Well,
What can I say?
A terrible week for Moyes and everything Everton.

The Liverpool performance especially the way we approached the game at the start was the first nail in Moyes’ coffin followed up with another nail shortly after with this abysmal showing at wolves in a cup game we should e prioritising!

To make as many changes for this game as he did we deserved to get beat, what is Moyes thinking? What’s his strategy? As I’m lost here, some of the selections and putting players in wrong positions is just madness and to be honest unprofessional and disrespectful to wolves and the cup.

How out of touch must you be to do this? I for one think cups are extremely important for us, it seems Everton and Moyes especially are not even giving us fans a second thought as to how we feel about things which is truly diabolical.

As for David Moyes, I think it’s time for us to move him on and this isn’t an emotional response I think he is very limited and we certainly won’t progress or win anything with him as manager, thank you for keeping us up last season and everything you have done for us.

Goodbye Mr Moyes.

I'm probably not that surprised at Moyes shortcomings, but the B team selection wasn't just thin on quality, it was transparent and thrown together with no structure, what was the game plan there?
We can just about put an A team together that can function playing some decent football, this B team insight confirms how short we are as a squad, and how poor some of the recruitment was.

A well written article as ever Lyndon which captures the moment.

We have a competent but average manager - he will get sufficient results to keep us in the Premier league. He will as he has done in the last two weeks revert to type in both approach to games and the tactical game plan - the last two matches could have been played anytime in his previous incarnation and much the same would have been said and written.

This manager despite his one trophy with West Ham, is simply not a winner and I am saddened by that given out last 30 years - we simply deserve better. I am not sure he does self reflection but he needs a coaching team around him that give honest feedback - again I believe he has a team of like minded individuals around him so that is unlikely.

I guess we just have to accept that this transitional period is what it is - mostly good home results against average teams - perhaps the odd win over one of the higher placed teams to raise hope and expectation but ultimately meek surrender when it counts just like his first era.

Moyes was found out with the Leeds result for me.
It was criminal to wait well into the last Quarter of the game, to introduce Grealish, whom most of us now realise , what he would have been capable of.

The first half of the game against our ugly neighbours, was simply Moyesesque.
The Teamsheet Last night was dilusional and any Coach worth his savvy, would have dispensed with it, after the first 15 minutes.

Last Season’s results, showed that Moyes was farting well higher than his Arse.
Last night’s Team selection and performance, was way more than his incumbent predecessors offered up.

Dyche was slowly transforming us into a theme of Claret and Blue and now Moyes is doing the same, with hitherto the only colours, that he had success with.

West Ham are probably salivating right now, in anticipation for Monday Night, as things usually get worse, before they get Better.. for us, not them!!

In the Summer Moyes said. » The Stadium looks elite, we need elite players ! »
Frankly, in retrospect I think that he shot himself in the foot with that statement, as we need an elite manager!

That has to be part of the Blueprint for Success.
There’s something Maudling about Moyes and their always has been.

The ripples of discontent have now become a Wave and I hope it doesn’t turn into a Tsunami, before radical changes are made.

Bringing in Grealish ( fantastic player!), is akin to Bringing in James.. Big fish in a small pond!
right now we have a nauseating mélange of inconsistance and incompetence, in players and management alike.

We need a leader, with a proven track record of success in winning trophies.

I Remember back in the Koeman Era, after having spent all that money like a drunken sailor, I was sick of reading about how well Everton had done in the Transfer Window !.. before we had even kicked a Ball!
The same this Season, after a handful of games, we are reading about Everton’s amazing renaissance and surge towards Europe !
I can’t help thinking… Here we go again, Selling the Bearskin, before we have shot the Bear !

It makes zero sense to rotate a team doing well. What did we learn from playing Séamus Coleman at left back?? We already know that he is finished at the top level.

We learned that Dwight McNeil has checked out, Tim Iroegbunam can feign injury when he mistimes a shot so badly it nearly hits the corner flag. We have learned that Thierno Barry is impetulant and not cut out for Premier League standard, and that Beto has the touch of an axe murderer. Tarkowski has taught us that he has lost half a yard of pace or his concentration levels have diminished. We have learned that, as a collective, this group of players thinks that three wins in a row entitles you to coast for the next three. It's unprofessional and it's unfair to the travelling supporters. Cue the "must do better" and "gutted" sound bites.

Winning this cup means playing an extra 6 matches a season, all done by February, against teams in or around our level and the top 6's second string. Why rest players when their next game is in 6 days? I'm not buying it. Just as we dared to think we were turning a corner, we realise we are stuck on a roundabout.

