Love your optimism, but there’s really no chance Everton gets to qualify for super league.
In case it wasn't clear enough from the last 400 pages - we don't want it.
The Super League is everything that's wrong with today's football. We don't want that taint. We want the game to be pure as the driven snow, even though we know it's impossible. We can't get the money out, but we don't have to monetize every last red cent.
We believe it's possible to regulate the game in such a way as to be responsible stewards of the game and support the grassroots. We believe that our club was founded on values, and that such stewardship has become one of them. We believe in family, and taking care of our own, that nothing but the best will do, that part of that "best" is our values and that we're obligated to fight for them.
We believe that people and players become part of the Everton family not through what they say, but through what they do. We believe that once you become an Evertonian you're a part of the family for life, because once you accept those values you're not turning your back on them.
Our heroes are flawed. Our assistant manager is a club legend that literally did time for his actions on a football pitch. And we love him, because he's the kind of guy that gave 100% within the rules, broke them when he felt it was necessary, and still today finds the time to send an F-bomb laden video message to a school kid who's been slacking to tell him to shape up. He's not a conceited ball of ego like Gerrard. He's real.
This is why we don't care what the RS say. They don't have those values. They believe in winning at any cost, that whoever dies with the most money wins, that today's results are all that matter and to hell with tomorrow. So what they say doesn't matter, because those differences are so fundamental that we can never, ever agree on how to judge things.
As a foreigner that has been to the UK but never spent a minute in Liverpool, I don't think I fully understood the fault line that divides Liverpool until today. But today I do, and I'm grateful that serendipity in the form of the US players that happened to be at the club brought me here. I'm proud to be here today.
So your lot can go to off to your little clique and play footy together if you think more money will make you happier. We'll stay right here. Part of me thinks we'll miss the rivalry, but another part of me thinks it was past time for a parting of the ways.