Gwlad Posted February 26, 2023 Report Share Posted February 26, 2023 2 hours ago, Palfy said: The Villa game was a setback if we lose to Forest that will be pretty much adios to the PL. That's the reality for me, though I hate to admit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted February 26, 2023 Report Share Posted February 26, 2023 11 minutes ago, MikeO said: You mean "it was a bit". Grammar not invioved then it seems. Not involved either, eh Mike? Newty82 and Palfy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted February 26, 2023 Report Share Posted February 26, 2023 20 minutes ago, Matt said: Not involved either, eh Mike? Ah crap....mea culpa Romey 1878, Palfy and Matt 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggytop Posted February 27, 2023 Report Share Posted February 27, 2023 I wonder if the supporters of the other clubs around us, and up to 11th are as paranoid as we seem to be? I don’t think this season will need 40 points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted February 27, 2023 Report Share Posted February 27, 2023 1 hour ago, Wiggytop said: I wonder if the supporters of the other clubs around us, and up to 11th are as paranoid as we seem to be? I don’t think this season will need 40 points. No it won't need 40 points. But if I were a supporter of the clubs around us I think I would take some comfort in the fact Everton struggle to score even though they create the chances. Elston Gunnn and Gwlad 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Blue Posted February 27, 2023 Report Share Posted February 27, 2023 Anyone know how long DCL is out for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted February 27, 2023 Report Share Posted February 27, 2023 2 hours ago, London Blue said: Anyone know how long DCL is out for? One week then another three after that. Honestly don't know but he isn't available for the Arsenal game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elston Gunnn Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 Hoping to get to 37-38. I think we’re likely safe at 38, down at 36, with 37 the goal-difference point. So today’s result was disastrous. This Sunday’s match with Forest is a 6-pointer. They are among probably 8 teams in the relegation fight. They have 25 points from 24 matches, while we’ve only 21 from 25. They are one of the few away matches we might take 3 points from. There simply aren’t many teams we can get 3 points from, and a bunch of draws against teams like Forest will not get us to 37-38. Hope none of Bournemouth (@ Arsenal), WHam (@ Brighton), Leeds (@ Chelsea), or Wolves (H to Spurs) take a single point this weekend. Guess a draw between Soton and Leicester would do. Most important, we must win Sunday. Sibdane and Matt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elston Gunnn Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 2 hours ago, RPG said: Totally agree. We must take at least 4 points from our next 2 games away at Forest and home to Brentford. After that it is away to Chelsea, home to Spurs and away to Man U. If we only get 2-3 points out of those 5 games I think we will be down. I’m probably a bit more pessimistic, as I think we desperately need 6 points from our next 2 matches. That would give us 27 points from 27 matches. But only 4 from next 2 gives us 25 from 27 and, as you say, 3 tough matches coming up after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggytop Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Not many will have expected anything from away to Arsenal, so we’re where we thought we would be, other than being battered and humiliated ( by a really good team so maybe not too bad) The lack of a goal scorer and someone to hold the ball up is our main problem, goals of course are obvious, but if we can’t keep hold of the ball playing out of defence, the midfield and defence are always going to spend the majority of the game under pressure, and will inevitably crack, which is affecting their confidence. Not bringing in a striker who can hold up the ball will be the reason we drop off it does happen. Shukes, Matt, Romey 1878 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwlad Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 In the end our abysmal goal difference might be our undoing. Wiggytop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Plenty left to play for but I'll admit it's getting a bit nervy. Shukes and Wiggytop 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wall Writer Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 The only way I can see us beating relegation is if DCL starts being a football player again. It's really is surreal. The aim of the game of football is to score more goals than the opposition. Yet Everton, a team in what is widely considered the best league in the world, have at present almost no one capable of doing that in our entire squad. And the one person most capable has been injured for pretty much 2 full seasons now. It's like, really?! All my hopes are pinned on DCL coming back, as otherwise we do not stand a chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MikeO Posted March 2, 2023 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Unsure why people seem more negative after last night, what did you expect? Three points from the two Arsenal games is three more than I anticipated. Shukes, StevO, Newty82 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wall Writer Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 For me it's the realisation that we just don't have any goals in us. That's blatantly obvious not only from the Arsenal game, but over the course of several since Dyche took over. The only goal we have scored in the last nearly 400 minutes of football is a one-in-a-million Seamus Coleman fluke shot. My hope was that with Dyche coming in we'd be able to somehow scrounge some goals here and there. That hope is now a dwindling flicker as it's clear as day that without DCL playing we are gonna