royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
Think we will get a pen,here.
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Match Thread Everton Vs Dagenham & Redbridge - FA Cup - Third Round - Saturday 9th January - 15:00 KO
- Thread starter Sapie88
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Thouroughly expect us to make this match a million times harder than it actually needs to be.
1-1 'til the 89th min with Lukaku off the bench to bail us out again for 2-1 Everton.
Proper Everton that!
1-1 'til the 89th min with Lukaku off the bench to bail us out again for 2-1 Everton.
Proper Everton that!
Ace pictu... err, preview. As much as I like him that pic of Besic looks like he's in recovery from a gone-wrong pube-to-scalp hair transplant. The boss little Bosnian.Right then, so here it is, my first preview and FA Cup time. 21 long years now since ‘95, and 7 years since we got beat by Chelsea in the final. A day I vaguely remember after drinking a load of beer and almost pulling a bird from Wallasey. Anyway enough about my fondness for non-Scouse girls and on to Everton.
Are we doing alright? Is Martinez the right man for us? Why do they keep playing them fan songs at half time? Time to stop worrying about the league now, back to back cup games are what we have and in theory we should win at least one of them, and seeing as we’ve just seen off City in the first leg you know what’s coming... Everton that.
So, on to our opposition.
I’ll be honest, I know nothing about Dagenham & Redbridge, other than Dagenham is somewhere within the M25 loop and I’m assuming Redbridge is too as to have two places so far apart coming together as one team would be a logistical nightmare.
Oh and that a Dagenham Smile is slang for a workies crack.
So owing to my limited knowledge of our League 2 opposition, I have had to get some information from my girlfriends dad who supports League 2 mid-table battlers Carlisle. “They’re crap.”
Cheers Bob.
I’d best do some real research then. So they were founded in ‘92, 3 years before we last won something *sigh*. It seems they were involved in a match fixing scandal, they have two Trinidadians in their squad, one of which is the captain, and after reading the Daggers forum it seems they’re both off playing Haiti so may miss the game. Advantage Everton! Oh, our little mate Dwight "Crusher of Dreams" Gayle once played for them.
Apparently they have cheerleaders too, an American concept that I think is fatally flawed over here, imagine being sat there at half time and the County Road troupe comes bouncing out in their velour trackies, barely moving ‘cos they don’t wanna knock their rollers out, still better than those fan songs though.
In truth, they aren’t very good and I mean no disrespect to their 15 or so fans. They’re just above the relegation zone of League 2, they haven’t won a game at home and they barely scraped in to this round after struggling twice against non-league Whitehawk. Their history, admittedly small, isn't anything to really care about, started off non-league, promoted, promoted again, relegated, haven't budged.
But when has that ever stopped Everton doing an Everton? We’ve been here before, FA Cup, Third round, lower league opposition, Everton knocked out. We either laughed, cried, or just completely ignored it and decided the league was our focus. However this season it seems that the cups are taking over, we’ve got a toe in the final of the Worthington Cup and now it’s time to make a start in the FA cup.
On to the team, will he keep Joel in? How boss is Besic, you wouldn’t spill his pint would you? Gareth Barry despite his years still has it. Funes Mori gives me a tingle that I enjoy, my favourite Argentinian related thing since the Vulcan. You’d fully expect Martinez to run out a bit of youth here, maybe rest a few key players, and give game time to those needing it, I heard a rumour that Pienaar has been discovered in Bin Ladens cave. So expect last nights team to start again.
Alas that looks unlikely so, owing to the slight knocks a few of them picked up, Coleman seemingly suffering the worst, is Hibbert fit? I fully expect Besic to be starting again as his performance against Toure will leave him feeling pretty good at the prospect of facing James Dunn. Whoever starts RW though may find themselves in for a tricky afternoon against Justin Hoyte! Who to start up top if we rest Lukaku, is Rodriguez alive? You could probably give Ferguson a run out here. No doubt whoever we start we should be battering these, and you'd imagine we'll be in the pot for the 4th round draw.
So off we go, two cups in one season would be nice Everton.
Thanks for reading if you’re still here.
Love from Sapie x
Anyway, hopefully this match will come at the best time for our injuries to recover, seeing as a few players may not be available.
We should pound them for this.
TheAlmightyFloater
Player Valuation: £30m
Dagenham and Redbridge both sound like types of cheddar cheese so, based on that extensive analysis, 4-1 Everton.
JoshBarkley7
Player Valuation: £500k
I'd have this XI:
Joel
Holgate, Jags, Stones, Galloway
Besic, Evans
Mirallas, Dowell, Kone
Naismith
Joel
Holgate, Jags, Stones, Galloway
Besic, Evans
Mirallas, Dowell, Kone
Naismith
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
Disgusted with the lack of likes from the OP here, Should have been Carlisle Bob doin it 
streeky
Player Valuation: £35m
don't think you will be far away with that. except gaz baz for Gibson maybe and pienaar will show up sometime.
Great stuff. Just got back from seeing Morrissey in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
A young Terry Venables the cover star.
Chozz
Player Valuation: £5m
If he's as good as he was back in Championship Manager '98 then we should be concerned...hoping he's lost his mojo since...
Anyone who watches League Two will tell you the 'Daggers' are pish...but naturally they'll have the game of their lives on Saturday.
Despite that we'll eventually put them to bed. 4-1 after going a goal behind.
Should be an easy win. Probably an edgy 1-0 though. Good preview though.
Jeff Jones
Player Valuation: £35m
I don't think I'll even see the goals. ESPN have the rights this season where I live and are showing four matches - not us - and
even if there's a highlights package you can't fit 32 matches into half an hour.
Might be lucky in the 4th round.
It'll be interesting to see the team RM puts out.
Superb @Sapie88 I feel like I've been assaulted, yes ASSAULTED with world class previews from @chicoazul @ijjysmith and now this. Though at least with ijjys previews they actually lead to a win Chico!
Not sure what side we will put out but I'm going for a 3-0 win COYB!!!
Not sure what side we will put out but I'm going for a 3-0 win COYB!!!
Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £60m
Some cockney palaver to add to this splendid post Chico munificence. Dagenham - south of Romford, east of Barking, within both the M25 and the county of Essex. Once famous for it's massive Ford plant. ( like Halewood)
Dagenham and Redbridge are the ba**ta*d child of Leytonstone , Ilford (both giants of the Amateur game when the FA Amateur Cup Final drew 100,000 to the old Wembley) as well as Dagenham fc and Redbridge Borough.
They do play in Red and Blue stripes but you will smash them as Anthony Joshua would smash the bloke off " Big Bang Theory"
That is all.
Dagenham and Redbridge are the ba**ta*d child of Leytonstone , Ilford (both giants of the Amateur game when the FA Amateur Cup Final drew 100,000 to the old Wembley) as well as Dagenham fc and Redbridge Borough.
They do play in Red and Blue stripes but you will smash them as Anthony Joshua would smash the bloke off " Big Bang Theory"
That is all.
jolteon123
Player Valuation: £100k
Is that Anthony Evans the 16 year old striker?
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