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yeah, where are everton in the table currently ?

Palace need a pulis again.

After travelling down to Brighton for the game on Saturday, the can have our one....

Palace looking exactly like Bournemouth in the table 0 pts -7 after 4 games but no one has been calling for eddie howe's head. Palace had 23 odd shots yesterday, hardly relegation form.

Hope they go down now and can imagine the players throwing in the towel under wroy taking the piss to get cheaper moves once relegated.

Fuck knows, haven't even looked, probably bottom 6 already

All the talk after the game in the pubs and forums, and my mates who went - general consensus is Koeman has to go.

Could say the same about Klopp. He clearly has no clue how to organise a defence and the way he jettisoned Sakho out of the club is a bit worrying, seeing as he was our best defender.
Another season of winning 3-0 one week and conceding four or five the next. Oh for consistency

But if you believed what you read in the papers... Chelsea (3rd) in crisis! Liverpool (8th); Dynamic, young footballing force!

Was pretty shite, but we are prone to massive overreaction. Plenty of new players, a few injured players needing to return, plus a bastard set of opening fixtures - easily beaten by the top two from last season isn't massively surprising. Koeman may well not be the man for the job, but now isn't the time to make that call.

So you have had 4 prem games, beaten in 2 by last seasons 1st and 2nd, drew with Man C away and beaten Stoke.

but now isn't the time to make that call.

Wrong, a panic laden ejection NOW or all will be lost.

Or, as you say, a hard start to the season and should prob let it settle in for a while.

I think the Anfield effect has spread across Stanley Park...

But if you believed what you read in the papers... Chelsea (3rd) in crisis! Liverpool (8th); Dynamic, young footballing force!

Oxlade Chamberlain swerved a bullet on that one.

I'm all for getting rid asap. Not done a lot to prove to me that he's the right man. We've been shite since March and the last few games I've been to have been up there with Walter Smith and Mike Walker in some of the most boring, uninspiring, insipid performances I've seen in 35yrs

There is so much wrong with the team at the moment I can't even begin to start listing them

There is so much wrong with the team at the moment I can't even begin to start listing them

1. Rooney
   

It's the manor in which we are playing and getting beat which is the worrying thing -

Scraped a win against Stoke
Couldn't beat Man City having been 1-0 up and then with 10 men for over an hour
Chelsea away we had NO shots on target and the first was on 60mins
One shot on target against Spurs

We're shitless and Koeman has got no plan B

5 in defence with 2 defensive midfielders EVERY fucking game, home and away!
He's known about Lukaku leaving since March and to not replace that goal threat and our main source of goals is criminal.

This is his team now so there's no excuses - the cunt has spent £150m this Summer!!

De Boer sacked, Woy in!

Koeman next hopefully

Seem to recall you wanting De Boer in at Everton...

We're shitless and Koeman has got no plan B

Koeman was once touted as a possible Wenger replacement. Should fit right in.

Is it really that bad that he can't be given until the end of november? To me Koeman has risen Everton to be the best of the rest. The gap to compete with the top team is massive, £150m does not even scrape near. I'd want to give him more time as the risks of taking on a new manager is massive.

but you were ecstatic with the signings when they were being rolled out?
Koeman's a good coach, who will right the ship, and it'll probably take another season or so. I think Palace are being short sighted in terms of getting rid of De Boer, especially as they wanted something different from what Allardyce offered, now even this soon, they're thinking we need to hold onto our premier league status...
Everton need stability as much as Palace do, and despite the stodge they may be being fed currently (only saw highlights of Spurs putting you guys away comfortably) don't want to get drawn into the cycle of firing manager, manager buying new players, team not performing well, firing manager, buying new players, team not performing well, rinse and repeat.
Something to be said for a certain amount of continuity...

ps, you're starting to sound like @mikec with your knee jerk reaction to a bad couple of games...

To deal with an issue that has emerged since Saturday's match at Leicester.

It emerged from a statement by the club and a message from Morata, that a song had been sung for Morata which used the Y word. The club and Morata both distanced themselves from this and appealed for the song not to be sung in future and for the word not too be used.

Since then there has been considerable discussion of the issue.

The bulk of Chelsea supporters have applauded the club and are hoping that this incident sees the last of the use of that word.

A few neanderthals are seeking to justify it on the basis that it doesn't refer to Jewish people but to Tottenham supporters. This is palpabale nonsense. No one would use the "n-word" in such circumstances. It is wholly uinacceptable.

Some also point to the fact that Tottenham supporters use the word themselves. Again, that is unacceptable. For non Jewish Tottenham supporters to claim that they somehow aligning themselves with Jewish people by using that word is crass in the extreme. Again, substitute the n-word and see how crass it is. I know that David Cameron said that it was acceptable. I do not think that Cameron is an acceptable barometer of what is acceptable or not.

The club acted quickly and properly. Most would not have known about the chant if they had not acted.

It is therefore disappointing to hear the Kick It Out group jump on an easy target and demand that all people singing the song be identified and receive banning orders. That is pushing it too far. Surely better to focus on other targets that need to be addressed, particularly by the Kick It Out group who, despite their avowed intent of stopping homophobia, have never taken any actual action against it.

But as I said, we've been shite since March, not just the last 4 games. Why wait when all the signs are there...

November we could easily be in the bottom 3

So I take it @Pistanator 's cock is about as fizzy as a three day old glass of coke?

It's not Klopps's fault Mike.

The Liverpool team were psychologically affected by Ederson's injury on Saturday apparently. Here's something from the Guardian comments on the match report of Saturday's GegenBumming: -

I notice the author of this article lacks empathy with how the Liverpool team reacted after the collision between Mane and the City goalkeeper. The author has difficulty in accepting what most people would think. I quote:
"Received wisdom will say Mané’s red card killed the game, placing an asterisk against all that followed."
He then dismisses this opinion and coldly attacks Liverpool's frailty.
In my opinion the injury to the goalkeeper psychologically affected Liverpool. I am pleased that it did because it shows their is emotional depth to the team. There are things more important than winning a game and potential serious injury to a player is a one of them. Perhaps the author should think how he would react. Would he carry on as nothing has happened?

So chin up, and this year may yet be your year.

Depends, a serious injury in the West Ham v Huddersfield game tonight could send the Liverpool players into a downward emotional spiral ahead of the Sevilla game on Wednesday.

In fairness, since I've had a kid the time I spend watching football has gone down massively, so I've far less to go on than I once would have. You may well be right, but I recall a brief exchange where I rated Naismith and you thought he was shite, so perhaps we just see it different.