Relegation

[matty1878]

Burnley got us and then Norwich we got Burnley and Man U
If Burnley get 6 points then we are f??£ed

we need to fight mate,
fight fight fight with all our might…. for the boys in the royal blue jersey

 

[PhilEFC]

Burnley look very very poor...they look like all belief has gone.

I think after todays game and Keane out then we may turn a corner.

Hoping Patterson is back but could be out a couple of weeks

Got to give Patterson a go definitely.

 

[MACCA75]

Do people genuinely believe we’d have less points than this if Benitez was still here ?

I like Lampard but I’m struggling to argue he wouldn’t have done a better job at this stage.

We concede more, score less, and he’s had players back in the side that Benitez was without for months.

Probably the same amount of points with a more dislikable manager.

And those players have come back and been crap, as was always going to happen.

 

[PhilEFC]

Take the game to Burnley early on and I believe they will fold. This is not the fighting Burnley of old.

A lad I work with has got a season ticket for them and reckons they are the worst team in the league.

Can’t have watched us very often…

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Burnley look very very poor...they look like all belief has gone.

I think after todays game and Keane out then we may turn a corner.

Hoping Patterson is back but could be out a couple of weeks

You could easily replace "Burnley" with Everton there Zat.

 

[ToffeeTim]

They’ll do their usual - sit back and bomb into the big grock in the box.

The big plus point for us, is that Keane is banned for this one, so no own goals.

The downside is hes the only one of our centre halves who can win a header

 

[davek]

Take the game to Burnley early on and I believe they will fold. This is not the fighting Burnley of old.

I said earlier we need to avoid a defeat and put Burnley right in it.

On reflection I think we better beat Burnley as they are the only type of team at this moment we'll get 3 points from.

 

[Toff33Blues99]

A lad I work with has got a season ticket for them and reckons they are the worst team in the league.

Can’t have watched us very often…

I have watched them last few games to keep an eye on their results and they make us look good. The Brentford result knocked the wind out of them

 

[BluePaul86]

Beat Burnley and were safe as houses. Simple as that

 

[Zeitgeist]

Got to give Patterson a go definitely.

By the sounds of things he's got an injury don't think we will see him weds. Unfortunate as he was gonna play today

 

[bluejohn66]

I didn't expect anything from this Rag arse outfit today and furthermore I don't against the Mighty Burnley ffs !!

 

[ToffeeTim]

The one thing I see every week with this group is players not running back fast enough when we lose possession. Its not just tactics that leave you open to transitions. The effort you are willing to put in is just as important.

We dont want it enough out there. Where is the sprinting back or the tactical fouling?

 

[Saint Domingo]

Leeds were a mess when we played them.

The Goodison atmosphere would be there in our current predicament regardless of the manager, because people are concerned about us going down if they don’t back the team.

In almost every worthwhile statistic we seem to have gone backwards.

You know my view that I think the manager is irrelevant at this point.

The players just aren’t good enough not to make individual errors. No manager can protect against that (as Ancelotti, Benitez, and now Lampard) are finding

At least under Lampard the players don’t have an immediate excuse to hide behind. We’ve seen better work rate in some games but the errors are still there. Under Benitez the players wouldn’t work and were making errors.

Our only chance to stay up now is a United Goodison for our home form and increased work rate getting us anything away from home. As soon as we made the decision to get rid of Benitez that was always going to be the case, we put off the immediate short term pain to try and get a new manager bounce. What’s become apparent is that the players are so bad that it wasn’t the tactics or mood of the manager holding them back, it was their own application and quality.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Got to give Patterson a go definitely.

Lampard says he was due to play today but its looking like a nasty ankle injury

 

[Saint Domingo]

The one thing I see every week with this group is players not running back fast enough when we lose possession. Its not just tactics that leave you open to transitions. The effort you are willing to put in is just as important.

We dont want it enough out there. Where is the sprinting back or the tactical fouling?

Gray just let’s people run past him and gets crosses in. He’s just completely stopped working from how he started the season.