Blues in relegation scrap says Allardyce

Big Fat Sam · January 22, 2018

8 points off bottom. Well and truly in the scrap.

The Penalty Box Dancer · January 22, 2018

Yep, 8 points from bottom and 6 from 18th.

evertony · January 22, 2018

No coincidence that the Fat-Necked Gravy Guzzling Galoot has raised the ‘R’ word within 24 hours of the Clubs number one managerial target becoming available.

I will judge Moshiri on his handling of this....he went all out for Silva to the point of allegedly offering £15M for him and now he’s become available at virtually no cost other than the compensation fee to ditch the Neanderthal and the Hobbit currently dragging us closer to obscurity. If that’s not a massive get-out-of-jail card for the owner then I don’t know what is. It’s overwhelmingly clear to everyone and his dog that Fat, Small, PE and Shakey are not what this Club wants, needs, expects or deserves.
Grow a pair of round ones Farhad - dump all four and put in place the man you clearly wanted.

NCLBlue · January 22, 2018

Here comes the gentle nudge to dampen expectations so that Big Sam can save the day just like he does best

ProZ · January 22, 2018

My toes are curling at the thought of David and West Ham going above us next week.

sd_1992 · January 22, 2018

Saint Domingo said:
Maybe he’s just trying to get these gutless players to focus on something other than their bank accounts for once.

Or maybe by saying that staying up is our target he is legitimising everything wrong with our squad...

paultheblue · January 22, 2018

I agree mate if he felt he was the right man for the job 3 months ago surely he should move for him now.
I know many people have there doubts but I still think with the right club there is a good manager in there.

Albro · January 23, 2018

sack and replace with martinez or silva

thorney33 · January 23, 2018

People complain when managers spew out cliches, now they complain when the manager is brutally honest.

Let’s see how the players respond to the comments. They are playing like relegation fodder, after all.

DanB90 · January 23, 2018

Creature said:
Can't believe some of our fans thinking we won't go down as if saying it makes it true. When Swansea beat the rs tonight there will only be 8 points covering 11 teams.

toffee-L · January 23, 2018

He's definitely not wrong, a few defeats on the spin and any show of form from 2/3 teams below us and we'll be bang in trouble. The fact that he actually has to say it is particularly depressing however, the run of form we had in his first 7 games was enough to practically save us. The fact we find ourselves back in the mire after that is unacceptable.

All the Gravy drinker had to do was make us be a one win in 3 game side after that, distinctively average and we would have comfortably stayed out of the relegation fight. He couldn't even manage that.

cromofo · January 23, 2018

What a time to be alive

Big Fat Sam · January 23, 2018

Well we need to set up to win from now on in our home games. That means taking the coward that is Schneiderlin out of the side and replacing him with Gueye, and also getting a more attack-minded partner next to him. McCarthy and Schneiderlin starting at home to West Brom - utterly terrible selection. I suppose it was always going to take a potentially career-ending injury to get the message across to the manager, so congratulations on that one Sam.

From now on, Gueye starts every game and sits in front of the defence. Rooney and Davies get more game time.

Death · January 23, 2018

If Sam said we are on course for Europe he would be getting the same grief on here.

Everton has been spending mad money on players long before he came along.

'We spent 50 million on attacking players why hasn't Sam won the league'... what we should have done is throw down 60 million on Walcott and 50 on Tosun. Then Sam would be unstoppable.

Newman123 · January 23, 2018

Creature said:
That's the problem, I wouldn't fancy our chances against anyone including Swansea.

Nobody is getting 'tailed off' like previous seasons so does this mean 40 points is enough or is it much lower (maybe any stats lovers would know)?

Can't believe some of our fans thinking we won't go down as if saying it makes it true. When Swansea beat the rs tonight there will only be 8 points covering 11 teams.

Horrendous man. Think if he stays around he may well break his duck on never being relegated.

And anyone saying there are 'x' number of teams worse than us then they are only watching motd. We are awful and this bloke has no idea how to fix things.