2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

[Saint Domingo]

But those goals can change can't they? If we're acknowledging how awful the bottom 3 are, and that we were never ever going to get relegated, surely it's time to reset a new target. Survival was absolute my #1 hope this season, but apparently we are more than capable of that, and it's not hindsight, it's the ability to progress.

Difference between goals and prerequisites though.

Sadly ‘not going down’ will remain the pre-requisite for this club until the sell to profit transfer policy is abandoned. Hopefully the Friedkin’s change that going forward.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Difference between goals and prerequisites though.

Sadly ‘not going down’ will remain the pre-requisite for this club until the sell to profit transfer policy is abandoned. Hopefully the Friedkin’s change that going forward.

We ticked the prerequisite off by saying "we weren't ever going down". I think we're of a similar pov tbh, I just feel Dyche utterly regressed as a coach this season with us and fortunately he saw that too. But onwards and upwards, it's nice to not be in this battle. The summer will be a really really positive one.

 

[ToffeeScot]

Cooper had them 16th with 10 points from 12 games, and they’d scored in all but one of them. They were in with a good shout of staying up on that form. Since RVN took over they have 7 points from 14 and have failed to score 9 times. Coopers no guardiola but he wasn’t a bad manager for what their aims were.

Cooper is rubbish too. Just less rubbish than RVN.

 

[Miked1e]

Whilst I know we need the break, is anyone else a bit sad that we don't have a game this weekend?

Again massive change from a couple of months back when I was dreading each weekend!

 

[Marius57]

This really. Weren’t we about 8 points behind the team directly above us?

Something like that. Meaning we have won double the points of those teams above us in the same time frame.

Just makes it even more embarrassing that people were advocating for keeping Dyche despite the fact he had us down there with them. (And some of those same posters now posting about how awful the teams are and it will be the worst bottom 3 in history)

 

[formerly manx toffee]

RVN only won 7 points in 14 games. Shocking

 

[Blue Willy]

11 defeats in 12. They probably should have taken those points they dodged

 

[Saint Domingo]

RVN only won 7 points in 14 games. Shocking

Cooper had them competing, but because he’s ex Forest, plays defensive, and isn’t a young European with a methodology, the fans wanted him out. They were down as soon as the board replaced him with a coach with barely any experience. There’s a time and a place for that, but with that squad, and at that point of the season, it was probably the worst possible choice they could have made.

 

[ToffeeScot]

Cooper had them competing, but because he’s ex Forest, plays defensive, and isn’t a young European with a methodology, the fans wanted him out. They were down as soon as the board replaced him with a coach with barely any experience. There’s a time and a place for that, but with that squad, and at that point of the season, it was probably the worst possible choice they could have made.

The points total Cooper had isn't overwhelmingly better though. People are just assuming he'd get more points in those two extra games. In reality he has 3 points more in two less games. It is better and he's a better manager for Leicester than RVN is, but in truth, both are average to below average managers. Neither are or were good enough for the plight Leicester were in.

It was going to take a Moyes appointment to keep them up which is why they tried to get him.

 

[Saint Domingo]

The points total Cooper had isn't overwhelmingly better though. People are just assuming he'd get more points in those two extra games. In reality he has 3 points more in two less games. It is better and he's a better manager for Leicester than RVN is, but in truth, both are average to below average managers. Neither are or were good enough for the plight Leicester were in.

It was going to take a Moyes appointment to keep them up which is why they tried to get him.

Their squad was never good enough. Especially the defence. Faes and Vestergard is a terrible pairing. They had a more of a chance with Cooper than RVN though. Sack Cooper sure but it’s not the time for a hipster choice in that moment. Even Allardyce would have been a better bet given the number of games they had left and how poor the teams around them are.

 

[Loadsofchemistry]

The only team in the relegation scrap left to worry about is Southampton, if they can’t somehow manage to scrape a couple of points together between now and may, we will have lost to officially the worst top flight team ever.

 

[ToffeeScot]

Their squad was never good enough. Especially the defence. Faes and Vestergard is a terrible pairing. They had a more of a chance with Cooper than RVN though. Sack Cooper sure but it’s not the time for a hipster choice in that moment. Even Allardyce would have been a better bet given the number of games they had left and how poor the teams around them are.

Cooper entered the season playing both of those. Hiring Cooper was a mistake in the first place, and then hiring RVN after sacking Cooper was a bigger mistake.

They're both mistakes. Both not good enough.

 

[Iana]

Cooper had them 16th with 10 points from 12 games, and they’d scored in all but one of them. They were in with a good shout of staying up on that form. Since RVN took over they have 7 points from 14 and have failed to score 9 times. Coopers no guardiola but he wasn’t a bad manager for what their aims were.

I thought they were the worst team(even under Cooper) we played until Southampton away but he did have a system which was getting some points

How we only drew that game is beyond me.

 

[Blue Smoke]

The only team in the relegation scrap left to worry about is Southampton, if they can’t somehow manage to scrape a couple of points together between now and may, we will have lost to officially the worst top flight team ever.

they still have to play us at home. Our last ever goodison match...imagine they do the double over us!!!

 

[Blue Alert]

Breaking News. Frustrated in their efforts to see Everton relegated from the Premier League, from next season the organisation will amend the rules surrounding relegation.

Instead of the bottom three teams being relegated, the owners of Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur will be invited to select three teams from the league to be sent packing.

For administrative reasons, the teams responsible for choosing will not be at risk themselves. It is hoped that the traditional enmity between Everton and both Liverpool and Manchester United will see them select Everton as one of the three to be relegated.

The changes should, hopes league Chief Executive Richard Masters, combat the ongoing problems of increasingly terrible teams being promoted from the football league, the unfortunately ineffective policy of not giving Everton penalty kicks, ****ing David Moyes, and The Friedkin Group’s recent takeover of Everton neutralising any threat the Premier League’s PSR rules might pose. “****ing **** ****ing ********”, Masters is thought to have said.

Talks are also believed to be underway to award the Premier League title to all six teams involved in the new relegation ‘fight’ - in gratitude for their time. Masters hopes this will trick UEFA into admitting all six to the Champions League, ideally at the expense of “****ing imposters” like Aston Villa, Newcastle United or Nottingham Forest.

When asked to comment, Manchester United shareholder Jim Ratcliffe may have said “We don’t care what this looks like, now will someone please convert Old Trafford’s disabled viewing areas into regular priced seating. They’re costing too much money.”