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Let's draw a line under this season and go again next season with a new, better, manager. A big breath of fresh air is needed. There's a lot of cobwebs to blow out of the club.
The talk on everyone's lips after the game of course was, should Ronald Koeman be sacked. It's safe to say, most of the supporters seem to think so. Personally, I'm pretty neutral.
It's a mess alright, and I can't wait for this season to end...
With four clean sheets in four games, it's hard to complain. I'll be interested to see where we stand in a month's time.
We still have an opportunity to look up rather than down this season. If, and it's a ginormous if, we can go unbeaten in these games and win the majority of them, this gives us quite a platform and good momentum going into pre-season. This then makes it difficult to move Sam Allardyce on.
Why the sudden upturn in performance? Has David Unsworth finally found his best team, albeit too late? Has the penny finally dropped what is required for the players? Or, is this simply the reaction to a new manager coming in?
What a tremendous trip. I enjoyed every minute. Great company with Gaz and Dan, and it was superb to meet so many other Blues who had travelled from afar, most notably John and Stretch.
I'm not one for sacking managers quickly. I like to see managers given the opportunity to build a team. It hasn't been our style and I want to believe it can work under Ronald Koeman. That said, the pressure is on, and failure to beat Arsenal, a Carabao Cup exit at Chelsea, and defeat at Leicester City would pretty much make his position untenable.
Eventually we were able to see the game out and claim a vital, and ultimately deserved three points. Though we were up against it in the final 20 minutes, for the best part of an hour of this game we were the better team.
Sam has now failed in his job interview for me, with the only hope of resurrection being an emphatic hammering of Liverpool next weekend, but we all know that won't happen.
Whatever the reason, I wish that for once we'd just do it. Missing sitters in the last few minutes of a derby against under-strength Liverpool — we won't get many better opportunities than that!
A resilient effort from Everton and if you cast your mind back a month to that wretched performance versus Southampton, you would never in your wildest of dreams have us walking away from a draw with the champions a little miffed that we didn't have more of a go at them.
Report of the 3-1 win over Crystal Palace
Luckily we didn't book our trip to the Netherlands for Everton's game-that-wasn't against Groningen and so, when the game against Genk was announced, Gaz and I were able to book some flights to Brussels Charleroi.
A splendid day out at the game. Them fun days only ever happen about once or twice a season so I was glad to make the most of it, even if I paid for it a bit in work today.
Relegation is not a threat, but surely the plan has to be to attack better than that?
Everybody knows Sam Allardyce will be leaving at the end of the season. We know it, the players know it, Moshiri knows it, Sam knows it. This doesn't stop the circus continuing on into town though and we remain a laughing stock.
Win we did. It still wasn't especially pretty up until the winning goal just five minutes later, but we persevered
We're experiencing a strange end to a difficult season. It's great to see us finish strongly. In any other season, such a strong finish could be a very good catalyst to hit the ground running with pre-season and start the next season well...
We just don't have the confidence currently. I believe the players are good enough but it'll take a bit longer yet until we get any sort of swagger back. Players just don't look for the ball enough. Too many hide and there's a real lack of responsibility on the field.
The Europa League campaign doesn't have to be doom and gloom just yet but we are certainly doing it the hard way.
With the fixtures upcoming, I was simply relieved to be coming away with the three points, our first opening day win for five years
The game meant nothing. The team talk on the face of it should have been a piece of piss. “Right you lot, here's your opportunity. Prove to me why you should be in the teamâ€. Unfortunately the majority out there only really proved why they shouldn't be in the team.
The latest away defeat under Sam Allardyce has increased the despondency around Everton
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