One More Win For The Best Supporters In The World!

Just read this week that Vardy has over 130 Premier League goals, that's cracking as he can shoot.

IMO we have 3 very good players: Pickford (who has immensely improved this season), Richarlison, and Mykolenko (who is being a revelation considering Ukraine will be on his mind).

It's a trying time for us all to say the least.

COYB!

Yet still, hope floats, as they say ;. I don’t buy in to us having the “ best fans in the world” but I do contend that our fans have stepped up when it has mattered. I think one point against Palace will be enough to keep us up. I also believe we should stick with Frank and support him in all the decisions on sales and signings for the coming season. There is a lot more that is right about our club than the huge negatives of this tortuous season, I feel we need to keep our nerve, unlike the corrupt officials who have cost us a minimum of six, possibly eight points this season.

Niall, how can a point keep us up!? If we get 1 point and zero at The Emirates. a win for Leeds and Burnley will send us down. Burnley can even push us down with 2 draws as our goal difference is worse than theirs!

The Arsenal win probably delayed action being taken earlier but Benitez should have gone after the Derby

Interviewing Lampard for the job with others just wasted time during the January transfer window and instead of securing a commanding ball winner for the midfield which was essential plus a central defender we signed players who are just not suitable for the relegation fight we are in. Patterson aside only Mykolenko has come good.

Soren - thanks for pointing out that as it stands we still need 2 pts to stay up. I still can't believe we didn't finish the job at Watford.

Why is it up to the fans to pull the team through, why can't the team do something for the fans for a change this season?

The emphasis has been put on the paying public, not on the millionaires who are basically inept at their job.

I don't count the "no fans" Covid away victories. No way would they have happened. A roar of a home crowd even sends this lot to jelly Newcastle away they visibly cracked themselves).

I really fear the worst and sometimes it's already written. Hope I'm just panicking. God love them, we all do. From 1969 all the 14 years of heartache with nearly results I never felt this way. I know one ultimate sacrifice will happen. He sits in the main stand. God willing.

I might add that I don't accept the fatalist view that there is no chance at all of Everton getting a result at the Emirates. Okay, it's not a place where we do well generally, but Arsenal we're absolutely terrible at Newcastle, and if Everton can play as they did at Leicester in the second half, we are in with a shout.

Anyway, let's get Palace out of the way first. God help us.

I will be there Thursday, and as long as we do not do anything rash, silly yellow cards early doors etc, I feel we have enough to get the job done, no gimme by any means, but I feel a lot more optimistic and let’s not forget Leeds have to win on Sunday, all the pressure is on them.

We could even lose both games, yet still be safe, we have three chances in our favour, win Thursday, win Sunday, or Leeds lose, we are in a very good position, compared to Leeds.

Nothing silly Thursday, do the basics, keep calm heads and take the chances that come our way, tight at the back.

Anyone nervous or pacing the floor, save all that nervous energy for Thursday, we will do it, as per usual the hard way, but we will do it this Thursday, keep the faith.

Would it not be preferable to get into the stadium earlier than usual and get the atmosphere going inside the ground?

I'm not against the fans showing support for the team on their arrival at the ground, but I think tomorrow it's important that Goodison Park is bouncing from the off and throughout the game.

I wasn't nervous earlier in the week, but as tomorrow approaches it becomes more nerve-wracking by the hour, that's not a bad thing I suppose so long as we transfer those nerves into positive vibes as George McKane might say.

Come on Blues one more huge effort to put our fears to rest.

Yes, we should have finished the job at Watford. We should have gone all-out attack on the night.

But it looked like we were going to finish it against Brentford and then the corrupt referee stepped in.

You couldn't make it up!

So we need to beat Palace tomorrow!

Obviously a win tomorrow would help us all sleep better but a draw would not be the end of the world as that would mean a draw at deflated Arsenal would see us safe.

I also am not convinced that Burnley will beat Villa or Newcastle, could easily see them battling to two draws which would not be enough if we get a point tomorrow.

Endless permutations but i'm trying to be optimistic!

Why can't it be Friday morning?

I'm on my way to get the 5:26 am from Lime Street to Euston with tears still in my eyes. Tears of emotional joy. I even stop to talk to those lingering in town that I usually avoid that time of the morning. I even hug one of them.

I get home. The wife frowns. The dogs welcome me and are relieved. We all relax before I head to the Emirates on Sunday. Ticketless but happy.

Then we reset in the summer.

I'm rambling but I did warn everyone.

It's probably a separate discussion, but in my opinion it will need another mindset change and the clubs to change their attitude to supporters.

When I attended as a teenager, it was all about getting into the ground early. We would queue on Gwladys Street way before the turnstiles opened to get our "speck" 90 minutes before kick off. The ground was full long before the game started.

It changed in the Premier League era and the introduction of all seater stadia in my opinion.

Also, the neglect and under-investment in Goodison is a good example. Give the fans a reason to be in the stadium. What incentive is there with sub-standard facilities?

