We Can Kick On

Tim Cahill believes Everton still can kick on and turn this season once again into a successful one. Last seasons fifth place finish and FA Cup Final appearance now seems like a distant memory after the Blues hit a rocky patch early doors this term, but once some of the big guns return to first team action, Tiny is adamant that the Blues will be on a flyer.

Tiny says: "I think the hunger’s there. Being in the FA Cup final last year and finishing fifth in the league, we have to build on that. We definitely are good enough – it’s whether or not we can make it happen. We’re at the stage where we’ve got to kick on.

The lads that have been in the team have been fantastic and we need that bit of extra help. It’s about how we kick on and get more injured players back to share the workload." (16/11/09)

My Proudest Moment

Tiny has now captained the Blues in the last four matches, and even though the games may not have gone our way, Tiny takes his role seriously and looks on it as the biggest moment of his career. The Rat, Waggy, Phil Neville, Big Mick Lyons and the late great Brian Labone have all led the Blues through our illustrious history, and Tiny is not lost on those facts. He is urging his team mates to carry on working hard, and he will not shirk the challenge in Phil's absence of leading the team to victory, hopefully starting against Benfica this Thursday evening.

Tiny says: "It's a massive honour and a privilege to be a captain of such a big team. It's something in my career that is probably the biggest moment for me. It's something I don't take lightly; it's been very disheartening to wear the armband and lose games but today we turned it around. The gaffer looks for leadership and if I have the armband or not I will always be a leader of this team.

I have been here a long time and we lost our way a bit in the last three weeks but now it's all about getting our heads down and just working." (03/11/09)

Proud Captain

Tim believes Everton’s 5-0 and biggest European defeat is the wake-up call they needed. Cahill was proud to be captain of an injury-ravaged Everton side. He wants to come back strong against Bolton.

Tim says: “We can hit Bolton on the rebound. We just want to put in a good performance and try to get back to winning ways. We want to show the kind of flowing football we are capable of. We have a lot of firepower and we will soon have a lot of injured players back in the frame. Did that Benfica defeat knock our confidence? Yes and no. Maybe it’s a nice wake-up call to say, ‘Let’s try to kick on now and put this result behind us. It’s the wake-up call we needed. For some of the players who have been at Everton for a long time, it is now time for us to react and show what it means to put on the jersey. I was devastated because it was one of the best days of my life, being captain, but the worst because of the result. It was a harsh lesson.” (23/10/09)