Your premier league regret

….Covid sending us down as I don’t believe the team would have folded so badly in our home games v Palace and Newcastle especially….also that faulty goal line tech at Villa Park!
 
Not resolving the stadium ownership and capacity issue as this would have made the clubs long term future more secure.
Not having more of a serious attempt in the Cups in the seasons where we were comfortably mid table, winning a trophy would have been a great legacy of this period.
 
Waz afcb said:
Prioritising staying there for as long as possible as opposed to building the club. To not even get a new training ground out of it is criminal.
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It's not criminal mate, it's Max's money, after all, it's just disappointing and frustrating for most of us.
 
Regret implies something I had control over so I spent a lot of money going to away matches where performances were just awful: Watford, Palace and Norwich come to mind. Could have spent that money on a lovely weekend away somewhere.

Wishes outside my control:

1. I remember King crossed the ball to Arnie at Watford. A few yards out, Arnie struck it okay but was quite close to Foster and he managed to say it. I often wonder what if he'd scored and we'd won that match? No disrespect to Arnie of course.

2. Some of the way VAR was implemented/Not implemented: goals that were disallowed because of handballs that would now be allowed. The Smith penalty/Wilson goal disallowed because of it at Burnley. Sheffield United's over the line goal against Villa that wasn't awarded.

3. Not cashing in on wantaways like Wilson, Fraser and King when we could have brought in fresh talent and stayed up.
 
Not having capitalised on the children who now run around in afcb kits being able to go to games whilst in the top flight.

Training ground, stadium...all problems that have been kicked down the road.

Not being able to say goodbye to so many legends including Howe with relegation coming behind closed doors.
 
Seeing a broken Eddie Howe at the end. He looked a shadow of himself and it was no way for his time with us to end. It should have finished with more glory and then him moving on to something even bigger. Instead we got... a forlorn looking Eddie and players who had let him down moving on to nice fat pay packets having failed to turn up for the man who helped build their career.

I don't mean he was faultless because that certainly wasn't the case but there are a number who will know in their heart of hearts they could and should have done more.

That season leaves a slight bitter taste to the end of his reign.
 
Seeing the “ together, anything is possible “ thinking disappear from the club in the last season and a half - and the obvious decline on the pitch and the divisions in the squad leading to our relegation.
 
Waz afcb said:
Because better training facilities = a tangible asset to the club. In order to compete at this level organically we need to build the infrastructure. I want to see a club that wants to grow.
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If it's simply about assets then there are a lot of things higher up my wish list than better training facilities, all of which improve the fan experience as opposed to some marginal increase in the facilities for the players.
 
Bluecherry said:
Not being able to be there in person for the end of it.
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You wanted to be there? Maybe that makes sense, actually, in a way. I'm actually glad I wasn't there. How do you think our supporters would have reacted? How would the Everton fans have responded to it?
 
The best thing was most definitely getting to see up play and sometimes upset some of the biggest names in the Premier League.

The worst part was after all those millions of pounds made in the PL we still do not own the stadium or have a training facility for both the first team and the academy that would give us a better future should hard times come again :(
 
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