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2024/25 Sean Dyche

He’ll say a lot anything to deflect blame. Thats is style, Sean Dyche needs the media to believe that Sean Dyche performed miracles at this club otherwise his brand is destroyed

The hard taskmaster, who focuses on organisation and grit when everything is against him.

The fact people can’t see through his self preservation is astonishing

Took him a whopping 17 seconds in the post match report yesterday to blame what went on before he got here as in some way the cause of the 4-0.
The penny really dropped with me after Bournemouth in his deflection of blame game.
its a real horrible benetiz style trait to have.
 

With every game he is in charge he puts us deeper into the sh1t

We are literally throwing 3 points down the drain week after week.
He’s happy to toss games away, because his entire philosophy is that over a 38 games season things will drop in your favour. If you keep it tight, eventually you’ll get a win

It may be 3 months waiting, but it’ll come

Fella is playing Russian roulette with our future
 
Last season he got a very good points return in very tough circumstances - well done

This season he has an awful point return from so many easily winnable situations!
2-0 up at home against Bournemouth in the 87th minute
Brentford at home down to ten men in the first half who had lost every game this season
Southampton hadn’t won a game all season
Fulham there for the taking
West Ham in awful form and both teams didn’t even try to score all game
2-0 up against Villa

Those should’ve been 15-18 points
We took 3 points
 
Still relegation fodder?

We got 48 points last season - more than Bournemouth, Fulham, Forest, Brentford and equal to Brighton

Do any of those clubs look like 'relegation fodder'?

The manager has successfully lowered expectations to the point where staying up would be a massive success

Don't drink the Dyche Kool-Aid (Which is actually Bovril laced with Rohypnol)

Yes, absolutely relegation fodder.

A team that's averaged 41 points for the last 3 seasons, relying on final home games in 2 of them 3 seasons without spending a bean is relegation fodder.

Even last season, with our points given back we didn't hit 40 points until 33/34 games.

We had a great run of form in the run in but this was 16th April;



^ And that was optimistic. Check the replies...

We started this season 4th favourite to go down and that factored in a Leicester deduction.

Any team in successive relegation rights who don't spend are relegation fodder until they aren't.

It's not about Dyche, I said the same thing before he was ever manager and I'll say the same if he leaves tomorrow.

Ultimately, this team aren't good enough.
 
Was listening the other day to Gavin Buckland talking about his new book recounting our decline from the mid 80s to the start of the Premier League.

I'm in my late 30s so don't remember this period myself but it affected me listening to him speak about how big an institution we were and how high our standards were under John Moores.

Yesterday we got absolutely humiliated 4-0 by an ordinary mid table team that didn't even play well. We haven't scored since October. We've won seven games since New Year's Day and it's December. We've scored 12 goals from open play in a calendar year.

And 'Mr Chairman' worshipper Darren Griffiths used the following, verbatim, as his questions to the manager:
  • Sean, for the first half hour we were really in that game.
  • Your team talk just goes out the window doesn't it, when you concede a goal after 20 seconds when you kick off.
  • You know it's not your day when Jarrad and "Tarky" are both making errors that lead to goals because usually you'd put your house on them.
  • Start of a big week, how do you lift them now Sean?
I know he's a company man but I'm absolutely ashamed on his behalf. Imagine serving up that pathetic round of softball excuses under the guise of interviewing a failing manager on behalf of the fans.

Notwithstanding the fact that only one of them is actually a question and the others are just telling us what HIS opinion is - JUST HOW LOW ARE OUR STANDARDS? At what point does this manager have to answer ANY difficult questions?

I'm not talking about falling out with him or being aggressive, confrontational - of course not. Just park the club propaganda and ask him to explain himself, the selection, the results, our form. His replies wouldn't be any different, but at least the fans - who are the audience for the video - feel that he's been mildly challenged and scrutinised on their behalf.

Sadly this just shows you how deep the rot is in our culture as an organisation and how much of a battle it's going to be to ever get back anywhere near the top, because the club is full of snivelling, fan-hating yes men desperate to be liked and accepted by footballers and managers.
 

So in August when I was saying NDiaye and Lindstrom, on the back of terrible seasons for them, who hadn't played in the top flight wouldn't be enough...

We scored 40 goals last season. 0 teams survived who scored less. Only Sheff Utd in the league scored less.
We scored 34 goals in 22/23. Only 1 team who survived scored less. Wolves. They finished 41 points.
We scored 43 goals in 21/22. Only 1 team who survived scored less. Leeds. They finished 38 points.

