1 sometimes 2 or more per season... must be close to the century
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As an Evertonian since the seventies this hardly registers. It may be an immunity finally building up but I think the truth is that I never believed we were going to win the competition anyway. There are seriously good teams left in this competition and some even gone out of it.
Our squad is not good enough at the moment if we are being completely honest to win honours and that is not all the fault of RM.
Who are our top players really ? Baines,Jagielka,Lukaku,McCarthy,Coleman.I also think Gibson falls into that category but he isn't available to play often enough, Oviedo may be in a similar situation.Mirallas is a very good player but obviously wants away.
We have talented youngsters in Barkley, Stones, Besic but they have had up and down seasons as all young players do and cannot be expected to carry a team.
The rest are honest professionals who all have strengths and weaknesses , but are not top players Hibbert(semi retired), McGeady(a bit of a disappointment really) Kone(not seen often enough, not sure how fit he even is) Naismith(honest player)Barry(age seems to be a factor this season)Osman and Pienaar(good players but ageing , not available often enough and in the autumn of their careers). Howard(improved of late but overall mediocre this season) Alcaraz(a squad player and maybe not a great one)Garbutt and Browning(untested).
Overall , we have a decent squad but we are probably five players short of being a serious team.
A goalkeeper
A centrehalf
A winger
A creative centre midfielder
A striker
Our squad is not good enough at the moment if we are being completely honest to win honours and that is not all the fault of RM.
Who are our top players really ? Baines,Jagielka,Lukaku,McCarthy,Coleman.I also think Gibson falls into that category but he isn't available to play often enough, Oviedo may be in a similar situation.Mirallas is a very good player but obviously wants away.
We have talented youngsters in Barkley, Stones, Besic but they have had up and down seasons as all young players do and cannot be expected to carry a team.
The rest are honest professionals who all have strengths and weaknesses , but are not top players Hibbert(semi retired), McGeady(a bit of a disappointment really) Kone(not seen often enough, not sure how fit he even is) Naismith(honest player)Barry(age seems to be a factor this season)Osman and Pienaar(good players but ageing , not available often enough and in the autumn of their careers). Howard(improved of late but overall mediocre this season) Alcaraz(a squad player and maybe not a great one)Garbutt and Browning(untested).
Overall , we have a decent squad but we are probably five players short of being a serious team.
A goalkeeper
A centrehalf
A winger
A creative centre midfielder
A striker
Okay......here goes.
The trials and tribulations an Evertonian with too many miles on the clock.
Fifty shades of feeling Blue.
In no particular order though with a cursory attempt at chronology.
1. 1968......the nascent Holy Trinity had carried us all the way to Wembley where we were overwhelming favourites to beat the Baggies.
We couldn't score. Jeff Astle did.
Watching on TV back in Garston, litle did a teenage schoolboy know that this was just the beginning.
2. 1969....the Holy Trinity in full bloom and we face Manchester City in a Cup semi final.
They had imploded after winning the Title the year before.....we were the New Football Order, set to rule for the next five years. Or so we were told.
City turned us over.
3. 1971......the Holy Trinity had stalled a bit throughout the autumn and winter but come April all was well again.
He had a Cup semi final against the RS and a European Cup quarter final agsinst a Greek team.
We lost both.
4. 1972....I woke up one morning to discover that Harry had broken up my beloved Holy Trinity.
Alan Ball had been sold to Arsenal.
5. 1974/75.
Two words. United and Carlilse.
Carlilse United have spent one season in the top tier of English football.
They were promoted in 1974 and they were relegated in 1975.
During that fateful season they beat us home and away.......coming from two down in the Goodison game.
Those dropped points were the difference between us winning the league that year and finishing fourth.
6. 1977.....the Villa trilogy.
Clive Thomas.
'nuff said.
7. 1980.....Semi Final against a second division outfit.
Hammers take the lead.....Kiddo equalises with a penno.
Extra time in the replay at Leeds and Big Bob scores another equaliser and almost climbs over the fence to celebrate in one of the most iconic Everton images ever.
Fat Frank's arl fella bursts the bubble that night.
There then follows a relatively disappointment free period when only Alan Hansen's hand stopping Sheedy's goal bound shot in the MilK Cup breaks our hearts but that is soon forgotten as we are back in Wembley a couple months later and at long last we are running round Wembley with the Cup.
On to Rotterdam and the happiest moment in this particular Evertonian's life to that stage.
We were champions.....we won two trophies.....in Steven, Reid, Bracewell and Sheedy we had a midfield to compare with the Holy Trinity at long last.
We were set, my friends,
We were Everton....we were back in the big time......this was our moment.
Heck, we were even going back to Wembley a few days later to try and win another trophy.
What could possibly go wrong?
8. 1985......before it had even had a chance to sink in, our triumphs of 1985 were trampled on the terraces at Heysel as 39 Italian football fans lost their lives thanks to fans of the most vile and hateful club in England.
