Relegation

[Barry Rathbone]

What’s with this Evertonian fetishisation of relegation? Bloody annoying. Even the bluenose Yanks on Twitter have started partaking in it. Get a grip!

I've seen all the too good or too big to go down clubs get relegated from Utd, Spurs, Villa, Newcastle, Sunderland, City, Chelsea, Leeds, Forest, Derby and some of them never recovered. But the common denominators were they didn't recognise they were in the cack till it was too late and a mass delusion that it couldn't happen to them. We're in it up to our necks right now and if people don't realise it and do something drastic to change it then we are fooked

 

[Frank Butcher]

For all that was a better performance today it's still zero points and that's a more of a worry for me. We do seem to have been more than a bit unlucky this season with key decisions and combine that with a team that fall to bits as soon as the going gets tough = bad news. We are absolutely in a relegation scrap and barring a miracle we will bottom 3 if not bottom going into the new year. The club is Spineless from top to bottom.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I'm officially worried

 

[Dooguk]

I'm officially worried

Me too.

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

Makes ya look back with fondness at the reign of Big Sam, and no mistake.

Really?
Which is your fondest memory?
Mine was the chance to go sightseeing in North London when the game was essentially over after 10minutes.
Priceless.

 

[Toast]

Isn't happening.

 

[wiggum23]

Probably need 35 points to stay up. 24 games to get 21 points, maybe a bit more.

The squad is good enough to get that, just need a manager that is.

 

[navidson]

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Isn't happening.

What odds were Leicester to win the league?

 

[Cels]

Really?
Which is your fondest memory?
Mine was the chance to go sightseeing in North London when the game was essentially over after 10minutes.
Priceless.

Oddly enough, mine was when he left us in eighth place and all we had to do then was appoint the correct manager to build on that foundation. Those were the days.

 

[Toast]

What odds were Leicester to win the league?

When ?
Before the season started or when the were top and playing boss ?

 

[navidson]

When ?
Before the season started or when the were top and playing boss ?

Either time they had massive odds on them - I'm just saying I wouldn't always take the bookies as a barometer of how likely things are to happen

 

[Toffeelover]

Our season now is not about in the top six but getting half way up the table that is the sum of our ambition.

 

[roy vernon]

I think a lot depends on who replaces Silva, the players, on the whole, are too good to go down, but, Jesus do they need somebody to kick them up their holes

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Said it in the Leicester game thread, but seven league wins should see us safe (throw in a couple of draws).

On the face of it we should comfortably win 7 from 24 games. What worries me though is there just doesn't appear to be a semblance of a fighting mentality in this team. The complete antithesis of the 90's Dogs o' War.

Not only do we not win if we concede the first goal of a game, but away from home especially, we can't seem to hang on to a lead when we do get one, i.e. Leicester and Brighton away. Such a weak mentality in this set of players.

 

[kithnou]

Things look grim right now...nothing is going our way.
Maybe I'm an optimist by nature, but I still think that after December is done, we have a winning streak in us somewhere.