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The Worst Season I’ve EVER Endured

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Deckard2049 said:
I think given last summers expectations this is up there for worst season in a long time. Objectively there have obviously been worse seasons but I’m not sure there have been many that have been more disappointing.
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https://www.90min.com/posts/5147732...erton-s-historic-nickname-is-back-with-a-bang

I think when you go back to last summer, when articles like this one I’ve referenced where were being put out, you realise that it wasn’t just us fans who were getting swept up in our spending. The general footballing world and media were all paying attention to us and a great deal of excitement was being created. In hindsight you realise how carried away everyone got and 9 months on and the whole show has been a house of cards and nearly all the signings we made have been a disaster.

I guess the lesson is don’t get your hopes up.
 
Gareth Gibson said:
We finished 17th in David Moyes' second full season in charge. And in 1994 and 1998 we were a goal from being relegated.

Considering that we were only a few points above the relegation zone when Sam came in, 8th isn't all that bad.
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People are getting too carried away. Two years ago Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool finished 8th. Allardyce's Everton have finished 8th with a much worse squad.

Allardyce is a beaut but i wonder if some of the abuse is down to them being in a CL final and playing attacking football doing it.

Move on, get the right man in and push on next season. It's not that big a deal. We're one place off Europe despite not having a good season.
 
gazzaa2 said:
People are getting too carried away. Two years ago Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool finished 8th. Allardyce's Everton have finished 8th with a much worse squad.

Allardyce is a beaut but i wonder if some of the abuse is down to them being in a CL final and playing attacking football doing it.
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So, we can look forward to a champions league final in two years?
 
Can’t remember a game in which we totally dominated or played well this season. People say West Ham at home due to the score line but even then we were quite lucky with them missing a pen.
If that would have went in we would deffo have bottled it.

Says much about the league outside the top 6. Somehow despite us being dreadful ALL season we have finished 8th. Still can’t believe it.
 

Gladystweet said:
So, we can look forward to a champions league final in two years?
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The way I look at it, this is as bad as we're going to be and yet we only need to overtake Burnley to qualify for Europe next season.

I think if we'd been up for it more the last few weeks we'd have got 7th but we need to sort the squad out first before going back in Europe.
 
Gareth Gibson said:
We finished 17th in David Moyes' second full season in charge. And in 1994 and 1998 we were a goal from being relegated.

Considering that we were only a few points above the relegation zone when Sam came in, 8th isn't all that bad.
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But that's not his point. Did you actually read his post? His actual point is quite simply that we finished at about the level we hoped for or could expect at the start of the season, but we have played appalling, gutless, uninspiring football. Not all Allardyces fault, but certainly the last few months have been.

So can you please desist with your constant 'it's not so bad with Sam' line and address the paucity of the football on offer for once?
 
Shibbywiggles said:
I’ll start the post with a few points about me. I’m 29 so I’ve never seen us win anything and I live down south so don’t go to that many games but I’ve seen every minute of every game this season live and mostly whilst also being in the matchday thread here. My Dad is the only other Evertonian round here so my life is spent surrounded by mostly United, RS, Chelsea and Arsenal fans who have never been to a game.

Before the season started they expected us to finish lower top half of the table as did all the pundits on the radio and the tv and to be fair I thought we’d finish 7th again too but at least give the worst of the top 6 a good fight.

So now it’s over and we’ve finished 8th and nobody is particularly shocked so why are we so livid and disenchanted with our team?
‘What do evertonian’s expect’...

Well firstly, we expect the players to give a damn, work hard and try to win. In the league this season I can name SEVEN absolute batterings without thinking. Both Spurs games, both Arsenal games, City at Goodison, United and worst of all, capitulating to nearly relegated Southampton. These were games where we didn’t even look like we tried for the most part, in fact for the second Arsenal one, our manager decided to drop our best attackers who had just won a match and played alright and basically write off the game as a loss before it began.

We also gave the most embarrassing account of ourselves in Europe possible. We scraped our way into the group stage and did get drawn a difficult group to be fair so it’s not the not qualifying it’s the embarrassment of how it all happened again. We shipped so many goals, had punch ups and threw away a win in the last minute against Cypriot no marks with 10 men!

The problem with this season isn’t the league position. It isn’t the still not winning a trophy and not competing against the top 6 because I’m used to that, it’s the not even trying and providing no genuine moments of joy to us after bringing high profile players and talking such a good game before the start of the season.

2017/18 I can stretch myself to 3 games ALL SEASON that I enjoyed. I enjoyed Watford 3-2 because it was a bonkers game where we showed spirit and a comeback and Cleverley missed a pen right at the end. West Ham 4-0 because we found a team actually worse than us and Rooney scored an unbelievable goal. And the Leicester match where Seamus came back. Seeing him busting a gut running the length of the pitch in the 89th minute of his return after a year out was probably the only time this season I’ve felt proud of anything Everton related at all!


To sort this out Everton please do the following:
Fire Allardyce
Hire someone who wants to play a bit but also have a go against all teams. Not the old Martinez way where there is nothing but plan A which wasn’t a very good plan but actual organised attacking football with a solid defence again
No more embarrassing batterings
Get ready for one hell of a clear out of the old past it and/or just not good enough players
BUY PLAYERS TO ACTUALLY FIT THE NEW MANAGERS SYSTEM!!!
Make Seamus Coleman captain
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...masochist
 

As others have said, not the worst season in terms of results, but on a personal level to me it is. I’ve never felt so apathetic about the club in general and I feel there is very little to like about Everton at the moment. I even started watching the Champions/Europa league just to witness some decent football as we were so clearly lacking.

I stopped making the effort to go to games on the rare occasions I could and I eventually stopped watching most of our games on telly/totally legal and not dodgy at all streams.

For me it’s been a trainwreck and I Seriously hope this isn’t repeated next season
 
It's been awful, but compared to watching the side of 97/98 this season has been a doddle.

That was by far the worst Everton side I've ever seen and a truely horrible season.
 
A long hard season is finally over . What started so well and with European trips to look forward to with what we all thought wasn’t a bad squad albeit we needed a striker was a disaster ...

Hopefully now we regroup as follows

1. Sack Sam and his koppite sidekick this week
2. Appoint a real manager to show ambition
3. Give the new manager a big war chest and go again

We messed up this chance so hopefully Moshiri will learn from his mistakes and we will be better for it

SEE ..... the hope begins !!!!

Looking forward to next season already .
 
Gareth Gibson said:
We finished 17th in David Moyes' second full season in charge. And in 1994 and 1998 we were a goal from being relegated.

Considering that we were only a few points above the relegation zone when Sam came in, 8th isn't all that bad.
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Does it really need spelling out why this season was so wretched ?

8th yes but on 49 points. 6th was 63 points, 4th was 75 points. And we were lucky to get 49 points. This required several narrow and unconvincing home wins against mediocre opposition. And you've got to take everything else into account, including the most humiliating European campaign ever, the dire football, the attitude of the players, the struggle week after week to create any chances or shots on target, the way the top six teams have stomped all over us again and again.
 

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