MikeO

Current Player of the Year standings.... Rodwell 84 Pienaar 71 Saha 65 Bilyaletdinov 36 Howard 33 Fellaini 29 Distin 21 Hibbert 17 Osman 14 Yobo 13 Baines 10 Cahill 7 João Alves Jô 4 Neville 2 Gosling 2 Yakubu 1 MOTM winners.... Portsmouth (A)...Tim Howard Hull City (A)...Leon Osman Blackburn (H)...Louis Saha AEK Athens (H)...Diniyar Bilyaletdinov Fulham (A)...Sylvain Distin Wigan...(H)...Jack Rodwell Sigma Olomouc (A)...Steven Pienaar Burnley...(A)...Tony Hibbert Sigma Olomouc (H)...Jack Rodwell Arsenal (H)...Steven Pienaar

Holy shite....hit the post!

Cracking name their left back's got....fast though...they call call him Shitov a shovel. Sorry .

4-4-2 . Nearly fell off my chair ! I'm feeling unaccountably optimistic. 2-1 win. Is Ossie captain again? Powerful looking bench...Nash, Duffy, Agard, Baxter, Wallace, Mustafi, Akpan .

Pienaar looks more like Manny Fernandez. Neville and Baines (in particular) are completely unrecognizable.

Hope you're right Louis.....not bought myself a shirt yet this year 'cos I'm not overly keen on the first two so I'd like one .

The OS says nothing other than.... The limited edition shirt, which will be individually boxed, numbered and presented with a certificate of authenticity, will be unveiled at an exclusive black tie dinner to be held in Club Everton at Goodison Park on Thursday, 29 October, 2009. ....doesn't suggest it's going to be sold as a normal third kit.

Team's just about picking itself now . Howard, Hibbo, Yobo, Distin, Baines, Gosling, Ossie, TC, Felli, Bily, Jo/Yak.

Forgot to say good luck for the rest of the season mate. I'm old enough to remember our matches back when you had the unmatchable Gordon Banks in goal (and of course Mike Bernard who I liked a lot as a lad); good to see you had a successful first season back in the top flight and hope you stick around .

OS says otherwise... "Louis Saha joined Everton in the summer of 2008 for an undisclosed fee."

Travelling squad: Carlo Nash, Tim Howard, Tony Hibbert, Leighton Baines, Sylvain Distin, Joseph Yobo, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Jack Rodwell, James Wallace, Jose Baxter, Jo, Leon Osman, Tim Cahill, Marouane Fellaini, Yakubu, Kieran Agard, Shane Duffy, Shkodran Mustafi.

Certainly .

Agree with your sentiment nogs, and I'd sign any petition, but like Bill says I hate to give them publicity .

Hi Dave welcome . Unusual surname! Am I right in thinking it's derived from Senegalese and pronounced ekkells-cakkeez ?

As expected.....but it looks like it's not on general sale, just limited edition so will probably be expensive. Good cause though. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2009/09/30/everton-fc-s-100-000-boost-for-rhys-jones-charity-100252-24814741/

Don't think Raikkonen does amicable does he....for anyone ? Great driver no doubt but has had a character bypass I think. If he goes to McLaren he'll achieve the seemingly impossible by making Hamilton appear charismatic....maybe that's the plan . Kovalainen's a waste of space 75% of the time.

Bored journo discovers a player called Honda, decides it's make a "catchy" tabloid line, picks football club/manager pretty much at random purely so he can write... Everton boss David Moyes fancies buying himself a new Honda.

Completely in your own hands, start making a contribution and there's no problem. Putting threads like this one in "General Everton" doesn't really help your case though.

Top man Jamie, I'll be there at 5.45 with beer .

Think I've said it before but I'd be happy to see Gosling at right back in Europe. League games probably not.

You're not the only one Bill .

What are your expectations for the season? The emergence of City, Spurs finally living up to the hype (so far at least), along with our traditional slow start looks like making top six tough. Wouldn't want any worse than seventh though, I don't think Villa will perform so well this year. A cup would do me, first winners of the Europa League sounds good. Who are your most famous fans? I'm stuck between Amanda Holden and Liz McClarnon...or was that a dream? Actually the most famous in my eyes will always be Ed "Stewpot" Stewart. Any places you reccomend for our travelling support to have a few drinks/ anywhere that should be avoided? 500 mile round trip when I go to Goodison so I could recommend a pub but it'd be in Devon so probably not overly useful. What team are you likely to put out against us? Howard, Heitinga, Yobo, Distin, Baines, Rodwell, Fellaini, Osman, Cahill, Bilyaletdinov, Saha (assuming Pienaar is unfit). As a home fan, who would you say is your most dangerous player, that the opposition should look out for? Saha's on fire, Fellaini's due a goal, Bily's dead ball delivery is looking lethal but the man of the season so far is Rodwell. If he's on form he can run the game. Any guesses on what you think the score will be? 3-1. Two from King Louis and a Baines penalty. Beattie can get a late consolation for you though....sure he'll get a positive reception.

Pitiful journalism....exactly as you'd expect.

Just too early for me. Catterick doesn't come out of it well.....but then he was never going to win nice guy of the year was he .

Copy and paste it into an online translation such as http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt. It's very imaginative .