….i always think that building two title winning teams ‘63 & ‘70 was some achievement but maybe too quick breaking teams up and moving on players like Collins and Ball. Old school, never seen on the training pitch, disciplinarian, distant from the players but they were different times.
Still, fondly remembered as a great manager and Evertonian, he’ll always be a major part of our history.
Still, fondly remembered as a great manager and Evertonian, he’ll always be a major part of our history.
Sharpies volley
Player Valuation: £35m
Great manager for us. But could have become immortal in the world game like Stein, Busby and someone else who shall remain nameless. If his attitude was different and he'd won more trophies, which those teams should have done. Great man all the same.
Joe Royle stated going to Bellefield was like going back to the strict school days with a harsh headmaster & he had his favourite players too...
he mis sold Bally according to many players apart from Kieth Newton who was glad to see him go - He sold Bobby Collins which shocked Roy Vernon & Brian Labone - Only in the mid 1970s The Catt admitted selling Bobby Collins was a massive mistake - no mention of selling Bally though -
He provided a team of youth & star players tpo win & play fantastic football, & fetched Howard Kendall to our club probably his last great signing ever .......
He certainly fetched the School of Science football back to Goodison Park - The Holy Trinity were a joy to watch ...
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BigMick
Player Valuation: £20m
Great manager underrated by too many non-Evertonians, but not the same man after his heart attack when the quality of his signings plummeted, possibly because he was no longer travelling to scout players for himself as much as he used to.
Very much a man of his time with his strict disciplinarian treatment of players and his aversion to the very limited media coverage of the 60s and early 70s. Quite comical to imagine him dealing with the egos of today's pampered 'superstars' or having to do pre-match and post-match interviews etc - he wouldn't even write programme notes for most of the time.
Very much a man of his time with his strict disciplinarian treatment of players and his aversion to the very limited media coverage of the 60s and early 70s. Quite comical to imagine him dealing with the egos of today's pampered 'superstars' or having to do pre-match and post-match interviews etc - he wouldn't even write programme notes for most of the time.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Was placed in the shadows by the press who loved the phoney little weirdo Shankly and his toe-curling sayings too much.
Catterick - as the story goes - built a fine precision engineered watch that was too delicate to survive for long after 1970.
It was what it was: a piece of art as much as a football team. It wasn't made to be a dynasty.
Catterick - as the story goes - built a fine precision engineered watch that was too delicate to survive for long after 1970.
It was what it was: a piece of art as much as a football team. It wasn't made to be a dynasty.
Bluerover
Player Valuation: £60m
I started following Everton at the age of 4 in 1969. My dear late mother loved telling how when I started school that year I told my Junior Infants teacher I would marry her and bring her to meet Alan Ball and Harry Catterick 
Sadly I was in the Main Stand the day he passed away, and witnessed the valiant attempts to resuscitate him.
Happy Birthday and thanks for some of my very earliest memories.
Sadly I was in the Main Stand the day he passed away, and witnessed the valiant attempts to resuscitate him.
Happy Birthday and thanks for some of my very earliest memories.
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