Thanks Ross.
What I see with our own team is we don't like being under pressure.
The entire squad lacks experience, and for all the talent Walsh can rally up, we are desperate for players who can cope with pressure, and know how to deal with it.
Joel might look a good keeper, but he is naive, be it from standing a mile off his line, to flapping occasionally when coming for a ball, to stupid distribution, as seen yesterday, but I still praise him when he's good, and say it like it is when he's bad.
Everton fans listen too much to bandwagons, instead of having their own opinion.
They are quick to criticise Ramiro Funes Mori, because for some reason he's an easy scapegoat, but I think Leighton Baines is long past his best, Seamus Coleman can't pass a ball to save his life, Ashley Williams is very limited, Gareth Barry is too old (our only experienced player) and without going through the entire squad, we are built mainly on bargains, players who didn't make it at their previous club, players managers brought with them or returned to like comfort blankets, and the academy.
Martinez at least had us keeping possession, and passing the ball confidently, but our passing at the moment is awful, and when we are under pressure we can't keep the ball long enough to put the opponent under pressure.
I take zero consolation from the fact we scored 2 at Spurs.
I heard somebody else say it and I cringed ......... not, because of any other reason, than it sums up Everton, or her fans, who are determined to cling onto 'anything' that will stop the cold hard truth hitting home, that we are not good enough.
Young fans have always seen a mediocre Everton, but older fans have seen the decline, and find it harder to accept, and especially find it hard to get sucked into the hype that the club and the Liv Echo sell to them. Have a few good games and they can't help themselves can they? All of a sudden they're hailing players, and forgetting all the bad, as to them, the truth isn't important. What is important to them is selling tickets and merchandise, or hits on a website.
I've found the league this season to be very poor, which in a way has helped Everton to keep hold of a 7th place.
Look at how poor teams like Leicester, Southampton, Stoke, West Ham, Palace etc have been, compared to recent seasons. Then consider that Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool have all been very hit and miss, and it shows that Everton haven't really done anything to suggest they are improving.
Moyes left a squad that regularly finished where we are now, and did it with a net spent of approx £16m over his entire 11 years, yet the team he left would smash the team we have now in my opinion, as that team was built on hard work and determination, where as 'this' team is built on hype, and blind affection.
Koeman played a midfield of 3 defensive players in Barry, Gueye, and Schneiderlin, and even if he had not played Barry, and instead played McCarthy, it would have been the same. We can say Davis is a bit of both, but he's not exactly an all out attacker (u23 boss described him as a DM).
Psychologically our team are weak, and we lack a backbone, or a leader.
Sorry for not being as positive as I might have been, but I prefer to call a spade a spade, even if it digs a big hole amongst the Blue Tinted Glasses Brigade.