Louis

The amount of money from the group stage alone would be substantial enough for them steamroller their domestic league surely.

He's at Ipswich Also.. he used to play drums in the Stereophonics

An oldie but a goodie..

Or go to Plymouth, Torquay or Exeter and pretend that they're Everton ?

How is that list decided?

He's on less than half that now Jim.. so the missing millions were nothing to do with Moyes as he has not started being paid that much yet... The missing millions IMO are all paid to the banks as interest on loans.

I think his hand was forced due to Jacobsen's injury and also the fact that we now have 2 proper midfielders. It'll be interesting to see who is first choice right back when Jacobsen recovers even if Phil Neville is our captain.

BBC have said it's nonsense. It turns out someone with an Indian accent rang Kenwright and it's a lot of fuss over nothing.* *This is an exaggeration

If this doesn't bring Mac, Pat and Liam back, nothing will.

He was never going to leave anyway. He loves us too much

mike, I've added a new option - any votes on him will be null and void though

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ton/7624326.stm Everton boss David Moyes has agreed a new five-year contract with the Merseyside club worth over £17m, BBC Sport understands. The 45-year-old Moyes, who joined Everton as manager in 2002, confirmed in July that he had opened talks on a new deal with chairman Bill Kenwright. The Scot is expected to sign the deal before the derby against Liverpool at Goodison Park on 27 September. Moyes, who has 12 months left on his current deal, has also managed Preston. The Scot, who has twice guided Everton to the Uefa Cup as well as the Champions League qualifying stages, has been linked with the vacant manager's job at Newcastle. Earlier this week he was charged with improper conduct by the Football Association after being sent to the stands during Sunday's 3-2 win against Stoke.

I'm torn between Jagielka and Anichebe who is getting better with every game now - he seems to do a lot more back tracking and tackling than he used to, Jagielka just tipped it for me though because he made a few crucial tackles. Castillo was also impressive. The goal would have looked better if the goalkeeper didn't get a hand to it though. I'm sure he'll fix that soon enough

He's just confirmed it on CityTalk.. Can you see him doing a job at Everton?

WTF?

I know Steve

That's a good link Donkey

Not you too, Steve

I am not disputing that Jim, if there were enough buses in the area and enough drivers in the area it would be possible. This is how stands for each home game (from home to a stadium). These figures are official by the way. Up to 115 coaches will be required to take 5,750 fans to the stadium and home again later. The maximum needed in 2006/2007 was 29 (average was 19). A minimum of 63 park and ride buses (maximum of 88) A minimum of 75 match day local bus services (maximum of 102) Taxis to make 475 trips (apparently on average, each taxi will have three people per cab so this deals with 1,425 fans before the game and 1,425 fans after the game).

No I'm not saying that DM, I said above.. the capacity at the station is limited to 3,840 per hour and Everton's consultants are saying around 4,260 in total will travel by train to Kirkby stadium. That's around 70 people more in total than currently travel by rail to Goodison Park despite there being 8,000 or 9,000 more home fans expected at Kirkby. Again less home fans are expected to walk to the stadium in Kirkby than they do to Goodison Park despite 8,000 or 9,000 more home fans expected at Kirkby.

A survey in 2003 suggested that the number of home fans who use the rail to get to Goodison Park is about 4,200. The forecasted numbers for Kirkby is slightly higher (around 4,260). I want to make clear that the capacity for Kirkby is LOCKED at 3,840 per hour. If the amount of people who wanted to use a rail service could use a rail service regardless of the capacity ceiling, demand would be a lot higher than the forcasted 4,260. It's because of the location of station (i.e. terminus on periphery of Merseyside) that more buses, coaches and taxis are needed to make the plan look viable on paper. To put the figure of 4,260 into perspective, a stadium in East Perth is currently being planned. They have four sites available for a 60,000 seater. Compare how they plan to make their stadiums work compared to Kirkby: http://www.majorstadiataskforce.com.au/get...mp;ObjectID=215 (page 2) The lowest number of spectators travelling by rail across the four sites is 20,760. Almost five times as many. Although bare in mind it is for a 60,000 capacity stadium, not 50,000 as Kirkby is, a better target would be 1/3 of supporters travelling by rail (16,000+), Kirkby still falls short dramatically. Kirkby Plan for home supporters Car / van 55% 26,071 Train 9% 4,266 Walk / Cycling 3% 1,422 Scheduled bus 18% 8,532 Coach / mini bus 12% 5,688 Taxi 3% 1,422 TOTAL 100% 47,401 Are you talking about Goodison with these regards to Sandhills, Maghull and Ormskirk? There's already a shuttle bus service from Sandhills (Soccer Bus)

Jim, EU or even local funding is not likely for the line because it's not used enough to warrant it. The station currently is used aprox 640,000 times a year. Add in 25 events (aproximate number of home games per season) each with 5,000 (optimistic forecasted numbers) people and it's 'only' 765,000, if Headbolt Lane station gets the go ahead the number will decrease because it means those in Tower Hill would use that station instead. Also Kirkby is the terminus for the Northern line, it joins onto the the same line that Ormskirk and Southport use further down. Frequency of trains is capped at 4 per hour (maximum of 6 carriages) unless Merseytravel decide they want to add new lines in Kirkby where trains can be stored and temporarily cancel Southport and Ormskirk services to cater for the stadium. That is very unlikely. Sefton Council and West Lancashire wouldn't be very happy that their services had been reduced to cater for a stadium in another borough, think about it A £3.7million upgrade is required for the station to meet the minal standards necessary for a rail station serving a major events stadium. The upgrade doesn't include additional tracks or platforms. I think one possibility would be to expand to Walton station to a similar style as Liverpool South Parkway meaning it catered for Kirkby line and Ormskirk lines (and made Rice Lane redundant because they're so close), but even then frequency of trains is still limited and when you consider Liverpool South parkway cost £30million to build, any new line between Walton and Kirkby would cost 'mega money' and again the upgrade of Kirkby station in addition to justify the stadium. The upgrade of rail infrastructure would cost more than the stadium and as there is no funding available, it would be up to the club to upgrade it and they couldn't afford it.

Interesting to see that they have secured a 67,000 capacity stadium (home of the Seattle Seahawks) for their first season in the MLS but have agreed to limit spectators to 24,000 for now. They've sold 16,500 season tickets already despite their first league game won't be until 2009. They have a larger shirt sponsorship deal than most Premier League teams (including Everton) and have managed to attract adidas into manufacturing their kits. They're also setting up their own supporters club in a similar way to Barcelona It's back by the co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen - they could be a real power force in the game at this rate. Most importantly Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) of cheers and erm.. Frasier is already a fan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Sounders_FC

Moyes said if he was wrong, he'd apologise to the ref and he said he'd hope that Mr Wiley would do the same if he thinks made a mistake. There's nothing wrong with that, I think Moyes has a touchline ban now which could see him in the away end () for Hull City.

Done and done