2024/25 Sean Dyche - Sacked

[pfim]

I think our players are more professional than that. Also the fans will demand it . I take your point but they're highly paid professionals so do your job.

I think you can expect that if you have 1-2 players in that situation. We have more than that plus a manager and staff...I think that's a big ask.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

Their problem, isn't it Just like it was our problem on Sunday. Swings and roundabouts.

Did you not read what I said?

I agreed with you.

 

[MikeH72]

They weren't great, but there will be matches this season when we again are rubbish, it's the life of a bottom half team. 2 defeats in the last 10 and 14 points earned. We're looking alright, though not great.

Also, now we've got Old Trafford out of the way and we've got a 5 point cushion, all of a sudden the December 'horror run' doesn't look quite as daunting.

It very much does. Our next 4 games are against all of the top 4

We could very realistically be on 14 points from 18 games. That is not at all far off where we were when he took over.

 

[Blue peter]

The problem remains that webe been here before a million times. One swallow does not make a summer. We have our one win and we should be satisfied. They will fold against a decent team.

I used to say that to my ex, called Summer

 

[Clarky cat]

Great to finally win a game at Goodison, looks like the coaching team were hard at work with set pieces. Dyche should be fired as a footballing fraud for putting Jack Harrison in the number 10 position while both Lindstrom and Ndiaye were on the wings.

 

[MrGrumpy]

It would be a bonus and important to compensate the games we should have gotten out with more.

But tbf these are the best 4 teams in the country atm.

Chelsea this year is another level sadly to last year when we won vs them. We beat RS last year, they came with 23p and 1 defeat in the last season.


The intensity at the first half in the old Trafford was good, also vs Wolves, but our team is fragile.

We will lose all 4 games 2 or 3 to nil

 

[sithbaare]

Do think we'll get something against Liverpool.

It's probably due to their schedule. They've had a hectic run of games and might slip up.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Great to finally win a game at Goodison, looks like the coaching team were hard at work with set pieces. Dyche should be fired as a footballing fraud for putting Jack Harrison in the number 10 position while both Lindstrom and Ndiaye were on the wings.

We genuinely tried the exact same thing we've tried for the entire Dyche tenure. Broken clock and all that, but to say we were prepared differently for this is clearly not true

Hard yards, set pieces to the backpost for a blob of tall people, go long, avoid the midfield, don't keep the ball if possible.

Same thing that happened against Brighton in that thrashing - all 4 (for the Brighton game - 5) of our shots went in and we played the exact same way while they missed a few that were easier to score; we could've been 1 down within 20 sec in the Wolves game but their striker fell down or misskicked it or something. Pure luck/chance and won't happen many more times in general.

I mean it is welcome, as we desperately need points after failing to win against the weak opposition, but to praise it (not saying you're doing the praising, Mr. Cat) as a different approach or something when nothing changed is weird.

As is having two #10s on the pitch, putting them on the wings and putting a winger as a #10, because he can... run?

 

[Preki]

Do think we'll get something against Liverpool.

It's probably due to their schedule. They've had a hectic run of games and might slip up.

Or the wind blows the ball off every time they try to pass it.

 

[MrGrumpy]

We genuinely tried the exact same thing we've tried for the entire Dyche tenure. Broken clock and all that, but to say we were prepared differently for this is clearly not true

Hard yards, set pieces to the backpost for a blob of tall people, go long, avoid the midfield, don't keep the ball if possible.

Same thing that happened against Brighton in that thrashing - all 4 (for the Brighton game - 5) of our shots went in and we played the exact same way while they missed a few that were easier to score; we could've been 1 down within 20 sec in the Wolves game but their striker fell down or misskicked it or something. Pure luck/chance and won't happen many more times in general.

I mean it is welcome, as we desperately need points after failing to win against the weak opposition, but to praise it (not saying you're doing the praising, Mr. Cat) as a different approach or something when nothing changed is weird.

As is having two #10s on the pitch, putting them on the wings and putting a winger as a #10, because he can... run?

We had 1 great free kick, 2 OGs and a deflected shot, not like we took them apart and they should have scored at 1-0.

Only think that changed was luck

 

[DualityNSNO]

We had 1 great free kick, 2 OGs and a deflected shot, not like we took them apart and they should have scored at 1-0.

Only think that changed was luck

We can't rely on that, and we need to adapt/change things at times, but it's not possible at the current time due to the manager being who he always is and always will be.

 

[John from Bootle]

We genuinely tried the exact same thing we've tried for the entire Dyche tenure. Broken clock and all that, but to say we were prepared differently for this is clearly not true

Hard yards, set pieces to the backpost for a blob of tall people, go long, avoid the midfield, don't keep the ball if possible.

Same thing that happened against Brighton in that thrashing - all 4 (for the Brighton game - 5) of our shots went in and we played the exact same way while they missed a few that were easier to score; we could've been 1 down within 20 sec in the Wolves game but their striker fell down or misskicked it or something. Pure luck/chance and won't happen many more times in general.

I mean it is welcome, as we desperately need points after failing to win against the weak opposition, but to praise it (not saying you're doing the praising, Mr. Cat) as a different approach or something when nothing changed is weird.

As is having two #10s on the pitch, putting them on the wings and putting a winger as a #10, because he can... run?

Were you saying the same thing when Duran hit a once in a lifetime winner? Were you saying we/the manager were unlucky when Dom missed sitters early on? No? Can hardly say we were lucky coz Wolves missed one then...

Of course we're doing the same things, that's his MO. He believes it will grind out enough points and that's why we appointed him.

Don't worry though, it's duly noted that every time one of our players misses a big chance that you will say "it was pure luck/chance" and absolve the manager of any blame.

 

[Saint Domingo]

We had 1 great free kick, 2 OGs and a deflected shot, not like we took them apart and they should have scored at 1-0.

Only think that changed was luck

I must have imagined DCL being played through and hitting the keeper, Doucoure blazing over before the free kick, the football that led up to NDiaye’s disallowed goal, the Harrison chances that Broja set up.

That’s 4 or 5 clear opportunities created from open play off the top of my head without even watching anything back.

In every game both teams will have chances, we took ours they didnt take theirs, against Southampton and Brentford we didn’t take ours.

If you believe it’s all just down to luck then you can say we were unlucky in those tight games we lost. We finished our chances better than the opposition therefore deserved to win.

This is probably the only fanbase in the league trying to explain away their own team’s 4-0 win as lucky.

 

[st.domingo]

xG finished 1-1 my dudes

 

[MrGrumpy]

I must have imagined DCL being played through and hitting the keeper, Doucoure blazing over before the free kick, the football that led up to NDiaye’s disallowed goal, the Harrison chances that Broja set up.

That’s 4 or 5 clear opportunities created from open play off the top of my head without even watching anything back.

In every game both teams will have chances, we took ours they didnt take theirs, against Southampton and Brentford we didn’t take ours.

If you believe it’s all just down to luck then you can say we were unlucky in those tight games we lost. We finished our chances better than the opposition therefore deserved to win.

This is probably the only fanbase in the league trying to explain away their own team’s 4-0 win as lucky.

Dacoure was offside, we had a lot of luck, both OGs could have missed and the deflection could have gone wide. Only clean goal was the free kick.
DCLs always misses 1 on 1s