As he said, bit of sweat on the shirt will go a long way to appeasing the fans. He ain’t wrong, put in the effort, we’ll scream you across the line.
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If he manages this miracle, Then I expect he will take us into the the New Stadium. As for contract extensions, we shouldn't go jumping the gun that quickly.
Just look at Lamps last season...
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
Do you recall Allardyce’s last game ?
Trailing a very poor Southampton side by a goal to nil before we managed a thoroughly undeserved draw.
Or Evertonians flooding out of the Emirate’s 20mins into the game.?
His time here is vastly overrated by some.
james_v02
Player Valuation: £950k
It's only one game and I think maintaining that same level of intensity and consistency for the next 16-17 games is the real challenge. Dyche offers the team the best chance to survive but it's not a guarantee. PL is fickle this season, to stay up, we really just need to perform consistently for all remaining games.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
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It’s an odd one because some people have a rose tinted view about where we were that season and how in trouble we were. They see Allardyce just taking a team that would have finished mid table anyway and playing quite poorly with them at times.
I saw him taking over an absolutely terrible team with no pace in middle, no pace or goal threat up front, and the worst back 4 in the league ravaged by injuries.
That line up Koeman had with
Kenny Keane Williams Martina
Schendierlin Gueye Klaassen
Sandro Rooney Siggurdson
Was just completely unbalanced with no pace anywhere and no way to move the ball forward.
Allardyce did well to keep that group up and made some good decisions to move Rooney into midfield, play Tom Davies next to him, and bring in Walcott and Tosun for a short term bounce (even though they wasted money long term)
We were a very very poor team that season and he did well to keep us up but some of the football was horrible.
His time here was one thing we did get right. 'Short' ( but certainly not sweet )
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
I don’t think we were as bad as that , we certainly weren’t as bad as Allardyce made us look.
I think the one manager I regret is dismissing was Silva , we should have held our nerve there and listened to Brands.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He should have held his own nerve and made a back me or sack me ultimatum to Moshiri. But he was too concerned with preserving his massive salary.
Tilling
Player Valuation: £5m
Tough one that isn't it re: Silva and Brands; I definitely think Brands felt very guilty about leaving Silva out to dry, didn't replace Zouma and the Gueye replacement fell apart. If you take Palhinha and say Adarabioyo out of that Fulham team you'll definitely see a similar collapse. Think I can even remember Brands doing an interview about this regret.
limited the best team in the country to just 3 shots on target
and i think the ones on target were all attempts outside of the box as well
and i think the ones on target were all attempts outside of the box as well
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £50m
Yup, we were defensively excellent it must be said. The entire back line was brilliant to a man. We were unlucky in front of goal, or maybe the quality just isn't there. Maybe the latter because it's hardly a pattern if it's being going on for over 20 games, but I am sure it can and will improve under Dyche as our attacking vs Arsenal was as good as it's been all season - it's just the final effort that must improve.
Encoder
Player Valuation: £35m
Agreed, any kind of wistful 'maybe we should have kept brands' thinking is ultimately pointless. The guy is clearly knowledgable and knew his footy but was happy to sit on the board and let moshiri and his snake mate Kia overule him on multiple occasions. The root problem still would persist.
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