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• I have also indicated that when Dick Bate, was instrumental in helping to start that National School Of Excellence, along with the sponsorship money donated by General Motors, that I don’t think he put enough thought into how the players were going to be coached Dave. I started reading Carragher’s book because the lad who was driving my cab, (a mad Evertonian, who was mentioned in the book for running on the pitch by name, after Sharp scored at Anfield) had left it in the taxi, and I was very surprised when he said he had attended this national school of excellence. Another was John Ebrell, who I can remember playing against once, and they were both very methodical footballers imo. They both did very well, especially Carragher, but neither of them was what you would call very technical, and this is what this school of excellence claimed it was going to do. The claim was that they were supposedly going to be moving away from physical strength, and were going to start concen...
  Tony Abrahams in Absolutely criminal penalty shoot-out from Everton
• John 21 I disagree. I think it can happen overnight, if you have the ambitions but I must stress, you have to have ownership and people at the club that want to reach goals quickly, that starts by setting the ground rules on day one and instantly improving the correct people on all levels. This club is perennial underperformers and one of the reasons for that is we have too many fans that constantly say it doesn't happen overnight. Another is that we continue to allow sentimental decisions override logical ones, you only need to see the constant contract extensions to players that have continually failed here or well past their best years. This club hasn't been to a single Cup Semi Final in either of the domestic tournaments since 2016, and no Cup Final appearance since 2009. That's an absolutely abysmal return for a club with our history, and just a club that's been a too flight club in that period, its uncanny....
  Jim Bennings in Everton’s promising season is starting to unravel
• There must be a magnet on Tarkowski's arse and the 6 yard box as he gets pulled into it all the time - especially when someone shoots and he deflects it past the tourettes fella in goal....
  Liam Mogan in A Year of Moyes Mark II, but is it stagnating?
• I didn’t even know there was football on the telly, until I switched it on before just in time to see Eddie Howe, getting interviewed before what I’m assuming has now become a one off, straight semifinal? What have you got to do tonight to give yourself a chance, was the question? We have got to play with energy, because this is what will give everyone in the stadium, real energy, and this is something we can all feed off - (Or words to that affect) It’s not rocket science, not like watching Tarkowski standing on the corner of the six yard box, waiting to pass the ball to Pickford, in the middle of his box, anyway🙈...
  Tony Abrahams in A Year of Moyes Mark II, but is it stagnating?
• Some comments on Moyes not liking to spend money on potential - he spunked the best part of £80M this summer on Barry, Dibling & Aznou. Now that hes got them he clearly doesn't rate them (Barry only plays cos we have no one else). I don't know what the recruitment process is - whether there's a committee etc - but I would be very surprised if he didn't have the final (or a least a very big) say on transfers....
  Liam Mogan in Everton’s promising season is starting to unravel
• Incidentally an actor named Brian Cox played the part of Matt Busby in the film about the Munich disaster!...
  Dave Abrahams in Absolutely criminal penalty shoot-out from Everton