Whilst an impressive 2-1 win against Arsenal may have Evertonian spirits high this week, the Toffees’ season has started to reach a rather underwhelming standstill after an emphatic start under new boss Ronald Koeman.

Ever since David Moyes’ departure in 2013, after 11 successive campaigns as boss, Everton have lacked consistency and, ultimately, results.

Every Everton fan dreams of a top five finish and sees it as a realistic goal for the side. However, it has only been reached once in the last seven years.

The first time the Toffees reached the top five was in 2004-05, when they came fourth, which is also their highest Premier League finish to date.

That side was clinical, defensively stable and, most importantly, consistent.

Shoot!‘s Toby Bryant looks at what the members of that European qualifying squad are up to now in 2016 whilst Everton languish in eighth.

The following line-up is taken from the 2-0 win over Newcastle United in May 2005, which ensured Everton’s top four finish…

Nigel Martyn

Keeper, Nigel Martyn was signed by Everton from Leeds United in the summer of 2003 and went on to make 86 appearances for the Toffees.

Martyn’s enjoyed the best form of his life during the 2004-05 season and was a fan favourite.

In June 2006, the shot-stopper announced his retirement and was labelled by Moyes as his “greatest ever signing”.

Since then; he has worked part-time at Bradford City as a goalkeeping coach, but now he has taken a step away from the beautiful game, returned to Harrogate and has been seen playing Sunday League cricket as a Wicket-Keeper for local side Leeds Modernians.

Tony Hibbert

Oh, the infamous Tony Hibbert.

Every Everton fan knows the defender’s name, who spent sixteen years at Goodison Park, making an incredible 265 appearances.

Some pundits rated him as the best English right back in the 2004-05 season as he became a key player for Everton.

Hibbert was released by the club this summer in controversial fashion as he claimed that he was “ditched” and that Everton is “no longer the People’s Club”.

Joseph Yobo

Nigerian centre-back Joseph Yobo is another defender who committed a large proportion of his career to the Toffees.

After the 2004-05 campaign, he stayed at the Blues until 2012, but was loaned out to Fenerbahce for the last two years of his time with Everton.

He made a brief return to the Premier League in 2014 at Norwich City, but only played eight matches, one against Everton, before announcing his retirement.

Two years later, in May 2016, Yobo and his wife, Adaeze Igwe, were conferred with chieftaincy titles of Ogoniland, an area of the Ogoni people in Nigeria.

David Weir

David Weir spent eight years at Everton, playing regularly, and was captain of that high achieving side in 2004-05.

The Scotsman returned home in 2007 to play for Rangers, where he ended his playing career in 2012.

Later that year he came back to Goodison to work with Everton’s academy and youth team before enjoying a managerial stint at Sheffield United and acting as assistant-manager to Mark Warburton at Brentford.

Weir now is assistant manager at Rangers, again with Warburton in command.

Steve Watson

One of the less memorable players in the side, Steve Watson was signed by Everton in 2000 for £2.5m, a large sum of money at the time.

During his time at Goodison, he played in defence, midfield and even as a striker.

After the highs of the 2004-05 campaign, Watson moved on to pastures new at Sheffield Wednesday, where he stayed until retirement in 2009.

Watson has also taken to coaching, working as a Development Coach at Huddersfield Town, coached at Birmingham City and is now assistant manager at Macclesfield Town.

Lee Carsley

Defensive midfielder Lee Carsley had quite the season of highs and lows in 2004-05.

He played superbly, even netting the winner in the 200th Merseyside Derby, which won Goal of the Season but, sadly, was stretched off with a twisted knee four minutes form the end of the Toffees’ successful season.

Carsley went on to have short spells at Birmingham and Coventry City before retiring in 2011.

Since then he has performed a number of coaching roles at Coventry City and Sheffield United, but now works coaching the promising England Under-19 set-up.

Marcus Bent

Striker Marcus Bent never really found his goalscoring boots during his two seasons at Everton, but nonetheless was a prominent member of the 2004-05 squad.

He did manage to chip in with some vital goals to secure the record breaking finish against the likes of Southampton, Aston Villa and Manchester City.

Throughout his career, Bent struggled to settle at a club and played for eight more sides between leaving the Toffees in 2006 and retirement in 2012.

Since then Bent, surprisingly, entered the oil business, but has more recently spent time in court with a number of drug accusations.

Tim Cahill

Every Everton fan loves Tim Cahill, the centre-forward is Everton until he dies.

He was the top goalscorer during the 2004-05 season, his first year at Goodison, with 11 goals in the league and subsequently won the fans’ Player of the Season.

He stayed with the Blues until he left for New York Red Bulls in 2012 and made a huge impact on the supporters.

Cahill is still plying his trade, now for Melbourne FC, with whom he won the FFA Cup Final last month, in Australia where he is bringing up his kids.

Mikel Arteta

Spanish midfielder Mikel Arteta only arrived at Everton on loan from Real Sociedad in January 2005, but was in the first-team in no time after the departure of Thomas Gravesen.

He impressed enough in the back end of the campaign to be signed permanently in the summer of 2005.

It won’t have been hard for Everton fans to keep track of what Arteta has achieved since leaving the club in 2011, since he has stayed in the Premier League.

He enjoyed a successful five years playing at Arsenal and is now one of Pep Guardiola’s assistant coaches at Manchester City.

Kevin Kilbane

Kevin Kilbane was very much a utility player whilst at Everton.

His versatility allowed him to play all across the park from left-back, central midfield and even a winger.

Now Kilbane can be regularly seen across a number of media channels covering football.

He is also patron for the Down’s Syndrome Association as his daughter suffers from the illness.

Duncan Ferguson

There isn’t too much to be said about ‘Big Dunc’ that Everton fans won’t already know.

Although the 2004-05 season was his penultimate as a player, and his powers were waning, the striker netted a phenomenal 72 goals for the club over his two spells there.

Ferguson is now the First-Team Development Coach and can be seen patrolling the pre-match warm ups in his classic, dominant way.