Everton 1-0 Fulham. 27th March @ 15.00.

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throughthewindandthedrain said:
There's a couple of trains of thought over where we are as a club and where we should be. For example those of you growing up with Everton in the nineties may be revelling in the relative comfortable finishes and occasional doing over of a top team. For many of us our eyes have seen the glory so everything else is a pale imitation. Finishing sixth with what we've got is about right though, it's just typical that it probably won't be enough for Europe and a bit of a let down as we'd hoped for somewhat more. That Kevin Brock moment is a long time coming again.

Oh no...your previews been cheering me up so much, but this is got me down. Four games left and we got to go out and believe they are all as important as a cup final. You are right about missing the glory moments but they have always come out of the blue at Goodison. The years before 84 and the cup win in 96 were miserable, proper misery. I just don't think we are cut out for steady success but this strangely enough is the closest we have come to it in my lifetime despite no trophy. finishing sixth seems to be the problem but its just a number. we got some exciting players in and others have let us down, but we have looked like a much worse side when we have finished sixth before and there has never been a point in the game when the dice seems so loaded for certain teams.. my mate told me about Taoism..you wake up everything morning, learn from what has happened but let it go, you think where am I and how do I make the most of this and what do I do next. You play Barkley and you buy a centre half. its not deluded to think we can win away to Chelsea and Liverpool, its just tough. so many people go on about sounding like reds but all this ..'no point in this. we not gonna win anything' is pure LFC. Hope you back with the believers soon sir.
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throughthewindandthedrain said:
when I was a lad I would go and sneak in on a Friday night and catch the last ten minutes of Tranmere. There was always a hundred or so fans singing their head off in the away end from places like Torquay. Losing 1 0 or sometimes winning 1 0, it sounded like they were desperate to sneak into 14th in old division4. what a bunch of losers I would think as a glory hunting 12 year old. just glad I've changed a little
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throughthewindandthedrain said:
if there was a trophy for stating the most likely event as though it means you have got some insight, then the groupspeak crew on here are the only ones going home with silverware. point is who gives a s hit whether you think it is worth it, those of us who do may be the ones feeling stupid when we play poorly but at least if Fellaini bangs a late winner in at Anfield we can enjoy it knowing we were part of it and not just jumping on the good times.
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throughthewindandthedrain said:
for the record there were plenty of 'common sense, don't be deluded' fans going on about how Ratcliffe was rubbish, Reid was a crock, Sheedy and Steven were luxuries, Sharp wasn't a goalscorer, Heath was a waste of money. Probably the same people now going on about how they are the team to be measured against. None of this aimed at the preview by the way, my gut feeling after sunderland was it certainly felt like season was over but its a new day and this matters.
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Yer mar lad.
 
throughthewindandthedrain said:
There's a couple of trains of thought over where we are as a club and where we should be. For example those of you growing up with Everton in the nineties may be revelling in the relative comfortable finishes and occasional doing over of a top team. For many of us our eyes have seen the glory so everything else is a pale imitation. Finishing sixth with what we've got is about right though, it's just typical that it probably won't be enough for Europe and a bit of a let down as we'd hoped for somewhat more. That Kevin Brock moment is a long time coming again.

Oh no...your previews been cheering me up so much, but this is got me down. Four games left and we got to go out and believe they are all as important as a cup final. You are right about missing the glory moments but they have always come out of the blue at Goodison. The years before 84 and the cup win in 96 were miserable, proper misery. I just don't think we are cut out for steady success but this strangely enough is the closest we have come to it in my lifetime despite no trophy. finishing sixth seems to be the problem but its just a number. we got some exciting players in and others have let us down, but we have looked like a much worse side when we have finished sixth before and there has never been a point in the game when the dice seems so loaded for certain teams.. my mate told me about Taoism..you wake up everything morning, learn from what has happened but let it go, you think where am I and how do I make the most of this and what do I do next. You play Barkley and you buy a centre half. its not deluded to think we can win away to Chelsea and Liverpool, its just tough. so many people go on about sounding like reds but all this ..'no point in this. we not gonna win anything' is pure LFC. Hope you back with the believers soon sir.
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That would be an ecumenical matter.
 
Oh crap, back to lots of words and pictures, was an OK preview I guess, preferred the brevity of the last one though.

Should win, but he'll play Felli behind the striker and we'll get tonked.
 
How I wish to see the Jelavic in the final pic Chico. How I wish...

Good preview lad, appreciate it is hard against Fulham as they are a bit vanilla and meh.

0-1 Fulham. Yeah, I know we usually do them at Goodison, but this is is the season where we mess up the winnable games big time. Plus, when I predict we'll lose, we dont'!
 
BigBlueConk said:
I want to win every game and see where it takes us.
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I want us to win every game even if it does not get us anywere in terms of getting euro place etc,I am not one of these fans that because we have nothing left near enough to play for that are not bothered about if we win or not,I want to win every game
 
BigBlueConk said:
I want to win every game and see where it takes us.
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this and only this. Plus, and forgive me as I'm sure this has been discussed to death, I just haven't seen it anywhere, if chelsea win the uefa cup (and finish 4th) does that mean 6th gets uefa?
 
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