Are we to blame?

Are the fans to blame?

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We had one of our worst ever seasons of home form last season, 9 defeats in the league and home defeats in both cups. This was in an empty home stadium, although some fans allowed in for Chelsea and Arsenal to help us win those games or it might have been 11 defeats.

If it's the fans to blame why were we better away last season than an empty Goodison?
 

chicoazul said:
Now hear me out on this but I’ve been thinking that there has to be something else that is a consistent in the failure of repeated Everton managers with an owner backing them financially. Obviously it’s not nice to hear this but do we as fans cause the toxicity around our club that means all are doomed to fail? Not saying it’s entirely the fans fault but the atmosphere of hysteria created by Evertonians is worse than Geordies, young players abused by fat dars or over hyped by FIFA obsessed millennials don’t stand a chance. Current narrative is that Moshiri is failing Everton but in my mind the fans are in cahoots with him after celebrating wildly a rich stranger taking over the club more than we celebrated the last trophy in 1995. Evertonians deserve better is a strap line used often but why do they deserve better and is this part of the entitled narrative that burdens anyone trying to fix the problem? Some, well many, Evertonians sabotage managerial appointments from the start as it wasn’t the manager they wanted and scouted themselves, so want to be proved right in their heads by the manager’s failure rather than Everton success.
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Yes, yes we do, we are terrible people. Most of us think Everton are entitled to success because of the good spell they had in the 80s, have far too high expectations, and very little patience. It's only a matter of time before some start punching Police Horses in the head.
 
According to the BBC Football website, Benitez didn't say 'scared of the fans'.

One of the main issues that Benitez identified is that

‘some of Everton’s first-team players struggle to perform in front of the Goodison faithful and buckle under the expectations of the fanbase.’
 
We are like we are for a number of reasons. Mainly because we have to endure crap on the pitch week in week out. But it's generally not a great atmosphere at GP these days. I took my partner to her first football match back in September. Despite eventually winning the game fairly comfortably (despite 60 mins of rubbish) and continuing our good start to the season, she wasn't keen on going to another game. We're generally a moody fan base, we like to complain, there's little encouragement and everyone is completely on edge during the game.

I think being an Everton fan in the last 30ish years is quite unique fan experience in so far that we haven't sunk so low to get relegated and we haven't got close to winning anything. There's no big lows or any highs to experience. We've just merely bobbled along somewhere in the middle. I think this brings with it a (fairly) unique sense of frustration.
 

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