Relegation 2022/23

[Lapeno77]

Anyone thinking that relegation has ANYTHING to recommend itself to us are off the charts mad.

There will be no rebirth or baptism of fire.

This club is a financial basket case and there'll be no fantastic recruitment policy getting us back into the PL within a couple of seasons. We would more likely become a bottom half of the Championship club for many years.

We are stiring into the abyss now. Not just football wise either. If Everton are relegated this will be a social catastrophe and an economic catastrophe too.

Survival is the only option we have if all that is to be avoided.

The next Fiorentina. Been a while since there has been a cautionary tale, may well be our turn

 

[MrGrumpy]

The next Fiorentina. Been a while since there has been a cautionary tale, may well be our turn

Didn’t they get auto promoted like 2 leagues or something daft

 

[Doubletree]

If and it’s a big if, there was a points deduction from the prem, could that be carried on to the championship?

 

[ForeverEverton]

I feel really depressed today, it is glaringly obvious what is going to happen....

I never thought a Dyche team would fold like it has for 2 games running, 1 you can stomach but to get so convincingly beaten home and away is scary.

I dont think there is away back from here, if we go down we are more likely to drop to League 1 than challenge for promotion due to the finances and the "type" of player we would be left with on massive massive wages....

 

[Lob]

Anyone thinking that relegation has ANYTHING to recommend itself to us are off the charts mad.

There will be no rebirth or baptism of fire.

This club is a financial basket case and there'll be no fantastic recruitment policy getting us back into the PL within a couple of seasons. We would more likely become a bottom half of the Championship club for many years.

We are stiring into the abyss now. Not just football wise either. If Everton are relegated this will be a social catastrophe and an economic catastrophe too.

Survival is the only option we have if all that is to be avoided.

Spot on mate.

All we need now is 11 players on the pitch that could actually give a damn.

 

[Lapeno77]

Didn’t they get auto promoted like 2 leagues or something daft

Avoided having to play in Serie C1 because of Catania's issues

 

[ToffeeTim]

Anyone thinking that relegation has ANYTHING to recommend itself to us are off the charts mad.

There will be no rebirth or baptism of fire.

This club is a financial basket case and there'll be no fantastic recruitment policy getting us back into the PL within a couple of seasons. We would more likely become a bottom half of the Championship club for many years.

We are stiring into the abyss now. Not just football wise either. If Everton are relegated this will be a social catastrophe and an economic catastrophe too.

Survival is the only option we have if all that is to be avoided.

Relegation would be terrible, absolutely catastrophic for the club

But there's a big difference between thinking something will happen and hoping something will happen. I think it will be terrible but I think it will happen I am being totally realistic.

 

[Goodisongang]

Don't know about anyone else but even though I know what relegation means I'm just not that arsed? Last year just sapped all that from me and I can't be arsed with it all again.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Relegation will hurt, but unlike last season, I'm not scared of it anymore. If it happens, it will be fully deserved and everyone will know exactly where the blame lies.

If we don't go down this year, it will be next year or the one after anyway, under this incompetent and delusional owner and board. We've been trending in that direction for too long for it not to happen, and the changes needed to stop the cycle won't happen.

 

[Zatara]

I'm waiting at an airport so got all sorts of time on my hands here...

We need Leicester and Forest to lose five more games, and also hope that Leeds utterly collapse to join the fight they currently have a two point advantage on.

We have no goals in us and for some really, really strange reason our only possibly source of goals, despite having been in full training for weeks, isn't being included in the match day squads.

He was "touch and go" for the Liverpool game two months ago and I can't remember being told of any major setbacks in his recovery. Very peculiar from Dyche to be so cryptic as if people aren't aware DCL returning and instantly scoring goals is our only hope of survival.

All of Wolves, Bournemouth, Palace, West Ham for me are, sadly, easily safe now as there isn't a chance they'll not pick up a handful of points from here, which is literally all they'll need. So much for a bottom half dogfight. It's now two from four to join Southampton.

Leicester fixtures:
Wolves h, Leeds a, Everton h, Fulham a, Liverpool h, Newcastle a, West Ham h.
- New manager, didn't get thumped by City, and on paper the best squad amongst those fighting the drop. I've put three home victories, but hopefully they take no more than 5-7 points instead from those three, and perhaps a lucky draw against Fulham. Maximum 10 points, but hoping for Wolves to do us a favour, take a draw, and them to get 8 more only.

Prediction: Leicester end on 33 points and a better GD than Everton.

