Are you in mean girls or something?
I wish. Great movie.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
How we set up and played against Sheffield United spoke volumes to me. It was a game with nothing on it, it was an opportunity to look at other players from the squad or even from the youth set up. Yes, we won the match, but we did so playing the same dreadful, bodies behind the ball, same tactics, same personnel dirgeball that we've been playing for months. He's got the points, fair play to him, I can't knock the points tally under very difficult circumstances, but the idea that he's playing a different way given the right opportunity is not really backed up by any actual evidence. This is how he plays, it will probably keep us up again next season too, but what you see is what you get.
Hinchcliffe's Corner
Player Valuation: £35m
Not true babeh. Didn't happen.
Well if he did then he recovered remarkedly quickly from that strain to play for us in pre-season
Funny that
Everton v Sporting Lisbon - Sat 5th Aug - 3pm KO
Changed the formation at half time Went from a 4-4-1-1 to a 4-1-4-1 Ye...I'm not Dyches biggest fan but its a positive to see him change things up. Just need the buffoons running the club to give him the tools for the job.
Dyche got Tarks and also Brantwhaite ( with some good Experience )
Carlo had Keane and also Holgate
Well if he did then he recovered remarkedly quickly from that strain to play for us in pre-season
Funny that
Everton v Sporting Lisbon - Sat 5th Aug - 3pm KO
Changed the formation at half time Went from a 4-4-1-1 to a 4-1-4-1 Ye...I'm not Dyches biggest fan but its a positive to see him change things up. Just need the buffoons running the club to give him the tools for the job.www.grandoldteam.com
He came back from the U21's with a strain.
He wasn't fully fit for the start of the season.
@GrandOldTeam you remember this as well.
It's like the old arguments about Moyes on Toffeeweb in here. Crap footie, stubborn, plays favourites vs. Pragmatic, gets the Job done in a perilous financial scenario etc.
Good times!
Good times!
ToffeeScot
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Sean Dyche will now finish with more or the same amount of wins as media darling Roberto De Zerbi.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £50m
He had a strain, started some games then withdrew from the next international football for planned treatment.
But in my view, if players are fit enough for the bench, they are fit enough to play. Otherwise it’s unnecessary risk on them.
I don’t think Dyche helped himself in terms of people views of it when he kept Keane in the team over Mina last season for as long as he did.
What @RomanReigns said was hyperbole. " The fans made him start Branthwaite " when the fact was he didn't start the season fully fit.
Always good times on here lol
End of the day he got the job done this season. Was it pretty? No. It was awful a fair amount of the time but he’s earned his spot for next season given the turmoil around the club and the points deductions. I’ll admit to being fickle at times like all fans but the reality is we’re likely going to have a worse squad next season and will need to gut it out. Dyche is probably as good as anyone for that role.
I love the back and forth tbf. Part of being a footie fan. Imagine applying this level of debate, certainty and "I know best" to stuff that actually matters?
GOT and Everton provide an outlet and a service to mankind.
Anyway, wait until October, poss November, and the annual manager war will break out in earnest.
Can't wait!
He was definitely injured/wasnt deemed fully fit - Branthwaite himself said it. Dyche said a few times he was a few weeks behind others in pre-season.
When fans were screaming for us to sign Coady - others, including Dyche, evidently knew they had Branthwaite.
The second he was fit, he was straight in.
[Edit] "He missed two-and-a-half weeks of pre-season. That would have maybe given him the opportunity to push on and start the season,” added Dyche.
"Once he got fit, he has taken the chance."
"He was very unfortunate in pre-season," Dyche tells Sky Sports.
"He missed two-and-a-half weeks of pre-season. That would have maybe given him the opportunity to push on and start the season." As it was, Branthwaite only had to sit out the first two fixtures, both defeats. He has been a fixture in the team ever since.
"Once he got fit, he has taken the chance."