It would be churlish to dwell on the football ramifications when so many died....suffice it to say this club had the life sucked out of it at Heysel and we have never recovered.
9. 1986.....life must go on and when Kevin Ratcliffe's shot squirmed under Grobbelaar's body at Anfield in February we seemed set fair to stroll to anither Title success.
Luton proved to be the killing field that season.....a late goal from, I think, Billy Hamilton, handing the initiative to the RS.
Then for good measure the buggers beat us at Wembley despite Lineker putting us in front.
Sod this lads......I am making myself depressed here
You don't need me to go on.
Evertonians of all ages.....from the teenagers like my young nephew who sat in my house and cried last night just like I cried after Jeff Astle scored a lifetime ago.
To my 90 year old dad who watched the game from the bed which he can rarely leave these days.
We all know these moments.
Please God we always will feel this bad when our beloved club meets with a setback on the field.
That we never will become apathetic or resigned.
And one day you younger blokes will see the Blues running round Wembley with the Cup.
Because we are Everton.....that's what we do
COYB.
The trials and tribulations an Evertonian with too many miles on the clock.
Fifty shades of feeling Blue.
In no particular order though with a cursory attempt at chronology.
1. 1968......the nascent Holy Trinity had carried us all the way to Wembley where we were overwhelming favourites to beat the Baggies.
We couldn't score. Jeff Astle did.
Watching on TV back in Garston, litle did a teenage schoolboy know that this was just the beginning.
2. 1969....the Holy Trinity in full bloom and we face Manchester City in a Cup semi final.
They had imploded after winning the Title the year before.....we were the New Football Order, set to rule for the next five years. Or so we were told.
City turned us over.
3. 1971......the Holy Trinity had stalled a bit throughout the autumn and winter but come April all was well again.
He had a Cup semi final against the RS and a European Cup quarter final agsinst a Greek team.
We lost both.
4. 1972....I woke up one morning to discover that Harry had broken up my beloved Holy Trinity.
Alan Ball had been sold to Arsenal.
5. 1974/75.
Two words. United and Carlilse.
Carlilse United have spent one season in the top tier of English football.
They were promoted in 1974 and they were relegated in 1975.
During that fateful season they beat us home and away.......coming from two down in the Goodison game.
Those dropped points were the difference between us winning the league that year and finishing fourth.
6. 1977.....the Villa trilogy.
Clive Thomas.
'nuff said.
7. 1980.....Semi Final against a second division outfit.
Hammers take the lead.....Kiddo equalises with a penno.
Extra time in the replay at Leeds and Big Bob scores another equaliser and almost climbs over the fence to celebrate in one of the most iconic Everton images ever.
Fat Frank's arl fella bursts the bubble that night.
There then follows a relatively disappointment free period when only Alan Hansen's hand stopping Sheedy's goal bound shot in the MilK Cup breaks our hearts but that is soon forgotten as we are back in Wembley a couple months later and at long last we are running round Wembley with the Cup.
On to Rotterdam and the happiest moment in this particular Evertonian's life to that stage.
We were champions.....we won two trophies.....in Steven, Reid, Bracewell and Sheedy we had a midfield to compare with the Holy Trinity at long last.
We were set, my friends,
We were Everton....we were back in the big time......this was our moment.
Heck, we were even going back to Wembley a few days later to try and win another trophy.
What could possibly go wrong?
8. 1985......before it had even had a chance to sink in, our triumphs of 1985 were trampled on the terraces at Heysel as 39 Italian football fans lost their lives thanks to fans of the most vile and hateful club in England.
It would be churlish to dwell on the football ramifications when so many died....suffice it to say this club had the life sucked out of it at Heysel and we have never recovered.
9. 1986.....life must go on and when Kevin Ratcliffe's shot squirmed under Grobbelaar's body at Anfield in February we seemed set fair to stroll to anither Title success.
Luton proved to be the killing field that season.....a late goal from, I think, Billy Hamilton, handing the initiative to the RS.
Then for good measure the buggers beat us at Wembley despite Lineker putting us in front.
Sod this lads......I am making myself depressed here
You don't need me to go on.
Evertonians of all ages.....from the teenagers like my young nephew who sat in my house and cried last night just like I cried after Jeff Astle scored a lifetime ago.
To my 90 year old dad who watched the game from the bed which he can rarely leave these days.
We all know these moments.
Please God we always will feel this bad when our beloved club meets with a setback on the field.
That we never will become apathetic or resigned.
And one day you younger blokes will see the Blues running round Wembley with the Cup.
Because we are Everton.....that's what we do
COYB.
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tim cahill
Player Valuation: £50m
This is probably been the most disappointing season in my lifetime. At least in the 90's when we were rubbish we had a poor squad. We've just underachieved massively this season.
