seems a long time ago now...

[ijjysmith]

how you can you say that with such conviction? Man City were in the 3rd tear 15 years ago and look where they are now.

Fairly sure them getting the richest man i've ever heard of taking them over and a free stadium helped them mate.

I'm with Mikey, we'd be in deep doo doo if we went down.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

how you can you say that with such conviction? Man City were in the 3rd tear 15 years ago and look where they are now.

What Ijjy said

 

[Toffeelover]

We got great loans in during the summer but also bought a couple of crocks, add to that suddenly a crop of injuries and not strengthening in January. So now we are struggling to score as we have no strikers available. Other teams seem to have come on form when we have gone off the boil.

 

[N.S.N.O.]

....when we were in 4th place, just 5 pts off the top, lording it over the RS down in 5th, and talk was of overtaking Chelsea shortly to go into 3rd. But it was only 6 weeks ago. It beggars belief that some posters continue to deny that the lack of activity in the January window has been a factor in our subsequent slide. Will we ever again be in a top 4 position at the half way stage of the season?

Martinez didn't spend, because the players he wanted probably weren't available....so no point spending money just for the sake of it.....in the summer we will now have money, which i assume will be to try make the lukaku deal permanent (and sort out a deal for Barry, and another loan deal for deulofeu), and then add another 2 or 3 players.....
Yes I'm disappointed too things have gone against us lately (and its painful that Liverpool will get top 4), but we need to be a little patient too....this isn't Brendan Rodgers' first season at liverpool, they've been a work in progress for a few seasons now, Everton are still in their first season playing Martinez' way....

 

[Chang Elephant]

I can't bring myself to blame Bill, he's a wonderful, caring, charismatic, handsome man, and I'm not ashamed to say he gives me warm feelings. Which other chairman could have us in 6th with a nil/negative spend over 14 years ?

 

[Toffeelover]

Which other chairman could have had us in 4th with a little bit of spend?

 

[Groucho]

Since when does a bad run of form make Evertonians react in this kneejerk way? We laugh at the reds for this you know.

A couple of bad results and the seasons over? Nah, I don't think so.....

 

[Del]

Since when does a bad run of form make Evertonians react in this kneejerk way?

A couple of bad results and the seasons over? Nah, I don't think so.....

A few bad results mixed in with the RS being 4 points off the top and smashing teams at home

Will get worse next week when we play Chelsea and they play Swansea

 

[Toffeelover]

And while we are playing Chelsea who are Liverpool, Spurs and Man U playing?

Groucho is wrong the number of games left to play is getting smaller, squad is not fully fit, it is realism not knee jerk. The others are in form we are not.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

And while we are playing Chelsea who are Liverpool, Spurs and Man U playing?

Groucho is wrong the number of games left to play is getting smaller, squad is not fully fit, it is realism not knee jerk. The others are in form we are not.

You're right, we're not in form at all

Still, if we have a good end to the season, we could have a decent finish yet

Let's face it, finishing 5th or 6th and having a run in the cup would not be bad for Martinez's first season

 

[ronnie38]

I can't bring myself to blame Bill, he's a wonderful, caring, charismatic, handsome man, and I'm not ashamed to say he gives me warm feelings. Which other chairman could have us in 6th with a nil/negative spend over 14 years ?

Hahaha

 

[ijjysmith]

You're right, we're not in form at all

Still, if we have a good end to the season, we could have a decent finish yet

Let's face it, finishing 5th or 6th and having a run in the cup would not be bad for Martinez's first season

This is so important to remember for me. Even if we do finish 6th that's still way way better than I expected this season. And there's been so many plus points too. (and a few negatives of course too).

The summer is huge for us.

 

[Toffeelover]

Too true Mikey, the season has to date given us some great football, we are not a million miles away from making it more consistent.

 

[Billy Dean]

Fairly sure them getting the richest man i've ever heard of taking them over and a free stadium helped them mate.

I'm with Mikey, we'd be in deep doo doo if we went down.

True. But you can argue the point that if we had gone down our circumstances would have been different and we might have been more ripe for takeover.

 

[ijjysmith]

True. But you can argue the point that if we had gone down our circumstances would have been different and we might have been more ripe for takeover.

Sort of yeah.

Anything could have happened really.