2023/24 Sean Dyche

Improvements?

Villa away
Doncaster
Arsenal

They are up there with the worst performances in recent years and that is almost half of the games we've played.
We haven't scored or picked up a point at home this season in 3 games.

Apart from maybe Villa we should be beating Luton and Bournemouth lets not make it out that getting 6 points against them is an achievement, he will simply just be doing whats expected.

Lets not go overboard over a solitary win at the weekend as good and nice as it was.
I'm really sorry , mate, but I'm just not having that.

Villa away - yes, an infinite list of disorganisation and total ineptitude.

Doncaster - against mickey mouse teams in a mickey mouse cup probably every team has a scrappy win, whether City, Arsenal, or us, back in our heyday.

Arsenal - a narrow margin of defeat against a very top team who specialise in holding the ball, and were very far from peppering our goal with shots on target. If we'd tried to out yawnball Arsenal, we'd have got slaughtered.

Let's see how the next games go, when we've got at least one cf, and new guys are a bit bedded in. If these games are disastrous, then let's think about the manager, but not till then, eh?
 
How wasn’t Branthwaite fit, he’d been playing for England U21s in the summer? How was he not considered fit yet James Garner was, they both played the same amount of games and had the same pre-season schedule.

Dyche definitely chose to start Keane ahead of Branthwaite, just as he chose to start Keane ahead of Mina last season. Thankfully it didn’t take him as long to realise his error and rectify it this time.

Look, you’re allowed to like Dyche and admit he made a tactical howler. He’s not completely infallible believe it or not.

Oh god no, I don't like him. I just can't stand Keane even more and trying to imagine someone playing him over anybody just breaks my brain.

But I seem to remember Branthwaite picking up a knock for the u21s which probably meant he wasn't "fit fit" or something daft
 
Honest question, what is the "football he peddles" and why is it so bad? Maybe it's just me but I actually like the way we've played for the most part this season we just haven't taken the chances which are down to individuals rather than the system. I think we're an effective team but it's not like we're too boring or just long ball and hope, we play when we need to play, looking at how Branthwaite and Tarkowski play is the easiest example, they're happy to play it around and out from the back but are equally happy to go long to Beto / DCL if there's an opening.

We've had 2 very bad performances this season, first half against Doncaster and the game against Villa, the Arsenal one wasn't great but they're also one of the best teams in the world and should be battering us. Every other game I feel like we played well and should've fairly handily come out with more points if individual mistakes didn't happen, that's not on the manager. His system creates chances but he can't go on the pitch and finish them himself.

I think going through our manager's since Moyes I think Dyche is one of the more enjoyable to watch, in my opinion this'd be how I'd rate it: first season Martinez > Moyes > Carlo > Dyche > everyone else. Even Ancelotti there is more who he was and the players he had like James, the rest of our managers played awful football, bar maybe Silva if he had gotten more time. Also worth noting the squads that the rest had, Dyche had no money and an almost relegated, unbalanced squad, in my opinion looking at it all in context he's doing a good job and has us playing well, especially given the quality of player he has compared to others before him.
You aren’t allowed to be balance and sensible…shame on you!

I need to be miserable and be a booo boy. Now stop this realism and sensible approach and sack him… the next one and the next one. Also all new signings in the future will be booed.

Thank you for being measured!!
 
If we're being honest, half the issue is the results since he joined and half is his annoying persona.
He's a bog standard manager with a bog standard career but talks like he's prime Alex Ferguson, a bit like Allardyce before him.
Watched clip of him playing golf with Tubes (another annoyance) and his stories were piss poor then even when they had been pre-scripted.
I'll be happy for him to turn it around though as it could be the difference between us existing and not, but by God I'd hate to be in his company in the pub.
 
If we're being honest, half the issue is the results since he joined and half is his annoying persona.
He's a bog standard manager with a bog standard career but talks like he's prime Alex Ferguson, a bit like Allardyce before him.
Watched clip of him playing golf with Tubes (another annoyance) and his stories were piss poor then even when they had been pre-scripted.
I'll be happy for him to turn it around though as it could be the difference between us existing and not, but by God I'd hate to be in his company in the pub.
Well, I wouldn't necessarily want to engage in intellectual argument, or matey badinage with Dyche in a boozer, but I might not care to do that with the neuro surgeon who could save my life, nor the airline pilot who could kill me, either. A Premier League manager is one of a tiny elite of football professionals, and we'd almost all be unbelievably proud to be in that proportion of our own callings in life. A bit of due respect might be in order, whether any of us is a fan of Dyche's personality, or not.
 

If we're being honest, half the issue is the results since he joined and half is his annoying persona.
He's a bog standard manager with a bog standard career but talks like he's prime Alex Ferguson, a bit like Allardyce before him.
Watched clip of him playing golf with Tubes (another annoyance) and his stories were piss poor then even when they had been pre-scripted.
I'll be happy for him to turn it around though as it could be the difference between us existing and not, but by God I'd hate to be in his company in the pub.
Interesting I suspect he would be in most football fans top 5 managers to go boozing with. In fact I can only name 3 who would be a decent laugh

Ange
Dyche
Frank
 
Generally agree with your point, but getting rid of Mina was a very good move. I don't care how could a player Mina is - if he's not playing then he's as much use to the team as I am.
This. Mina needed to leave because of his contract and injury record. Ideally Dyche hoped he could freeze him out and get Keane back to form. He was pragmatic enough to change back when the points were needed
 

Interesting I suspect he would be in most football fans top 5 managers to go boozing with. In fact I can only name 3 who would be a decent laugh

Ange
Dyche
Frank

I think he’d be an absolute melt and start taking the piss and calling you a woman if you dared to order anything other than real ale or Guinness. Also probably goes for a curry and orders something completely inedible but sits there pretending he’s enjoying it and constantly reminds everyone that “it’s not even spicy”
 
And what are you gonna say if this isn't the case against Luton?

Vault me?

I couldn't be more confident we will win the next two home games though.

We are only a point behind Chelsea now. I know they haven't had a good start but they aren't classed as in any danger.

The start we have had and we are 3 points clear of the relegation zone.

Only paints a good picture for us going forward.
 

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