All this and you have totally missed the point.
Two HOME games in a row without a shot on target. If you're finding an excuse for that, you must be very very desperate.
Win home games against the other 13 teams in the league outside the top 6, set up away from home against those same 13 teams trying to steal a point, if you manage to do that in ten of the home and away games, then it's the magical 40 point mark so you can lose the 12 games against the top 6 and the other 6 games with no worries for Big Sams aims.
Won 10, drew 10, lose 18 is a good season in Allardyce books as it usually guarantees 40 points and safety.
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@Zatara a whilst ago crowing how Allaryce had us at 2 points per game which is CL form in his words, wonder how they are perceiving the current return of 12 from 8 games, with a upcoming Derby bumming on the Horizon followed by a trip to Spurs. 12 from 9 and a cup exit to the rs without a shot or attacking intent, doesn't look quite as good then does it.
More and more will turn on him over the next 2 months - as this becomes obvious it's the method he wants and has chosen to use, and we will basically scrape along at the 1-1.5 points per game mark most likely due to playing utter garbage teams at Goodison in that time, end of March start of April, back to back games at Goodison against City and then the Derby, IF as i expect we get absolutely hammered in those two games and show the same ambition we have done lately against big teams, can see a lot wanting him out, as by then we should look like we always would have been and pretty much safe from the silly notion we where a relegation standard team before super Sam came charging in on his pit pony.
Watched Burnley against the rs the other night, and they where massively unlucky, limited them to a world class finish and a very lucky (offside) winner, ceded possession like we do, defended solidly - like we have been, but did it whilst still having the intent to press the crap out of them higher up when the right time, and to expose them defensively, and actually passed the ball around very well in periods of that game to have the rs wobbling badly, same as they did when getting a draw at Anfield against them.
Dyche wasn't my choice, but with a group of individual players who impartially are inferior to the individual players we have here, and with a squad with a lot less depth, has managed to create a team out of them which is far superior to what 3 managers in a row have managed here. We took there perceived 'best' player off them (and he was perceived by everyone as that) and now he looks garbage, his replacement and looks very good and his former 'junior' partner now looks better than Keane did for Burnley, for me that shows the effect of very good coaching and team building, much the way most Moyes players who moved on never looked as good as they did here for example afterwards, same for United players who left under red nose.
Good managers make players better, good managers turn a group of average players into a good team.
The BFS comparisons - which i used myself about Dyche, are unjust actually, he's far more reminiscent of a younger Moyes when the latter still had a bit of fire and ambition about him - which was reflected with how the team played.
