The Now-Irrelevant 2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

[Dublin blue 75]

We look very vulnerable in the table this evening. Could see us 19th within December quite easily.

 

[chippy1722]

It'll come from United.

We're getting a hiding next week - not because United are any good, but because our players are gutless and our manager will set them up in the manner of a coward.

And we still have a manager who will show them too much respect, and come out afterwards saying how we played one of the top teams in England.

 

[blackie_jones75]

This time Last year we had 4 points (14 pre 10 pt deduction) so we are 3 pts off last season and we then won 4 in a row between Dec 2nd and 16th ? that aint happening this time

 

[Titus Shambles]

This time Last year we had 4 points (14 pre 10 pt deduction) so we are 3 pts off last season and we then won 4 in a row between Dec 2nd and 16th ? that aint happening this time

Last year we had the luxury that our "competition" was ShefU and Burnley - two of the worst teams in the history of the Prem that had 8 wins all season between them. There are not 2 or 3 standout teams significantly worse than us this year.

 

[Deleted member 50501]

Dyche or not, Friedkin have to make decent signings in January.

 

[blackie_jones75]

Last year we had the luxury that our "competition" was ShefU and Burnley - two of the worst teams in the history of the Prem that had 8 wins all season between them. There are not 2 or 3 standout teams significantly worse than us this year.

Correct mate , we are defo in the worst 4 , only Southampton maybe a stand out to go down and I think Wolves and Palace are in false positions and will climb out. That leaves us, Leicester, Ipswich and if we are lucky a surprise team gets dragged down there

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Dyche or not, Friedkin have to make decent signings in January.

Have they got PSR headroom ?

 

[evo1878]

He'll get us safe. He's not really the problem. Not having forwards who can score is.

27 shots we had and got 5 on target.

Dyche doesn't get to take those chances the players do.

To elaborate on your point - last 3 games…

61 shots
14 on target
0 goals

But definition of madness he keeps starting w DCL

 

[RomanReigns]

No were not, same as we didn’t under Lampard and Benitez who were much worse, he still be gone though.

Benitez is 10 x the manager dyche will ever be

 

[matty1878]

Not quite... we will do what everton do, and be unlucky... we may scrape enough, but its gonna be tough mate,....

no offence but this won’t keep happening

it will even out eventually

 

[Toffeepot]

Both Southampton and Ipswich looked better than us today
He has to go

 

[Toffeepot]

He'll get us safe. He's not really the problem. Not having forwards who can score is.

27 shots we had and got 5 on target.

Dyche doesn't get to take those chances the players do.

Taking speculative shots that have a 1 in 25 chance of going in is because the manager hasn't worked on ways to break a team down.
1.2 xG for those 27 shots and most of the game against 10 men
That's on the manager

 

[RomanReigns]

He'll get us safe. He's not really the problem. Not having forwards who can score is.

27 shots we had and got 5 on target.

Dyche doesn't get to take those chances the players do.

thats 27 shots by mcneil from 35 yards thinking he's matt le tissier

 

[catcherintherye]

You said this mate
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At the moment he has just scored a hatrick from memory, and was leading the PL scoring charts? Just for some context.

I did qualify the statement a little, and referenced that it was as a target man and number 9.

He didn't kick on though, he got injured and he fell away. Rather than kicking on as might have been expected, he is a shadow of that player.

One of them, watching us under Carlo that season and now feels a very long way away!

 

[catcherintherye]

We've been extremely lucky, and we also lost to chuffing southampton in that time, a joke!! We can't even score... last night was absymal... really bad...

I mean have we been lucky? We had what looked a good goal chalked off v Southampton, and should have been playing 10 men. We were very unlucky in that game.