Let's not get distracted by the other lot and concentrate on the next game and then each game as it comes — that's plenty enough to keep my interest and attention, I don't need to worry about the other lot until kick-off time on the day in question.

Moyes doesn't have a Big Game mentality. Moyes is a choker. Moyes can't beat the Shite away from home. I think it's about 3 wins from 20 odd in Derby games, all at Goodison Park. Even Walter Smith won at Anfield and that just about says it all.

Roll Over and Die before Fight and Try — that is the Moyes Derby Day Motto.

Moyes is honourable and you believe him?

Didn't he also say he would make a decision in January?

The man is stalling, waiting to see if anyone else comes knocking for his services. He won't sign a contract after the Derby, in June when that phone call hasn't materialised he will sign a new contract and tell us he was going to all along.

Is that why we get the Anny Road (Roll Over and Die), we have to be FAT, my missus is FAT and she tries and fights ...

Ouch! sorry luv! Ow!! Shopping! OK Luv!

But problem is there is little point in twisting arm of someone if they don't have the money

He steadied the ship when he first came and we all thank him but let's not forget that every other manager for half a century before Moyes avoided the drop, so it's a little extreme to say we would no longer be in the top flight were it not for Moyes.

May as well say had he been given a bit more money we would have won the Champions League!

Before you get too excited, what is Moyes's record at Anfield in 11 years?

Bill is said to be playing hardball!

Get it signed, I say!

The RS will go hammer and tongs to win that game. Its not that they are better because they are not, it's just all about attitude. I am not normally a pessimistic sort when it comes to our games and It's strange, because I can see us winning any other game, except that one. I just know that we will bottle it, with Moyes leading the way.

Though I agree about the Derby, we will probably lose.

Yes, Moyes has a dreadful record against Liverpool. But please tell, who besides Royle has got a good record against Liverpool?Nobody. Not even Kendall.

We won @ Anfield in 1984 after how many years? 13? Kendall lost 2 cup finals (84 milk cup and FA cup) in 84 and 85. Harvey lost 1 FA cup final to them in 89.

Yes, we won the Charity Shield in 86 by beating them. But even in our 87 Championship winning season, we didn't best them. (Dave Long, even the spirit of Ratcliffe, Sheedy & Sharp couldn't do that much more.)

Of course, it's true none of them above have got 11 years at it like Moyes. For that, Moyes looks worst off. But an Everton manager losing to Liverpool is not an anomaly. It's the norm. Joe Royle is the exception.

I agree completely that it's a poor record and obviously for us fans we'd love to beat Liverpool every time we played them but I just don't get the big hang up about his record at certain clubs. If we'd won at Anfield and Old Trafford 2 or 3 times each but lost the record we have against the likes of Sunderland, Fulham, Man City etc would that make him a better manager somehow? I don't think so personally.

Poor records are part of football, for all clubs and all managers. You could look at the fact that Moyes broke hoodoos at Elland Road and White Hart Lane, that his record at home to Man Utd is better than most, that home to the clubs mentioned above it is almost faultless and that it was a fair few years before he joined that we had last won at Old Trafford or Arsenal.

Similarly the 'big game choker' is something that gets redefined to suit the argument (Wigan is now used as an example of big game choking by many, although the semi-final always appears to have been the cut off previously - clearly believing that a QF was a big game would have meant he hadn't choked in his previous 3 and that just wouldn't do).

David Moyes's Everton have reached the last eight of the FA Cup 3 times in 11 years (2009, 2012 and 2013) something Walter Smith could only dream about as he only got there three times in 4 years (1999, 2000 and 2002). Admittedly he never won one... but two of them were away from home.

Sorry, Richard, this has no legs I'm afraid.

Certainly you're right in saying that the future is unknown, only that I really don't think the last 11 years has been that terrible (my implication being that Leeds and Portsmouth fans could tell you what terrible really feels like).

will no doubt get slated by Mike Gaynes now but it's the truth: we shit ourselves, they intimidate us, we don't them. They have even turned us over a couple of times with ten men if I'm right. It's about time we went there and showed them the respect they show us — and that's sod all.

There is some quality playground logic on these forums!

Moyes won 2 of those Sixth Round ties, he lost the last one against Wigan a few weeks ago. Moyes does not have a good record in big games — that's a fact! sadly.

Playground logic? I was just showing up the fact that our FA Cup record under Moyes is abysmal, if even Walter Smith could get us to the last 8 in 3 out of his 4 years in charge. BTW, Walter was also in charge the last time Everton won across the park.... and no, I don't think Walter was a better manager than David Moyes... but that doesn't mean that David Moyes is a living legend either.

Have you noticed that, when teams chase and harry Liverpool, they tend to retreat and make mistakes that leads to goals against them.

Take the recent game they played against Southampton. The Saints battled them from start to finish. Even when Coutinho pulled a goal back just before half-time, they did not lose their confidence. They came out in the second half and gave Liverpool the same treatment as in the first half. The result, a 3-1 win to Southampton.

Compare that with last week's game with Aston Villa. In the first half, Villa did exactly the same as Southampton. They harried Liverpool, crisply passed the ball around them, and made chance after chance against a back-paddling Liverpool side. Then what happened! In the second half, they reverted to what Everton normally do – that is, try to protect the lead, and invite pressure on themselves. The result, Liverpool walked away winners.

Unless we have the same spirit as Southampton – to keep on going even after taking the lead and continue to pummel the shaky Liverpool defence – we haven't got a chance of getting anything from the game. We all know what needs to be done. Trouble is, do our players have the heart and spirit to deliver.

I think the R/S are exactly that – shite – and we'll prove that come the day.

I believe that as long as Mirallas, Fellaini and Baines are fit and on their normal game, we'll send a lot of Norwegians and southerners home unhappy.

Earlier this season we played them without Gibson and Pienaar with a half fit Fellaini and Mirallas who also went off injured. The midfield in the second half was Gueye Osman Neville Naismith and we still gave them the run around.

Arteta used to get injured before every derby, it was like some sort of running joke, one season he'd just torn apart Villa a week earlier before of course pulling his groin in training; step in Zinedine Kilbane. Another time, Hibbert broke his rib in training the week before, step in Segundo Castillo.

Obviously it helps if the players missing aren't enforced by the manager (see last season's debacle) but for once it would be nice to go there with our first 11 all fit and in form – god forbid the notion of them ever having anyone injured when they played us might actually come to pass one of these days...

You inadvertently make a very interesting point though, in refuting that he's a living legend, because very very few people in my experience ever suggest he is. I certainly don't, and believe me he sometimes infuriates me, but I think much of the criticism that comes his way from people like yourself is laughable. For example your assertion that his FA Cup record is 'abysmal'.

It's not great, granted, but abysmal? A quick enquiry shows me that Spurs and Villa (I think most people agree that these 2 are comparable clubs to Everton in the majority of ways) have reached 2 and 1 semi final respectively in the time that Moyes has been here, with no finals between them. Villa have also been eliminated in the 3rd round on 6 occasions in this time. Seems a tad harsh then to proclaim Moyes' 2 semis and 1 final as 'abysmal', no?

Great post, sums it up.