If this is a joke, then why are so many folk getting so wound up? Surely, merging with a team that was, until Saturday, plum (pun intended) bottom of the league is no obvious route to strengthening the team or the club(s).
Unlike some on here I don't have the intensity of distaste for all things from the blue-half and I can understand an argument for ground share; it's not a favoured option but neither is it the end of the world. MERGING (???) Good christ, NO !! To all who claim to have a hold-on and clarity of view for the future, please remember that we're also shaped by our past. Everton has theirs we have ours; they're compatible and they overlap but they do not have a combined future.
Because, right now, we have too many over-pampered, fame-chasing wannabees pulling on a shirt that to us has meaning but to them represents a stop off on their journey to a "dream" move doesn't mean we go down with them. We work harder to put it right because life and this club goes on.