Nobody wants to be in this situation, the results this season have been absolutely abysmal and Dyche has undoubtedly made lots of mistakes and misjudgments but I don't think you can just write off the situation and the completely unprecedented position that both the points deductions and limbo of a takeover has EVERYBODY at the club in (including the fans). I think it's virtually impossible to fairly judge ANYBODY given the basket case of a club we have, probably least of all a manager who has been given a water pistol to put out a house fire...and has found that it's actually got petrol in it!
The extremely short term aim is to literally just to stay up. If we can do that, then it's (extremely relatively!) a "success" (which is a hideous thing to say at a grand old team like ours, but that is honestly the situation I think that we're in - 30 years of Kenwright's chickens are coming home to roost and it was always going to be horrific)
I won't argue with anyone that says that the performances have been absolutely hideous and (at any other club and at any other time would be) completely unacceptable. But we're not any other club we're the basket case that is Everton in an absolutely unprecedented basket case of a season, and sadly - for now - we're stuck with what we've got and what we've just got to get on with it.
At the moment I can only focus on getting to the end of the season as a PL team, but I do fear that things could (somehow!) get even worse before they get better - and (in my opinion) Sean Dyche is along way down the list of problems we have.
One of the main reasons the club is in the mess that it is in is because there has been no strategy or effective plan for years. Decades even.
Successively appointing, supporting and then sacking manager after manager is what has left the squad with no cohesion, no balance and no depth.
Leaving aside the fact that there is no-one to sack him or that we can’t afford to sack him or that there is no one immediately available with the experience and ability to replace him, sacking Dyche would repeat of the mistakes of the past.
I too was there on Monday. I saw the shambles and agree that the current form is woefully unacceptable. But one must remember that he literally has had any decent player in the squad sold without replacement window after window and if one ignores the points deductions the points total would suggest that in the circumstances he has actually done a reasonable job.
Dyche has been forced to work with the remnants of the acquisitions of his predecessors that no one wanted to buy and then to replace the likes of Gordon and Richarlison with loanees from the Championship or unknowns from elsewhere of nowhere near the required quality.
Now of all times is the time for unity. We are where we are and have six games left. Let’s get through these games, giving support to the team and the manager. Big changes (be they positive or negative) will shortly be upon us, and ultimately we, the supporters are the only ones that care.
1 win in 15?
In any other circumstances, at any other club, including ours, he would be gone by now.
The only reason he’s not is because we have no-one to pull the trigger.
I really wanted to give him time but I was there the other night and I’ve had enough of him.
…..and loved having him as manager, but it was a classic Moshiri delusion and partly ruined by the pandemic anyway.
Silva was obviously not given the time he probably deserved/needed. Showing himself to be a decent coach now.
Dyche is the right kind of guy for the mess we are in as a result of Moshiri’s delusions. And he is NOT Big Sam!
I suspect if Moshiri had let Brands run the show we’d not be where we are now.
Silva is a better manager than Carlo Ancelotti…FFS
How many European Cups?
I’m off to bed.
Disclaimer (sadly necessary it seems!) - my posts here on The People's Forum are my own thoughts and opinions as a fan, not those of the Fan Advisory Board. Thanks.
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