Season Prediction

[ChesterBlue]

the guardian has us going down?

are they for real

Glendenning and the Kopite on their pod had us going down yeah

 

[matty1878]

The Guardian brains trust have us 19th:

Max Rushden - generic presenter with no discernible skills or talent
Barry Glendenning - token drunken Irishman they’ve found in a pub somewhere, as funny as a burning orphanage
Jonathan Liew - bullied at school, never kicked a ball in his life, even Jonathan Agnew called him a [Poor language removed]
Jordan Jarrett - no idea who this is

they don’t have a clue

 

[Bedfordblue]

 

[Saint Domingo]

Can chalk a good few points off that now.

It’s 2025 and another Everton manager will be playing a back 5 with Michael Keane and Seamus Coleman in it at the start of a season because he’s got no senior options at right back or left back and one first choice CB available.

Absolute shambles.

 

[Duncan’s Pigeon Loft]

Can chalk a good few points off that now.

It’s 2025 and another Everton manager will be playing a back 5 with Michael Keane and Seamus Coleman in it at the start of a season because he’s got no senior options at right back or left back and one first choice CB available.

Absolute shambles.

Just play O’Brien CB and Garner RB. Or anyone at right back, as long as it means O’Brien in instead of Keane.

Sadly this won’t happen

 

[Saint Domingo]

Just play O’Brien CB and Garner RB. Or anyone at right back, as long as it means O’Brien in instead of Keane.

Sadly this won’t happen

Nah the optimism has gone for me now.

I thought this might be a turning point for Everton but once again it’s the usual stories of injuries and the same old cowardly players resurfacing.

All these years later and the team sheet is still probably going to start with Coleman Keane.

 

[matty1878]

Nah the optimism has gone for me now.

I thought this might be a turning point for Everton but once again it’s the usual stories of injuries and the same old cowardly players resurfacing.

All these years later and the team sheet is still probably going to start with Coleman Keane.

ye one injury has ended the season

behave

 

[Duncan’s Pigeon Loft]

Nah the optimism has gone for me now.

I thought this might be a turning point for Everton but once again it’s the usual stories of injuries and the same old cowardly players resurfacing.

All these years later and the team sheet is still probably going to start with Coleman Keane.

for what it’s worth I’d have promoted a U23 centre back ahead of keeping Keane.

A poor decision by the club to keep him on

 

[Saint Domingo]

ye one injury has ended the season

behave

Didn’t say it’s ended the season, said the optimism has gone, which it has.

I’d be amazed if we get a fast start because once again no one has a clue what the team will be for Leeds and will probably be a formation and combinations we haven’t played at all. Then when the players return we’ll switch it all round again. At some point probably about late October we’ll settle on a team that actually works.

Then it gets decimated over Christmas and January, followed by all the players gradually returning as we put in a good end of season run when it doesn’t even matter because we’re so far behind.

This is basically the pattern of most season under Moyes.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Infighting about the manager by the first international break.

Writing off new signings after 3 games

An embarrassing loss or two

A surprise win or three

Standard stuff.

 

[coollino]

As long as I'm bored by March I don't care

 

[matty1878]

Didn’t say it’s ended the season, said the optimism has gone, which it has.

I’d be amazed if we get a fast start because once again no one has a clue what the team will be for Leeds and will probably be a formation and combinations we haven’t played at all. Then when the players return we’ll switch it all round again. At some point probably about late October we’ll settle on a team that actually works.

Then it gets decimated over Christmas and January, followed by all the players gradually returning as we put in a good end of season run when it doesn’t even matter because we’re so far behind.

This is basically the pattern of most season under Moyes.

the optimism has gone for you

not me

 

[matty1878]

As long as I'm bored by March I don't care

?

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

?

He means not crapping it at the prospect of relegation.

 

[Sona]

Work backwards from the bottom:

We will finish above the three promoted teams (Burnley, Leeds and Sunderland). 20th, 19th, 18th.

We will finish above Wolves. 17th.

Brentford have lost their manager and some key players. 16th.

Bournemouth will struggle having had their back four decimated. 15th.

West Ham have lost Kudus and don’t have the personnel to play Potter’s style IMO. 14th.

Brighton have lost their main goal threat. 13th.

Palace lack the depth to compete in Europe as well as the league despite having an excellent manager and some very good attacking players. 12th.

Newcastle’s Isak saga combined with European football could be their undoing. 11th.

Fulham. No ins, no outs. Just unrest. Definition of mid table. 10th.

EVERTON. This is where we’re at. 9th. Or with a bit of luck… (see below)

I wonder how much the United signings improve them? Up for debate, but possible. No European football so they can focus fully on the league. We’d need a lot of luck to finish here. 8th.

Spurs (see United RE: signings), plus a top manager in Frank. But then again, they could Spurs it. Possibility to finish above them? 7th.

Forest. Good squad and good manager. 6th.

Villa. Good squad and good manager. 5th.

Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea World Champs, the RS, all guaranteed to finish above us. 4th to 1st.