Rice was not poor at all - they held a line very well, which was their plan, and his passing was spot on - he provided the assist for Bowen IIRC, who played probably his best game for WHam.
Key word is consistent, as I know about that one time he finished 4th that everyone loves keep bringing up, which isn't consistency, check where we were the season after. We were consistently in the run for 7th, no more no less, and he's not a manager that will kick on. Occasionally pushed it to 6th (as I said), but the goal was 7th. Even got 7th with Man Utd to further solidify his "best of the rest" syndrome. WHam finished 14th in the season with the cup and were running along with us for points until the last few games - barely got to 40 points, luckily there were very crap teams in the league they could take points off of. Also lucky for us as we were similarly crap ourselves like.
Same narrative as "Dyche got Burnley into Europe once", ignoring the fact they bombed out instantly and finished 15th, not building on anything.
As above, it's not consistent - we also reached the 2009 FA cup final and the expected outcome happened. Any other day and Fiorentina win that final too. His net spend is also not great for someone who is apparently very tight with money.
If you like limited, negative, 'knife to a gunfight' football in the current year - good for you, happy you can enjoy it, might as well keep Dyche and keep alienating any fan that wants their team to play to win. Football's moved on from this decades ago. I prefer to have a combative team too but set up to at least try to win occasionally, guess it's the entitlement talking.
Also, honestly, entitled to what? I've not seen us do well consistently in my entire life and Moyes was our manager for a majority of that, of course I don't want him back. He also instantly belittled in a few ways us as soon as he left which conveniently people are turning a blind eye to for some reason.
Basically this, but without the privilege sadly:
To go with the fact that emotional rehiring very, extremely rarely leads to anything good, and we're should know better from the situation(s) with Kendall.