Rob W

so the team that wins the premier league is the best team in england. so surely that makes the 4th place team better than the 5th place team. a 38 game season is a better judge of real performance over the season than a knockout competition is (IE champs league). there is no elemnet of luck in a 38 game season, a team that finishes above another team really can be considered superior to them at that time. Knockout comps can lie. because Burnley beat u in the FA cup last season doesnt make them a better team than u, just as just cos u beat milan doesnt make u a better team than them, let a lone the best team in europe!

well said Goldfish!

not in the same class as the mighty Burnley though are they!

a bet on efc to win 1-0 every game would be very profitable over the season. also DRAW at half time Everton full time. it will be 1-0 on saturday, of that i am sure. Everton win and I make money, cant say fairer than that. Also for another dead cert, Crouch NOT to score.

1-0 to the Aussies!

cahill hasnt started for oz! they taken him accross the world knackering him out and they have picked harry kewell over him! whats going on

£2m for bent would be too good to turn down, i like him as a player but if we could bring in nugent for the same money and snap Keano then that would suit me sir

green reminds me of richard wright too much, i think he will be a dodgy keeper for his whole career. would much ratehr have niemi who always looks solid. as said with ashton, he is the big man of 2 strikers and we already have that in beats and dunc. robbie keane (fingers crossed) would be a much much better bet.

they beat us 3-1! cahill, viduka, emerton, kewell(!), Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Aloisi. They are far from useless.

shut up livton, sorry tonliv.... i havent been overly impressed with Ferrari so far, i dont think we have seen enough of him to judge just yet. whats the deal with him anyway, do we have a right to buy him at the end of the season, did we put down a deposit like we did with Arteta?

i think tonliv maybe our old friend Livton in disguise!

we all knew about Ruddy a long time before he signed!

i agree, Cole has been 'promising' for about 5 years now but when ive seen him for charlton or villa hes looks pretty shite. in short... no

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i would love to get robbie keane and the £4m they are quoting would be an absolute bargain, but im worried that someone esle will nab him at the last minute, newcastle or boro spring to mind. we have let it drag too long and made it all to public long before we are going to do business leaving him open to be snatched. why o why did we not buy these players when we had champs league to offer, instaed now we have a relegation fight to offer!?

it will be 1-0 either way, more likely to be to them but we stand a chance. they might be a bit tired from tonight. hasnt jose moaned before about their results following a champs match..or was that after internationals? anyway cahill header as djlduffy said or a drogba off the shin wonder goal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4356924.stm top ever goalscorer for each prem team quiz

did u notice who won the player of the month poll to the right of the screen.

Losing at home to Wigan and Portsmouth is very worrying, theres no two ways about it, they are teams, even when we are off form we should still be brushing aside if we want to be an established top half team let alone a top 4 team. LOsing to Spurs away is no embarrasment, we let in 5 there last year so u could even say we have impoved, lol. Everton are in a transitional stage, we have a manager with a 5 year plan to make us half decent again, we were spoiled beyond all imagination last season and that has rasied everyones hopes of doing the same this season and the next but its not as easy as that. Our average players over performed this season and are under performing this season. BUT...we have a better squad than at this time last year, and this time next year we will have an even better squad and so on. I agree that we cant hail a fit BT, Koldrup and VDM etc as saviours but these are the guys DM has decided to spend his cash on and they arent yet in the team even. Once they are in the team and have been for a few games we will be a different side, Im not saying they will just turn on the style but this is the team DM wants us to have. McFadden replaced by BT (from a couple opf years ago), Koldrup instaed of a slow (although still dependable in my op) Weir and VDM (dutch international) in place of Killa. Slightly differnet prospect, also it gives us competition for places meaning u either u play ur heart out or u get replaced, which cant happen at the moment as we havent got the numbers. We will get out of trouble, i have no doubt.

no way! This is the guy who took a bunch of, lets face it, average players, to 4th in a very very competitive premierleague while making a huge profit in transfers over that season, taking a chance on 2 Chamionship players with a combined fee of £2.5m, 2 of the stars of last season. We are having a bad time right now, its not so nice to be an Evertonian, there are 'I told u so's' coming from all direction, many a smug grin coming my way but we cant lose the faith in one of the best young managers around. The reason in my opinion, why we have had such an awful start is simple, these guys worked their arses off last season to keep 4th spot and qualify for the champs league, they held on when nobody thought they could. Then what happens right at the beginning of the next season, bang, we are out of the competition we worked so hard all last season to be in. To add insult to injury, we were robbed by the 'best' referee in the world, who then retired a week later (hmmm). The players are suffering and dejected, not consiously i dont think cos they are still trying their hardest, but i dont think their hardest at the moment is quite as hard as it was when we were hanging on to 4th spot. They need to pull their fingers out soon and I know they will. The new guys (espec the foreigners) need to settle and gel with the team and get the old Everton spirit instilled in them and we will see a great improvement. Too late for this season maybe but we will come good and be all the stronger for it! Did u know...we are 10/1 in the bookies to finish in the top 6! The same odds as we are to finish rock bottom!

down the pub last night my mate said to me, whos thats new black guy, he looks shit doesnt he. Guess who? Sissoko! And thats coming form a QPR fan!

i guess we will have to wait and see, others have said that he has looked good, maybe i missed those games and only saw when he hasnt played that well. in one of the qualifier games, i forget which, he seemed to lose it every time he got it. time to get used to the english way maybe. thing is with liverpool, the players dont get much of a chance before they are replaced by another signing, plyers like Cheryou had potential but never really got much of a go, this could happen to Sissoko if he doesnt do the business almost immediatley

i was disappointed when we missed out on him but having seen him play so far he doesnt look all that, not a £5m player i didnt think, money well saved i think. RS will sell him in a year for £2m

Good one Barbosa, are u man or mouse?

im afraid i really cant see it happening for us...but then i didnt think we would finsih 4th so what do i know. stick big dunc upfront if bent is still injured and have 5 midfielders feeding off his knock downs, theres a chance but we are going to have play this one perfectly. come on blue boys!