it's clear that the manager doesn't use enough of his squad often enough and, until he does, the only way we are going to keep improving is if we keep going out the cup competitions.

38 league games + 2 league cup games + 1 FA Cup game = 41 games. It's a lot easier playing less players, because 10 x 4 = 40, which effectively means we play on average 4 games per month.

I don't know the personality of Dibling but McNeil was always the type of player who just got his head down and worked. Maybe he was sulking because we had Grealish and Ndiaye on the flanks, or maybe he just felt undervalued by his manager?

Remember losing at Wolves, and the people defending Moyes, just shrugged their shoulders and said the players who came in just hadn't taken their chance. But if you look at the overall record of Moyes in the cup competitions over the years, I think you will find this has been a common feature?

It's not easy just coming in from the cold and getting straight into your stride when you're a footballer, so the more minutes you get from the bench really helps the players for a number of reasons.

What was keeping his levels down previously is unknown (to us) and so we can't castigate the player for it, but it does seem the manager has the appropriate expectations for players when it comes to training and, if you aren't where he expects, you won't be used.

That was the last time we have been in relegation trouble entering the final month of the season, but it was very sobering to listen to him saying names that won't be mentioned, didn't want to play in a game of such magnitude.

McNeil played wingback that day, Garner played opposite him on the other side, and although Dyche said he has never been inside a louder stadium, it's absolutely shocking to hear him say players didn't want to play.

Sorry for not replying sooner, been out for the afternoon. The training ground should be used for tactics as well as getting the players fit.

Yes, I also like Gana, Garner and Dewsbury-Hall but Gana has been in Africa and Dewsbury-Hall was injured for quite a while but Alcaraz and Rohl never got much game time.

Alcaraz has come in sometimes and played well in his preferred position then, the next game, he is replaced or played out on the wing. I wonder how Dewsbury-Hall or Gana would play on the wing?

James Garner seems to slot in well wherever he plays and that's why he is my Player of the Season up to now, although he was one of the lowest paid players on the books before he got his well deserved rise.

Rohl is our player now, he's not going back to the club we bought him from... yet he's getting no time at all from Moyes. one fan said on here, he went back home because he was fed up with the situation.

I don't know what to make of Dibling — a huge price we paid for a player no other club seemed interested in. You will say Moyes never bought him; I don't know who did but he's here and Moyes gave the young lad a public bollicking instead of doing it in private.

Well, he must have improved slightly in training because he got a couple of minutes as a sub the other night, along with George, once the game was relatively safe — 2-0 up with 2 minutes to go... Jesus, Moyes takes no chances, does he?

As for Armstrong, yes, he picked him, started one game and took him off, then brought him on the other night, both times on the wing when the lad is a central midfield player.

Just realised, when Dowman made his Premier League debut as a15-year-old he took away Nwaneri's record for youngest player to play in the Premier League.

Arteta gave Nwaneri his Premier League debut, also as a 15-year-old.

1) I thought the decision to sell him was the right decision.
2) I was upset when it didn't go through as we needed the funds.
3) I felt he didn't have any more top drawer appearances in him.

All that said, he proved me dead wrong. His industry and decision making was of the Dwight McNeil of old. If he can do that:

1) More often and
2) Against better teams...

...then I'm all for him winning his place back. It would only mean better results for Everton if he can do both those things.

I always thought that Dwight had a great touch and brilliant left peg, and didn't deserve some of the comments, especially on the Live Forum, and I was delighted with his performance in the last couple of games.

Tony is 100% correct, Dyche mentioned no names, but players bottled it and didn't want to play against Bournemouth on the last day of the season... McNeil played!

I'd be happy if he stayed with us.