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He never pushed on Liam, maybe he was just simply too young for such a star studded team, maybe he was a little bit star-struck, and maybe he was 100% correct about football, being all about different levels, mate? Young players have got to play. It’s no good playing in the premier league for one team but then signing for another team and being way down the pecking order, because although it would have been great to share a training ground with so many great players, you’re simply not going to improve if you aren’t playing enough. Jeffers went backwards, he probably lost his hunger as well as his mojo, because he wasn’t quite ready to play for the best team in the country, and nowhere near filled his potential after that. It’s probably a good reason why Delap, should have signed for Everton, rather than Chelsea, especially when you consider how much patience the player we signed instead, Barry, has been given?

I don\'t think I\'ll ever get over the way Rooney was ripped out of this club. I spent the next 10 years hoping he\'d fall over, balloon it over the bar, whatever. He could not have handled it worse. Effectively stuck two fingers up to the fans, no explanation given, just \"I\'m big enough and strong enough to deal with it\". Nobody expected him to stay with Everton his whole career, But he could not have left in a worse manner. Spirited out in the boot of a car by Stubbs and his agent, and then popping up at Old Trafford. I still can\'t bear thinking about it. And those awful fans with their signs: \'Siralex, pleez will ya sign Wayne Rooneh\'

Lewis Potter looks a cracking little left-back.

Shaun (15) Utter tripe yeh very good.I remember when Wayne came back in one of his games for Man Utd… he went past two Everton players and hit a terrific shot which just went over the bar. I applauded the effort as I usually do, no matter if from us or an opponent — a big divvie ran down from about 6 rows behind me screaming with his veins sticking out of his neck “What are applauding that bastard for!!??" I looked up at him and told him, “I wish we had another 10 bastards like him!” He glared and went back to his seat.If you don't understand the situation Rooney was in then — even now it's you who is talking tripe and the players you mentioned I appreciated but each of them would recognise how far Wayne was ahead of them and they would acknowledge that absolute fact.

Points that count though, John.