Can I have a link to this?
- Is this not you echoing Dyche saying the reason it wasn't working in the last season was down to his contract status?
Right here is where you say you aren't surprised players weren't listening to him as they knew Dyche was off.
I misinterpreted/misread what you had written here as saying that you had heard Dyche say they stopped listening to him as half of them knew Dyche was off.
You can't have a situation where you allow a manager to see out their contract. It's not helpful, and will be a negative factor. Dyche said players stopped listening to him, and I'm saying I'm not surprised given his limited style needs buy in more than most/half of them were off that summer, and the other half knew Dyche was off.
Here you lay the blame for the poor results on the fact they weren't listening and and you said they weren't listening because they knew Dyche was off.
The question I was driving at in response to all of this to begin with was a simple one.
Did the players stop listening to him because he was a crap manager who got crap results with his crap tactics?
Or was it because of contract uncertainty making them feel like they didn't need to listen to Dyche as he was unlikely to be here after the season?
You suggested it was the latter in that post above I feel it far more likely it was the first.
As you said, nobody knows if they did stop listening and if they did, why did they.
All we know for certain is he got crap results and deserved the sack for taking a mid table team to 3 wins in 19.