Garner and Harrison were others out of position once Young moved to the left. Basically the result of giving two RBs closer to 40 than 30 new deals which is already looking a major errror (and 99% on here called it at the time).
I don't mind Ndiaye on the left as allows him to cut infield and get shots in. McNeil also centrally can get more shots away closer to goal so perhaps some promise there as the season goes on.
The cost cutting at the back is causing major issues and it's all taken is one injury to a CB, imagine if Tarks was out for a month or two.
Just analyse the players Dyche played yesterday and where he played them.
Started with a attacking mid (Ndiaye) playing left wing and a left winger (McNeil) playing the number 10, played a left winger at right wing (Harrison)
Once Myko went off
Played a right back at left back (young) played a centre mid at right back (Garner).
Brough on a attacking mid and played him left wing (Lindstrom), played a centre back at right back (O'Brien)
Played a centre mid at right wing (Garner) and a left winger centre (McNeil) then swapped it round to the left winger playing right wing (McNeil)
Over the course of the game that's a total of ten times we were playing with a player in a position that's not his natural position.
Given how Dyche coaches do these players ever actually practise playing out of position, I seriously doubt it.
It's compounded by a lot of those decisions seemingly are made for zero reason besides Dyche wanting to always play certain players.
Lindstrom and Ndiaye both struggle last season badly when played as wingers out of position, our solution is to use both as wingers. Both excelled playing the number ten role, our solution is to play a career left winger there instead.
We made two substitutes and tried both out at right back, one a centre mid whose never played there above under 21 level (garner) and the other a 6'5 centre back who again has never played there before.
Meanwhile we have an actual right back sitting on the bench who in his only game this season played fine there.
Garner played 3 positions in 75 minutes, McNeil played in 3 positions (none of them his 'actual' position.
Both formation changes we made removed support from DCL, first going to what looked like a 5-4-1 then going to a 4-4-2 meaning we went even more route one.
We made a tactical shift to stop villa playing through us, it actually worked u til a wonder strike that had zero to do with the shift, rather than staying in shape we immediately shifted formation again to bring on another cf - dunno why as right after it meant we just got played through again and again and never looked back in the game after.
The unwillingness to recognize the reality of when Michael Keane plays we concede goals at an absolutely ridiculous amount over when he doesn't play - in this regard stats don't lie (we concede triple the number of goals when Keane plays to when he doesn't - we also suffer repeated 'collapses' at an alarming rate compared to Jim not playing - why?
McNeil is literally guaranteed a full game every week, doesn't matter who it means gets played out of position in order to play McNeil were Dyche wants. Essentially McNeil is Dyches most important player he forms the team around, let that sink in, our manager thinks McNeil is 'that' good/important...
TLDR: Dyche makes so many errors in judgement and decision making it's beyond a joke these days. His in game management is bizarre and disturbing, and he has favourites who he's blind to any evidence about them.
