Our Touchline Commandant

Cant think of anything that would get the crowd & players "up for it" more than big Dunc prowling the touchline.

If you can't instil a sense of responsibility and endeavour during a week's training, then shouting and screaming from the touchline won't do any good either.

Martinez spends most of the match in the technical area barking at players and we saw how effective that was.

I believe where he fell down was in his utter incapacity to bend from his utopian belief of how football should be played. In the face of both player and fan revolt he ploughed on relentless in his optimism. You could see how he lost that as each pre match press conference and post match analysis passed, it just drained from him but the same platitudes and superlatives spilled from his lips.

Though I believe he was ultimately incapable of the job I still think he loved the club whilst here.

That aside, I am utterly with you. Big Dunc is the ultimate talisman of my 46 years on this planet. Not the most effective player in his latter years of injury and resorting to upper body tackling but him just being on the pitch was often enough. He and we need to exploit that passionate streak as much as we can

He looked passive and happy to be the BBC man (bibs, balls and cones) last season. He certainly didn't appear to be our warrior in waiting; he looked like he didn't want to rock the boat,just wanted to take his money quietly and clear the debts.

And as for Ferguson, he never ever put in 90 minutes himself. I recall his first game as captain, where he actually did give it full gas and was everywhere from the start, scoring two or three against Bolton. Trouble was he was dead on his feet by the hour. And I think that was one time the drunk actually layed off the booze for a bit.

I couldn't give a monkeys as to whether he does handstands or back-flips up and down the touchline for the entire 90 minutes or sits there staring at his TV screen, however, what I do want from the next manager and expect from any Everton manager is to have each and every member of the first team squad giving 100% towards the cause.

The cult of personality relating to managers is getting beyond a joke, they can't all be Messiahs or Pariahs depending upon the team's results. Great players make great teams, great managers get good players to perform above and beyond their natural abilities, we just have to hope that our next manager is of that ilk.

Seriously, I believe that he was so intoxicated with our "School of Science", and his heart related to it. Shame that he couldn't make it happen. I can only wish him well. Learn the hard lesson Roberto, PLEASE !

As unpopular as this may be, I believe that Roberto did far more for us than his predecessor did. Roberto inspired us to stop being grateful for fuckall. Like pit ponies in the sun.

We have EVERY right to aspire to challenge not only the "Skybabies", but the finest that Europe can throw at us.

OK so Roberto was a dreamer. He was. He is. But for fucks sake, I'm NOT going back down the pit of gratitude for another 22 fuckin years.

Fuck Moyes !
Fuck Kenwright !

I want MY Everton back !

You didn't deliver the dream Roberto, but you unshackled my misery, thanks. I'll ALWAYS remember you for those sunny days, shame that they were so very, very few.

As Randall P McMurphy said "I tried, at least I tried !".

I think that there is a FAR bigger moment upon our Evertonian history right now.

Do we become The EVERTON !
or do we
Succumb to being
Liverpools forgotten ?

I think that there is a FAR bigger moment upon our Evertonian history right now.

Do we become The EVERTON !
or do we
Succumb to being
Liverpools forgotten ?

Lee & Tony, he was just a good salesman and knew how to win fans over, just like Moyes and "The Peoples Club"

Ultimately he was stubborn to his philosophy and didn't get what we are about at all, even blaming the fans for the poor home performances .

The difference between successful and deposed leaders is...... acceptance.

Ultimately ALL leaders are brutally deposed with exceptionally few examples.
Usually with terminal consequences. "Extreme Prejudice".

How can you have been stunned by a sequence of events you got totally arse about face? Ferguson was declared bankrupt four years after returning to the club in a coaching capacity, not before and the role wasn't taken up, or offered, as a means to help him out of a financial hole. In fact, when he first came back to learn the ropes, working with the Academy kids and undertaking his coaching badges, it was off his own back, purely to gain experience and he did so in an unpaid capacity. Not with his cap out begging for coin.