Were the players listening to Dyche when we lost 1-0 at rock bottom Southampton? Because that would make a lot of sense.
No?
I've commented on what Sean Dyche actually said.
Nothing more - nothing less.
And the context was;
That's not me saying his team stopped listening to him, clearly, I, nor anyone would have no clue if that was the case.
Davek levels of roundabout arguments here from you, disappointing.
If the players downed tools on Dyche prior to TFG, as you’ve not disagreed with, then his impending departure had zero to do with the players’ performances.
I wasn't trying to squirm out of anything other than trying to avoid being accused of derailing the entire thread.?
Yeah, nobody on this forum said what you've just said there. Nobody on this forum is saying the team downed tools on him after TFG came in because they knew he was going.
The quote you've shared there, part of a much wider point is me saying what Dyche said - after the first defeat we had after TFG come in, he said his players weren't listening.
It comes across as you making things up again mate, coincidentally as I said you often do a few pages back and trying to squirm out of it when "I'll leave it there" failed.
I do disagree with that, as I've said repeatedly - the players absolutely didn't down tools.
Can you explain the difference between downing tools on a manager and stopping listening to a manager please.
I’m clearly not erudite enough on the topic.
Well, to help you;
1. There's what Sean Dyche says publicly "players stopped listening".
2. There's what I think based on my own view on performances at the time - as I said as recently as a few pages back, a team drawing away at Arsenal, Man City and Chelsea in the last 5 clearly isn't a team that's downed tools.
Ah, so no difference then. Gotcha.
Big difference actually.
There's what a manager actually says about something none of us will have a clue about (who knows what he tells them and whether they listen), vs what a person posting on a forum thinks based on football performance.
Biiiiig difference.
Moral of the story: don’t listen to Sean Dyche and everything will turn out fine in the end - the words of Sean Dyche himself and his acolytes.
Well I’ll just use my eyes and see no change in performances under Dyche pre and post TFG.
That tells me all I need to know.
The real moral of the story is just say thanks to a manager who kept this club's PL status in tact under conditions that not many other managers would or could tolerate.
Imagine the epitaph... Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his gaffer.Dyche fans are the strangest. Imagine Sean Dyche was the man you’d decided to relentlessly die on the hill of.
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