Jagielka: It' been a frustrating season

There are some other soft objects I would have used to describe it, but that was not polished.

We have grossly underperformed all season and please no rubbish about two Semi Finals like it's something great, a quick glance down the record books will tell you that loads of teams in the last ten years alone have achieved it..

We have had an embarrassing home record for more than 18 months now, I think it's something like 11 wins from the last 40 home games since 2014.

We leak goals, have kept only two clean sheets at home against Newcastle and Aston Villa.

In many ways you can feel sorry for Jagielka, you feel if any Everton player it hurts most it's him having been here 9 years and suffered badly in that time.

Sadly though this season has just been another example of bottling it in the big game's, a tag which we simply can't seem to shake off.
It's the same nearly every year when we are faced with a defining game or huge week, failure and the best we can hope for is heroic failure.

We are never clinical in front of goal when the time comes and we are poorly organised defensively.

A dismal home record, and not much better away, it's been a season to forget. And of course we shit ourselves when it comes to an important cup game.

We need leaders who are more assertive or aggressive people who will push us forward.

I love Jags, but a cherry on top of a cake is known as the sweetest part of something good.

Winning the semi would have been more like a flake shoved into a dollop of shite!!

As for being frustrated, being a dad of two boys (and a young girl but she wasn't with me) who spent £22 on a pick n mix at Wembley and £16 on two cheese burgers and one chips, to see there little faces screw up almost into tears after we conceded a 93 minute goal AGAIN.

Then try driving home down the M6, with the fuckin thing down to one lane, making your drive over 6 hours long with them constantly asking why didn't we just shut up shop in injury time, and how many times is this going to happen before we learn. (ages 7-10).

To top it off, when ya get to the front of the que that was 1 lane for miles to find out that there wasn't any road works at all, just cones!

Also we all love the blues and want to buy our season tickets before our seats are offered to other fans, but after paying out for Wembley our finances are tight, and it soul destroying to buy our tickets knowing we may have to endure another season of the worst manager in Everton history, but this time without Rom and Stones.

That's frustrating.

With 4 games of the season remaining, we are still not mathematically safe. I actually believe at this moment in time if we were to play Aston Villa they would turn us over.

As a 'Moyes apologist', I once said on here 'be careful what you wish for' and got royally flamed. All my nightmares have come to be a lot quicker than even I dared to think.

Gloss and cracks would have been a better metaphor, Jags lad.

Could be another twatting with the pace in that side.

However, a bad choice of expression by Jags rather than belief that the season was actually good so not worth worrying about.

It should however be recognised that he put in a pretty good performance on the day despite being injured, hope he recovers properly in time for the Euros.

Now come on you so called internationals, pull your fingers out and for the last 3 games at least remind us why you're in your national teams.

(Not intended seriously!)

Hope that puts some minds at rest. Next season however.......!

Relive the moment:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5I7_FujSqfQ

Personally, I would like to see someone else as captain. I think we need to buy one, but in the current lot Barry would be my captain, simply because he leads by example like Jags, but he doesn't think twice about getting stuck into the opposition, or making the odd cynical foul for the benefit of the team.

This team is crying out for a Rooney or someone to demand more from all of them.

The club captain is the manager's right-hand man and if they are not working on set-pieces and free-kicks and variations in play, then what the fuck is he doing wearing the captain's armband? At 34 and approaching a decade at Everton, surely he knows a thing or two.

He is a great defender, quick and courageous, a bit weak in the air and prone to ball watching and losing his man. When you are schooled under Neville and Moyes as a defender, why the fuck would you let Martinez throw it out the window?

Both Eto'o and Distin were shown the door for not liking the style of play and to some extent Mirallas has been given the cold shoulder.

For a player regarded as one of he best, Barry has done nothing to stop the decline except pick up his handsome paycheck each week. Baines is the only one with any balls to come out and say that it's not working only to be rudely slapped down.

Martinez hasn't listened to the support when all around it's obvious that it's not working and needs refining and tweaking until it does work, but he's been flogging a dead horse now for months.

Just how many times can you bang your head into the wall before you realise this isn't the way? Well, after two full seasons, you would think we're not making a lot of headway here: mid-table, can't win games, lost two semis, humiliated at Anfield and now the support have turned hostile. More spin and I'm the man... FFS, just go.

No, we should be lower Jags! Let them eat cake, that's what I say.

But if Leicester need to beat Everton to win their title then, with their pace, drive, commitment and togetherness, I would still think there may be a need for tin hats – albeit at the King Power Stadium... (If I am now up to date!) Thanks for the reminder!

I have to work with RedShites all week and, believe me, they're giving me loads. And what makes it worse – I've got no argument. That's 'disappointment', Jags... listening to gobshites mouthing off and you can do fuck all about it.

I think it was Joey Barton who said ages ago that Barry is basically a teacher's pet and would never rock the boat or speak up to ensure he gets picked every week. This was before Barry was at Everton but seems to ring true.

As I recall, he also said Barry has a bloody good agent which is the main reason he's done as well as he has in the game. Barton also called Frank Lampard a fat prick apparently at breakfast one morning when he was called up by England... ha, ha – unrelated but funny!