Relegation 2022/23

[granter79]

Wouldn't have been as good, but he is quite clearly a top level coach and would have been an unreal appointment,

agree hes a great choice just dont believe he would have been a guaranteed success with the mess our squad and club are in. Villa have much better squad and a stable boardroom

 

[DanEFC92]

I'm trying the 'well the championship will be a different experience and there will lots of interesting transfer news to contend with' to appease my sad relegation brain

My sad, weary brain

 

[Terrarian]

Not looking good but by no means over. All other teams in the fight seem to be picking up results and so we really have to win tonight, it might be over if we don't in my opinion. Sad times.

 

[blueblueday]

We are a sleeping giant club with a large domestic fanbase and a decent history who have spent far too long meandering around the bottom half of the table. Our descent occurred because Moshiri found it difficult to manage us in a stepped and incremental fashion. He threw the kitchen sink at it. Acting like Billy Big B*ll*x, stealing managers (Silva) and wasting months signing over priced players (Siggy) wasn't the way to go. We are not Man Utd or Chelsea! Even though we were suddenly wealthy top players would still not come to us and that was our downfall. So instead we started offering huge contracts to average players which ultimately got us to where we are now. Primadonnas who believe they are better than they are with little desire to fight for your club. We needed a more nuanced plan to build our brand slowly but went the opposite way.

Now we all know if a club spends too many seasons faffing about in the bottom half sooner or later it's gonna be your turn to face the drop. And here we are many millions later with nowt to show for it except a ban/fine hanging over us and relegation.

If we'd just realised that we weren't a Man Utd or Chelsea at that time we could've done things at a better pace with better planning. So many players/managers, and staff have come in and then out the door in the last few years. Was it ever sustainable? Tonight sees us enter into perhaps one of the biggest games in our History. Miracles do happen and maybe, just maybe we can get something tonight with this shower of players. Good luck to all you blues going.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

Will be quite annoyed if we are relegated with a game to go and then play passionate blissful pressure free football to batter Bournmouth 8-0.

No idea whether Goodison will be empty or on fire if that game is a dead rubber, which is a real possibility if we don’t win very very soon.

 

[liamefc91]

Will be quite annoyed if we are relegated with a game to go and then play passionate blissful pressure free football to batter Bournmouth 8-0.

No idea whether Goodison will be empty or on fire if that game is a dead rubber, which is a real possibility if we don’t win very very soon.

If we are already relegated i can seriously see the match getting abandoned

 

[Lapeno77]

We are a sleeping giant club with a large domestic fanbase and a decent history who have spent far too long meandering around the bottom half of the table. Our descent occurred because Moshiri found it difficult to manage us in a stepped and incremental fashion. He threw the kitchen sink at it. Acting like Billy Big B*ll*x, stealing managers and players such as Silva/Siggy wasn't the way to go. We are not Man Utd or Chelsea! Even though we were suddenly wealthy top players would still not come to us and that was our downfall. So instead we started offering huge contracts to average players which ultimately got us to where we are now. Primadonnas who believe they are better than they are with little desire to fight for your club. We needed a more nuanced plan to build our brand slowly but went the opposite way.

Now we all know if a club spends too many seasons faffing about in the bottom half sooner or later it's gonna be your turn to face the drop. And here we are many millions later with nowt to show for it except a ban/fine hanging over us and relegation.

If we'd just realised that we weren't a Man Utd or Chelsea at that time we could've done things at a better pace with better planning. So many players/managers, and staff have come in and then out the door in the last few years. Was it ever sustainable? Tonight sees us enter into perhaps one of the biggest games in our History. Miracles do happen and maybe, just maybe we can get something tonight with this shower of players. Good luck to all you blues going.

It's that sort of level headed thinking that will get you into trouble round these parts

Stop it right now

 

[NathDogg]

If we are already relegated i can seriously see the match getting abandoned

Probably play it behind closed doors if that’s where we are - they wouldn’t let us near the place/players I don’t think - we’ve already got a bad rep for headlocking CEOs, pitch invasions, chasing players & volleying players cars etc.

Disgusting to be even thinking it tbh - this owner and board have so much to answer for.

 

[coollino]

tonight will be a good night to bring back xH (expected headloss), i feel

 

[coollino]

If we are already relegated i can seriously see the match getting abandoned

thats not fair on Newcastle fans

 

[YoboCopter]

Heres me thinking by simply telling the players to put shin pads on in training we would of been ok

what a fool i am

 

[HowardsWay]

Tonight we fight.

We need to keep it direct, press, get crosses in early and make set-pieces count.

We fight, we win.

Our fans get us over the line

We know we'll be up for it as fans but this mob of players... I highly doubt it.

 

[Street end man]

Heres me thinking by simply telling the players to put shin pads on in training we would of been ok

what a fool i am

To be fair to the man it was working, working to the point of making us safe with games left to play.
Problem lies still with the fact he inherited a paper thin and truly disgraceful bunch of players the board and the DOF thought was acceptable for a PL club.
We (in my humble opinion) were doing fine and outpointing all our rivals in his reign, right up to when Doucoure saw red, followed by injury to Onana and Coleman.
It instantly and I mean instantly fell apart when we lost them. Dyche had found his first 11 very cleverly i thought too and had now lost it.
Who did he have as back up? Davies and Garner, jeez, right back was a struggle too, unsolvable.

We can only hope with that 11 back we can kick off from where we were and climb once more.
We now have Lewin as an impact sub over Simms if he sticks with his favoured 11 which I'm hoping is another bonus.

 

[m hart89 efc]

I am actually quite looking forward to seeing Bradley Dack on a free being considered a good signing.

Is Chris Brunt still knocking round? He’d do a job for us

 

[coollino]

this thread at 10pm tonight