YoboCopter
Player Valuation: £40m
Wont go down, but the attack is worthy of a team that could go down so we wont be finishing anywhere near top half
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Alan0401
Player Valuation: £8m
Lack of goals are worrying. Nowhere near good enough up top.
CalBuckeye_Rob
Player Valuation: £1m
This is a tough season to survive and I expect at least one big surprise to get sent down. The teams from about 8 to 20 are as close as I have seen in recent memory. No one is horrible. I don't believe anyone finishes below 30. I expect a huge cluster between 35 and 45 points so a 4 game losing streak can take you from feeling safe to feeling like you are in trouble. Goal scoring remains a big problem for Everton. They need to improve that or it could get scary like last year.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
The flip is though mate, we are 13th, and haven't been hammered in a single game this season. We have the 4th or 5th best defensive record. Sides who typically concede less than 55 goals don't go down, almost irrespective of their attack.
There are sides in this league, who are a lot worse than us. Wolves, Forest, Villa, Leicester to name 4 who just can't keep it tight. In the end, if you can't grind out results, you get in serious trouble (as we found last season).
We are one of 6-8 teams above that group who could get sucked in, but does look unlikely at present.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
It's only like a 12/13 team league really. Like honestly, at the start of the season, if I'd have said to you Forest, Wolves, Leicester or Fulham, Brighton and Palace, name which one will be top half and which one would be bottom 3 I honestly think you'd have had as much luck tossing a coin.
It's why it makes picking up draws quite important too. You keep sides near to you and prevent them getting momentum, and you keep your own momentum going. That was what we didn't do last season.
The 3 in there currently are getting around 26-32 points across a season. I think it will remain that way. Probably 32/33 for survival for us (with good goal difference). I think Forest will start to get a bit cut off. That tends to happen in the final quarter of the season, sides in that bottom area fall away. It's why it was a bit of a miracle we avoided that.
Toff33Blues99
Player Valuation: £15m
We will struggle to get enough wins under this guy to not be in the relegation battle
Nice to see you have a couple of days in the gulag then come back as cheerful as ever.
Toff33Blues99
Player Valuation: £15m
This is me cheerful, you should see when am in a mood, like when we slip into relegation battle
Honestly not sure we’d be able to notice.
Toff33Blues99
Player Valuation: £15m
It's a subtle difference that only clever people understand so don't worry about it.
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £60m
Only stupid people are talking about Everton being in a relegation fight.
Lampard:Thelwell has addressed the defence and midfield. 90% nailed it.
The interest in Kudos shows they know what is required. It’s all in hand.
The interest in Kudos shows they know what is required. It’s all in hand.
PeregrineT
Player Valuation: £35m
Its not.
Also, this is quite the myth about how we are scoring too little to be safe. Defense is way more important. We are 15th in scoring, not even bottom 5. We are 4th in goals allowed. Will have an easy 45-50 points at that pace.
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £70m
It's a balancing act, but for sure it's hugely important that we keep a respectable GD whilst grinding out the odd draw here and there. We're more or less level with Bournemouth at present but their GD is something daft like -13 already. Stuff like that could ultimately be worth a place or two in the table considering how tight things could get points-wise.
Toff33Blues99
Player Valuation: £15m
You got to have both, we can't simply rely on Coady and Tark throwing themselves into tackles. At some stage we have to attack and score goals, especially against the lesser teams
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