How many points did that better more expansive coach get the next season for Bournemouth by the way? How many did the worst manager in football get for Everton?
It’s as though you just don’t understand context. The vast majority of people on here when we sat in the bottom 3 after 20 games in our second successive relegation battle would have traded anything for premier league safety. We were a complete mess that had just been beaten heavily by the same Bournemouth team you mentioned twice on the spin.
It wasn’t safety with caveats ‘well it will only be a good achievement if the bottom three are decent, or if he gets more than x points’, it was safety at any cost. He did that, and considering the financial future of the club was on the line, at that point it wasn’t about a certain standard, it was a binary outcome, we either stayed up or we didn’t.
I can guarantee you now if we’d have been relegated on 40 points because Leeds and Leicester went on a tear and finished ahead of us that season then you wouldn’t have given a toss at all about the standard, or whether we’d almost stayed up, or the football we’d played in that period, you’d have been laying into Dyche for destroying club and not keeping us up.