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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Matt in Sean Dyche   
    Or maybe the sales rep could say that everything was going great and he actually sold loads of them but then the government moved the goal posts and said nobody was allowed to buy his photocopiers so had to return them
    That lead to a drop in confidence in the market and it was difficult to sell anymore even though a couple of sales were later allowed to go through
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Matt in Sean Dyche   
    So you’re an advocate of change for changes sake then?
    Who do you think should be in the side that isn’t?
    What tactics/formations do you think we should be trying?
    IMHO our threadbare squad doesn’t afford the manager many options even when everyone is fully fit, and it’s been a while since we could say that
    Let’s face it if we go down this season it’s because we have been kicked out of the league not because we have been relegated or because of Dyche
    If we go with your plan and sack Dyche, then who do we bring in and who replaces the new manager next year ?
    You're complaining about Dyche trying the same thing over and over again yet pleading with the club to do the same thing over and over again 🤷🏻‍♂️
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Gwlad in Sean Dyche   
    I still think he is the perfect man for the job given the circumstances and I really don’t see those circumstances improving, they may well get even worse, for the foreseeable future
    He is the first manager to get a tune out of these players for years but people seem to forget that. I think we had a very good first half of the season but given how threadbare the squad  is, not Dyche’s fault, I think it was inevitable we would struggle over the festive period anyway. And that is before you factor in all the off field issues, the run of fixtures and the points deduction
    Is it really any wonder that it’s knocked the confidence out of the side?
    We need to break this cycle of changing managers every year, that’s what has got us in this mess in the first place
    If people want to throw stats about and completely ignore the context surrounding them then that is up to them but thankfully Dyche still appears to have the support of those that matter, the players and Thelwell
     
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Newty82 in Sean Dyche   
    I still think he is the perfect man for the job given the circumstances and I really don’t see those circumstances improving, they may well get even worse, for the foreseeable future
    He is the first manager to get a tune out of these players for years but people seem to forget that. I think we had a very good first half of the season but given how threadbare the squad  is, not Dyche’s fault, I think it was inevitable we would struggle over the festive period anyway. And that is before you factor in all the off field issues, the run of fixtures and the points deduction
    Is it really any wonder that it’s knocked the confidence out of the side?
    We need to break this cycle of changing managers every year, that’s what has got us in this mess in the first place
    If people want to throw stats about and completely ignore the context surrounding them then that is up to them but thankfully Dyche still appears to have the support of those that matter, the players and Thelwell
     
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from StevO in Sean Dyche   
    I still think he is the perfect man for the job given the circumstances and I really don’t see those circumstances improving, they may well get even worse, for the foreseeable future
    He is the first manager to get a tune out of these players for years but people seem to forget that. I think we had a very good first half of the season but given how threadbare the squad  is, not Dyche’s fault, I think it was inevitable we would struggle over the festive period anyway. And that is before you factor in all the off field issues, the run of fixtures and the points deduction
    Is it really any wonder that it’s knocked the confidence out of the side?
    We need to break this cycle of changing managers every year, that’s what has got us in this mess in the first place
    If people want to throw stats about and completely ignore the context surrounding them then that is up to them but thankfully Dyche still appears to have the support of those that matter, the players and Thelwell
     
