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James Beattie

Isn't scary how quickly the James Beattie transfer went through! No medical snags, personal terms issues! Fucking Hell! Good Luck James! Graeme Goodwill. (07/01/05)

David Moyes

I thought I would take the time to once again salute davey moyes for, what I think, is an excellent signing in James Beattie. I have heard people say he's not the man but over the last few months its clear to see what were lackin....A GOAL SCORER. Even Beattie himself acclaimed the amount of chances created in the second half against pompey had him creaming in his pants. He will make a massive difference and if Moyes can get the best out of him we could see 10-15 goals in the 2nd half of the season, that alone could fire us into europe. If davey can lay his hands on another classy midfielder and maybe a winger, with the way were playing we could be smelling the champions league come may.

I heard a rumor at the pompey game in the lower gladdy that the £9million sale of yobo will fund a double swoop for Matt Dawson and Andy Reid from Forest. Unlike most Evertonians I think this would be a good move. Yobo is world class and I would love to see him partner dawson but look how good we have done without Yobo!!!! Would it be the end of the world to loose with the a double ya money profit margin???? I doubt it. But after all said and done Davey Moyes' signings (richard wright apart) have been excellent signings as well as value for money. In david moyes we trust and there is a very bright future in store for everyone associated with this club. He is getting legendary status at the moment but I wouldn be surprised if Moyes becomes one of the biggest heroes this club has ever seen. Mangers like him don't come along to often and I also think Kenwright deserves alot of plaudits for bringing him hear. Could moyes really be another wenger or ferguson, who knows???

As for Joe 90....director of football my arse just to lose one of the best managers in the game. If I was you Joe I would stay away from moyes after that comment

happy new year and great site lads. DOBBO THE BLUE. (07/01/05)

The New Year

It's been a while since my last e-mail, the beginning of November I think. I waffled on about Nov and Dec fixtures and that 27 points were available and that all we had to do was, Blah Blah (same old same old), Oh and yes I did write on a glorious Monday morning after that glorious derby victory against "Kirmizi Boklar", still think the German is the best, you might remember I had no one to talk to because I work from home.

Well Jan 2005 is here, and where still there (top 4) and checking the forthcoming fixtures I believe we might still be there at the end of Feb. Ok, Christmas wasn't that good 2 wins 2 defeats but think of Christmas gone by, bad times, bad times. We are close to 2/3rds of the season gone with only 16 games to go, back in November I talked about taking 15-17 points from the 27 available (17 points taken), so my theme is to be the same. If we can,as a team, and I mean the players and staff, and us the supporters, can continue to maximise our ability's both on and off the field, great support in London over the hols, then working on batches of 2 months might keep our ambitions reasonable. Leaving the Portsmouth game out, as it was classed as a Christmas match, Jan and Feb has 18 points available and checking the actual fixtures I believe we can take 11 points from these games. 11 points gained by the end of Feb will put us on 54 points with, and I believe it will be enough, just 10 points required to claim 4th place. low 60's has been enough for the last few seasons I want to rattle on about how easy it's going to be to claim 4th spot but we all know that life and football is just not that simple so I will kerb my enthusiasm and restrict myself to 2 months fixtures, here's to a minimum of 11 points.

On a sadder note I had family up from Suffolk over the hols (sister's husband) supports Ipswich and of course he reminded me of September some seasons ago when the tractor boys duly ploughed us into the ground with a 3-nil victory at Goodison, I had to go the pub with him after the game and then take him back to my home for my sons 18th birthday party. The bastard spent the night running around the garden kicking a ball a scoring goals, drinking all my good whisky (and anything else he could get his hands on) and was as drunk as an Evertonian in December (re Derby). The neighbours complained to the police, who duly complained to me, I complained to him, and he just kept on singing. he was eventually taken home by my sister and says it was the best day of his life (beating EFC at Goodison with all his blue extended family in tow). The sad part is that he attends A.A now and has not touched a drop for 3 years, we don't talk about Whisky, we don't talk about larger, we don't talk about drinking at all, we don't even talk about that day in September, He's changed. But it's not the drink, Oh no, it's the fact that every time I see him I say, do you remember that time you were in the prem.
He just shut's up and say's nothing. I liked him better drunk.

