Niall Quinn

What John didn't mention there was Dick missed a lot of pre-season preparation last year, Dick Advocate, and he came back at the last minute and it was all a little bit of relief just to have him.

But there was no real work done from now, from this point where we are.

And you can bet your bottom dollar Sam Allardyce is working on things already on all areas, whether it's transfer targets, the recruitment side, whether it's the statistics of his fitness and where the players can go and also the tactics.

And you just feel it's right now.

Yeah, absolutely terrific.

You know, there was a great feeling in the ground tonight.

The Chelsea result obviously made the fans here come with a load of hope.

And then all of a sudden they got this break.

Where they get a free kick, which I believe was a free kick, but just look here.

I still don't know why the Everton goalkeeper took this second.

He hasn't covered himself in glory tonight, has he?

Yeah, it's like there's no deflection there.

It never looked like it was going to go near a deflection.

And so they got that break.

That released all the tension in the ground.

It looks awful no matter what angle we look at it.

But, you know, the reality was it kind of, as the tension was released, it kind of opened the floodgates in the whole people's belief here and the players' belief.

And Sam is actually right.

Five or six was possible tonight.

Did that lead to the second?