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thats what I thought...so didn't these games go up for sale?

is there a reason why it is not on TV...it has been at this stage in the past???

Stil better than hibbert

yeah...they identified their ideal candidate months ago, but now spurs and villa are interested in the same one according to Groundsmen Weekly....

A couple of things from that....SSN has the hearing down for Friday. Also, it says the hearing has been granted despite his lack of international appearance....do they only grant a hearing if the permit is likely to be accepted?? Also, could the hearing not be for fernandes give that we are being linked with him again????

much more pleasing to the eye than the away kit and I like the gold detailing...may even buy it before the season is out

1. After a good season last year are you expecting similar or better and does the Arsenal result change your opinion or was it just one of those days? It was just one of those days...the game was only really killed after the 3rd goal....i will say my expectation is the same as last year with a better run in europe....but maybe it should be higher, after all, last time aresenal creamed us on the opening fixture, we finished 4th.... 2. Due to a serious lack of resources many people regard the Clarets promotion as a miracle. Now that we are in the Premier amongst the money men, Burnley have kept the spending low and capped player’s wages to 15k per week. Is this a good idea? Yes, for this season, but next season (should you survive), the cheque book should realy come out. 3. Which Everton player should we worry about the most? After saturday i am not sure exactly but I will say pienaar... 4. Are there any Burnley player’s that you have heard of and rate? Robbie Blake is the only one...burnley legend. 5. What position do you predict Everton will finish this season? 6th (ahead of man city) 6. What position do you predict Burnley will finish this season? 19th...sorry but there are too many experienced teams around the bottom i.e. bolton, wigan, blackburn, sunderland... Wolves to prop up the table come May. 7. Finally please predict the score for our game? 3-1 Everton - continuation from our kick up the ass.

yeah, but if you click his link, it doesn't bring up his details, just a blank space where they should be.... Watch this space?????

anyone able to find any updates on this? After all, he was supposed to be 'having a medical' yesterday.. Am thinking its gonna go the same way as the others where it just dies a slow painful death because we cant agree a fee...

who picked neville...come on, fess up!!!

....he's injured so makes for even more uncomfortable reading....but don't worry boro, villa have will happily play 8-10million for injured players....

Indeed, we will be starting the season with the same side that finished the last so we shouldn't panic and get too downbeat and in one sense, it should theoretically give us a better start to the season - whilst all the other teams around us tinker around trying to find the best 11 and way to play with each other we will be ready from the off (fingers crossed). BUT....for the sake of continued progress, we must find a new 1st choice RB...the one we have at the moment is a million miles off being a top class, international standard player. We need the quality that baines brings us on left, on the right. Also, with our history of injuries, we really need cover at CB - yobo is off in January and jags may have a relapse of his injury so we MUST keep lescott and get a cover CB. If we dealt with these 2 problems, we could all rest a bit easier.....instead we are chasing an injured midfielder (o'neil) Hopefully, we will get throughy the transfer window (which is becoming a right pain in the ass) with the players we need and the ones we have already, and we can finally settle into watching us show city how money doesn't buy you success....COYB

I think the marketing dept are missing one critical thing though....its not 'all black'.....there is some hideous fluorescent pink in it as well.....and it does a good enough job of embarassing us on its own thankyou very much....

Basically C.T.I.D, the modesty you started with in your earlier posts seems to have disappeared in recent posts. Its understandable you will want to get defensive of your team, but don't let it cloud your judgments and take over your comments. There are fans of every team that think they are the greatest team in the world and that they are going to win everything under the sun - everton are no different - but, in 'reality', I would say that the majority of evertonians are expecting a 4th/5th/6th/7th ot 8th place finish next year, whereas it seems city fans think they are gonna win the prem, fa cup, league cup, europa cup.....no wait, thats not right .... I think the best comparison we have of a club making shed loads of 'big signings' is at real madrid - im very interested to see how they fair in a league that is as competitive as the SPL. Does anyone think they will win La liga, champs league, copa del rey just because they have ronaldo and kaka??? And don't forget, what effect/success squad tinkering has (see Ranieri and 'Manuel' Benitez) Now, lets all just come back down to 'reality' and be friends again....after all, we have one of your rejects (jo) and you have one of ours (dunne) ....common ground me thinks. Peace and Respect Dude