Keep the faith and keep saving for that first Euro away game (my tins getting heavier). Peter Manning. (07/01/05)

Joe90

What a joke of an article by Joe 90 What he is implying is that Everton do a Portsmouth and employ a David Pleat type person to deal with transfers and such like. I know what Moyesy's view on that would be. The same as Harry Redknapp's. He also makes a point of saying people at Everton should go on this site to find out what real fans think. I agree but there are also other sites and he certainly has not got the brains to be called a real supporter! beditarlochan. (04/01/05)

THE BLUES SO FAR...

Just read the email from Martin Hughes (4/1/04) oops sorry 4/1/05,, but reading what he has written I thought it WAS 04!!... He's gotta be a red or one of those always downbeat toffeewebbers who don't give credit where it's due...
We're 4th...fckin 4th for christ's sake, maybe he wants us to be 4th from bottom so he could say I told you so ..Everton are shoite... and as for the Moysiaah, if we finish 10th he'll have worked a minor miracle... but I think a full blown miracle is on the horizon with a european place in the offering. Now I don't particularly agree with or like MBE's constant diatribes against his fellow blues, but I gotta say that this Hughsie fella gotta be a paid up member of the Melldrew Tendency!!!

Anyway... been shopping in the jan sales and bought a signed copy of a book by a true footBALL man and a legend to us toffees (an if ya don't know who I'm talkin about you must not have been chosen yet)!!...just the introduction and 1st chapter puts football and life in general into perspective..SO ENJOY THE GOOD TIMES WE BLUES ARE HAVING NOW..FCUK WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS... DID MARTN HUGHES NOT FEEL WHAT WE ALL FELT AFTER THE WIN AGAINST THE REDSHOITE!!! COYB. Tommyg. (04/01/05)

Transfer Targets

I would like to see us go for david thomson at blackburn to give kilbane a break and some serious competition for his place. We must sign ashton from crewe be no use kicking ourselves in a couple of years saying we should have got him. Naysmith and Mc Fadden straight swap for Ball at rangers who would bring some relief to the back four and if tommy goes we need an instant replacement, as the second half of this season is going to be very different from the first and if were to hang onto the leaders we need to be properly equipped with hungry players who want to win otherwise all the other shite will gradually catch us up and overtake us and anything less than top 5 will be a disaster. Chris Simpson. (04/01/05)

Transfer Window Thoughts

As the January transfer window commences may I wish all my fellow Evertonians a very happy New Year, and may 2005 be a great year for our club! In particular I wish the bluekipper.com team well and hope that your hard work in representing a vast spectrum of opinions, ideas and cries from the heart will be rewarded with some Everton success on the pitch.

I sometimes wonder if anyone working for the club ever logs on to bluekipper.com It should be mandatory reading for the club officials because it gives them direct contact with their grassroots support and it might just give them a bright idea or two. All of which leads, very immodestly, to a suggestion that I believe would improve us a club and help David Moyes improve us as a team.

In David Moyes and Alan Irvine we have the best management team in the Premiership. Would you swap them for anyone else? But when we refer to a “manager” we really mean “coach”, and certainly when I think of Moyesy as a great manager I do so because I see him primarily as an outstanding coach. The season so far underlines that. However, I worry that when it comes to times like this transfer window, DM’s ability to concentrate on what he does best is diluted. The Beattie transfer seems to have gone very smoothly but we don’t know how much time DM had to put in over the last days of December to ensure that the deal would go so smoothly in January. The link is obvious – when DM the coach is not able to focus solely on the team, the results suffer. The proliferation of agents complicates matters even more for modern managers. We all remember last Summer and the time that DM had to waste with Mr Stretford.

It is time for Everton FC to recognise the very special coach it has in David Moyes and provide specialist support for him to do what he does best. Just as the title “manager” is a misnomer, then the self-aggrandising “Director of Football” is even more misleading. David Moyes is the Boss and does not need a director of football. But he could do with a “football business manager” to take a lot of weight off his shoulders. I am thinking of someone like Peter Reid, steeped in the Everton tradition and well connected throughout the game. If DM identifies the need for a certain type of player it would be Reid’s job to present the options and to close the deal. We all win because DM is not distracted from team affairs and we would have a Peter Reid on board to monitor player availability constantly.

