Especially given the early season fixture list. But you just know that Everton being right at the business end of the league and sailing through the early rounds of the EFL cup will mean the clamour for a contract extension for Moyes grows and he probably gets one.

The alternative is we have a really shit start and he gets the boot early, but that probably means another panic stop-gap appointment and us spending the rest of the season in survival mode and any hope of breaking out of the stupour going forward gets put back another couple of years.

As much as it really depresses me, I actually think the best long term outcome for Everton would be a repeat of last season, where we bob along nicely and then blow any opportunity to make europe right at the end so the powers that be can lt his contract run down and plan early for his successor in the summer.

Oh the joys of being a blue.