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Why this season has been a great start

Now lets all just take a step back and and take a calm look at the start we have made, because most of you are talking like it's been a shit one. In fact lets just compare it to the starts of our two most successful campaigns in modern times 04-05 and 05-06. In both those campaigns we made brilliant starts by playing the best football we played in those seasons at the begining with fully fit squads and building a good points total. This allowed us to have stutters in each campaign when injuries hit hard.

Now let's compare it to this campaign because I think for these reasons this start has been better than both. We have already been hit with an injury crises (the only one of our key players not yet to miss a game through injury is Lescott) and yet we sit 5th in the league with 13 points from 8 games. We're currently sitting above all the teams, apart from Man City, who will be competing with us for the Uefa Cup places come the end of the season. And you no how many points we had after last season when we were playing great football and went unbeaten for 7 games ? 13 points. In fact we only had 16 points from the first 8 the season we finished 4th. And yet everybody is moaning about the start we've made saying the football is poor and calling Moyes because he hasn't got a big enough squad with strength in depth.

Yet is the fact that we currently sit with the same points as we did last year with a much more serious injury crises than last year, and having admittedly played less catching football on the eye because he has had to use squad players, show that Moyes has improved just that, the strength of the squad. It only poses well for when we eventually get Cahill and Vaughan back and an in-form Andy Johnson. Therefore I am much more pleased with this start than any other in previous years because we are doing what good teams do. Gain points at the start of the season before hitting peak form. That is something Everton definitely haven't done in my life time, which I think shows how far Moyes has bought us.
James O'Neill, Liverpool Posted 01/10/2007 at 10:40:41

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Michael Kenrick

I think if you are going to make comparissons, you need to do it against the corresponding opponents... which Steve Flanagan usually does for us. I wonder if he's going to update that for us soon...

dave t
1 Posted 01/10/2007 at 15:55:55

its a decent start
the only blip was reading away
our season starts proper against newcastle
if we get something against them away then im confident we’ll get fifth
as it is, we’ve done okay but we haven’t played against our main threats
(losing against man utd is not a game our season hinges on in my opinion)
we lost against an in form villa when we were off form. these things happen
i like the look of our strongest 11
its just getting that 11 fit and playing