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Is This the Worst Period in Our History

dannyboy said:
I think it's definitely the worst. You can point to the fact we were relegated but football was different back then. We were still a big club always likely to be back challenging for top honours quickly. Right now, we've never been further from the top and it's the longest period without a trophy.

The new stadium gives us cause for some optimism but I can't help but feel we'll just continue following the path we are now.
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Its going to be hilarious when we get into the stadium adn all the 'just get us through till we move to the stadium' folk are like 'What now!'
 
Our league finishes over the last 3 years and the quality of football served up is the worst I’ve seen in my lifetime (I’m in my mid 50s). In the last 10 years we’ve had fleeting moments of optimism. Martinez’s first season and Carlo’s beginning to the Covid season. But thanks to Moshiri and the countless wrong managerial appointments and squandering of money on average players on high wages, we are we’re we are. I’ve never known such pessimism amongst the fans, no one expected us to go on and win against 10 men at home on Saturday, just says it all really. Let’s just hope the new owners make right appointments right across the club at all levels as the club needs a complete overhaul from top to bottom.
 

Probably not in our entire history but in my 57 years of being a blue, i cannot remember being this dissociated and apathetic about my beloved Everton. Hoping TFG is the real reset and the start to being something meaningful and proud of again.
 
Basically what I was saying in my similar thread, it’s arguably the worst squad we’ve had since pre-Moyes, bereft of quality and athleticism.

No wonder we’ve struggled now for around 5 years. Any quality we have brought in has gone back out the door. It’s been a miserable few years, almost entirely on Moshiri and our failed recruitment from the top down.

The Tosun/Walcott/Bolasie/Gbamin (to name four of a list of around 20) is what’s done for us.
 

Ed_Winchester said:
The bleak Smith years and Howard Version III was a grim period.
Mitch Ward, John Spencer, Tony Thomas are names from the past to make you shudder.

Are we much better off now? We’ve splurged the cash and are right back where we started.

The Martinez first season was the last chance to take the club forwards but his unwillingness to address defensive frailties started the slide to where we are now.

People talk about Kevin Brock’s backpass as that turning point for success in the 80’s.
Well, 2-0 up at home to West Ham, then having Mirallas sent off, Lukaku missing a pen and Niasse coming on, and losing 3-2 was the beginning of this current nightmare for me.
We managed to paper over the cracks for a while, but it was the start of our slide.
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Marc bolan said:
Well we did get to two fa cup semi-finals & promotion with a crowd avv over 60000
Plus we had the privilege to watch Dave Hickson
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And Peter Farrell and Tommy Eglinton and T E Jones and Jimmy O'Neil etc etc.
 
Raino85 said:
Its going to be hilarious when we get into the stadium adn all the 'just get us through till we move to the stadium' folk are like 'What now!'
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I think the "I can't stand Goodison" posts on Twitter just show a huge naivety. People see the ground as being synonymous with failure but while we've been there we've won 8 league titles, 5 FA Cups and the Cup Winners Cup. It's all seen top flight football nearly every year since its inception.

It would be a brave betting man that says we'll see anywhere near that amount of success if we stay about BMD for 100 years.
 
dannyboy said:
I think the "I can't stand Goodison" posts on Twitter just show a huge naivety. People see the ground as being synonymous with failure but while we've been there we've won 8 league titles, 5 FA Cups and the Cup Winners Cup. It's all seen top flight football nearly every year since its inception.

It would be a brave betting man that says we'll see anywhere near that amount of success if we stay about BMD for 100 years.
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A large percentage (anyone under the age of 40) of the crowd that go to the game will not of experienced a single one of league or cup wins.

The last 5 years has been a slog, our record at home has been woeful since Silva
 
Harryflashman said:
See now here’s my opinion on this , what you went through was awful but when before the money arrived you eventually came back up which means you had good seasons with lots of wins to cheer , to fall in love with your side again .

Everton were basically been in purgatory for years , a sort of grey nothingness . I’ve never wanted to go down and I’ve celebrated when we didn’t , doubt I will again but would I swap the last decade for Leicester’s with relegations and trophy then the answer is in a heartbeat .

With our non-relegation it almost feels like a boxers ‘zero ‘ and we’re protected it all all costs but to the detriment of our football enjoyment.
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Totally agree with this. I've said it before, I'm not wishing relegation on us or whatever, but the sheer nothingness of supporting us for the last 30 years is incredible. Somewhere between 4th and 17th every year, no trophies, barely any notable victories away from home, it's been absolutely brutal.
 

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