We have a 'flavour of the month' loving in our fanbase..
Amorim - sacked
Potter - sacked
De Zerbi - sacked
Frank - sacked
Howe - holding on
Glasner - fallen out with all owners.
Iraola is the new Fad
That mix contains:
Brighton
Brentford
Bournemouth
Palace
The flavour of the month clubs..
There's always flavour of the months, but equally, managers will always fail at the end.
Moyes pulled us away from relegation with no new signings, he used the same squad as the previous manager and blew him out of the water
He's done well so far.
Not so sure on drumming up relegation angle personally - the bottom 3 proved so poor, it turned out
Moyes needed just 8 points from 19 games to see us safe. Couple of results on the back of new manager bounce, and an awful bottom 3 completely eased the pressure and we didn't look back. Credit to him, I'm just not sure on relegation talk when we've earned the points to be 20+ points clear the past few seasons and closer to europe than relegation.
Now in his full season, there margins are slim. We're still, awful at home and we're not scoring enough goals. Despite spending, we're still deploying %, pragmatic football. How many games this season have we felt we've played well and deserved the win? Less than we actually have, that's for sure. You've compared the previous manager, we've scored just 1 more league goal after 26 league games vs Dyche's full season after 26 games.Take 10 points off now as we had that same Dyche full season season, and we'd be sat 17th and 1 result from relegation - and the pressure which comes with that. I digress.
If we finish in Europe, tremendous.
If we finish top half, it's what I expected - progress based on 12th and 13th the last 2 seasons.
If we finish bottom half, I'll be disappointed.
The margins between the above is likely just 2/3 results, and you shouldn't really be making big calls based on that.
If a manager is the right manager, you shouldn't change it on such fine margins.
For me,
Moyes leaves me apathetic because, I don't think we'd ever win a trophy with him.
I'd love nothing more than to cry one in and him win us one next season - I'd want him to win a trophy for Everton more than any other, but his knife to a gunfight will always come to the fore when it really counts.