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Is anyone else surprised to see us sitting in seventh place after the season we've had? With 6 games to play, I can realistically see us getting another 8-10 points. We've been very hard to beat, our last league loss being the 2-0 spanking by Bolton in February.

I don't think we'll be able to catch the ****e, but I also think we have a decent chance of staying above Bolton, even though they have an easier remaining fixture list. Given the state of the table, currently, I have a feeling this is where we will sit at the end of the season. I'm a bit disappointed given the hopes we all had coming into the season, but when I look at what we've gone through (dramatic form swings, the annual injury crises, loss of Pienaar, etc.), I have to say 7th is a respectable achievement if we keep it.

Anyone else?
 

It's not an achievement, we are in the same situation as we were last season but with the hope we had for this dashed. This season may well have been our last chance with this squad to push for fourth. I am afraid that without investment in the summer it will be mid table mediocrity or worse next season.
 
We've got to start from where we're at. Which is : we've got virtually no hope of qualifying for Europe. So whatever we achieve this season will be a disappointment. But that doesn't mean that we can't still set targets, and take pride in achieving those targets, and overcoming problems such as key players missing through injury.

For me, if we manage to get 8-10 points from our last 6 and finish 7th or 8th, it will feel like a real achievement given where we're at. Make no mistake : we have no easy games left. Every one of those 6 games is going to be a struggle. Chelsea and Man City are playing for Champions League places. West Brom tonked us at Goodison and their form has improved massively under Hodgson. Blackburn and Wigan are the two games where every Evertonian will be expecting a win, but both teams are fighting relegation and have made themselves hard to beat, and indeed we failed to score against either team in the first half of the season.
 
It's an achievement if you think of where we were at Xmas but it's a massive disappointment from the start of the season.
Who would have guessed that Arteta would be pants 80% of the time and Saha wouldn't score for 4 months.

Cahill and Baines carried us, then we got a bit better then everyone got injured. Another mediocre season.
 
For such a small club (financially, which matters so much more these days) we are punching well above our weight so yes, I feel we've achieved greatly to be in the position we are now, we just need to 'keep it going'.
 

This team is good enough to qualify for Europe, the fact we wont means regardless of our terrible form this season has no real achievements for me.
 
chicoazul said:
It's a bit gay if we don't qualify for Europe.
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To break into the top 5 would be a massive achievement. A potential gap between us and Spurs of 12 points is bigger than it should be but, other than closing it, could we realistically hope for much more? We've got 18 senior players. Tottenham can afford to leave out Kaboul, Palacios, Lennon and Krancjar, loan out Keane, Bentley, Walker, Dos Santos, O'Hara and have King, Woodgate and Huddlestone injured for most of the season. The teams immediately above them spent 27m and 50m respectively on strikers. The ones at the very top of the tree have been piecing together sides for years. Even if we focussed on the cup competitions, it's all down to luck. Wouldn't we have had to have beaten Chelsea, City and United to get to the cup final this year? It would be nice to achieve Europe, but we'd need to be playing out of our skin and hoping that other teams underperformed to get there.
 

billycopper said:
To break into the top 5 would be a massive achievement. A potential gap between us and Spurs of 12 points is bigger than it should be but, other than closing it, could we realistically hope for much more? We've got 18 senior players. Tottenham can afford to leave out Kaboul, Palacios, Lennon and Krancjar, loan out Keane, Bentley, Walker, Dos Santos, O'Hara and have King, Woodgate and Huddlestone injured for most of the season. The teams immediately above them spent 27m and 50m respectively on strikers. The ones at the very top of the tree have been piecing together sides for years. Even if we focussed on the cup competitions, it's all down to luck. Wouldn't we have had to have beaten Chelsea, City and United to get to the cup final this year? It would be nice to achieve Europe, but we'd need to be playing out of our skin and hoping that other teams underperformed to get there.
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& who did we beat when we did get to the final ?

villa, r/s, ushoited. all in top 4 at the time.
 

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