From afar, I wholeheartedly add my congratulations to Roberto and his/our players.

I also Include in my applause our much maligned yet much improved backroom staff.

Despite that, I thought we did fairly well although the defense was all at sea with the City goals.

I am a bit nervous about the summer transfers. I hope we hold onto Barkley, Stones and McCarthy. I hope we bring in some new blood to improve the quality and quantity but I am on the fence about keeping the loaners. However, I am optimistic based on Bob's first season in charge.

Yes Kieran and you never will.

"I defy any Everton fans, regardless of your desire to deny Liverpool a title, to not stand up and cheer at the top of your lungs at that moment of absolute magic from Ross Barkley."

Summarized it pretty well, I think!

Barkley was on fire for most of the game and his goal was a contender for goal of the season.

All in all a good result for those fans who wanted to be beaten. For the fans who with more dignity the performance was not too shabby and we certainly gave the shitty fans some nail biting moments.

I hope that next season Roberto and the boys can build on this season and hopefully the future looks good.

That for me was far and away Barkley’s best ever performance. His passing, which I have previously regarded as poor, was excellent throughout and he was twisting away from players with ease. McCarthy worked non-stop as ever and I thought Leon had a good first half.

The problems for me were the back three and Lukaku. Jags looked well off the pace and Alcaraz, who I have quite liked in the past, looked like a fish out of water with poor mobility and surprisingly poor distribution. Stones had a decent game and our defence now needs a dominant centre-back to play alongside him. Howard was suspect on two of the goals committing the cardinal sin for a keeper of leaving his near post exposed.

As for Lukaku, he knows how to score goals but his approach play and first touch are atrocious and I hope we do not go near him for a permanent deal. I know he is only 20 and for a player of that age he is scoring very well but our gameplan is not to hit the front man and see if he can go it alone and score. We need one who can hold the ball and bring others into play and we break down so often when it hits him and bounces off to the opposition. There must be better alternatives out there... Bony looked very good to me at Goodison Park.

One final word: how has Naismith come on this season!!!! He looks an integral part of the team, links well with the midfield, scores goals, chases down defenders all match and to me has rammed the words of all his critics back down their throats. This lad never gives less than full commitment and if we get the right striker in for next season Nais will score more goals because I’m afraid Lukaku doesn’t lay many on for others.

Great season with good prospects ahead.

What has happened to George Green, anyone – I haven’t seen him mentioned re Under-18s or Under-21s lately?

First things first, I never have and never will want Everton to lose a game. I am an Evertonian, it's my birthright, if a team gains advantage because we win; so be it.

I had what became a heated exchange with a fellow blue last week who pointed out that he was in the pub with a bunch of RS and they cheered when the og went in at Southampton. That's different to wanting your team to lose, when Ba scored after DJ-beater's slip, if a ref had been present I would've been booked for OTT celebrations — either support your team through thick and thin, or join the glory hunters and support Shitteh, or Manure or the shite or whoever's doing well.

A few points about the game; IMHO 3 at the back only works with a sweeper or spare man, because too often you see an attacker not being picked up (like Dzeko for both goals).

The tackle inside the box on Barkley was a penalty all day long, I've watched it about a dozen times and Kompany takes the man with minimal contact on the ball, and Del boy showed his best and worst sides with that superb dribble in the box, FFS lad look and you would've seen Nessy & Lukaku unmarked in the 6 yard area.

All-in-all, a great season with some memorable moments, but with 3 defeats in the last 4 games a disappointing end to the season.

Then when Everton were in the ascendancy chasing an equaliser, with Barkley (best player in the premier league yesterday) on a charge towards the Man City goal, Dzeko goes down and would not get up until the stretcher bearers arrived on the field when Dzeko was beginning to get up.

This injury fein by Dzeko took nearly 5 minutes, which took the attacking impetuous and sting out of Everton, which did have a major effect on the closing moments of the game.

This is not the first time the top 4 clubs, Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal have cheated to gain advantages over Everton this season and in the past. And this cheating is not stopped out, will encourage other teams to follow likewise.

Such as, when your team is 1 up with 15miniutes to go and the opposition are pressuring the goal to get an equaliser or winner, suddenly out of blue due to a harmless push, player goes down and does a Dzeko. Or pretending to go off with an injury than run back on the field and score a goal like Aquero.

If Man City do win the premier league this season, cheating would have played some part in them winning it.

