Loads of people have said "we can't put out the kids, remember Leeds." Junior was the only kid playing in that game so presuambly they're blaming him.
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Loads of people have said "we can't put out the kids, remember Leeds." Junior was the only kid playing in that game so presuambly they're blaming him.
Degs62
Player Valuation 10"
FFS that's no random royals, that sthe King and (to be) Queen Mother parents of the current Monarch, no wonder the standard of education is dropping in the UK, do they not teach History any more??
4-0 to Everton with a hat trick from Howard. Said a while ago it's our year for the cup, COYB!
Completely forgot to read the preview ffs. Great work again.
6-0 blues.
6-0 blues.
Let's get down to business. It's been eighteen years since we won something shiny and for Everton FC that's far too f*cking long. I can just about take being put out by a better team playing good footie but anything less than that and everyone can [Poor language removed] right off. We've got the best team in a generation and were in it to win it.
This gutsy opening line will of course be outdone by a limp exit at the hands of someone pure sh*te, possibly even on Monday leaving us to fume while the cup half full merchants concentrate on the league. We've got unfinished business after meekly whimpering out in the semi to a very sh*te sh*te team in the semi last time out. I've tried to blank it out of my mind but like the first pube stuck in your throat from youthful oral sex it's not that easy to shift.
We go into it in a sound position, it's been a very decent season so far. We're not hoping to use the FA Cup as a springboard to better times after a dismal first half of season, on the contrary plenty of non Everton folk are enthusing over us and our mesmerising togger that we're serving up this season thus far.
That win up in the bell capital of the north east was lovely in that we didn't really do too much to win it but we were still miles better than the latest, greatest all conquering geordie nation. Sh*t on. Now get back under your meffy rock you tubes, we've got a boss train to catch and you're not on it.
So onto Cheltenham then in the third round of the FA Cup where by Tuesday morning you'll be sick of every single [Poor language removed] out there enthusing over the magic of it all. Let's be honest the best part of it all always was the seeing the orange balls on Grandstand with snow steeped up at the side of the pitch and other teams fans pure gutted as they got giantkilled by a team with a plumber as a keeper who made ridiculous saves.
Set deep down in cider and inbreeding country, Cheltenham would have been one of the places that locals round up to a bigger city when they're abroad, probably Bristol in their case. Like when Amit or Spiros asks anyone from the Wirral where they're from they say Liverpool but pretend to be not like being called scouse locally. Cheltenham was saved from a void of non description when lady luck landed a big [Poor language removed] off horse racing track on it and loads of posh people decided to give away a Gold Cup at it annually.
A rugby town where the local lads spend too much time putting needles in each other's arses at the gym and then run into each other on a rugby pitch before going out in the local town and being obnoxious as [Poor language removed], drinking each others puke in a misguided attempt at solidarity while f*cking each other's sisters.
When horse racing powers over football in the opposition’s town then there shouldn't be any credible threat really but then this is the FA Cup and well, this is Everton.
So writing stuff about Cheltenham and what to expect? You're in the wrong preview. They're fourth in the arl fourth division so the media have been beauts and sensed a weakened team shocker and hey presto were live on TV with the entire nation hoping we succumb.
The young left back Garbutt who looked sound in the second half of the Orient cup game played for them last season and done well. Their manager is Mark Yates and on looking on the BBC site I see from their news ticker him quoted "We defended like pansies" from one of their presumable latest defeats. On the footballing scale of supposed intelligensia this man could quite be the acid to Brendan Rodgers' alkaline.
They are one of the teams in that division that try and play nice footie. They're very much better in the opposition half than their own with some decent attacking players. If you have to pick one to watch then the fast thing out on the right called Jermaine McGlashan is a very credible threat. Forget that he sounds like he's a lad from the Gorballs with a neck tattoo he's fast and skillful and a good playmaker for that level. He's also backed up the right back Jombati in what is their strongest area of the team. We're probably not going to play Baines and Pienaar but we'll have to be careful there. They won't be lacking in motivation.
Marlon Pack is their man man in midfield and they've also some Premier League experience in ex Birmingham and WBA man Darren Carter. Like any lower league team they're going to be a pain at dealing with set pieces. A corner will be celebrated like a penalty as the home crowd realise it's an opportunity to throw some grocks into our penalty area and try to forcefully [Poor language removed] the ball into the net. Billy Jones is their set piece dangerman.
You get the picture on what to expect by now. It's going to be cold and far away from home in some wee ground packed to the rafters urging their local lids to make a name for themselves. We can't [Poor language removed] this up, like we did against Leeds.
As for the Everton team I don’t really know. I can’t see us fielding a full strength team but then I can’t see us fielding a much weaker team, this is the only cup we can win and Moyes got his fingers burnt by Junior led encapsulation in the League Cup earlier this season.
