When Did The Rot Set In?

[Drico]

We have always been too nice, the thought of us being in the championship
Is really scary.

Not only will we be in the Championship, but we will be the biggest prize for every single club that rocks up at Goodison determined to turn us over. We will play 46 cup finals a year. We will add thousands to the home gates of 23 other clubs. We will be the over-the-hill prize fighter taking pot shots from 10-stone-weaklings having their day in the sun.

We will be a circus attraction - like the bearded lady or the elephant man. And we won't have been as relevant in years.

 

[PhilM]

Moshiri taking over coupled with Bill being allowed to maintain a grip on the club's direction - neither is suitable, but together it's suicidal.

 

[Mr Happy]

Thatcherism, the permissive society, advent of rock and roll?
From an Everton perspective, what was the moment when the tide turned and things started going backwards?
For me,the pivotal moment was the first home game in Martinez’s second season when we were walloped at home by Chelsea. Everything seemed rosy up to that point. We entered the season on a wave of optimism after t performing so well the previous season . Then bang! Teams sussed us out, watching us pass, pass, pass in our own half.
Since then it’s been one way to the grave.

Replacing Lukaku with nobody. Systemic of the years to follow.

 

[Mr Happy]

When the club meekly accepted the European ban in 1985 for a crime that had absolutely nothing to do with us whatsoever.

Could you imagine Manchester City accepting a ban from next season's Champions League for something that did not involve them? There would be court cases left, right, and centre.

Instead, Carter and Co caved in and abandoned their duty to protect the club's interests.

Yeah, we won another league 2 years later, but the seeds were planted: not so much of decline, but of a culture that deferred to others, accepted "our lot", and, most importantly, "knew our place."

It wasn't then. Your grudges run deep

 

[kenada_blue]

1st transfer window under Moshiri, bought a load of tripe for far to much money with far to many wages

Putting us in a rock and a hard place to move.

Also had no long term plan or backbone to follow a plan in the first place.

 

[jazzy]

When the club meekly accepted the European ban in 1985 for a crime that had absolutely nothing to do with us whatsoever.

Could you imagine Manchester City accepting a ban from next season's Champions League for something that did not involve them? There would be court cases left, right, and centre.

Instead, Carter and Co caved in and abandoned their duty to protect the club's interests.

Yeah, we won another league 2 years later, but the seeds were planted: not so much of decline, but of a culture that deferred to others, accepted "our lot", and, most importantly, "knew our place."

First prize!

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Modern day? I'm going to have to say how we spent the Lukaku money.

 

[Jimishorts]

get a poll up lad

 

[royalblue66]

Not only will we be in the Championship, but we will be the biggest prize for every single club that rocks up at Goodison determined to turn us over. We will play 46 cup finals a year. We will add thousands to the home gates of 23 other clubs. We will be the over-the-hill prize fighter taking pot shots from 10-stone-weaklings having their day in the sun.

We will be a circus attraction - like the bearded lady or the elephant man. And we won't have been as relevant in years.

Now I am scared but quite right.

 

[Abertonian]

"What a manager"

The phrase that ushered in a new era with the same old tripe stinking out the joint in the chairman's seat.

 

[matty1878]

this

 

[Eggs]

….it was a mad house before but I’m convinced the Benitez appointment turned the club rotten.

I’m actually of a view that Marcel Brands departure, much lauded on here was a key factor in sinking the ship. Brands role in the acquisition of players is open to criticism but I’m convinced he was a thoroughly decent man with the skill of a diplomat to keep the disparate parts of the club together. Popular with players and factions on the Board, he worked WITH various Managers until Benitez refused to even talk with him.

Benitez turned the madhouse into a sinking ship, I believe we’d be ok if he’d not been appointed.

 

[4737carlin]

1st transfer window under Moshiri, bought a load of tripe for far to much money with far to many wages

Pretty much this, we set our stall out early, a fool and his money

 

[4737carlin]

….it was a mad house before but I’m convinced the Benitez appointment turned the club rotten.

I’m actually of a view that Marcel Brands departure, much lauded on here was a key factor in sinking the ship. Brands role in the acquisition of players is open to criticism but I’m convinced he was a thoroughly decent man with the skill of a diplomat to keep the disparate parts of the club together. Popular with players and factions on the Board, he worked WITH various Managers until Benitez refused to even talk with him.

Benitez turned the madhouse into a sinking ship, I believe we’d be ok if he’d not been appointed.

He was appointed because we were not ok, had we been ok we could of attracted a better manager, add to Moshiri refusing to take advice on bringing in a unpopular manager you might have a point but the club was rotten before then, this moment just highlighted it

 

[Dymak]

1st transfer window under Moshiri, bought a load of tripe for far to much money with far to many wages

We had been stagnant for years, but this is when the real rot set in. Selling Lukaku and replacing him with four crap number 10s like a gang of absolute dickheads.