Great win and an exciting climax, although I did feel an away win was in order. We finished with what I would consider my ideal lineup... possibly Pienaar or Deulofeu instead of Oviedo, and hopefully the one for the next league game.

What I wonder at this early stage is IF we are up there round the next transfer window will we try to buy Lukaku (with the underspend from the last one). What a MASSIVE change when he came on, it was like watching a different team, one with teeth. As Moyes said about a "knife to a gunfigh", Lukaku is like a cannon and one that we should not lose.

I don't agree with fans who say "Right, that's it, if this doesn't happen, I'm not going anymore" but, if we don't get this lad, I will feel more let down than at any time in my last 47 years of supporting Everton.

Just wondering if you and those around you are starting to warm to Martinez a bit more than you alluded to in a previous report?

Now that all the fixtures have been played out for this week, we remain the only unbeaten side in the Prem. which can be a double-edged sword. Hopefully it will drive us on to maintain this accolade as long as we can.

The downside being, it can also be a spur for opposing teams to try and deprive us of the title, but although early days,I have not seen anything that we should fear in any of our future fixtures. I always try to watch as many games as I can to guage what's coming next.

Hope the Cup game will be taken seriously as well, in that I mean by fielding as strong a side as we can. We have never won this Cup under any of it's titles, but come perilously close on more than one occasion.

For those of you out there in the ether Ken's reports really do reflect what takes place at our matches - keep up the good work Ken.

We had become so accustomed to hearing how lucky we were and how grateful for small mercies we should be that it dumbed down expectations to an all-time low. Now, under RM, we won't be afraid of any other team in the Premier League and that to me speaks volumes. We are so transformed in such a short period of time, it's a miracle.

Roberto Martinez has given all concerned with EFC something that Moyes never could or never would and that is belief and a sense of who we really are. The identity of Everton FC is being restored with each passing week and it feels great to feel like winners again. All though there is still some tweaking to do here and there, the football we are now playing is a joy to behold. Roberto Martinez has given us back our pride and the right to call our selves a club with big ambitions. For too long we had to endure negative stereotypical small-minded mentality from the David Moyes Camp to such an extent that our own fans started to believe we were a Mickey Mouse club, just like him.

Unbeaten and for the most part barely troubled so far this season with ball retention figures pundits drool over when talking about Barcelona. God bless you, Roberto, for restoring the pride back into this great football club of ours. Keep it flowing.

Martinez has got a plan and he has also got the players wanting to win, not scared to try and win and to keep the ball with confidence. Yes, there will be hiccups along the way and the great passing football will not always pay off with even at times it looking mundane but in all of our matches so far we have adapted well. Dictating the game against the sides we know we can and then varying it with a passionate display of fight and heart full of character against Chelsea.

We had a fantastic deadline day, bringing in a mixture of experience and youth but both of the same quality. Lukaku is brilliant and will lead the line surely from now on.

I loved Jelavic when he first came to our club but we have to face it now, it has gone more than just a barren spell and a lack of confidence. Jelavic offers nothing as the lone striker and if ever a contrast of two different fowards was on display then it was Saturday. Jelly was anonymous in that first half, we'd have lost that game had he stayed on for the full 90 minutes. Once Lukaku came on, it was a whole new ball game full of pace, power, raw aggression and no little skill either.

What has happened to Jelavic over the past seven months or so is a mystery, it really is. Where has that player gone who finished every half-chance with so much self-confidence and lethal accuracy? His entire game has gone completely.

The Fulham game tomorrow surey brings about the chance to see Deulofeu start. I would also start Lukaku. The League Cup represents a fantastic chance of winning silverware, a trip to Wembley plus the added bonus of European football. I cant lie and say I wasn't a tiny bit jealous watching Swansea dismantle Spanish giants Valencia in the fabled Mestalla last Thursday. Yes, I wish it was us there. Times are starting to become exciting again at Everton. Let's hope under the new regime something can actually peak and we can see a reward at the end of it.