I'm a moth and Everton is my eternal light bulb. Forever getting burnt and loving it...
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
I didn't post a list.
USABlue
Player Valuation: £70m
doubt it, still an english side....
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I've forgotten about last night because i never expected us to win. Even if we had. Oyr manager thinks Barry Alcaraz Howard is a good spine for the latter stages of a European competition. We have been so poor in the league we were never going to win it. The embarrassment stung of cohrse but that is Everton for you.
Fiorentina hurt far more because that 07/08 team was good enough to win it. Solid defense, brilliant midfield capable of one touch play, and a good striker. The current team is a shambles held together by Lukaku's goals in Europe. We conceded 2 over the tie with Young Boys. The warning sifns were there throughout the entire campaign.
In 07/08 we swept teams aside apart from a Moyes bottle job out in Fiorentina. This time we were awful both games v Krasnodar, poor both games v Lille, and lucky Young Bots were so awful. No idea how we beat Wolfsburg twice.
Dukla veteran
Player Valuation: £500k
Onward Evertonians . . . Onward for to see !Okay......here goes.
The trials and tribulations an Evertonian with too many miles on the clock.
Fifty shades of feeling Blue.
In no particular order though with a cursory attempt at chronology.
1. 1968......the nascent Holy Trinity had carried us all the way to Wembley where we were overwhelming favourites to beat the Baggies.
We couldn't score. Jeff Astle did.
Watching on TV back in Garston, litle did a teenage schoolboy know that this was just the beginning.
2. 1969....the Holy Trinity in full bloom and we face Manchester City in a Cup semi final.
They had imploded after winning the Title the year before.....we were the New Football Order, set to rule for the next five years. Or so we were told.
City turned us over.
3. 1971......the Holy Trinity had stalled a bit throughout the autumn and winter but come April all was well again.
He had a Cup semi final against the RS and a European Cup quarter final agsinst a Greek team.
We lost both.
4. 1972....I woke up one morning to discover that Harry had broken up my beloved Holy Trinity.
Alan Ball had been sold to Arsenal.
5. 1974/75.
Two words. United and Carlilse.
Carlilse United have spent one season in the top tier of English football.
They were promoted in 1974 and they were relegated in 1975.
During that fateful season they beat us home and away.......coming from two down in the Goodison game.
Those dropped points were the difference between us winning the league that year and finishing fourth.
6. 1977.....the Villa trilogy.
Clive Thomas.
'nuff said.
7. 1980.....Semi Final against a second division outfit.
Hammers take the lead.....Kiddo equalises with a penno.
Extra time in the replay at Leeds and Big Bob scores another equaliser and almost climbs over the fence to celebrate in one of the most iconic Everton images ever.
Fat Frank's arl fella bursts the bubble that night.
There then follows a relatively disappointment free period when only Alan Hansen's hand stopping Sheedy's goal bound shot in the MilK Cup breaks our hearts but that is soon forgotten as we are back in Wembley a couple months later and at long last we are running round Wembley with the Cup.
On to Rotterdam and the happiest moment in this particular Evertonian's life to that stage.
We were champions.....we won two trophies.....in Steven, Reid, Bracewell and Sheedy we had a midfield to compare with the Holy Trinity at long last.
We were set, my friends,
We were Everton....we were back in the big time......this was our moment.
Heck, we were even going back to Wembley a few days later to try and win another trophy.
What could possibly go wrong?
8. 1985......before it had even had a chance to sink in, our triumphs of 1985 were trampled on the terraces at Heysel as 39 Italian football fans lost their lives thanks to fans of the most vile and hateful club in England.
It would be churlish to dwell on the football ramifications when so many died....suffice it to say this club had the life sucked out of it at Heysel and we have never recovered.
9. 1986.....life must go on and when Kevin Ratcliffe's shot squirmed under Grobbelaar's body at Anfield in February we seemed set fair to stroll to anither Title success.
Luton proved to be the killing field that season.....a late goal from, I think, Billy Hamilton, handing the initiative to the RS.
Then for good measure the buggers beat us at Wembley despite Lineker putting us in front.
Sod this lads......I am making myself depressed here
You don't need me to go on.
Evertonians of all ages.....from the teenagers like my young nephew who sat in my house and cried last night just like I cried after Jeff Astle scored a lifetime ago.
To my 90 year old dad who watched the game from the bed which he can rarely leave these days.
We all know these moments.
Please God we always will feel this bad when our beloved club meets with a setback on the field.
That we never will become apathetic or resigned.
And one day you younger blokes will see the Blues running round Wembley with the Cup.
Because we are Everton.....that's what we do
COYB.
DanEFC92
Player Valuation: £90m
Stood a real chance in the Europa. Being one step away from the quarters.
And I'd say last night was worse than Bucharest.
No matter what I have said in the past, Dave, I wish I had your attitude, I really do.
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