Royal Blue

There was only one place for the Royal Blue podcasters to start today - Sam Allardyce's press conference.The Everton boss revealed he'd held positive talks with the club's major shareholder Farhad Moshiri and had been given the clarity over his future he wanted.Blues' reporter Phil Kirkbride was at Finch Farm to hear Allardyce speak confidently about managing at Goodison next season and hosted today's podcast.He was joined by Sam Carroll and Adam Jones to discuss Big Sam's words, why some fans are sceptical about what he said and why clarity from the club remains vital. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a results business - and Big Sam has just ground out two more solid results. But some Everton fans still aren't satisfied. Everton correspondent Phil Kirkbride, Head of Sport Dave Prentice and Royal Blue regular Gavin Buckland reflect on the victory over Newcastle and discuss the Big Sam conundrum. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the post-Swansea analysis. And Dave Prentice, Chris Beesley and Gavin Buckland try to work whether the draw at the Liberty Stadium really was a "big, battling point" or whether Everton were too conservative by far. Once again. They also discuss Tim Cahill's searing analysis on Sunday morning about a club which has lost its identity. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's plenty of disagreement in our post-derby fall-out - but one thing Dave Prentice, Tony Scott and Gavin Buckland are all in agreement on is that Everton missed a MASSIVE opportunity to end that dreadful derby drought. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a long time since Everton have celebrated a derby win. Too long.But does a derby win against a second string Liverpool team even count?You bet it does!Head of Sport Dave Prentice, Adam Jones, Sam Carroll and Royal Blue regular Tony Scott preview the 231st Merseyside derby.You might even hear some optimism! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our Royal Blue podcasters do what the Toffees singluarly failed to do on Saturday night - and gave it a go for almost half-an-hour. But was it a case of Manchester City being superb. Or were Everton awful? Head of Sport Dave Prentice, Chris Beesley, Adam Jones and Gavin Buckland try to find the answers. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's international week - yes that interminally dull period when we count down the minutes until the next 'proper' match.OR, discuss who Sam Allardyce should keep or sell this summer! We carried an Echo Keep or Sell poll this week, with some obvious results (no-one wants to keep Kevin Mirallas or Ashley Williams) and some less obvious.Dave Prentice, Chris Beesley and Adam Jones discuss the findings - and throw in a few ideas of their own. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Dan Meis says, there's a "heavy debate" going on about the capacity of Everton's new stadium. Everton Reporter Phil Kirkbride is joined by Gavin Buckland and Adam Jones to pour over Meis' Twitter messages to supporters, talk through the results of the survey and debate - and debate some more - the pros and cons of various capacities. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Tony Evans, Head of Sport Dave Prentice and Liverpool correspondent James Pearce discuss the season Everton and Liverpool battled for supremacy on the pitch - and how the city came together to battle the impact of Thatcherism off it. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Royal Blue podcast was full of Turkish Delight as the panel looked back at a match-winning performance from Cenk Tosun.Everton's new striker hit two goals to help see off Stoke City and Tony Scott and Gavin Buckland joined Phil Kirkbride to pour over his performance.And the panel were asked if Tosun could catch Wayne Rooney as Everton's leading scorer in the league before the end of the season.The lads discuss the final seven games of the campaign and are asked to predict a points total as well as talking about the squad's motivation before closing a whistle-stop pod on Ronald Koeman.The weekend's Royal Blue column asked the question if Everton had hit the panic button too soon with Koeman in October and the panel give their views on a hotly debated issue among Evertonians. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Royal Blue team are showing they can play twice a week - with a second podcast in a matter of days.And there was plenty for the panel to get stuck into today.Everton Reporter Phil Kirkbride is joined by Head of Sport Dave Prentice, the BBC's Greg O'Keeffe and stats man Gavin Buckland and the agenda was bursting at the seams.The trip to Stoke City, a sweary Sam Allardyce press conference, away form, Sigurdsson and Xherdan Shaqiri are all on the agenda before matters turn to off the field.This is where the panel discuss the expected departure of long-serving chief executive Robert Elstone, his legacy, the future of a stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in his absence and who should replace him.There's the usual round of big match predictions with three members of the panel confident of a win - with the other thinking it'll end all square on Saturday. