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My name is Stewart Lowe and ive been an Everton fan since 1982, so long enough to remember all the good times we have had as well as the many bad. Since David Moyes took over ack in 2002 i have waited with baited breath as to what i have always believed would be our eventual if not imminent rise back to the top where we belong. The first point i would like to make is that i honestly believe that the system and structure we have in place at Everton is both second to none and a method that im sure would take us to the top without the financial muscle of the big 4. So called lesser players can be brought to Goodison and quadruple in value. This is not because they have suddenly become massively better players, but because they have been put into a system that functions as a single working unit. Only then is a players true value realised. There are only a hand full of teams in the country that have such a system in place that works and they are Chelsea, Man Utd and Arsenal, aswell as our own. Now my second point is that, despite our rise to 5th in what was a shocking start to the season and the unfancied ride towards the FA cup final, we have not made a single signing to bolster our squad. That both frustrates and annoys me. For relatively financially poor premiership club, we need to add 1-2 class players per season to progress, as we dont have the funds to do a big 4 (also Man City) transfer job. WE were supposed to be interested in Cana but Sunderland got in there and took him to the north east. We were odds on to get the Kyle lads but once word of this got out, up came Tottenham to steal them away. I actually think that Naughton would have been the best right back since Ashley Cole. We are supposedly interested in Rasmus Elm but we have heard nothing from that either and now Fulham and Liverpool have thrown their hats into the ring. We are the weakest club when it comes to transfer activity. We are the best once we have got them and developed them into that single unit, but we are the weakest and most dithering at trying to seal them. Moyes has just come out saying that he needs to bolster and especially a central defender but we will wait until they become available. What the hell does that mean. Firstly, you have to make things happen and not sit around waiting for agents to say players want to move on and would you be interested. Come the final day of t he seaon we will all be waiting for something to happen and Moyes / Kenwright will make 3-4 signings that have no chance of breaking through beyond stocking filler signings, only to be released at the end of the year when their loan runs out. After Nash, Castillo, Jacobsen, we only really bought Fellaini, and he is still only potential level. So come on Moyes and Kenwright, less of the crap dithering served up to us for the 3rd year running, when and who are we really going to sign cause at the close of season thi year, the smallest squad in the premiership just got a lot smaller.

brilliant you should send that into everton

well were in desparate need of a right back better than hibbert but apparantly we already have one - seamus coleman played againsed bury in the pre season friendly and looked good, what do you think?

moyes has talked about needing back up for both the left back and centre back position after the release of nuno valente and the injury to phil jagielka. we all know that micheal ball is a very capible left back and i seem to remember that he had a good spell at centre half while at us, he is a free agent after being released by city - what do you think?

id be very happy if we got elm

My old grandad fought at Passchendaele, never spoke of it, just sat in his chair and looked on at us kids.Must have wondered if what his generation went through was worth the cost.I remember we took him to a beach one day in the late 60's and he sat on his deck chair with his flat cap and boots on, as usual not really say very much to us young kids, I only found out many years later that he had also seen action at Gallipoli, I've often wondered what was going through his mind on that beach when you think about what happened at Gallipoli.

 

I have Max Arthurs book "The last post"...."The final word from our first world war soldiers"..Harry Patch is one of those soldiers, so obviously was the other veteran who you mentioned.Very sad book, but it should be on every school book shelf.

 

The last of a great generation, I think they would hate what Britain has become.They probably sat in their trenches thinking at least they and thier fellow soldiers were being blown apart for a good reason.

 

Lets hope Harry Patch and all his old comrades are now resting in peace.

brilliant, and another soldier died in afghanistan today, thats around 20 this month, around three times of that died every day on the western front, imagine how bad that would have been

im actually heartbroken at the news that britans last world war 1 living veteran has died in the early hours of today (25/7/09) just a week after the last naval veteran of world war 1 died, harry was a machine gunner in the battle of passendale, 1917. his book, the last fighting tommy, is availible.

pay any respects here

so weve had the like of johnson and fellini as our big signings over the last few years..... who this year?

i havnt been a fan of fellaini this year but he was easily our best player on saturday and i think he will play a key role in next years lineup

the transfer of michal owen looks imminat too, him and the yak would be great upfront together and with vaughan and anichibe pushing for a place the forward position looks good for next year

just sign montinho and a new right back and next season could be our most succesful in the premier league.

montinho? owen? glen johnson?

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i have made a small online petition to keep everton in our city.

i know the people from KEIOC have probubly already made one but i want bill kenwright to know that its not just the KEIOC who are opposed to the move. please help by signing the petition by clicking on this link:

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/KEIOC

thanks in advance.