2022/23 Sean Dyche

[GrandOldTeam]

You look at other teams who change managers and get a massive improvement, like at Villa with [Poor language removed] in charge. Then people say "well, this proves it's not the players, a good manager can make a big difference". But it's easy to improve on players that were underperforming, it's not so easy when the players are just rubbish. Villa had underperformers, we're just rubbish. Thanks Mosh.

It's why Leicester will stay up.

It had gone toxic there, a new voice/novelty of that change will see them kick on. Just like Palace.

Ultimately though, the team who create the least, and score the least, are always going to be bang in trouble.

 

[Nymzee]

By all means mate, state that opinion but it lacks substance if you don't offer the solution.

How much do you rate this lot like? Enough to make a difference?

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Mina is better than Keane
Davies could have played in a midfield 3
Or Iwobi in midfield where he's better and given Mills a shot on the wing.

Lots of things.

 

[preposterousvelios]

By all means mate, state that opinion but it lacks substance if you don't offer the solution.

How much do you rate this lot like? Enough to make a difference?

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Mina in for Keane, 3 in the middle (gana, garner, Iwobi) and Simms up top would have given us a better shot imo.

Or alternatively if he desperately wants to play Maupay for some reason then we need to find another way to move the ball forward, rather than staying in route 1 mode trying to fire 2 million crosses in to a midget who doesn't even challenge for the ball half the time.

 

[ToffeeTim]

By all means mate, state that opinion but it lacks substance if you don't offer the solution.

How much do you rate this lot like? Enough to make a difference?

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Davies in a 3 is usually the least bad option, but it's the one people would have moaned the most about. He can do a job for the team in a 3, and more importantly, it helps the other 2 he plays with.

 

[Goat]

Got some decent results at first due to new manager bounce, but this group of players is not very good and injury and suspension has driven a massive hole in things.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Mina in for Keane, 3 in the middle (gana, garner, Iwobi) and Simms up top would have given us a better shot imo.

Or alternatively if he desperately wants to play Maupay for some reason then we need to find another way to move the ball forward, rather than staying in route 1 mode trying to fire 2 million crosses in to a midget who doesn't even challenge for the ball half the time.

Mina is on holiday mate - he's a few weeks from his last contract. He's not risking inevitable injury. Also not convinced Mina turns around a 3-1 defeat. How many minutes has he played the last year? Waste of time.

Your whole argument is on playing Simms - he's not the target man we hoped/think he could be.

Dyche has been here 11 Games - who he has started upfront;

Calvert-Lewin 1
Simms 2
Maupay 4
Gray 4

Personally I'd have kept Gray upfront on his tod, left Godfrey left back and put Patterson in right back but it's not a hill I'd die on saying it makes any difference to the result.

 

[preposterousvelios]

Mina is better than Keane
Davies could have played in a midfield 3
Or Iwobi in midfield where he's better and given Mills a shot on the wing.

Lots of things.

Mina's omission from the team is quite a big one for me.

I know that if we did start him he would probably last about 20 minutes before spontaneously combusting, but the thought of Keane coming back into the team was giving me nightmares when we first appointed Dyche.

 

[preposterousvelios]

Mina is on holiday mate - he's a few weeks from his last contract. He's not risking inevitable injury. Also not convinced Mina turns around a 3-1 defeat. How many minutes has he played the last year? Waste of time.

Your whole argument is on playing Simms - he's not the target man we hoped/think he could be.

Dyche has been here 11 Games - who he has started upfront;

DCL 1
Simms 2
Maupay 4
Gray 4

Personally I'd have kept Gray upfront on his tod, left Godfrey left back and put Patterson in right back but it's not a hill I'd die on saying it makes any difference to the result.

Fair enough, can see what you're saying.

Gray up top is another option that would be better than Maupay, but would mean Davies starting in midfield as Iwobi would have to be on the wing.

Simms is not good enough to be starting for a PL team but he will at least win some headers and occasionally occupy a defender, Maupay does nothing.

And I agree about Patterson, was disappointed he didn't start and I actually think Godfrey's best games for us have been at left back.

 

[nsno-chris]

It’s just a bit sad that people thought Dyche could actually drag us out of this mess.

He’s unfortunately not a good manager and he has a god awful squad with no goal scoring threat whatsoever.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Got some decent results at first due to new manager bounce, but this group of players is not very good and injury and suspension has driven a massive hole in things.

Dyche effect fades in Goodison gloom​

Everton collected six points from Sean Dyche’s first three games in charge and have gathered only six more from their last eight outings, yet the manager denies performances are on a downward spiral. “You may have noticed we have been playing some pretty handy teams,” was his pithy response when the direction of travel was put to him on Saturday. Fulham arrived at Goodison Park on the back of a five-game losing streak and departed with a club-record sixth away win in a top-flight season. Dyche’s tactics – deploying two in a central midfield weakened by the absences of Amadou Onana and Abdoulaye Doucouré – and his team selection (Neal Maupay, no more needs to be said) helped the Fulham cause. But it was the air of resignation that pervaded Goodison, among players and fans alike, that was the most alarming sign for a club edging ever closer to losing its top-flight status after 69 years. “I still believe there is a very good group of players here,” Dyche insisted. “You look at the group and think, ‘Right let’s take it on.’ It is right there in front of us.” As is an ominous-looking fixture list. Andy Hunter

 

[roy vernon]

In fairness to Dyche, he was getting better results from the awful squad he inherited. The loss of Doucouré, Coleman and Onana has just been a bridge too far. The head and tail of it is that our squad is very poor, we can't scored goals, we can't keep possession and we have a severe lack of pace in midfield and height up front.

 

[hktoffee]

Roll the Dyche please keep 4-5-1. Team against Palace.

Pickford

Coleman Mina Tarkowski Godfrey

Iwobi Garner Gana Onana McNeil

Calvert-Lewin

 

[sd_1992]

We have missed Doucoure acutely since his bizarre straight red against spurs.

What could the gaffer have done differently in regard to the midfield?

Iwobi… the player that has been playing there most of the season… the player who for the twenty minutes he played there against Fulham had us looking like a decent team again.

 

[Lob]

Hope he turns the recent poor form around quickly while our fate is still in our own hands. Need to see full on unrivalled passion and effort in all 7 remaining games as if every one of them is a Wembley cup final regardless of relying on the fans to gee them up. One final at a time starting with taking all 3 points at Palace on Saturday. Time for excuses has passed. Failure now means demotion, eternal humiliation and possible even the end of EFC.

Get it done My Dyche.

 

[If You Know Your History]

In fairness to Dyche, he was getting better results from the awful squad he inherited. The loss of Doucouré, Coleman and Onana has just been a bridge too far. The head and tail of it is that our squad is very poor, we can't scored goals, we can't keep possession and we have a severe lack of pace in midfield and height up front.

Bang on.