Hafnia

Watched the game last night with a few blues. I thought it gave a much needed "wake up and smell the roses" message to us after the great week we had where 3 wins got us over the line. The top and bottom of it is the team needs surgery and we will likely need to buy some players of the ilk of Luton who have supreme athleticism. if we never got the win vs Brentford we would have been a bit frantic watching that. We've not beaten Luton in 3 attempts..... people can ridicule them etc etc but despite the 8 points fine we should not even be in a contest with teams like that. we've got serious serious work to do. Get Onana out of the club asap, he reeks of everything that has seen us become a club that overpays shite players. I thought he was talented but lazy... he's not even that talented. I'd sell him for the money we paid for him if we had to.

Thats the whole point isn't it Steve..... I know you want to believe in unicorns and that dyche turned a group of league 1 standard rebels into compliant dogs of war. dyche himself admitted it was a back and forth - respect to him for admitting that. The juicy details will stay private but yeah - sorry to shatter your illusion.... he and his staff were included in the "get it off your chest" meeting. don't think for one second it was one way traffic - players who will pull him for slapping a colleague aren't gonna sit there and listen to him ripping them a new one without them having their say on him and his staff. It was quite clear that change was impressed on him too....

It has the feeling of man buys a much loved vintage car that needed TLC and restoring..... he wastes a load of money on sound systems and fluffy dice and now it needs a new engine and he's trying to flog it for parts. Meanwhile there are probably some enthusiasts who will offer a fair price but no..... Moshiri is considering "we buy any car"

Yeah and my point is Tarkowski has given a media friendly interview....... yet his omission of any other details seems to make others think that no other things happened.

My ankles are a complete mess from repeated ligament strains playing on awful pitches and not recovering properly and strapping them up with masking tape. Any slight deviation in the pavement can have me rolling my ankle at a 90 degree angle. I had a bone spur removed 10 years ago and the surgeon said my ankle was a mess - covered in scar tissue and signs of arthritis. the long and short of it is every time I did my ankle I felt like spewing up..... he did a severe tear I think. To even contemplate playing on is exactly why I love him. He was in pain, knew he done it badly yet wanted to get back out there

Tried to play on. What a man.

I was expecting Tarkowski to say:- "yeah he gave us home truths and we gave him a few back too - we told him his tactics were shit and he was rigid right down to that white shirt, it all needed to happen after he slapped Patto cos to be honest he can be a right dickhead and we were all pissed off"

Bold statement.... but without branthwaite I think we would have gone down. I really don't think our defence would be anywhere near as solid as it was with Keane instead of him - like I'm talking 20 goals. Call it 12 points min - put a price on that if you can. Rate him so highly. Best centre half I've seen for us and I watched ratcliffe onwards.

Replacing branthwaite is impossible. I'd like to think we could sell Onana, Maupay, and maybe a new buyer could see us with a big cash injection where we say "we will go heavy on transfers and take a fine next year" - bit extreme but we need to consider all options.

Do the epl really want another season like this??? The point deductions have turned it into a game show... the sad answer is that the people running the game are clowns and have no self awareness. you only need to look at the premier league twitter account with what seems to be a teenage kopite running it.

I think he explains why perfectly. nearly all will say job done and we got over the line and let's move on. imo Theres nothing to be celebrated - just relief. 4 months without a win and some truly awful football. we can have anger at the epl etc but the coaching and tactical side of things was poor. we got over the line and we can be grateful that we never went down but that was an awful season for many reasons. The one solid consistent was the spirit of the fans fighting for the club. lets not start baiting people who have different expectations - it's an opinion.

The furthest my conspiracy theory goes is that I believe it was from a lab. we all know our bodies but the instantaneous loss of smell was weird, even now I get moments where I can smell cigarettes when no one is around. I sat watching tv and my heart rate went up to 130 bpm 2 weeks after I caught it. very strange disease

Because of the job I do I was lucky enough to see how the vaccines worked. Every single day I had to do analysis relating to absence across a large workspace. Not long after vaccine roll outs begun there was another huge spike that seemingly got alarmingly bigger by the day.... all of a sudden they started dropping rapidly and it became something we just live with now. I've had covid 3 times, vaccines don't stop you getting it - they teach your body how to fight it. I see people on social media gloating that they never took it and have "pure blood" and people who took it were sheep. Then as soon as someone dies and a detailed post mortem isn't put out immediately they start putting syringe pictures up. These are the type of people who go on holiday and look at weather reports for back home to try and make themselves feel right about going abroad. bellends like le tissier really

Ever heard the saying "don't skip leg day" - just replace leg with the word passing/possession.

Clearly just selected bits of what I've said haven't you mate. Got a bit frothy and agitated and due to that I've got to make another post where I say "Dyche gets a big tick for job done" I'll try and do an abridged version just for you in case you lose what it is I'm saying... he got the job done, big thanks, well done. However I hope he learns from this cos I believe the fact that the players actually care about the club and the fans meant they were convey what needed to change. hope this helps

Allison, Vvd and Salah were the biggest changes to their team from a transformation perspective. I remember thinking when I seen them "they will win multiple leagues", fortunately I actually think they have under delivered.

Which I think is why they needlessly and extensively looked at chalking off our goal.

Double up on the brown nosing and I'm sure things could be looked at

I think you are underestimating how difficult it is playing lone striker feeding off scraps with Doucoure struggling to be on your wavelength. 19 year old kids don't put performances in like that. No he wasn't dcl vs Liverpool - but relevant to his experience it was superb.

I don't think he's where we want him to be - but in terms of his top level exposure that was a pretty amazing performance for a lad so young. The positions he took were great, strong in his duels, needs work on his speed but looks so well rounded. His blocked volley looked like it was going bottom corner. brentford can keep Maupay

If you don't drill players consistently then they lose the mental sharpness to do the tasks you expect. Detraining is usually referred to as a physical output thing. It's real in terms of technical elements.

Worth watching back. very very subtle and clever. One touch lay offs, won a fair few headers. For 19 in his first premier league start against a very good centre half in pinnock he did very well.

Overall - all said and done it's a big tick. if he and his team sit down over a few beers and they are honest - they will give a huge sigh of relief and say "we got away with one there". I would like to think they have an idea of the individuals they need to thank for getting the players together. i genuinely knew that the team was broken when i watched the game vs Burnley and was absolutely convinced after the Chelsea game. The slap incident and press conference had me shaking my head in disbelief - in a perverse way it's probably helped rescue the season. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall, dyche I believe had to eat humble pie. The tracksuit for me was a very revealing piece of psychology - "I can change". it could spell good things going forward if all people concerned learn from it.

A few of their players have checked out, Salah will be off, I think vvd will be too.

Yeah it's almost as though you never started flapping when they were 3-0 up vs Newcastle and you weren't watching their games with an element of concern. they should never have been a concern with the injuries they had. Hopefully next season we don't play football like our team is on a collective wage bill less than of Doucoure and put together for less the price of Beto. I'm happy to root for Burnley to survive now to see those pair of poverty chanting Tory lovers down