Very disappointed by the result, but no surprise he played his traditional mass change trick - 7 players, so it was not a surprise to get beat by a very poor Wolves team.

Tarks and all the squad should in future keep stum, from making predictions for this or any season.

So much for picking your best availabke team to win matches.

Its a lack of healthy respect for Wolves, but also the Everton squad, and the Evertonians, especially those who travelled.

Taking the proverbial. The club should issue refunds, picking a weaker team.

This adds pressure for the West Ham game.

Enough said, but please David, no more tinkering for the sake of testing players.
A great chance of progress in Evertons, bogey cup competition, gone for another year.

As a perennial optimist I find this hard to say, but I am massively disappointed with that shit show last night.

I can only assume that Moyes thought the players he brought in would be hungry to show what they could do given their opportunity, but I agree with others that it was a case of too many changes.

With the next game not until Monday that number of changes was not justified and, as others have said, why not start with a couple of changes, and bring more on at half time if we’re ahead? I have been brought back to earth with a heavy bump…I think I feel even worse than after the Leeds debacle.

Want to move on quickly but now have nearly a week to wait to (hopefully) get the bitter taste of that disaster out of my mouth.

The changes made by Moyes should at least bring into focus…that Pickford should always play in important games…Coleman has never been a left back to put him there now was baffling and unfair on him…Tim Oroegbunam is not a suitable replacement for Idrissa Gueye…McNeil need some urgent morale building because he seems disinterested and our centre forward position is critical and is likely to bring us down if an answer is not found.
A valid point made on another thread by Darren and others is that EFC should have tried to find a way to keep DCL…maybe they did who knows… or was it that they considered DCL’s fitness issues too much of a gamble to take. Yet other gambles they have taken such as no recognised right back, re-signing a basically finished Coleman and spending the majority of our transfer budget on inexperienced young players looks just as risky.
It's difficult to know just how much responsibility lays at Moyes door for these decisions but what we can be sure of is that the team selection and set up of the side last night against Wolves was abysmal. Normally in this situation the words are ‘the team needs to show a reaction’ in the next game…in our case it’s the manager who needs to show something and ironically against West Ham. Oh to be surprised in a good way and lifted by Moyes making some courageous, bold selections before and during the game in what has now become a massive and pivotal fixture for both team and manager.

I wasn't as shocked by the selection as some, as Moyes stated he would rotate Barry/Beto and the 3 behind the striker consisted of 2 former first choice players and a youngster we've just spent millions on. But I was very surprised by how poor they were, especially McNeil, who I thought would be trying to prove his worth but played like he was half asleep!

But, the selection of Seamus at LB when we had 2 actual LBs on our bench was mystifying. The complete lack of left sided balance has been our undoing already this season, no need to repeat it again last night. Very, very strange from Moyes.

Hopefully a home game under the lights with a bit of a point to prove will see us back on track on Monday night. If we win our next 2 games it leaves us in a strong position going into the next international break.

This was a really depressing evening in regard to both the team selection and the inability of our players to assert themselves against a team at the bottom of the league.

I could understand the rationale for resting Gana, Ndiaye and Mykolenko owing to their involvement in international football and/or recent injury. I could understand the logic behind selecting Barry (£30m) and Dibling (£40m) to give them an opportunity to show what they can do. I could not however fathom why Moyes left Grealish on the bench. Jack’s absence from the starting eleven must have given Wolves a boost before a ball was kicked.

We are at risk however of allowing our dismay over the team selection to mask some serious flaws in the way even our strongest attackers play. Even in the last half hour with Grealish, Ndiaye and Dewsbury-Hall on the pitch we failed to penetrate the Wolves defence in open play.

As on Saturday at Anfield our passing remained too predictable while delivery into the area was too slow. I include Grealish in that criticism because too often he hesitated delivering a cross or pass into the area. On the other flank Ndiaye’s dribbling promised more than it delivered with him ending up in blind alleys or shooting from impossible angles. As a result Wolves keeper Sam Johnstone was hardly tested. Yet again our only chance of finding an equaliser was via a set piece with James Garner unlucky to see his effort hit the bar.

The upshot is that far from feeling comfortable about our prospects for the season we have reason to worry especially when injuries and suspensions kick in as they inevitably will in the coming weeks and months. The likely involvement of Ndiaye and Gana in the AFCON tournament from the 21st December adds a further layer of risk during the busy mid-season period.