Accepting Mid Table Status

[GwladysBlue]

Everyone spends loads now.

No they don’t.

 

[navidson]

Everyone spends loads now.

Not like we have

I'd accept a transitioning year if there was an obvious game plan being worked towards - at the moment it looks like the same 'throw 11 players onto the pitch and pray something happens' muck that we've been served up for the past 5 years

 

[degsy]

Is part of the issue with Everton that our expectations are way above what we can actually achieve? This in turn causes all the angst when we don't beat teams with equal or more quality like West Ham.

Heard a call into Talk Sport talking about whether we are a big club, we just aren't anymore, we aren't relevant, mid table would be ok and if we accepted that we could start to build again.

I see your point
But ofcourse we have Expectations, we're Everton, NSNO and all that...and isn't that what Silva is trying to do now
not going so well just now, early days, Rome wasnt burnt in a day etc

The key question is how long do we give him
Don't Panic


Not yet anyway.

 

[degsy]

We should accept it for this first season. I do.

We need to be looking at this time next season for a team that is cohesive and balanced.

This

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

I would have been hopefully for a seventh place but 10th through 12th may be more realistic this year.

 

[Khalekan]

..this is a typical ‘after a defeat’ thread. I fear we’ll have to get used to these.

We already are

 

[johnjoeefc]

The slapdash investment has taken the soul out of efc.

Was better being mid table when we were skint and had the feeling of a really well run club, just with not much in the bank.

You can't fault the financial commitments from moshiri. Aside from a man city type splurge, he's put up the cash on multiple occasions.

The problem is it's been spent on trying to find quick fixes. Clubs that change managers in quick succession rarely do well. There's just nothing coming through from any long term planning at all. The players are all over the place, bought by different managers to play in different systems. Some appear to be turning up for the pay check alone. Fans are frustrated, getting on players backs too readily. A potent combination seen many times before in the pl, often with the same outcome.

Not quite sure money would rectify our current predicament. We need to bring this squad together as a unit and with the fans.

Away teams should dread coming to gp. Not the other way around

This was exactly my thoughts. Getting rid of Allardyce was a crazy idea imo because he began building something and then was sacked and it all started again with Silva. And if he has us In the bottom half come January then we will likely do the same thing. Its constant steps backwards.

Silva just needs time now and he needs players back fit.

 

[4737carlin]

All i want is a cup, as for the league, i want us to play well but the top 4 is well out of our reach and I really dont want us to be stuck in the Europa League, give me mid table and a real go at a cup right now

 

[billyblue80]

Accepting or being forced to accept it due to years of mismanagement on and off the pitch?

 

[Albro]

Black Sunday?

 

[Khalekan]

This was exactly my thoughts. Getting rid of Allardyce was a crazy idea imo because he began building something and then was sacked and it all started again with Silva. And if he has us In the bottom half come January then we will likely do the same thing. Its constant steps backwards.

Silva just needs time now and he needs players back fit.

Sorry, johnjoe.......I stopped reading at that point

 

[McBain]

Try waking up at 1am after going to bed at 12, fighting with a stream you've paid for for 2 hours and watching capitulations like that.

What was the thread about again me so tired

 

[mmmmsnouts]

..this is a typical ‘after a defeat’ thread. I fear we’ll have to get used to these.

Nah, this is a WUM thread. Mine was just to let people outfume each other for laughs.

 

[MikeH72]

I'd happily drain Usmanovs fat and drink it for guaranteed 16th

Hahahaha

 

[MikeH72]

All i want is a cup, as for the league, i want us to play well but the top 4 is well out of our reach and I really dont want us to be stuck in the Europa League, give me mid table and a real go at a cup right now

If we win a cup we’ll be in the Europa League mert.