WycombeToffee
Player Valuation: £1.5m
My first Everton match was that season. We lost 1-0 at home to Portsmouth. Ferguson own goal from a corner.
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That 05/06 season was when Moyes lost the plot in the transfer window wasn't it? Went all continental?
We've been relatively fortunate this season in that Barkley and Lukaku have been virtually ever-present.
Michaelcoyb
Transfer Window Time Keeper
Did the fine words of Macklemore not teach you anything?
So, another four goals today, to add to the four we scored against Hull, the six against Bournemouth, the four we put past City, not to mention ( though I'm just about to ), the three we put past WBA, Soton, Boro and S'land means we appear to be scoring for fun this season.
To put this into context, since football was inventedby Sky back in 1992, our best "Goals For" columns have been :-
So, with six games to go, we look on course to beat the 2013/14 number, and the "all time" (or, at least the version of "all time" that Murdoch's minions recognise ) record isn't out of reach.
- 1995/96 : 64
- 2013/14 : 61
- 2009/10 : 60
- 1999/00 : 59
- 2015/16 : 59
- 2016/17 : 57 ( to date, after 32 matches ).
Those of us of a certain age, can cast our minds back to the 95/96 season when a certain Andrei Kanchelskis
was playing in Royal Blue and knocking in goals on a regular basis ( Sixteen if memory serves me right, if not I'm blaming google ) with a little help from the now slightly portly club ambassador Graham Stuart who chipped in with nine. I really only mention this to justify posting a pic of Kanchelskis, and, in case Graham reads this, I'll throw one in of him too, though it's sized to reflect the fact his lesser goal scoring prowess that season
Admittedly, the "Goals for" column means Jack Wotsit if we don't win anything, which, given the seventh place trophy carries no weight in the honours rating happens to be the case this season and yes, we're relying a lot on Lukaku, a fact which David-K has highlighted at https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/are-we-a-one-man-team.95387/ so, other than acknowledging that Lukaku's improvement this season is partly down to him maturing and partly down to us playing to his strength, lets not go down that road again.
However, we, under Koeman's team of coaches seem to have found a balance between neat, possession football and actually penetrating ( ooo err missus ) other teams defences, which is nice. But OK, there's already a Koeman thread over at https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/ronald-koeman-discussion.89131/
So, if you're going to Goodison for either Burnley or Watford games and now expect us to score a hatful of goals against, so called, weaker opposition and end up watching a dreary 0-0 draw then feel free to blame me, but I'm not arsed.
Why have I typed this gubbins you might ask, or you might not. Well, it's purely to give any stattos ( or however you spell that ) amongst us something to watch for, so here's a TL;DR
TL;DR ?
Don't mention the 72 points ffs
- Four more goals equals our second best tally in the PL Era
- Unsurprisingly, five more goals would better it
- Seven more goals would equal our best ever tally and ...
- There are no prizes for guessing how many goals we need to beat it
Decent attempt, but you've barely begun to delve into the meaningless statistics. Not even a single mention of xG or anything the hyper-virgins speak of. But using my proprietary analysis (i.e., special guesswork), I've carefully calculated that Everton will finish with 69 goals for and a +26 GD.
TL;DR, what are you doing later?
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
*nods wisely and pretends to understand
what i get from this thread is that if Lukaku gets a brace every match from here out he'll have potted more than the 05/06 side.
Black Belt Jones
Player Valuation: £20m
European disaster put the team on its back for half a season - not just Villareal but getting shelled out of the UEFA by Bucherest was a massive low that seemed to really do some damage.
messymascot
Player Valuation: £35m
They kind of recovered Beattie went on a decent goalscoring run but we capitulated in the derby and then never recovered. It was a strange season.
Remember players like Ferrari, Van Der Meyde and McFadden playing a lot.
Thanks woolly. 6 games without scoring coming up.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
we scored 4 in one game vs villa too .... and still managed to lose 5-4 to them on aggregate over the two games haha. Just looked, we finished below wigan! I thought we'd genuinly never ever finished below wigan, possibly in our history. Lost 4-0 to bolton at goodison that season ( i remember that), 4-0 to WBA and that 4-0 to villa ... and you see arsenal fans moaning! ha
crockyblue79
Player Valuation: £950k
On the negative side our away goals tally has been poor, in fact we have only scored two in an away game once in 2017, and we lost that at Spurs. Couldn't even find the net at awful Boro'. Needs to work on that Koeman.
WycombeToffee
Player Valuation: £1.5m
I remember that Villa game well because it was on TV. One of their goals involved two blatant handballs, including one from Baros. Terrible.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
oh yeah ha kroldrup was in defence, probably says it all
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