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ToffeeTatts 7 via GrandOldTeam

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Some more Toffee Tatts! Thanks to everyone who is sending their Everton tattoo’s for the site.

We’re adding them in blocks in order they’ve been sent in – you can browse them all here.








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Behind Enemy Lines: Hull City via GrandOldTeam

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Ahead of Everton v Hull City, we spoke to Hull City fan Rob from @HullCityLive.

Describe Everton in ONE word.

Underachievers.

If you could immediately transfer one player from Everton to Hull – who would it be?

Lukaku is too obvious an answer I know but as a club who’ve been crying out for a striker for years, I’d have to take one who isn’t far off being genuinely world class.

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Do you think Evertonians should be pleased with Everton’s season so far?

I think it’s too big a club to accept mediocrity but given Koeman wasn’t able to bring in the sort of player you probably expected after the sale of the club and he’ll need to do that to really have an impact on the top 4 or 5 places. It is a bit of an opportunity missed – you lost and drew a lot of games before Xmas that I thought you’d win.

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How confident are you that Hull will survive relegation? Where do you think you’ll eventually finish in the league?

I think it’s going to be really difficult now. The recent games against Burnley at home and Leicester away were a really big opportunity that we missed and ended up in a really tough situation. We’ve got some decent home games and Palace and Micddlesbrough still have to play the whole top five so I’ve not given up but it’s looking unlikely.

If relegated – do you feel your current squad has what it takes to be bounce back?

It does if it’s kept together but that’s also unlikely. Vultures will be circling around Harry Maguire, Andy Robertson, Sam Clucas, Abel Hernandez, etc. Plus we’ve got six players on loan. It will be a tough job.

Thinking back to August – what would have been considered a successful season for Hull?

Probably just avoiding setting a new Premier League record low points tally! Relegation seemed inevitable with the threadbare squad and the failure of the owners to sell meant an unbelievable level of disinterest.

Tell us why a lot of Hull fans want Assem Allam out?

A lot of it goes back to the attempt to change the club’s name to “Hull Tigers”. Not just the idea itself but the stubbornness and disrespect he showed fans once it became clear the idea wasn’t popular. He outed himself as a bully and when he didn’t get his way he lost interest in the club. He left it to his son to run and he’s proven himself to be equally arrogant but considerably denser. They’d already removed concessions for disabled supporters which was a hideous move that didn’t get a lot of press and then last summer they did away with them for children and OAPs too. That was the final straw for a lot of people who’d actually stuck up for them over the divisive name change application and subsequent fan campaign. Leaving the team in the shape they did as the Premier League kicked off this season was just another “final straw” point for some fans. Hence the masses of empty seats at every game.

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Who is your player of the year so far?

Probably Sam Clucas. We’ve had some really good performers who’ve stepped up and taken the opportunities presented by injuries and selling players. Clucas has been the pick of them, for me. He’ll play anywhere and make a good job of it but he’s been particularly impressive in the centre of midfield playing as a ball winner. He doesn’t over complicate things and he works harder than anyone.

Your score prediction for the game?

2-1 home win. We rarely get anything at Goodison. And Gareth Barry normally crocks one of ours!

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Lukaku’s Everton Frustration via GrandOldTeam

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Romelu Lukaku has this evening expressed his frustration at Everton’s board for their failings in the transfer market.

Yesterday, reports claimed Lukaku turned down Everton’s offer of a new contract – swiftly followed by Everton majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri insisting “It’s not an issue” and “No-one should worry. He’s our player”

However, less than 24 hours after Moshiri’s effort to reassure fans, speculation on our forum and twitter suggested a pending news story with comments from Lukaku was under embargo for release at 22:30 regarding Lukaku’s future. At 22:30, the Liverpool Echo released an article with these quotes;

Asked about the level of ambition at Goodison, the 23-year-old said: “You have to have the attitude, you have to. Everton as a football club has a great history right.

“But the future has to be written. You get me?

“Because we always talk about the teams of the 80s and 60s and if you look it was great. But we as players we want the fans talking about us instead of us talking about them. No disrespect but you know what I mean.

“You want to be remembered as well. No matter where you play you want to be remembered.

“You cannot only be remembered by scoring goals, you want to be remembered by winning trophies at the end of the day.

“So instead of living in the past, you have to think ahead. How this club has to grow, how this club has to improve, which player does it want to bring in so you can challenge for the big trophies.

“Sometimes I will speak to Vincent Kompany who was at City when it all happened. He said, ‘Rom, one summer I just came in and boom, boom, boom, boom… Robinho from there, that guy came in, this guy came in, this guy came in (clicking fingers) and then everyone was criticising them but at the end they won league titles, FA Cup here, League Cups there.

“That is what we want as players.

“I don’t know, I don’t know what the board’s plan is. I don’t really know.

“Obviously stuff is changing and stuff is happening, but like I said there were some players that we could have got. That I knew the club could have got and they didn’t get. And they are playing in this league.

“I am not saying names, but they are doing well.

“It is a little bit frustrating but, at the end of the day, we have fantastic players. We cannot look at the others, we can only look at ourselves. We are the only ones to blame. We cannot blame the fans. We cannot blame the manager.”

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Romelu Lukaku questions Everton’s ambitions to ‘win big trophies’ via The Guardian

• Striker has rejected new five-year deal at Goodison Park
• Lukaku: ‘Instead of living in the past, you have to think ahead’
Romelu Lukaku has questioned whether Everton share his ambitions to win trophies and play Champions League football after informing the club this week that he has no desire to sign a new contract at Goodison Park.

Related: Romelu Lukaku stuns Everton with decision to reject new contract

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