Give the man a break. He’s not the best full back I’ve seen in the 50 years I’ve been going but there’s nothing wrong with being a good defender AND putting a full shift in. His distribution is as bad as Jags or Yobo but they don’t get anywhere near the stick Hibbert gets. He has consistently been left exposed by the lack of cover on the right side (think Wembley) and has been one of our best performers this season.

Mick Wrende... Maybe you should get to the match more and lay off the ale on the occasions you do. It’s affecting your judgement. "Hibbert is consistently our worst player" — Leave it out, mate... why do "supporters" of Everton have to slag our own players off? Particularly home grown ones???

Offensively? Hoofballs... that's about it. My 7-year-old consistently moans when he sees Hibbert is playing, and sometimes I do too. He will remain a player who will divide Evertonians, he should rename himself ’Tony Kirkby’....

The flanks should work as a pair, such as Stevens and Steven. Baines and Pienaar show signs but is that because they are better players individually than Hibbert and Osman?

Too often Hibbert is left isolated with no back-up. I, too, have seen the best and Hibbert would not get near my all-time Everton 11 but he would be alongside Mick Lyons, Johnny Morrissey, Dave Watson etc in the all-time most committed team.

Lol, are you arguing for or against Hibbo? They must be the best stats of any full back in the Prem

Forget all the imaginary penalties you Hibbo haters say you see him give away and all the imaginary bookings he gets... try to focus on the facts.

Nobody, that's NOBODY! in the history of Everton football club has qualified for Europe, or played in Europe more times than Tony Hibbert, now that may not sit with your finger pointing, or your insistence on overlooking the shortcomings of other Everton players, it may not even fit in with your imaginary stats... but it's an irrefutable, undeniable, incontrovertible fact.

What do we keep hearing about Phil Neville? He’s a good honest pro... well, in my opinion, so is Hibbert.

It’s funny that Jags is being made into some sort of legend, but the lad has probalby made more cock-ups than Hibbert.

As for the format of the European trophies, well you still have to qualify don't you? And nobody has qualified more then TH. More to the point, he ain’t finished yet... That, my friend, is incontestable.

BTW, Iain, I don't think TH is one of our all-time great players, far from it, but I find it stomach-churning that some of our fans cannot/will not give him any credit at all.

Hibbo has been a stalwart servant to Everton for many years, and been handsomely rewarded for that service, but if I could pinpoint an area of our team for improvement, it would be the right hand side.

Interestingly enough, I read somewhere that Hibbo and Stevie Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeee played youth football together and Hibbo was a striker????
European format, there are more games per season now than ever before so any current player would easily surpass previous players, it wouldn’t surprise me if Anichebe has played more European games than Sharpie but that doesn’t mean he is a better player. I would definitely keep Hibbo, but not as a 1st team regular, ditto Osman.

The fact he is our most played in Europe doesn’t prove anything about his ability. We have only ever played in a European League twice in our history — both during his time here.

If we are to progress (which every season looks like the board doesn want to) we would to get a more gifted right back.

ps: As much as I hate the Shite, you can’t compare him to Glen Johnson who is a much better right back.

But people like Osman, Hibbert and Neville — even though they are not as talented as other players in the squad, their effort and commitment is important, and they contribute the most to this positive team spirit that Everton have always been so lucky to have!

Na fuck it, no point in arguing. Let's play Lucas Neill... Okay, so we haven't won a single league game with him in the starting line-up and we keep conceding three, but he has to be better than the man who has qualified for Europe, year, after year, after year... you couldn't make this up.

I couldn’t give a flying fuck how much the shite paid for Glen Johnson, he’s still a better player than Hibbert.

No-one can fault his commitment, workrate, tackling, etc. However, no-one can say his distribution is good and expect to be taken seriously.

As for an alternative, any of the right backs in the current Premier League top 10 sides would be an improvement. He’d still be a useful squad player.

No, it’s not Hibbert's fault we haven’t scored more but ffs there’s nowt there, and that in turn invites the opposition to attack... ie, a boxer who only defends is going to get twatted, that's why a defensive-minded boxer is called a counter puncher. Baines is a counter puncher and Hibbert's the one who gets twatted...

Just to clarify things, Hibbert has NOT been our worst player this season, in fact he has been one of the better performers, and if I could say that whilst we where in a decent league position that would be great, but that's not going to happen, is it?

Hibbert's passing is poor. End of discussion

You also have a very unhealthy obsession with Tony Hibbert.

Three cheers for Hibbo but I can’t agree with your Cahill comments. Even if he was as bad as you so incorrectly state then, as you saw during the week, Moyes has zero options.