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  1. Didn't expect to spark a debate on Latin vocabulary and grammar but I am at least encouraged to know that I suffer the miseries of following the blues in such educated company. Do I think Moyes should walk ? No. I think he should be asked to go. Not sacked as a total failure, but just advised, kindly and with due regard to his contract, that having given hima long time to show us what he is worth we have reached the conclusion that he is not what is required at Everton - he may have assembled a team that will not flirt with relegation but we need more - passion and an understanding that football is won by goals. All organisations, from businesses to countries, eventually benefit from the shake up which comes from new people at the top - whoever they are - because otherwise complacency sets in. Life is short - I've had the joy of trophies because I started this passionate embrace of EFC in 1962 - but my son has behind him ten years of nothingness. So, perhaps we can be brave enough to take a risk and have faith that there could indeed be life after Moyes.
  2. It's half-time and I trudge up the stairs in the Top Balcony, seething with anger at the pitiful performance I had witnessed as we a handed a very average but well-organised Blackburn team a 3 goal lead. I stop to look around at the groups gathered around the refreshment areas and am struck by how many are made up of smiling, joking, cheerful chappies. What they were talking about I couldn't tell - but what else was there to talk about ? and in what other terms could you discuss it other than passion and anger ? But it isn't like that anymore, there seem to be too many people at the game for the 'Premiership experience' or something, who actually do think "it's just a game". Well, it isn't, for a few of us it's at the very core of our lives,a defining feature of who we are and where we come from. Ten years ago this team would have been booed off the pitch and Moyes pilloried for what he is. Now, we just accept things and scurry on Lemming-like to leap over the cliff of the next false-dawn and stunted cup-run. I am annoyed by many of the players, whose effort ill-matches their ludicrous remuneration; infuriated by Moyes and his stubborn, negative, minimal aspiration mentality; but most of all I am angered by the hordes of 'fans' who accept it all and don't care. Moyes has not a single cup-run to his credit. He has recorded the lowest ever points total in an Everton season. The lowest number of goals in a season. A worse overall record than Walter Smith. He has no concept of how teams actually attack and score goals and his annual gesture of contempt towards the fans when transfer time looms is typical of the man. If we had any pride we would be demanding that he goes now. But we won't and his departure will inevitably be at the time of his choosing, not the club's. Finally, if any of you out there are minded to respond "he hasn't been given the money" "we are moving in the right direction" "we are just a couple of players short of a great team"...or even"I think James Beattie will come good" please do seek some kind of professional help. Self-delusion is a debilitating and dangerous pre-cursor of more serious mental problems. "Nil satis nisi optimum". What a joke. Anyone know the Latin for "any old crap will do for this set of mugs" ?
  3. Has anyone noticed that we now have three out of the top 4 clubs in the Premiership who are enormously dependent upon one player ? The FA Cup final was the most extreme case I have ever seen of one player - Gerrard of course - carrying a very ordinary crew. Last season if Rooney wasn't on song then Man United simply didn't function. And where would Arsenal have been without Henry's goals ? Take these three players away and these sides lose 50% of their effectiveness. This is probably another reason why Chelsea will have little trouble completing a hat-trick of title wins as they are nowhere near as much dependent upon one player - albeit that Lampard is a major source of goals - and with the arrival of Ballack and Schevchenko their resources will be greatly increased. It is great to have such world class players as the trio mentioned - but it can be a problem.
  4. I think we could save money at the club by closing down the youth academy and sacking all the scouts. If our youth policy and scouting has not been able to come up with a player who would do a better job than the ageing Weir - great guy as he is - then it doesn't seem worth the effort to continue with them. When he came to EFC if Moyes had been speaking the turth he would have said something on the lines of "I will continue in the great tradition of Walter Smith by employing aged players..preferably Scots...only putting youngsters on the bench when forced to and then not using them"
  5. Watching the UEFA semi tonight I was take back some 20 years to the Bayern night and what it feels like to fight back against seemingly impossible odds - also memories of the 4-4 night against the RS. But what struck me most was the sad thought that as long as Moyes is at the club I'm never going to experience the kind of elation that the Boro fans had tonight. Throwing 4 forwards into the fray - well, we couldn't do that because we don't even have that many on the books. Boro is a small club that has put together a team which may not challenge for the Premiership but at least gives its fans regular cup runs, Carling Cup wins and now European finals. So, in a week when one of my boyhood heroes passes away, it comes to this...I'm jealous of Middlesbrough. Ah well, I'll just get back to filling in the season ticket renewals and signing the cheque for £800+....why when I do this do i feel like the junkie handing over money to the pusher ???
  6. I am proud to say that I watched Everton throughout most of Brian's career - in fact the first time I saw him would be when my older brother was in goal for the Liverpool Collegiate and Labone was also in the team. Make no mistake, this was a really great player, not only because of his powerful domination of the Everton defence alongside the likes of Brian Harris and John Hurst, but because he did things the right way. No dirty play, no tantrums, no diving, no cheating no disappearing to the highest bidder - blue through and through. He should have played for England in the World Cup final as he was a far better player than Jackie Charlton. But he took us to two Championships and an FA Cup triumph which puts him right at the top in terms of great Evertonians.
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