FA Cup — 6th Round

Oh and by the way Everton U21s drew with Birmingham City yesterday 1-1, Davis scoring the equaliser for us.

I think he was highly rated before this injury.

Bring them on.

Absolutely ordinary as.

Both Chelsea and Liverpool look shot. We might need to worry more about Brighton and Brentford.

All seater stadiums were a catastrophe for football. Imposed on us by the gobshites to make it like this.

If you showed a footy fan in the 80s this as the future, they would say 'Well, it's dead then, isnt' it.'

They collapse when put under pressure physically.

Liverpool being as crap as this will make Moyes more cautious when we play them!

They must have the highest percentage of drug users per attendee given their lowly status and small crowds.

Moyes will no doubt decide to deploy 6 centre-backs when we play Liverpool.

But I wouldn't bet against some miracle rejuvenation from the bastards against us.

Dirty Harry, he say, "Make my day, Motherfucker!"

Second most appalling soulless bowl.

How I would love a 5 nil scoreline - for us obviously. I've waited far too long for that. I may even kiss the Moyesiah's arse if we do!

He'll deserve a kick up his arse if we don't beat them!

Man City are pumping the Red Shite!

That's what half a billion on new players gets you.

Don't you get tired of continously having a dig at Moyes?

No, I didn't want him back either, but he's here now, so the least we can do is get behind him and the team.

Sean's out of work isn't he, maybe we should get him back in an advisory role, I'm sure he'd have us banging 6 or 7 in every game from now til the end of the season.

When the 4th went in, there were serious altercations at the bar with people shouting at the staff to change the channel.

Mard-arse cunts!

We thought we had a manager to take us forward with the defensive solidarity that Moyes has built -- and then it was 2 seasons of 47 points and 11th-place finishes before he was sacked by the new owner.

And how the Reds laughed. Well guys, Slot. Do we need to hold your beer?

'No! We want to see!'

We've got some sad people supporting us.

What a fucking pussy!

We should batter them cunts no matter who is in charge. Chelsea are better than them and we put them away. We have to take that mindset into the derby.

That one was pretty obvious.

The sad thing they're our fuckin bogey side.

Local rivals, you couldn't write it.

50 years since they beat Man Utd.

And thank you, Ben White.

Well-worked goal for the Saints. King Charles!

Well done, Saints -- enjoy your Wembley trip!

Well done, Saints, win at Wembley now.

Loaded them three clubs

Old Bill still has a long reach.

Do you think we should be in the semis?

Got myself confused after reading one poster write 500 times last week that it was impossible to win a trophy without Top 6 finances.

Would love to see a sideways Poznan at HD in a fortnight.

Yes... don't you?

That's a foolish post.

The thing that makes me think you're funny, Kev, is that I didn't think you were remotely bothered about the cups?

Do us a favour, Michael, stop putting threads on about the cups because you know some people aren't interested!

Would you be happy if we, say, for example, got to the Europa League semis next season and won a European trophy the season after?

But isn't it a coincidence that Arsenal had all their ‘injured players who withdrew from International duty' back and in the squad??

Would you like to see Everton do well in European competition in the next couple of seasons and win a trophy?

Tell me what's foolish about that.

I can't make my mind up.

Kevin is the only one who says he his not interested in the cups (he might say different because you are talking about European football) but I'm sure that anyone else would bite your hand off, mate.

In a couple of weeks, I'd love to beat Liverpool 5-0 but I'd take a 5-0 defeat if it meant Everton could win a trophy in the next two years.

In the European run over those two seasons, you'd be beaten just the once. Against Eintracht Frankfurt. But you'd have twatted Lyon 0-3 away. And beaten Fiorentina in a thrilling final. With a massive bus top parade too.

Hope you both have a great Easter Sunday.🥂

Mushrooms?

Our time is coming. I can feel it in my water.

I said the opposite - I'd rather twat the shite 5-0 and to hell with the other games.Does that make me bitter and petty?

I'd be interested how many would agree with me or with Tony?

That's why he missed that header last night.

I'd prefer a 5-0 win vs Liverpool, for us to win all our remaining games and win a trophy next year.

Does that help answer your question? :)

Some people have grown accustomed and thankful for small mercies and it has got to stop because this never used to be the Evertonian way.

No, I'll never get tired of having a go at Moyes. There's plenty left — I've got 11½ years to get out of my system. I gave him loads when he was here, wrote letters to him, always with my name, address and telephone number on them.

