Think your bang on the money here mate.
One of the issues any manager has here is he has to act like he’s managing a big club, despite having severe limits this leads to a lack of overall identity and undermines results particularly at home and has done under many managers now.
Take the last few games, people were calling him to conservative and not up to manageung a big club by playing conservatively against Arsenal, because we’re a big club. We go out and attack Luton at home because we’re a big club and leave gaps and he’s tactically naive. People don’t know what they want. But worse the club struggles with an identity in games. We often don’t know whether to be on the front foot or not or whether we are big club or a club with limits bobbing around relegation, this has been a trend for years under many managers and varies from fixture to fixture in how we set up and approach games. This thread is also indicative of the spectrum.
If I was critiquing Dyche, I’d agree with you, I think he’s tried to appease to much, whether thats fans, media, proving he can manage at a higher level or showing alternate styles of play. But look let’s not knee jerk that’s out third game in a week and two were wins.
It’s about balance now, it’s about identityheadung into the long term - I’d personally think he should trust himself more.
What we know doesn’t work, is sacking a manager every six months, staying up by a hairsbreth, spending 10s of millions on that managers players, then sack them when they don’t win every game at the start of the season. Its not about whether Dyche should stay or go really - the cycle needs to be broken, because it incrementally get worse every time.
Dyche out calls will always be right, it’s the easy shout as invariably every PL manager will be sacked. However the systemic cyclical damage has a massively destructive trend. Self abuse really.
