2024/25 Sean Dyche - Sacked

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Please keep things civil folks.

Arguing about grammar, and gloating about being a wind up makes you, and the community look crass.

Play the ball, not the man. Or something. No need to be personal.

To be honest was struggling to stay awake.

Dust ups aren’t what they were.

It’s all gone cauliflowers and G-rammer! ;)

Anyway left full, pacy winger!

And bring me Broja! ;)
 

To be honest was struggling to stay awake.

Dust ups aren’t what they were.

It’s all gone cauliflowers and G-rammer! ;)

Anyway left full, pacy winger!

And bring me Broja! ;)

I fear it’s not just one or two positions. It’s a tactical jigsaw that needs a lot of new pieces.

We had a good attacking fullback in Digne, however he got torn apart when playing alongside slow centrebacks and being left one on one because slow midfielders can’t get across to cover.

I fear if we swap Mykolenko out for a new fb unless we address the other areas then we’re just leaving a LB who might not be as good defensively in one on ones.

We need a new James McCarthy type midfielder who can drop in to cover the flank whilst a wide player gets forward. We also need another quick CB and RB to go with the new left back so we can play a higher line, or they could recover to cover more space when the LB gets exposed further up the pitch.

First season under Martinez was some of the best examples of this. Coleman flew forward and McCarthy tucked in. Baines flew forward and Distin could cover the entire left side knowing that Barry had the intelligence to drop back. McCarthy had probably Barry’s gap in midfield already. Both fullbacks were lightning as well and so were Jagielka/Stones playing the other CB. Every single player in the 11 apart from Barry and Pienaar had pace to burn. That’s how you play a high line, cover transitions, unleash lightening counter attacks, press the opposition, have them stepping off you in fear of being beaten.

When 1-11 have no pace, the converse is all true, players step on us knowing we can’t run behind them, they squeeze a high line, we compress to close gaps, we play a low line to help defenders, we struggle to cover gaps without leaving others elsewhere to be exploited.

the reboot has to include getting a couple of central midfielders who can really put it about getting up and down the pitch with pace, and a wide player with a goal threat. At least then we could play the midfield a bit higher and have a threat on the counter.
 

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