Who believes that a Moyes team talk consists of the the phase "Express yourselves lads". Certainly not me! When I see a bright new manager like Zola talking of how he wants to see his team play attractive, passing football, I feel a hint of envy.

I just want to see the ball used in a more creative way, not just percentages. Retaining possession should not be something that is alien to Everton FC. Arsenal can do it, Man Utd do it, why cant we?

Hopefully Moyes with the confidence of up to 5 more years at the helm will release the choke chain on the likes of Arteta, Pienaar et al, will try to blend a style of attractive football that gets results and actually say to the players "go on, express yourselves lads!"

The usual dread of games against Arsenal and Man United is in the air so lets see if we can do something to improve our shocking record against the top four now. No more excuses and no more hard luck stories from Everton.

Ok we haven?t started well but come on, we?re only 2 points off of what we had this time last year and we finished 5th. DM?s hoofball isn?t nice, I?ll agree with that but every time Jo Yobo dithers on the ball he gives me a heart attack so I?ll stick with him putting his laces through it thanks. Attractive football doesn?t always win matches but we?re a hard working side that, (up to recently) has.

In Moyes I trust and, considering we can?t do a damn thing about it, I suggest you all do to.

I remember reading some of the letters to the Footy Echo back in 1983, when all seemed to be doom and gloom. The majority of letters were slagging off Howard Kendall ? some along the lines of "...great player for us but he can?t cut it as a manager, he?s out of his depth" or "...it?s sad to see a former great Everton player have his reputation tarnished by his failings as a manager..." Thankfully the Everton board of that time didn?t listen to all the moaners ? and they were pretty vociferous ? remember the cushions thrown from the stands and the team being jeered off?

I remember coming over from Lincoln for the game against Luton in October 1983 I think it was. The attendance was about 13,500 and we lost 0-1 and looked to be a team lacking in any confidence. If anyone had told me we would win the FA Cup and run Liverpool pretty close in the Milk Cup (I?ve not forgotten the Hansen hand ball) I would have politely suggested that they were in need of some kind of therapy.

Well we all know what happened ? a team and a manager that seemed down and out went on to win the Title twice, the FA Cup and the Cup Winners Cup and the odd Charity Sheild for good measure!!

As the great Bob Dylan once said ? The Times they are a changin? In some ways yes ? but in others no. As I said, Howard Kendall had more than his fair share of moaners to contend with. Moyes ? well we have to face facts we are no longer amongst the mega-rich. I recall in the 1970s Billy Bingham paying a record breaking transfer fee for Bob Latchford. He also paid £300,000 for Martin Dobson ? which was discussed on BBC TV?s 24 hours programme as an example of how money was a dominating factor in English football!!

Well we no are longer a member of thet mega-rich club, and we can?t compete with the likes of Chelsea and co. Yes, some of you moan that old chestnut. Well, it?s a fact we no longer have the money to pay record breaking transfer fees. We need to face up to the fact that to challenge for the top 4 on a consistent basis is going to take time a lot of time. Or perhaps some of you would like to adopt the Peter Risdale method or have you forgotten what happened when Leeds United tried to keep up with the mega rich?? Be patient some of you for goodness sake.

OK, there?s plenty of room for improvement in the way that we play, but you know what, it?s a lot better than it was just 3 or 4 years ago. I for one am glad that we?re not one of those clubs who change their manager every 12 months, I think we?re the stronger for it, and I think we?ll be the stronger for the fact that Moyes has recommitted himself to Everton.

And another thing: Moyes is the manager, he has signed a new five-year contract and is expected to be with us for the duration. Posts discussing potential replacements are thus moot and will be removed.

For many years now, football has been a major contributory factor to success of football clubs. When we were the ?Mersey Millionaires? did we win trophies?? Of course we did. HK could afford to buy top quality players and therefore could compete.

These days, money means more than it ever has done yet Moyes has matched other clubs spending 2, 3 or 5 times as much as we are. If that is not an outstanding achievement what is?

I?m just glad that our chairman isn?t as short-sighted as some fans when it comes to choosing the manager of out great football club. Otherwise we could well be having this discussion over whether Dario Gradi is good enough to get us into the Championship.

1. His cup record is appalling. Please stop mentioning our League Cup exploits last year. Our run consisted of beating Luton, Sheffield Wed and a very much under-strength West Ham. Hardly, difficult was it?
2. Reaching the last 16 of the Uefa Cup was not a great achievement. If any of the big 4 go out in the last 16 of the CL it is an unmitigated failure and the same view should be taken of PL representatives going out at that stage in the much weaker Uefa Cup.
3. There is no credible argument for rewarding the reasonable achievements of Moyes with a contract which appears unreasonably lucrative but even more unreasonably lengthy.

You cannot be happy with the brand of Football you are playing, what are you going to do about it? We are sitting 15th in the league and after the next two games we will be lower, out of the League Cup and out of Europe?

We have a team that looks good on paper but plays like arse, we have spent £15 million on a player who has played about 80 games, and looks a little shakey at present. We have taken out another mortgage just to pay our way through the season.

I am very worried at the state of our club, I cannot see us winning anything in the near future, I cannot see us competing for a top 6 place and I think mid-table is the best we can hope for. If anyone thinks any different, where is the reasoning please, because I would love to pass it to DM.

I wouldn't be suprised if this was the case and Moyes hasn't wanted to say and further embarrass the club in public? It would explain a few of his comments!

We seem unable to play our way out of any situation, opting instead to launch balls to any area of the ground and not always the pitch area of the ground. I watched some of the Belarus play against England and the confidence in possesion was verging on arrogance throughout the Belarus team, the keeper continually rolling the ball out to eager defenders, often still in their own area and culminated in one of the best passing goals I have ever seen.

The point I am trying to make is man for man Everton have better, stronger more skilful players than Belarus but the German coach has Belarus playing without fear aginst one of the most expensive national teams in world football. It is ridiculous to say that the manager of Everton does not coach the keeper or the defenders to hit the ball 40-50 yards from the back, because if it is not him telling them to do it then why has he not stopped it ??? I think Moyes may have the potential to become a more expansive minded manager, but he needs to lose the Dithering Dave tag and have a go at letting the team express itself.

As regards money spent Arsene Wenger has spent less than any manager in the Premier League their standard of play is not too bad, it would not bother me one bit if Everton never won another thing, if I could watch football like that every week, but play like that and success will follow. - as delboy once said " He who dares wins"

Judging by the Messiah's record against top-four teams in his six years in charge, we will go all negative and get twatted and certainly won't have some balls like little Hull who beat Spurs, Arsenal and the Geordies, all away, in the space of a couple of weeks... something we have failed to do in six years due to basically sitting back and having no fucking balls whatsoever.

To Doddy this will be a minor blip in his cuckoo land, to me and thousands of other blues who will have to face the Monday ridicule, it?s a fucking crisis and I am fed up of people worshipping a manager who deserves 7 out of 10 but that?s all. I am fed up of saying prior to these games "you never know" because I do know.