really struggle to find any goals whatsoever. I just hope that behind the scenes Dyche and his team can find a solution as soon as possible to get him back out on the pitch quickly and permanently. dunlopp9987 and Sibdane 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shukes Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 I said to my mate last night watching. The manager isn’t a soft touch like we’ve had before. He isn’t stupid, he knew we were highly unlikely to get anything from this. Imagine the conversations. Board: we’re not scoring goals, get Dom on the pitch it’s paramount. Previous managers: you’re in charge. Board: get Dom on the pitch it’s paramount we start scoring goals. Dyche: NO HE isn't FIT ENOUGH! Why risk our biggest goal threat against teams that we are always likely to lose against? Why not get him 100% for the last ten games or so and see if he can bang some in. Matt, Wiggytop and StevO 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 48 minutes ago, Shukes said: I said to my mate last night watching. The manager isn’t a soft touch like we’ve had before. He isn’t stupid, he knew we were highly unlikely to get anything from this. Imagine the conversations. Board: we’re not scoring goals, get Dom on the pitch it’s paramount. Previous managers: you’re in charge. Board: get Dom on the pitch it’s paramount we start scoring goals. Dyche: NO HE isn't FIT ENOUGH! Why risk our biggest goal threat against teams that we are always likely to lose against? Why not get him 100% for the last ten games or so and see if he can bang some in. For me it's not the fact that we lost we all pretty much expected to lose, what I find so upsetting is in the manor of how we lost, absolutely gutless for most of the game. I don't believe you can't turn up for games you don't think you have a chance of winning, and then expect to turn up for those games you believe you have a chance of winning that would be pure folly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wall Writer Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 From what I heard (I missed most of the first half), we were actually doing pretty well up until the goals starting going in. I think from then on, especially conceding two just before half time, we just lost all belief. There have been substantial passages of play where I think we have played pretty decently, and I don't really have a problem with that. I think Dyche has had a good impact in that regard. But at the end of the day, that all counts for nothing if you can't do the single most important thing necessary to win a game of football and score a goal. The philosophy of "stop them scoring and hope you nick a goal at the other end" is not a sustainable tactic. We will go down if we don't start scoring goals. Other teams will score against us, that's a given. Even in the completely unreal situation that the remaining games all finish 0-0, giving us 13 points, it still won't be enough. We have to win at least some of the games. And to do that we have to score at least one goal in a game (several games actually) - otherwise it is simply impossible. Our away form is crap and we have just 6 home games coming up. Considering DCL is not playing, I think the least he can do is stump up a week's worth of wages so we can buy a shed load of fireworks and a 50,000 watt PA system to be permanently stationed outside the Hilton Hotel - I honestly think that might actually be our only chance Sibdane and plaidharper 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncanmckenzieismagic Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 1 hour ago, RPG said: And Arsenal not doing us any favours at the moment - losing at home to Bournemouth! Could easily be three or four up Bournemouth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncanmckenzieismagic Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 And now it’s 2-0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunlopp9987 Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Unbelievable. Thankfully all the other results are going our way so far but that result is really astonishing. Not looking good for us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafnia Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 The most important thing is that we have Leeds, wolves, palace, West Ham, losing etc. it doesn’t necessarily change the complexity of things as we have to play Bournemouth. arsenal pull a goal back, if arsenal win this Bournemouth will take a terrible mental battering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncanmckenzieismagic Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Arsenal nick one back, good game this tbf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncanmckenzieismagic Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Yes 2-2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunlopp9987 Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 And two! Also Moyes will be sacked after today Gwlad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunlopp9987 Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Wolves get one against Spurs. Think they'll be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncanmckenzieismagic Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Bollocks Wolves are winning How Bournemouth are holding on here I will never know, Arsenal should have had at least 2 penalties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncanmckenzieismagic Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 West Ham 4-0 down now, must be the end for Moyse surely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunlopp9987 Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 It's Arsenal's season isn't it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncanmckenzieismagic Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Get in Arsenal 3-2 in 97th minute ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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