2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

[knowing your history]

After watching today, I’d put my money on Wolves being the third team down. But Ipswich barely stays up. S’ton and Leicester are done.

Wolves weren't that bad. Molineux form will decide whether they stay up or not.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Safe...close thread.
Let's concentrate on top 8 now.

Let's actually get to safety first before we start making grandiose statements like this eh?

 

[MaximusEvertonius]

I have to say I was shocked and surprised to see spurs only 4 points above us having played a game more.

I haven’t really been watching their results but for how much they have spent that mind blowing

If we’d been playing this way from the beginning, Spurs could be looking at the beginning of a relegation battle.

 

[Street end man]

Let's actually get to safety first before we start making grandiose statements like this eh?

No

 

[Victus]

For once we actually did ourselves a favour. Love it.

 

[D. Amokachi]

we’re not out of the woods yet, but that was a good weekend. 4 points, at least 9gd and a game in hand over our rivals.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

After watching today, I’d put my money on Wolves being the third team down. But Ipswich barely stays up. S’ton and Leicester are done.

Honestly I think it depends on whether we can have a sustained run and break away from the pack, and also whether someone else has a bad run and drops in

The only team I could really see the latter happening to is Palace, and even then it's unlikely

Spurs, United and West Ham will all be fine

If Palace lose 3-4 on the bounce whilst someone like Us, Wolves or Ipswich can put a run together at the same time, then they could always get dragged into it again and then they have to get a survival season mentality going from a standing start whilst the rest of us have been dog fighting all season and will arguably be better equipped to handle it mentally

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

For once we actually did ourselves a favour. Love it.

That win was gigantic

And, to be fair to Dyche, those three points from Chelsea, Arsenal and City could prove to be vital when all is said and done as well

Going into those games you could have easily predicted us getting whipped in all three of them, and that would have us just 1 point above Wolves right now

 

[T Bone]

Wolves should have got Moyes.

But it was us that got the top 5 manager in the league.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

we’re not out of the woods yet, but that was a good weekend. 4 points, at least 9gd and a game in hand over our rivals.

Survival is as much a mentality thing as it is anything else

What you can NEVER do in a situation like this is rest on the laurels, and that goes for everyone, supporters included

Until you're safe, you're not safe, and you can't drop the intensity one little bit until you're over the line

It's been SUCH a drag having to maintain that kind of intensity for, now, four seasons on the trot, and it's no surprise that Goodison has been so flat for most of this season

It wears you down, but you have to just pull up your socks and get on with it in the hope that you once again survive and next season you finally kick on and finish higher up the table with less stress attached to it

I hope we stay up and next season we don't need one of these threads, but right now it's a survival season and we need to get it right once again as a fan base, like we've done the past three seasons

 

[James Patrick]

Loads more to do - we will still lose games - lets hope we can get the wins we need asap.

 

[DanB90]

Is Wolves’ new manager bounce over with now, or are they still gonna go on that 10 game win streak?

 

[Street end man]

We are as close to relegation as we are to overtaking Spurs.
This glass half empty stuff is part of the problem.
Everton don't do relegation. Yes vault it.
COYB.

 

[Drico]

Let's beat Leicester before sucking each other's optimism.

 

[MikeH72]

That win was gigantic

And, to be fair to Dyche, those three points from Chelsea, Arsenal and City could prove to be vital when all is said and done as well

Going into those games you could have easily predicted us getting whipped in all three of them, and that would have us just 1 point above Wolves right now

But then we have to remove that credit when we remember that we got beat by Southampton.