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cromofo
Player Valuation: £15m
bigbadjeff
Player Valuation: £15m
Thanks mate, went to the offial site Many thanks again.
bigbadjeff
Player Valuation: £15m
Thanks mate.
Ron Burgundy
Player Valuation: £15m
Cheeky VPN?
Dan Tanner
Player Valuation: £15m
Feel like I'very gone back in time and I'm about to watch an episode of the likely lads.... watch out for brian glovermate, he's a grass.... (also Mr rottweiler in bottom)
T LEAFE
Player Valuation: £50m
DavidBooth
Player Valuation: £500k
Is it me, or do many other Evertonians share a ridiculous sense of uncertainty about tonight?
We seem to crash and burn against anyone we feel a weird sort of inferiority complex to: notably the five goal collapses against Dinamo Bucharest, Benfica and Dynamo Kiev.
It's time we shook off this 'we are not worthy' mentality and started making our mark in Europe. We have captains, international captains, a squad packed full of multi-million pound internationals and even a world cup winner - and still I detect a low level of confidence about these two next Europa games amongst fellow Evertonians. Why?
Is it just a heightened awareness of our own capabilities and fallibilities, or do the likes of Liverpool and United get these jitters too? They don't appear to and always seem to use their reputation to give them a psychological edge over any opponent.
Sadly, we cannot seem able do that yet and have had 50 years - half a century - of almost constant under-performing in Europe (1985 excepted). But we've got to start somewhere. Let's do it tonight?
Hajduk Split are a known name, but should we be in awe of them? Respect yes... trepidation NO.
They certainly haven't boosted their squad by £150m so far this transfer window have they!
So I hope the team are mentally up for this and realised that we are a multi-million (so-called Premier League) powerhouse and they, with all due deference, have earned their reputation by constantly being amongst the best of a low-grade eastern European league.
That has enabled them to qualify for 214 games in Europe, including every Europa League competition since its inception in 2009/10.
That's three times as many games overall as us, but let's put that into perspective.
They've only once got as far as the group stage in all that time. And they finished bottom - winning one and losing their five other games.
Stoke beat them home and away in the qualifying round in 2011/12 and they have also been dispatched by such luminaries as Zlina (Slovakia), Dila Gori (Georgia), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), Slovan Liberec (Czech Republic), Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) and Inter (Italy).
Of those 14 games, they have won just two, drawn two and lost the remaining ten.
I'm not suggesting our track record is any more meritorious, but if we don't impose ourselves from the kick-off tonight and for the 180 minutes that follow in both games, there can be no excuses.
They have a reputation far above their actual status and the likes of Rooney, Klaassen, Shchneiderlin, Keane, Baines, Pickford, Jagielka, Gueye and whichever other high-profile, fabulously paid colleagues join them need to be fully mindful who we are, and who they are. And appreciate the gap in ability, expectation and reputation.
Make this the first of a very big series of steps Blues and start putting Everton back on the map.
Let them do all the worrying about us for once and let's get people in awe of us for a change - starting tonight.
We seem to crash and burn against anyone we feel a weird sort of inferiority complex to: notably the five goal collapses against Dinamo Bucharest, Benfica and Dynamo Kiev.
It's time we shook off this 'we are not worthy' mentality and started making our mark in Europe. We have captains, international captains, a squad packed full of multi-million pound internationals and even a world cup winner - and still I detect a low level of confidence about these two next Europa games amongst fellow Evertonians. Why?
Is it just a heightened awareness of our own capabilities and fallibilities, or do the likes of Liverpool and United get these jitters too? They don't appear to and always seem to use their reputation to give them a psychological edge over any opponent.
Sadly, we cannot seem able do that yet and have had 50 years - half a century - of almost constant under-performing in Europe (1985 excepted). But we've got to start somewhere. Let's do it tonight?
Hajduk Split are a known name, but should we be in awe of them? Respect yes... trepidation NO.
They certainly haven't boosted their squad by £150m so far this transfer window have they!
So I hope the team are mentally up for this and realised that we are a multi-million (so-called Premier League) powerhouse and they, with all due deference, have earned their reputation by constantly being amongst the best of a low-grade eastern European league.
That has enabled them to qualify for 214 games in Europe, including every Europa League competition since its inception in 2009/10.
That's three times as many games overall as us, but let's put that into perspective.
They've only once got as far as the group stage in all that time. And they finished bottom - winning one and losing their five other games.
Stoke beat them home and away in the qualifying round in 2011/12 and they have also been dispatched by such luminaries as Zlina (Slovakia), Dila Gori (Georgia), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), Slovan Liberec (Czech Republic), Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) and Inter (Italy).
Of those 14 games, they have won just two, drawn two and lost the remaining ten.
I'm not suggesting our track record is any more meritorious, but if we don't impose ourselves from the kick-off tonight and for the 180 minutes that follow in both games, there can be no excuses.
They have a reputation far above their actual status and the likes of Rooney, Klaassen, Shchneiderlin, Keane, Baines, Pickford, Jagielka, Gueye and whichever other high-profile, fabulously paid colleagues join them need to be fully mindful who we are, and who they are. And appreciate the gap in ability, expectation and reputation.
Make this the first of a very big series of steps Blues and start putting Everton back on the map.
Let them do all the worrying about us for once and let's get people in awe of us for a change - starting tonight.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
gmb
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Can't say I enjoy ozujsko or pan, but karlovacko is always nice.
...blag team time.
davies1878
Player Valuation: £2.5m
There's atleast 300-500 of them walking up everton valley now
...I'd be optimistic if we were playing well but that has not been the case thus far.
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