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There is no problem with being disappointed when your team loses. There is no problem with being fed up when your team plays crap. We watch football with the hopes of our side being the winner. Full stop. And yet, unless you are one of the top five sides in the league, your team will win less...
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GrandOldTeam said:
Thanks to Tony Davies for our latest homepage article;

www.grandoldteam.com

Snap Back To Reality - Grand Old Team

There is no problem with being disappointed when your team loses. There is no problem with being fed up when your team plays crap. We watch football with the hopes of our side being the winner. Full stop. And yet, unless you are one of the top five sides in the league, your team will win less...
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we surrendered a 2 goal lead twice early on, if we held on (which should be expected from any PL team with a 2-0 lead) then we'd be on 16 points level with Spurs and looking forward to the rest of the season with some optimism....
 

OK, I'll accept the premise we're a 15th-ish team
But...
Are we being the best 15th-ish team we can be? Which may even include a dash up to 12th-ish
If yes? job done, sorted.
If no?
Is a lot of that down to Dyche?
IMO, Probably.
Stick or Twist then
Over to you TFG...eventually

It's the length of that eventually is the worry.
Edit; and what happens during that time. I've said before that Dyche is a plus or minus 3 manager
15th-ish can be +3 12th-ish

But also -3 18th-ish
 
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Excuse me, what??

This has proven to be the case, with Everton the bookies’ underdogs at Leicester, Ipswich and West Ham, as well as at Goodison against Newcastle.

Objectively speaking, taking 6 points from these games is a decent return when you were backed to take 1 or 2 at best.
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Head patters unite

Poor little Everton overcoming the monumental task of not getting beat by West Ham, Leicester and Newcastle
 
A good article, thought-provoking.

The margins are very tight, and they've gone against Dyche so far this season.

The dropped points against Bournemouth / Villa have cost us dearly.

Perhaps I and others expect too much of him, but my definition of a good manager is one who performs above-expectations, even if only very marginally, as it is the extra point or two that can make all the difference in the end. He did, objectively out-perform expectations last season and the season before, so that's credit in the bank for him.

It's all in the here and now though. He seems to be a figure that is marking time here and the air has gone out of the tyres so to speak. He cut a positive, bullish figure last season and that's gone.

It's easy to clamour for the sack and harder still to get a replacement in who can and will do better. But I feel that's the territory we are in. I worry for our position over the next month and if those fears are realised going into the Christmas period, with the Friedkins coming in, I think it will be very, very difficult for them to stay the course with Dyche.

If it's the fear of change keeping Dyche in a job then that's not enough, and I expect the Friedkins will not be in any way sentimental in that regard. We are probably in this until the end as far as comfort is concerned, but it IS possible for a manager with fresh ideas and a fresh approach to eek out the points we need.

With every change comes risk though and I understand those arguing in the other direction.
 
Found this interesting;

Last season, 50% of Premier League teams finished either exactly or within one position of where the bookies estimated they would.

A further 30% finished within two or three places of the prediction.
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I've regularly mentioned bookies on here - they rarely miss.
 

brieverton said:
A good article, thought-provoking.

The margins are very tight, and they've gone against Dyche so far this season.

The dropped points against Bournemouth / Villa have cost us dearly.

Perhaps I and others expect too much of him, but my definition of a good manager is one who performs above-expectations, even if only very marginally, as it is the extra point or two that can make all the difference in the end. He did, objectively out-perform expectations last season and the season before, so that's credit in the bank for him.
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I think on balance it's that it seemed like there were obvious small moves (selections, subs etc.) that could have been made that would have possibly tipped the balance in our favour in that horror show start and in other fine margin games since. Obviously we are all blow-hard know-nothing internet bellwhiffs tho, and SD gets paid the big bucks..
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It's all in the here and now though. He seems to be a figure that is marking time here and the air has gone out of the tyres so to speak. He cut a positive, bullish figure last season and that's gone.

It's easy to clamour for the sack and harder still to get a replacement in who can and will do better. But I feel that's the territory we are in. I worry for our position over the next month and if those fears are realised going into the Christmas period, with the Friedkins coming in, I think it will be very, very difficult for them to stay the course with Dyche.

If it's the fear of change keeping Dyche in a job then that's not enough, and I expect the Friedkins will not be in any way sentimental in that regard. We are probably in this until the end as far as comfort is concerned, but it IS possible for a manager with fresh ideas and a fresh approach to eek out the points we need.

With every change comes risk though and I understand those arguing in the other direction.
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No risk, no reward..
 
Good article!!

Think this season and reactions to all in it, is generally an exercise in how well you manage patience and hold tension.

On one hand by every objectifiable measure we deserve to be where are or worse - on the other expectations will always be through the roof and frankly people are just battered and reactive of 4 seasons in a relegation battle on the trot.

Arguably TFG takeover has ramped up the anticipation, tension and lack of patience.

Its the adult version of not having your desert until you finish your dinner - over the rest of the season.
 
NathDogg said:
NSNO though eh lads and lasses.
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But this isn’t reality mate.

NSNO goes without saying, but expecting and demanding that and comparing that with reality are two entirely different things.

We got our big takeover, absolutely missed our shot due to horrendous recruitment/top level decisions, yet somehow managed to build a world class state of the art new stadium. As a result finances are ridiculously tight, I don’t think we even know the half of what we’re doing to get by. Just look at our squad and tell me if you’d sign 5 of them given the chance??

It’s an asset stripped group of players with a below-average manager, exactly where I would anticipate us to be due to the horrendous management from top to bottom for the last 7/8 years.

Hopefully TFG takeover is the reset we all desperately want it to be, including new squad and manager. I’d be careful in moving too quickly on the latter mid season with this group of dirge.
 

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