Our defence comes under so much scrutiny because we are toothless up front...they are under the cosh all the time due to our lack of possession further up the pitch.
GrandOldSte117
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GrandOldSte117
Player Valuation: £15m
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
He started the first four games of the 23/24 season. Thats without even looking any further. He also had 20 PL appearances in a season he spent the majority of the time injured. Do you know how many appearances Keane had that season?
Is that a player that Dyche won’t pick?
you said his stats in the box were awful, yet produce stats of him winning the ball back in the final 3rd
Jarrad Branthwaite has withdrawn from the #YoungLions squad to undergo planned treatment for a minor groin issue sustained in the summer while on international duty.He is expected to be fit after the current break.
That's the club admitting they've had Branthwaite playing, who had a groin issue which required surgery.
That groin issue caused him to miss a few weeks of pre-season, so obviously they've tried to manage him.
Footballers manage injuries all the time. Those 2+ weeks has allowed them to manage his groin in that time.
In my view, they should have just let him have his surgery but as always, we're firefighting and we needed bodies.
"He must have been fit he was on the bench!", well no. Go an listen to what the likes of Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison have said about how injured they've been when they've played for us - painkilling injections etc. It's a calculated risk. You shouldn't be doing that with a lad making his first start on the opening of a season.
I actually understand it with Patterson. I dont think he's really that good.
Erm, yeah it is. How many games did he start and how many minutes did he get? Nobody said that he hasn’t started him in one single game ever in his life.
GrandOldSte117
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Aerial duels mate.
Ashley Young and Seamus Coleman play ahead of him so this point is null and void.
Agree but that doesn't mean Patterson is good enough.
I will be honest , I can't stand Dyche . It's an indication of how much this once great club has fallen that we have him in charge.
However with our financial situation and lack of leadership off the the field he's probably as good as we are going to get if your aim is simply to stay in the division.
But I tell you what I'm pretty sure that the first thing new owner , whenever they take charge , will do is get rid of him as soon as safety is guaranteed.
Quite simply this club will never progress under Dyche.
Until he goes forget about trying to sign young inexperienced players because they just won't get a look in.
And before someone says he played Branthwaite, yes he did - after a full season in the Eredivisie and because he was the only centre half available.
Any sensible manager would give Dixon a go at RB but oh no Sean's just got to play Ashley not so Young and it was so predictable what would happen.
On the conspiracy theory front about Dyche setting up young players to fail , who in their right mind would have played Simms as a lone striker at Anfield?
However with our financial situation and lack of leadership off the the field he's probably as good as we are going to get if your aim is simply to stay in the division.
But I tell you what I'm pretty sure that the first thing new owner , whenever they take charge , will do is get rid of him as soon as safety is guaranteed.
Quite simply this club will never progress under Dyche.
Until he goes forget about trying to sign young inexperienced players because they just won't get a look in.
And before someone says he played Branthwaite, yes he did - after a full season in the Eredivisie and because he was the only centre half available.
Any sensible manager would give Dixon a go at RB but oh no Sean's just got to play Ashley not so Young and it was so predictable what would happen.
On the conspiracy theory front about Dyche setting up young players to fail , who in their right mind would have played Simms as a lone striker at Anfield?
kenada_blue
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So no matter what Dyche does, you'll blame him.
Doesn't start OBrien = "look, picking favourites!"
Starts OBrien = "he's just proving a point for his own gratification now"
Sounds about right...
It's the same thing with the pile on Keane being blamed for the weekend. He's gash, yes, but far down the list of players who poorly performed that game. But he's the whipping boy.
It means he’s good enough to play ahead of those two jokers if those are the options.
Eggsyblueskin
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Haha
‘Panders to the fans ‘???
You do realise football is a leisure pursuit and is expected to provide entertainment. ?
You seem to want to view it as some sort of medieval torture process ( admittedly watching Everton does resemble such , latterly.)
Much more of this dead eyed dross and the supporters will stop leaving early because they will not be attending in the first instant.
Intelligent football is football that doesn’t plough the same barren furrow throughout a game.
It is football that exhibits some evidence of attack patterns being coached in training.
Most of all it is having a manager able to alter the direction of the game when it is not yielding the required result.
18 months on and Dyche thus far has proved incapable of any of this .