Top Four Possibility

[Kaiser Soysauce]

No. Top 8 might not even be on if Lukaku gets injured. Chill people, let's just focus overhauling 6th if we can, for now.

No one is, erm, un-chilled? Just optimistic, which is great for Everton. So many years of pessimism and despair. It's nice to see.

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

Manure should be our 1st target. We are five points behind them, we need to keep winning, beat them at OT and hope the drippoints somewhere. If we - a big if imo- catch them then the team in 5th become OUR target.

There, fixed.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Oh for sure, the chances are still very slim indeed, and as I say, we don't have a great record of performing when things really matter.

My concern is that we dont have a great record against teams that park the bus as we often struggle to break them down. So these "winnable" run of fixtures never turn out as we expect.

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

When Stoke smash us tonight with fat Saido Berahino baggin a brace, 2 things will happen:
1) This place will implode and the entire internet will break
2) Mikey will be dancing round in his gruds telling anybody who cares that we should have signed that fat little waster

If porn didn't break the internet, nothing will

 

[ianefc]

We've got our best chance for a few years. 6 points is a must between now and Sunday. Otherwise forget it.

 

[PickeringBlue]

Don't think we will manage it (would require probably 12 wins from 16)....but it would be one hell of a fun ride if we did!

 

[Tubey]

We'd need to win 10 of our remaining 16 games to just get the points tally needed for 4th last year, and normally the bar is about 70 points, so you're looking at needing to win 12 of the 16.

So no, it's simply not viable. Breaking the top six at this point would be a considerable achievement; the top four would be a miracle.

 

[peteblue]

To even ask the question shows how we are progressing......

 

[TheGhostOfBolasie]

We're basically playing everybody above us away from home still. No chance will we get top four, however I think sixth may be a possibility.

 

[tim cahill]

We're basically playing everybody above us away from home still. No chance will we get top four, however I think sixth may be a possibility.

We've picked up plenty of points off them so far.

 

[Tubey]

We're basically playing everybody above us away from home still. No chance will we get top four, however I think sixth may be a possibility.

To be fair though, if we beat everyone below us and lost to everyone above us, we'd probably finish 4th.

We're Everton though, so we don't do that.

 

[zandvoort blue]

We need 37 points from 16 games for even the merest hint of progress to be shown

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tubey]

To even ask the question shows how we are progressing......

I don't think we are yet. We've just had a good patch; there's still serious problems with the balance of the squad, and this run is the definition of papering over the cracks.

Big summer ahead - for me, rather than ask if we can get top four, the question should be whether we can hold seventh with this team.

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

I don't think we are yet. We've just had a good patch; there's still serious problems with the balance of the squad, and this run is the definition of papering over the cracks.

Big summer ahead - for me, rather than ask if we can get top four, the question should be whether we can hold seventh with this team.

What, the team that beat Man City 4-0?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

It's Everton, a few defeats are always round the corner, first of them could easily be tonight.