2024/25 Sean Dyche

[Drico]

We escaped relegation with relative ease last season (for us of late anyway). I think that's given some the belief we can push on to mid table and beyond and that "we have the players now" to do that. Well, we cant and we dont.

We have the quality of players we have to get us to maybe 14th at a push 13th (with a fair wind behind us). That's our level and that's ok for now. But if we start with the managerial merry-go-round again we can forget about surviving with a couple of weeks to spare.

There's some who believe we'll get an Emery in, or someone less proven but equally effective. They're barking mad. No manager of quality will touch a squad like this unless they get a massive pay check, and that's the route that's got us where we are right now: paying off the latest flavour of the month and their backroom staff.

Largely true (the pushing on bit, less so).

But that doesn’t mean we are watching anything other than a masterclass in misery from Dyche. His austerity football is a bitter pill that can be swallowed if he’s getting results. He got enough for the last two seasons in the end. He is not getting them so far this season and with no realistic chance of a contract extension, one wonders if the club realises if it is playing with fire by keeping temporary hold of someone who must be in danger of mentally checking out.

One more reason Disco Tex’s intervention a few weeks back was another massive own goal.