For what it’s worth I’m personally of the belief that we should most likely give Marco Silva time and at least another transfer window before we pay him out of his contract like we’ve done far too many times in the past with previous managers.

I’m as frustrated as anybody watching these completely disgraceful bunch of supposed professional footballers go through the motions in almost every game. The only positive for me at the moment is seeing Davies, Kenny and Calvert-Lewin get more game time. I’ve been so disappointed at the energy levels of most of the side and if we don’t see a reaction against Cardiff after 17 days off then we might have bigger problems than we thought. I feel that the lack of identity and style along with organisation might be to do with a lack of leaders within the first team Tom Davies being our current captain really emphasises this point for me.

I wonder if Silva will change the formation, personnel, tactics or his substitution strategy in the coming games as if he doesn’t change anything then I’m completely dreading the Liverpool fixture and the backlash he’ll receive from fans. I can’t help but feel that Everton are their own worst enemy when it comes to managerial recruitment If you look at the following managerial appointments and look into what kind of profile they all have they all seem like coaches with potential and not results.

Mike Walker

His greatest success up to that date was getting a decent Norwich side into the UEFA Cup beating Bayern away playing an attacking brand of football with many pundits around the country saying that this guy had bags of potential – FAIL!

Closest Everton has ever been to being relegated, should have been relegated but for corruption and good old bribery saving our bacon!

Joe Royle

Massive Evertonian, experienced top-flight manager with a heap of priors at the club, turned us around, bought well, won silverware totally understood everything about us – COMPLETE SUCCESS.

Shame the Board were a complete bunch of idiots and messed him around – pretty much forced him out of the club – FAIL from the club again!

Dave Watson – doesn’t really count as he only took charge for seven games.

Howard Kendall

Shocking appointment from the club, complete lack of ambition to bring him in for the third time, personally this was the worst team that I’ve ever seen at Goodison. We did our best to go down that year and again somehow managed to stay up. Poor Howard clearly had a drinking problem and was not fit for purpose, a fantastic manager and player in his prime but in his third spell was, unfortunately, a massive FAIL.

Walter Smith

An experienced manager who had won a lot in the past, was promised loads of money and unlimited ambition, started well, bought some great players but again the club acted disgracefully in basically spending money on players that Smith didn’t have, Duncan Ferguson had to be sold and the whole thing turned to horseshit. Very hard to progress when you constantly have to sell your best youth players to balance the books. Absolutely no fault of his and did his best in a terrible situation before being sacked by the board – FAIL mostly by the club for completely messing him around but it could be argued he was the right sort of profile!

David Moyes

Up to this date, he eventually managed to get Preston promoted to the Championship from League one with pretty much the same side to then miss out in the playoffs to the premiership. Again full of promise no real experience of winning trophies whatsoever. Moyes did well considering he had 11 years in the role, again an experienced proven manager would have won a trophy at Everton in that time for me when we lost at Wembley against Liverpool that was the moment that I lost faith in him. Did well considering the club never backed him financially so – SUCCESS I suppose definitely should have won something for me.

Roberto Martinez

Again another up and coming manager who played attractive football, the difference this time was that Martinez had won a trophy with Wigan that being the FA Cup. Again not very experienced had not won major trophies and had never figured out a plan b. Started well with a Moyes defensive ended woefully once he’d put his own stamp on the team. Again epic FAIL from the board for again hiring a Manager who was potential at best.

David Unsworth

In both spells did his best, no dramas with Rhino totally out of his depth but definitely not his fault or wrongdoing.

Ronald Koeman

In reflection, another up and coming manager who’d had mix fortunes at other clubs eventually got found out when he realised that the Goodison faithful expected a lot more from him – FAIL

Sam Allardyce

Total panic appointment from the board, needed the club to stay in the division, was never going to be the long term fix another EPIC FAIL from the board.

Marco Silva

After the club acted with no class and blatantly unsettled Marco Silva to the point of him losing his head at Watford and getting the sack this appointment for me was not the most ambitious in the clubs history. Again we seem to be talking about the project, youth, all the up and coming players and a modern manager – FAIL SO FAR!

So my question is this – On the evidence of the last 9 permanent managerial appointments have we appointed the wrong managerial profile in the respect of seniority, track record and experience? The answer is clearly NO. I’ve not included Colin Harvey in this list as I think of him as the greatest Evertonian to ever live and he can do no wrong in my eyes.

Has our board genuinely either done the right thing and backed its managers or made quality decisions in appointing its first team manager over this period? Only under the new owner and we’ve even managed to screw that up!

Personally, I hope Brands will be the saviour of our club, but I’m not so hopeful that I’m unrealistic, his first managerial appointment Marco Silva better pull his finger out or he’ll be out of a job in no time. We have to try a different approach, personally I can’t stand Jose Mourinho I think he’s spent money everywhere he’s been and has never really played all that many youth players from the academy. However, if we could get him at Everton I’d snap him up in a heartbeat because he’s a different profile as what we’ve appointed previously. If he came to the club he’d win something, I’d take an FA Cup right now, we’ve never won the league cup what would be ace!

We may as well keep our current manager until we can replace him with a proven winner, a league winner we all need to take a massive reality check here and start blaming the club over any one individual. The culture needs to change at Everton and the best way to do that is to bring in leaders who demand results, who have experience of winning the league and who don’t care about being nice.

I enjoyed watching us under Royle and in most seasons under Moyes when we had a go, when we might not have always had the best players but we battled for everything. We have a massive danger of losing the passion from the terraces if we don’t change our recruitment strategy for our first team manager position. Rather than spend fifty million pounds this summer on a player why not spend it on a world class coach? Give somebody who has the ability to turn a team into champions a go or the next few years are going to be the same. If that’s Mourinho, Ancelotti, Conte whoever just give it a try what on earth have we got to lose but please, please, please don’t sack Silva unless you have somebody ready to start. As much as we all love David Unsworth I’d rather not try that experiment again thanks. 

Karl Rowlands