Coleman focused on being an inspiration to McCarthy

Even while laid up this summer, Seamus continued his charity outreach. He donated £8,000 those Everton fans who were cycling from Sligo to Goodison Park to support a homelessness charity. He also supported an Everton fan with Asperger's, donating £1,800 so the man and his friend could fly over from Ireland and attend the West Ham game. (He even brought them onto the pitch afterwards, just as my TW hosts Kev Johnson and Keith Harrison did for me.) He also donated to the Little Wishes charity in Donegal last fall.

And now he inspires his devastated club and country teammate.

There is no finer representative of the Everton ethos. What a captain he will be. The armband should be waiting for him when he returns to the first-team side next month.

Mike (above) is right – Seamus has attitude and honesty – give him that armband and let him lead our team to better things.

Best wishes to James as well on the road to recovery.

He has displayed that he is a genuine person in his time with us; I am sure McCarthy will be consoled by his support after the horrific injury.

I also wish James McCarthy a speedy and complete recovery.

Wishing Macca all the best, delighted all went well.

Give him the captain's armband when he's fit.

Wishing Jimmy Mac all the best through his recovery, was looking forward to him adding some steel to our lacklustre midfield – you can never fault him for his commitment, alas this cost him dearly.

I realize this "Seamus love in" is a bit sappy, but if you don't like him, I honestly don't know what the hell you'd ever want or expect out of an Everton player.

Here in America, they retire numbers for legends. If they do that sort of thing in England (and I don't believe they do), a #23 banner should be raised the minute he retires.

And I honestly don't care if Seamus's game deteriorates over the years and he slows down. We should never trade him. If there were ever a loyal player who deserves to retire a Blue, it's him. With the money in the game, and considering Moyes (thank you,David) signed him for $67,000, we need to do the right thing and sign him until he's ready to hang them up.

End of love in...

#9 - William Ralph Dean
#8 - Alan Ball
#1 - Neville Southall
#9 again - The Golden Vision

Any other nominations?

A few years ago, I was invited as a guest of the club along with my kids to watch a match. The invite came about after a personal loss after another game at Goodison. We got to meet all the players before the game and my kids got their photos taken with them. The two who stood out were Tim Cahill and Seamus, both class acts. Seamus spent the most time talking to us and posing for photos.

We also saw him before the Watford game earlier this season and again, he was great with my son signing autographs and posing for photos.

Proper player.

He's my vote for next captain without a doubt. I think he'd be good at it, I think he'd actually want/appreciate it, and I think he's earned it.

"Everton captain, Seamus Coleman. "

Has a nice ring to it don't you think ?

His behaviour on and off the pitch typifies for me what is required in our club captain.

Welcome back Seamus and good luck with the rest of your recovery.

Ditto to you James. When you reach those dark places over the next 12 months – which you will – you need look no further than our Number 23 for your light.

Up the toffees.