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This is nonsense. We lost onana and Coleman to injuries and doucs to suspension. Those 3 players were carrying the team, without them we were always going to struggle. Formations were changed to accommodate these losses. I knew the minute Doucs got that card we were screwed.
Right, and a whole lot of that comes down to the manager.
My reply was to the notion of sacking him now which would be 6 games.
Oh nah, we can wait the remaining 6 games for sure.
I mean tbf to dyche this has basically been his go to side when everyone is fit. Grey been in the DCL role…
Well for a start it’s been 2 midfielders because we lost onana aswell. What you’re saying would make sense if we were a good team - losing one player shouldn’t make the wheels come off if you’ve got other players to pick up the mantle. We haven’t though. We’re really, really bad and by some miracle we’d managed to find a way of playing that gave us a chance of getting some results. We lost a couple of players who were key to allowing us to play that way and we‘ve struggled to find a way past that. We’d won 17 of our last 71 league games before he took over, most of which were with a much better squad, I just can’t get my head round people being surprised that he hasn’t come in and won 5 out of 12. The palace game was very similar to the games we’ve won under dyche but Calvert lewin’s shot went just the wrong side of the post and Iwobi’s volley was saved instead of one of them finding the bottom corner. That’s what it boils down to now, we’re not going to suddenly start playing really well and blowing teams away, we need to keep it tight and hope we manage to nick a goal or two. We quite simply don’t have the ability to do any more than that, that should be abundantly clear by now.
It's grim to watch but it's not a terrible squad. It should be comfortably mid table.
I can't agree with that. How many of our players would get into any team in the top 10? Pickford, certainly, but who else? A couple could probably hold their own, but no more than that.
He didn't get a chance to bring anyone in and it is tough when you lose players through injury and suspension
not many probably, that's why its about organization and coaching.
Fulham was awful, no argument there. Palace was poor in a way but in the context of the last couple of years I think it’s very harsh to put it down as downright bad. It was our 10th away point of the season and our second clean sheet, if you think that was as bad as the Bournemouth debacles, losing at home to a Southampton side that hadn’t won a game for about 9 years or the absolute humiliation of Brighton looking like they could score double figures if they wanted to then we’ll have to agree to disagree I think. Personally I could see exactly what the plan was on Saturday, and in most dyche games. Battle, scrap, hope that we take one of the chances we’ll undoubtedly get. It’s not revolutionary stuff or something I want to see long term, but i honestly just can’t get my head round people not seeing that it’s all we’ve got. We’re sloppy because almost nobody in the squad has any real footballing ability. That’s obvious just on paper now, we’re not a side that’s underachieving, we are very much a bottom 3/4 team.