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your fault @Matt I told you to keep that powder dry! He's been reading toffeetalk! "I'm currently not deemed to be doing a good job"....... as though he's surprised by that?! yeah Sean the 4 games worth of credit has kinda evaporated in the 15 games of repetitive shite they we have seen. I can't handle him sorry..... it's like watching an mp in full bullshit bingo flow.

dyche said it was a pity he got injured cos he was coming into form in training........ amongst other bits of nonsense this was his biggest lie.

watching dyche press conference...... waffle fest. DCL and Branthwaite should be fit, other than that it was like watching a career politician at work.

I think Garner at right back with permission to get forward and cross is a good idea. Gana, Gomes and Onana in midfield. I'll be honest, Onana deserves dropping and if it wasn't for the fact that Doucoure gives the ball away a criminal amount of time he would be dropped.

absolutely disgusting, FA cup replays have actually stopped clubs going under - the only thing that was almost pure about the game even though man united did it untold harm when they missed it. I hate football now I really do.

£30m in the bank you jammy sod

Not being funny Matt you honestly seem the training videos and thought "good finish" - they are doing 1-2s against mannequins and the goalkeepers don't save shots that are pretty lame. They let them in. This is not training at all, it's absolutely farcical. It's all pr, I've seen people rip the videos apart for the piss poor sessions that they are. I can't wait to see the back of him and his gang I really can't. Dwight McNeil ironically applauded Mike Jackson for giving him freedom and belief after dyche was sacked

Baines doesn't necessarily need to rally the troops, just actually give the team instructions and tactics that aren't rinse and repeat recipes for failure like dyche. he doesn't have a clue how to change things, he stands there throwing his arms up in the air when his players aren't carrying out his master plan. dyche looks and sounds like a man who knows his game is up. we don't need to pay him off, he just takes gardening leave. As far as I can see the players have had enough of him

If the players were abysmal from defending set pieces you would hold him accountable wouldn't you? Why is it different in any other pattern or phase of play? its quite frankly unacceptable. The exact same issues were pointed out at Burnley. He does not have answers for them because it's not something he or his coaches have ever been good at. It's a fact. everything in football is about drilling and drilling. To me it's abundantly clear he doesn't do that. He was asked about this quite specifically in Portugal to which he replied - no. stick him and his coaches on gardening leave and let baines take over. He's taking us down.

https://outofmytinymind.com/2022/04/18/off-dyche-and-then/ interesting read..... I used for my post above. In short he is showing very similar traits his his ones at Burnley. You can dress it up anyway that you want - that group of players should not be performing like that, its an international level spine - Pickford, Tarks, Branthwait, Onana, Gana, DCL absolutely shambolic how he has them looking like sunday league hoof merchants.

Everything you are talking about is all about confidence and repetition. The only thing that Dyche repeats are soundbites and failed selections and tactics. He took them to portugal and admitted working on nothing new My view is because of the very predictable nature of dyche it would be very easy to find trends.... so let's go to his sacking at Burnley and look for the similarities to what we may be seeing now:- 1. he was sacked at Burnley for 14 wins in 68 prem matches - 1 in 4 and lost 50% of those games. For us this season he has lost just under half the games and is averaging 1 win in 3.5 games. In the 12 prem games of 2024 he has 1 win in 12 and lost almost half the games. Sackable. 2. Burnley fans views: - here some snippets... pretty scary "The problem was that Dyche was steadfastly repeating the same mistakes. I’m all for letting a player play himself back into form, but both Ashley Westwood and Dwight McNeil got an enormous amount of leeway. No matter how badly it wasn’t working, and it didn’t take much to see that it the Burnley midfield had massive great holes in it where some semblance of creativity should have been, change was not coming." "Tactically, the team were relying on the same old approach, keep disciplined, organised and make up for a lack of quality by outworking your opponent in 1 on 1 battles. That’s a perfectly fine concept, except anyone is going to cotton on it by the sixth consecutive season. There was no surprise element and clubs that had been previously upset by the Clarets were fully prepared to minimise their own problems this time around. Dyche had few answers, either in his toolbox or in the squad." "The problem is that Chris Wood has gone and tactically, we’re treating his replacement as a taller, Dutch Chris Wood. This is despite him clearly being far, far more effective with the ball passed to his feet. Dyche’s insistence on lumping it up to the Big Guy was absolutely detrimental to the team. It’s all well and good to moan about a lack of goals from Weghorst, but he has had absolutely no quality service from anywhere in the midfield." "Dyche continually preached about “small margins” and there is no denying that Burnley have been on the wrong side of those small margins."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9280415/amp/England-international-Premier-League-star-hooked-sleeping-pills.html this story was in 2021 one year before joining us. The "unknown" players teammates knew.... you honestly don't think the club didn't? the managers know absolutely everything as the clubs have spies everywhere. spurs got him on sleeping tablets - he even said their doctors gave them him to help with sleep after evening games. Spurs absolutely knew about their £100m rated asset - levy does not move on players that Real Madrid were looking at for £20m max on the drip unless he knew what we do now.

