Contract uncertainty no distraction

I think we might end up 7th or 8th - which, considering the points dropped from games we should have won, is nothing short of a disaster.

Judging the tone of his interview, it sounds like he'd like Iain Dowie to come in a get the squad buzzing again.

Sounds like Jags is off to Arsenal in the summer too.

More often than not these flash interviews are asinine in the extreme and as tedious for the average supporter to read / watch as I'm sure it is for the club rep concerned to respond to.

Moyes gave his position last week. Cue every interview with anyone from Everton being about the Moyes situation.

To be honest, I wish the players would adopt Jamie Barlow's approach in responding to these questions. Glib answers all the way. Sure the media would get pissed off with us, but they probably wouldn't as they patently don't give a toss about us anyway.

How some evertonians can defend an everton manager virtually saying "I know I can sign here but I want to see if anything better pops up" is beyond me.

Jags also says "If we win the cup and he goes, we have won if for ourselves"

A case of "Thanks for all your help, fuck you very much."

ps: I'm still waiting for Bill to tell me to stop watching this space!

Then, next season we will be in danger of relegation, Jones will be sacked and a dour Scot will be appointed. He will save us from relegation and the cycle will begin again. During that period Bill Kenwright will be in charge and will be admired by the press and many, but a slightly smaller number of Evertonians

Big Sam is at the mercy of his club at West Ham, so I wouldn't include his situation.

We've got a good chance of reaching the FA Cup Final, we're still in with a chance of quallifiying for a European spot, so why all the doom & gloom on here? We were seconds away from beating Oldham (I know they're second division) but they put the Shite out. I would like to see the comments after we beat norwhich beat Oldham what will the doom merchants moan about then Get behind the team and support them Your all sounding like that shower across at anal field come on you blues

I think he'll be gone in the summer, but I believe he'll be the one selecting his successor.

We beat Liverpool at Anfield
Get to Wembley as a minimum
Finish top 5 minimum

Wouldn't that class as a decent season?

"the Europa Cup. All it's good for is giving the lads a foreign piss up".

I don't dispute this for a second, however as my mother used to say 'you're a long time dead'.

I am one of the lucky ones, old enough to have seen Everton win things.

To have seen the most successful Everton side ever.

To have seen us be the best in Britain (by a mile) and possibly the best side in Europe.

But that was all a long time ago and these days, we must take our Everton pleasures where and when we can, so I'll take the Europa all day if there's nothing else on offer (certainly not 7th)

Or to put it another way, I'll take a 'bird in the hand'

For Evertonians who went to Nuremberg, it's a memory they'll cherish until the grave.

For me trips to Lisbon, Florence and Amsterdam are all great memories, despite some cack perfotmances.

Should we qualify, my advice is embrace it, get tickets and book a three day trip (we even booked three days for a pre-season against Anderlecht).

Never under-value a foreign piss-up with the lads.

Blues will still be talking about Nuremburg in 20 years.

But I guarantee you'll never hear "Remember when we were going for CL, but slipped a bit towards the end and we thought we were going to finish 5th, but at the last minute we ended up 7th, which was great coz we avoided europa thereby theoretically giving us a better chance at CL the following season, due to having less fixtures?"

I am totally over Moyes (and Kenwright for that matter), KITAP1, Phil Neville.

Knives to gun fights, Phil Neville.

48 no wins at the old Sky 4. Phil Neville.

The whole 11 years of false dawns, raised then dashed expectations, Phil Neville.

No investment, Phil Neville.

Poor substitute use, Phil Neville.

Square pegs in round holes, Phil Neville.

Too many people thinking 5th is actually good, Phil Neville.

Playing not to lose rather than playing to win, Phil Neville.

Running the channels, Phil Neville.

Everybody back for corners (worked well yet again on Sat), Phil Neville.

Sitting back on a one goal lead, Phil Neville.

Oh and Phil Neville.

Looks like we're never going to get any trophies out of Everton/BK/Moyes so we have to grab with both hands anything on offer (get mental picture of you grabbing Phil Neville with both hands).

As for the Di Canio shout, I'd give the guy a go if Moyes went, why not? Problem is he thinks the Swindon board are cocks, so working for that scrotum Kenwright would drive him insane, and he's already nuts!

Some people just don't 'get it'. I'm with you 100%.

And if the mighty blues EVER get to play away at the San Siro, I'll be traveling from Australia to be there.

COYB

Eugene and Robbie will have their own memories and the passion is clear in their contributions. No doubt many have many more moments they can share with us.

I say go for it, give every Evertonian the chance to have a trip they will remember for the rest of their lives, get European football, raise the profile of the club, enjoy our being on tele, the chance of some rocking nights at Goodison.

Each and every one of us on here want the best for Everton, and I imagine each want to be there to share in that success and create our own memories, if we aim for the stars (CL) and don't quite get there we could still get to the Europa, though winning a final at Wembley would be even better, and I have seen that too, thanks be to God, or one of Kendall or Big Joe, thanks, Ian

Any one who dismisses the Europa League, the league cup or any cup just doesn't get it. Why do we support Everton? One under rated reason is going somewhere else and coaxing compliments out of foreigners. Where I live foreign counts as five miles away.

It's up to the players to try and their ambition of Europe whether that be Champions League or a realistic target of Europa League. Hopefully they can turn these fairly lackluster performances into what we saw against Man Utd, Villa, Swansea and Fulham earlier on in the season.

And my hopes are that we do get some results against the big away games coming up, it's a hard ask as we have such a poor record against them away but being positive is the best forward, I'm just glad that we have another crack at the FA Cup (even if we have to play a replay). Realistically I think this is one of the best chances to get some silverware under Moyes.

Please don't bottle it on the fields lads!

Don't get me wrong lads, I do love trophies, I do love foreign travel and I deffo love a piss up so to combine the 3 would be ace...

But; The Europa Cup (It's a dogs breakfast of a competition) — whats that ever done for us.... fast forward.

But apart from the trophy, the travel and the piss. up whats the Europa cup ever done for us?

Or, for that matter, Kenwright, there's the real problem... Oh and Phil Neville.

Needless to say I will be up in the middle of the night watching the up coming thrashing of Norwich.