30 Jan 2016 19:55:58
So RM wants to be judged by the fans at the end of the season and not at the present.
A fair point you might say.
The fact is there's 14 games to go and unless we improve dramatically on our previous 14 games results indicate we'll finish on 44 points!
That means that around Easter the vast majority of us will be 'bricking it' watching Stones taking on three opponents in his own six yard box whilst we scramble a few home draws to get us over the 40 point mark.
Now call me Mr. Pinickerty but I don't fancy that stress one little bit!
31 Jan 2016 01:03:56
Some of us remember avoiding relegation on the last day of the season - 1994 against Wimbledon and 1998 against Coventry City. There might even still be some supporters who were alive when we did get relegated in 1951!
So, although we won't relish any more scrapes like those, we're fairly battle-hardened ;-)
31 Jan 2016 01:19:24
'94 was my 18th birthday. No greater present could have ever been given.
31 Jan 2016 07:37:58
Mine too Pod, it was a crazy day!
31 Jan 2016 13:29:07
For God's sake Cowpat their are plenty of us who were alive in 1951. I was eleven and it was devastating but I still went to every home game with my mate Neville Smith who latter wrote the "Golden Vision" and it was great when we came up, second to, yes you know, Leicester.
{Ed025's Note - good on you mike...i fell like a teenager now mate. now you go and have a lie down you have auditions for cocoon 3 in the morning.. :)
31 Jan 2016 15:06:26
Not bloody likely Ed, I'm off to the gym, still have visions of playing for the Blues,
Mike.
{Ed025's Note - i think you have a good chance mike..bring your boots on wednesday mate..but not the ones with cork studs.. :)
31 Jan 2016 16:26:40
BlueMike75: but what happens after you're signed by the club and do well for us and your agent then starts touting you around the Champions League clubs? Do you stay with your boyhood club or move on to win trophies? Besides, would you really be happy (truly, honestly) playing for an Everton side that's under Roberto Martinez? Would you still have the hunger to play once you're coining it on £50K-plus per week? Like was said by a waiter to George Best, as he delivered the room-service champagne, while Miss World was sprawled in the bed and wads of cash were strewn around the room: "Where did it all go wrong, Georgie? "
31 Jan 2016 17:46:41
Would never leave Everton Sid. Wish I had had the chance and in my day the top wage was something like 20 quid a week. Can't blame the players of today, few have any affinity with the club, it's just a job but in my day it was, and still is, a passion. As far as Georgie is concerned he was a waste of talent, I have my Mrs. World and she is from Prescot and we have been married 50 years and I don't need wads of cash, I have everything I need at this stage of life.
Enjoy your posts,
Mike.
{Ed001's Note - it is a shame people like you are not the norm.}
31 Jan 2016 16:05:18
In my day boots were boots Ed, not these little girly things that they wear today. Of course the ball was much heavier in those days with a big lace that gave you concussion if you were soft enough to head the ball. You could give the ball a good welly with those boots though. I'll definitely bring those boots along.