yes and we could go down, makes ya wonder doesnt it
Under David Moyes (and I'd bet you'd love to have him as your manager) Everton flirted with last day relegation's for 2 out of his first 5 years and they struggled to get going under him. However, they stuck by him and supported him and after 5 or 6 seasons he got it right. Now and for the last 4 years, Everton are a major force in the EPL and cracking football team but if like a numb **** like you, their fans had judged him on his first 15 months they would have sacked him and been nowhere now.
Fans like you boil my ****ing piss mate, as you seem to be demanding something we haven't had since the mid 1950's in a top class top flight team (we finished 3rd in 1950) and since our inaugural relegation in 1958, we have been ****ing ****e bar one glorious history making blip in 1973 when to be frank, we were a second tier club.
Keane wasn't the long term answer, Sbragia certainly wasn't and although I initially thought Bruce may have been the one, he proved not to be the right man and just couldn't keep teams together, rebuilding every 6 months up to a point you just couldn't see any progress. In MoN we can see a man with a plan but one who simply isn't prepared to just cast a fishing net out with hope more than expectation of getting the right players in. Unlike his 3 predecessors, Martin is a shrewd and studious man who has put together a 3 or 4 year plan together to make this club once again a real force at this level. Its not going to happen with the wave of a magic wand as you seem to think but with application, determination and fortitude. We have seen the initial players in and out and players like Fletcher, Johnson and Rose are top quality regardless of current form, class is for ever.
This summer will see another 3 or 4 quality additions and 3 or 4 average deadwood departing. 2013/14 will again require planning and patience but by the January window in 2014 I think we will really see much more of the MoN standards such as work rate, pace and quality that has blessed all his other teams in his wonderful managerial career.
If we can overcome the short sighted plums such as yourself and give the man time and support he deserves, then maybe just maybe in another 2 or 3 years, we will like Everton fans start to see a new SAFC emerge from almost 60 years of perpetual failure. If not then we will all be soon rewarded for that lack of foresight with another Mick Buxton, Sgt Wilko, Mick McCarthy or Terry Butcher management appointment and everything ****ty that goes with it.
