- ... here's the Round where we've gone out in the last 9 seasons (most recent first):
- 3-SF-3-3-3-4-3-4-3 - and, to be honest, it's not much better before that

- but let's interrupt things here to mention exciting book news!
- the second edition of my "Everton: The Official Complete Record" will be published in October!!
- find out more details on deCoubertin's website - they are the wonderful publishers

- buy one for yourself, one for each of your friends and one for every memeber of your family!
- you know it makes sense!

- the defeat to Norwich brought to an end our 7 game unbeaten run, in all competitions home and away
- and it ended a similar 7 game unbeaten run at Goodison in all comps

- it also finished our run of 5 successive wins in all competitions, home and away

- the loss was also our first under Ronald Koeman's managership, of course
- that means that still no Everton manager has avoided defeat in his first 7 games in charge of us
- and only 1 other manager in our past has remained unbeaten in his first 6 games in charge
- that was Roberto Martinez - W3 D3 L0!

- Norwich's win was the 50th League Cup defeat in our history
- and it brought to an end a 9 match unbeaten run against the Canaries at Goodison

- and of course, it was a giantkilling defeat!
- our last cup defeat to a lower Division team was also in the League Cup
- that was a 2-1 loss at Leeds in 2012

- for Enner Valencia it was his first League Cup appearance for us - and his first start in any competition
- we've now had 299 different players turn out for us in the League Cup
- and 283 starters in that competition, 867 in all competitions

- and so on to Bournemouth away on September 24th in the Premier League!

- we've lost on all of our last 3 outings on that date (all away)
- most recently 1-2 at Fulham in the League Cup in 2013

- in fact, we've won 0 of our last 5 games on Sep 24 - W0 D1 L4 (again, they've all been away)
- our last win on that date was a 3-0 League Cup victory over Stockport at Goodison in 2003

- remarkably, we've never actually won away from home on September 24th!
- that's a W0 D7 L8 record

- and in our last 11 League games on that date, home and away, we've also never won - W0 D7 L4!
- our last League win on Sep 24 was a 4-1 home victory against West Ham in 1960

- but we've never lost against Bournemouth! (W5 D1 L0)
- and indeed we've never scored less than 2 goals in all 6 meetings - F17 A6

- on a pts/game basis our record against them is better than against anyone we've played more than 5 times!

- our last meeting was our 2-1 home League win in April this year
- our last trip to their place was also a win for us - 2-0 in the FA Cup in February

- of course our last League visit to their ground ended in that dramatic 3-3 draw in November last year

- if he plays at Bournemouth, it will be Phil Jagielka's 269th League appearance for the club
- he'd move to 33rd place alone on our All-Time League Apps list, 1 ahead of Roger Kenyon

- if Leighton Baines starts the match it will be his 270th League start for us
- he'd be joint 30th with Edgar Chadwick on our All-Time League Starts chart
- Phil Jagielka will move to equal 34th - with Johnny Morrissey and Walter Abbott - on 257 if he starts

- if Ross Barkley plays at Bournemouth it will be his 54th successive appearance in the Premier League!
- that would put him 9th on our 'Most Consecutive Games in the Prem' chart
- he'd join Nigel Martyn and Kevin Kilbane on that number

- if Romelu Lukaku scores against the Cherries it will be his 66th for us in all competitions
- he'd move level with Tommy White in joint 34th position on our All-Time Scoring chart

- Rom would also move on to 48 League goals for the club if he does score
- that would put him level with Mick Lyons & Trevor Steven in 41st place on our All-Time League Scoring chart

- a goal for Kevin Mirallas would be his 27th for the club in the Premier League
- Kev would then be joint 9th - with Mikel Arteta and Louis Saha - on our Prem Scoring list

- a victory at Bournemouth would be our 5th on the run in the Prem, home and away
- the last time we managed that was in a run of 7 straight League wins in March/April 2014

- it would also be our 3rd successive away win in the Premier League
- that would equal the club record - something we've achieved 4 times in the past
- the last time was also during that run of wins in March/April 2014

- if we avoid defeat at Bournemouth our unbeaten start to the League season will stretch to 6 games
- the last time we did that was back in 1978/79 - W4 D2 L0

- Robert Madley will referee the game
- interestingly, his brother - Andy Madley - reffed our last game against Norwich!

- Bobby has refereed us 6 times before and we've lost just once - W4 D1 L1
- unfortunately the 1 defeat was at Anfield, 0-4 the last time he took charge of us last April!

- if he sends a player off it will be the first player ever to be dismissed in an Everton/Bournemouth fixture!

- and if he awards a penalty it will be only the second in an EFC/Cherries game!
- the only other one fell to them in last season's FA Cup tie at their place
- and Joel Robles saved Charlie Daniel's effort!

- a draw with Bournemouth, by the way, would be the 1,300th draw, at all venues, in our competitive history

- and beware a 2-0 win for us!
- we are currently on a run of 77 League games without a 2-0 victory
- that's since we won by that scoreline at West Brom in September 2014
- our longest ever run without a 2-0 League win is 78 games from September 1936 to May 1938 ....

- finally, the Bournemouth match is a Saturday game with a 3.00pm kick-off
- home and away, we are unbeaten in our last 6 Sat/3 o'clock games - W3 D3 L0
- away from home we haven't lost in 8 - W3 D5 L0

- COYB!!

- new recruit Ashley Williiams is our latest Number 5
- why not have a look at all of the previous Evertonians who have played for us as a Number 5