Ticks the boxes you would want ticking, doesn’t seem a risk in terms of trying to impose a style mid-season that would be utterly alien to the players and doesn’t come with the pre-existing baggage (fairly or unfairly) that someone like Moyes would.

Yup, think we are well beyond the point of ‘be careful what you wish for’. Every metric you see - long or short term - indicates not doing something amounts to gross negligence. What could be worse than what we have?

This www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... or Ripper Street

At the minute we are almost solely reliant on keeping a clean sheet to produce any points from a game (only scored in two of last nine games) - puts an intolerable pressure on back four. The balance can be altered slightly so that isn’t so much the case.

A more attacking manager capable of instilling basic attacking patterns of play and achieving better than three wins in 18/19 will ensure a team nowhere near a relegation battle. Not to mention actually meaning it is possible to ‘enjoy’ some of the final season at Goodison.

FFS, put the Ambassador and meant ‘The Diplomat’ - yup, done both series. Bit far fetched but enjoyable & Alison Janney appearing in second season is good.