*Shakes head* Everton again.

[Malarkey]

Martinez doesn't strike me as a manager to roll over and get his belly tickled. It might be me being naive, but he'll probably use the game on Saturday as a bench mark to see where his group of players are at.

 

Also, imagine if they got turned over and Arsenal lost or dropped points the next day?

 

They can only look after their own business like us. And I think they'll do us a favour.

[Ronnie Whelan]

Listen, I was on the kop when we beat Blackburn with Kenny. Pretty much everyone around me wanted Blackburn to win at the start, but within ten minutes, everyone was cheering us to beat them. Football fans are football fans and they will get behind Everton if they are playing well.

 

Someone mentioned that the difference between 5th and 6th is beginning the season a few weeks earlier. Players won't like the sound of that. I do think that this is the only game where City might slip up, as I think they'll have to much for Villa and West Ham.

[Section_31]

One thing's for sure, the banter between Saint and Sharpey will be FLOWING come phone in time, FLOWING I tell you.

[JoeyJones65]

Let the fuckers bend over...let them finish fucking seventh. We'll finish 2nd at worst. Back in the Champions League...and in the group stages. Not some fucking poxy qualifier, which gets preceded by the sight of the manager sitting wearing a Littlewoods cardigan and holding a glass of pomagne in his hand.

 

No the fucking group stages of the premier competition in Europe while yous lot get confined to the Channel 5 backwaters of a competition no one really gives a fuck about.

 

How do ya like them apples?

 

Go on bend over for City. See if we fucking care.

[The Golden Eel]

Go on bend over for City. See if we fucking care.

 

Be funny if they "bent over" and finished 6th, then Villa or W Ham took points off City.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Let the fuckers bend over...let them finish fucking seventh. We'll finish 2nd at worst. Back in the Champions League...and in the group stages. Not some fucking poxy qualifier, which gets preceded by the sight of the manager sitting wearing a Littlewoods cardigan and holding a glass of pomagne in his hand.

 

 

"If we don't qualify Andy, we'll only have wahselves to blame".

 

[DanDanShaw]

I think the best thing for us is that Everton play before Arsenal.  Martinez seems to be a very positive thinking manager, he wouldn't let his players roll over and die - only for Arsenal to lose and them blow a nice chance of taking top 4 to the final day.

[Mike D]

I think city will win, but I think they will lose their last game in the final minutes.

[Tony Moanero]

Be funny if they "bent over" and finished 6th, then Villa or W Ham took points off City.

Martinez and the players won't bend over, City will simply be too good for them.

[Nomad]

If Everton do roll over for City then i hope they get well and trully fucked by Hull and finish in 7th the mouth foaming rats.

[milky]

As always, we are behind our Blue brothers for the weekends game, and wish 'Jags', Bobby Brown Shoes et al all the very best for saturday, and do not think you are a load of rabid, hysterical, small-time cunts. Like, at all.

 

Cheers lids. x

[YNWAViking]

Everton won't roll over. They still have the 4th place to play for, not to mention the 5th. They seem to get some decent players back for the game - and it's the last home game of the season. I think the game will end up as a draw......

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Everton AGM tonight apparently?

 

Elstone quoted as saying European football is their priority. Also that they're aiming for 5th now, as CL looks unlikely, but they recognise the significant loss of prize money if they drop places.

 

Get in!

[Redder Lurtz]

Everton AGM tonight apparently?

 

Elstone quoted as saying European football is their priority. Also that they're aiming for 5th now, as CL looks unlikely, but they recognise the significant loss of prize money if they drop places.

 

Get in!

 

Given that the difference in "prize money" is less than a million quid between 4th and 5th I'd venture that Elstone is talking through his hoop.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Given that the difference in "prize money" is less than a million quid between 4th and 5th I'd venture that Elstone is talking through his hoop.

He said TV money, not prize money. My bad.

[milky]

Honestly, the best thing that can happen in the game is a good 'AAAANNDBAALLLL!!!' shout, or something of that ilk, early on in the game. Seriously.

 

The fans will be going into the game pretty non-plussed, half-arsed and not their usual frenzied selves. Nothing gets them going like a good sense of injustice, so something with a good dose of controversy to get them riled up (ideally turned down/given by Clattenberg) would quickly help them forget the bigger picture and turn the place into the seething pit of anger we know it can be.

 

That's what we need City to face.

[Mathewbet1]

It's going a tense match to watch, either way. Just hope Everton can keep it at least level until half time making city nervous and squeaky bum will kick in.

[Gnasher]

Leon Osman says Everton looking to beat Man City on Saturday

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2616171/Leon-Osman-promises-Liverpool-Mersey-rivals-Everton-beat-Reds-title-rivals-Man-City.html

[Redder Lurtz]

He said TV money, not prize money. My bad.

 

Fair play mate.

[Red Soul]

The shite v City game will be a draw.Leaving us to win our final two games for the title.Which we will.

[A_S]

Leon Osman has promised Liverpool that Everton will do all they can to beat Manchester City this weekend and tilt the Premier League title race back in favour of their Merseyside rivals.

