Everton_Worshiper

Call me an old tradionalist but I think that there should much stronger ties needed to represent a country at International level than a 5 year residency. There's no pride in that.

Sums it up nicely IMO.

Here's an article that I wrote for ToffeeTalk:

"Arteta shouldn't play for England, he's Spanish."

(No offence Jamie, just in a funny mood )

More debt and nothing to show for it, fantastic work from the board.

Nothing to show to the public but an old mortgage was paid off (taken when interest rates were higher), so although we have a much larger balance I doubt the "cost" of the loan is any more than what we previously had. To me, this is typical media style of making a story when there is no story.

I have seen every minute he has been on the pitch except when he came on against blackburn, he is a player that excites me (more so than Nugent ).

He will do very well, just needs that first goal.

Recently got into Lie To Me, so I'll be watching that tonight.

One of the best series on at the moment, Tim Roth plays Cal Lightman perfectly.

I was sat with some guys "in the know" at the game yesterday, not that far from Capello ...the rumours are that Yakubu just can't recover fully from his injury. He was asked to do some running with Beckford (who is very fast) and Yakubu just gave up about halfway through. Consensus was he needs to be sold, he is causing ripples in the squad.

We then got on to Moyes and we all agreed that Moyes is a fantastic manager under pressure but with a fully fit squad he starts to fumble. I hope Moyes proves everyone wrong but I think we are going to struggle to find the right team in time to mount a good go for a European spot. For example, why on earth is Bily playing who is (IMO) one of our worst players at the moment.

Distin, by far.

The Pienaar votes confuse me, he was poor yesterday.

I remember before the world cup we had a similar conversation, that Capello went against everything he said when he took the job. He is just the FA's puppet, a clueless puppet at that.

Got to add, that all those Kenwright bashers that said Villa is an example of how our club should be run :lol:

For martial arts, Jet Li every time. Based for a long time.

Then Nicolas Cage ("Why couldn't you put the bunny back in the box"), Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks and Ed norton are a couple of favourites. Depending on the film, Kevin Spacey.

Women...the bigger the breasts, the curvier the arse, the more respect I have for their acting abilities.

Mail says we are going to bid for him:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1301706/Everton-launch-13m-bid-Nice-star-Loic-Remy-West-Ham-prepare-raid-Yakubu.html?

I would be gutted if we let him go for £5M never mind anything less.

 

He is a very underated player and with the new squad rules in effect this season I would have thought it

would be prudent to keep hold of any decent home grown players weve got

 

Personally I would rather sell the likes of Bily before we start to show Osman the door

Spot on, agree 100%.

The chanting of both sets of supporters of 'Everton...Everton...Everton...' will probably never be heard again.

Agreed, I can't imagine we will here that from the away supporters too often.

Very good game, very very impressed yet again with Beckford. He is out to prove everyone he can cut it in the Premiership.

Now my hands up moment, I sat in the Park End cheering when Felli was warming up and then when he took out one of their players in the middle of the park. Oh well, I guess absence makes the heart grow fonder.

How good was Coleman too, he gets better every game. Gueye also, looks like Saha reincarnated.

Have to say though that Baxter seems to have lost his appeal with all the other youngsters we have and look way off pace.

Breaking Bad season one and In Treatment season one both being plowed through at the moment. Both crackers

I have just watched Ep09 of Series 3 of Breaking Bad, I am debating sleeping or watching the remaining 4 episodes...it is awesome!

Agreed. Anichebe has showed signs of improvement, would not get rid of him now.

That is just stealth talk for "If we don't qualify for Champions League this season I am off on a free and a nice signing on fee.".

Well what a good game that was, very pleasing to see!

I think there were positives from everyone on the pitch except for Bily, I want to give him a kick up the ass. The amount of times he gave passes away or didn't run to get on the end of a pass was embarrassing.

On a positive note, Jags was simply awesome and doesn't look to have had his head turned. Rodwell all preseason has looked a different player and continued it today. Beckford is going to get us goals, he is so hungry to prove himself and Gueye I think is going to be a buy of the season, very impressed with him.

Anyone else scratching their heads at Arteta's agents comment:

http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/41096/Agent_Arteta_will_stay_with_Toffees.aspx?

"Everton are asking for a lot of money, so it is difficult for Mikel to exit the club," claimed Inaki Ibanez.

If Mikel genuinely wants to leave but is priced out of moving, I hope his performances don't dip.

This is the newspapers lineup and substitutions:

Everton XI: Davies, Thompson, Garbutt (Bidwell 46), Wallace (Savic 80), Nsiala, Mustafi, Schepers (Akpan 60), Barkley (Craig 69), Vaughan (Hope 73), Silva (Kinsella 54), Baxter

This is from OS (http://www.evertonfc.com/match/report/0910/clyde-fc-2-2-everton-res)

Everton Reserves: Davies, Thompson, Garbutt (Bidwell 46), Wallace, Nsiala, Mustafi, Akpan, Barkley (Craig 69), Vaughan (Hope 73), Silva (Kinsella 54), Baxter.

Go figure.

Sorry to lower the tone of the 'longest thread' but don't you just love it when you have one of those poos that is quick and needs no minimal wiping. If only they were all that nice... :lol:

I think one of the main reasons we can't let Jags go is the Lescott saga - we'd be very hard pressed to get in another top-class replacement a la Heitinga, and centre back is a bit like goalkeeper in that it takes time to get someone settled in the position who builds up an understanding with those around him. Lescott leaving badly unsettled our team because we basically had to field a totally knew CB pairing with Jags being out, and before John H settled in there. Now we've got Jags and Johnny H which I reckon is a pretty damn good looking CB pairing that had some time playing together before the end of last season, be a big blow to have to changing that round again.

 

Anyway, I thought Wenger had already signed one CB from Europe and was sniffing round a couple more, anyone know any news on that?

 

Ah, he let three centre backs go.... bugger

Whilst I agree it also means that the whole Lescott Saga demands that this is sorted now and not tomorrow either way - slap another £5k per week on to Jags' contract. We will not find another CB as good as Jags for £4m - simples - so we need to spend part of the "£4m" (aka a replacement CB) on his wages, swiftly followed by the middle finger to Wenger.

Garbutt turns Pro.

At least after all the fuss with Leeds over him he hasn't just disappeared to the lower leagues, quite the opposite.

So far it is looking like being Rodwell & Colemans season this year.

What an impact from Beckford!