Armageddon

[Bluebonic]

Looking forward to the following stat….
A team has only avoided relegation after being on 4 points after 12 games twice. That team was Everton FC, who achieved the amazing feat in 1994/95 and in 2023/24 seasons.

 

[Toffeeslam]

This thread is a bit OTT isn’t it ?

 

[summerisle]

The fanbase has shifted into a war footing.

Whatever happens, wherever it takes us, we fight on.

Get on board, don’t give up. We’ll pull the club through the lot of it.

Exactly.

 

[tommye]

...we have a set of untrustworthy snides with suspect finances in charge...

 

[brieverton]

I'm fearful and it's all ifs and buts.

If we survive come May with the stadium almost completed at that point then there should be a hell of a celebration.

I'd love to see us confirm our status at the Old Lady and give us an afternoon / night that would make the Crystal Palace scenes tame by comparison.

We've been scapegoated here and the PL want us out.

IF we survive intact through the next six months it will be talked and written about for decades to come.

I'd rather not think of the consequences if we don't. Even then history will record that we fell for reasons nothing to do with football.

 

[The binman chronicles]

It's a non stop soap opera that always seems to get worse so I'm not ruling anything out from here. Fingers crossed 777 drop out and a new white knight appears who actually have means to sponsor us to put the money back on the pitch.

Also got to hope the players keep performing as if we lose 3 or so games on the bounce the feeling is going to be horrible.

 

[Dublin blue 75]

Im the opposite.
10 points deduction and we are still in the fight to stay up.
A bad board has/will be replaced.
An aging stadium is being replaced by an iconic modern one.
An underperforming team is changing to one with a bit of pride.
A fractured fan base is galvanised.

It’s all coming to a head and a change is happening.

Blue Bill, Professor Denise and the Panda man are gone. Literally anyone are more likely to execute on plans than the previous mess of a hierarchy.

Onwards.

 

[Bluebonic]

Get your stock of blue flares in (the pyrotechnics, not the Kecks) and somebody find out where that Alsatian lives and get him on a retainer! By the end of this season our skin will be permanently dyed blue and our lungs will be shot to ribbons with all the smoke inhalation. We’ll look like a load of smurfs in a pleurisy ward!

 

[Scarecrow]

You know what? If you told me we would be two points from safety at this point in November at the start of the season, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.

The fact that we've already made up ten points on the crap sides only bodes well for the rest of the season. The PL have inflicted the biggest punishment in the history of the league, and we'll stroll out on the other side, with middle fingers showing in our rear view mirror.

We'll have the FA Cup too, thanks!

Dogs of War, indeed!

 

[TyphooToffee]

I was honestly thinking the opposite. With a United fan base and a decent team and when we pull ourselves clear of the relegation scrap after that 10 point farce, I'm sure our interest to potential buyers will increase, especially with BMD almost finished.
I think there just may be a silver lining to this cloud.

My silver lining would be us and Luton finishing 18th and 19th but staying up because Chelsea and Man City are automatically relegated.

That said, I think we'll finish comfortably mid table and Chelsea and Man City will get a fine, if anything at all.

 

[TyphooToffee]

Looking forward to the following stat….
A team has only avoided relegation after being on 4 points after 12 games twice. That team was Everton FC, who achieved the amazing feat in 1994/95 and in 2023/24 seasons.

Will be a pub quiz question in 15-20 years time.

 

[Milk]

Im the opposite.
10 points deduction and we are still in the fight to stay up.
A bad board has/will be replaced.
An aging stadium is being replaced by an iconic modern one.
An underperforming team is changing to one with a bit of pride.
A fractured fan base is galvanised.

It’s all coming to a head and a change is happening.

Can‘t have this positivity ffs …

Daily Fail are trumpeting that we will get an additional 9 point deduction… after the relegated clubs sue us and we PLUNGE in to administration

Everton face administration if rival clubs are compensated

Mail Sport revealed on Friday that Burnley, Leeds and Leicester are pressing ahead with plans to bring a compensation claim against Everton, which would be heard by another three-person panel.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Scarecrow]

They also had a 'Sneak Peak', at Bramley Moore last week, so obviously a load of cack.

A rag for illiterates, by illiterates.

 

[Verbal Kint]

I am struggling to see a way out of this mess for us. It looks like a perfect storm scenario has occurred where there is now a real risk that the end game could be the club going out of business.

We are currently in a situation where we are only able to meet our day to day running costs with the support of high interest loans from 777. Just one of several parties that we have borrowed huge sums from.

The general consensus is that 777 could be even worse owners than our current lot and that we would effectively become part of some Ponzi scheme. There is a chance the takeover won’t be ratified but where would that leave us?

Surely with the uncertainty hanging over the club no sane investor is going to swoop in. There are several creditors to pay off and the stadium to fund. How do people predict this is going to play out?

I think 777 won’t be ratified and things will unravel quickly from there. No alternative investor will swoop in in time and we will go into administration early next year. Another 9 points deducted and certain relegation. Work obviously ceases on the stadium. We will then receive huge fines from the civil courts from Leicester and Burnley that will send us into oblivion leaving us having to start again from the bottom of the pyramid

If we could have avoided the points penalty perhaps a suspended sentence I saw a potential path to salvation with possible interest from alternative parties to 777 but I think that is gone now.

Apologies for the depressing post but this is very sad

Mate we've been in much much worse situations than this.... I saw no way out at 2-0 against Wimbledon in 1994, I saw no way we survived in the previous seasons.... We are two points from safety, we are in a much better position this year as I think we are vastly better than the 3 promoted clubs.

And you are forgetting something, we know have a clause, we have no much pent up frustration at how we have been treated. We are in a QF of a league cup....

I'm usually the most pessimistic fan going but it wouldn't shock me one bit if we ended up on 40 points even with the deduction and we ended up winning the league cup.....

We can attack our club all we like and most of the time it's justified but come after us like this you better make damn sure if you are a player nothing and I mean nothing but full bloodied dogs of war effort will be expected from you from now until seasons end.

We Shall not be moved.

Sit back and enjoy the show

 

[PeregrineT]

Armageddon, or the storm before the calm? If they fail to relegate us, we will now have come through stronger, unified, with neutrals all backing us against the corrupt league, with a new stadium, and poor spending in the past. Not to say any new owners cant repeat the mistakes, but its at least a clean slate to work with.