The Official Everton thread...

[aaak]

The only time in the game when they look dangerous was for a few mins after howards slip.
Defensively we were fantastic especailly centre halves -a bit of Watson & Ratcliffe there. hibbert does worry me occasionally though.
If all Rafa can do is moan about us, it certainly shows how much less than wonderful his are -but that was there for all to see.

[350GT]

I have always rated Hibbert... he is crap at crosses, and all that stuff, but he really is a great defender. Not that many get past him, and his positional play when defending is superb... At least Fellaini and Arteta should be back by then.

[aaak]

Due to work i saw the game and have seen/heard nothing else, a commentator said about a rib injury, do you know the extent and more importantly wll he be back in time for arsenal or is it worse?
Cheers

[350GT]

He did it during the Hull game, but played through the game last Monday. I think he may have agitated it in training. I don't think it will be serious.

I'll be watching the game at midnight, (on Everton TV), but am curious what folks thought... People are saying Liverpool dominated, with 75% possession, but sky sports had it thus..

Edited by 350GT on Monday 26th January 00:51

[aaak]

During the first half i remember seeing a stat where they had had 74% and we had 26%
In te second half they ran out of ideas (if they ever had any) and puff.
The game was end to end at the end. It is stil difficult to be accurate when you are so biased.

[alfa phil]

They only scored through a mistake, but our home record is not very good, i think the replay result will come down to Everton wanting it more.

[350GT]

Timmyyyyyyyyyy!

[350GT]

Bugger me... This is gonna be a hard match! Howard done superbly thus far.

[350GT]

Rumours of Jo coming on loan...

[GBRM]

Is that good or bad though?! I suppose at least we didn't spen the £15 million plus for him though.

[350GT]

It's good... I'm afraid Anchovy doesn't really seem to cut the mustard. Remember he was 18 million for a reason. I think Moyes can get the best out of players, so he'll be good to go I reckon.

[350GT]

Official... Signed Jo

[im]

350GT said:

Official... Signed Jo

...on loan

[350GT]

Yes... On loan.. We can't afford to buy bread, never mind buy a player.

[aaak]

bright side boys..........we've signed an £18 million pound player!

and tomorrow morning I set off for my first derby game on 20 years.....snow or no snow

[ITMonkey]

You lucky Bluenoses - you got Jags for £4M .... absolute steal.

[350GT]

And Cahill for 1.5 million, and so on, and so forth... jags is awesome.

[aaak]

This leads to a very deep question which might be another thread because it applies to many other clubs -are we happier under a true blue in Kenwright and being 'broke', having to rely on Moyes to unearth the Cahills of this world and making do with top four pretensions or as our chairman said recently, we need a billionaire owner, to 'progress' and be the next Chelsea or Man city.
To me football is all about loyalty, but now its all about money, sometimes I wish I had any kind of local team in any division where it about turning up on a sat and standing with 10 men and a dog watching a kicking match in the rain (the first team i ever watched was Wick Academy in these surroundings) But I'm a blue (and a tim) and football is life so we make do with smiling at Man City being 'bigger' than manure and hating shrek til i die (its that loyalty thing again)

[350GT]

For me, I know that the footballers look on t as a career. Their families rely on their doing well, however, it does please me to see a player who is not lured away on the promise of huge money. Take the recent rumours of Arteta moving to City, or Aresnal. I know Everton will not pay anywhere near as much as those chaps, but should he sign another 5 year contract, 9as are the rumours), then that will give me a lot of respect for that player, and maybe team spirit is important to some, and not just a bank balance?

[172ff]

Today is a good day to be a toffee!

Roffle.