We need to talk about Nottingham Forest.

[coollino]

I can understand why neutrals seem perplexed, 78% think it was a bad decision on BBC (poll is half way down the page here).

He joined with them in chaos, identity crisis in playing style - Nuno sacked, then Ange after this;

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His remit was keep them up;





... he'd have done so.

But, I understand the sacking. There was never a chance he was surviving beyond this summer and I've long shared a view that you can't allow a very obviously interim manager to manage a relegation fight.

They'll be hoping new manager bounce can box them off quickly, and maybe win the Europa, with this type of new manager novelty;



*waits.

There is a chance a lot of people at the club just found him extremely irritating, which is where I stand on him

 

[allen]

I can understand why neutrals seem perplexed, 78% think it was a bad decision on BBC (poll is half way down the page here).

He joined with them in chaos, identity crisis in playing style - Nuno sacked, then Ange after this;

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His remit was keep them up;





... he'd have done so.

But, I understand the sacking. There was never a chance he was surviving beyond this summer and I've long shared a view that you can't allow a very obviously interim manager to manage a relegation fight.

They'll be hoping new manager bounce can box them off quickly, and maybe win the Europa, with this type of new manager novelty;



*waits.

Got to admit, I was surprised by that win percentage graphic when I saw it this morning.

At a gut level, I think Evertonians (very much including myself) are conflating the crap football we endured with his performance at Forest - and there's a big dollop of schadenfreude to help it down.

Marinakis being so trigger happy meant that we've been expecting it, too.

 

[efcste97]

There is a chance a lot of people at the club just found him extremely irritating, which is where I stand on him

It seems like the players had enough of his draconian training methods, especially if its true they were going into games already knackered.

We were fortunate that our squad bought into his approach and could string together three- or four-game wins between the rough patches. He managed to galvanise our group at the time, but he hasn’t been able to do the same at Forest.

 

[coollino]

It seems like the players had enough of his draconian training methods, especially if its true they were going into games already knackered.

We were fortunate that our squad bought into his approach and could string together three- or four-game wins together between the rough patches. He managed to galvanise our group at the time, but he hasn’t been able to do the same at Forest.

I can imagine once you turn on his language, mannerism etc there isn't really much of a way back and a lot must have done that pretty early

 

[Clarky cat]

"The league table would look decent if you put us in the top ten"

“The league table would look decent, if you read it upside down”

 

[mccole]

The ONLY bad thing about Dyche being sacked is he never signed McNeil from us before getting binned.

What a beautiful morning!

 

[DanB90]

I can imagine once you turn on his language, mannerism etc there isn't really much of a way back and a lot must have done that pretty early

I Imagine him trying to force his “nuts and bolts” down your throat every day would get annoying very quickly.

 

[crusade]

Does the win percentage include beating European scrubs? Because we live in a football world where Tottenham are finishing 4th in the champions league.

 

[Nymzee]

This guy saw through all the gaslighting.

 

[Nymzee]

Does the win percentage include beating European scrubs? Because we live in a football world where Tottenham are finishing 4th in the champions league.

Yes

 

[Eggs]

….i always be thankful for Dyche keeping us up during that period of internal turmoil when he kept us up with the two points deductions. Probably the right man at the right time for us.

 

[crusade]

I reckon I'd have kept us up in a season when the team in 18th place ends up with 26 points.

 

[blue to the bone]

Surely now that's the end of him managing at any decent level.
Id suggest maybe he would be suited to managing a Toby carvery.
The utter urchin ..

 

[COYBL25]

@davek

Where are you, have you deserted #ThankYouMyGaffer ?

 

[davek]

@davek

Where are you, have you deserted #ThankYouMyGaffer ?

All you needed to do was to say 'thank you' to Dyche for saving us for two seasons from relegation.

That's all.