EFC needs an appointment like this at this moment in the club’s history in order to develop further. Keith Wyness has made a decent start as Chief Executive but he should concentrate on growing the business and providing the club with a world class stadium, while Bill Kenwright, unfortunately, seems incapable of translating good intentions into actions. Neither of these can give DM the practical player related support that a Peter Reid could bring to the party. The football business manager would work in tandem with Chief Executive to ensure that players whom DM wants to keep are happy with their contracts and both would work to generate and invest funding in strengthening DM’s squad.

As I write confirmation of James Beattie’s move to Everton is coming through. I have to admit I am not altogether sure about him, but I am delighted to see that he has chosen Everton even though Villa apparently offered him more in wages. This suggests a bit of ambition to achieve something and maybe a bit of passion for playing in the Royal Blue Jersey. If only the player he is set to replace had displayed more of those qualities instead of the macho posturing that required him to remain permanently the club’s highest earner while not even having the commitment to his Everton team mates to keep his aggression under control. Can you imagine a meeting this week between DM, Keith Wyness and Peter Reid where they agree to pay Ferguson off, Wyness makes another £6m available and DM and Reidy agree to go out and get Robbie Keane as an ideal partner for James Beattie? I can.
JOE 90. (04/01/05)

The sky is the limit

Great start! Signing of Beattie. The wheels are in motion. Everton will sign quality players to make us a team for the next step forward. We cannot hope to compete at European games with the small squad. It's going to be a wonderful summer of spending. COYB. John Lea. (04/01/05)

Tradition

So even after a tonking by Spurs the Blue Boys are still fourth with half the season over. And since Charlton gubbed us too the 'bubble has burst'. What bubble is that, by the way? The one the redshite would love to be in? Half the season gone and in fourth place? Some fucking bubble! It's great to be a Bluenose. We claim, rightfully of course, that we don't choose, we are chosen.

Anyway, on the theme of being chosen I started thinking about my Dad, Joe Latham. Joe, a great Evertonian, passed away 2 years ago this week, but from the day I could talk he made sure that I could say 'Everton'. He was 75 when he died, and like most old timers he had some great Everton memories, in particular of the great Tommy Lawton, his hero. Joe was adamant that, because Lawton could jump onto a pub bar from a standing position, that made him 11 foot tall - which is why he could head a ball downwards onto the bar. Everton was his obsession, I'm proud to say - but that's all part of the deal we make with God when he chooses us. God even made sure that Our Lady wears blue. And, for that matter, important people in the Church are called 'Dean' - what more proof do you want? Just before Joe passed away in hospital he got the nurses to change the sheets to blue and white ones, and when they came to take blood with a red turniquet he told them 'Don't put that near me, I'll only bleed if you give me a blue one'. RIP, Dad - and thanks.

Joe's uncle saw the incomparable Dixie in all his pomp, and swore to God that Dixie 'could get to balls that an eagle couldn't reach'. He always carried a picture of Dixie in his top pocket, and he was showing the picture to his mate one night when he came out of the pub. But it was raining and he dropped the picture into the gutter. So he lay down next to it in the pissing rain and said, 'If it's good enough for you Dixie, lad, it's good enough for me.'

I know some of us (like me, obviously) get carried away by our tradition, but it's that tradition that has forged us in the Everton fires. We all have Everton stories about dads and uncles, and it's grand to see that they have passed the Everton torch down the generations, as we will do with our kids. And those of us like me lucky enough to have seen from the great 60's sides on will have some wonderful memories despite all the dross. But hey, Chelsea, Arsenal and manure have seen dross too, don't let anybody tell you otherwise - there WAS a football world out there before Sky, and EFC was a major player. Be thankful that you are Chosen, and listen to those old timers when they pass on their Everton memories. After all, we'll all do the same one day.

Tradition is not everything but without it a football club is nothing. Our day will come.

Happy New Year to all you Chosen Ones. And fuck the redshite. Kevin Latham. (04/01/05)

Spurs Game

I have just watched Everton get hammered on RTE television. Dreadful. Truly dreadful. And Moyesy thought before Xmas we didn't need to buy new players! Here's my villains of the piece today.

