RandoEFC

Sainz crashed out in his first Q3 run. The red flag meant everyone could only post one fast lap later in the session and Leclerc's effort got deleted for track limits.

I do think Leicester have a bottom three squad either way unfortunately. They're unlucky to have lost their manager since promotion because it fucks up any sort of project you had going. Cooper was still a poor appointment though. You probably still go down and then you end up having another reset. Could have at least got a long term manager in, accepted that relegation is likely but go into the Championship with a team that's had 12 months playing a certain system. Best case scenario with a manger like Cooper is that a bit of Premier League "know how" might scrape you one survival but there's no long term progress so you end up in another relegation scrap the next season and end up pulling the plug on him anyway and restarting from square one.

Draws are always a bit of a gamble so fair play @Dan . Should have added Draw & U2.5 on the Juventus one at least I reckon .

Villa comes in although there was one corner in it in the end. At one point they were losing and Wolves were up 3-0 on corners .

Saints and Ipswich drawing is probably good news for both of us anyway.

Yeah I thought at the time and I think it now. Cooper was a really poor appointment for Leicester. It seemed like it wouldn't matter that much because everyone thought you were getting a points deduction that would kill you either way but now it seems like you should have maybe looked harder than just whatever dross on the Premier League scrapheap of recently sacked managers was knocking about.

Another frustrating result. We had several chances to score and only took one of them. Leicester then score a goalmouth scramble after Pickford had barely had to make a save for the entire game. Ended up lucky not to lose because we predictably went to pieces after conceding and were all over the place. I don't know about Dyche's substitutions again. Lindstrom is yet to find his end product but he's a threat and taking him off for Harrison who was the worst player on the pitch for the last half hour hurt us. Then taking Ndiaye off for the last ten minutes pretty much removed any attempts to counter attack from being possible. At least we have a real, genuine point on the board. Same as last season with 1 point in 5 games. Patterson, Coleman, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Gueye missing today. Hopefully we don't spend all fucking season having to play James Garner at full back and asking Young to put in 90 minute shifts.

Christ if we did end up sacking Dyche and bringing Moyes in we'd have to hurry up or West Ham will be going back to him again soon .

How about we decide not to be dickheads and fuck it up this time? A novel take, I know.

Whiskey Pole: NOR Race: NOR RUS PIA Perez: P6 SC: 2

DeadLinesman Nor Nor Lec Pia 8th 1

Red Bull are getting shitter by the race lol.

@nudge @Tommy @Coma @MUFC @DeadLinesman @Whiskey quali tomorrow.

MLB is different though because it's the only league of its type in the world. If salary caps were introduced in the Premier League then players have the option of going to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Saudi who could afford to pay them more.

£10 > £22.60 I expect Brighton and Aston Villa to dominate their respective games this weekend. I don't rate Wolves this season and I don't think Forest will manage a second spawny away win in a row. Tempting to go for Win instead of Win or Draw on both but my strategy at the moment is to keep the odds around Evens and win little and often so playing it safer.

NOR NOR LEC PIA 10th 1

Predictions - Singapore Grand Prix Deadline is qualifying on Saturday. @RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @Dave @Coma @DeadLinesman @OrangeKhrush Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? [INSERT DRIVER] Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions? 1. [INSERT DRIVER] 2. [INSERT DRIVER] 3. [INSERT DRIVER] Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Sergio Perez. [INSERT POSITION] Bonus Question - What will the total number of Virtual Safety Cars, Safety Cars and Red Flags be throughout Sunday's race? [A VSC that becomes a SC or Red Flag, for example, will count as one instance] [INSERT NUMBER]

Results - Azerbaijan Grand Prix We had our first no-shows for a while this week with @Whiskey and @Coma making no predictions. At least from their points of view, this weekend was one of the lowest scoring ones we've seen so they didn't lose as much ground as usual. Qualifying first, and only two of the eight that predicted correctly went for Charles Leclerc to bag his fourth consecutive pole position in Baku, with the rest of the field plumping for Lando Norris. 5 points each to @RandoEFC and @DeadLinesman. Also resolved on Saturday was the bonus question, where @OrangeKhrush was the only person to correctly pick Esteban Ocon as the lowest qualifier (outside of the two Saubers). 5 points to him as well. Race day didn't see anyone score more than dribs and drabs really. Nobody put Oscar Piastri down for victory, although 2 points each go to @Stan, @MUFC, @Tommy, @nudge and @Dave who all included him among their top three. @Dave was the only one to pick up 5 points at all for a podium finisher, correctly calling P2 for Charles Leclerc for 5 points. @RandoEFC, @Tommy, @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush take home 2 each for putting him elsewhere in their top three. The dramatic late crash that saw Perez and Sainz taken out of the race saw @RandoEFC pick up an extra 2 points in fortuitous circumstances. The Mercedes 1-2 couldn't have been a worse shout but Russell's podium sees him pick up 2 consolation points. Finally, Franco Colapinto was this week's random driver, and his 8th place confounded everyone's expectations. 2 points here go to @nudge, whose heady prediction of 14th is as close as anyone got to doing Colapinto justice. Here's how the standings look: With nobody breaching double figures this week, steady progress is made by @RandoEFC, whose 9 points was the highest of the weekend and sees him extend his championship lead to 9 points. There isn't much change in the rest of the table with plenty of close battles going on between 1st and 8th. McLaren's 16 points is a pitiful return but still comfortably the best of anyone this weekend, seeing them back to the top of the ever-changing Constructors' table. Aston Martin and Ferrari were given an extra 2 points each as a part of the missing driver "insurance policy". The top three teams are still separated by only 12 points and any could come out of the next weekend in front. Don't forget we have the season-long predictions to come as well! I've started looking at which of these can be "paid out" and I may try to do a preview on how things look before the end of the year.

