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Bit worried you know!........Why?

Is it just me......or do others also think that a lot of people seem to think

that a new stadium means success,and that a bigger stadium means the

same?

Wouldn't we have lost yesterday to Man Utd in a new stadium a few miles

down the road?......There were about 39,000 people at the game I guess

37,000 or so Blues and a couple of thousand red!......down the road would

there have been 45,000 Blues??.......maybe an extra couple of thousand red!

We didn't lose because of the amount of fans!they were great as usual....we

didn't lose because we were at Goodison and not a superdome!

NO we lost because our regular goalkeeper was absent(not directly laying blame

at the door of the new lad!).....we lost because we scored an own goal(they happen

but there was chaos in the goal mouth!......)...we lost because a few players had

poor days,most have mentioned Hibbert,I can't comment as I wasn't there.

AND we weren't helped by injuries to key players....ie AJ and Cahill!

So I don't think the location and condition of the stadium played a part in the

defeat!......and that was my point!

I want success,but the fans who believe that a new stadium will bring it quickly

should just be carefull.......YES we probably need to move and i'm sure it will

happen in the next few years....who knows when it does we could be as successfull

as Man City,Newcastle,Middlesborough......oh and Southampton and Sunderland.

OK Bolton have done pretty well just lately......They say the stadium's never full

and with Big Sam leaving and taking his big brown enverlopes.....time will tell.

Next season Everton Will (baring major injuries) finish above all but perhaps

the SO CALLED big 4........playing at Goodison!

You don't lose matches because you don't have nice seats in the big new stands,

you don't lose matches because people have had to push through crowded cobble

sreets and packed turnstyles or because or because Rambo couldn't make the game!

You lose matches because.....you drop the ball....score in your own goal...play badly

......have players injured etc,etc,etc.......

P.S......I'm not saying we don't need to move!

Man utd!.............probably fair to say are one of best in Europe and will

I think go on to win a treble!!

Yet it took a mistake and an own goal,to get them back into a game against

a team with a few important players out!....look at luckypool today without

their goalkeeper and captain fantastic.....CRAP!(a few crap signings and an

injury to Gerrard next season.....and we'll be above them!)

Another game for Moyes to learn from....and he will!

Should beat Portsmouth........and by the time we play Chelsea,they will

know they can't win the title and will be thinking about a couple of cup

finals.......so a point there's not out of the question.

Get over it BLUES.......Good times ahead!

Alan Ball.....red hair,White boots and a BLUE heart!

Great player.....Sadly missed by this club.

RIP Alan....

Good luck Blue_Scouser1878 with this project........Like above I'm not a local

so feel it's probably more of an issue to them!

But for what its worth I can only state how I feel.

I live in Kings Lynn Norfolk,so a home games an away game to me,and can

only make 5/6 a season.....if when I arrive in liverpool an extra couple of miles in

a taxi wont really stop me from coming!(unless he's a rs driver!)

I would rather the ground stay just where it is.....I don't really mind the cobble

streets,terraced houses,crowded streets packed with fans,police horse shit,

hot dogs and chips.....in fact I like it!Rather that than some out of town concrete

waistland,where you can shop and maybe get a nice meal!I want to see a football

match with atmosphere....isn't that Goodison!

They say by staying at Goodison were going backwards!.......Well from what I

can see with a small squad,injuries and lost silly points,were still 5th while some

teams with half full new stadiums can only look up at us!....and I can't see by

being there next season anything will change........if teams don't like coming

to Goodison......GOOD!!

BUT if moving is the ONLY way to make us a better team(can't believe it really)

then I'm for it......I guess we belong within the city limits.

Will it help us(the new stadium).....hasn't helped,man city,middlesborough,

Newcastle and a few others!

Might not help luckypool.........no more fortress Anfield...OOOHHhhh that will

hurt!

Sorry Blue_Scouser1878.....told you I couldn't help.

Hey JD in JC!.........That's the kinda talk we want!!!!

......."COMPLETELY ELIMINATE PORTSMOUTH"

Hell next year,I can think of a few more teams we could perhaps do

that to!!

AND NO!.....I don't mean luckypool.....we just about did THAT to them this

season!

You know europe would be great......but it aint been a bad season has it!

disheartening when we'd built it up (in the same topic) for an absolute away drumming!

