As always, Lyndon, a perfectly weighted report.

The Hammers next and then, remarkably, April’s run of fixtures where we play, in exact sequence, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th placed teams.

You haven’t left much to add, Lyndon.

We always seem to struggle after a warm weather break, but let’s hope a beneficial impact will kick in during what will be a very tough April. If we can average a point a game during that month we’ll be doing well.

David Moyes will be learning a lot about his players, compiling a list of those to be shed. I suspect Beto, Doucouré, Lindstrom and Harrison are already pencilled in.

Remember Kendal’s magnificent 7 summer?
This summer could be similar, and of the 7 I think only big Nev proved to be useful, Jim Arnold maybe but he was more of a back up keeper.

Mid-season, warm weather, breaks became a regular occurrence for Everton about fifteen years ago in the all-too-frequent event that we suffered an early exit from the Cup.

To echo Peter’s thoughts above, can anyone on here recall any single occasion in all that time when the team has given even a decent performance in their first game back after one of these trips?

They looked disjointed and generally way off the pace last night.

Lyndon I enjoyed reading you review of the match. It was well written as usual. But watching the same match as you I think I would have summarised it with much fewer words than you. In fact only one word. That word Crap. I realise that my summary would not be acceptable but it is accurate. Maybe the new Manager bounce has run its course. Maybe not and it is just a blip. We must wait and see.

But we are about there anyway. BMD hello and we will see you and another season in the Prem League soon.

I've come to the conclusion that Beto's problem is that he is too slow. He does'nt react quickly enough and he does'nt run fast enough ! Whatever I think he is NOT our answer for the number 9 spot though I accpt that he is a trier and gives his all.

An excellent report Lyndon. It was a frustrating watch. Harrison and Lindstrom did nothing to enhance their standing. Whilst Harrison scored, his first touch was poor, his second not much better and he was too slow to get his strike off. But for a very fortunate deflection we would all have been complaining about yet another failure near goal. Ndiaye is badly missed and we need pace and creativity on the other flank. The difference as soon as Alcaraz replaced Doucoure was palpable and he must start next week. Doucoure, on significantly reduced wages might be a useful squad player but he should go somewhere to be overpaid to underperform.

What is so encouraging though is that we have a team who are capable of winning games and are difficult to beat. With some appropriate additions we can be positive and hopeful of better things at BMD. Crucially, we know we will be there next season in the Premier League.

We should definitely sign Alcaraz on a permanent deal. He was easily our most skillful and creative player.

Good report: accurate and fair

We ARE missing Ndiaye, McNeill and DCL so it’s our 2nd string offensive line

Agree we should sign Alcaraz though. What a gem he could be

I can't add a lot to that summary Lyndon, as you capture everything we all witnessed, both in terms of the performance and the general sense of it being a valuable point regardless.

I too am not a fan of these winter warm breaks. To me, it makes little sense travelling thousands of miles to a hot desert, only to return to an English winter. Okay, the weather has been okay this past week, but you know what I mean.

For me, it would make more sense to stay closer to home. Maybe the Scandics or Austria. We used the latter for a couple of years not so long ago for pre-season.

Great match report, Lyndon, you've summarised it very well.

Which team had 10 days off with some warm weather training, and which team had 7 days off after a marathon FA Cup game running to 120 mins and penalties? Watching us play Wolves you'd guess wrong. Up to our goal we did OK closing down, passing it around and at least looking like a team wanting the 3 points. After that we were outplayed in all areas and were lucky to come away with one point. I know recently it's been a vast improvement on Dyche, but Saturday did look awfully like Dycheball, again. Three winnable games and I feel like we've dropped 6 points. The problem is April looks a month of very tough games and although hoping for maximum points I fear getting none. Must now get 3 points against West Ham.

Harrison and Lindstrom shouldn't be retained neither can win a tackle, and Doucoure should only be kept on at a drastically reduced wage otherwise show him the door, too. He can be good closing down, but only if helped with others, which he wasn't on Saturday eventually running around aimlessly. Agree with everyone else that we should take Alcaraz on a contract. As for a No.9, start looking elsewhere. Beto has done well recently, but in the past two games he's come up short. DCL will be away on a free in the summer unless others are unwilling to take a player prone to injuries.

It was strange how we were so flat. Maybe the warm weather trip was so fun and relaxing they reacted negatively to having to work hard! Alcaraz was the only one that seemed to have 'energy' and zip.

Defensively as Lyndon points out we were pretty poor. The pass for their goal should never have reached their goalscorer! I was also miffed at the free header at the back post that Pickford did well to save with his legs - how can a tall man be left free like that?

Anyway we remain unbeaten and Moyes will have learned a bit more about the squad both whilst away and during this game. We're as good as safe but let's see if we can overtake some teams above and put a gloss on a difficult season - such a relief to type those words after a very difficult few years as a blue!

Great write-up as usual, Lyndon.

I thought we were poor on Saturday with very few players coming away from the performance with much credit. We only livened up when Alcaraz was introduced.

I thought we gave away too many silly fouls in our own half which is a familiar Everton trait. I think better teams than Wolves would have punished us more from these set pieces.

I don't see what Charlie Adam has added to our dead ball situations. I thought our corners were dreadful, again.

Jack Harrison is one of the most frustrating players I can remember. He gets into good positions and has the attributes to be a good player but his final ball and decision making is woeful. I used to berate Iwobi for similar failings but Harrison is not as good as Iwobi was for us. We really do miss Ndiaye and McNeill because Lindstrom and Harrison don't offer enough attacking threat. I know Harrison scored but he got lucky with the deflection.

The unbeaten run is great and I would have snatched your hands off for a 17th place finish around January time but we should have more points on the board than we have got during this run. Man United and Brentford should have resulted in 6 points and Wolves were there for the taking without Cunha playing.

I'm glad with the progress but we've got a major rebuilding job ahead of us in the summer to get in some genuine quality, particularly in attacking areas.