Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
He said favourite not best. His favourite player is no concern of yours.
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He said favourite not best. His favourite player is no concern of yours.
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The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
Hahaha I know I'm an oldie lol
Favourite player without doubt, but that does not necessarily mean the best player or that we played our best football with him in the team.
I loved the fact that he made the very best of his skills, never left anything on the pitch, was a complete pain to every opposition, totally "got" Everton and importantly appreciated the support he received.
In the context of his time at the club and where the club was in that time, he wins hands down for me - I would welcome him back in a non-playing capacity tomorrow.
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
What an odd reply.
not at all, you're saying Tim shouldn't be his favourite player because he's not the best player we have had.
I think The Esk replied succinctly enough.
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No, I meant it's an impressive statement to say Cahill is your favourite if you've seen the 1970/1984 teams. If you've seen those teams and Cahill is still you're favourite then it's a testament to just how much of legend Cahill is, that he's not just a second-rate 'modern-day hero' that I as a younger less priveliged fan have to cling - I liked the notion that how I felt about him (loved him, considered him a legend too) wasn't just relative to me having only seen the Moyes era.
So yes, I think you did misunderstand...
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Would have him back in such a capacity in an instant myself
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
ok apologies if i misinterpreted.
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
Nice post mate, well said...
I loved the 85 team, but I was a mere boy and the whole team were my idols, there wasnt anybody you could pick out and say "THEM", they were just all superb, maybe Big Nev cos of the length of his Everton career, but as I get older, Everton got poo, so players like Cahill and Duncan stood out and they became something to cling to, the same with Ross now, hes living all our dreams.
Does anyone else kind of wish he left a little sooner? His final season or so when we lined up with him and Saha up front was so toothless it made me not want to see him on the team sheet anymore. Still one of my absolute favourite players of all time and I absolute love the bloke and how he gets us.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
I love Cahill much more than is healthy. Up there with Bally, Royle, Dunc , Sheeds and Labone in my eyes
Partly down to Saha being NEA most of the time. I'll always remember when Tim lead the line for us while we had no strikers. Did a great job against defenders who had 5 or 6 inches and a couple stone or more in weight. I think that stint showed just as much about him as anything. He just took it head on and carried us on his shoulders. I'll even admit to being skeptical on him for a while because he was waxing lyrical about the club not soon after he arrived and it made me question if he was just trying to butter us all up but he went on to put his body where his mouth was and endear himself to just about every single Evertonian. Hope he has a stellar swan song in Brazil.
applecrumble
Player Valuation: £10m
I remember watching a montage of him when he was on the cup run at Millwall thinking he would be a boss signing and then we signed him and he turned out to be my favourite player since Big Dunc
evertony
Player Valuation: £50m
I shall say what everyone is thinking.....we have man-love for Tim Cahill and we're NEA who knows.
When someone asks what epitomises Everton....Tim Cahill would be a perfect modern day two-word response.
Never forget the night in Nurnberg.....1000's of Blues singing outside the team hotel when the boys were boarding the coach to head to the ground, and there's Tim and Jags stood up in the coach taking pictures of all the blues, amazed at the size and noise of those gathered there. I've stayed in that hotel 3 times since and ask them each time " for the room thatTim Cahill stayed in".....
When someone asks what epitomises Everton....Tim Cahill would be a perfect modern day two-word response.
Never forget the night in Nurnberg.....1000's of Blues singing outside the team hotel when the boys were boarding the coach to head to the ground, and there's Tim and Jags stood up in the coach taking pictures of all the blues, amazed at the size and noise of those gathered there. I've stayed in that hotel 3 times since and ask them each time " for the room thatTim Cahill stayed in".....
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
This is what Everton does to us all.............
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