Will You Still Go The Match

[Tony’s Carp]

I get the financial ramifications of going down, but as a match going fan, I’m fairly sure that this season has been far more enjoyable for Leeds fans than it has for Everton fans.

And ask Sheffield or Burnley fans how much they've enjoyed this season compared to last. I'll never say I want it to happen for the bigger picture reasons, but after three years of mental slog in the PL just getting it over and done with might feel like a holiday.

Don't get me wrong ultimately I will be happy if we stay up....but a fourth season like this is difficult to face.

 

[blueblood]

And ask Sheffield or Burnley fans how much they've enjoyed this season compared to last. I'll never say I want it to happen for the bigger picture reasons, but after three years of mental slog in the PL just getting it over and done with might feel like a holiday.

Don't get me wrong ultimately I will be happy if we stay up....but a fourth season like this is difficult to face.

Agree. Even if we limp over the line again this season, what’s going to happen next? Branthwaite and Onana probably sold, uninspiring and cheap replacements, followed by another season fighting relegation.
If we were in a marriage with Everton we’d have had a divorce a long time ago, citing unreasonable behaviour. Supporting them is a real chore!

 

[Cameron Manning]

Renewed my season ticket the other day, next season will be my 76th season watching Everton at Goodison Park I hope I’ll be watching premier league games, but I hope I will be bleedin’ happier looking at them!

 

[Ed_Winchester]

I started going back to the match this year after a couple of years, having just lost the will to travel and watch us getting worse and worse at times. After a couple of years of not going my first game back, Brighton in November, showed to me what match day was really about, not the buss of seeing the ground, of going on a bit of a spending spree in the club shop because its the only place you can get some Everton gear, and certainly not seeing our mighty blues in the flesh. What I missed most was seeing the lads in town, getting breakfast and having a laugh in the pub before the game, and I think that`s the part of the day that keeps us all going to the match whether its every game home and away, or like myself at the moment, an odd game that I can get over to. Won`t matter what division we`ll be in because I know the craic with the lads on a matchday will still be the same.

The football part just doesn’t hit me like it used to. But the whole match day routine is still the part that keeps me going.
I never had the father & son going the match when I was a kid because my dad hates football. I take my son now, so he has something to curse me for later in his life. It’s still great listening to some of his eternal optimism as he munches his way through a burger before the match.
One day he will realise just how bad we are, or how futile your efforts are just to be one of the rest in the top division.

 

[The binman chronicles]

There's still hope yet.

Luton might lose all their games. Not much hope of us winning any though.

 

[Parker]

I'm locked in. I blame my dad for this.

But I will support this absolute mess of a club til either party ceases to be.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Renewed my season ticket the other day, next season will be my 76th season watching Everton at Goodison Park I hope I’ll be watching premier league games, but I hope I will be bleedin’ happier looking at them!

That's a hell of a shift mate, hopefully the final season at Goodison brings a little more happiness, whichever division that may be in!

 

[Ferguson1878]

Feel sorry for our fans especially the younger ones, we/they don’t even get to experience things most teams take for granted derby wins etc never mind actually winning things

 

[Ferguson1878]

Renewed my season ticket the other day, next season will be my 76th season watching Everton at Goodison Park I hope I’ll be watching premier league games, but I hope I will be bleedin’ happier looking at them!

How bad do you rank this right now then mate compared to other eras because for me this is worse than the 90s, smith era etc

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Would be more enjoyable than watching us bobble around in this corrupt league. More match fixing on display today - not getting a penalty for the same challenge that got Utd 2 penalties against us.

 

[jazzy]

I started going back to the match this year after a couple of years, having just lost the will to travel and watch us getting worse and worse at times. After a couple of years of not going my first game back, Brighton in November, showed to me what match day was really about, not the buss of seeing the ground, of going on a bit of a spending spree in the club shop because its the only place you can get some Everton gear, and certainly not seeing our mighty blues in the flesh. What I missed most was seeing the lads in town, getting breakfast and having a laugh in the pub before the game, and I think that`s the part of the day that keeps us all going to the match whether its every game home and away, or like myself at the moment, an odd game that I can get over to. Won`t matter what division we`ll be in because I know the craic with the lads on a matchday will still be the same.

That's the only bit I missed. Surely you can replicate that without spending hundreds of pounds going to a game that you will loathe

 

[tommytowne]

Feel sorry for our fans especially the younger ones, we/they don’t even get to experience things most teams take for granted derby wins etc never mind actually winning things

100% get the sorrow for the yonger fans and by younger we're talking about those under thirty I suppose.
But let's not forget the anguish of those who are older and remember us as giants who opposing teams feared. The worse bit about all of where we are is the laughing stock we have become.

 

[tommytowne]

I started going back to the match this year after a couple of years, having just lost the will to travel and watch us getting worse and worse at times. After a couple of years of not going my first game back, Brighton in November, showed to me what match day was really about, not the buss of seeing the ground, of going on a bit of a spending spree in the club shop because its the only place you can get some Everton gear, and certainly not seeing our mighty blues in the flesh. What I missed most was seeing the lads in town, getting breakfast and having a laugh in the pub before the game, and I think that`s the part of the day that keeps us all going to the match whether its every game home and away, or like myself at the moment, an odd game that I can get over to. Won`t matter what division we`ll be in because I know the craic with the lads on a matchday will still be the same.

And that will still go on.
I hark back to when we'd be on our way to Goodison doing our Saturday thing sometime not knowing who we were playing.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Feel sorry for our fans especially the younger ones, we/they don’t even get to experience things most teams take for granted derby wins etc never mind actually winning things

I feel double sorry for kids having to not just watch this week in week out but also seeing the points they do watch us get being taken away by men with spreadsheets in secret hearings, for reasons most grown ups can't fully understand. I honestly don't know why you'd even bother.

 

[matty1878]

Disagree with that.
No way whatsoever will the club wither and die. At worst a period of rebuild hopefully within a season or two. It will be the stadium that will ensure we'll still be a relevant concern.

the club won’t wither

but sunderland is us to be.