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What has been your lowest point supporting Everton?

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I've been a fan since 1980. We've had some historic highs in the time since - mainly in the first seven years of that timeline - and plenty of lows. The highs speak for themselves, but the lows include the 6-2 hammering at Villa in late 1988, I believe, and the early 1990s decline that was never really arrested until Joe Royle temporarily reversed the trend. The Walter years were generally atrocious - the worst I've seen (I ignore the Mike Walker months because there was no sense in that time that his tenure was remotely sustainable). With Walter, however, Kenwright was now calling the shots and inertia was his modus operandi. So, for me, Walter was the worst period - the time after he had Duncan and his better players sold out from under him. Prior to that, he had done reasonably well.

Since then, Moyes's years were generally all about impoverished respectability and managed decline. In this period, we were no longer a top club. Kenwright sold this as some form of perverse "progress". After Walter - who he stuck by a good 18 months too long - almost anything was. Method in his madness. Moyes could only look like an improvement. To his credit, he was. But not enough for somebody who had seen Everton as the best in Europe... The sale of Rooney will always be my darkest day. It was confirmation of our second-rate status. I grew up with us battering Man United twice in one week. I used to laugh at them. And here we were selling our future to them for a pittance... That was the lowest.

In more recent years, I think we are currently enduring a new low. The current side is really poor. The manager looks helplessly lost. The club is drifting towards the panacea of a new stadium. Compared to Smith and Moyes, Lampard has been showered with resources. But his results are hardly better than even Smith's. In Walter's day, the fans knew it to be untenable. And when he had money he tended to buy well. He could spot a player, Walter. Today, the club is at such a low that some still passionately campaign for this manager. Even if this is understandable in some way after the chaos of the last six years, it seems utterly self-defeating to me. We look like a club that is primed for relegation. So, yeah, I think this is a low. In the Walter years, we consoled ourselves with the thought that if we could just get some investment... Today? We've seen investment. It was squandered. Now, only a great manager could seriously improve us. And how many of those are out there and willing to come?
 
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Yesterday comes close if I am being honest. Losing finals (84, 86 and 89 to them) or semi finals are acutely felt but once that dies down there is the optimism and we will come again, but yesterday with the club statement, the performance, result and post match antics feel like a very real and tangible death spiral has started…..it’s not too late to prevent it but it needs urgent, decisive and immediate action
 
I thought it couldn’t get worse than last season. How wrong I was the club is rotten to the core. I don’t no how we survive relegation this season. A normal club would have either backed the manager and got him signings in early. give the squad a boost and hope to get some results. Or sacked the manager and let the new man get a couple of his own players. I don’t no what plan we have I don’t think we even have one probably end up keeping Lampard as manager and get a loan last day of the window and go down with out a fight.
 

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