Relegation 2022/23

[MrGrumpy]

I just can’t understand why we perform so poorly at home compared to when we’re playing away from home. It’s inexplicable. I haven’t been to Goodison for a while now due to health reasons, but you’d think with the fans behind the players and the manager that we’d perform better at Goodison.

Players arnt very good, we built a slow team with zero attacking skill

 

[MrGrumpy]

I think many experienced/more mature, oh forget it, older fans will share your sentiments. We've had our campaigns, our dogs of war sagas, our existential battles in the 1990s, let alone last season's sad echo of our youth. I don't think too many of us can muster the strength or even concern now as we have seen that nothing is ever learned by Charlatan Bill and co. To us, the relegation fight was a temporary crisis where we got all hands on deck to rescue a giant of English football fallen on fleeting hard times. Our fight would quickly help the stately ship to get back on an even keel and return us to our birthright status of serial winners.

To the younger fans, a relegation fight is really just about survival for survival's sake: a bit like Coventry City's supporters felt in the late 1990s, where staying up was all there really was.

We'll probably go the same way as Coventry now, too. That's what Charlatan for Life, Bill Kenwright, has achieved in his 25 years at the helm: he has turned us into Coventry City.

Problem is when we go down you hear cry’s off Better keep the board, better the devil you know and all that rubbish. Moshiri needs to act now and get competent people in to prepare for the worst

 

[Drico]

Problem is when we go down you hear cry’s off Better keep the board, better the devil you know and all that rubbish. Moshiri needs to act now and get competent people in to prepare for the worst

That cry will be a minority one. Kenwright has socalised the fanbase - especially the under 40s - to accept Premier League mediocrity. They know no different. But even they will find it hard to stomach losing regularly to Rotherham United.

 

[MrGrumpy]

That cry will be a minority one. Kenwright has socalised the fanbase - especially the under 40s - to accept Premier League mediocrity. They know no different. But even they will find it hard to stomach losing regularly to Rotherham United.

The fan base seems to not care, look at how hated the 27 campaign is despite being right, Goodison full of happy clappers who deserve to go down

 

[FOXINPEACE]

Everton v Leicester will be a huge Championship fixture next season

 

[maccavennie]

Everton v Leicester will be a huge Championship fixture next season

Nah you'll be safe. There's enough goal threat in your side to get it right

 

[Littlesue]

Everton v Leicester will be a huge Championship fixture next season

No chance

 

[radiostar]

Under different circumstances if we were not building a stadium if relegation enabled us to ‘drain the swamp’ with a reset of ownership and management I might agree with you but throw in a stadium build and worst case scenario options are on the table see Derby county

The stadium would surely be more of a reason the swamp would be drained.

I understand your concerns of course but we aren't derby county - no one is "too big" to go down but we wouldn't fall to pieces like them, we have too many passionate fans that will demand a reset.

 

[Chegsy]

Stay up this season and it’ll just be the same next season. Even teams coming up have better scouting and recruitment than us. How can we be getting it so wrong season after season.

 

[SaintDomingo1998]

After the city draw taught was the start of something good but eeeeeeem was wrong?

 

[Gilbert..]

Everton v Leicester will be a huge Championship fixture next season

Id swap squads right now. You have no idea how better you are.

 

[Del-boy]

We will fall into the relegation zone within the next week. The teams below us all play each other. Once we’re there we won’t get back out.

 

[TraffordBlue]

we will be in the bottom 3 tomorrow night

Weren't people saying this last season?

Can see at best four wins and odd draw with a new manager bounce. That dosen't get team even to 30 points. The away schedule is very hard indeed so even plucky away draws to top 6 team won't be enough in the long run.

I never actually felt like we was going down last season

But this year im pretty certain

Capitulation rock bottom form. Tragic we look so bad we may not stay up in the Championship. This one hurts tonight no denying we are the worst team form wise.

Forgive me for possibly taking each post too literally - but I don't think the hysteria helps.

I'm not suggesting people shouldn't be very concerned but posts writing us off feel like they are done for extra effect.

We aren't even in the bottom 3 and we have half the season left, and time left in the transfer window. I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of the situation and am actually in shock at how we are here yet again, getting humiliated by the likes of Brighton at home but I don't see why people like to ignore the teams around us.

The teams around us are just as bad as us, if not worse. That is proven in the league table. It's also proven by the goal difference with about 4 of them. Significantly worse than ours. We look like we will struggle at the moment to get 35+ points, but that also applies to about 5 or 6 teams as well. So to just take us in isolation and claim we are the worst team or definitely getting relegated is just not helpful.

We don't have the worst form either. West Ham and Southampton have both lost their last 5 matches. We've also beaten both of them this season.

 

[Bluestar]

The fan base seems to not care, look at how hated the 27 campaign is despite being right, Goodison full of happy clappers who deserve to go down

The fan base do care. Look at the support last season. Look at the aftermath of the Crystal Palace game.

They’re exhausted with the emotional turmoil this club has inflicted on us. How many times can we lift them and ourselves?

 

[Azza]

At least I might be able to go to a few games next season. Birmingham, WBA and Coventry.


All expected losses mind.