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2022/23 Sean Dyche

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Brett Angell Delight said:
Would be nice if you're right, mate, but my sneaking suspicion is that you're reading into it what you want to, a bit, there.
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Maybe you're right mate. One day we have to be right though and turn this corner, also to be fair these players aren't bad on their day, each and every one of them has played blinders for us. Just hoping Dyche can bottle the good bits and make a tough and decent team out of them. It is not impossible. Hope so mate anyway.
 
Eggs said:
…best part for me was him saying he wouldn’t have been offered a job like this under normal circumstances. That is the reality. i reckon he sees this as a massive opportunity & I stand by my view that he’d have walked down the M6 in his bare feet to take this post.
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Can't really knock that and we can only support him in that respect. Main thing I would like to see is a noticeable difference eon the pitch in terms of personnel and tactics. Show players that they are fighting for their place and if they don't it will be given to a youngster. Don't perform, don't play. Admittedly that does mean we may end up with a starting 11 made up of the youth team.
 
The honest truth is we need to give Sean 2-3 years to turn us into a consistent top half squad again.

The immediate goal should be to avoid relegation
The goal for the following year would be to never be in danger of relegation and ideally reach top half
The goal the year after that is top half stability
The goal the year after that is again top half but challenge for Europe

Maintain that level for a couple of seasons, run the finances responsibly and we will have something. Ideally if we do that, then the on field product combined with the new stadium make us attractive to new, quality owners with whom we can take the next steps forward.

Dyche, if he keeps us up, should be given the chance to move us into the top half. More than anything this club needs some stability provided from someone who knows what they are doing.

Sean may not be the man to take us to the top 4 but he can take us to the top half.

I know its not what we all dream of, but we have to be honest and realistic.
 

Hogwild said:
The honest truth is we need to give Sean 2-3 years to turn us into a consistent top half squad again.

The immediate goal should be to avoid relegation
The goal for the following year would be to never be in danger of relegation and ideally reach top half
The goal the year after that is top half stability
The goal the year after that is again top half but challenge for Europe

Maintain that level for a couple of seasons, run the finances responsibly and we will have something. Ideally if we do that, then the on field product combined with the new stadium make us attractive to new, quality owners with whom we can take the next steps forward.

Dyche, if he keeps us up, should be given the chance to move us into the top half. More than anything this club needs some stability provided from someone who knows what they are doing.

Sean may not be the man to take us to the top 4 but he can take us to the top half.

I know its not what we all dream of, but we have to be honest and realistic.
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What is it with these first name terms? Sean / Frank... far too cosy.
 

BrendanGOT said:
In the 18/19 season Burnley were on 12 points after 19 games. He won the next game so Burnley were on 15 points after 20 games just like we are now. He's been in this situation before and he managed to keep them up. He finished that season on 40 points.
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He spoke about that in a podcast, and it reminded me of a story I heard on the West Wing :
A man is walking along a pavement and hears cries of help from below, he looks down and sees his mate stuck down a deep hole , so he jumps down the hole.
“ Why did you do that , now we’re both stuck down this hole!” says his mate .
” Yeah but I’ve been here before, I know the way out”

Perhaps the biggest thing Dyche has in his favour is he’s been here before , let’s hope he knows the way out.
 
Good talk made no excuse about the transfer window getting new players. Lampard said too much about bringing attackers into the club. Just trying to go in positive with him in charge now have nothing else to be positive with, now i hope we see this on the pitch we want 11 fighters on that pitch non stop working hard
 
About what I expected to hear from him. I’m sure he’s hugely disappointed that they couldn’t get a few players in privately, but he wasn’t about to insult his new employers. Maybe it emboldens him a little too since it puts his back up against the wall.

This is definitely a marriage out of necessity and he’s clear eyed about that, which is good. At the end of the day, I’m worried that his tactics combined with our team will not equate to enough goals to stay up. But I’m terms of motivating players, in this position in some ways I’d rather that motivation be about getting basics like effort corrected as opposed to motivating players to be better on the ball than they are in capable of. Simple can work work in football in short term situations.
 
Even If he’d have come in as late as after we lost to soton and if we’d have got two attacking players in then I’d be very confident we’d stay up.

He will get us organised and hard to beat, but ultimately our downfall will be we don’t have enough people who can score goals.

Even a Danny ings/ Chris wood and a half decent wide man and I’d be confident he’d get us out of it. In our current state I just can’t see how we get enough wins. Once you factor in DCL fitness, demarai gray picks up knocks…God help us.
 

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