I know like many fans I have said "you bust a gut for the shirt and the fans even if you hate the manager" looking at it properly - if you are miserable in your job then that's a considerable amount of time that you feel like crap regardless of how much you are getting paid. You are gonna be unmotivated, lack confidence, doing your role with fear. thats what I see in our players, its the reason why you get new manager bounces. when Burnley sacked Dyche many of us were delighted cos we thought he was the only reason they were in the league. The reality was far different, their fans were made up, the players responded to a man with no managerial experience and they nearly survived. When dyche was sacked they were 4 points off safety on 24 points with 8 to play - 0.8 ppg. Jackson won manager of the month and returned 1.4 ppg. i'm not saying Mike Jackson is a great manager - what I'm saying is that a bloke who got sacked from Tranmere got more from their players than Dyche.

I just think spurs are pretty scummy in this. the lad was broken, he has praised us for looking after him. What did spurs do??? Flogged him.

Excellent point. Genoa sign him on a free then sell him to Everton for £1. would that allow us to make a huge asset on the books?

I wasn't talking about now on in. I was talking about how people allowed standards to drop from when we were up there.... people downplaying expectations. "Penknives to gunfights". "7th place is great for a club like Everton" - fans should never allow that. the reality is we won't be anywhere near the top for a while now cos the club has been destroyed from within whilst people called protestors kopites.

The inflatable Gomes could partner the real Gomes in midfield and offer more than Onana. shukes - are you happy to give him a clean and send him to Dyche?

I'm not talking about 7th place from 16th. I'm talking about 7th place from a team that's won leagues. the culture of our club will never be right when we have people who actually say "good season" for top half finishes. you can be quietly content that you are moving in the right direction but only if you know that measures and actions are being taken to get the next level. I've witnessed the decline and how we got there. Acceptance of average is the problem

It would take a very long graph for me to plot the timelines of errors, missed opportunities and the various subtleties that have got us to where we are. the immediate trajectory change was the European ban - can't blame anyone at the club for that. It was a huge trajectory changer but none the less we won the league in 1986-1987 and we did have opportunities to stay in the pack. 1989 onwards to 1995 was doldrums but the gap wasn't huge and was recoverable. the biggest correction opportunity we had was Rooney and the kings dock site. Kenwright absolutely destroyed it. Tried to flog Rooney to Chelsea without Rooney knowing and created the sale to man United cos Rooney was fuming. Kings dock... well let's just say we would be regular top 4 and trophy winners now. We would have been snapped up and had huge investment.

"Lardy dardy dah nothing to see here, probably didn't happen" ....... manager slaps a player in front of others "man up!", "You need to work with real men, that's how it is". nah.... the position of a manager is one of the most difficult to maintain cos you are never off duty when the people under you are in your presence, you are being watched and judged all the time. you wanna demand timeliness, being called "gaffer", maximum effort, respect, the adherence to your instructions - you better make sure you are impeccable. you do not put your hands on a player. A popular lad at that. It's not done. in my criticism of dyche i had to actually justify why I wasn't a snowflake to people who are usually very woke. Ive always been a man's man in what is old money - I teach my kids "someone hits you - you do the same back and I'll deal with the fallout" Dyche should have been disciplined because as far as I'm concerned Patterson was well in his rights to stand up and give him a slap back. Obviously 6ft2 alpha male Dyche would have no doubt given him a good hiding and tried to clear the air "at the bar with a beer to forget about it" the top and bottom is that he had to apologise in front of the team after being told he's out of order by Tarkowski. The balance of power was taken away there and then.

That's human nature. the reason our club has ended up where it is is mainly due to 7th place being touted as a great season. how did we get there from being multiple league winners? It's dilution of expectations. as soon as you accept less you are plotting the descent

I think he was indicating that there is stuff to unravel regards him staying at Everton. My feeling is that there is contract grey areas regarding the 10 games = £10m and I don't know what this looks like. spurs should have waived the ridiculous agreement - not because it's unfair on us but because they have a duty to their ex player. They essentially watched him decline and got shut - they seen Everton as "we buy any car" and flogged a rolls royce that needed extensive work.

He comes across as a very nice lad. I'd love to see him get fit and and make his comeback with us.

Cos he got his one year extension around the time he was injured. seen many players put their feet up once they get a nice extension.

I just think he's a mercenary. I wasn't a Lampard fan but the way he downed tools under Lampard was disgusting.