Our Next 5 Games: Make or Break for Koeman?

Khalekan · December 11, 2016

Milk said:
Perhaps Tony Cascarino wasn't so stupid after all .....

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/everton-transfer-thread-2016.81190/page-4010

lol

allezlesbleus · December 11, 2016

paulbefc said:
No problem. Sunderland, Hull, West Ham, Swansea, Boro, Palace, Leicester, Burnley, Bournemouth and any one other out of Watford, Southampton, West Brom and Stoke.

While I sort of agree I think we have lost to 3 of them and one we haven't played yet just beat City 4-2!!!!

4737carlin · December 11, 2016

Season could be over in Jan, when did that last happen?

paulbefc · December 11, 2016

allezlesbleus said:
While I sort of agree I think we have lost to 3 of them and one we haven't played yet just beat City 4-2!!!!

True, but they also got played off the park by Sunderland the week before.

There's obviously a good side in there, but this season they haven't been great. They could easily finish above us if they hit anything close to last season's form like.

Eggs · December 11, 2016

...I think the transfer window is more significant for Koeman than the next 5 games.

Eggs · December 11, 2016

4737carlin said:
Season could be over in Jan, when did that last happen?

.....to be honest I'd probably settle for that, my fear is that we'll be looking over our shoulder or involved in a relegation fight.

tommye · December 11, 2016

paulbefc said:
We've beaten 5 of them this season iirc.

Despite a poor recent run of form, we'll be higher in the league at the end of today than at least 10 of them.

You named 13 teams. That leaves 8. Of that 8...
We lost to Burnley, Bournemouth, Southampton and Watford. Drew with Palace and Swansea. We play the other 2 soon.

Good luck with that 10th.

Dario Terracotta · December 11, 2016

Eggs said:
...I think the transfer window is more significant for Koeman than the next 5 games.

Imperative though Eggs that deals are in place and are over the line asap as the window opens,we cannot Afford to be dragging our heels in our current situation.

GwladysBlue · December 11, 2016

LLLDD

paulbefc · December 11, 2016

tommye said:
You named 13 teams. That leaves 8.
We lost to Burnley, Bournemouth, Southampton and Watford. Drew with Palace and Swansea. We play the other 2 soon.

Good luck with that 10th.

I guess that's one way of looking at it. But it does leave out draws with United, Spurs and City away.

If our form continues as it is obviously we won't finish 10th. Even under Martinez our bad runs of form didn't last for whole seasons though so I see no reason to think it will this time, especially with January around the corner.

Khalekan · December 11, 2016

Dario Terracotta said:
Imperative though Eggs that deals are in place and are over the line asap as the window opens,we cannot Afford to be dragging our heels in our current situation.

And we will be held to ransom by clubs as our desperation increases.

ToffeeTim · December 11, 2016

Eggs said:
...I think the transfer window is more significant for Koeman than the next 5 games.

We're in urgent need of points tho mate. Can't really afford 5 defeats before we even get to January.

allezlesbleus · December 11, 2016

i just cast my mind back to how Moyes energised Smith's team that looked like it might well go down and he had such an instant positive impact. Honestly not expecting miracles in just 15 games or so but it is not too much to expect a bit more umph and passion to be seen. Just seems to be waiting to work miracles with a cheque book and let money be the answer. It is always part of the answer of course here seems to be little effort going into "I had better do more with these lads even though I don't rate them because this is what I have to work with at the moment"
By the way when the window shuts how many league games will we have played? 22. That is a lot of the season gone with a strong chance his first 11 will be pretty much dominated by what he has got now unless the window is brilliant!

Khalekan · December 11, 2016

ToffeeTim said:
We're in urgent need of points tho mate. Can't really afford 5 defeats before we even get to January.

January had become the mantra round these parts :pint2:

They should play this instead of Z Cars this Tuesday

tommye · December 11, 2016

paulbefc said:
I guess that's one way of looking at it. But it does leave out draws with United, Spurs and City away.

If our form continues as it is obviously we won't finish 10th. Even under Martinez our bad runs of form didn't last for whole seasons though so I see no reason to think it will this time, especially with January around the corner.

OK.
So answer me this one. We have so far played 15 of the other 19 sides in the league. Our next 4 games see us taking on Arsenal, the children of the corn, Leicester and Ull. How many points do you think those games will yield?