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'I think it's time for him to go'

I was very surprised we even headhunted Marco Silva in the first place.

I was surprised we paid compensation for him but he came to us and we backed him and we were looking for improvement and progression as a club.

It hasn't worked out.

His statistics are similar to Ronald Koeman's and once the Goodison Park faithful start singing 'You're getting sacked in the morning,' your time is up. I think it's time for him to go.

It's disappointing and you hate to see this happening but what do we do?

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We've got a very difficult December coming up and do we keep him in charge? The fans are getting on his back, the players aren't playing for him or playing for themselves looking at that performance against Norwich.

I watched Howard's Way through the week, all about the good times, and you go to the game all positive and then after five minutes you're thinking 'Oh no.' And you go back to square one again.

Where's the leaders? They're hiding behind the manager again and the inconsistencies in this squad of players is really baffling. I've said it all season.

You look at Brendan Rodgers who goes to Leicester with the team roughly the same as Everton, makes a few changes and has them firing.

Is Marco Silva really getting the best out of what's in front of him? I don't think he is but are these players as good as they believe? That's another question.

I've been there when managers are under pressure and you've got to look after yourself and have a bit of self-worth in your own ability and a bit of pride.

You hope your team-mates will follow suit and then you collectively get together and grind results out. This team seems happy to just turn up and don't put a fight in.

They put in one good performance and I've said it for years but they then think they're Real Madrid or Barcelona. We got a good result against Southampton and we had a great opportunity to build confidence against Norwich and we've blown it again.

It's just so difficult being an Evertonian right now. Everything is going against us and everybody is trying to point the blame at the players, the staff and the board.

'What's our contingency plan?'

Something is not right at Everton right now.

You can't blame the manager every time. You hoped Marco would do well when he came to the club as a young manager with a lot of energy but a lot of times this season I've looked at his body language and he looks defeated.

He looks like players are maybe not doing what he wants them to do. He's obviously seeing players do things in training for him to pick certain squads on matchdays and give people opportunities and then they must just throw it all away.

It's just baffling. He doesn't know his best starting XI and I know players haven't helped him and there's been injuries and suspensions and there's been a bit of disruption but it doesn't deserve what the fans witnessed at the weekend.

It was terrible. A change is inevitable but who we are going to bring in? There's pros and cons for everyone who has been mentioned so far.

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You don't want to see this. The same thing is happening year-on-year. They're spending a lot of money, recruitment is very difficult and at the start of the summer everyone was pretty pleased with what we brought in but we still wanted a proven goalscorer.

Now we're struggling to score goals with a young striker not getting an opportunity so the recruitment was wrong. Even though we're spending lots of money we're not getting players in the right areas or what we need so everyone has to take the blame.

The manager isn't helping himself and something needs to change but how are the board thinking moving forward? What do they want for the future? It was only a week or so ago that Mauricio Pochettino was sacked by Tottenham Hotspur and replaced instantly.

Are we going to be in the same boat? What's our contingency plan? Are we trying to sound out someone short-term like we did with Sam Allardyce?

Because there's not many managers who will come in knowing they'll be getting sacked at the end of the season and if they will they will hold out for a lot more money.

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'Why not give him an opportunity?'

Some of his substitution decisions were baffling and obviously he knows more than the rest of us but you've got Moise Kean on the bench who we had high hopes for.

What's the point? If you're 1-0 down and need a goal what is the point of having him on the bench? He's got to wait for two injuries or sendings off before he gets an opportunity on the pitch?

Marco and his staff know more from training but he's gone away with Italy under-21s and scored two goals and he's come back confident. He obviously knows where the net is. Why not give him an opportunity?

I thought it was the perfect game to give him minutes under his belt before this tough December. As the game went on Silva made some very strange decisions and it's sort of like he's asking for the sack.

Is he thinking he can get away with it right now. 40,000 fans were asking for a positive substitution and he goes full-back for full-back. He hasn't tried to change his style or anything.

It was very, very flat. We always are after an international break for some reason. We're at Goodison Park, the fans are ready to go at it.