We need to talk about Nottingham Forest.

[Saint Domingo]

The thing is, yes he is the type of manager who can come in and give a bit of spark to players who may be down a bit. I don't believe there is much tactically, or it wasn't with us. It was more heart and soul and giving everything, with a bit of tactics thrown in after that.

The big thing for these types of managers, can they then adapt to stop the obvious rot after this. Mainly because, after this initial period, tactics will have to come to the fore. He did a good job at Burnley for an extended period of time, mainly because the expectations were not there [relevant to other clubs).

With us, there is generally a higher expectation to be better, to be competing at the right end of the table. That means a manager needs to adapt on the pitch and be more proactive and positive. He could not do that, it was still as if it was survival mode to the nth degree. I will always go back to that Bournmouth game. That was a game where were most definitely going for a goalless draw. There was zero intent on getting a goal, even on the counter.

The dire situation was back with vengeance and it was Dyche who brought it back with that mentality. I actually hope he does OK, as I don't have anything against him personally, but it was his football management of the team that put us in peril before he went.

If you’re tactically inept you can barely gain any points in the PL. Opposition managers eat you alive. It’s one thing to say you don’t like his tactics, that’s fine, but it’s another to say there isn’t much tactically. You can’t win points in the premier league just based on heart and soul and rousing team talks, it’s just far too cut throat:

Look at some of the results he got with us: beating Arsenal in his first game, Brighton away, come back v Spurs with 10 men, come back at Chelsea with Simms upfront, winning 4 in a row after the points deduction including Newcastle and Chelsea, beating Klopp’s Liverpool, winning last 4 at home without conceding a goal.

You don’t do that by just giving it a bit of effort. There’s loads of managers who have been found out as completely inadequate at this level for that exact reason, and I’m talking losing game after game after game.

You can dislike Dyche’s tactics but you can’t say he doesn’t have many, there’s only 20 jobs ever available in the top flight and how many years now has he occupied one of them? Multiple different clubs has given him a job now. They could literally pick 95% of managers in the football pyramid and they’ve employed him.