Daddy's Home

I have decided to give my total support to DM because any success he has - No matter how minor - will be more than welcome at our beleaguered club.

But I'm sorry mate. I found myself looking for around or a bucket as I read that. There is a huge section of our fans base who are tolerating Moyes's return at best. That`s because they love Everton. Not DM. If he reverts to type. the honeymoon will be a very short one.

"Daddy's home" ?.. Where the hell`s that bucket ?

But fuck the sugar, saccharine, sycophancy, sweetness, adoration, hagiography, anointing with holy oil/water, sainthood, of this shite OP.

A reading according to the Gospel of Saint David, 'a beloved figure'. Holy relics, including bits of tracksuit and zip-up match-day jacket are available at Everton-2, A worn tracksuit top worn for 3 days with deep scent of Moyes and a personalised message - or video where David repeats your name -with signed photo are available for 200 quid. JOI is 100 quid extra.

Amen.

From the debates and messages on TW, I think the consensus is one of pragmatic acceptance rather than raising the ‘Welcome Home’ banners. They don’t see Moyes as the future but a relegation stopping convenience.

However, there does seem to be an age line drawn on his return. Even Danny O has observed this at games. Younger supporters who have not known the trophy years, see his previous tenure in a different light to the older generation. And the chanting of his name at Goodison and Brighton indicates real support for him. It amazed me to hear it at the first home game.

Perhaps it’s the TW readers who are out of step with what appears to be the Moyes return consensus.

But for me, it has to be short term. Unless of course he wins four trophies in the next couple of years, and then I’ll change my mind!

The lake's looking a little bedraggled after the storm.

A bit over the top, but I guess you're possibly like my youngest brother, who told me our former and now current manager, for however long that will be. It depends on what the owners decide.

Colin and Paul had me chuckling away and Brian sums it up for me. Good pragmatic summary Brian. I hope Calderstones was nice. My favourite Liverpool park. My local is still like a muddy swamp. The dog doesn't realise, but races in with muddy paws and jumps all over the furniture!!

He's here, we need to points, but for many, it doesn't take away the disappointment.

Meanwhile the team gets our full backing and always will. I hope the manager drives them to get the points we need. Beat Leicester and two more wins. That will put us in a comfortable position.

Keep going Alan. All views and opinions welcome and ultimately we all support Everton.

That's correct mate. Danny musta thought Caldy was a shortened term for Calderstones.

So far so good but without 2 or 3 decent additions I fear what happened to Dyche will happen to Moyes only with bells on.

This pretty much brought the expected responses, from the people I expected it to (both positive and negative). :P

Your comment regarding dogs, mud and furniture made me smile Danny. I’m in South Wales at the moment visiting my girlfriend and her very energetic sprocker spaniel, we go to Caldicott Castle, his favourite walk which is a swamp at the moment after all the storms and rain. The muddier the better as far as he is concerned. Straight in the bath with him when we get home.

My worry mate is that maybe it's NOT satire!

Sometimes the modern Evertonian, reminds me of the Coventry City fans, I used to come across in the eighties.🤷‍♂️

Who knew that 7th place could generate such trauma?

This must, MUST, be a wind-up!

Are people content to have a guy who is a safe pair of hands and probably never challenge for honours?

The younger fan base seems happyish with him. The older fan base maybe see the club through rose tinted glasses of a once giant figure in domestic football.

Are modern fans enticed by the sky hype of biggest weekend ever every weekend, where the premier is the place to be? That may well be the case as 39k pack Goodison every week to watch mediocre football at best.

Are we ever going to challenge again? I suspect not under the current manager.

Moyes is a decent prem manager nothing more or less. Hopefully the new manager bounce will last until we are safe. Without funds he will tread water until sacked same as Smith, Lampard, and Dyche.

Could anyone face another 11 years of him?

I'm sure nobody will find it at all strange, and completely accept me shouting for Daddy at the next away game.

Lolz (I never lol)

Let's hope 'Daddy's got a brand new bag' this time round.

Either this is a TW version of the Disney movie Fantasia, complete with the dancing hippo in the tutu, or recreational cannabis has been quietly legalized in Britain.

Seriously, Moyes was the obvious choice, given current circumstances, to make Everton a vaguely normal midtable team looking up the table. Once that's done, he'll be replaced.

If he does that, I'll be happy.

DM got us back to back wins, that's awesome. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, especially if we are scheduled to go through a bad run (he's not immune to that, no club is, just ask almighty Pep).

