Billy Pilgrim

I would take just being fully cognisant of the problems and making the effort to fix them before it’s too late tbh.

We will see how bad things are on the 1st of February and go from there. They’ve got 12 days to sign 3-4 players, otherwise we go down.

Need a full and honest assessment of why we haven’t been able to get bodies in the door, and for blame to be apportioned correctly.

The entire Brighton 11 is 2/3 the value of a Lukaku

Fraudkaku getting bullied out of the game against little old Brighton

18th of January, 2 bodies in the door, one of them Chris Wood. Needs to be better.

I want him and I don’t want to think too hard or elaborate on why. Just do it.

Zapata is an absolute chaos merchant, much more along the lines of what I wanna see

Proper Football Man. IE, talksport cretin.

Not sure we can pin it all on Staveley. It's a collective decision for a consortium to take. So far as her judgement goes, on paper it was optimistic but not ludicrous to suggest that Bruce was the major obstacle and that a highly rated Eddie Howe could come in with a plan and change things. We had been turned down by the first target and we needed to do something. What matters is being decisive should we get to february and still be on a single win. They're definitely working hard and they have done a lot already and it seems they have detailed plans for more to do. But they also need to get working on a contingency plan for what happens if we go through more winnable games and end up with no wins. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail, and time is no medicine for bad football management.

if I'm wrong I will hold my hands up and admit it and say, fair fucks mr Howe, you turned it round. However if any of you can be arsed to read what I said about Eddie Howe in the run up to him being appointed, you will see that my wild forecasts are not as insane as they appear to be at the time of writing. I'd say give him two more games. No wins, send to gulag.

I think it is way too early to be getting pissy about PIF and Stavely. BUT. Howe is absolutely fair game as he has been objectively shite and replacing him fast will be the difference between going down and staying up.

In the middle of the game people were talking him up (and slagging off ASM, our good footballer ) but I can't see it. His crosses were behind the man, he can't beat anyone, he just seems to do a bit of running around to zero effect whatsoever. Needs replaced immediately.

Regardless of anything else, Everton will now hire a manager we could have

If we had hired a good manager, he’d be here.

I don’t care about his charisma, or how cool he looks, or whether he says PFM things. I care about points and results. Eddie clearly isn’t a dickhead which is a huge boon in his favour but if you put a gun to my head and say, do you want a guy who isn’t aggravating, or do you want a complete bastard who dances on the graves of his defeated enemies on a weekly basis, I am going to pick the bastard. Sorry not sorry. Life is too short to stick with losers for abstract reasons, and this is true beyond football. Politics, work, relationships, everything. Your fight and drive to push against the universe as hard as you can is what brings victory.

Far too sensible, Gulag for admin

Your manager sets the level of players that you can sign. We all knew this from the very beginning but we were all high on getting rid of Ashley and Bruce and we allowed ourselves to let optimism and circumstances dictate an overly positive response. That is fine. What is not fine is doubling down on a mistake for the sake of worrying about being seen as delusional, or pretending that relegation isn’t a big deal, or refusing to put pressure on a manager when he has done absolutely nothing for us from the moment he walked in the door. None of us can materially change much but we can absolutely compound a problem by letting apathy dictate our response.

Manager CB CB CM CM LB RW ST

Wuh just need a little birra luck

Can someone post that telegraph article so I can get wound up by Eddie Howe spending money on shite

What the kids these days call a ‘wasteman’

You can see from space that the results, individually, have been shit.

It would have been nice to have a good run first tbf

It’s a harsh world where losers die and winners thrive.