CB Fry

Mad Jack McMad.

I never stopped believing.

He's the Kinder player I'd go for. Sweet.

How many points do Everton need to mathematically finish 7th? 104?

Maybe you need to look up "reality" instead. Fingers crossed for Villa and Leicester getting them 56 points, eh.

You answered with factoids with no practical application in reality. Still, fingers crossed we get those all important 57 points to stay up - that's the number all the clubs are chasing for survival and no mistake.

I was asking a rhetorical question.

To clarify I would forget talking about who is in the final, it's about who wins it, if it one of those three we'll likely get a Europa slot in seventh (unless Liverpool finish eighth and win the cup of course, then they'd get it). A big two final allows us to know earlier, but not essential - the losing finalist can be anyone.

Is this another one of your theoretical factoids that has no practical application in reality whatsoever, much like your "all teams need 47* points to be mathematically safe" stuff from the other week? *can't remember what the number was, but it was a pointless one.

I said we'd score.

We are definitely going to score.

We are never, ever, ever going to score.

There isn't a glass ceiling. If we wanted to be the next Man City we could be - splashing several hundred million quid should do it, there's no glass ceiling stopping that. Wishing for that to happen is not "aspiration", though, it's just a lottery-winner dream.

As far as I can see you didn't mention Cortese in your original post anyway. ....... Edit: Sorry, now read the post above (which you didn't quote). Would disagree with the notion that Cortese somehow got loads of flak but the new regime don't. People seem to be forgetting Sky Sports, Daily Mail and co crawling up Cortese's harris. Where was all this "flak"?

You still have time to dig out irrelevant stories about people not being stabbed in tiny little old Hampshire, though.

Didn't realise anyone was fearing anything. Just a pointless idea.

Get behind the lads FFS.

Blimey. Why did they all vote for that crock of sh it? Was galling enough when we were in L1 but being drawn against, say, Fulham reserves in the JPS cup would have been horrible.

I used to like > Get behind the.......FFS. Originally "the lads" but became all manner of stupid phrases. Always made me smile. > We will walk this league. Self explanatory. Also evolved to various other things we will walk.

Guaranteed a game for Oldham when he gets out, anyway.

In fairness, not that many steps back in the last five years. Also in fairness we are never going to relentlessly move upwards until we win the league. The scenario you outline, to be honest, seems fine to me.

They've never given a place to the LC runner up.

You need to reconcile yourself with what "Champions League ambitions" actually meant, and what Les, Ralph and Ron have been saying all season. We were never going to go all out splashing the cash to crack the Champions League. It was never going to happen. We will do things sustainably, we aim to be "the best of the rest", and finish as high up the league as possible. Maybe Ronald should have signed a striker instead of Elia or Djuricic. Maybe. He didn't. That's a bit of a shame but I am delighted we didn't sign Defoe or Bent or some other panic buy. You can be disappointed but the club never said they would go all out beyond the credo of the club already outlined.

We don't have Jermaine Defoe.

We don't buy success, we breed it. We march on.