David Moyes doesn’t rule out adopting a new strategy if strikers continue their goal-shy form

Well, change it Monday night.

No use sticking with the same team and tactics, it’s not working… try something different!

Ah, the Moyesiah has spoken…

But will he act?

Moyes was great last season – came in and cheered everyone up. Surprisingly good results with a poor team. We started to develop a footballing style and you could see how we might kick on with better players.

He has not really carried that into the new season despite having a weirdly assembled but still decent squad.

Too right he should be thinking about changing things. There are options. And there are options from the bench too.

In Branthwaite’s absence, he has to get O’Brien into the centre-back position — either in a back four or a back three.

Our slow, narrow play has become too predictable and too easy to defend. Hopefully there is a change against Sunderland.

Hopefully Nathan Patterson has been training his arse off this week. Now would be a good time to prove he’s got something to offer.

The broken record continues to play. The pathetic nay ridiculous dealings in the transfer market that forever curse us, as expectant fans, was again replayed in the summer.

We are told decade after decade that they are sourcing caviar, yet they serve us up frogspawn, believing we are that stupid we can’t see the difference.

Moyes has no right to whinge. He was in charge of who came in. He failed to buy strikers, fullbacks and pace. So far, no one has put their name to the mainly dreadful purchases. Jack aside, we have again squandered the little wiggle room we had after years of being spendthrift due to sickening criminal mis management.

To Monday night: Moyes has a natural goalscorer in the team, but like the rasping dinosaur that was his predecessor, he ignores the obvious. Every Evertonian knows who it is. Is Moyes truly oblivious or just bloody-minded?

The guy never changes formation or mixes it up. Like a clairvoyant’s dream, he is more predictable than sunrise.
Hence his appalling record against bigger teams.

Monday will be no different.

Moyes is our main problem, I believe, but some Blues just don’t see it, sadly.

The starting line-up will tell me everything an hour before Monday night’s kick-off!

And yet you’ve already written us off 0-2 Billy?

48 hours before kick-off… Why?

Reading between the lines there with Moyes, it seems its more of the same on Monday night.

So expect the drought to continue, I’m going for a goalless draw.

Yeah, sack Moyes and it’s Champions League and titles all the way.

Crack on…

Martin #6, I must not be an Evertonian, because I have no idea who our “natural goalscorer” is, let alone why he’s not on the pitch. I’m dying to know. Would you please enlighten me?

Would you also share how you know that, contrary to the club’s public assertions, Moyes was entirely in charge of who came in? And why I’m in error in believing that we did in fact buy a striker and a fullback? And why you are already certain that Dewsbury-Hall, Röhl, Barry and Dibling are “dreadful”?

Thank you in advance.

The “natural goalscorer’ tease is a bit like a game of Guess Who:

‘Does he have brown eyes?’ Yes
‘Does he have a moustache?’ No
‘Does he have a ponytail?’ No
‘Does he make us defend 20 yards behind the midfield?’ Yes
‘Does he have big ears/’ No

Is it Michael Keane?

Robert,

It’s funny but how you accurately describe the lift Moyes gave us last season — I was just watching Forest v Utd. It reminded me of when Dyche first came here. Lots of purposeful forward movement, lots of good crosses, lots of goal scoring opportunities, an overall good performance and decent result.

But, what happens next? The early enthusiasm dips. Opponents realize how you’re going to play. People stop focusing on how many chances you created and how few your average players converted. Then the stagnation and lack of Plan B sets in.

Everyone saying ‘He’s messing up. He’s been shown up’.

We’ve got Michael Keane at centre back all season, that means the lowest of low blocks. We’ve also lost Doucoure, so no press. We’ve also lost Calvert-Lewin who was an adequate centre-forward.

We’ve spent a fair amount of money, but that was replacing high-quality free transfers. So the squad in the short term is probably worse than last season. Maybe next season we will see some of the kids bloom, but we need to show a little patience.

I’m just going home from the RL game.

I was sat behind 4 guys who are in the management team at Finch Farm for the Academy and I asked them how it was going?

They said since the new owners have come in it’s been galvanised and there’s a lot of expectation and attention now on youth. I asked if Moyes was engaged and they said he’s very much involved and pushing for results. He and Baines are constantly on the case and Moyes is “very much” behind the new positivity.

Excellent intelligence work, Agent Murph!

Moyes our main problem? Seriously? You’re watching a different game to me. Funny how the anti-Moyes fans see what they want to see.

As for our natural born striker… is it Pickford? He’s got a very good conversion rate of shots on target.

That’s terrible news Mark. I remember when I first joined ToffeeWeb, and Martin, used to have that many people up the wall, that I likened him to the character The Duke, but there was never any animosity with Martin, and what makes this news even sadder, is because he was definitely one of the characters on this website, who I had always hoped to meet. This is really sad news💙💙💙

It’s absolutely guaranteed that there will be no changes in strategy or formation or tactics on Monday night.

Subs will be brought on with 5 minutes left and we will have no Plan B.