Yeah i think that was.....erm...was it you guys??? oh yeah i remember. You made it there once and you "MAY" even get there again (every 10 years or so). But you will simply never make a sustained challenge like the big4 do year in year out. And like City will when we get rolling.... ....what do we think guys (and gals?).....!!!!!

its just his way to cool our expectations...its understandable that to get a squad player who is good enough to be a 1st team regular, but not have big wage and transfer fees is difficult - they're not many of them. I'm beginning to accept that the season will kick off without any more signings, but we will make one or two before sept 1st (Senderos/yebda/albondo/hunt/ledly/ryan taylor?????)

Says the Hartlepool fan.....clearly spent too many years watching amateur football in the north east. chelsea champions, man u - 2nd, shite - 3rd, gunners - 4th(just).....man city 7th or 8th. Burnley, Wolves & portsmouth - relegated. Best Buy, Valencia.

But there is only one team to have broken the top 4 in the last 6 or seven seasons - and they did it with a worse team than they have now, and without a massive Investor Pumping Silly money into [the] club.....can you guess who it was??????

I think that he is free to play in them unless we draw man city as he can't play against his parent club. I haven't heared of any clause in his loan agreement but we will soon find out....we might expect him to play but then spurs swoop at the last minute and get him to play for them in the carling cup 2nd round.....

I caught a split second on SSN yesterday about this - i think Premier league rejected it. But I cannot find any solid news stories on it. ONly found evidence from a villa forum http://www.villatalk.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=1827359 Does anyone have any light to shed on this and what are the views of fellow evertonians on this?

Indeed Moyes will more than likely end up at Old Trafford, particularly if we are still banging our heads against the 'sky4' ceiling, but his motivation for leaving would be more justified than lescotts given that City are not in europe and there is no guarantee they will be successful - they might, but its all perceived success whereas it's proven success at utd. The market is inflated when a club bids £100M (kaka), £80M (Ronaldo) £56M (kaka) etc...other clubs then say 'my player is better than him (as we did with Lescott vs Johnson) so you must pax X million'.....8 million for Delph??, likewise Naughton?? are prime examples of an over-inflated market. With the lescott situation, it is smply EFC trying to out-price any potential buyers because we simply do not want to sell him. I dont think the club truly think he is worth more than what Rooney was. Finally, i've no idea where teams are gonna end up this year - too many ifs and buts...I think we will be 6th with a good run in europe and one of the cups...city will replace fulham in the european race which will also involve villa and spurs. The papers are just mssing the fact that city are still missing a defence which i feel will ultimately cost them this season....but good luck to everyone. On a final more quirky note, at least you know city will be on first on MOTD every week.....

not bad...its where Im pitching us for next season.....but it whiffs of 'Man City to get 5th place' in their eyes - we'll see......

I don't know why, but I think the these are gonna be something similar to dinamo bucarest....that was fun wasn't it!!!....we need to be bloody ready this time...suppose it helps that aberdeen played them in the last round - we can get some useful advice.

C.T.I.D....you asked: You say he tries to bully clubs and acts disrespectfully in regards to our transfer policy. How so? This is probably because with Man Citys newfound ego, they now seem to air their transfer business through the media, and it ends up that the media generate such a hysteria that the player(s) being targeted can't help but get brainwashed into thinking that a move to eastlands is what they want/need so effectively, playersand clubs are being brainwased(bullied) to submission by the media....its like the champs lge, the media hype it up so much, that people actually believe that it is a good competition when we all know its all a load of commercialised nonsense (this may cause some debate but hey, thats what a forum is for)

13.00 Skysports.com understands Hull's pursuit of Ross McCormack has been held up by the involvement of a third party. 12.50 Tony Pulis has voiced his irritation over the way agents have held up his attempts to bring in new players. Seems we are not the only club having problems completing transfers...and maybe this is what is tripping us up i.e. naughton/walker deal