Well there's the problem......if you will go expecting us to win 4,5-0...then to lose

is surely a major blow.Myself I think I predicted a hard game that could go either

way......and was hoping for a 1-0(for us!)...So we lost away to a team fighting

for their lives.Where as Man utd got a dubious draw at HOME to a team with

nothing to play for!!Now if we'd lost 1-3 at home to Reading that would be worth

a BIG moan.With no AJ,Cahill,Vaughan and Anichebe a miss firing Beattie and

an underplayed McFadden,then goals will be hard to come by.

Where would Spurs be without Keane....or luckypool without captain fantastic?

Dissapointed YES.........Down hearted NO!

A lot of the time people talked about Yobo..well during the last couple of

seasons,was to highlight a mistake or two.He did make one or two high

profile mistakes....and many myself not included wanted to talk about these

rather than the excellent defender he is.So I guess Yobo's more than happy

at the moment he's not the topic of conversation.

When the incredeble Lescott is allowed to move in full time to his position

in central defence,then what a partnership he and Yobo will make.With

Hibbert back to his best and a'fit' left back plus a great goalkeeper in Howard

then surely that will be some defence.

And I believe with some class players around Yobo,maybe Fernandes in front

of him,then I think we will see an even better Yobo!!

You watch luckypool,with poor old Hypia on his last legs,and with all those

dollars.....looking across the park at our central defenders....and realising that

there are some things money just cant buy!

They might end up spending a fortune and getting a Kroldrup!!!.....That would

be a shame.

Yobo and Lescott........PRICELESS!!!

West Hams must win at all costs can make them hard or easy to

play against.......their passion may be hard to combat,they will

throw them selves at every ball!!There by letting their hearts rule

their heads......step forward a cool calculating Moyes!

Can see West Ham making it a physical game,plenty of Everton

free kicks.......Arteta.......to the free scoring Lescott.....GOAL!!

Hard fought points against Man U and Chelsea!

And a home win against Portsmouth......Well you didn't think

there was only one pair of Royal Blue Glasses in the world...

....Did you!

How do we break into top four?......by doing what were doing.Slowly building

a team thats very hard to beat.Bringing on good young players and adding

a few more Lescotts and Cahills along the way.Hanging onto Moyes will help.

Some of those crap signings can only have made him better long term!

How many points has captain fantastic won luckypool

this season single handed.....quite a few.If they spend big and get the wrong players

next season and Gerrard misses any decent amounts of games....then there's

our 4th spot!Arsenal could just as easily blow it.As was mentioned in posts

above sure the so called top four need to slip up to help us achieve it....BUT

sure they can.Couple of seasons away from the champions league will

sort out a couple of the big spenders.

Will it all boil down to money?......He's getting towards the end of his playing

days!I wonder if a two year contract would make his mind up.Comes across

as a loyal man both to his family and this club....the sort of people this game

could do with a few more of.

If he left us for a three year contract with the likes of Birmingham or Stoke,

over a one year deal hear you could hardly blame him.

Any way I'd hate to travel an hour and a half each way every day to do

something I love......and only take home £10,000 a week!!

Funny old game......int it!

I would rather put a hot iron on my face

I'd say about 20-1 against you doing that!!.....

Pancake............(sorry stevie)!

Am I right in thinking your American, does the gun culture not scare you, I mean if that hapenend in this country a seriouse inquest would be on where the guy got the gun and ammo.

No mate not American!......Just family links with the place.Spent some happy holidays

with them.My uncle was in the SWAT section in Dallas.He had about 12 hand guns a couple

of shot guns and a rifle.When out he was never without at least one hand gun and one

strapped to his ankle!(a very small hand gun)!

Everyone just accepts the gun culture....a lot dont like it,but they just accept it.

First went out with them in their police cars when I was 15.....and have been a few times since.

Would I let my now 15 year old son go out with my cousin?NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!

Besides my cousin once pulled a young prostitute up!.....she begged him not to take her in!

Really wouldn't want my boy to have to see another one do the same thing to avoid

being run in........HE WOULD WANT TO SEE IT!!

USA CRAZY PLACE......But will add if you can avoid the problems a great place.

OK YOU GUYS!!.........Enough already,can you talk about fight club elsewhere!

All these posts are making RAFA look very popular on the introduction board!!

Come on Rafa!.....Your not that good

12 posts since the start of 2006 and every one's about how class McFadden is.

Well lets just hope he's on here a lot more then....say in the next few weeks!

Cos crap or not if McFadden can do that sort of thing once or twice in the

coming games....then he'll do for me!.You know some players do take a few

to reach their peaks, beside Moyes will be the ultimate judge of McFadden,

not the fans!If he's good enough for moyes he's good enough for me.

