Everton's 'Dogs of War' are confident the Toffees will have enough to stay in the Premier League this season, if they can play without fear and stick together.
It is late in the day, but Everton's fighting spirit re-emerged in the Merseyside derby and they will need more of the same if they are to survive in the Premier League, starting today against Chelsea.
Earl Barrett, who helped steer Everton to safety in 1995 as part of Joe Royle's famous 'Dogs of War' team, has told Sportsmail he believes that resolve, coupled with talented players, will see them home.
Manager Frank Lampard had to change something ahead of his trip to Anfield last week and the question now is, will he stick with the same approach?
Lampard has tried to play on the front foot since he took over at Goodison Park, but his record is even worse than Rafa Benitez.
The Spaniard mustered 0.95 points per game from his 20 matches in charge this season.
With just 0.83 points per game, Lampard's Everton will struggle to a total of 36 points unless there is improvement, which with Leeds and Burnley on good runs, may not be enough.
At Liverpool, the Blues played Abdoulaye Doucoure, Allan and Alex Iwobi in the middle of the park, sat in, broke the game up, provoked the opposition, but then countered with speed. If they had been more precise in the final third, they may even have sprung an upset.
At least it was a dogged display before Liverpool overcame them in the second half.
'What you saw was spirit among the group,' said Lampard after the game. 'Evertonians can look at that and can see the group are fighting.'
The Liverpool game, which ended in a 2-0 defeat, could just be a blueprint for survival, and earn valuable points against stronger opposition, like Chelsea, and away from home, where they have been particularly poor.
Everton sit rock bottom of the Premier League form table for away fixtures. They have lost the last seven on the road and have not picked up a point since mid-December, at Stamford Bridge.
The Toffees still have to travel to Leicester City, Watford and Arsenal, a daunting prospect on the final day of the season.
So, is it time to unleash 'the dogs of war' again?
The phrase is evocative for Evertonians, but fans are divided.
Former boss Royle invoked the 'dogs of war' mantra in 1994-95, when he took over a team that looked doomed to relegation. Everton had avoided the drop in the previous campaign on the last day of the season, under ex-Norwich City boss, Mike Walker.
But it only got worse the following season. Everton were stranded at the bottom of the Premier League with just eight points from 14 games.
Royle and assistant manager, Willie Donachie, studied scores of VHS video tapes when they took over in late November 1994 and quickly realised Everton were a 'soft touch'. That had to change.
He filled the midfield with Welsh international Barry Horne, who could put in a tackle that would make even the spectators' eyes water, John Ebbrell and Joe Parkinson.
The dogs were loose – and wreaked havoc. Royle's Everton won their first three games, scalping Liverpool 2-0 at Goodison, before beating Chelsea 1-0 in London and Leeds United 3-0 on Merseyside.
They became synonymous with a battling mentality, epitomised by club legend, Horne, who went on to win the Player of the Year award.
Everton immediately went five unbeaten under Royle (and lost only six games between November and the end of the season, winning the FA Cup, beating Manchester United 1-0 in the final).
What the Toffees would give for five unbeaten, now? That would probably secure top-flight survival. But do they have it in them?
'Last time we were in this position you knew that Joe's 'dogs of war' could do it,' said Justin Jones, a fan for 40 years, on Twitter.
'Which Dogs of War do you identify in this current Everton squad?' asked another fan, who goes by the Twitter handle, StevieToffee.
Sportsmail turned to Earl 'the Pearl' Barrett, to answer that question.
A right back, who Royle brought in from his former club, Oldham Athletic, in January 1995, Barrett was ever present in the successful second half of the season.
'We were very tight as a group and not just the 11 players on the field, it was 16 to 18 players,' Barrett told Sportsmail from his home in Texas, where he is now coaching U19 and U17 teams in the MLS for Rise FC.
'We were so supportive of each other, it was great. Our way of playing was to be really tough and hard and literally fight for the ball and then try to play, but you had to win the battle first.
'It might be that we played for 85 minutes and it was just a fight, but in the last five minutes we had won the battle and we played a bit and a got a goal.'
Barrett said the key thing then and now is to combine battling qualities with a determination to play 'quick, sharp, accurate' football, whenever the opportunity presents itself. It is not enough to just fight.
In his team, he says, they were always ready to play and Duncan Ferguson, Paul Rideout and Daniel Amokachi, provided the firepower.
'These days, you cannot be a bunch of fighters and hope to win. 'Dogs of War' might be a headline, and they have to have that mentality, but it is also a great squad of players.
'If I was in that dressing room, I would be thinking we have got some good players here, let's get it on.'
Barrett says he can see characters in Everton squad, who can help the club through the next six games. He picks Seamus Coleman for his leadership, Richarlison for his quality in front of goal, and Anthony Gordon, for his fearlessness, despite his youth.
He also thinks Doucouré, Jordan Pickford and Fabian Delph are the sort of characters who can turn it around for the Toffees.
'The mixture of strength, attitude and skill is there,' said Barrett. 'I believe in their ability. They will get out of this.'