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Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 10:36 am
by Shogun
Obviously the Dyche factor was an issue earlier this season but not for the last few months. 18 home matches this season and we've won just 4. Haven't had a single 'big' win and the only moment is Tarkowski's equaliser which still wasn't actually a win. Got dumped out of both cups at home against Southampton and Bournemouth. Had the chance yesterday to go on and win by 3 or 4 and ended up drawing against a relegated side.

Must be one of our worst ever seasons at Goodison?

Maybe a bit dramatic and obviously the quality isn't there to be a great team but I think the home form this season has been borderline unforgivable given what it means.

Goodison deserved better.


Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 10:40 am
by Bluebridge
I think it’s all down to you to be honest, stay away 😉

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 11:00 am
by Admin
Four wins at Goodison all season says it all

Our lowest Premier League tally is six wins at home in a season so no matter what this is our worst season at home

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Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 12:30 pm
by Fynci
The players, the previous owners, the previous manager, the lack of vision for an eternity.

There's so much that has led us to where we are now, so it's unfair to put all the blame on the players. They are a limited and ultimately forgettable bunch, but they are here for a reason.

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 12:52 pm
by Cozzie
Yeah it's been a very unmemorable last season at the grand old lady.

The tweet sums it up. How very Everton indeed.

A few should never have happened.

The Bournemouth one was unforgivable.

Man united and Ipswich also.

Just hope we can win against Southampton and that's all people will remember.

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 12:53 pm
by Cozzie
Having said that.

The joint worst team in prem history, rock bottom?

Couldn't hand pick an easier opponent could we?

You know whats coming don't you....

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 2:45 pm
by Cereal Killer
Cozzie wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 12:53 pm Having said that.

The joint worst team in prem history, rock bottom?

Couldn't hand pick an easier opponent could we?

You know whats coming don't you....
Adam Lallana 90th minute winner

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 5:11 pm
by The Doc
To be honest, I'm looking forward to leaving Goodison and making a fresh start. There feels a certain level of taintedness at the club, expected failure.

I'll miss it, but the last 3 decades have been grim for our standards.

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 5:19 pm
by Escalator
The players can only ruin the final season for those that are so anal that they forget how close we were to leaving the Premier league in our final season, we can at least enjoy our final season, at the final game, safe in the knowledge that we will be playing in the Premier League next season, obviously a win against Soton is required but that dead rubber yesterday against Ipswich ? Give a fuck.

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 5:20 pm
by Audrey Horne
I give a fuck 🤷‍♀️

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 5:28 pm
by Shogun
Escalator wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 5:19 pm The players can only ruin the final season for those that are so anal that they forget how close we were to leaving the Premier league in our final season, we can at least enjoy our final season, at the final game, safe in the knowledge that we will be playing in the Premier League next season, obviously a win against Soton is required but that dead rubber yesterday against Ipswich ? Give a fuck.
Think you've massively overlooked how many home matches this season were people's last match at Goodison.

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 5:30 pm
by MayorFarnham
Hard to blame it all on the players in these days of a very small percentage of clubs with realistic ambitions of success.
I think the best we can say is the new stadium has come along just in time. I shudder to think what shape we'd be in if the stadium was another three years away.

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 7:41 pm
by kramer
Previous ownership ruined it.

Constantly chopping and changing the people in charge of football strategy, spending fees you’d expect from a side challenging for something on poor players, maxing out allowable spending under FFP.

Many of these players would not be a part of this squad if not for severe mismanagement. With even a little bit of money, we’d have an extra handful of quality players that ended up at Forest or Brighton or elsewhere.

We’re very lucky to have survived this much repeated mismanagement. We could’ve easily gone the way of Sunderland. If you ran the simulation a hundred more times, I’m not sure we survive the Benitez/Lampard season in more than twenty or thirty of them.

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 7:44 pm
by kramer
Twenty to thirty might even be generous.

Without that bizarrely good run to open the season, we’d have been completely dead in the water under Benitez.

Depends on how many times you expect us to string something approaching that together with Andros Townsend and Demarai Gray playing such important roles.

Re: Have the players ruined the final season at Goodison?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 8:21 pm
by toffee_scot
A number of people are at fault for the poor season including the previous Moshiri regime and their extremely poor running of the club, including the recruitment of this Frankenstein team with very few leaders or strong characters who can help pick the team up if they are not playing well or when morale is low. Not sure if this group have also felt too much pressure playing at home this season (which is a huge problem in itself).

When you think of all the Everton legends and great memories people have of Goodison Park, it does feel a little deflating that we'll likely finish the season with a team containing the likes of Garner, Mykolenko, Harrisson, Beto and Young.

While we are looking forward to moving to the new stadium, I do hope it can feel like "home" for the team as quickly as possible, didn't it take Arsenal, West Ham and Sunderland a while to adjust to their current stadiums?