If Probert had any love for us which, he obviously doesn't, we would have gotten the penalty in the box, Dzeko would have gotten a red, and we certainly would have gotten more than 6 minutes added time.

If we are blaming our defence, all I see is Alcaraz was shite etc, watch the game again and then tell me that Jags and flavour of the month Stones were not equally palpable for City's goals... who was marking Dzeko for instance, who was the midfielder that was marking Toure?

If we are going to slate a player, let's get the facts right!

Goal three: Stones got pulled out of position and allowed a cross into the box. Alcaraz pushes Dzeko into the space between the centre backs to mark at the back post. McCarthy is too slow to recover and Jags is in no man's land.

A catalogue of errors from all centre backs. All were culpable in some shape or form (even Bobby admitted there were soft goals to concede). Three very preventable goals. All centre-backs expecting the other to mark as there are three of them. Not great movement – just poor defending! No more three at the back please!!!

Also his 'experimental' line-ups look dodgy and I think he was being a little 'too clever' yesterday.

I know it's a sin to criticise him for anything but there has never been a manager anywhere who doesn't drop the occasional bloomer which he can expect to get stick for!

Every goal that's scored with the exception of a goal like Barkleys, could be argued was bad defending, even his you could say that the defender wasn't close enough!

My main point was if we are going to point the finger lets put the blame where its due, it wasn't just Alcaraz that was to blame.

I have to agree that it didn't work out this time for various reasons, + its very difficult to contain a side like City for 90mins though.

I thought overall we could be proud of our performance, and I have to admit that I'm not too sorry about the result at the end.

A midfielder or striker will be given a couple of games to get up to speed with the pace when they haven't played in a while. A centre half isn't given that luxury. I wouldn't write Alcaraz off just yet.

I will judge Kone after he has been given a proper run of games in the team.

Trevor, I would agree completely about Martinez and the upcoming summer transfer window. He knew last summer he wasn't getting a lot of ,money. Only for the Felliani, he may not have gotten anything on Deadline day.

Shaun/Raymond, they were three very soft goals to concede yesterday and not like us at all this season. A game like yesterday really shows you the value of a settled centre half pairing. The thing is though, I would view the Hull game as a chance to try something different again next week. Why not start planning for next season. The more preparation the better the season we can have.

The second goal is a classic example, easy enough to blame Baines for not closing the cross down, but in fact it was just a sublime bit of skill by Milner to step over and take the ball away in one movement followed by a world class header from Dzeko. That's what billions of pounds gets you.

Shaun #32 says they didn't have to ' show world class movement' but that is in fact what all three goals were. The first was Toure quickly moving the ball to Aguero who is a world class finisher, you might want to blame Howard but it was just a great finish. The third was a bit of Silva magic who put it on a plate for Dzeko.

City actually did pretty little but just showed the importance of quality players. Money always talks in the long run.

Not always possible. That's why we are to finish fifth. But, at least, Bobby's hightened the barrier a little !

Osman was next to useless as usual but the one major positive was Ross's performance, he didn't put a foot wrong and it seemed like everything thing he did was causing them problems. I just wish he had been more greedy because sometimes when a player is in the zone like that they can be unplayable.

It's been a decent season, let's hope we can build on it and bring the right players in during the Summer. Hopefully a couple more youth players can make the step up as well.

As far as next seasons concerned Kieran, I don't think our esteemed manager will fail us, the problem is, will he have the money to go out and buy at Harrods, very probably not going off the boards past record, I fancy he will have to do with looking around Quicksave for a bargain.

If he had silly money to spend I would really fancy us for a CL place, as it is he has to be twice as good as your Rodgers, Mourinhos, Wengers, Pellegrinis and Utds manager to get us into the CL.

If 'world class' includes 'cheating bastard', a la Suarez, I'd rather do without. Perhaps Maradona was better than Pele. Discuss.

Others like Revie's Leeds and our dearly beloved neighbours don't give a toss.

We do. Nil Satis Nisi Optimum.

So it looks like we'll have to support the Arse at Wembley, and another heart versus the head dilemma will be served up for us. All these moral choices are doing my head in.

I view the upcoming FA Cup final as one I can be completely neutral in and just hope that the best side on the day wins; if that is Arsenal and that means we avoid an early competitive start to the season then that is fine by me.

Talking about dilemmas, the way things are shaping up in La Liga it could be that if Barca defeat Atletico in the last game of the season it hands the title to Real.