Title feels like click bait, essay feels like rage bait. I'm neutral on his appointment given the mess we're in, I do want him to succeed as that means the club succeeds, but he's only back for a few games, let's just be fans of the club and support the team with the current mildly good feeling growing.

Pleased that he seems to have given us a lift - and created a bit of momentum / expectation about the place. Not all doom and gloom and hatred of Dyche.

Will be more pleased if we can 1 or 2 signings over the next few days to bolster a small injury hit squad.

And if he can finally win us a cup I might jump on board the daddy's home sentiment.

Been on courses last few months to highlight it in students work. Could tell by first paragraph. It's all in the sentence structure.

In fact this is his fourth one in the last five months.

https://www.ToffeeWeb.com/season/24-25/comment/fanscomment/index.php?authorfname=Alan&authorlname=McMillan

Dave, yes he has. Click on his name. Well-written for me, but more of usual bland ToffeeWeb boiler-plate.

But this one? Fantastic stuff. I laughed several times.

"Daddy's Home!" My God.
Hahaha.

Fantastic!

I won't bore you with the details for a history essay, but Liam is spot on about sentence structure and word choice.

Amongst a clutch of tell-tale signs, these two comments nail it for me: "he transformed the Toffees into a competitive force...the Toffees look to the future".

"The Toffees". This reads like journalism.

There is often a neutral tone, lack of warmth, and incessantly formulaic writing (read the praise of Moyes) in Bot-work.

This is the killer punch:

"Chants of support and joy have filled the air, echoing the club's rich history".

Come to my office at 9AM tomorrow McMillan. You will get zero for this work and I will be discussing other potential penalties with the Dean of Students Office.

P.S.

James Flynn 58: Liam (54) "Wrong, he's posted OPs several times".

You honestly believe that this is a credible argument? It's actually extremely naive. Students would run rings round you.

I fancy Alan is having a chuckle.
I do agree with some of his sentiments though.

In today's world Raymond where we need to be ever more resourceful, I can help with some coaching on how to spot the Bot.

Lulu Mark, but no imperfections?

As a trophy winner he's a non-event, the West Ham "achievement" being equivalent to the Anglo-Italian cup of 1970/1 (and that tournament was also shite if you're interested folks).

And yet he states he's stunned to have been re-appointed.

Freidkin may see Moyes as our saviour, yet to be shown as ever, whilst he, Moyes, pockets more £millions from our pockets!

Innocent and witty
Witty and innocent
Witty and witty
Innocent and innocent

Whatever - both your comments brought a smile to my dial.✅

No way Mr. Mark Murphy, Hemming is one funny fecker. He's also a very good/smart writer. However, the sharpest, articulate, and funniest fella, Jeremy Hardy, has never been replaced and nor has Rik. Paul Merton and Tim Vine still carry the flag but the recent loss of Tony Slattery was tragic in so many respects. Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr's stand-up shows are top league.

Welcome back Davy. I expect you will keep us up in EPL . at the minimum!

I for one hope and expect him to stay for his contract and hand the reigns over to a more progressive manager whilst having stabilised us and build a solid core and foundation.

Who wouldn't take that as an Evertonian after all these years of utter dross and misery? Oh wait, yes plenty it seems.

Don, you missed Kenwright out of your last sentence, don't you mean "he will pocket millions of out us....Kenwright's evil spirit will make sure of it". 😜 Well done for not saying it Don, i bet that was hard for you. Of course he will pocket millions, he is being paid the going rate to do a job that others have failed to do since....oh...when he was last here!

Welcome Mr Moyes and COYB!

All of them were well-paid by the club. Yet I don't see any such rhetoric regarding wages attached to any tirade at them.

Alert the media.

"Employee gets paid wage by employer."

This is a public relations nightmare, Don.

I think this is a wind up but if not, it’s worthy of a front page spread in Pravda.

P.S. Actually it was Shep and the Limelites who sang, Daddy’s Home.

They call us 'Inselaffe'. Island Monkeys. I think it refers to our Friday night antics, behaviour in Benidorm and football hooliganism back in the day!!

You could stereotype a lot of nations. I'm convinced Italians wouldn't be able to speak if you tied their hands behind their back as you take away the hand gestures!!

And the French being notoriously rude.

But Germans and comedy? Mind you, his point is a valid one. England even went one further than that by rewarding the 'success' of a semi-final defeat with an open bus tour, complete with Gazza's false breasts!!

I also lived in Italy for 2 years. Now there is a very colourful country and people. I don't think they mean to be comedians, but either way, they're very funny. To the untrained eye, you would think there was a massive argument going on. No, just two mates having a friendly conversation!