That's a balanced take honestly. We did start well with countering (or trying to as much as we can) but removed that quickly for... some reason. With DCL back there's more hope but there's also more hoof and less organisation. I have absolutely no doubt it's instructions as in the last game they just tried their best to aim at/around DCL and hope he does something somehow. It worked for the pen, obviously, but most the time it was "2-3 passes, reaches a winger, HOOF". That's not a good sign for the future, this is our current (limited, but still) best attacking lineup, and this is what the Dyche solution is? No movement and hoof don't present a good structure.
He's sussed out that we need to shoot and now we do so on sight FWIW, I personally like that in a combination with direct passing, fair enough.
The defending has been shocking, as has been his personal defending of Keane - that adds to the limited players instead of fixing them. Not that his replacements are Beckenbauers, but they're at least better, even Lamps saw it; he's just got a favourite though and will never drop him, ever, so that's also poor.
In general I see why/how it's about balance, but what he's trying to do isn't balance. We started off promising, 1 person from that setup out and instantly 4-4-2 high line, which was random and the effects were obvious as we were horrendous. He persisted with that though, because... reasons? And to your point about risk - there is no playing for a risky outcome here. We're going for safe draws and are happy with them, even if it costs us our prem place. That's what Dyche gives you.
Also to add to the boiling pot of criticism he suffers currently btw - our early wins when he came in were without Keane lol We played some very stable and decent stuff at the back with Coady and Tarks, but then had to change to the Deadly Burnley Duo as soon as Keggers was up and fit. Started him instantly against Arsenal in the return fixture and we got absolutely pumped - only did so because Coady got turned inside out badly by a pacy player... which is unironically what Keane does against not very pacy players lol but for Coady 1 mistake was enough whereas for Keggers giving away stupid penalties and making errors makes him the "best player on the pitch" and whatever other praise he heaped on him.
Then we go on to not using subs, or playing centre backs at right/left back because they have "experience"; it's what we knew was gonna happen but hoped he'd went out and learned. Alas, nothing like that, same old Dyche.
Someone said it in the Newcastle (I think?) thread - Howe, while 'away from the game', went to any manager with the idea to learn and improve and is now having his team play very well in so many ways. Dyche probably went on holiday for a bit then stayed up terrorising the housewives around Burnley.
His limitations are glaring and I'd prefer if he wasn't here to build anything with us after this season. We've also naturally gifted him a several year contract so we're stuck, like always.
Im not sure we go as direct as 100% as you say, we do go direct - with good reason as we saw under Lampard, we are painfully bad at getting the ball between the lines progressively - do we want Dyche to persevere with the Lampard way or vary it......
The shoot on site thing im not sure about to be honest, it kind of frustrates me in the sense - yeah it gives you a chance, but they are low % of success in the main - on the opposite end we've seen it work for Iwobi, Mc Neill and Doucoure and where else are the goals going to come from.
DCL in my view is a tool, he occupies centre backs, has physical presence, work rate and pace and can play to his back to goal - we would be mad not to use that - we haven't had it with Maupay and Gray - and we missied it -Ive no problem hitting him - i do have a problem with lads with the support play and the second ball that comes that would my critique of that method. But i dont think that's just the route we use all of time, that is being suggested.
Personally i dont think Keanes been half as bad as some are making out, he got done at Newcastle - the whole team did and i think their is fair point thee to say you could have used a different Centre back against a pacy Vardy - but then i dont see Mina or Coady doing particularly well on him either. I think Keane isn't that bad in transition playing out from the back or coming out and supporting the offensive play. Up to those two game i think hes been very good. Coadys form was worrying, Mina is unreliable - the manager picks a player no one will ever agree. Keane though the interesting thing - is every single manager always picks him - Sam, Silva, notably Carlo, now Dyche. I think lads are over doing on Keane in all honesty, hes had two bad games recently - you could query the selection as we know he struggles with pace, but then so do the alternatives apart from maybe Godfrey and he was last week Keane - again the limits of the squad.
I dont think we're going for safe draws myself at all mate, im actually surprised at how much we have gone after games - i was bricking it against Leicester, how open we were and how much we were committing. I think hes taking on a lot of risk, the few times we have been caught on the counter are indicative of that.
The use of the subs, admittedly i was screaming for them - particularly Gray and Onana on Monday - i would have taken off Iwobi and Garner, but i though he made a good point about the disruption that can cause with the game in the melting pot. You live ad die by that. Remember last year against Burnley away, Lampard brought on Kenny and we disintegrated from a winning positron to loosing, the opposite happens to.
No idea what he got up to in his time away from the game, but in all honesty you can find threads here like this one with lads making arguments against employing Eddie Howe. So it swings every way.
I think its bonkers to be make a concrete judgement on the man given the level of adversity hes walked into in this job, total bonkers in all honesty. My own take leave alone for three years and start to judge a year and half into that - thats what this club badly, badly needs - whether its to late or not for the PL, thats on a lot of things - but not the manager.
I dont think people know what they want form a manager to be honest mate, no personal offence intended.