1 point from the first five last season with arguably easier fixtures (Fulham and Wolves at home and Sheff Utd away) before we won at Brentford. The problem is last season we were unlucky in some of those defeats and just couldn't finish chances. This season you can only really point to Bournemouth as the game we should have won on balance. Brighton and Spurs battered us pretty easily and Villa could have put 4 or 5 past us, it was a freak incident for us to get a 2 goal lead there. We have a good run of fixtures coming up so Dyche has to show marked improvement in the next two games or we need to cash in a new manager bounce to get some points on the board.

Thankfully we've reached the point where Evertonians find our fanbase as funny as Liverpool fans do when things are going badly.

Not recently that I've seen. I know that the figure owed to Friedkin is £200m, 777 I think is slightly more than that, and then we have other debts, some of which are owed to lenders dating back to before Moshiri even bought the club off Kenwright. The debt was bad enough pre-777 and Friedkin that it scared MSP off from a full purchase so I expect the total is in the region of £600m-£800m.

I can see why some clubs have managed to turn relegation into a "big reset" but I don't think that really applies to us. The owner is already looking to sell the club and moving into the new stadium will transform the club's financial profile because there'll be a huge boost in revenue and there'll no longer be hundreds of millions of outgoings each year in terms of building costs. We should already have a big reset and break the cycle in the summer with a new owner and stadium, even if we end up grinding our way to 16th/17th in a similar manner to the previous two seasons. Financially, we have a large debt problem. That's historical debt, plus money owed back to 777 Partners that they invested during their failed takeover, and £200m or so owed to the Friedkin Group who paid off the rest of our stadium costs for us and another debt we owed to MSP from their failed takeover. The debt is hundreds of millions and I don't know if anyone even has a reliable estimate of how bad it is, which is why MSP and Friedkin have both entered negotiations to take over, and then walked away once they were granted access to the books. However bad it is, it's bad, and the only parties that are currently interested can just about justify taking over a project saddled with that much debt, because you're buying a Premier League team with a brand new stadium and a reasonably high ceiling. I don't think any of them would be interested in buying a Championship club with hundreds of millions of debt, and I don't know where it would end up leading us if Moshiri couldn't find any buyer at all. So on that front as well, the "maybe relegation would be a good chance to wipe the slate clean and rebuild" doesn't really apply to us.

I'm tired of us sacking managers even though Dyche has lasted longer than almost any since Martinez. I'd rather we kept him for the rest of the season because based on last season, he's definitely capable of getting enough out of this team to keep us in the league. We've only really lost Onana from last season and he wasn't even necessarily a starter under Dyche. However, I've seen this show before and I don't think any Everton manager in my lifetime has recovered from a run this poor, a series of results so demoralising, and the disengagement of this much of the fanbase. We've won 5 league games since last December, none away from home and the derby win the only one against a top-half side. Anything less than 4 points from Leicester and Palace isn't going to be good enough at this point I'm afraid, but unless there are drastic changes to the way he's picking his side and managing games, we won't get more than 1. What's concerning is that his decisions are starting to get erratic. He's always been a limited coach with one pretty poor way of approaching games that works to an extent, but taking Beto off last night and sending Ndiaye to lead the line while continuing to play as if we have a target man was bizarre and concerning. There wasn't really anyone available last season when we went winless in 11 or whatever it was but Moyes is sat there without a job right now and you've got a candidate there, if he wants the job (I think he'd love to come back and take us into the new stadium to be honest), who would settle in quicker than most, and despite his own limitations can get a team organised and playing a bit of football without having to spend loads of money bringing in his own wave of recruits. What a shit time though. We are surely the most miserable club to support in the whole of the UK (barring any of the gone bust clubs and maybe Leeds) and it's been going on for so long. We had about a 3 month period under Ancelotti where it was actually enjoyable to support Everton. Nearly 34,000 still turn up last night to watch a second string in an early round League Cup fixture despite the state of things. Jamie Carragher was right on commentary at the weekend where Everton fans are looking at Aston Villa, competing in the Champions League, playing entertaining football, bringing through young players, and just thinking when is someone going to come and save us from this mess and start restoring us to something near that level.

Young misses and we go out. Everton and going out of the League Cup on penalties at Goodison is one of those iconic duos. Not really arsed about that result when we've made 8 changes and this tournament is a matter of when not if we get eliminated... but it's a hard watch again, we've had under 30% possession at home, the result has gone the wrong way again. Dyche could have no complaints if he had been sacked by now to be honest and he has to get a result at the weekend or our excuse for a board are going to have to have a meeting.

Awful spectacle at Goodison. 8 changes for us, not sure about Southampton but two scrappy set piece goals and it goes to penalties.