Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £40m
This simply confirms what everyone except the ginger bell can see with their own eyes on how Keane effects the game for us
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2024/25 Michael Keane
- Thread starter Mikey_Fitzgerald
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This simply confirms what everyone except the ginger bell can see with their own eyes on how Keane effects the game for us
kenada_blue
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We're not playing in a low block and he struggles.
Years of evidence proves that.
coollino
Player Valuation: £80m
it's at a point where i think a normal person playing would have a better record
He’d be crap in a low block too because he can’t/won’t head a cross away.
IV(AC)
Player Valuation: £2.5m
My 7 yo lad would have not got beaten to that ball by Watkins and headed it out - safety first. He’s like a rabbit in headlights when a cross comes in. Absolutely shocking defending. You’d get pelters if you did that in a Sunday league game and rightly so, and this chump makes his living somehow as a PL footballer
I shared the Calvert-Lewin one of these he did and a few corrected it was quite a way off;
But assuming it's close enough...
He also says 'Over a 38 game season with & without Michael Keane, we go from a team finishing on 21 points a relegation total, to finishing on 62 points which is enough for Europe.He unsettles the team, useless with balls in behind & panics in possession & these stats speak for themselves'
We all know we're loads better with Branthwaite, over Keane.
But I think it's too simplistic to put it on one player, or one manager like that.
I mean, he's said we're Europe without Keane.
Well, this is also us without Keane playing a single second;
We had one really good spell - something like 10 wins in 14 - Sept-Dec 2023 which will really skew.
Yeah we're loads better with Branthwaite over Keane. Shock.
But we will still have Mykolenko an Young at full back.
This is also very true.
And a criticism I have of Dyche.
He's abandoned that low block which was successful for him last season, at a time our defence is on it's arse.
I understand it a bit - new season. He's desperate to prove he's not a one trick pony - but when you have Young, Keane and Mykolenko in defence, with a below par (injured?) Tarkowski and lacking in form Pickford - go low block.
With Keane barely playing any minutes last season we got 48 points, so I don’t understand what that league table from 2 years ago is supposed to tell us. We would’ve more than likely gone down in the 2022/23 season if Keane had started on the final day against Bournemouth. We have kept 2 clean sheets with him in the team in the last 2 seasons.
It's really weird this. I saw a stat in the paper saying that this season we've had the 4th highest defensive line in the league, after Spurs, City and Liverpool -- it doesn't make any sense given our full backs have been Keane and Tarkowski.
He used a 60 game sample.
He said we're European form/points without Keane.
I've shown a table of us late Jan - 20 games in without Keane. We were 19th.
Maybe it's not all on him.
badloaf
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Are you his ma?
Not enough has been made of it.
Spent all last season telling anyone who'd listen why we're so negative with a low block.
There's times you've got to take the break off - particularly because we've not got the progression/pace or ability in the final third so you overload as you cant always rely on set pieces.
Maybe he's just thought new season/try and pipe down people on his case about being so negative.
But that defence we have dictates low block more than any last season.
Hi
With reference to my last post about Michael Keane I stand by it and it was only further enhanced by his inability to jump in the air for Villa's equaliser on Saturday, it was a soft goal that Watkins scored and he is far from a battler areial wise. There are stats all over the inter web regarding Keane for the last few seasons and they make for poor reading, just under Dyche it is P19 W2 dropping 40+ goals, he plays we lose simples. However far worse than that there are now reports that Dyche is unhappy with Pickford and may either drop him or replace him, this is without doubt an immediate sackable offence just for thinking it let alone carrying it through when the biggest elephant in the room is Keane. I really do despair at this line of thinking from a supposed professional coach/manager. As for Dyches substitution by bringing on Garner a midfielder to play at the back with Jake O'Brien left on the bench was complete madness, the stubbornness and favouritism shown to Keane by Dyche is amateurish and should be called out by the pundits and media if they had any cahoonas.
Regards
With reference to my last post about Michael Keane I stand by it and it was only further enhanced by his inability to jump in the air for Villa's equaliser on Saturday, it was a soft goal that Watkins scored and he is far from a battler areial wise. There are stats all over the inter web regarding Keane for the last few seasons and they make for poor reading, just under Dyche it is P19 W2 dropping 40+ goals, he plays we lose simples. However far worse than that there are now reports that Dyche is unhappy with Pickford and may either drop him or replace him, this is without doubt an immediate sackable offence just for thinking it let alone carrying it through when the biggest elephant in the room is Keane. I really do despair at this line of thinking from a supposed professional coach/manager. As for Dyches substitution by bringing on Garner a midfielder to play at the back with Jake O'Brien left on the bench was complete madness, the stubbornness and favouritism shown to Keane by Dyche is amateurish and should be called out by the pundits and media if they had any cahoonas.
Regards