If/when we get into europe were going to need players like McFadden.

My uncle is a retired Policeman in Dallas and my cousins a serving policeman

in Fort Worth....Your allowed to go out with them in their police cars!

.............never been so scared in all my life!Guns every where!

Well do you want to make easy money?

Just go into Ladbrokes and put £10(or more,if you've got plenty) on

liverpool to win the champions league!!!!!

WOW...KEEP CALM!!......NO I haven't lost the plot!

Yes there a complete bunch of Wan%ers.....Yes there not nice people

like us!.......Yes there the luckiest bunch of tossers to ever cross the

white line!!!!.....and thats my point!.......LUCKY!

OF COURSE THEY WILL SOMEHOW FLUKE THE FRIGGIN THING!!

And at odds of 3-1...(12-1 if Gerrards not playing)...well thats money

in YOUR pocket!!!

SEE EASY MONEY!!!...................................................................

.........................WHAT IF THEY LOSE,I hear you say!

Aaarrrhhh......if they lose......you lose your money,But wont you be a happy!

With McFaddens goals,did you notice that very few,maybe only one of them

was a complete hit and hope!

Can think of a few players of the rs who have raked up a list of

wonder strikes......where to be honest it's just head down a hit

it as hard as you can!OK a goal all the same,and it's a shame we

don't have a Gerrard type player to strike them like that.

But my point was/is that McFadden always seems to know where

he's aiming for!.........just a shame he doesn't aim there more often!

McFadden's probably not far of a very good player......But he is

a little short of a consistant player!

So far in his Everton career most fans have only ever had him

down as a good squad player.

Problem is whats his best position?Does Moyes know!DoesMcFadden

know!......What style of play suits him best?

What we do know is he seldom scores a tap in!...now add 10 ordinary

goals to your wonder goals James,and give moyesy a headache.

AJ,Vaughan,Anichebe,Beattie,McFadden...All british(Well Anichebe is

really)......Everton showing the way!

Hello Rafa!......nice to see you on board.Looking forward to large

amounts of rs bashing from yourself!Sit back and let others have the

strain of running a forum!!

No more relegation!!!.......You know I can remember listening to

a certain game....Everton v Wimbledon..(on my little radio) many

years ago now!.....losing 0-2!!!!!!.....Tell you what "No more relegation"

sure has a nice ring to it,at that time!I would have signed up to that!

BUT we survived....and it's games like that that make football what

it is!................"No more relegation"NAH daft idea.....unless of course

your 0-2 down at home in the last game of the season.

I can see Moyes giving Beattie a start up front with AJ.He(Moyes)has

shown Beattie by playing the two lads (Vaughan and Anichebe) that

his time could be running out!!.....both injured!Step forward Mr Beattie,

play well score a goal or two while the lads are injured.The gauntlet

has been thrown down.

As for Charlton,things are pretty tight at the bottom....all that extra

money coming next season,dropping out of the prem would be a

disaster,so they will be like Fulham,in that we will need more than

a couple of goals to kill it off!

Lets hope AJ gets his rewards for the mountain of work,that you just

know he will put in.

Didn't Wimbledon have an away kit of a dark green a few years back?

From what I remember it didn't look to bad!!

In fact if on bumping into members of the crazy gang ie Vinnie and

fash,and if asked what I thought to the kit!.....I would have answered

very,very nice!!

Yeh sure what Moyes does in the summer is crucial!You say we don't want

any more crap signings........when he signed those players(the ones mentioned

above)did moyes know how they would turn out?

Will be the same with who he buys this summer.....could be a Cahill or a Lescott

or maybe a kroldrup/VDM...Nuggent could be crap in the prem.It's a gamble!

What he can do is pre season build team spirit....it's supposed to be good,well

make it even better.

He needs to let a couple go...and certainly buy a few.

Lets be honest.If he gets it right,then fourth is possible.....gets it

wrong,even then no lower than 10th.Bit of a change from the pre

Moyes days!.

I've been to far to few games this season to really coment on Neville!

But something that sticks in my mind was the league game at home to

Blackburn.Fairly early on Neville went for a 50/50 with Dunn,there was

no way he was pulling out of that one....the friggin ground shook,he

(Neville)did get slightly injured.......Dunn one of their best players limped

off,never to return.Not too many of our squad would have went for that

ball with the rather weighty Dunn!!He gives 100%,didn't he cross the ball

for that AJ goal at Spurs?

Not the best in the world!.....but then nor are we!.....£3million...Bargin!