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Permission to still like Dyche?

I think he’s been too big for his own boots recently. Giving a bit back when it wasn’t necessary. Today should show that it’s on him and his team.
Don’t try to put a wedge between us and yourself Dyche.
 

He's a lower half Premier league manager at best. Likeable? He's a bit arrogant, not as smart as he makes himself out to be and his insights on the matches lack anything of depth. But if you want to be his mate more power to you.
 
A disaster unfolding before his very eyes that he “could smell” yet he only exacerbates the disaster with 2 monumentally daft substitutions instead of helping his players see the result over the line with fresh legs on in the positions in most need of them. 3 subs not even used.

If he held his hands up after the game I’d have an ounce of sympathy for him but he’s blamed the players again and tried to absolve himself of any blame, again. He has been here 18 months and still bangs on about the problems the club had before he was here, he’s clearly failing at this remit as manager, yet it’s never his fault. He’s getting harder to like and this is the route of his choosing.

For the first time in a long time we look like we have a squad of players far better than what this manager can handle and I unfortunately think he doesn’t have it in him to evolve with them.
 
A disaster unfolding before his very eyes that he “could smell” yet he only exacerbates the disaster with 2 monumentally daft substitutions instead of helping his players see the result over the line with fresh legs on in the positions in most need of them. 3 subs not even used.

If he held his hands up after the game I’d have an ounce of sympathy for him but he’s blamed the players again and tried to absolve himself of any blame, again. He has been here 18 months and still bangs on about the problems the club had before he was here, he’s clearly failing at this remit as manager, yet it’s never his fault. He’s getting harder to like and this is the route of his choosing.

For the first time in a long time we look like we have a squad of players far better than what this manager can handle and I unfortunately think he doesn’t have it in him to evolve with them.
I have no doubt he is holding some players back
Ndiaye playing brought out the best in others. They remembered what being on the front foot felt like
Dom, Harrison, McNeil, Gana, Tim all had v good games but Dyche just had to pop that bubble

If he stays Ndiaye will be turning around and running backwards in a couple of months
 

It's going to take more than a late collapse after bossing the game to make me knee-jerk into hating on him.

Everton will be sound this season. Vault it.
Mate I feel we will eventually be safe but Dyche will go on a record breaking bad run then come up with a few wins on the trot then defeats then a couple of wins. The fellah has only got consistency in dropping points. He will (unless somehow he changes tact) always have a team battling to survive
 
It's hard to sympathise with Dyche and still like him when he says things like "Don't blame me. We can't do any better because we have no money" despite signing O'brien, Iroegbunam, Ndiaye, Lindstrom, Begović, Mangala & Broja as well as keeping Harrison on loan.

Our biggest problem is leaking goals but he hasn't played O'brien who impressed and scored in pre-season then played well again against Doncaster.

I feel a huge improvement could come from starting O'brien & Branthwaite together in a back 4 but with Dyche in charge I feel like we'll be deep in to a relegation battle before that happens.
 
It's going to take more than a late collapse after bossing the game to make me knee-jerk into hating on him.

Everton will be sound this season. Vault it.
This is brave post. I applaud you for it.

We looked very good for 75 minutes. He takes credit for that.

He failed to address the obvious decline at that point. He takes criticism for that.

Im still not in the sack camp, but he needs to develop some humility, lose some of his stubborness and realise that while he's managed clubs previously who had ambitions of surviving relegation, we might be battling it, the expectations our fans are set higher.

He won't change the fan mindset to accepting survival each year, so he needs to change his mindset to match the ambition of the fans. If he can't, he won't stay much longer.
 

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