Relegation 2022/23

[Gilbert..]

It's so annoying because if you look at our goals against we're doing way better than the rest of the bottom 5 when it comes to defending

We just can't score any chuffing goals

To be fair the goals were flowing in january. I can see why those at the club thought this wouldnt be an issue.

In Kevin we trust.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

if you look at the games , even the games we’ve underperformed, we’ve had chances sometimes quite decent chances which any half decent striker probably not even premier league standard would have a chance of scoring . Instead we’ve had to rely on defenders scoring from nothing or set pieces .

I’ll keep banging the drum the situation the board left us in is criminal.

I'm convinced they did it deliberately to "teach us a lesson"

 

[Wat Tyler]

We are going to need some unexpected wins like last season v Leicester Man U and Chelsea. Whether we have it in us is a different matter.

 

[Walken]

Leicester fans, Leeds fans and blues all saying the same thing, we are down. Obviously it won't be true for all 3 teams, but we have to see something and fast. Chance Palace get casual on sat?

 

[Walken]

Dyche won’t drop his Burnley boys.

And if he does drop Keane we all know it will be for coady, blue passports only at CB

 

[Wat Tyler]

The other thing to remember is that it is...Leicester City. Perhaps the younger posters are impressed by that admirable club, given their impressive last two decades, but to people of my age - 50 - they are a yo-yo club and have simply reverted to their true selves this season.

Leicester were always fodder. They were to be grouped with Norwich, Stoke, Brighton, Crystal Palace, and Sunderland among the basement dwellers of my youth.

Don't underestimate the race memory of Evertonians if we can get a sniff of safety with five games to play. It's in our DNA to demand far more than mere survival and deeply resent that being in question. At Leicester, their own race memory is very different. They will start to accept the natural order of things if they start to see others move away from them as the matches run out.

As for Leeds? Too many years of oblivion makes them even more likely to accept their fate. It might only take a defeat to Leicester to finish them off in their own heads - and resuscitate their rivals.

We need to get something at Palace - anything - to keep the fires burning. Then the win at Leicester to extricate ourselves.

Leeds have spent nearly as many seasons outside the top flight than they have in it.

 

[matty1878]

Leeds have spent nearly as many seasons outside the top flight than they have in it.

what’s that got to so with us staying up mate

 

[Drico]

Leeds have spent nearly as many seasons outside the top flight than they have in it.

Yup. Years of oblivion.

We really should not be in this company at all.

 

[Wat Tyler]

It's so annoying because if you look at our goals against we're doing way better than the rest of the bottom 5 when it comes to defending

We just can't score any chuffing goals

We should never forget how avoidable all this has been, a half decent striker or two on loan would be worth 5/6 more points and we are all breathing a lot easier. And you have pundits saying they don’t know why our fans are protesting. Uninformed goons.

 

[Wat Tyler]

what’s that got to so with us staying up mate

Instead of goal difference it gets decided on how many seasons you’ve had in the top flight and how many plays your chairman has put on. Bill to the rescue again. Good times.

 

[Clarky cat]

Anyone. Im sick of his half hearted challenges. Half hearted chasing back. Giving the ball away.
Most of all if we were relegated at goodison on the last day he wouldnt give a sh!t within 20 minutes of the game finishing.
You are in real trouble with players like this. Absolute zero fight in this lad.

Ok, Tom Davies then.

 

[Harryflashman]

We should never forget how avoidable all this has been, a half decent striker or two on loan would be worth 5/6 more points and we are all breathing a lot easier. And you have pundits saying they don’t know why our fans are protesting. Uninformed goons.

You’re not wrong and you haven’t got to have spent decades in football to have seen it , it was glaringly obvious. ‘Half-decent’ , that’s the key wouldn’t have had to be top class just capable of hitting a cows behind with a banjo .

 

[Harryflashman]

I'm convinced they did it deliberately to "teach us a lesson"

It’s amazing that the choice is the very epitome of cutting their nose off to spite their face or criminal mismanagement and it’s not even nailed on which one it is.

They’re an embarrassment

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Leicester fans, Leeds fans and blues all saying the same thing, we are down. Obviously it won't be true for all 3 teams, but we have to see something and fast. Chance Palace get casual on sat?

Not sure mate I linked a Leicester forum yesterday and the majority were confident they'd stay up.

 

[Wat Tyler]

The one glimmer of hope is Forest and Southampton appear to be goners and one of our rivals have conceded 11 goals in their last 2 home games. Something seriously wrong at Leeds if they are shipping goals at that rate.