Palfy

Well im making the 5 hour round trip to the game tomorrow, i need to be there as i can not trust them to do it.
I usually have a good average of wins when i attend, so needs must, see you guys there. COYB.

But not so if you are the messiah. 

I'd rather the manager actually not destroy a good prospects career in favour of a 39 year old who's been utter shite or a centre half who is the worst positional defender we have. 
 
Other than that - dyche thought nothing of telling the media the slap wasn't an issue - Patterson just didn't get the joke.  I don't think he gives a shit about the lad and it came across as disingenuous as dyche usually is. "Good outfit" 

Except it won't be in one hit and will be over 2 accounting periods. 

Unbelievable... started talking about cinema & films laughing and joking.
im not against managers having a personality but ffs pick the moment 

I think what Dyche needs to remember is '15 games ago...' is half a season! Almost half a season without a win is going to test the most hardened fans!
Anyways, must win!
Unfortunately, I expect Young to feature. And Doucs. Probs Godffrey at RB.
I don't care...just get as many wins as possible over the next 6 games!

Yeah, I mean, he's come out with some bizarre stuff recently.
He was doing a job most of us could get behind. Things were looking good. But 15 games is a long fuckin time!

He also needs a reality check I’ve never read or heard anyone call him the messiah. 

Yes I would rather the truth, I think the smack around the head and the fact that Godfrey kept him out of the team for weeks when we hadn’t won a league game for 3 months, is more than enough to tell me what he really thinks of Patterson, so now he knows he can’t play for the rest of the season he gives him praise, but never mentioned him when he wasn’t injured. 
Absolute bollocks. 

Very strange sounds like he’s trying to blow smoke up Pattersons arse in an attempt to build bridges.  

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. 

I think we would win that game 2-1 

Yeah I forgot that bit 😄 apologies Matt wasn’t meant to look like I was calling you out, more to show I’ve been consistent in my opinions of Dyche even if some haven’t, or as yourself you have a different opinion which you make a good argument for. 
But isn’t it good to have different views yet not fallout over them, it’s like we’re big boys now, see you at play time 😄

I didn’t celebrate the triple substitutions at half time, if you read the match posts you will see I wanted it changed at 2-0 to give us a chance at possibly getting back into the game, but I said he will wait till it’s 3-0 when we will have no chance of getting that back, but no he didn’t budge then he waited till it was 4-0 and half time before trying to change that was lost at 3-0, so no Matt I don’t celebrate his changes at half time, I condemn him for letting it get to 4-0 before making a change. 
Can’t you see that’s the actions of manager who can’t manage the team or the game, he’s not changing the story as his favourite sound bite is every week, he’s not capable of changing the story for the better, but he’s doing a stellar job at making it worse. 
I know it’s all about opinions Matt and I respect yours, some of the things you have mentioned can’t be ignored or denied and of course they have effected the team over time, but he’s not for me mate he’s making basic mistakes when it comes to team selection and tactics which is making a poor situation so much worse. 

All good mate. Like I said, but maybe not clearly enough; I can't defend him anymore. I still believe the players are the biggest problem. After all, this run hasn't improved even with the enforced changes mixing the teams up a bit. But when you've got 16 seniors to chose from seriously (before injuries, suspensions and AFCON) mixing things up isn't really an option and the whole style (or complete lack thereof) is to avoid exposing the weakness of our players, like basic passing, basic shooting, basic tracking and running. They do it in the training videos, so how does Dyche transfer that concentration over the line? I don't think he can with everything taken into consideration and so he should go if we have a decent candidate. Hafs shout about Baines is a good call if we want to survive on blood and thunder. I wonder if we could tempt Carsley when thinking outside the media... But again, circumstances prevent us swapping staff.

Sorry, Boston.
Anyway, my prediction: Bayern Madrid 2 - 1 Everton

Yeah I forgot that bit 😄 apologies Matt wasn’t meant to look like I was calling you out, more to show I’ve been consistent in my opinions of Dyche even if some haven’t, or as yourself you have a different opinion which you make a good argument for. 
But isn’t it good to have different views yet not fallout over them, it’s like we’re big boys now, see you at play time 😄

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."
 
 
 
 

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. 

Exactly manager’s are paid to coach and make plays better than the have been it’s a big part of the job criteria, Dyche has gone backwards not forwards, he doesn’t understand the strengths and weaknesses of his players and doesn’t except his own frailties. 
We got the players they are definitely not the best the league but are far from the worst, they are disheartened and disinterested with what the manager is saying and doing, it doesn’t take a genius to see that they’ve had enough of the tactics and crap spoken from him, someone at the club needs to get him out so we can move forward. 

I look at our remaining games and with probably misplaced expectations / optimism I believe we will stay up, but then I think about Dyche who’s he going to pick, what’s he going to do tactically, and how are the players going to respond to those tactics and it fills me with fear. 
We have players that are equally as good or not better on paper than quite a few teams in the league, but we play the ugliest style of football in the league it’s shockingly embarrassing to watch and for a majority of our players must be soul destroying to play week in week out, yet the one thing that sets us apart from these other teams and there is no doubt that we unequivocally have the worst manager in the league. 
For those of you who live in and around the city you won’t hear what other fans think of our football you will only hear the shite from the shite fan’s and the wtf going on between the Evertonian’s, you need to try living and working where I am and listen on a daily basis to what supporters who know you are an Everton fan have to say, yes there is plenty of sympathy from the wider footballing community, Everton are a very much respected club with supporters around the country. 
But what these fans rival supporters say about our manager and our style of football is heart wrenching to hear and there’s no argument you can have with them because they are fucking right, and it’s basically we are shit because our manager is shit. 
Yet there are so many Evertonian’s who sucked in by Dyche and his 18 months of talking a good job, because they are cocooned in this small environment of Liverpool and don’t hear what the rest of the country and their fans think of us, the useless fucker is getting away with turning us week by week into the worst team in the league and the worst team I can remember in my 57 years of supporting this club, and this story he relentlessly goes on about every week that we need to change and he needs to change, will only change when the worst manager ever to set foot in this club is shown the door, and only then can we start along the long road to building a better future on the pitch. 

If any of you lot are religious please pray for him to be fit on Sunday.

The dropping of Gomes says everything we need to know about Dyche, his tactics and abilities as a manager. 
Honestly is there anyone on here who believes Gomes should have been dropped, and if there is meet me in the car park so we can sort this out properly 😡

Shocking getting worse every game, the players have thrown the towel in they are done with Dyche. 
If Moshiri wants any chance of seeing a good percentage of his money back he needs to do himself a favour and sack Dyche tonight. 

He blamed Onana and garner in the middle tonight - Onana I could understand.  But Ashley young of course escaped criticism. 
 
he needs to go