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Newty82 in Sean Dyche   
    😂😂😂 Don’t you just hate it when people use stats selectively?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Newty82 in Sean Dyche   
    Loads on social media calling for his head, have these people learnt absolutely nothing these past 8 years?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from StevO in Sean Dyche   
    I would start with
    Ancelotti
    Rafa
    Lampard
    Martinez
    Silva
    Koeman
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from StevO in Sean Dyche   
    😂😂😂 Don’t you just hate it when people use stats selectively?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from StevO in Sean Dyche   
    Loads on social media calling for his head, have these people learnt absolutely nothing these past 8 years?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from chicagoblue in Sean Dyche   
    Loads on social media calling for his head, have these people learnt absolutely nothing these past 8 years?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from MikeO in Sean Dyche   
    Loads on social media calling for his head, have these people learnt absolutely nothing these past 8 years?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Matt in Sean Dyche   
    😂😂😂 Don’t you just hate it when people use stats selectively?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from dunlopp9987 in Sean Dyche   
    Loads on social media calling for his head, have these people learnt absolutely nothing these past 8 years?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Gwlad in Sean Dyche   
    Loads on social media calling for his head, have these people learnt absolutely nothing these past 8 years?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Romey 1878 in Sean Dyche   
    Loads on social media calling for his head, have these people learnt absolutely nothing these past 8 years?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Matt in Sean Dyche   
    Loads on social media calling for his head, have these people learnt absolutely nothing these past 8 years?
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from StevO in Longest Thread! for Everton Discussion   
    https://www.everton.news/everton-set-to-appoint-record-breaking-former-player-as-new-head-of-youth-recruitment/
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    duncanmckenzieismagic reacted to Tonsta in Sean Dyche   
    Or maybe as he said, nothing good enough is coming through.
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    duncanmckenzieismagic got a reaction from Romey 1878 in Sean Dyche   
    The point of the article was that one way or the other we lost several of our best youngsters, which is why nobody from the academy bar Branthwaite and Dobbin are pushing for chances in the first XI, and I don’t think Do bin is ready to be starting
    For some reason you have zeroed in on Simms and while I think he is now playing at his level I still think he is better than anything we have coming through anyway and if he had still been on the books I think he would have been given game time given how shite are two main strikers have been all season
    If we get relegated this season maybe he was the future of the club after all 🤷🏻‍♂️
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    duncanmckenzieismagic reacted to StevO in James Garner   
    Most of the time I’d say yes. The last few weeks I think his bottle has gone and he’s been hiding when he can. And I hate to say that about any player, but it’s just how he’s looked. Literally hiding behind a player instead of being open for a pass. I hope it doesn’t last as he’s the only midfielder who can pass a ball who will play regularly. 
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    duncanmckenzieismagic reacted to RuffRob in Sean Dyche   
    Behind the scenes this club must be a cauldren of stress and anxiety at the moment. It is effectievly rudderless at the very top with lot of very seriouse stuff going on - 3/4 the way thought a new stadium build with massive cheques needing to be signed weekly, point deducutions and appeals going on over the whole season (the results of which could make the difference between us going down and staying up), possible new owners who everybody knows are not without there own risks (we are NOT getting a Middle East consortium with effectively endless resourses), we are effectively searching down the back of the sofa for any spare £1M at this moment in time to try and fund our new stadium and intrest payment that come with it.
    This is not a great place to be a manager at the moment - anybody with a ounce sence would steer clear for the next 18months until the dust has well and truly settled. I am pretty sure if Dyche had crystal ball and had known what was likley to be the working conditions at the club when he was offered the job, he may very well have passed and waited for a more normal job to come along, one that was simply about the football on the pitch!! .
    If the club paniked and got rid, who of the calibre needed would be queing up to take on the Everton manager roles and be better placed than Dyche to get us over the line in the next 11 games.
    I think Dyche has been very supportive of the players who are going on the pitch week in week out. It's obviouse for all to see that players ARE missing chance after chance, he can only say some many time - they have the 'freedom to miss chances'. We all know; players included, they are going to have to start put a few more of them away at sometime. He is far from throwing players under the bus.
    I and others are a long way from thinking Dyche is perfect, but he is a fairly good fit for this club at the moment. He is a manager who does not go around crying about the situation the clubs in, he rolls his sleeves up and deals with it, and he is getting players to do the same. There are plenty of things going on at this club where a managers or players could be quite easily thinking "what's the f8cking point' its a circus around this place, I'll probably be better off somewhere else come the summer!!". I don't feel this at all from Dyche and the squad.  
    None of us were expecting miracles this season, we all though mid table mediocrity would be plenty acceptable this season given upheaval and resources at the club, just keeping away from a third relegation battle. If we take away the point deductions, then that is pretty much where we are as a footballing side (and maybe this is what Dyche is as a manager). But at this very moment in time I am more than satisfied with mediocrity, I am very weary of trying to change things up on the management side, as another minor slip in this department would see us relegated. Premiership is a very unforgiving league and given o
    A time to stick not twist. 
     
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    duncanmckenzieismagic reacted to RuffRob in Sean Dyche   
    I think in normal circumstances Dyche might be going through a run of games where questions might start to be rasied about the team and how it's progressing results wise and playing wise under his management. 
    However, we are so far removed from normal circumstances as a club could be.  Dyche is working under the most unusual circumstances we could really imagine at a football club. The points you have won being taken off you based on things that went on before your arrival and then with the spectre of even more points being taken away from you hanging over you. You add to this the madness of how the ownership and board situation is at this club, the long standing Chairman passing away. All these signficant things happening off the pitch over 2/3's of a season is quite astounding really.
    All this has to negatively affect the players and football management side of the club.
    The biggest thing that is really going against Dyche and the wider team at the moment seems to be a bit of luck - Performance wise easily half of our defeats/draws could have quite easily have turned out as wins on a different day. I don't beleive he as lost the players or dressing room at all, in fact they all seem to be working together to try and change the results. 
    I imagine he would have loved to have been in the position 10 games ago to try and take on games a little more going in to them as a mid table team. However, he has had the tractor beam of the points deduction that is keeping us (and will do now for the rest of the season) pulled toward the bottom three - that in itself brings a nervouseness to the players and fans alike. 
    Everton are at what I feel is a very delecate tipping point at the moment -  Until the points deductions and ownership issues are sorted out, the last thing we should do is be trying to change manager again. Especailly as Dyches main downfall to me has been that he's been very unlucky this season - both on and off the pitch.
    If this had been a 'normal' season, just about football - I could quite easily see this team having a two or three more wins under their belt and now being safe on between 35-40 points. 
    I would actually like to see Dyche manage in to next season, with hopefully points deduction behind us and a new owner and board in place - to me he has and is showing enough to suggest he deserves a normal season.
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    duncanmckenzieismagic reacted to Palfy in Board/Owners Related Stuff   
    The plot thickens. We need the PL too make their decision so the club can move on in what ever direction that maybe 🤔 
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    duncanmckenzieismagic reacted to RuffRob in Sean Dyche   
    We are a considerably better team under Dyche, than we have been the past couple of years. Our performances are much more competative and consistently so.
    1t has simply been down to poor finishing at the final moment. 
    the irony is we have all be so hoping for DCL to get fit for best part of 2 season, and when he does he just can't score. Dyche has given him massive support on starting him.
    Even thoigh DCL a better player I think Beto now needs a run of games.
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