If you’re looking for differences between blues and reds then it’s at this point it becomes apparent. They’d be enthusing over fielding a couple of their foreign wonderkids who scored a hat trick against Chelsea in the FA Youth League and obsessing over who’ll play in the jarg number 10 position or as a prolapsed striker. F*cking bells.
Anichebe will probably start up front though and it's well deserved. He's stuck at it and seems to be getting it at the moment and tentatively long may it continue, he was ace second half against Newcastle. Jelavic may start this too not just for the four four two element but to kick start his goals, if not then it's either Jelavic or Naismth up there.
It's going to be a heavy pitch so it will preclude some others probably. I can't see Fellaini starting this but the likes of Osman or Barkley and Hitzlsperger to try and out football them, along with Pienaar maybe on the left. I'm clearly playing a guessing game here so let's end it on the wish that Heitinga isn't at centre half or the caravan headed Mucha in goal and we should have enough to get out of there with if not the win then a chummy replay.
So there, it's upon us. All wonderful journeys got to start somewhere (and end somewhere far to often) and for us it's Cheltenham on a cold January night. We've suffered the hard luck stories and supposedly dejected players walking off a pitch with opposition fans running on the pitch and laughing at us. But this is hopefully a different Everton as this cup applies only to England and in England there aren't too many teams better than us right now.
That eighteen year itch will only get itchier unless we do something about it. So get your finger out Everton give a generation of young Evertonians something to look back on one day and reminisce about. That would be a start.
[video=youtube;3a7nSJb8hwM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3a7nSJb8hwM[/video]
Everton for the cup.
WRONG
I also forgot the boss cup we won against Everton Chile too.
I need disciplinary action from D/D for this. Eye off the ball and all that.
I need disciplinary action from D/D for this. Eye off the ball and all that.
pip looks a bit underwhelmed
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I actually thought Junior tried some decent things that night. The pitch was terrible and he had no one on his wave length. Surrounded by Gueye and Fellaini, I felt sorry for the lad. It was the clearest evidence yet for Fellaini's inability to play defensive midfield. His positional play for the first goal was awful and he was chasing championship shadows all night. The only position he can play with any effectiveness is the one behind the striker.
Moyes has to be careful here. Pienaar, Osman, Mirallas - he needs at least one of these on the pitch to win the game. Our best side has all three in and can be mesmeric. As we saw against Leeds, if you take Pienaar and Osman out of midfield (when Gibson is injured) then we have no one who can play. What will follow will be a game of hoofball from both sides that could well see us out if the football lottery doesn't go our way. If one of Osman or Pienaar is kept in the team then we should have more than enough class for them as they can make the majority of players around them look good. Junior's debut would have been a lot different had he been playing alongside Osman.
BoysInBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/everton-boss-david-moyes-will-hand-1522148?
FFS, why can't he just treat this like a normal game? It will be a tough game. He never learns does he? The Leeds game showed that.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/everton-boss-david-moyes-will-hand-1522148?
FFS, why can't he just treat this like a normal game? It will be a tough game. He never learns does he? The Leeds game showed that.
SpeedEFC
Player Valuation: £8m
I'd like to see:
Subs: Mucha, Distin, Fellaini, Pienaar, Naismith
A good mix of youth and key players with big guns to step in if we're not up to scratch, that team should see us through at a canter though knowing Everton we'll make a meal of it again.
Howard
Coleman (Neville if he isn't quite there yet) Jags Duffy Baines
Barkley Osman Hitzlsperger Oviedo
Anichebe Jelavic
Coleman (Neville if he isn't quite there yet) Jags Duffy Baines
Barkley Osman Hitzlsperger Oviedo
Anichebe Jelavic
Subs: Mucha, Distin, Fellaini, Pienaar, Naismith
A good mix of youth and key players with big guns to step in if we're not up to scratch, that team should see us through at a canter though knowing Everton we'll make a meal of it again.
toffeeabroad
Player Valuation: £225k
Don't care who we put out so long as Barkley & Duffy get a run out and we spank them by 3+ goals. They've got a giant grock at the back who wins all the headers so hope we've got Peanuts or Ossie in the side to have a bit of creativity.
Stutheblue
Player Valuation: £30m
No Mucha please. If so, we win 2-0 for me.
Cheltenham's preparations for Monday night’s FA Cup third round tie against Everton have been hit after the club suffered a burglary at their training ground.
Thieves broke into the Seasons Conference Centre and ransacked the dressing room, taking wallets, watches and phones belonging to the players.
Thieves broke into the Seasons Conference Centre and ransacked the dressing room, taking wallets, watches and phones belonging to the players.
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