Royal Blue: Big-picture thinking and the two players Everton are over-reliant on

So yet another devastating late Merseyside derby defeat for Everton.

But, for anyone expecting the latest Royal Blue podcast to be akin to a wake, then you’d be wrong. Therapy maybe, but there’s no mourning.

And why would there be after the Blues produced their best performance at Anfield in some time; a performance that should have brought the point their efforts so richly deserved.

So to pick the bones out of Sunday’s match, our Everton FC correspondent Phil Kirkbride is joined by head of sport Dave Prentice, Everton’s official statistician Gavin Buckland, and by Paul Wheelock.

Prenno kicks things off with a rousing rallying cry that will banish any blues you’re still feeling.

The lads debate Jordan Pickford’s mistake and how he will bounce back from it before talk turns to the job Marco Silva is doing.

Would the result against Liverpool have been different had Silva had an out-an-out centre-forward on the pitch? One panellist thinks so. Another disagrees.

The Ademola Lookman-Theo Walcott debate then gets another airing before the visit of Newcastle United to Goodison Park on Wednesday is previewed.

And, without giving the game away, more positivity abounds.