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[Neiler]

But this isn’t reality mate.

NSNO goes without saying, but expecting and demanding that and comparing that with reality are two entirely different things.

We got our big takeover, absolutely missed our shot due to horrendous recruitment/top level decisions, yet somehow managed to build a world class state of the art new stadium. As a result finances are ridiculously tight, I don’t think we even know the half of what we’re doing to get by. Just look at our squad and tell me if you’d sign 5 of them given the chance??

It’s an asset stripped group of players with a below-average manager, exactly where I would anticipate us to be due to the horrendous management from top to bottom for the last 7/8 years.

Hopefully TFG takeover is the reset we all desperately want it to be, including new squad and manager. I’d be careful in moving too quickly on the latter mid season with this group of dirge.

Its the great conundrum -

Theory: NSNO.

Reality: "Want to sign our best players? While we're there any players on loan or we dont have to pay you for upfront?".

Result = 16th on Bookies algorithm.

 

[SuperKev91]

Its the great conundrum -

Theory: NSNO.

Reality: "Want to sign our best players? While we're there any players on loan or we dont have to pay you for upfront?".

Result = 16th on Bookies algorithm.

But NSNO mate!

Honestly we’ve got a squad of a couple of solid premier league players, the rest being rejects, misfits, has-beens, never-weres and a few really good prospects. What do people seriously expect from this group? It’s baffling me.

 

[Tipp blue]

A good article, thought-provoking.

The margins are very tight, and they've gone against Dyche so far this season.

The dropped points against Bournemouth / Villa have cost us dearly.

Perhaps I and others expect too much of him, but my definition of a good manager is one who performs above-expectations, even if only very marginally, as it is the extra point or two that can make all the difference in the end. He did, objectively out-perform expectations last season and the season before, so that's credit in the bank for him.

It's all in the here and now though. He seems to be a figure that is marking time here and the air has gone out of the tyres so to speak. He cut a positive, bullish figure last season and that's gone.

It's easy to clamour for the sack and harder still to get a replacement in who can and will do better. But I feel that's the territory we are in. I worry for our position over the next month and if those fears are realised going into the Christmas period, with the Friedkins coming in, I think it will be very, very difficult for them to stay the course with Dyche.

If it's the fear of change keeping Dyche in a job then that's not enough, and I expect the Friedkins will not be in any way sentimental in that regard. We are probably in this until the end as far as comfort is concerned, but it IS possible for a manager with fresh ideas and a fresh approach to eek out the points we need.

With every change comes risk though and I understand those arguing in the other direction.

Dyche has made a management career out of being well organised and hard to break down if a Dyche team cant hold a 2 goal lead then what's the point of Dyche. It's not things going against the manager if we are losing a 2 goal lead in successive games, that's just poor management... Things have improved defensively lately and I expect it to improve more as Brathwaite settles back into the team. Going forward we are horrific Hopefully Chermiti and Borja getting back to fitness will give us better options.

 

[Neiler]

But NSNO mate!

Honestly we’ve got a squad of a couple of solid premier league players, the rest being rejects, misfits, has-beens, never-weres and a few really good prospects. What do people seriously expect from this group? It’s baffling me.

NSNO and ambition is nothing without a concrete plan and the method and resources to achieve it. It’s just howling at the moon without those things.

The club plans by the seat of it’s paints based on financial limits and players no one else wants, it hasn’t been in an aggressive position to recruit players for years vs rivals, all the while selling our best players.

I don’t know how you can be critical of what’s happened at the club and be completely oblivious then to the material impact of it on the senior team.

I mean how do you watch us every week and we’re gash and be surprised about how that has happened. The development of the first team hasn’t happened in a vacuum.

 

[nsno-chris]

The bookies are correct

You have an awful defensive authoritarian, who over the course of his managerial career has aspired to 1 point and 1 goal a game, then I guess you plug that into the algorithm and the results will be expect failure

 

[Raino85]

Excuse me, what??



Head patters unite

Poor little Everton overcoming the monumental task of not getting beat by West Ham, Leicester and Newcastle

I notice he hasn't added, we were likely favorites at home to Bournemouth & away to Southampton in which we received 0 points

 

[Joey66]

We look like relegation fodder with Dyches ability to select the wrong team plus not give youngsters a chance - e.g. two keepers on the bench ?
Dyche trains 3 youngsters all week with the squad, then kicks them in the teeth on match day - a youngster instead of a very old goalkeeper would be a start on the bench a young forward who is fast & has been scoring etc ..... ....

 

[Raino85]

Found this interesting;



I've regularly mentioned bookies on here - they rarely miss.

So if the bookies are that accurate.

What's the point?

 

[Raino85]

We can have all the articles, graphs , pie charts and whatever else.
No one will convince me that we cannot play or attempt to play better football then we do now. It is an utter chore to watch us . We are a bottom 10 side no arguments. But we don't have to continously play like a league 1 side in a cup tie against man city.

Agree with this.

I dont think even the hardest Dyche outers will say this side should be going for europe etc.

But to rinse every drop of fun out of the actual game is absolutely draining, to think only this type of football will keep us above the bottom 3 is ridiculous

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

Football is an entertainment industry.
We aren’t even vaguely entertaining at the moment.
Going to the match is a chore currently and not the diversion from everyday life which is the role it should occupy, at least most of the time.
For £700 Everton represent exceptionally poor value for money .
Going to West Ham on Saturday probably cost me the best part of £150 with train fares and the like. £150 to stand in a stadium devoid of soul and watch a match which made a mockery of the PL’s exalted status .
Waste of time and money.
I don’t expect Everton to win cups or leagues or even qualify for Europe anymore.
But I do expect a team that tries to win a game of football, a team with a hint of aspiration, not a team which has become the equivalent of what follows behind the Lord Mayors Parade.
We don’t have to be the least entertaining team in the league to survive, surely?
If I was being delivered the standard of performance we are currently delivering in any other other part of the entertainment business , I would be demanding a refund
After a lifetime of support , 47 S/Ts and innumerable away games here and across Europe . I am seriously debating whether I can be bothered following this rubbish to BMD .
For the first time in my life I am genuinely and deeply embarrassed to be an Evertonian.
We are bilge .

 

[CielosGrises]

Good article - and the Dyche approach is a hard thing to watch long-term.

I remember when he came in and I was glad we were able to give teams a hard match again - we were so weak under Lampard at times.

I'm going to be kind to Dyche today - perhaps this early-season he was trying more attacking football (admittedly, difficult to tell, but I remember us having a lot of missed chances) - but we ended up shipping goals so he has gone back to default.

In short, If we struggle to score 1 - he can't risk conceding 1.

Will it change this season ? I don't see the personnel to change it - unless its Beto, Lindstrom (improving), Broja, Chermiti....Patterson ?

Perhaps a fit Branthwaite and Tarks will tip things slightly in our favour - enough to scrape through.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Sack.

Not sure what Tony's job is, but sack him anyways.

 

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[Charles Hawtrey]

Nicely written piece - bravo.
WRT the content I would be shocked to think that any of the utter numpties running the club over the last 3 years actually thought as cohesively about what sort of manager we needed to get us through our darkest days without being relegated. Your article is ahead of their intelect.
With hindsight it is easier to draw the right man for the job picture but Kenwright, Sharp, Moshiri??? Who was the other guy they wanted at the time - was he or Lampard cut from Dyche cloth?

 

[PKwalnuts]

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