Leeds fixtures:
Liverpool h, Fulham a, Leicester h, Bournemouth a, Man City a, Newcastle h, West Ham a, Spurs h.
- Two games I can see them winning here, with the potential of digging out a win against one of Bournemouth/West Ham in there too, or 4 points from those two games. Absolute maximum return of 10 points for me, hopefully more like 7-8.

Prediction: Leeds end on 37 points and a better GD than Everton.

Forest fixtures:
United h, Liverpool a, Brighton h, Brentford a, Southampton h, Chelsea a, Arsenal h, Palace a.
- Going to say an absolute minimum of 3 points, possibly spawn another win and two unexpected draws if they really fight for it. No more than 7 more points as that run in is as tough as it gets.

Prediction: Forest end on 33 points and a better GD than Everton.

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Obviously all of the above is utter guesswork, but I don't feel it'll be too far off. Leeds will be safe with 2--3 games to go imo, and Forest will enter the final day needing a win, plus Leicester and Everton defeats to stay up.

Everton for me should target 34 points. A point a game is enough, but we're comfortably below that and no indication at all that our form or return will improve.

Three victories will do it, but when you've had six in 31 games, you can't go expecting three in seven games.

That Leicester game is absolutely huge now, but I just don't see it. We don't win away, simple as that, and especially not against teams who are quick and nimble, as Leicester can be. A flukey draw would absolutely do.

But we'd still need 6 more points somewhere.

Bournemouth will be mathematically safe with about 4 games to play, so we have to hope we have DCL, Onana, Doucouré ready and can get at them final game.

Forget Brighton and City, we will get battered by both.

Wolves will also be safe by the time we play them, if we battle and not get defeated by Leicester, it might take a similar effort to not be beaten by Wolves to take another point.

I honestly can see a maximum of 5 more points for us. We are absolutely crap, cannot defend, cannot score unless it's a fluke, penalty, set piece (rare occasion) or a moment where one of our players decides it's actually within the rules to shoot from range (McNeil). No six-yard tap-ins for Everton for the rest of the season, or through balls latched onto and put past the keeper.

Prediction: Everton to end on 32 points and finish 19th, behind Forest in 18th on 33 and Leicester also on 33 but with a superior GD.

16th: Leeds - 37
17th: Leicester - 33
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18th Forest - 33
19th Everton - 32
20th Southampton - 25-30

Will return to this after the final game and hope I've been dreadfully wrong.

Dont worry Dyche has them all giving one another piggy back rides.

Apparently picked that up off Pep and Arteta.

 

[Street end man]

Don't know about anyone else but even though I know what relegation means I'm just not that arsed? Last year just sapped all that from me and I can't be arsed with it all again.

I'm approaching that point but I'm now more worried about the destruction of our old club if we go down now.

The situation we are in off the pitch has become far more serious than matters on the pitch. Relegation would lead to a bloodbath of destruction.

 

[MikeH72]

Anyone thinking that relegation has ANYTHING to recommend itself to us are off the charts mad.

There will be no rebirth or baptism of fire.

This club is a financial basket case and there'll be no fantastic recruitment policy getting us back into the PL within a couple of seasons. We would more likely become a bottom half of the Championship club for many years.

We are stiring into the abyss now. Not just football wise either. If Everton are relegated this will be a social catastrophe and an economic catastrophe too.

Survival is the only option we have if all that is to be avoided.

Welcome to the death cult Dave.

 

[Runub]

Don't know about anyone else but even though I know what relegation means I'm just not that arsed? Last year just sapped all that from me and I can't be arsed with it all again.

Add to this that with the likelihood of very little incoming transfer wise even if we survive this season, could even be a transfer embargo for the next window/s, maybe a point deduction as well so it seems relegation is inevitable eventually. Will be a disaster but I can’t see how it can be avoided

 

[COYBL25]

Relegation will hurt, but unlike last season, I'm not scared of it anymore. If it happens, it will be fully deserved and everyone will know exactly where the blame lies.

If we don't go down this year, it will be next year or the one after anyway, under this incompetent and delusional owner and board. We've been trending in that direction for too long for it not to happen, and the changes needed to stop the cycle won't happen.

Remember Kenwright saying at the end of last season, " This can not be allowed to happen again ? " and then we started the first five games of the season, with no recognised striker and no Richarlison ????

No one can say, that it hasn`t been coming.

If it we were any other type of business, we`d have gone bust by now.

 

[brieverton]

We'll have been punished enough if we go down without some commission adding to it.

I didn't think as a fan that I'd ever be asking for mercy for the club, and in this context.