Same tbh, but all we’ve heard since the season ended from the manager and all the players involved is “this can’t be allowed to happen again”
Without significant investment in the playing squad, I can 100% tell them now, it is going to happen again.
I disagree. I think we have a competent first 11, maybe good enough to just creep in the top 10. It’s the dramatic fall when some key players drop out of that 11 that’s the problem. We literally have nothing behind them.
Our back up for DCL was Simms and people actually wanted him to play. He wouldn’t get a game for a few clubs in his own age group, never mind their premier league team.
Clever recruitment could see us be comfortably safe this year though, even with limited funds as there’s just a few glaring holes in the squad that need filling and it doesn’t actually need expensive players in ALL those positions.
I reckon if Doucoure didn’t get sent off v Spurs and we’d kept Rondon last year, never mind anyone else, we’d have probably been safe with a couple of weeks to spare. That’s how big the drop off was when DCL was out as Rondon’s not even average now however he’d have “done a job” under Dyche once DCL was unavailable.
The first 30 mins at Wolves, Arsenal, Brighton and even Leicester were an example of what we were capable of once we had a balanced 11 on the pitch.
