We'd lost something like 11 in 14 and sat on our lowest ever points total going into Feb when Dyche rocked up. He won the first couple too - Arsenal and Leeds.
It happens. New voice. New manager bounce is very real. Even Van Nistelrooy had some at Leicester.
I expected a big lift from Dyche, a team of young millionaires doing the hard hards, nuts and bolts etc. See Burnley after he left.
Villa was disappointing given their away form going into it. I expected us to beat Spurs and Leicester given their defence/woeful form. The win at Brighton was good but fancied us there given how well we do at their ground and they're not at it either.
But you can only beat who you face and we've done that. Brilliant.
Moyes isn't soft, he knows this team is is what it is - hence continually talking Dyche up, saying after Villa it's not about him, it's the players. Saying the issue at Everton for years hasn't been the manager and remarkable the club stayed a Prem team. Hes saying all this because he knows form an results will turn. Hopefully we've got a bit more in us.
Tell Moyes he has to sell more than he buys every window for 2 years, and sign players for 0 upfront though - and point deductions are coming next season and I think he'd struggle big time. The wheels would come off for him too.
Dyche did what we needed him to do. Kept us up. Kept our heads above water until new owners. I'm very grateful for that.
Some of the comments we’re seeing now are similar to what people were saying after Dyche took over. How quickly 4 wins in a row, multiple clean sheets, and Beto scoring after 22 passes v Newcastle is forgotten.
I want
Moyes to take us toward, to get money, to move us up the table season on season similar to what he did his first time here.
But look at Brighton since De Zerbi’s first season. Has Howe moved Newcastle on since they came 4th? Has Emery improved Villa this season? They’ve all got all the money in the world. There’s people fuming at Dyche for not doing this despite selling his top players and having no money.
It’s very difficult to consistently do this in the long term. I am praying
Moyes can do this, but beating up a terrible Leicester team and Spurs playing a teenage attacking mid at CB is not conclusive proof that it will definitely happen.
A lot of the fans short term jumping on these games as some sort of evidence to condemn Dyche will also be the first ones turning against Moyes when results don’t go his way.