It goes back to my point on making the match day experience different and not just getting supporters in the ground but keeping them there.

I love the pubs around Goodison and the Goodison Supper Bar. But maybe when we move, this is something the club has planned for?

And let us take drinks to our seats. I know I'm a scratched record and that lady in the Upper Bullens probably won't serve me for the umpteenth time this season tomorrow, but if I can carry a McDonalds like cup carrier of beers back to my seat at Schalke and watch the match with them, why not at Goodison?

As it stands, even if in the ground many stay on the concourses before the match, leave before half time and stay there into the 2nd half.

Subtle changes. Treat us as adults. Ironically I can take a hot scolding coffee back to my seat which would be a much more offensive "weapon" than a mildly chilled lager in a plastic cup.

Being a Realist I could not in anyway claim that that I have hope that this depleted squad could once again overcome the three stumbling blocks;
1. Crystal Palace or Arsenal
2. The Referee
3. The Alien who has never seen a game of Football at the VAR shed.

Our Saviour has had a hand in the crucifixion by making the club a laughing stock, he has gone behind the coaches back buying players and hiring managers who HE thinks will be good for Everton. The Law of Beverages says he must get something right before we do a Derby County but holding my breath I aint.
We have over the years had some odd refereeing decisions, has Clive Thomas explained the Bryan Hamilton goal being disallowed yet?, but the current crop aren't even trying to hide their clamour to be the one to sink Everton with decisions their own families would disown them for they even have the brass neck to peddle their treachery on Live tv for all to see.
It is too much too often we get mugged and the FA want to censure the truth that Frank Lampard spoke about bent officials.
The knives in the back aren't covered up they are coming from the top.

I have a couple of mates who are Newcastle fans who tell me that their fans will be snapping up any available tickets for Sunday and will be roaring their team on. They played very well against Arsenal, and I cannot see Burnley's bovine tactics getting them the win. I just hope I'm proved right.

So he thought (as did the players) that home games with Brentford and Palace would give us the needed points. It could still be so, but in fairness, we started v Brentford as if we were going to win 5-2. Events intervened.

Now we have to beat Palace to save several of our supporters from keeling over on Sunday.

Palace on on the beach – we need to go out and have a real go. A hat-trick for Calvert-Lewin please.

It’s been a nightmare of a season for all sorts of reasons, it has just felt like we've been cursed. The odds are in our favour only because Leeds and Burnley have to gain points while we may not have to.

We also have the Arsenal game to come but we don't often come away from there with anything.

Here's hoping for some good luck for a change.

If we don't win it, we can still go down. We win it, we don't!

We have to go all out for 3 points tomorrow as payback for the cup exit.

Its better to assume that they will get maximum points from their games and if we win tomorrow WE ARE SAFE regardless of the other results.

Let's settle it tomorrow, please!

I doubt Lucas Digne will be privy to any match throwing anyway, surely he will be doing all he can to beat Burnley and helping us out.

I'm in agreement that I'd rather not leave it to Sunday and just win on Thursday night.

Just. Win.

We need to forget the other teams and concentrate on Palace.

I was going to refer to you as “The wise old sage” but realised that it would be discourteous to do so!

Whilst I hope that I am am wrong and that we do get the win tomorrow, I do think that the scenario were we don't get another point but neither do Leeds or Burnley is a distinct possibility.

It’s gonna be some night at Goodison Park.

“Whats Our Name?”

It's become a feature of the modern game that the stadium (or the seats) are relatively empty until just before kick off.

My point is to give incentive to get the fans to their seats early to create the atmosphere.

And although football is the only reason I go to watch, I am determined to get that half-time drink tomorrow!!

Personally, I doubt it.

The last few months have been among the worst of my life and to think that, at best, a poor team has found itself on the brink of relegation or, at worst, a corrupt organisation has engineered some theatre for an afternoon's diversion, is beyond sickening.

I have read on these threads that people have had sleepless nights (me too), drunk more than usual, smoked or vaped more than usual and even eaten too much. And for what? The entertainment of people who couldn't care beyond the off-switch.

I actually feel some sympathy for the Leeds and Burnley fans as well. They will care too and they have to endure the simpering babblings of couch-bound morons with no capability of making an emotional investment into a club. Without genuine fans, football is dead (lockdown games, anyone?).

The article above is spot on about Evertonians. We are something amazing. We have to be. We have been serially abused since Clive Thomas disallowed Bryan Hamilton's goal.

This year it has hit its nadir... I hope. And maybe this will be the catalyst for Evertonians to make a game-changing gesture that will subvert the festering moral bankruptcy of the status quo.

But let's beat Palace first.

I just want us to go safe tomorrow and then there should be a huge debate about the blatant corruption in the Premier League and if they are not prepared to address things we should leave anyway. But there's the rub and I think that is why the PL want us out the way. We carry the most clout outside the big 6. A weakened Everton will not influence things.
COYB!

Best night's sleep for a very long time!