Relegation 2022/23

[Simon Buttle]

So frustrating

 

[HKContractDave]

So frustrating

Probably included 20+ touches where Doucs/McNeil tried to sort out their feet

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Only 6 of our remaining 14 games are at home.

We're doomed unless we sort the away form out.

the key to survival is picking up draws on the road and wins at home. Saturday was a bad outcome, obviously.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

So frustrating

Even more frustrating when I keep seeing rumours and links to the strikers we are going to buy in summer, and they are the same ones we were after in Jan. Not just overpaying (which would only really have been something like paying £20m compared to their original price tag of £15m) someone strong like Gyokeres now looks increasingly stupid. Why we faffed around flirting with speedy wingers that all went to Southampton I’ll never know, given a speedy winger wouldn’t have got near any of Dyches first 4 starting lineups.

 

[Curtis]

It's not certain but when your top goal scorer has 3 goals in basically march it doesn't bode well for the prospects of surviving relegation. DCL becoming reliably fit and finding some form seems to be our only present possibility of surviving, unless one of our historically low goal producing players hits a purple patch again like gray

 

[Curtis]

Even more frustrating when I keep seeing rumours and links to the strikers we are going to buy in summer, and they are the same ones we were after in Jan. Not just overpaying (which would only really have been something like paying £20m compared to their original price tag of £15m) someone strong like Gyokeres now looks increasingly stupid. Why we faffed around flirting with speedy wingers that all went to Southampton I’ll never know, given a speedy winger wouldn’t have got near any of Dyches first 4 starting lineups.

I agree our recruitment was obviously shambolic but it astonishes me how chaotic and inconsistent it was, just random players that didn't suit any particular vision of playing, very scattered in its approach that just reeked of desperation when they should of been cognizant of our scoring deficiency at the beginning of the season so laughable

 

[Curtis]

Whats sad is that fans like @Neiler and @ForeverBlue92 for years pointed out ballers who the club should have signed for £20 millions here and £30 millions there.

Ings, Wilf Zaha, ASM, Wilson, Ward Prowse, Trossard etc. but the hipsters laughed and said they were gash as we instead signed "ballers" like Davy Klaasan, Moise Kean, Godfrey et al.

This could have been avoided had Marcel Brands and Steve Walsh done their homework.

Seems You forgot to log out before posting as one of your multis...lol

 

[LocalNative]

It's not certain but when your top goal scorer has 3 goals in basically march it doesn't bode well for the prospects of surviving relegation. Dominic Calvert-Lewin becoming reliably fit and finding some form seems to be our only present possibility of surviving, unless one of our historically low goal producing players hits a purple patch again like gray

Our joint top scorer with 3 goals left in Jan and wasn't replaced. That's what will send us down.

 

[Bkk Andy]

Key difference, they were a group of players who gave their all, but weren't good enough. Our players are comfortably good enough to have us near mid table, but the effort is majorly lacking.

I'm tired of seeing no-one make a run into the box, no-one trying to get on the end of things, no-one even attempting a shot. They're mainly a mixed group of cowards and players who simply don't care.

I don't know why people think the players are good enough for mid-table. We have really poor players and it shows in our results.

 

[Curtis]

Our joint top scorer with 3 goals left in Jan and wasn't replaced. That's what will send us down.

I concur but ultimately our woes harken back to atrocious recruitment and lack of any modicum of foresight which have plagued us for years

 

[Abertonian]

It's not certain but when your top goal scorer has 3 goals in basically march it doesn't bode well for the prospects of surviving relegation. Dominic Calvert-Lewin becoming reliably fit and finding some form seems to be our only present possibility of surviving, unless one of our historically low goal producing players hits a purple patch again like gray

The folly in it is that DCL is also a historically low goal producing player. Only scored more than 6 goals a season twice. Only 1 season as a 1 in 2 scoring striker (league goals I'm talking about).

Frankly he was never the answer, but even though a good board would have assumed a player made of glass would be out and recruited accordingly.

 

[NathDogg]

I don't know why people think the players are good enough for mid-table. We have really poor players and it shows in our results.

The league is full of teams of absolute dross mate (us included), that’s why mid table isn’t fantasy land. Don’t believe the hype of the prems “best league in the world” claptrap.

A bit of organisation, workrate and effort (Dyche has brought these so far) and a decent striking option (the board have killed us there) and you’re right up there with this squad.

 

[Swartzy]

Just imagine, We don't bring in Benitez to kill the Team/Supporters, Mr nice guy Lamps doesn't then get a free bus pass with the team/supporters cos of who he replaced. And now Dyche is stuck going to war without an adequate army.

This whole slide stems from a lot further back then that, but 'Benitez' was that final nail in the coffin.
It was just the board that hammered it in..

 

[LocalNative]

Just imagine, We don't bring in Benitez to kill the Team/Supporters, Mr nice guy Lamps doesn't then get a free bus pass with the team/supporters cos of who he replaced. And now Dyche is stuck going to war without an adequate army.

This whole slide stems from a lot further back then that, but 'Benitez' was that final nail in the coffin.
It was just the board that hammered it in..

The slide starts and ends with Moshiri and the board, amigo.

 

[MisterJ]

9 points cover 12 - 20th place.

We aren't dead yet