Everton Banter Archive April 10 2014

10 Apr 2014 20:26:02
Can I say Martinez is a class act, and so are the vast majority of you blues. Fair play for the Hillsborough support, some of my family are blues, sadly lol, I genuinely hope you grab a champions league place and reinforce our cities rightful place in Europe.

It's not so much fortress anfield as fortress Merseyside these days! (tactfully swerved fortress Liverpool lol)

{Ed025's Note - i think we all support the hillsborough cause mate, some things transcend football and this is one of them, jft96..

Thanks for smashing Arsenal. Would not begrudge you the title as long as we get the fourth spot. A champions league semi-final would be fitting this time next year, save us both a lot on flights.
Great to get Merseyside powers back up there albeit not quite the right way around

Agree with Ed, transcends football, jft96

It breaks my heart to say it but Liverpool deserve to be were they are.just hope our season along with yours makes Merseyside proud.JFT96.we will always stand beside you for this cause and don't know a blue who wouldn't.

Like I say fellas, class acts, hope you get champs league but what a season eh lads!

Good luck with the final 5

Good to read Dentie, I share your thoughts. Begrudging as it is to say, they have dismantled teams this season in impressive style. Deserving of top spot at the moment.

But Oli let's hope they implode at the end. The outcome, should they finish as Champions, is too much to comprehend. They are already talking it up. Man City to restore some semblance of reality please on Sunday following an away win for us tomorrow.

10 Apr 2014 18:30:31
Prior to last year, RM would always be stuck in a relegation battle with Wigan. But at this time of the season he would some how pull it out the hat and Wigan would launch themselves up and out of the relegation zone. IMO He's doing the same thing in this season with Everton.

We've really had a good run, and hopefully it can continue so that we can get as many of the final 18 points available. We are aiming for Europe, but even if we don't get champions league, I think we can say that this is still a successful season. We've got some class players at the moment, and our youth coming through are looking very promising.

WE ARE ALMOST THERE!!!

I'm very proud of my Everton COYB

QB

10 Apr 2014 10:06:22
It's funny how the press said nothing about how unfair our loan deals were until it seems we have a chance of doing well, in fact RM was being praised for how well he done in the window at the start of the season but as soon as pardew had a little moan the journos have jumped all over it, quite sad to be honest

{Ed025's Note - "everton have been the big winners in this transfer window" was the shout from sky sports when we signed them, and no one disagreed then mike, but now apparently its not fair!..they make me sick..

Well we haven't been deducted points or fined so I say stuff em. Let the journo's and managers who are jealous at our progress stay jealous.

I don't think its jealousy Dentie, I think we are looked on enviously and with admiration and we shouldn't feel disheartened. The loan thing is pub talk, what's important now is Sunderland so let's get behind the lads.

What I would say is that if we finish 5th that Roberto is cautious with what team he fields midweek. I would recommend he uses it to blood youngsters as I would want to focus on the league again next year, would be interested to know what others think. Obviously its all conjecture as Bobby will have his own plans.

Totally agree with OP, absolute disgrace. We have lit a fire under the establishment, they see their gravy train coming to an end and now they have their bitter say. PLEASE, no one ever think we have done anything wrong. We have played by the rules, we have used a system that's been in place for years. Don't let them ever scare you into thinking otherwise. As you say it's sad, when you think of the problems in football. Chelsea signing 20 kids, loan them all out and determine their selection. The ridiculous sums of money involved now, agents bunging families 50k so their son signs for their team for top dollar. The market is inflated because of the actions of the mega rich. The journalists should be writing about how to fix financial inequality rather than punish a team who do NOTHING wrong. Or with respect to Mr Samuel from the Daily Fail, maybe he's worried his 5 star treatment in corporate hospitality at the Emirates during Champions League nights is under threat.

Strangely to some extent I would take the same approach to the Champions League. We would not win it and given our seeding would struggle in most groups anyway. The benefit of the Champions League is money. For me I would rather we invested in 2 or 3 quality signings to make a charge for back to back champions league qualifications than to buy 6 players to strengthen the squad. If we managed to qualify 2 years in a row the financial benefits would soon allow us to start attracting top players and allow us to compete in the actual competition.
First we have to qualify once, but I certainly would not focus on it should we qualify, just take the money, play reserves and focus on consistently qualifying for a couple of years

10 Apr 2014 19:40:00
definately the focus needs to be re qualification year on year svenny, but if we finish 4th we would have to first qualify for the group stages, once there I have no arguements if we played the youth squad to nurture them into champions league elite.

Again Oli another great post. We've not done anything against the rules. Roberto played the system and we've been rewarded because of his loan transfers which have come true this season. Let the other clubs moan as much as they want. Just because they've not been successful does not mean we've done anything wrong.
Roberto's played the game and has brought players in who have proved their worth. It's simply a question of sour grapes because other team's loanees have not proved as successful as ours have been,