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Paul H (%@40): guy at work. He didn’t even know Coleman was coming out after the game, that’s on the club.

Your friend is pretty dumb then Paul or he does not know his stuff. We always have a ‘parade of honour [yuck]’ after the last home game. Always. So, nothing is on the club.

It wasn’t ‘a lap of honour’ for Seamus Steve (@67). It was the usual lap of the pitch after the final whistle of the final home game. Although obviously I accept that the occasion was made more ’emotional’ a few days after Seamus’s announcement. There might well be some sort of occasion to celebrate and honour Seamus further down the road. Walking on the pitch first home game of next season?

I must say that I am surprised by you Jamie (@33). Thankfully, you seem to be in a minority of one or two. It’s easy to sit in FL and type out what is in essence a highly moral response stuffed with expressions of morality.

Equally, you do not spend a large part of your income watching Everton. Nor do you have to travel to watch us – and that includes countless great blues from all corners of the country, many of whom have two-way journeys over ten hours (while you play golf) – or walk along the Dock Road in wind and rain.

You have also completely misunderstood the situation. The last-match lap of the ground had nothing to do with celebrating Seamus in person. It is the usual lap after the last game of the season that always takes place.

So, your diatribe – ‘disgusting’, ‘mortified’, ‘sophomoric action’, ‘shame on all of you’, ‘it made me sick to my stomach’ – not only makes you look haughty on a high moral horse but redundant and wrong. And you have the audacity to ‘question the dignity and character of our fan base’ based on your lack of understanding of our club traditions and misreading of what you thought you saw.

This is the worst: ‘Petulant children not getting what they want’. Who on earth are you to judge and write this utter tosh?

These ‘petulant children’, unlike you, have sat through a shite season at the Dock. Many of these ‘petulant children’ go to all or most away matches. Do you have any idea of the cost of all of this in money, morale, and effort (getting back to Liverpool or Exeter on a coach or in a car from Newcastle at 2AM or 6AM)? You need to understand the toll that can take when the blood-sweat, and tears of the most loyal fans in the country is not replicated and respected by the erm ‘blood, sweat, and tears’ of the team.

Do you understand Jamie that there might come a point when enough is enough and those loyal fans who have given so much (unlike you or me) choose to head for the exits rather than applaud a team whose efforts on far too many times can see like a kick in the balls? The emptying of the stands was a statement about this woeful season. Nothing more, nothing less.

The mass exodus that you read in moral terms was the complaint of those ‘petulant children’ who sat through and paid for yet another bag of shite in a long season of too many bags of shite who were not prepared – and I agree with them – to stay behind and applaud that team – team not one man – who have let them down so badly time after time.

Sadly, and I say this with a heavy heart, it is you Jamie who ought to be ashamed, I’m afraid. You are in no position to judge those ‘petulant children’, not least because you got it wrong.

By the way, answer me this, why ‘petulant’? What were they sulking about? Sulking because Seamus as you think was getting a ‘lap of honour’?

Two things occurs to me Neil (@6): The Winslow and, second, a packed and bustling Goodison Road versus dribs and drabs walking along the Dock Road. Even worse with wind and rain.

Highs and lows Patric? I think the right formulation is why were we so crap at home this season, discuss? It would have been far more appropriate for this thread to be about this. Nearly all of know what the so-called high points were because there were so fecking few of them.

One hand, don’t need all the fingers, count them.

Love that word ‘Jabroni’ Jamie.

Welcome back!

My son took my tickets but, like many, had no clue that a lap of honour was planned for Seamus and left after the third goal.

I honestly think many would have hung back if aware, to show their respect to him. But, as Darren eloquently wrote, he gets that every day in the city.

Hopefully after next week’s match there’ll be a thread where people can post their impressions of the new stadium, for good or ill. Living abroad and unlikely to make it there anytime soon, I’m genuinely curious to hear people’s views on the HD V Goodison match day experience.