Was Dyche the guy after all?

Come on, he definitely must have a little bit about him to be able to keep them up. They are an abysmal side, truly shit.
Player for player we are better than them, we were just so shockingly managed/ coached. When it eventually got down to the appointment of dyche & smith it was always going to come down to small margains/ decisions. Dyche deciding to set up to go at Brighton the other week in contrast to smith setting out not to lose against Newcastle etc.
 
He was not the right guy when we should have sacked Rodgers. But with only 8 games to go he might have been the right guy.
 
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essingtonblue said:
Come on, he definitely must have a little bit about him to be able to keep them up. They are an abysmal side, truly shit.
Player for player we are better than them, we were just so shockingly managed/ coached. When it eventually got down to the appointment of dyche & smith it was always going to come down to small margains/ decisions. Dyche deciding to set up to go at Brighton the other week in contrast to smith setting out not to lose against Newcastle etc.
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I’m with you most of the way on that Ess, though I’d have had Doucoure over Tielemans every game of this season. Leaving our managerial change so late, and then doing it without a successor lined up, was a clusterfuck that the forthcoming Club Review will doubtless pass quickly over. Yet Dyche was lucky at exactly the right moment, to come up against a Brighton side utterly spent just days after the Cup semi, and managed by De Zerbi (who is Pep-like in lots of ways, not least in letting some matches go, without worrying too much). That was what swung the tide in the last few matches, that and us failing to put Everton away before half time.
 
essingtonblue said:
Come on, he definitely must have a little bit about him to be able to keep them up. They are an abysmal side, truly shit.
Player for player we are better than them, we were just so shockingly managed/ coached. When it eventually got down to the appointment of dyche & smith it was always going to come down to small margains/ decisions. Dyche deciding to set up to go at Brighton the other week in contrast to smith setting out not to lose against Newcastle etc.
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I don't get this "better squad" or "better player by player" stuff.
I think most of our squad are bang average at best, with virtually all of them only any good 'on their day which has been increasingly rarely.
 
He was lucky that our manager stayed in the job another 8 weeks ...
Any 2 pts over that period would've seen us stay up. Any.
 
Dyche knew his strength at Everton was the defence. Their attack is woeful. McNeil their highest goal scorer with 7 over the season, Doucoure with 5, Gray with 4 and then Gordon with 3 and he left in January!
They won 5 times under Dyche , 4 being 1-0. The blip was Brighton where they scored 15% of their seasons goals in one game! They also got last min equalisers against Spurs (with 10 men) Chelsea and Wolves.

We scored the same amount of goals as Villa who got 7th yet we went down. It’s ridiculous.

Edited to say Haaland scored more goals in 35 matches than Everton did in 38!!
 
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