Jimmy, I was at the final and can remember feck all about it, I was that pissed mate. But I did know that we had won when Gerald Ashby blew the final whistle. I’ve never watched the full game since, but clearly I need to. I ended up having brekkie in Wood Green around 10AM Sunday. Love ‘the future Mrs. Salt’ line. We did have a ‘winning mentality’ back then mate, but only under Big Joe. I hope, like me, Jimmy, that you were at Joe’s first game on that chilly November night.. Now there’s a memory!

Just had a look at the fixtures . We will be very lucky not to be in the bottom 5 on Boxing day imo. On current form and performance.

Very good Derek. Spot on

I remember it like it was yesterday; I never got a ticket and was just too nervous to watch it. I took the future Mrs Salt for something to eat at Uncle Sam’s on Renshaw Street after a short shopping trip to Gratie Market (the real one). There was a young lad on one of the stalls singing and dancing to “The Bomb” – these songs fall into my mind, then an update on the radio we had scored one nil, yes!. The waiter at Uncle Sam’s was a fellow blue, and the odd thumbs up from him told me we were still winning. Then he came over to say the final whistle had gone, and we both gave a little cheer. Then out for the rest of the night to celebrate. One thing I remember after all these years was the winning mentality, belief and ‘never say die’ attitude of that team. We knew we weren’t the best, but we knew we could beat the best.

Ask your Uncle Paddy

I went to the Charity Shield match against relegated Wigan as someone gave me a hospitality ticket. You should have seen the grin on his kipper. You’d have thought he’d won the Champions League. Funny thing was, the Man Utd supporter I went with had convinced himself they had hired the next Alex Ferguson.

Bayern Munich. And we would have beaten any other team in Europe as well that season.

When the book is written about the crises Everton faced over the last 5 years, Seamus Coleman’s contract extensions were not even mreit a footnote. You seem obsessed Mark.

Couldn’t reply to your 2nd post David, but I think that it’s a great post

Instead of having the posts referenced as ‘2 hours ago’ etc. why not have a timestamp so the exact post can be referenced. Recent Articles banner on home page doesn’t open any listing.

What teams did we beat on the way to our ECWC Final?

Like almost all Managers he’s convinced he has the Footballing equivalent of ‘Papal Infallibility’ it’s ‘His way or the Highway – oh, and by the way, there’s no highway option.’ They don’t all call it their’ Philosophy’ – but that’s what it is. 1) it’s alway correct because…It’s The Philosophy, I agree with it, so it must be right and it must be right because I agree with it. Etc, etc. Failure (to win games) cannot be due to The Philosophy* – see 1 above! Failure to win games is due to poor application of The Philosophy by others* – see1 above *=Not my fault Thus the cure for failure is more Philosophy, applied better. QED – see 1 above! Nothing has changed…while obviously Everything has. That was Moyes 22yrs ago and still Moyes now. You dont find a system that maximises what you have – No, The Philosophy mandates that players must fit into the system – see 1 above! Marcus Bent could come back in and play it in a blind fold…and probably do no worse than Barry

Ian (1 day ago), I think Patric is saying there is a clear trend. If he is right then a proper root cause analysis is warranted. Picking simple human error is very much the root cause of last resort these days.

Ian, I think Patric is saying there is a clear trend. If he is right then a proper root cause analysis is warranted. Picking simple human error is very much the root cause of last resort these days.

Correct Brendan. Leighton signed one year extensions in 2019 and 2020. He made the decision to retire,then Everton offered him another one year.He stuck to his guns.

Mark Baines rejected a one year extension and opted to transition into a coaching role with Everton instead. He’s still there. Some Toffeewebbers would see that as “nepotism” and symptomatic of our ills. Seamus accepted the contract extensions. Perhaps he wasn’t offered or didn’t fancy coaching? He’s gone.

He didnt Mark. They offered him a one year contract.He chose to retire. Not the same imo. You obviously dislike him.Why?

John bainsy said no at 35 .

I certainly would be Geoff but dont hold your breath mate. Look at the fixture list for Thursdays Confrence fixtures. Very difficult to name the countries 90% of the teams are from.

I don’t think that I’e ever heard anyone say that the 90’s were ‘a magical time’ for us James. I remember a dish of all-too-often crap footy with proper relegation scares (setting us up very nicely for the next thirty years) punctuated by a cup win, a dreadfully embarrassing Derby record, and some painfully poor gaffers. Hope that your recovery is going well JM.

He did John but most teams who qualify do so via their domestic cup competition’s. Its the league cup winners who are 1st choice here. Even when we lifted the trophy the EUFA Cup although considered Europe’s 3rd competition had an extra round and more quality teams, and therefore was harder to win. I don’t think any trophy should be sneered at I can remember when the league cup was also considered Mickey Mouse. I am sure I am not the only Evertonian who would be happy if we won both over the next 2 seasons

Ah the old I go the match therefore I am rears its ugly head once more. Mark please get the simple things right please, like full stops.

No it’s not Geoff, that would be the Europa League surely?

Dear God, is he going on about Seamus again.

