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2023/24 Sean Dyche

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Walken said:
Man City are the most boring team to watch for me, Pepball without Messi is turgid and attritional.

Like when Spain 1-nil'd their way to a world cup and all the pundits told us what purists they are when it was absolute eye aids every single game.
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Can't agree fella but that's what's great about football and indeed life.

If we all liked the same thing then the world would be a boring place.

Personally I watch Everton because I love Everton and City when on TV because I love football.
 
Egil Olsen said:
The debate about style of play is nothing new. It's never going to go away.

I would also argue that football belongs to the entertainment industry, but what is entertaining to watch is subjective.

Many hold up Manchester City, Arsenal, etc, as the gold standard, but 80 percent of their games during the season just consist of passing the ball backwards and sideways, without taking any big risks at all. It kills the joy of football.

There are two types of offensive styles: (a) teams that mainly prioritize passing to the feet, and in this style, as a rule, the players have predetermined spaces that they will occupy. Which means greater distances between the players overall, but also less creative freedom. The tempo of the game here is also generally lower. (b) Teams that prioritize passing to space, and here one occupies space dynamically. This usually means shorter distances between the players, and greater creative freedom. The pace of the game here is generally higher.

Personally, I am more entertained by teams that prioritize (b) to a greater extent than (a). I would say that under Dyche we belong more to category (b) than (a). But we undoubtedly have a lot to improve here, and we will probably never be Brazil 1982.

Having said that, we have a style of play, and the problem for many is that this style is not category (a). This is the style that is dominant in today's football, and which is judged as the benchmark for good football or not.
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No, the point I’ve been trying to make is, if possible, let’s try and make life easier for ourselves and harder for the opposition. So if we go 1 up, let’s not kick the ball long at every opportunity and give away cheap possession. Let’s try hold onto it for a bit. Make the opposition work for the possession they get and help slow the game down a little and try to take the momentum out of the opposition waves of attack. That doesn’t mean “let’s play like Man City”.
Let’s be a bit cleverer when it comes to “Game Management”.
 
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Calvin said:
No, the point I’ve been trying to make is, if possible, let’s try and make life easier for ourselves and harder for the opposition. So if we go 1 up, let’s not kick the ball long at every opportunity and give away cheap possession. Let’s try hold onto it for a bit. Make the opposition work for the possession they get and help slow the game down a little and try to take the momentum out of the opposition waves of attack. That doesn’t mean “let’s play like Man City”.
Let’s be a bit cleverer when it comes to “Game Management”.
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This was not addressed to you specifically, but more of a general approach to how to watch football where these categories represent the extremes. And it is also no surprise that people want to copy the best, and this is used as the yardstick.

Right now it's Guardiola football (positional play). However, this creates a sheep mentality. Major deviations from this end of the continuum are seen as bad football, dinosaur football, etc.

When it comes to what you wrote, I don't disagree. But it can be seen from another point of view as well.
 
DualityNSNO said:
No reason to dislike him as a person, I also don't know him as a person however. On the outside he looks like he'd be a nice person to have a pint with, with the downside he's probably ordering worms as a snack.
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Fair play. Though I tend to get hyped pretty quickly when Everton does anything positive but I can understand your cautious attitude. Hope we're all happy in the end, with or without Dyche
 

Walken said:
Man City are the most boring team to watch for me, Pepball without Messi is turgid and attritional.

Like when Spain 1-nil'd their way to a world cup and all the pundits told us what purists they are when it was absolute eye aids every single game.
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I can’t watch them, same with some of the other teams who try to copy, at least put an actual cross in now and them. So boring.
 
I neither wanted nor like Dyche, but, as I've said before, who on earth could we attract that would walk into this mess and handle it measurably better than Dyche. While he keeps us out of the relegation fight, he is safe in my book. It grieves me to say it, because between the mostly long ball negative football and the David Brent sound bites in his press conferences, which I really don't like, I would have to admit that, under the circumstances, he is doing a reasonable job.
 

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