Relegation 2022/23

[Bob Elstone]

Thank God we got Dyche in. Should have been before the World Cup.

If we can somehow beat villa this weekend I think we’ll be in a really good spot to survive.

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

We didn't spend in the window because there was nobody to buy who wanted to actually come to Everton, we had players turning us down left right in the center.
Besides appointing a new nanager was far more important then appointing deadwood players to the overpaid roster

Fair point.

 

[steven]

Dyche is the key factor we are going to be hard to beat I fancy us to just be above the likes of Bournemouth, Saints, Leeds and maybe another.

Keeping players fit will be the main thing now as the backups in most positions aren’t there.

Pretty imperative that Onana, gana,doucoure and Iwobi stay fit imo. Already proving we can just about get around not having DCL but many more in that midfield attack area and we will really struggle.

People might batter someone like doucoure but replace him now with Davies or even garner and you lose that athletic ability and energy that we desperately need.

 

[USABlue]

Keeping players fit will be the main thing now as the backups in most positions aren’t there.

Pretty imperative that Onana, gana,doucoure and Iwobi stay fit imo. Already proving we can just about get around not having Dominic Calvert-Lewin but many more in that midfield attack area and we will really struggle.

People might batter someone like doucoure but replace him now with Davies or even garner and you lose that athletic ability and energy that we desperately need.

I don't think we've really proven we can get by without DCL. We have no quality in the final third and have scored 2 in the last 3 games with both goals coming from defenders. I'm still highly concerned about where the goals are going to come from considering quite a few wins are needed to keep us up.

 

[Evertonthat]

I don't think we've really proven we can get by without Dominic Calvert-Lewin. We have no quality in the final third and have scored 2 in the last 3 games with both goals coming from defenders. I'm still highly concerned about where the goals are going to come from considering quite a few wins are needed to keep us up.

You can bet that's top of Dyche's list of things to sort. We might be missing a focul point up front, but we are still creating chances. Dacoure should have smashed that chance on Saturday, and there were a few crosses lashed across the face of goal with nobody wanting to take a chance to dive in. They all need to step up and be more ruthless when the chances come.

 

[The binman chronicles]

I think we're going to be safe, I know people are worried where our goals might come from, but I think we are better at the back then any other team down there, Dyche will see to that, a few more clean sheets is going to be massive, especially in the next two games

We don't know if we are currently in a new manager bounce phase, our results could easily switch to narrow losses and then confidence dips. What we do know is at least Leeds and Southampton but also likely West Ham will have their own possible new manager bounces coming up.

It is way too tight to think we are safe. Many twists to come methinks.

 

[allen]

A lot of focus is being put on our home form - and honestly that’s totally understandable.

But we shouldn’t write off away games under Dyche, either.

We don’t yet have the data to judge how they will go. Anfield is perennially a special case, and even then it could’ve been very different but for a post’s width.

I reckon we’ll get a couple of away wins.

 

[USABlue]

You can bet that's top of Dyche's list of things to sort. We might be missing a focul point up front, but we are still creating chances. Dacoure should have smashed that chance on Saturday, and there were a few crosses lashed across the face of goal with nobody wanting to take a chance to dive in. They all need to step up and be more ruthless when the chances come.

That's really the issue though, create all you want but if no one can be clinical it won't amount to anything. If McNeil is going to keep lashing in crosses we need someone up front to get on the end of it. I don't think Maupay is that guy (not slating him as it's not his style of play).

Honestly might as well have Onana further up like we used to do with Felli

 

[Wat Tyler]

They have appealed against the Premier League board’s decision to reject their wish to have Steve Cook reinstated into their 25-man squad amid a shortage of centre-backs. Cook was left out of the Forest squad submitted at the end of January’s transfer window after the arrival of Felipe but Willy Boly has since been ruled out for the season, Scott McKenna is sidelined for six weeks and Moussa Niakhaté is yet to return from a hamstring injury after being out since August. “We can’t understand why it’s been rejected, looking at the rules and some things which have gone on in previous years,” said Forest’s manager, Steve Cooper. “We’ll remind them [the Premier League] of the rules they wrote, and hopefully we’ll be OK.”


Hope they aren’t allowed to add him

 

[Charlie Sweet]

Keeping players fit will be the main thing now as the backups in most positions aren’t there.

Pretty imperative that Onana, gana,doucoure and Iwobi stay fit imo. Already proving we can just about get around not having Dominic Calvert-Lewin but many more in that midfield attack area and we will really struggle.

People might batter someone like doucoure but replace him now with Davies or even garner and you lose that athletic ability and energy that we desperately need.

Add the keeper and defence to that. Injuries to Pickford, Coady, Tarks or Seamus and our survival chances take a hit.

 

[ToffeeScot]

A fairly good weekend but annoying that the two sides I'd pick to be relegated (Southampton and Bournemouth) also won. Really irritating too that Lampard wasn't given the chop in the WC break. We would be comfortably mid-table and not have the Wolves/Southampton losses on our record.

 

[sbbefc]

Thank God we got Dyche in. Should have been before the World Cup.

If we can somehow beat villa this weekend I think we’ll be in a really good spot to survive.

I'm not going to sing his praises too much just yet. But 6/9 is a very good start and I'm convinced we'd have scrapped a few more points than we did had he come in after the world cup. But a long way to go yet.

What you get with Dych is a "proper manager". Been relatively successful with Burnley. He's with 10-15 years of experience where there's little failure. FL on the other hand had a quite a few failures in just a very short time as a manager. The same number of failures as Dyche but in a fraction of the time. He definitely tried to run before he could walk.

I was never a big fan of FL coming in but it had to be done to rid us of you know who.

 

[ToffeeTim]

We didn't spend in the window because there was nobody to buy who wanted to actually come to Everton, we had players turning us down left right in the center.
Besides appointing a new nanager was far more important then appointing deadwood players to the overpaid roster

I find this point extremely hard to believe. You are saying there were no footballers anywhere in the world who wouldn't have fancied top flight english football and 40 or 50 grand a week?

I'd say the players we wanted most weren't available, but it's not true that nobody was interested..

 

[witchdoc187]

We didn't spend in the window because there was nobody to buy who wanted to actually come to Everton, we had players turning us down left right in the center.
Besides appointing a new nanager was far more important then appointing deadwood players to the overpaid roster

Kinda pleased we didn't just sign any old junk to make up the numbers. I did actually think Chris Woods could do a job for us in that he's better than anything else we have although I realise he's not exactly going to set the world alight.

 

[Miked1e]

Obvious I know, but home games will be massive for us. If like the last 2, we can scrape a win against Villa and possibly Brentford, along with something out of the Forest game then I think we should be ok.

Wolves, Leeds and Bournemouth have a very tough next 3-4 games (I know all are tough now), and cannot see them picking up many points over this time.