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2023/24 Sean Dyche

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You cannot compare Leeds and Leics to Luton, Burnley etc, because they are in a different division, playing a different standard of opponent.

Our team finished below Forest, Brentford, Bournemouth and palace last season, this season we're above them, which by your reckoning we should be. I'm struggling to see what your point is? Obviously, you simply don't like the manager, but what aspects of his overall performance are you unhappy with?
Utter nonsense to say Leicester and Leeds aren’t than Burnley or Sheffield Utd. And Luton for that matter.
And last season, we had a worse squad, worse manager for the first half of the season, injuries and some terrible var decisions. While DCL has a had a bad season, most say had he been fully fit the previous seasons we’re probably not in a relegation fight.
 
I'm not up on Burnley's spend over the ten years he was there but I understand it was a net spend of £9m per season - so I'm sceptical of the £200m you mention. Signing a miss-firing striker is something that we've excelled at for the last half dozen managers and I haven't written Beto off just yet (ditto Chermiti).

I do trust Dyche to continue to improve us; selecting players that we need at that point in time. What's needed when you inherit a team that have been in consecutive relegation fights is different to when you're solidly mid table to when your challenging for Europe. I expect that working with the Director of Football different types of players are purchased (given available budget).

There's also the matter of complying with financial restraints and attracting players. An Onana type signing is only coming here when were fighting relegation as a springboard.

The McNeils/Harrisons get you out of relegation trouble and into mid table, you then try and upgrade.

As an aside I'd have liked to see how Dyche would have played with Richy and (a developed) Gordon available to him.
 
Honestly don't buy all the big club narrative. We're probably luckier to have him than he is us at this point. We were a basket case when he arrived and we are still are now thanks to the off the field mess.
I didn’t say we’re a big club. I said we’re the biggest club dyche will every manage, that’s different
 

Utter nonsense to say Leicester and Leeds aren’t than Burnley or Sheffield Utd. And Luton for that matter.
And last season, we had a worse squad, worse manager for the first half of the season, injuries and some terrible var decisions. While DCL has a had a bad season, most say had he been fully fit the previous seasons we’re probably not in a relegation fight.
I haven't said they were better or worse, but it's a fact that Leics and Leeds are playing weaker opposition each week, and you cannot compare them with PL teams, because they are in a different division.

I did ask what overall aspects of Dyche's performance are you unhappy with?
 
Who should be our manager mate? Pep?

Dyche didn't appoint himself and the reason we've come to appoint him, which I'm sure he's acknowledged, is only due to circumstances. Namely we've been badly run, ridiculously short-sighted and lacking strategy, and latterly in the poop.

Maybe turn the anger elsewhere?
our clueless board appointed him, the year Before they gave us a choice of Lampard, Dunc and peirara. I just want our new board to have a little more football knowledge and an idea in how to build a club and team. And want to see us move in to 2024.

All I kept hearing was who cares what the style is as long as we win, well-no wins in 10, that’s a 30year record only beaten by that managerial great Mike walker, funny because dyche has us playing like 1994 Wimbledon. And no open play goals in 10, go back 23 yrs to Walter smith for that record to be beat.

Last 3 months we must be in relegation form and add to a terrible home record. Dyche is under pressure and needs a
Couple of wins soon
 
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I haven't said they were better or worse, but it's a fact that Leics and Leeds are playing weaker opposition each week, and you cannot compare them with PL teams, because they are in a different division.

I did ask what overall aspects of Dyche's performance are you unhappy with?
His team selections, the one v palace with 8 defensive players at home v a team with 2 wins in 16, their 4 best players missing, was scandalous. His poor substitutions, constantly picking players who stink the gaff out McNeil for one, dobbin has hardly had A look in. And his overall style of hoofball
 
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His team selections, the one v palace with 8 defensive players at home v a team with 2 wins in 16, their 4 best players missing, was scandalous. His poor substitutions, constantly picking players who stink the gaff out McNeil for one, dobbin has hardly had A look in. And his overall style of hoofball
When you say 'team selections' is there any player you think should be playing more than someone else? Someone who has regularly been left on the bench who you think might have made such a big difference? Who would you play in place of McNeil for example?

I see fellas often criticising us saying we play too much hoof ball. What style of play do you think we should adopt?
 

TBH there’s not much point moaning about Dyche. We’ve gone through too many managers recently (certainly hasn’t helped our cash flow when the FSW took £8.5m as a pay off) and we need to back him fully because he’s the best we can get for our predicament
Plus, he can issue instructions until he’s blue in the face but if the players don’t act on them, there not much he can do so late in a game
Thats the thing It might be a flawed interpretation but it seems like the players are adhering to his instructions and the positioning it's just so defensive it's difficult to mount proper attacks , this is just a recent happening in my mind as I've stated before he has setup to counter attack effectively in the past. Also if the players can't implement his vision you play someone else and before someone retorts about the quality of the squad , such a seasoned manager should be able to task players to perform a basic press but somehow it's very unsyncronized and sporadic
 
Thats the thing It might be a flawed interpretation but it seems like the players are adhering to his instructions and the positioning it's just so defensive it's difficult to mount proper attacks , this is just a recent happening in my mind as I've stated before he has setup to counter attack effectively in the past. Also if the players can't implement his vision you play someone else and before someone retorts about the quality of the squad , such a seasoned manager should be able to task players to perform a full press but somehow it's very unsyncronized and sporadic
Aye, once Doucs got crocked, and also because we dropped half a dozen places down the table.
 
His team selections, the one v palace with 8 defensive players at home v a team with 2 wins in 16, their 4 best players missing, was scandalous. His poor substitutions, constantly picking players who stink the gaff out McNeil for one, dobbin has hardly had A look in. And his overall style of hoofball

Broken record in this thread sir

You’ll give yourself a heart attack doing this until the end of next season

The guy is keeping us up and will do a similar crap/good job next season and keep us up again. I’m pretty sure of it

The clubs been run into the ground, and we should be thankful that for now our punishment is just crap football and an unfashionable manager. It could be way worse given how far we have fallen. You may not think we have, and as such expect more right this moment, but most will disagree.

If you did a poll asking if we will have funds to spend in the summer I’d say the vast majority would say no. I think you are setting yourself up for a fall there. There’s so much up in the air in regards to ownership and funds,

Settle in it’s going to be a long boring road to end of next season, and very few of us will be actively loving it so you could give the gnashing of teeth a bit of a rest every now and then maybe
 
Aye, once Doucs got crocked, and also because we dropped half a dozen places down the table.
We were without doucs in the first spurs match and although we didn't prevail I thought we were the better team and unfortunate recipients of a poor penalty call. I just want to see that combativeness , I just feel the attempts at pragmatism are limiting us rather than providing a stabilizing aspect.
 

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