Orient blown way by five-star Blues

I'm never wrong yet contrary to my predictions the Olympics have just been an unparalleled success and now Moyes is ripping up the script doing impressions of Brazil 1970.

What universe is this?

Being wrong has never been so joyful.

God has a sense of humor. I think the Mayan calendar runs out on December 22nd. He's giving Everton the run they've deserved, only to be cut short by Armageddon.

This really is so far past my wildest expectations for the start of the season, surely that's the only "plausible" answer?

Just awesome.

The substitutions disrupted it a bit, but who cares?

Only downside of tonight was those who turned up late causing the game to be delayed. Cheers.

Phil Bellis is right of course, and the worse is yet to come. But only because it couldn't have been much better.

DM's been ok for me for a long time, but don't you just love our players at this time?

Shit, all this good stuff makes me uneasy.

Despite being eternally optimistic part of me is just waiting for this rather wonderful ride to come to an end and normal service to be resumed. It's dangerous raising expectations!

I reckon the villa team will still start against west brom though a certain tasty Belgian will be itching to join the fray should things not be going our way....

Why is that Andy?

I'm loving all this but I feel exactly the same.

We should really enjoy it while it lasts.

I know they purchased it ahead of time. My point is, pick it up ahead of time. I have never once showed up to Goodison without my ticket in my pocket. Just like I have never went to an event here without my tickets. Buy them and have them mailed to you. That's all.

WBA next. Still time to forfeit. If they show up for the game? Fuck them. Just another club.

And can we please stop with the "Maybe 6th place" comments. Everton Football Club in 2012-13 is a great team going about proving it.

The Moyes haters seem to be reducing by the day. Just over a year ago, a lot of people's decision was beginning to sway, even mine. I've always liked Moyes, but his negative tactics at the start of last season were depressing and not pretty. Looking back now, I do think he was simply playing to our strengths – Defend! The attack is crap!

I'm glad we kept hold of old Moyes. Always been effective in the transfer market and now he has the team he wants, we can get back to the School of Science!!

This is a bit like meeting a beautiful woman and we're now on our 3rd date. They've all been great, I think she really likes me, and I think I'm in love. I'm just waiting for the moment when I lean in for a kiss, throw up in her mouth and fuck it all up.....

And it was only a bottle of water Hearn you Goon!!!!! Jesus, lighten up!

It can only go downhill from here. But, how?

What do we fear the most. Injuries and suspensions, crap refereeing decisions. All of these will come, and they won't 'even themselves out'. And we don't have an army of mercenaries to fill the gaps when they come - as they will. Poor club, thin squad, that's what that means.

But we won in '70 with about 13 players, not too many more in the 80's. It can be done. And I don't feel unjustifiably optimistic about this lot.

And with a blonde Scot. Not quite Sandy Brown, but a decent lad.

Well, you can take the Evertonian out of Fenway Park, but you can't take the Fenway Park out of.....

We have a great team.

How cool is this?

Myself, I adjusted 2nd half last season.

COYB!

P.S. And fuck WBA.

Maybe 2% of people understand on TW...

I literally LOL'd

Spot on.

Can't take the Fenway Park out of the man.

We are good James. But curb your enthusiasm. Just enjoy the ride. Squad depth and injuries will rear their ugly head and hurt this great team. Marathon, not a sprint and all that... we shall see... Pray I'm wrong.

COYB you red-headed gingy beaten step child, you American Evertonian!

If anyone knew how funny that comment really was...

Every single match I've gone to I've had the tickets mailed to me, hence no waiting in line. If I can do it, so can all of you. The club has only so many people they can have on hand to service every single person who show up 30 minutes before kick off to collect their tickets. They can't just hand them out as you come up to the window you know. They have to verify who you are to make sure you're not just collecting a ticket for free. Then you have many people who you know damn well showed up and suddenly forgot their verification, didn't have ID, etc. When you buy your ticket have it mailed to your address like I have done every single time I've been to an Everton match or any other event. There is no need to collect your ticket 30 minutes before the match, get it in the mail.

There were messages on the radio, the blue kipper site, even the official Everton twitter account, asking people to get there early.

Mates of mine had to collect theirs, but hung around in the pub til nearly half past. When I mentioned the fact they said it would be busy, they didn't seem to believe that a midweek game against lower league opposition would be a big attendance, and assumed they could just stroll down whenever they fancied. Judging by the queue I saw as I went in, so did hundreds of others.

They missed nearly all of the first half, and you know what? Serves them right. Too many people leaving it until the last minute caused the problem, not the club

I don't think the club can be blamed for this. If I had one minor criticism, it's they could've considered other technology in addition to the electronic ticketing. In other countries you can buy online, receive a barcode MMS to your phone, and gain entry without the need to collect a ticket or interact with anyone. But, maybe they did consider this and decided it wasn't cost effective.

The club is a disgrace

"Too many people leaving it until the last minute caused the problem,"

Jimmy, in the 55 years I've been going to the match, that has always been a problem for big games, as well as ticket problems like we appear to have seen last night. People staying in the pub until the last minute. I've witnessed numerous ocassions at Goodison over the years where we have been lucky to get away without serious injuries to fans in the crush to get into the ground.

In my opinion, it was also the one of reasons for the tragedy at Hillsborough. Just my opinion, I don't want all the world and his dog giving me grief.

Fear the Blues.
Fear the MIGHTY BLUES.

Ah well - bring on West Brom, beat them and this site may well explode !

Does the fact that they also own Liverpool and should therefore also be considered in the light of us having been housed in Anfield have anything to do with it, or is just the Boston Red Sox drought that is referenced

My mind is spinning at the sheer magnitude!

So I was just teasing him with my comment.

What can I say, we have a great team. Of course, we'll need luck to be a lady as we go along (And I'd remind her, "You OWE us"). We are thin, at least it appears that way. Who knows, among the surprises and delights might be several youngsters thrust suddenly into the breech and succeeding. Like always, the games will be played and we'll see.

Anyway, unless something bad, injury-wise, happens, fuck em. Fuck em all. WBA next. Besides, we can always revert to KITPK1 or whatever that acronym is. We may not like it but we're a formidable Side that way too.