"All hell broke loose and it was unusual and refreshing to see the scorer spurn all those rehearsed celebration moves and genuinely celebrate just like a fan, hell he could have been jumping next to me such was his glee".

It must have been mega to be with blue boys at WHU when those goals went in. And yes, that celebration of Baines said it all - one proud lad. Don't go, Mr B, please don't go (neither of you).

Still amazed Mourinho sent Lukaku to a terrific team specifically lacking a hungry, something-to-prove, goalscorer.

Thank you, Jose.

The only negative in the game was seeing what a huge prospect Lukaku is going to be knowing we will not be able to afford to buy him either in January or the end of the season. Lets look foreward to the rest of the season while he is with us.

I still feel the players at our club are struggling with the passing game especially in our half.
Lukaku made a big change with his strength and direct play, he was really quick too which with his build makes him a really formidable striker.
He is not yet a new Drogba but I can see it in him !

My only negative is the fact that without Baines two fantastic free kicks we would have been struggling to get more than a draw out of a game we were entitled to win.

Lets hope that Kone can step up to the plate too as Jelavic is not cutting the mustard playing up front on his own.
Jelavic obviously needs a strike partner as he is not a target man who can hold the ball up.
He is a finisher if partnered by a decent target man. Maybe he would play well with Lukaku or Kone but he cannot be played as a lone striker.
If we are to continue with a lone striker then Jelavic will have to be a bench warmer :(

It will be difficult to fit Barry, Gibson, Barkley and McCarthy in midfield as I still believe that Pienaar fits in very well with Baines.

My team would be Howard, Coleman, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Mirallas, Barry,Barkley, McCarthy and Pienaar with Lukaku up front. The bench could then include Kone Gibson, Osman and Jelavic. with Stones, Robles and Oviedo amongst others.

In 45 minutes I can confidently say that Lakaku is the best striker I have seen at Everton since Lineker - the boy will go back to Chelsea and probably get to be their main man. As for us buying him - bids will start at 25 to 30 million (Lakaku really is that good) but Chelsea will not be interested.

Let's enjoy watching him whilst we can..

Chelsea by the way actually like us that’s why they GAVE us Lakaku. They think that this guy is so good, but 1 or 2 years from the real deal, they will loan him out. It was a lottery controlled by Abramovic.

Pick a club who is not a major threat, loan them a real potent striker, and hopefully they and he will inflict massive damage on our (perceived) enemies.

This, guys, is the real reason we have Lakaku in our side. Cynical? You bet! It’s all about money. Did anyone see by the way, the goal Cardiff scored against Spuds. It was a CARBON COPY of the night we played Villarreal and Papa dupe Reffed.

It's all about options and we have more now than we have had in many years.

Wouldn't be quite so negative on our chances of getting him permanent though : come May, what HE wants will have a lot to do with it:

Can see him scoring 20 goals and being thoroughly infected with the blue virus

COYB

On Saturday, Baines surpassed it.

I have seen much about Sheedy. Yes, he was excellent, but I don't think I have ever seen a more complete player in English football than Baines. He is a very good defender. Not the best, perhaps, but you would have to go back to the time when a full back was just there to chop wingers to get much better. Cole by contrast is normally out of position when goals are scored against England, wandering about and so the other poor sod gets the blame.

Winger? I remember Derek Temple being booted off the pitch by Dirty Leeds (that is the right name isn't it?) and the ref taking the players off – a better and more decent solution would have been to send half the Leeds team off: I remember Sheedy! Super winger, I remember Duncan McKenzie, the most intelligent (in football terms) British player I have ever seen, right there with Cruyff and Pele. Baines is almost as good.

Free kicks. The nonpareil! I do not believe I have ever seen a better taker of free kicks in world football. Stone cold on penalties, better than Beckham on the 25 yard, "wall in the way".

Overall, role for role, I am not sure I have ever seen a better player.

A win at Fulham now would boost the confidence levels to the max. We need to end our piss poor form there & get into the next round> We can win this League Cup now... we must believe & remain positive. COYB