1. Pistone. Poor, very very poor.
2. Yobo, a lazy shite. Sell him.
3. Weir..couldnt get a grip on the game.
4. McFadden, even despite his goal I think he is utterly overrated and not worth the money we paid. He broke after every tackle on him, a chocolate legged Scotch git.
5. Last but no means least Richard Wright, words fail me. Come back Nigel asap.

On a bright note Tony Hibbert (as usual) played his heart out for the club. The others were indifferent even the mighty Grav.

Bring on Beattie and while were on the subject of transfers why not shore up the squad with some new signings in defence and midfield. Players that will tackle hard and work to the max. When you look at lazy shites like Pistone and Yobo you wonder about all the money the club is chucking down the drain. Henry Mcdonald. (04/01/05)

World class.....not second class

As an Evertonian who like others has suffered some shite over recent years.....Nyarko/Brett Angel being just a couple, I don't want the like of lilly Savage and James Betty, they are simply not good enough for our club.

Why are'nt we in for Morientes and f-ck the red shite..he is proven class....what of Benny 'the ball' McCarthy, what happened with that deal. Moyesy should know by now to buy class first, and then pack the squad out with grafters.......Grav won't stay if there are no world class players around him and could you blame him?

Shaun Teale(wigan)....Dawson(forest)....Ashton(crewe)...Bents brother(ipswich), get them in on the cheap give them a go!

Stubbs/Weir are knocking on.....lets look to the future with a fairly young squad, and if they gel like the teams of the eighties, we'll have sustained success, and not just one good season in ten! Happy big ears... Mal Van Schaick. (04/01/05)

Bohs?

There's a rumour going round Dublin that there might be a friendly in March against Bohemians fc in Dublin. Have you heard anything about this? Many thanks, great site. Jimmy. (04/01/05)

And If You Know Your History

The club's board constantly remind us that they are as proud as we are. Then, in the light of new financial backing, they are about when given a guilt edged opportunity to buy an amazing testament to that history. I am gob smacked at the smallest glimpse of that collection, the hairs on the back of my neck went up looking at the ledger entry on the naming of Goodison, Alec Young's transfer letter and the Cup winners cup medal..... surely this collection would make an excellent museum opportunity where we can showcase the longest heritage in the land, and the most complete football club memorabilia collection. Away fans will go and see it as well as us, the entry fees will bring in money.... we are crying out for good marketing/retail strategies and opportunities to give the club more profile. That collection belongs with Everton where it can be enjoyed, boasted about and shared by all blues. If this was anyone else Dr France's hand would be snapped off. Get a grip Wyness, this is your first lesson in what being a part of Everton is about. And thank God David France is a blue... and a patient bloke. P.S. Who let the sh1te reps in? Mark Warren. (04/01/05)

A Sense of Realism

Come on guys. OK, we're doing alright but surely the number of scrappy wins we've had and ground out draws doesn't look too different to last season. Only then, we didn't have the bounce of the ball/run of the green/other cliche, whereas we have this season.

I would suggest that progress can only really be measured by results against the top teams. If we say the big guys in the Premiership are; Chelsea, Arsenal, Man U, RedShyte, Newcastle, Villa/Boro/Spurs, the rest are just rubbish. Therefore, against these teams we lost against C, A, and Spurs and scraped draws with Man U & Villa. That's not a great return against teams we should be competing with. One Nils against Brum, Fulham etc didn't really get me on my feet thinking this is the way to go boys!! We should be thrashing their like and putting them in their places as relegation fodder - at least 10 teams.

So come on, don't get too excited and calling Moyesy the Messiah just yet. Lets see if we can in a few big matches and come April who knows what we are left to aim for. Can't wait for the derby. If, and its a very big if, we beat them, then I'll change my tune. Doesn't Souness sound like a scratched old LP - forever moaning about decisions that have gone against them.?

Mourinho at Chelsea was funny. What does he expect that he can't here his 36,000 fans when his dugout is surrounded by away fans? Yes, we toffees there did make some noise but nothing really special. Never seen that before. Blue for Ever, keep up the good site etc. Martin Hughes. (04/01/05)

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