Everton Banter Archive June 25 2012

25 Jun 2012 20:33:23
Hi ed have you any idea how many season tickets we have sold {Ed024's Note - Not sure, but more than this time last year, as evertonians realise we could be in for a very good season

Last time I checked it was over 21,000 !

Interesting fact for you all.. The season after we finished 4th we sold over 28,000 season tickets!

Not bad at all, hopefully this time next year we will be matching that total.. Maybe even this year :)

Toffee Jack

A lot of them will be the £95 kids ones, brilliant idea that get em' in and hooked on the Blues!

25 Jun 2012 19:00:54
Just wondered why no one is looking at Sone Aluko? Hes also turbed down a contract with Rangers Newco and is a top quality winger! Free replacement for Pienaar?!

JG

Look at some of his video's on youtube, I know its only in the SPL and yes even Jo looks good on youtube, but Aluko looks awesome, a less disruptive Drenthe, He'd be a bargain!
Toffeepidge

I would like him as well as Naismith from Rangers.
Joe EFC

25 Jun 2012 17:44:25
we need sone aluko because of his skill and abillity. steven naismith and steven whittaker would also be good

Are you Sone Aluko's agent ? Personally I don't think he is good enough for the Prem, which is why he left England in the first place.

When the like of Charlton and a couple of mls teams are after him then i think that really does give an idea just how good he is, he's not good enough.

25 Jun 2012 16:39:10
I have always thought Evertons main problem has been that we havnt had an out in out striker who scores goal galor for us an now we have jelavic as well so now we have one .... But the only way it think jelavic can get any better is if he has a paced partner and this is why I think we should definitely try and get Naismith and aluko from rangers ...... Also not alot of people might now but Naismith is very very good in the air aswell and scores alot of goals with his head alot like Cahill :)

25 Jun 2012 14:36:42
EVERTON INS

PIENAAR £4MILLION SPURS
LUC CASTAIGNOS £4MILLION INTER MILAN
NAISMITH FREE RANGERS
WHITTAKER FREE RANGERS
MCGREGOR FREE RANGERS

OUTS

YOBO £2MILLION FENABARCHIE
ANNICHEBE £4MILLION WIGAN
MUCHA FREE ANYONE WHO WILL TAKE HIM

TEAM
HOWARD GK
WHITTAKER RB
HEITINGER CB
JAGIELKA CB
BAINES LB
NAISMITH RM
FELLANI CM
GIBSON CM
PIENAAR LM
CASTAIGNOS AM
JELAVIC ST

SUBS
MCGREGOR
DISTAN
NEVILLE
CAHILL
BARKLEY
OSMAN
HIBBERT

COME ON MOYES AND KENWRIGHT ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

Mcgregor and whittaker really? Just because they're free transfers does not mean we have to sign them! Rather have Hibbert over Whittaker any day and mcgregor isn't worth a w**k. Both bottom half of the table standard at most.

Toffee Jack

25 Jun 2012 12:08:09
sunderland fan here would love to know why leighton baines wasnt one of those penalty takers last night he is by far the best penalty taker in england

Probably because he doesn't play for Liverpool and isn't called Ashley.

He was'nt on the pitch during the game u have to be playing to take 1

IMO he should have brought Baineson before the end to take a penalty.
Joe EFC {Ed025's Note - good point joe..

I think we'd used all three subs by then - cos playing 4 4 2 meant we had severly knackered players - parker was gone - milner runs all over and was knackered - welbeck didn't do anything - half the team was just really poor - but yep - gotta have 5 pen specialists left on haven't you - ashley cole FFS - worst pen ever - and ashely young should never pull on the shirt again - he was completely rubbish

25 Jun 2012 09:39:51
How come England's 70k a week merchants can't do the basic skills like pass, trap, control, keep the ball?

Jeez - I wish I'd tried for pro footballer - these guys obviously just don't practice the basic tight close control skills - all of the italians, spanish, germans etc etc can do the close control work - and ours are hopeless at it - ours can't tackle! - as soon as our guys get the ball the opponent just runs up and takes it off them - and when they've got it, our guys don't go close to them - they stand off and watch - god, it was like watching everton at their poorest early last season - do you think it's too late for me at 44?

Clozem Downe

Quick heads up for ye CD

The only people probably on 70k per week in that team last night are:

Glen J
Welbeck
Parker

Double your estimate at least for the rest mate.

Oh yeh it's never too late mate, Ive just turned 40 and still play like a pro, well at least for the first five minutes after that I am on the edge of death for 55 minutes (5 a side) and can't walk for three days.

Degsybluenose

Not really bothered about England to be honest, they put a lot of effort in to be fair to them but it's scary how far away the national team is to the top teams.
It was pretty clear last night though the tactics were wrong he should of went 5 in midfield and put a midfielder on Pirlo who was walking around all game like it was a training match to him. Parker man marking him with maybe Gerrard and Young in centre mid with Rooney on his own upfront

Too many of our top teams are made up of foreign players givining no opportunity for England to produce a good pool of talent obviuosly the rooneys and gerrards of this world will come through anyway but we are suffering from having the best and most affluent league in the world to watch Im hoping the new rules that require a certain amount of homegrown players have a positive affect.

ToffeeAL

25 Jun 2012 05:57:45
gerrard. johnson.henderson.carrol .on pitch last with downing and kelly as back ups and ex red roy as boss ..?no wonder we coming home..

24 Jun 2012 21:33:05
Rooney world class

My arse

Degsybluenose {Ed025's Note - exactly..

Best youngster I have seen come from Everton without a doubt. Can't judge him on one game and you'd be lying if you didn't want him back

Pirlo totally world class and 33 years old, why did Milan release him last year lol.

Degsybluenose

Second poster - he was class when he was with us attacking people with no fear, WHEN was his last good game for England???? Portugal 2006

World class my butt

Dont be bitter the lad is world class

World class at what exactly ? It has been years since he worried international class defenders. In the Montenegro qualifier he got sent off because he can't cope with good man-marking. Against better defenders like the Italians he just looked woeful, as did all of the English attackers.

Ive seen him in world and euros he definetly isnt wqrld class that means he would be in the worlds best team there is no way he would getin a side with ronaldo messi van persi inesta not to mention south americans any one who thinks he would is a idiot

Why is he not world class because he has not done it at world cup level nor as messi Rooney has done it at Champ league level can't help it he is in an awful side

24 Jun 2012 20:49:40
Sorry to go on about rs boys but why is everyone sayin Gerrard is great this tournament to me he has been an average defensive midfielder and not even the nest defensive midfielder in the england team

Nessy {Ed025's Note - he has been good nessie...but very poor tonight..

Hart, Gerrard and Terry were our players of the tournament to be fair. You can't deny that no matter how much we hate Gerrard!

Being our best players in this tournament isn't saying much. Gerrard was our only creative source, but he did very little. In fact he looked knackered, despite not playing a full season. I think his best days are behind him.

24 Jun 2012 19:57:21
QB, I read it on , although it's appearing everywhere now as rumours usually do.

- BlueJay