Strangely the first letter I wrote him was full of praise for his team who were unlucky to lose against us in a 2-0 loss in the FA Cup when he was manager of Preston NE, so I wanted him here as our new manager. It didn't take me long to suss him out, even when we finished 4th, with his backs-to-the-wall football.

You mention Dyche — I hope Moyes does the same as Dyche in his last derby game at Goodison when he had the team come out fighting from the first minute with controlled aggression and they were squealing like girls because they weren't getting a soft referee giving them all the usual easy free kicks with Van Dijk the biggest cryer.

I'd be made up if Moyes has a go like that — unlike the semi-final at Wembley when we came out for the second half with one thing in mind — to hold on to that 1-0 lead against a very poor and weak Liverpool team — and we threw the game away.

You didn't want him back so you know the Moyes I mean — the game is there for the taking if Moyes and his squad come out brave enough to give us the victory Moyes above all owes us.

I know you will be cheering as loud as all of us if he does, it's up to him to make us happy. Liverpool are really fucked at the moment let's give them another one.

Beat Brentford and Liverpool we are in a Champions League qualifying position with 5 games to play.

How he approaches the next two games will give us a perfect example of his positivity or negativity.

Its his career in a nutshell the next two games.

I was there at Wembley for that semi - I wouldn't put that on Moyes, we were doing fine until Distin's backpass. We were sat right about 20 yards from it. I still can hear him shout “Fuuuck” as their little weasel got to the ball.

We were three Evertonians in the Liverpool end, and everyone around us knew it after we'd scored. We copped a lot of grief that day.

Moyes played Mariane Gueye on the wing that day. The lad was over-awed, did nothing. We played with ten men for 62 minutes, I remember them well, before he took him off.

Liverpool had a poor team with a third-choice goalie, Jones from Australia. We had one shot at him in the second half, a weak shot which the goalie fumbled, we never tried to test him in the second half.

Just hold on to that one goal lead was his intention, like it was in many games.

I think a lot of fans thought like you though after that game because, when I got back on the coach, it was divided for and against Moyes.

Before I got on, I met a mate of mine who said to me “We could have wrote the script for that game couldn't we?” I just nodded my head in agreement.

That's straight from the horse's mouth.

We are on a roll but they are tough to beat on their patch.

I think it might be a good Idea if discussions about Moyes were cut, its getting boring going over the same guff time and time again.

Would it not be a more positive outlook to consider we are going for the Champions League this season, for the first time in 20 years?

It's amazing this sudden intense focus on the cups, and why we aren't in the semis instead of Southampton. In the last 10 years, I can't recall one discussion on why our progress in the cups has been poor. Cos we've had bigger, or should that be smaller, fish to fry, like staying in the league, and not going out of business.

But Moyes comes back, takes us ten places up the league, and that is all instantly banked, with barely a murmur of gratitude, and the narrative shifts immediately to 'if we don't get Top 8, he's failed'.

So I''m not going to frame our progress on what round we go out in in the cups, As everyone knows, it's a lottery. The Premier League is the thing. And guess what, we're doing just fine.

It's a rhetorical, and maybe silly question granted but 5-0 win v the shite and no other wins or 6 other wins and a 5-0 defeat by the shite?

I don't even live up there any more but I'd hide away for months if they twatted us 5-0 no matter where we ended up in the final table.

Penalty? No way!

A tremendous cross in and great finish. It would have been criminal for VAR to cancel that for a high boot... but it wouldn't have surprised me if they had!

I hate that they go back for a previous offside. I'm sure they never did that back in the day.

Good to watch.

Brentford is our biggest game since Doucouré scored and kept us in the Premier League in 2023, and if we win, then the games will just get bigger and bigger.

Who needs fans like that??

Meanwhile, we can just dream about next season under Moyes.

Mmmm... I wonder who we'll go out to next year. You can put your house on it.

The Palace game when Dominic scored the header, or the Bournemouth game when Doucouré's goal kept us in the Premier League, were unbelievable occasions for all the wrong reasons, whereas that Chelsea game was probably the last time Goodison really bounced for all the right reasons.

Some people crave stability, some people crave respectability, but for me, football has always been about trying to compete and win trophies.

Thoughts went back to the great times we had at Wembley.
Still the greatest domestic cup competition in world football for me.

Man City v Southampton
Chelsea v Leeds

What a surprise! 🤔

No one expects them to score two goals.

He doesn't help himself by cutting his own hair with a potato peeler!

I watched it in the pub; everyone was shouting for the Hammers. A great game -- would've been nice if there was a replay instead of penalties.