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Positive thoughts thread

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Much along the lines that you've already mentioned @toffee matt:

Finally we have assurances on investment and hopefully Moshiri, and whoever else he brings in, will help raise the fortunes of our club.

From that, hopefully the stalemate regarding the stadium issue may now be resolved, or at least there's a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.

Two semi-finals in a season with one we're still in so the potential for much needed and desired cup glory. It's been a long twenty-one years...

I'm off to Wembley in a few weeks (not proper Wembley - that's just for the final), therefore there's a good day out on the cards.

The squad, while not complete and looking slightly lacking at the moment, is still arguably the best we've had in many, many years.

From all accounts there's a fair few talented younger players who are on the brink of the first team or are coming through the ranks.

We should have more money than we've had in a generation to spend on new players to help strengthen the squad combined with the above.

Leicester have shown that any squad, regardless of their overall quality, can compete with the big boys. That brings some hope!
 

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In actual fact, it's a vary apt thread as being positive and having self-belief are two attributes that appear lacking around the club.

I thank back to the halcyon days of the late 1960's and then the mid 1980's when Everton - the club, players and fans - were positive and believed. At times, even in the Gordon Lee era !!

We didn't fear opposition clubs and teams, we afforded them respect, but not fear no way !!
We went into games, every game, to win and if we couldn't win, we'd compete and give of our best.
The mental approach was right.

Too often in the last twenty years, we have gone wrong mentally.
We have gone into games with the 'knife to a gunfight' or 'glad to get out alive' thinking prevailing in the players and fans mindset.
As a club, we've grown far too accustomed to and almost accepted losing to Manu, the RS, and Arsenal that a draw is seen as almost a reason to celebrate.

Mr.Moshiri, as well as addressing commercial activities, investigating stadium options and protecting/enhancing the playing staff and maybe making a managerial change, in my opinion needs to bring to the club some top sports psychologists to work with EVERYONE about replacing the ingrained negativity and lack of belief with a positive and winning mentality.

Some will argue for and some will argue against that the late, late Inchy equaliser at Oxford as having been the over-riding factor that turned Howard Kendall's Everton from competitors into winners - whatever it was, Howie struck gold and our club did turn almost overnight back to what it had been in the 1960's - a powerhouse club.

We can pull the RS from pillar to post over their cultish behaviour, and the undeniable fact that but for Heysel we would have gone on to dominate for possibly some considerable length of time... but the one thing they have over us in abundance is an absolutely inordinate level of self-belief.
You can call it entitlement if you like, but I'd go so far as to suggest that since 1971 and that damned semi-final loss at Old Trafford to them, they have never gone into any derby since thinking they wouldn't prevail, possibly not even in those halcyon days of the mid 1980's.

@Khalekan @Dario Terracotta @The Esk @Joey66 @oldblue @Woolly Blue @anyone-in-their-late 50's/60's
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