He's well versed in playing in a back 3 and had yerry and tark to do the heavy lifting. In a four he just drops too deep and isn't big or athletic enough
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He's actually watching the Liverpool game
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Might be genuine emotions, probably is.
However, Osman's status in punditry is on the back of his Everton connections. If we'd have gone down his work would have been affected.
His ppg ratio would get 44 points. I would probably take that next year. Thats basically a 20% improvement on this year and definitely has you clear of relegation trouble
I think everyone felt like that yesterday so I'd say its genuine. I dont think anyone truly enjoyed yesterday until the final whistle went, other than the couple of minutes of elation when we scored.
The 10 mins added time was probably the most nerve wracking 10 minutes of sport I've ever watched. But its about finding a way to get the job done, nothing else matters
The dynamic changes next year again mate. You have to absolutely need to leave Dyche there now for two years, he will build a competitive side and a culture and we have more then a punchers chance, im very curious to see what he can do with means beyond what Burnley can offer him. The club needs stability, a culture change root and branch, balance in the squad and incremental improvement. He didnt get half a season, got a tune out of a limited unbalanced squad and brought home 21 points with awful runs of fixtures - far tougher then his predecessor. How he kept a club up in the PL without a centre forward all year is beyond me, ive never seen the like.
With the reset come August, i see many clubs regressing and could have difficult seasons - Bourmouth, Forest, Wolves, Palace could be up against it - i could see Fulham after an initial year of boom regressing when the first year shine wears - an Ivan Toney less Brentford are going to struggle to post their points tally without is goals until Jan, while be curious to see who stays and who goes at Brighton - its very hard to repeat what they do - sell their best and replace them like for like. The you look at who is coming up Burnley, Sheff Utd and Luton. Id back us to be that pragmatic side, competitive side that doesn't loose many and hits the mid to lower table and we incrementally take a step forward.
A lot will depend on the ownership situation, whether its a full take over or minority - but the club needs stability now. We have the right manager at the right time - who can more then meet the needs of stability, incremental progression and fundamentally staying in the league with a limited budget. He will compete a root and branch culture change at this club and he knows how to balance a squad. He wont get to high, he wont get to low, he will face every adversity and not moan and that will seap through the culture required in the dressing room.
As fans we need to be self aware, we need to realise the job of work the club needs and how deep of a hole we are in, its huge, its culture, its balance, its stability, its building and doing all of the above in limits. Hes earned our gratitude, and he rightly deserves to be lauded and appreciated for what he did this season - i think its incredible.
With Dyche im very confident, hes a proper football manager.
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Kev The Rat
Player Valuation: £70m
Depends on when he gets those points. I would suggest it’s easier to get them towards the end of the season when desperation sets in.
Has been the case for us for the last god knows how many years anyway
For me the Brighton result was the big one. The shift in GD effectively removed Leeds from the equation. It showed the other teams that we could really hurt them on the counter.
Yeah, I’ve given him plenty of stick over the years, but think we can all relate to his reactions there. Especially the “I hated that today” comment after full time. The fella is clearly a decent blue.
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Weird really as I don’t think we hurt a team before or since on the counter, something we are largely awful at but what a day that was.
The most basic thing to sort is our home form. Defeats against Southampton, Wolves, Leicester, Fulham. A draw against Forest. One or two of those results in a season would be acceptable. Over a season it's nowhere near good enough. A lot has been made of our poor away form over the last couple of seasons, but our home record this season was terrible.
BornBlue76
Player Valuation: £35m
This.
Once a Yo-yo club always a yo-yo club. Only City through their have stopped the bounce. I have no doubt that Brentford, Brighton and Fulham will all see the slide from as early as next season for some... but it is fate... Look at Leicester. Winning a trophy doesn't change your history or the fact that the club still feels like a visitor. The mentality of up and down become norm, with breaks of success. That's why avoiding the drop was vital to another 70 years.
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