Serious Question

[Groucho]

the most barren spell in Everton history

Kenwright’s legacy.

I didn’t even detest him, but this speaks volumes.

 

[chrismpw]

There comes a point when Rusty, your faithful hound, is shitting and peeing in the house, he limps everywhere and would just like to sit by the fire, getting annoyed with you if you disturb him - barely remembering who you are and selectively deaf.

You have a stiff scotch and lift the phone for the vet, planning solely to rely on happy memories from the past.

This is how I feel about Everton now.

Curious what's inappropriate language here, given some of the language i see about the gaff.

What with all the stuff going on in the world, and Everton continuing to be turd and the misery this place can induce when its raining ... time for a GOT holiday before it gets to me. I've never taken the slightest bit well to unexplained anonymous authority. Back laters chipmunks.

 

[Tommy Chong]

When did EFC supporters become so passive to this dross……dont you care anymore?

To the extent that circumstances are out of our control:

All you can do is be zen muchacho. Not point in losing your head over it.

Or something like that...

 

[Jamiednm]

To the extent that circumstances are out of our control:
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All you can do is be zen muchacho. Not point in losing your head over it.

Or something like that...

In this vein, there are parallel universes where Everton are the most successful and prestigious club in the world. Nuts to think that is actually the case.

 

[JimmyK]

This is easily the most barren spell in Everton history though. We won at least one trophy in every decade from the 1890s to the 1990s, other than a lull in the 1940s and 1950s (which coincided with the Second World War).

This barren spell since 1995 is by far the club’s longest dry patch. So barren in fact, that it almost rivals DaveK’s.

Yes sorry I should have said that I agree with that I just mean the talk about the modern players not being legends and us never having lost to teams like Brighton and even the long runs of not beating certain teams or at certain grounds they’ve all happened well before the last generation it’s not this new phenomenon like people always say.

 

[NeilMorepies]

We can only hope our owner and board will sit down and sort this out quickly by asking “what would Everton would do?”

 

[chicoazul]

Curious what's inappropriate language here, given some of the language i see about the gaff.

What with all the stuff going on in the world, and Everton continuing to be turd and the misery this place can induce when its raining ... time for a GOT holiday before it gets to me. I've never taken the slightest bit well to unexplained anonymous authority. Back laters chipmunks.

Soldier take the bullet and keep in the trenches with us. There’ll be a medal for it.

 

[Tommy Chong]

In this vein, there are parallel universes where Everton are the most successful and prestigious club in the world. Nuts to think that is actually the case.

And to add to that, in some of those universes, when our lease at Anafield was up in 1892, and because the landlord John Houlding was a massive tit, we decided to give him one of these: , and we didn't just vacate the premises, we completely trashed it making it uninhabitable... And thus the RS were never formed.

 

[GrandOldSte117]

What do you want the fans to do after the first game of the season?

 

[matty1878]

Getting told it’s “kopite behaviour “ and “just get behind the team” for calling out the nonsense over the years , it’s not worth it, there is only so much a person can do and say in a position of supporter.

Something is very wrong when the average person who buys tickets to go to the match and gets fed up of what the club they care about has turned into gets held more to account than the people who are actually at the club and some earning in a month what the average fan might not earn in decades .

It also raises questions over what people at the club do think of the fans. If there is a distain for fans now , and I suspect there is from some individuals, then you can only imagine what the thinking is if large scale apathy occurred and those fans decided to spend their time and money on other things besides Everton.

Whilst I didn’t think what’s happening now and over the years would play out how it has, something had to give eventually.

I look at how other supporters are in times of difficulty and I think our fans get a unfair negative reputation and if anyone would spend some time studying what’s gone on, not just in the last three to four years, they could at least understand that taking a step forward and two or three back constantly and being told it’s wrong to take issue with it, is going to test the temperament of any group of supporters.

I once heard a Tottenham fan call us impatient when this is a club who reached a Championship league final and was playing great football with some excellent players and within a handful of months were screaming and shouting for the removal of a successor to the manager who got them to those heights.

kopite behavior is “it’s not our fault”

and “ the league is ours”

 

[matty1878]

What do you want the fans to do after the first game of the season?

celebrate

but no we lost

 

[Bez2k2k]

I have loved Everton since my Dad first took me. I think I was 9 or 10 at the time and I’m now 39. I’m those years I have seen an f.a cup win, one or two semi’s, a short and sweet European campaign or two (I think), and apart from that not much else.

However, over the last few years I’ve sensed myself getting more and more disillusioned from the game. I hate the diving, I hate the players throwing themselves to the ground to get people sent off (Kane vs Doucoure, it happened to Schar this weekend), I hate the referring, I hate the way the sky 6 win everything and can apparently spend and do whatever they please (even threatening to start their own league), I hate the points deductions, but most of al I hate our quality or lack of it, every season I go into it thinking we may do ok this time, and then you’re brought back down to earth within 90 minutes. If I had it my way now I would click my fingers and give up being a football fan, it’s just simply awful.

 

[Daytripper]

kopite behavior is “it’s not our fault”

and “ the league is ours”

That’s what people said tho mate.

 

[Davideeyore]

I love the topic question.

It's an age old question.

But ~ we still have people in the comments happy to let Saturday sail past them. Telling people to give their heads a wobble, tell us to look at ourselves because some (like me) call for Dyche to be sacked, we still have those with their heads in the sand saying it's just the first game of the season. Dyche is the best man for the job & yeah, who can do a better job? Bla bla bla.

This is the point. Accepting dross and apathy. Mediocrity. The manager sums all that up succinctly. We've become accustomed to being second rate so it's now against the grain to accept better and not tolerate what happened on Saturday both on the pitch and the utterings from the manager dear god. The pre season was hard work but at least he bedded some new signings who gave some hope. Under Dyche that's some hope.

 

[GrandOldSte117]

I love the topic question.

It's an age old question.

But ~ we still have people in the comments happy to let Saturday sail past them. Telling people to give their heads a wobble, tell us to look at ourselves because some (like me) call for Dyche to be sacked, we still have those with their heads in the sand saying it's just the first game of the season. Dyche is the best man for the job & yeah, who can do a better job? Bla bla bla.

This is the point. Accepting dross and apathy. Mediocrity. The manager sums all that up succinctly. We've become accustomed to being second rate so it's now against the grain to accept better and not tolerate what happened on Saturday both on the pitch and the utterings from the manager dear god. The pre season was hard work but at least he bedded some new signings who gave some hope. Under Dyche that's some hope.

Nobody is accepting dross for saying not to act hasty by sacking another manager who, had they won Saturday, would've made it 6 home wins in a row. A consistency we haven't seen since 2019. If that's not what we want then wtf do we want? I'm aware he didn't make it 6 wins in a row but it's progress. And us becoming oevrreactive and self destructive is what got us into this mess in the first place.

Why is it wrong to not want to sack the manager when he had won the previous 5 games at home at goodison with one of those being Liverpool for the first time in 14 years?