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2024/25 Sean Dyche

GrandOldSte117 said:
Ah the ever evasive 'intelligent football' as if none of the past 3 years of relegation battles existed. Let's get an intelligent football coach in that panders to the fans so you can all start saying we don't have the players for the style they want but the managers gets us
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Do you have an answer as to why we won our opening games of the season two years on the bounce and under Dyche we’ve lost 4/4 games in August while scoring 0 goals mate? Do you think he might need to look at and reassess his pre-season and preparation methods?
 
MikeH72 said:
Do you have an answer as to why we won our opening games of the season two years on the bounce and under Dyche we’ve lost 4/4 games in August while scoring 0 goals mate? Do you think he might need to look at and reassess his pre-season and preparation methods?
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Because winning matches is all over a season mate. It's not just August. Did you expect more of a points tally last season? Because if we had won some of the opening games in August we'd have finished in the 50s of points. Do you think that was a realistic expectation in hindsight? Would you have traded an opening day win for one of our away wins?
 

GrandOldSte117 said:
Ah the ever evasive 'intelligent football' as if none of the past 3 years of relegation battles existed. Let's get an intelligent football coach in that panders to the fans so you can all start saying we don't have the players for the style they want but the managers gets us
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Or we could get a Manager in who's ambition for a season is more intelligent and has more ambition than just trying to stay in the league. Relegation battles are part and parcel with this fella, it is all he knows.
 
GrandOldSte117 said:
Because winning matches is all over a season mate. It's not just August. Did you expect more of a points tally last season? Because if we had won some of the opening games in August we'd have finished in the 50s of points. Do you think that was a realistic expectation in hindsight? Would you have traded an opening day win for one of our away wins?
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You're right about this. However, with that argument, would it not be sensible to accrue points in August too, to help alleviate other positions over the season?

A strong start puts us in a stronger position and provided leeway, if required, further down the season.
 
GrandOldSte117 said:
Because winning matches is all over a season mate. It's not just August. Did you expect more of a points tally last season? Because if we had won some of the opening games in August we'd have finished in the 50s of points. Do you think that was a realistic expectation in hindsight? Would you have traded an opening day win for one of our away wins?
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I would like to get some points on the board in August to take the pressure off forthcoming games mate, yes. I don’t think it’s a great strategy to lose all of your opening games and then rely on playing catch up and assume you’re going to make the points back up. As it stands we will have lost our opening 2 games and will sit bottom of the table, heaping the pressure on that Bournemouth home game, which isn’t good imo.
 
PhilM said:
You're right about this. However, with that argument, would it not be sensible to accrue points in August too, to help alleviate other positions over the season?

A strong start puts us in a stronger position and provided leeway, if required, further down the season.
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Well that's exactly why I asked it mate. Do you want us to do better in August or dip in the season? Should we have gotten more than 48 pts last season given our predicament? Should Dyche be pushing for Europe?
 

Lob said:
Or we could get a Manager in who's ambition for a season is more intelligent and has more ambition than just trying to stay in the league. Relegation battles are part and parcel with this fella, it is all he knows.
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Mate we had two pts deductions last season. What manager would've taken that and said 'ye not a relegation battle, let's go for Europe'
 
His stubbornness and arrogance is his worst trait by far. He’s not a very good manager, but fans have much less patience with him when he comes out with snarky remarks and refuses to shoulder any semblance of responsibility for anything. He’s not a very likeable character at all and I can see why lots of players don’t like him and why there were rumours of Burnley players disliking him. The problem is, he needs to realise quickly that he won’t in in this weird battle against our fans that he’s created with his sheer pigheaded arrogance.
 

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