The Four Months Though Lads - Worse than Mike Walker

Goat said:
Currently im in the "hes not very good, but he did enough to earn himself a run out next season through gritted teeth" posse.
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You were the biggest proponent of the 4 month timeframe that was wrong… mentioned it nearly every post…
Only out done by…
NathDogg said:
The crappy run was due to suit Dyche, all on that whopper.

We won’t have that problem again now that Tracky Dyche has killed him.
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You going to keep calling him Dyche Walker every post?
 
Some Dyche stats this season.


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twoblue said:
"The four months, where we didn't win a game and Dyche Walker was lucky not to be sacked":

Background, December 2023, On the back of beating Forest Away, Newcastle and Chelsea Home and Burnley Away between 2 and 16 December, we had a League Cup Quarter final on the 19th December with Fulham who were in good form at the time. The tie went to extra time and we lost on penalties.

That's a period of five games in 17 days, unbeaten except for penalties. This then starts the “four-month winless run.” (Hint: Wasn't winless, and wasn't 4 months)
I think we should look at the fixtures with the power of hindsight, each game insolation for the season, and see what games were bad results:

23 Dec
Tottenham 2 -1 Everton. Away at top six side

27 Dec
Everton 1 - 3 Man City. Best team in the world

30 Dec
Wolves 3 - 0 Everton. A tired performance. Bad result, but we have small squad that had just played their 8th game in a month. Wolves top half side

4th Jan FA Cup 3rd Round
Palace 0 - 0 Everton. A tricky away tie against premier league opponents above us in table. DCL sent off and decent result, if unneeded replay


14 Jan
Everton 0 - 0 Villa. Decent result against high flying 4th place Villa

17 Jan 3rd Round Replay
Everton 1 - 0 Palace. An Everton win, in period where we apparently never won in 4 months.

27 Jan FA Cup 4th Round
Everton 1 - 2 Luton. Cant argue that this is a bad result. The only defeat in January.

30 Jan
Fulham 0 - 0 Everton - tricky away tie against a mid table side, above us in the table.

3 Feb
Everton 2 - 2 Tottenham - a good comeback against a good Spurs side

10 Feb
Man City 2 - 0 Everton - Never going to grab a result here.

19 Feb
Everton 1 - 1 Palace - A game we hope to get more from but in isolation not a bad result for where we are this season

24 Feb
Brighton 1 - 1 Everton - On paper a good draw, would have accepted that at the start of the game. Letting them equalise in 90+5 mins was a disappointing.

* Key Stat - only lost once in the league to Man City over the first 2 months of 2024. Won one (in period we never won one) and lost one in the cup.

2 Mar
Everton 1 - 3 West Ham - West Ham are decent outfit (currently 8th), although we would have hoped for a better result at home to them. Again, two injury times goals changed the game with West Ham scoring 90+1 and 90+5 to win the game

9 Mar
Man U 2 - 0 Everton - Undone by two penalties. You wouldn't expect a result at this game at the start of the season.

30 Mar
Bournmouth 2 - 1 Everton - tricky away tie, lost in the 90+1 min by a Coleman OG

2 April
Newcastle 1 - 1 Everton - Another tricky away tie. Scraped a draw.

So, in conclusion:

Premier League 4 months (Dec 3 to Aprl 2):

Played 17, Won 4, Drew 6, Lost 8, Pts 18

We achieved over a point per game, which would likely have kept us up in a normal season. The Four Months is a myth. We won games in December and beat Palace in the cup in January, too.

There are also only a couple of games we should have expected a better result, given the league position of the opposition.

You would have been a fool to sack Dyche in the period. A period against difficult opposition, where we still maintained over a point per game, and undone by bunch of injury time goals.
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And yet
And yet...we could end up with 44 - 50pts (gross) having just had what some might think as the best 8days football from a results
point of view this century /29 yrs / a very long time


Welcome to The Dycheball Paradox
 

twoblue said:
You going to keep calling him Dyche Walker every post?
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If you can read, I actually didn’t call him that the post you responded to…..

Depends on him tbh.

Traccky dyche will do for now, let’s hope he keeps suit dyche dead which = dyche walker never coming back.

Then everyone’s happy, even you.
 

GrandOldTeam said:
I'd take 17th next season now for that reason + the teams coming up have more about them than the ones going down this season.

Factor in the ownership chaos impeding summer recruitment - next season doesn't bode well.
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Ownership chaos is what endangers us most , plus the debt we are carrying largely due to the stadium .
At the moment both the delay in concluding any
sale plus the nature of the probable owners suggests we will really struggle to survive next
season.
Like Mr. Micawber we are currently hoping for something to turn up .
 
NathDogg said:
If you can read, I actually didn’t call him that the post you responded to…..

Depends on him tbh.

Traccky dyche will do for now, let’s hope he keeps suit dyche dead which = dyche walker never coming back.

Then everyone’s happy, even you.
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i am happy mate. Don’t have 150 posts trying to create nickname for him
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