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Giving up on them

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Spart said:
I know it's sacrilege to even think such things but I am finding it increasingly harder to give a damn about this club.

It's brought me nought but abject misery for most of my adult life so why should it be down to me to somehow rescue it from the abyss now?

If a dog, a job, a car or even a wife had battered your head for 30 odd years as much as Everton have you would have walked away ages ago and restarted your life with something new.

I think it's high time we ditched this feckless, useless drain on our resources and our mental health and just let it put itself to sleep permanently.
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I do understand what you are saying but its not even just everton. It's football in general. So disillusioned with it all.

The repeated, blatant var calls that suggest how corrupt it is which happen week after week in favour of the sly 6 (Chelsea yesterday, City last week etc) along with fans clamouring for Russian oligarchs, human rights abusers etc etc. It's really demoralising. Arguements on here that we should have maintained our sponsors with Usmanovs businesses etc. There is zero chance of breaking that monopoly unless you tie in to such despicable owners etc and even then, Newcastle got screwed yesterday.

Then everton itself. A chairman who did his "due dilligence" for 30 years for a new owners and comes up with someone who has zero clue, who is coming close to completely wrecking the club and getting us relegated after hiring the most divisive manager he could to prove a point to the fans, signing appalling players for stupid money, who essentially was using us for his friend to launder money or whatever usmanov was using us for.

Unfortunately for us though, we were born, not manufactured, and while you think you can choose to not care, you can't. Everton is more than the owners, the players, the premier league. Everton is us, win, lose, or draw.
 
I think if we could, we would all care less about Everton than we do. I wish losing football matches didn't make me grumpy, and would happily take advice on how to ignore them! I'm better at dealing with it now than a few years ago, but it still makes me frustrated and moody. It's just a lot easier said than done to detach yourself from the club. I can accept losing games and the club being mediocre. I can't accept throwing hundreds of millions down the drain, while making bang average footballers who don't give a toss about Everton multi millionaires

We are a prime example of everything wrong with modern football, and it makes me feel embarrassed and pretty angry. Maybe over time the acceptance will sink in that we will never be successful. I hope it comes soon because I don't like spending my Saturday or Sunday nights frustrated with millionaires I will never meet, who don't care if they win or lose.

I want a group of players with at least a few I can identify with and who represent the club's values. Is that unrealistic in top flight football in 2022?
 

Voodoo Billy said:
I was hopeful 'till yesterday. I even posted on here believing that a nasty Goodison for the away side would get us over the line. But having sat through that match yesterday I really can't see it anymore. The incidents with Hwang said it all, giving Wolves the ball back every time he went down, the linesman was stood in front of us clearly telling Gordon to put the throw out of play for a goal kick on the last occasion it happened and the young lad listened to him. If you have enough quality you can get through with fight and if you have enough fight there's a chance of picking up enough points with less quality, sadly this team has a shocking absence of both.
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I said from November. This team reminds me so much of Newcastles team that went down when Shearer was managing. I went to st james park when they were in a similiar place to ours. Just outside drop zone. They lost that day and the air of acceptance by players and fans was shocking there was zero fight in them. This team and it's hard to say...
the fans too have nearly given up. We should be fighting with everything we have got. Instead it takes seamus coleman a full minute to take throw ins. It's like we are sleep walking
 
Spart said:
I know it's sacrilege to even think such things but I am finding it increasingly harder to give a damn about this club.

It's brought me nought but abject misery for most of my adult life so why should it be down to me to somehow rescue it from the abyss now?

If a dog, a job, a car or even a wife had battered your head for 30 odd years as much as Everton have you would have walked away ages ago and restarted your life with something new.

I think it's high time we ditched this feckless, useless drain on our resources and our mental health and just let it put itself to sleep permanently.
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I know what you mean. There's so much debate about 'real fans' and how you have to support the team whatever state they're in, but it costs so much money, so much time and mental energy that it sometimes just makes you feel like it's not worth it. Especially when you put it together with the way the game is - all money and weighted towards those big 6 - it seems like it's unfair and there's no point.

It is considered sacrilege, but if the stress of supporting us is taking me away from my challenges in my job, own health, and most of all with my family of young children, what is this all for? This season I have often tried to 'switch off' from us for a while, and tried to tell myself I care less, so that every Monday morning doesn't bring an extra dose of stress and depression from the weekends' result. However big of a fan I am, sometimes ' it's only football ' helps a lot.
 

Understand the sentimentality but much as I hate the useless shower atm, I can never just drop them. I am more numb to defeats though, I was fuming after Spurs for a bit then just threw on some daft videos on YouTube and disengaged my brain. The same happened yesterday, after the goal went in I switched focus more to my Portsmouth team on Football Manager, even though I’ve struggled on the second season after winning promotion in the first
 
Reading this thread and there's so many posts that match how I feel, being able to identify what everton was and what we stood for used to be easier than it is and that wasn't about being good, average or poor. Now I don't see it just a bunch of overpaid losers who don't care.

And the points made about the lack of competition and injustice week in and week out just adds to the lack of excitement. I was speaking to a Wolves fan and he felt the same about his own club even after the win for them at the weekend.

But the points around everton being more than the things that depress us is also true, everton is family. Its standing on the terraces with our dad's, brothers, sisters and friends it's them magic memories under the lights when the unexpected happens. I still remember the feeling and the electricity in the air my first game with my Dad and 25 years later I'm still sat next to my arl man in the hope of feeling that magic again, and I wouldn't change it despite the crap we have to watch in fact when me and my dad no longer do it I'll miss it desperately.
 
These sort of knee-jerk reactions don’t help anyone.

Our players gave absolutely everything yesterday, which is obviously all we can ask of them. The quality simply isn’t there. It’s as simple as that. Blame six years of terrible recruitment policy, not the players.

We were miles better than we were at Tottenham. In the first half of the match the players really responded to the support of the fans and we were actually the better team.
 
gorgeousgeorgeEFC said:
These sort of knee-jerk reactions don’t help anyone.

Our players gave absolutely everything yesterday, which is obviously all we can ask of them. The quality simply isn’t there. It’s as simple as that. Blame six years of terrible recruitment policy, not the players.

We were miles better than we were at Tottenham. In the first half of the match the players really responded to the support of the fans and we were actually the better team.
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"Our players gave absolutely everything yesterday, which is obviously all we can ask of them" theres a video on Twitter of fans in the Street End chanting "your not fit to wear the shirt" didt they give everything? I dunno either way, but I cant see them looking forward to Thursday one bit
 

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