There was of course Billy Bingham who played for both Everton and the Glens, also managed Northern Ireland and Everton

Mark Steers. I cant reply to your post,no option. Do you think Seamus should have said no to the renewed contract extensions the club gave him? I agree with some of your point,age caught up with him but its the clubs responsibility to see that.Not Colemans to tell them.

John im saying we’re hopeless that Everton fc do not have a genuine Right Back in our Squad. For me this has been like this for 4 seasons now im sick of makeshift Right Backs john. John the last 4 seasons our only Right Back was Coleman and he was the worst Right Back in the premier league 4 seasons in a row . You might come back and say patterson but he was bought as a player for the future this has to stop .

Geoff. Didnt he win The European Conference League. The one below the Europa League?

Andrea the tinpot European trophy he won with WHU is the equivalent of the Cup Winners Cup, the semi final of which produced Goodison’s greatest night and Rotterdam wasn’t to bad either.

Dave the problem is O’BRIEN has said to Moyes he would like to play Centre Back and not Right Back and if true Moyes just stuck him on the bench . Well O’Brien must of had a talk because he has come on a couple of times latley . Yes dave he is the best available player to go in there but the fans got tired of him last season simple. I think he is more than likely to play saturday and maybe upto the international Break. Maybe Moyes will for once give in because AMN looks abit shot at the moment and Arsenal could finish him off. Rhol should never play Right Back .

Degsy #2 hours back The Second Division Title with Preston and the Charity Shield with United.

Hello Dave, thank you so much for your kind words! And I will definitely be back!

Unfortunately, our squad doesn’t have much depth when certain players aren’t fit, lack match sharpness, or are low on confidence. This is further compounded when players are forced to play in unfamiliar positions. I would put JOB on the right flank (even though he’s a centre-back). I’d start Alcaraz instead of Barry, with George on the left and either Röhl or Dibling on the right. I’d bring in Grealish to start in place of KDH, and also include Garner (if fit) and Hackney. Tarky, Branthwaite, and Mykolenko pick themselves.

I was 16 years old and right behind the goal where we scored. It felt like the game lasted five hours. Absolutely exhausting. What a brilliant day.

That breakaway goal was how I thought you should score — at speed. I recall Neville Southall getting peppered in the second half and fending off everything they could throw at him. We won a trophy! Hard to believe now…

In over 30 years in management what has this moysiah ever won domestically

O’Brien looks like a CB playing FB, but he can defend. We wanted a proper RB who can defend but also offer something going forwards. AMN isn’t that, can’t defend. Rohl isn’t the RB answer either. Put Jake back there short term then get a proper RB. For the tenth time of asking!

18% win rate at Sunderland ooor Davey

I would also say the modern game has definitely passed Everton football club by as well.

We are hopeless and its all Seamies fault. Sorted.

Can’t reply to your post Christy. Try to post later when I recover from the shock I’m in. Love my boxing as well. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/18/police-investigate-reform-mayor-allegedly-sharing-naked-sexualised-images-of-himself

John, with Dunc having played with Rangers, he’ll fit right in.

Moyes has found a losing formula now. The players need his help, he makes it harder for them to perform, but never accepts any blame. He’ll stick with this losing formula for the next 8-10 games now. It’ll be slow and stodgy and awful, but he’ll stick with it until realising that George is our most penetrative player and Hackney is the brightest midfielder we’ve got. This isn’t a flight of fancy, History shows he tends to go on depressing winless runs of games, and that’s him doing that, not the players. I’m not saying as supporters we know how to do football management better than him, he’s obviously a very a accomplished Coach who at his best can get an average-ish squad to finish around 7th in the table. But mostly, he pretty much guarantees the avoidance of relegation (Sunderland fans, I apologise) and the faint possibility of winning a tinpot European trophy. All the praise he receives in the media is from people who don’t have to watch 90 minutes of this every week.

Sadly for Duncan, I know he’s desperate to get back into management, but the calibre of teams he’s managed, is definitely not what you’d call ambitious, his last club, he ended up paying the players wages out of his own pocket? Would he not be on better money, staying in punditry and podcasts.

Ha ha ha I’ve been waiting for this since we settled for Maitland Niles Your consistent Mark, I’ll give you that!

what do I think. I can’t make head nor tail of this site now, it’s been ruined.

We learned our midfield can’t create goal chances or score themselves, they run around a lot but that’s it.

Id expect a red or yellow for us, and nothing the other way. Conditioned after Naysmith got cut in half, and Rodwell red. Still amazed Tarkowski got away with it on mcallistair

It worked Dave looking at his reply 🙂

Duncan is absolutely a legendary player to many Evertonians. Yes he was sent off a lot, yes he was injured a lot, and yes he never fulfilled his potential. He was even a liability at times, but that doesn’t detract from his legendary status among many of us. I’m 53, so have fun memories of Duncan playing for us in the mid 90’s when I was in my early/mid 20’s – I was the right age and the 90’s was a magical time for a lot of people. Duncan is absolutely a hero to me and many people of my age.