But that wasnt my point.
My point was that palace arent being talked about as being relegation candidates dispite being below us but we have been since day one.
All because our useless manager has been telling everyone who'll listen that we're in a relegation battle because thats all hes capable of being and he needs everyone to think hes doing a amazing job. Instead of the actual crap show that hes put us in down to his managerial limitations.
Apart from when they were being mentioned as relegation candidates that is. When an article mentions that their number one target is to avoid relegation then it's pretty much stating that they are relegation candidates.
I'm not sure Dyche's interviews are the reason Everton are talked about as relegation candidates. I think it's the year on year relegation battles playing out against the background of a chaotic club that play a bigger part. At the start of the season there were quite a few previews who thought Everton would finish comfortably around lower mid table and not really get sucked into it all.
But if a team, with a recent and undeniable history of relegation scraps, gets battered 0-3 at home in the first game of the season do you genuinely believe that a season of struggle wouldn't be mentioned? Or is it because of what the manager says in press interviews? If he came out and talked about title challenges instead would that change the perception?