Neil

Im always wary of Everton. Should be a good game but i'd rather win tonight than against you lot tbh. If we hadn't have picked up results-wise in the last 2 games I'd have expected nothing other than a Spurs win. But now I think we should be getting something. I'd take a point. And aye of course, tonight is one of your biggest games in modern history, surely? Depends how you look at it. In terms of playing with the big boys then definitely, but in terms of practical importance, not really. We've already done better than I expected, and if we lose tonight then that's just par for the course. We're still in a decent position to qualify. More to do with the grandeur of the occasion, yeah. Can you see yourselves qualifying? Presumably the Werder and AZ games are the biggies but it's surely not impossible you can get something from Inter at WHL? Fwiw, tonight I think it'll be a close defeat.

Im always wary of Everton. Should be a good game but i'd rather win tonight than against you lot tbh. If we hadn't have picked up results-wise in the last 2 games I'd have expected nothing other than a Spurs win. But now I think we should be getting something. I'd take a point. And aye of course, tonight is one of your biggest games in modern history, surely?

Thoughts ahead of the weekend game, KD? I'm desperately hoping tonight takes it out of a few of your players. I know of course they're professional athletes, but I can hope...

IMO you can criticise whoever you want, whenever you want. It's however a case of being rational in what you're saying and being proportionate. From what I've seen of Jonas, he does work hard yes, and goes on a few good runs, but equally he is rightly criticised for a consistently poor end product. Surely it is all about giving praise where praise is due, as well as discussing a player's weaknesses?

Said it once and I'll say it again, I quite like McCarthy. Consistently comes out with some crackers. Also, Piqiuonne is looking decent.

Hamann's eyebrows confuse me.

MOTD2 is cringeworthy to watch.

What's the actual reasoning behind getting a yellow card for taking your shirt off?

Man City look to have got extremely lucky today. Wrongly disallowed Blackpool goal, Tevez's 1st was offside and his 2nd takes a pretty big deflection.

Brilliant from Tevez for the 1st.

Apparently, Carragher at one point was having a right go at Torres (justifiably so), and Torres put his finger to his mouth 'shh'-ing Carragher.

Roy's lost his head. Poor Roy.

Early in the season. I'd be shocked if they're playing like this in 10 games time, probably less. If they are, then Holloway is a miracle worker.

I really dislike Man City, however the fact it looks like we could be seeing someone different making a sustainable title challenge is refreshing.

It could equally apply to both, I imagine.

Teams were equal as far as I could see. Heza and Kev were immense up front, some superb finishes. MOM though IMO was Duffy (I think it was him?) at the back for us - looked confident on the ball and ended quite a few Blue attacks. That said, everyone played their part. Good games all round!

It was a strange sort of match today; we were comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time. Howard didn't have much to do at all, but we sat far, far too deep from a ridiculously early stage - better teams will punish us. However I'm obviously delighted with the outcome and the desire shown by the players, especially in the opening exchanges. There was one passage of play where Liverpool couldn't get out their own half because all of our players were going to close them down. Hope the knocks picked up today aren't much as we're already missing Fellaini, Pienaar and Rodwell in midfield. Yakubu obviously wasn't fit enough to last 90 minutes however I thought he was excellent in the 1st half ('bulldozer' springs to mind), defence looks to be solid again, and I hope Moyes gives Bily some more playing time. It was evident immediately how much more quality he had than Osman (although he'd have to put a bit more into the defensive side of things). Overall, chuffed obviously. Tough game next week like (Spurs away).

I'd say so, yes.

Anyone hear Hodgson? He claimed he "didn't know how they lost..." :lol:

Hope it doesn't piss down overnight like, would rather wear my normal trainers.

This game is going to go down in history, as 'in 12 hours time.'

I've noticed a fair few on here and others I know relatively don't mind us, or even like us. To me, I can see why we'd be a likeable club - we don't have the money of quite a few teams (including some we've been finishing above in recent years) and there's a good work ethic about the team. Also the job Moyes has done is rightly lauded. Oh and I haven't answered the opening question. Newcastle, Tottenham and West Brom to name three. The latter is more this season. I used to get quite annoyed about how they essentially wasted a Premier League spot by consistently going up and down but they look to have a bit more about them this year, and they're a fairly uncontroversial team with a likeable manager. And they also try to play football well, from what I've seen.

Very mixed. He's really just played as the team has. Rocky start to last season, got better. Had a couple of poor performances this season. It depends a lot on how we want to use Heitinga. If we play Heitinga in DC alongside Jags, Distin doesn't get a look in. If we play Heitinga in defensive mid, how do we incorporate Arteta and Fellaini? I suppose it's a good choice to have, when all are fit. Haven't mentioned Rodwell who is injured as well.

Fuck's sake. Pienaar, Fellaini and Jags all out of Sunday, with the latter probably out for a couple of weeks. Have a bad feeling about the game - if we had a full-strength squad I'd fancy our chances but I really don't have a clue how it's going to go. I'm imagining something like Howard Neville Distin Heitinga Baines Coleman Arteta Osman Bily Cahill Yak

Couldn't care about you not liking us, James, but what sort of reasoning is that? Less class? Right-oh.