Anyone else miss playing in Europe?

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

I used to hate trudging home in the soaking rain and freezing cold after playing some no Mark team from the back end of Russia in the middle of winter and the early kick offs on a Sunday were utterly depressing some weeks but I would happily go through that turmoil to have European nights at Goodison. It's a great atmosphere and the Europa League is a challenging competition and one we should be competing in year in year out. Playing in that competition should be seen as an achievement rather than a burden. With it being European week, just wanted to reminisce about days gone by.

Fiorentina anyone? Wolfsburg? Young Boys?

 

[efcjames]

2014, certainly

Last season? Definitely not

 

[Toast]

Alalanta bummings have made me glad we are nowhere near Europe right now.

 

[4737carlin]

No not at all, i dont miss having to play regular on Sundays either.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Yes. Always.

We absolutely don't deserve to be in europe though.

 

[collymcd]

2014, certainly

Last season? Definitely not

My thoughts exactly. It's punishment enough watching us in the PL every week at the moment. Maybe next year.

 

[DanEFC92]

Getting stuffed by average European teams is my jam.

 

[barneygumble]

My problem is, we’re always going to finish 7th, so therefore to even get into Europe now, we’d have to play 6 games.

Look at Burnley, their run this year consisted of Aberdeen, Basaksehir and Olympiakos.
That isn’t easy.

I love Europe, but I know we need a bigger stronger squad because they’ve saturated the Europa pool so badly, we’d have to have so many games.

Fingers crossed we sneak in and sign more quality this year.

But please, PLEASE, not like last season.

 

[Eggs]

..it would get in the way for Everton but i’m off to Crete on Friday.

 

[James Patrick]

Bad enough West Ham beating us at home never mind forking out £500 odd to see it happen in Macedonia or the like.

I'll miss when we have a team worthy of playing in it and having a serious chance of winning it.

 

[LinekersLegs]

The Europa run under Martinez, especially the Wolfsburg games, is a very enjoyable memory even despite the depressing end to the campaign.

I shudder to think of how we would perform currently.

 

[Jimishorts]

Burnley?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Those Wolfsburg games were great. We were so clinical against a super talented side.

That Osman goal against Larissa? Wow.

Arteta goal against Fiorentina. Goodison almost fell to its core.

 

[toffeejack]

My problem is, we’re always going to finish 7th, so therefore to even get into Europe now, we’d have to play 6 games.

Look at Burnley, their run this year consisted of Aberdeen, Basaksehir and Olympiakos.
That isn’t easy.

I love Europe, but I know we need a bigger stronger squad because they’ve saturated the Europa pool so badly, we’d have to have so many games.

Fingers crossed we sneak in and sign more quality this year.

But please, PLEASE, not like last season.

Well, we're not always going to finish 7th or below, we will start improving soon enough. The calibre of player we bought this summer was step up than any other time in the prem.

We'll be back in Europe next season.

 

[Lob]

I definitely miss playing in Europe but tbh what i miss even more than that is actually enjoying watching Everton every single week. Haven't really enjoyed them consistently since the 2013/14 campaign. Since then they have been predominately disappointing and frustrating. Fingers crossed that will change when Silva has had the time he needs to turn things around.