Dyche's style contributes to it, but the issue was before him and an inability to score enough goals will continue because, McNeil, Doucoure, Harrison, Lindstrom, NDiaye, Beto, Calvert-Lewin... am I missing anyone? with wingers like Mykolenko and Young are never going to score the goals we need to stay away from the bottom.
 
Yes, absolutely relegation fodder.

A team that's averaged 41 points for the last 3 seasons, relying on final home games in 2 of them 3 seasons without spending a bean is relegation fodder.

Even last season, with our points given back we didn't hit 40 points until 33/34 games.

We had a great run of form in the run in but this was 16th April;



^ And that was optimistic. Check the replies...

We started this season 4th favourite to go down and that factored in a Leicester deduction.

Any team in successive relegation rights who don't spend are relegation fodder until they aren't.

It's not about Dyche, I said the same thing before he was ever manager and I'll say the same if he leaves tomorrow.

Ultimately, this team aren't good enough.

Is he still here?
 
Was listening the other day to Gavin Buckland talking about his new book recounting our decline from the mid 80s to the start of the Premier League.

I'm in my late 30s so don't remember this period myself but it affected me listening to him speak about how big an institution we were and how high our standards were under John Moores.

Yesterday we got absolutely humiliated 4-0 by an ordinary mid table team that didn't even play well. We haven't scored since October. We've won seven games since New Year's Day and it's December. We've scored 12 goals from open play in a calendar year.

And 'Mr Chairman' worshipper Darren Griffiths used the following, verbatim, as his questions to the manager:
  • Sean, for the first half hour we were really in that game.
  • Your team talk just goes out the window doesn't it, when you concede a goal after 20 seconds when you kick off.
  • You know it's not your day when Jarrad and "Tarky" are both making errors that lead to goals because usually you'd put your house on them.
  • Start of a big week, how do you lift them now Sean?
I know he's a company man but I'm absolutely ashamed on his behalf. Imagine serving up that pathetic round of softball excuses under the guise of interviewing a failing manager on behalf of the fans.

Notwithstanding the fact that only one of them is actually a question and the others are just telling us what HIS opinion is - JUST HOW LOW ARE OUR STANDARDS? At what point does this manager have to answer ANY difficult questions?

I'm not talking about falling out with him or being aggressive, confrontational - of course not. Just park the club propaganda and ask him to explain himself, the selection, the results, our form. His replies wouldn't be any different, but at least the fans - who are the audience for the video - feel that he's been mildly challenged and scrutinised on their behalf.

Sadly this just shows you how deep the rot is in our culture as an organisation and how much of a battle it's going to be to ever get back anywhere near the top, because the club is full of snivelling, fan-hating yes men desperate to be liked and accepted by footballers and managers.
I can’t stand that Griffiths bloke! Another one I’d like to see punted from the club
 
Was listening the other day to Gavin Buckland talking about his new book recounting our decline from the mid 80s to the start of the Premier League.

I'm in my late 30s so don't remember this period myself but it affected me listening to him speak about how big an institution we were and how high our standards were under John Moores.

Yesterday we got absolutely humiliated 4-0 by an ordinary mid table team that didn't even play well. We haven't scored since October. We've won seven games since New Year's Day and it's December. We've scored 12 goals from open play in a calendar year.

And 'Mr Chairman' worshipper Darren Griffiths used the following, verbatim, as his questions to the manager:
  • Sean, for the first half hour we were really in that game.
  • Your team talk just goes out the window doesn't it, when you concede a goal after 20 seconds when you kick off.
  • You know it's not your day when Jarrad and "Tarky" are both making errors that lead to goals because usually you'd put your house on them.
  • Start of a big week, how do you lift them now Sean?
I know he's a company man but I'm absolutely ashamed on his behalf. Imagine serving up that pathetic round of softball excuses under the guise of interviewing a failing manager on behalf of the fans.

Notwithstanding the fact that only one of them is actually a question and the others are just telling us what HIS opinion is - JUST HOW LOW ARE OUR STANDARDS? At what point does this manager have to answer ANY difficult questions?

I'm not talking about falling out with him or being aggressive, confrontational - of course not. Just park the club propaganda and ask him to explain himself, the selection, the results, our form. His replies wouldn't be any different, but at least the fans - who are the audience for the video - feel that he's been mildly challenged and scrutinised on their behalf.

Sadly this just shows you how deep the rot is in our culture as an organisation and how much of a battle it's going to be to ever get back anywhere near the top, because the club is full of snivelling, fan-hating yes men desperate to be liked and accepted by footballers and managers.
As you said, he is a company man toeing the company line. And that's the issue. The company has no standards because the company has been mismanaged.

Nothing changes until the company does. And, hopefully, that's this week or next because we cannot wait much longer.
 

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