Everton – Howard's Way trailer released

I cannot wait to see this.

Its everything that's missing from the team we currently have but I'm looking forward to showing my lads what growing up as a kid supporting the blues was like in the 80s.

I thought it would never end.

Brought a tear to my eye watching that trailer. A brief reminder of a time and a team that had my blue heart bursting with pride. I had a fringe an all back then. Magical days to be a bluenose, all too brief in the end sadly.

A class act, will always be remembered, the team he built.

Not being able to play in the European Cup was the biggest travesty.

Me too, Barry.

Trip after trip to Wembley. Always felt it would never end but then, as always, the RS put the mockers on us.

Let's hope the young supporters get at least a taste of that in their lifetime.

I was lucky as a 7-year-old...being taken to Goodison by my dad in the early winter of 1963. Guess what... though I was too young to appreciate we were Champions...we were beaten 2-4 by Blackburn. But by 1967, I knew everything that was happening... then... after 1970 the flat lines commenced.

So this film captures the years of the long-awaited resurrection... those brief clips instantaneously bring/ brought back all those past times in an instant. The voices... images... scenes... god it's as if it was 5 years ago... instead I'm not 28 anymore but 63...where does the time go?

I believe this club wallows too much... far far too much in yesteryears past achievements but...unlike 1968-70 we have the film... the images... the voices to bring it all back home...not for old romantics like me...but for those youngsters who dread that they will never see such events in their lifetimes. Please god they do because you know what... there's nothing bloody well like it when it happens.

So... although I'm against us living in the past and look forward to the new order eventually... I'm going to try see this in the big screen...if only to remind myself that we WERE big once... and for others we will be once again!!!!!

(And then. just...just for one sweet moment I'm getting positively optimistic again... fucking Duncan Ferguson appears... off Uncle Cyril's handlebars... to crash all those warm cozy feelings and remind us of the horrid present like to pop my bubble of positive waves)

Now I've woken up again!!!! Ah shit!!!!

As a 39-year-old London Toffee, mixed feelings about this. I'm still really pissed off travelling 5 hours up and 4 down in a car to watch that crap on Saturday, one of the most decrepit home showings of recent times but even setting that aside are we still cherishing these fleeting memories which are now 35 years old?

Yes, great for those who lived through it but the absolute dross that has followed is a homage to mediocrity and those fans who enjoyed the good times are partially to blame for the bad.

It was a garbage atmosphere at Goodison on Saturday. Fans nervous and hostile when we kept possession at the back and easy to see why the players get affected. No passion and an empty stadium at 0-2 down to a pub team with 10 mins to go.

Howard's Way?

Bitter sweet. I’ll enjoy it but it reminds me of a special Bob Wilson did about great sides when I was a kid. It featured Jackie Milburn, Nat Lofthouse etc. I remember thinking “hahaha these losers in Bolton and Newcastle are still having to bang on about success from 30 years ago”

I wonder will we get the horror sequel "Billy's way" in due course.

25 years of mediocrity and suffering while he trousers 40m and still runs his trainset.

My worst season as a blue is still 85/86 when we lost the double to that lot. Anyone else and it would have been bad enough but I remember being totally gutted at the seeming inevitability of it all, as it happened often before then and it has continued in spades since! Definitely my lowest point as a blue. For me it even spoilt the success either side of it. Plus we still managed to mess up and lost a league cup final and 3 fa cup finals (4 defeats and 3 of them on the biggest stage to that lot over there). Tainted it all for me! Rose tinted look backs do not tell the whole tale and make us look like the saddos living on past glories from a bygone age that we are. I was glad I saw us win stuff and I will now take cover!

The reason why the documentary film is being made is to recognise a great team and a great manager, in the same way that Forest have done about Cloughie for example. It is not about nostalgia for its own sake or to gloss over the present.

I will probably go to see this out of pure nostalgia. However, at the same time, I wish we would stop looking backwards all the time. Always re-living the past drags our club back. Fantastic times and great memories but I want to look forward. I'm 66, would love to see another few trophies, am looking forward to my seat in the new stadium and will be more than chuffed with a victory tonight. Tradition is important but more so the future!

Should make this current bunch of wasters sit down and watch it. Let them see what it REALLY means to play for this great club.

amazing how you can feel such affection for somebody you've never met