Sean Dyche Appreciation thread + poll

[PhilM]

I give him his due for the last few seasons, it wasn't pretty but he coped well with the off field shenanigans.

But this season it all looked to much.

Commentary keeps going on saying the fans are in shock. It's all the ex players sticking together, none of them want to admit the fans aren't sorry to see him gone

It's right for him to be credited with the previous two seasons, and for that I sincerely thank him. The football wasn't great, yet he helped us grind out survival.

Nevertheless, we have to separate the last two seasons from this year's campaign, because I couldn't see him turning around the rot that had set in.

In the future, he will likely talk about issues outside his control, and to be fair to him, he may be correct to a point, but we cannot ignore his failings this year.

The football has significantly regressed and was continuing to do so, with the players looked bereft of confidence, including in him and his (lack of) tactics.

The more he spoke, the more he alienated the fans, and with all that it looked incredibly unlikely he'd be able to turn it around; he had created his own rut.

Let's be clear, this is the worst football I've watched us play in a long-time, and with no real hope that he had the ability or desire to turn it around.

Thanks for the past, but this year will sour that legacy and he cannot throw the blame at others without looking inwards. Can he do that with his personality? Nah.

 

[bobbylatch]

Like I said. Sean Dyche will be viewed more positively in retrospect than he is today.
History will say he kept us up when we should have gone down and saved us last season despite 2 points deductions.
He can leave with his head held high .
Good luck big fella.

 

[alwaysblue]

It's right for him to be credited with the previous two seasons, and for that I sincerely thank him. The football wasn't great, yet he helped us grind out survival.

Nevertheless, we have to separate the last two seasons from this year's campaign, because I couldn't see him turning around the rot that had set in.

In the future, he will likely talk about issues outside his control, and to be fair to him, he may be correct to a point, but we cannot ignore his failings this year.

The football has significantly regressed and was continuing to do so, with the players looked bereft of confidence, including in him and his (lack of tactics).

The more he spoke, the more he alienated the fans, and with all that it looked incredibly unlikely he'd be able to turn it around; he had created his own rut.

Let's be clear, this is the worst football I've watched us play in a long-time, and with no real hope that he had the ability or desire to turn it around.

Thanks for the past, but this year will sour that legacy and he cannot throw the blame at others without looking inwards. Can he do that with his personality? Nah.

Nailed it.

 

[RD2910]

7 goals from open play this season

7 goals

7 goals

I will never appreciate him

7 goals

This open play business has gone mad - just say the number of goals, it's low enough to make the point. They're not worth less.

As I understand it, Keane and Ndiaye's goals against Ipswich aren't from open play. They're perfectly fine goals.

 

[PhilM]

This open play business has gone mad - just say the number of goals, it's low enough to make the point. They're not worth less.

As I understand it, Keane and Ndiaye's goals against Ipswich aren't from open play. They're perfectly fine goals.

I get your point, and to an extent you're right. Yet, while some will throw it around wildly because it sounds edgy or whatever, it is originally rooted in logic.

If you're struggling to score goals to win games, you would ideally want to be creating opportunities from a variety of players and scenarios etc. etc.

Anyone who has watched us play as of late knows we looked unlikely to score, and that is partly down to the way we play in the final third of the pitch.

When we're having to rely on goals from certain 'Dyche style' situations, and even then it's not working efficiently, it's not unjust to bring it up as a statistic.

Moyes may not be the option I'd have chosen, but I am looking forward to us at least trying to score some goals and not primarily from lumped balls forward.

 

[paultheblue]

He didn't like us we didn't like him so good riddance

 

[Cjplennon]

That makes no sense tbh.
He was manager from the start of the season until mid January and we are in a relegation battle.

I would argue that it would have been the fault of TFG if Sean Dyche was left in charge and we were then relegated.
Given all we have heard in the last couple of days that was even more likely than we before.

I remember posting some weeks ago that I thought the players were not playing for the manager, people said I was wrong and certainly there were some decent draws since I said that mixed with poor results.
However I do now think the squad was divided in supporting him.

It makes sense in the fact that you can't hold an ex manager responsible for results going forward. Especially when he had zero cash and was not the person responsible for signing players. At the end of the day we are not in the relegation place when Dyche jumped ship so he can't be held accountable if we slip into relegation places.
Results from today onwards are down to Moyes, see if he can get a tune out of these players. Hopefully some of them were just being rats for the previous few managers and purposefully being absolutely gash week in week out for the past few years and Moyes can change those behaviours....

 

[TraffordBlue]

Respect for the first 2 seasons. Rightly moved on for his extremely poor performance this season.

 

[Nymzee]

Respect for last season, none for this season. Just about cancels each other out.

 

[BlueShark]

Gratitude for keeping us up, maybe. Respect? No. Not after this season's atrocities and some of the things he's said. Also his terrible team selections, tactics and inability to make subs at the right time.

He's a terrible manager, but I will acknowledge he was in charge when we survived the drop the past two seasons. Whether we would have been down in the relegation mix with someone else in charge is a separate discussion.

 

[Caolam]

He does deserve plaudits for last season, keeping us in the division following the loss of so many points was a significant achievement. No one can take that away from him. However things have gone downhill since then, he has struggled to find a way to win games, his record this season is deserving of the sack. I have no doubt that the players have to shoulder some of the blame, but it is part of the management role to ensure the players are happy to play for you and believe in what they are doing, I think he lost that. While I have no insider knowledge I think things started to go south when he hit Patterson, if as a manager you find that your only way of getting your point across is by hitting 21 year old then you have an issue.

 

[hallamblue]

Overpaid limited manager who made me watch from behind the sofa, but grateful for his organisational skills in keeping us up twice.

 

[DonaldJTrump]

The man was a disgrace

 

[thevorpalblade]

Are you a Dyche fanboy?
This is a very simplistic poll. It's too binary and without granularity.

How about another optiion
I respect him for last season only, but this season....?


This poll conveniently ignores the style of the way his teams play.

This poll conveniently ignores flirting with relegation.

HIs poll conveniently ignores the turgid performances.

 

[Buckers]

There was always something I didn’t like about him, seemed to have a snidey arrogant edge to him. Couldn’t quite put my finger on it but I’m not surprised ultimately he didn’t work out.