TM Trotter

Great result, excellent first half but would have loved us to have tested the keeper more. Proper resolve as the game went on, fantastic. Thought the 2700 of us in the away end gave a decent account too. Dion's goal well taken of course, but in general, I thought Nlundulu did really well at holding up and distributing - may have found his niche. Excited for the week now!

Red right in front of me. Absolutely no question - appalling and needless challenge. Jones has been mostly terrible this season. Nice ball to JDC for the assist 1 min before though. Dempsey lucky to not get sent off with his early 2nd half tackle too. As Casino said, Teflon. Fucking abysmal today but I have barely seen his shocker mentioned. A few slating Thomason again, shock. Odd. I thought he was one of our better players. Loads of talk about the 4 at the back second half being more solid. Ignoring the luck we had with the woodwork, I wouldn't say its a fair comparison, with us having the wide attackers dropping in to make it a 6 man defence. Would love to see more of Bod next week. And yes... my optimistic call of a Dan screamer proved why I am not a betting man. Anyway. Massive credit to see out the second half onslaught and take a point. Especially for a side that has no backbone, or something...

Some proper negativity on this thread. I'm surprisingly confident. Fuck it, 4-0. Nlundulu to score an absolute howitzer. #happyclapper

Evatt's teams have long been criticised for having no fight, no backbone. In that second half, I thought we had both, in spades. Backs to the wall against a side on the attack, who, let's not forget, made the Championship play offs last year... and we showed plenty of bottle, before being undone by two classy subs and a belting strike. I'd have loved a sneaky penalty shoot out, but hey, wasn't to be. Other fish to fry. That said, I'm still racking my brain how Charles missed his 1-on-1.

Also would mean we could command a bigger fee in the event Stoke were still keen. Win win. Cheers to those explaining the Dan fee, I was certain he was out of contract. Jury's still out, but I'll back him to come good.

Daft one, and I've seen it mentioned a few times on here (a c.£300k purchase). Did we actually spend a fee on Nlundulu? I honestly thought his contract was up at Southampton and we got him on a free...?

Everton v Bolton first game in the new stadium, with a goal dubiously chalked off for the home team?

Can't disagree. So many things went wrong yesterday that it's almost irrelevant. Just an observation that probably demonstrates that I'm still in the "bargaining" stage of grief.

On today's showing, Everton will be lucky to beat Derby's record low points tally. Truly abysmal.

I was particularly fuming with Jones's passing yesterday, but is there anything around the strikers not coming short like Charles does so often? So many times, his passes were aimed on the deck to a striker, but were 10 yards short as Vic and Dan were static. Not defending Jones btw, it was appalling, but it perhaps illustrates how important that deep lying striker is to our play.

Horror show all over. They wanted it more, and absolutely bullied us from start to... well, I left after the fourth. I've never left a game that early before. Won't go over the negatives again and again, but a tiny glimmer from today - Maghoma and Mendes Gomes look useful. Rivals, not rivals? Personally, I can't fucking stand them. Today hurt.

Someone far more learned than me on the matter would have to confirm what video tech, if any, is allowed on the touchline by the FA. I honestly don't know!

Iles tweeted that Pete Atherton had said Evatt had been sent off for "misuse of technology". Could be either. Sorry, thought I'd seen that tweet on here, apparently not.

Oh no, I'm with you. Ridiculous, but it's in the rules. Looked like the fourth official shopped him for it. Who'd have thought referees would be jobsworth twats(!)?

Incredibly... he has. Who knew? "A team official who uses unauthorised equipment or who behaves in an inappropriate manner as a result of the use of electronic or communication equipment will be sent off." https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-4---the-players-equipment No idea what the punishment will be - is it just 1, or more, for a managerial straight red?

"Misuse of technology"... never heard anything so ridiculous. Not having that put a dampener on tonight, we were unplayable that first half. Fantastic from Vic, but the service he was getting down the right was magical. Fair enough to Fleetwood, they did threaten more than our previous few opponents. Baxter looked impressive.

Yep. Classic 😆 Questionable defending from the Cheltenham CB but great that we've taken the chance. COYWM

England's was a bit shite, but you could perhaps partly blame it being a mis-hit cross. Colombia's GK error was unforgivable though 😬

Pardon my ignorance, as I barely remember 1999. Why did that have an impact on our gates?

Loads of positives there - a mullering without really breaking sweat, lots of lovely, crisp passing moves, Dempsey outstanding throughout, two goals from set pieces, that gorgeous ball from Thomason... A pleasure to watch throughout - that was a really, really encouraging start. Happy days.

A stance articulated far better than I managed. Nice.

Sure, the Women's WC standard isn't what we're used to in the men's game, but then, we're lightyears behind City, Madrid and the like. If anyone on here was that arsed about "quality", they'd have given up and gone to the Etihad a long time ago.

Haven't seen it, but yeah, freak ACLs happen. Done it myself years back on an astroturf in Prestwich, same week as Yannick Bolasie did his for Everton. Safe to say neither of us have hit the same heights since... Sickener, hopefully the Port Vale lad is capable!

Ropey pitch a factor? Gutted for the lad, but really, we could do with reducing the risks that come with these games.

Let's be fair, before the "flat dicks" comments come in. She: a) has been academy manager there for 4 years b) surely can't be any worse than the awl gobshite who preceded her. Vince is a bellend, but sure, if shes actually capable, why not be the first to give a woman a go? If she succeeds, brilliant, FGR have done a great thing for your daughters and sisters. If she fails, she's no worse than Adkins or the like who keep landing jobs on mentalities better served in the 80s. #NOKENdenyamanageronthebasisofgender