This really is the slow bicycle race league table.
Moyes clearly tops it - not for brilliance, but for doing a very solid job in trying circumstances for so long in his first stint. Last season's cameo burnishes his credentials. Won nothing, though, and that HAS to be a black mark against any Everton manager at any time, let alone one who had 11 years to win something.
Ancelotti is head and shoulders the greatest manager on the list - but then he'd be that on pretty much any list of managers. It's a real shame we never got him when we had adults running the club, but other than making us feel good about ourselves for 12 months, the Carlo show was inevitably short.
For one season of thrilling football - and it was as thrilling as much as it was an aberration - Roberto Martinez deserves a top five place. 2013-14 was unquestionably the best season for me as an Evertonian since the mid-1980s. We played magnificent football at times - but it was a mirage. As soon as his predecessor's defence started to creak, the jig was up for Mr Sunshine. The moment he signed Aiden McGeady was the end.
Now, to two controversial choices - but both worthy ones. Sam Allardyce did everything required of him during his stint. The same can be said of Sean Dyche, whose job will be looked back on with respect by history. Both had one other thing in common: they outstayed their welcomes. Had Sam left after six months, voluntarily, he'd have been wished well. Had Woany's mate done likewise after the points deduction season, the same would be said.
The rest have been rubbish, I'm afraid. Walter was a decent man well past his best by the turn of this century. He was kept on for 18 months of needless agony (for all of us). Ronald Koeman was a vanity signing who didn't want to be here, took the money anyway, and went off playing golf. His demise was inevitable. Marco Silva wasn't remotely worth the grief Moshiri brought upon himself and the club in taking him - and any manager who loses 2-6 at home to Spurs and 5-2 at Anfield is incompetent - no matter how tippy or tappy his style of play. Benitez was at least 15 years past his best when he somehow rocked up here as the wrong man at the wrong club at the wrong time. His previous competence was glimpsed for a few months, but it just became too grim to accept his presence... His appointment and tenure was arguably the lowest point in the club's history - not for who he was, but for the state of us that meant going to him was an option. That was the nadir...until Fan-friendly Frank arrived.
"Enjoy the football." Not really, Frank, no. Nice guy, fantastically incompetent and in way over his head.