This is last January all over again. Slow, no money, no new bodies in early to lift the team and fans... injuries mounting up, games and points passing by, and no real intent for promotion. Momentum lost. Act like a team in 12th, finish 12th. Hugely disappointing so far and not confident about Bristol away. RB, LB, 2 CMs and a new attacker needed while Ben is still here to stand any chance. Results so far.. 0.

Can't wait to see Porteous's range of passing to Kaminski and back to Kaminski then back again to Kaminski.

Refund them.

I suspect he isn't good enough but since he hasn't been backed in a full window yet it's very difficult to tell and currently the blame still lies with the owners, CEO and the Directer of Football for failing to get results behind the scenes.

The losses aren't just losses, they're no show hammerings. The combination of this manager, no funds and no ambition isn't going to work. One is going to have to give but I suspect we'll continue to drift along and that Tomasson will quit before ever getting fired by our passive owners.

For a team at the top, this isn't good enough. Again!

Go on then, who’s going to be first to say “calm down the signings are coming” this time. Then we end up with another Hirst and Mola! 😂

Do Everton really want to be signing out of form Championship players? Seems unlikely to me.

I'd expect both to be recalled due to lack of game time, I doubt either of the parent clubs/ players are happy so would expect something to be worked out.

I don't think JDT is interested in keeping players happy that are costing us points. Where are the cards for proper tackles as another poster touched on before the game? Anything else, you can do when you've achieve a lot more in the game than our squad has currently (Nothing! Maybe some of them need reminding of that). Flicking the ball at the back of opponent's heads, in a league game, when you're struggling to get in the first 11? Not for me. We've seen a good few matches treated as a joke by the players in recent weeks, Burnley, Preston and tonight's. Team meeting needed tomorrow, similar to the above with Hirst, Morton and Mola playing Goose.

I think Tomasson and Broughton will have seen enough now, that said, you'd struggle to sell a lot of this squad. Money needs investing, loan players need returning (their mistake!). Surely some business will get done early for once.

The state of Lewis Travis for that goal. He is letting this team down week after week with his lack of ability. I've said it for 4 months. Sell.

What a poor set of players

Lewis Travis. I have been posting about him for months now. Not a good enough footballer, I'm seeing it week after week after week. The sooner this gets realised the better. If he changes direction to go left he can't even play the simplest of passes with his left foot, stretches and tries to play it with the outside of his right whilst falling over and losing it, saw it again plenty today... embarrassing at this level. Sick of watching him.

My opinion on Travis remains the same, he doesn't have the ability. It needs fixing in January and we must spend money on a better central midfielder + bring in a striker to have a chance. We're also short of good wingers either side. Hopefully JDT has found all this out in the first half of the season. Zaroury, Benson, Brownhill, Cork and Cullen were too much and those are the exact positions we're short in. As Tomasson eluded to today 6 in wasn't enough in the summer, way off in fact (even though a good few fans were crying for patience daily, when most could see we needed more action)! Money must be spent centrally and up top IF we want to go up this season. Last year we spanked Sheffield United at home largely thanks to two loan wingers in Khadra and Poveda. This year we have George Hirst and Mola not making any real impact. The fact we're 3rd given the money spent and the amount of players we brought in is still pretty incredible but ultimately we're too reliant on the academy (as good as it is). Spend a bit more money and we could be a real contender. We need Venky's, Broughton and the scouting department to step up now! I'd also be happy to see us get rid of a handful of players for fees if we can but if we don't invest in players this January and Brereton leaves for free in the summer, it might be one hell of a long journey to the Premier League... or a never ending one. As it stands this team isn't going up without any backing.

I say it every time we try it... Brittain at LB should not be happening!! He is one of the best RBs in the league. Playing him at LB weakens the team immediately as the left side is totally unbalanced and the right side also isn't as strong as it could be because of this, throw a new defender inside of him in Mola and you have a recipe for disaster on paper and in a big game like this that's exactly what it was. Whenever I've seen Tomasson try it we've looked off and we were off again today to say the least, an absolutely appalling performance by the lot of them but it starts by not playing players in their strongest positions. A no show of a performance. Disgraceful from the players and the staff.

Overhyping average players has been a problem for years with England. Kane, Shaw, Rice, Phillips, Rashford, Maguire, Dier, Wilson, Sterling, Grealish. All average, we'll do nothing sadly.

Great to hear ambition and a winning mentality. Love it Ben! If this is the mentality around the club then the signings will come.

Travis is a professional footballer without a left foot, he is so weak on it that he uses the outside of his right for what should be simple left footed passes. A few times today it left him off balance and disrupted the flow. No doubt about it he's an extremely limited footballer. Entirely one footed, no vision, terrible range of passing, can't really shoot, hides when we're on the ball and only receives it if he's in a nothing position to do nothing with it. What he can do is tackle, run around a bit, break up play and pick up some useful yellow cards. A better centre mid has to be on the shopping list.

Looks like Gallagher has trained but no sign of Hedges.

Thank god we brought Morton in, imagine Bradley Johnson and Travis trying to play this system.

100% but I think it requires a midfield signing that can do both. He's been one of my favourite players over the past few years and is good at breaking up play but he doesn't have enough ability on the ball and it's limiting us IMO. He is constantly rolling it to any other player even if they are only 2 or 3 yards away, then pointing at where they should pass it. It isn't good enough. He can't make the right pass himself. Tempted to say Ollie Rathbone at Rotherham would suit our system better.

If Gavin Ward is anything to go by then no they don't.

Lewis Travis is dog sh*t! I'll say it again he's a very limited lower half Championship footballer with no left foot. His range of passing isn't anywhere near what you'd expect to see at this level. Jack Vale and George Hirst should be playing in League One no doubt about it. Not even close to being up to it. Nonetheless when you choose to play them, you at the very least have to play the rest in their best positions. Brittain at LWB and Travis at RWB were the root of all our problems today IMO and you're risking it every time doing that. There was a lot to sort at half time and it didn't happen. Really disappointing from Tomasson.

A farce