 

 

 

• ‘Absolutely,’ said the Everton midfielder. ‘We’re professionals and it’s what we do. It’s a big game at Goodison and we want to enjoy it and win it.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2616171/Leon-Osman-promises-Liverpool-Mersey-rivals-Everton-beat-Reds-title-rivals-Man-City.html#ixzz30Krfpqc0
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Have to admit, I got a bit of a chuckle out of that. Let's fucking hope he means it!

[Reds4Life]

Nil Favours Nomis Optimal

[PestiRed]

Does anyone else think that this has Coventry City written all over it?

 

Everton have identified a site for a new 50,000-seat stadium but require council support similar to that behind Manchester City's move to the Etihad Stadium, including the possibility of becoming tenants, before relocating from Goodison Park.

 

Everton have worked closely on stadium proposals with Liverpool city council since the collapse of their controversial "Destination Kirkby" project in 2009. One site, believed to be Walton Hall Park, not far from Everton's historic home, has emerged as the preferred option and plans have advanced to the design stage, with the stadium part of a wider regeneration scheme.

 

Robert Elstone, the club's chief executive, confirmed a new stadium "remains a big priority" at Everton's general meeting at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool on Tuesday . Everton hope a new build will finally attract fresh investment as happened to City following their move to the City of Manchester Stadium in 2003. But they also need the financial support that City received from their local council, plus an arrangement on the ownership structure, before committing to the move.

 

"We're not ruling out any of the sites that we've identified and that the council has presented to us but there is one site that's getting more attention," Elstone confirmed before the general meeting. "It has been getting more attention for a number of months, it's been worked on very carefully and diligently, not only by Everton but by the council, planners, architects, advisers, cost consultants, regeneration experts, solicitors and so on.

 

"There is a lot of work going into something that we're excited about and we hope it comes to fruition. If it does come to fruition we think it would be something that the city will be very proud of and we're certain our fans will be very proud of but we have to reflect that in our case it's quite a different economic model to some of the clubs who have moved historically. When they've moved they have had big shortages of capacity and big waiting lists and in that sense the economic model has been relatively compelling and if they build it then they'll fill it and it will pay for itself. In Everton's case that's not quite as cut and dried. For us it's as much about future-proofing, it's potentially about attracting new investment, but the business case on a day to day basis is less than compelling which is why the board is currently looking not only at this opportunity but also the associated risks and the debt that the club might have to take on to deliver it which may or may not be the right thing for us to do. That's exactly where we are in terms of the project and that consideration is ongoing by the board. We will need a collaboration with a number of partners, the principal partner being Liverpool City council, but there is a degree of optimism, perhaps cautious optimism, but definitely optimism and we wouldn't be investing in what we're doing without thinking it had a chance of success."

 

The Everton board is expected to decide on the financial viability of the scheme in the next few months. Everton have worked on a stadium plan with Liverpool city council before, the aborted Kings Dock project, but Elstone believes the wider economic benefits of Manchester City's move has brought fresh impetus to their latest partnership.

 

"We need the council to be supportive, financially and entrepreneurially, and at the moment there are signs that they are being that and that has to be welcomed, we are delighted with that," he said. "As a case study you can present Manchester City as a great example of what can be achieved through a sporting led regeneration and that's a tremendous blueprint that we hope we can follow."

 

Elstone added: "If you've got a new stadium with 10,000 extra seats and you fill it every week it generates about £5m per year. When you've paid for extra security, maintenance, cleaning, lighting, heating, £5m per year might be the wages of one Premier League player or one and a half Premier League players. It comes back to the economic imperative of this which is if we build a new stadium we're not going to be signing three or four Champions League players on the back of that new stadium. That's why this is more challenging for the board than it might have been in Arsenal's case or one or two other clubs who have moved stadium."

 

Everton also projected a healthier financial position at the general meeting, largely on the back of the new record-breaking broadcasting deal. Unaudited figures for the current financial year forecast a turnover of £117m compared to £86m in 2012/13, with wages falling to 55% of turnover compared to a Premier League average of 72%, and predict that net liabilities will drop from £42.7m in 2012/13 to £12.9m in 2013/14.

[Bad Red Bull]

One of the most intimidating things about godson in big games is the atmosphere. It simply won't be there on saturday. 

 

We are relying on City making mistakes and Everton being game enough to capitalise. 

 

Fuck sake why couldn't they beat southampton. 

 

dicks 

Cant we just buy the remaining tickets for their game and go thr & cheer on the blueshite and get the atmosphere up and going? They dont sell out their allocation anyway

[DanDanShaw]

One of the reasons Everton will soon enter 20 years without winning anything, is because while it's still possible (not even just mathematically but very possible) they can finish 4th, they still want their own team to lose to stop Liverpool having a chance of winning the league.

 

I'd understand if it was 6 points and like a 10 goal swing, but it's 4 points and a 2 goal difference, putting rivalry aside - those shit fans deserve the success (or lack of) they've had in recent years.