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From two-footed tackles on Phil Neville to why training under David Moyes was 'relentless', James Wallace gives a brilliant insight into life as a young prospect at Everton in the late noughties.In a special edition of the Royal Blue podcast, Wallace also discusses Alan Stubbs, his admiration for Nigel Clough, having to mark Erik Lamela and Louis Saha. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest edition of the Royal Blue podcast is jam-packed with news, views and strong opinions - with Everton's transfer strategy high on the agenda.Everton Reporter Phil Kirkbride is joined by Gav Buckland and Adam Jones with the trio debating whether the Blues need to start signing more players the Goodison crowd can relate to.Buckland described the weekend's win over Brighton as "the most enjoyable game of the season" where a good performance was allied with one of the strongest Goodison atmospheres of the campaign.And it fed into a debate amongst the panel about how the club may need to shift transfer policy to rediscover a connection with the fans.Gylfi Sigurdsson's injury - and what Everton will do in his absence - is discussed, as is the return of Leighton Baines, Dominic Calvert-Lewin's World Cup chances and whether Everton should try to sign Jamie Vardy .And following the reception Davy Klaassen received on his return to the first-team we ask why Goodison loves an underdog? For information regardin

This week's Royal Blue podcast has a Scandinavian feel as we are joined by special guests from the Norwegian branch of the Everton Supporters Club.Everton reporter Phil Kirkbride hosts the discussion with ECHO football writer Chris Beesley plus Nordic visitors Helge Grunnevag and Bjorn Leirhol.The distance across the North Sea between themselves and their beloved Blues does not dilute the passion of the fans and both Helge and Bjorn have hard-hitting views about Everton's struggles throughout the current campaign.Helge declares that this season has been “an absolute scandal – we've spent an awful lot of money to take 50 steps backwards.” For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They're not booing - but they're not happy either. In this week's Royal Blue podcast our resident Toffees look back at the trip to Turf Moor and try to make sense of it all.Everton's defending, Big Sam's substitutions, the reaction of the Everton fans' and Cenk Tosun are all discussed by Everton correspondent Phil Kirkbride, Head of Sport Dave Prentice, Echo writer Adam Jones and Royal Blue regular Gavin Buckland.And there's the now weekly discussion of what Davy Klaassen may or may not have to offer. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the latest impassioned Royal Blue podcast, Phil Kirkbride is joined by Adam Jones and Gavin Buckland to discuss Sam Allardyce's pre-Burnley press conference, and where the Blues' expectations should lie after the manager's dividing comments... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everton ran out to their traditional Z-Cars anthem on Saturday - but that was where all similarities to the Blues home form ended. Another insipid away performance ended in another away defeat - and Phil Kirkbride, who was at Vicarage Road, and Dave Prentice and Chris Beesley, who watched it from between their fingers on TV, discuss the ramifications. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Royal Blue podcast is back but unlike Everton's players we haven't been able to enjoy the glow of the Dubai sun.Our Everton reporter Phil Kirkbride hosts proceedings as he is joined by ECHO sportsdesk colleague Chris Beesley plus regular guests Gavin Buckland and Tony Scott.Warm weather training trips come under the spotlight as we ask whether Premier League clubs really need them and whether they still send out the wrong impression about teams seemingly being 'rewarded' for early cup exits. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the deja vu edition.And it's not a pleasant lookback.For the second time this season our Royal Blue podcasters have raked over the ashes of a five-goal hammering at the hands of Arsenal.And while the first one precipitated the departure of an Everton manager, the latest has seen the current Blues boss come under heavy fire.Everton correspondent Phil Kirkbride and Echo reporter Chris Beesley were at The Emirates for the latest gunning down, David Prentice and Tony Scott watched it from behind the sofa on TV.And they discuss the ramifications of a deeply unhappy afternoon. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everton closed off January 2018 in some style - with a win over leicester City and a new signing in the bag! In the latest podcast Phil Kirkbride, David Prentice, Gavin Buckland and Tony Scott discuss the Blues' important victory - and whether the club might regret the late loan of Ademola Lookman. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices