Despite a couple of defeats a few weeks ago and following the battling draw against Manchester City, I felt reaching Europe was still a possibility but that was if we took maximum points, or maybe seven from the last three games.
Everton’s disappointing draw at Palace makes me a lot less confident that will happen now, I don’t see Everton getting maximum points from the last two games if I’m honest.
Two games to go… where do you see Everton actually finishing in the table? 😫
Europe now feels incredibly unlikely… 👋
Of course while it’s mathematically still possible the fight goes on, however I have to say I feel a familiar feeling engulfing me once again. Now the good news is that it’s not the feeling we’ve become accustomed to in recent years, fighting to avoid relegation, there is much to be positive about this season.
A season in which we moved to the Hill Dickinson Stadium and everything that comes with that, and the club feels much more stable than it has for a while.
The bad news however is the feeling Everton supporters have had for over 30 years now, and that is another trophy-less season and real promise being extinguished over a period of a few weeks as is the case in the last month or so.
However, the latter of those two annoyances is somewhat weakened by that sense of relative stability I talked about earlier but the former, the barren 30-year wilderness of no trophy, isn’t. I’ve counted around sixteen different clubs that have won a domestic trophy since Dave Watson lifted the FA Cup above his head in 1995, the fact Everton have not been amongst those 16 is quite an accomplishment.
The Friedkins must show silverware ambition at Everton next season
The size of the club, its history and the fact that seven of the managers that have been in charge of the club in the last 30 years have all won a trophy as a manager, it’s hard to understand why it hasn’t happened.
Now I know nobody has a divine right to win anything but for this club to go so long without silverware is bordering on criminal metaphorically speaking.
No win in any of Everton’s last five games… what would you say to David Moyes? 🫣
The big question for Everton’s owners, The Friedkin Group, is how do they change that? Because for a club this size with a fan base and stadium to match it has never been as imperative that a trophy is delivered and soon.
The ambition of the owners has to match all of the above, because what is the point of a mid-table, mediocre team treading water year in year out, there needs to be tangible evidence that comfortable won’t do.
Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s easier said than done, the competition is as fierce as it has ever been in the Premier League but somehow, someway The Friedkin Group have to find the answers. Whatever that means or looks like and whatever casualties it may cause, because Everton demands it.
The next two games will be a significant pointer to where Everton’s squad sits and for that matter what is needed to move forward. The change of ownership may have produced a season where belief replaced trepidation again but Everton fans are in no mood to have their hopes raised and dashed again in the space of weeks, they want, as I’m sure everyone does, to see real progress and commitment on the field as well as off it.
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