I really can't be arsed spending any more time looking in this thread given all the other things going on within the Club and the uncertainties surrounding it so it's a 'NO GO' area for me from now on.
The PL - and their Sky Sports cash cow money merchants - have established a Top Six which they know will bring in greater revenue via worldwide advertising per game than the rest of the 'upstart' incumbents...like us (the shame of it!)...will ever do. We are no longer considered a 'big draw'...
So despondent with everything surrounding Everton. Each corner we turn there is a big 'koff bus with our name on the front and it's heading straight for us. We've swerved it so many times but eventually it will hit us
Unfortunately, my abiding memory of Jimmy was 'that' miss of a header from just under the bar in the '68 Cup Final. But I'm old enough not to take away from a player who played his heart out whether in Everton blue or with whoever. RIP Jimmy.
Burnley and Sheffield Utd are - barring a miraculous turn around in form - all but down. However, this makes them a dangerous beast and once their respective fates are more or less secured and the pressure is off they will both want to go out with a bang rather than a whimper.
The remaining...
777 are desperate to get their hands on us as they see us as nothing more than a golden egg ticket to preserve their own business aspirations.
Fortunately, it appears that many of their financial backers are now seeing through them and are pulling the plug.
I know we are in no great position...
The lad is 22 - yes, he is on big money for his age but he is currently playing with a bunch of misfits. Guarantee, he will settle in but needs players around him who he can relate to. Most are pretty clueless, I'm afraid!
When my Dad passed and was brought home from the hozzie to the local funeral directors the same day a Thrush that he used to sit and watch through his back door - and said he hadn't seen for a couple of years before his passing - suddenly reappeared, bounced it's way down the garden path right...