"So What Do We Do Now"
Now is too late Lancaster, it should have been done at least a couple of years ago, and now its going to be that much harder and cost more with more positions that need replacing.
I have read on other Forums the old and lame excuses which do nothing to address the problems, "We'll be O.K. when Wood returns", "Just a bad day at the office" What another one ! "We could not compete against a Billion £ team" and sorry Alf "Just a hiccup lads don't worry Sean will sort it like he did last season", I have even waited for another link shoved down my throat about an article in a paper of how BFC are doing it "The Right Way" with fans abroad coming over to view us
I have said for a while now that hard work, determination and graft goes a long way, especially if you are short of talent, but eventually the luck runs out, and teams will suss you out sooner or later, and it becomes repetitive and dull to watch.
There has been something a miss at Turf Moor for a long time now, with the monies kept in the dry powder room plus the wasteful money spent on certain players who cannot get into the first 11, add this to Sean Dyche, he's done well to get us where we are with what he's got, but he's too rigid with his tactics and seemingly still has no plan B and is inept with his substitutes, example being against Sheff Utd, all 3 goals came down our right hand side yet he takes our left back off instead of Lowton, he withdraws McNeil for lack lustre Brady on 59 minutes and waits till 78 minutes to take the poor JayRod off for Vydra.
The farce that was D4, if we didn't realise he was surplus to requirements before we sold him we are really up against it, the twitchy leg buy of Drinkwater who hadn't played for over 2 years again seems odd, after lessons previously NOT BEING LEARNED.
So a colossal waste of money on Hart, Wells, Lennon, Vydra, Wells, Gibson, Pieters, Walters, 15 million on a 4th choice central defender, 13 Million wasted on a 5th choice striker, another 5 Million on a Wells who cannot command anything better than being loaned out, the words coming out of BFC is that we cannot compete, NO Wonder with all the bloody wastage.
I still cannot get my head around us letting Heaton go, especially to a competitor for so little money.
So of the players we have left I struggle to name more than a handful who are adequate in the PL.
One is surely McNeil, but he's still young and learning his trade, and he is the only "bit" of flair we have, apart from him we are empty of any creativity, and it worries me that he'll burn out before reaching heights he could achieve.
The Football we are churning up is abysmal, it has been for a while, we have a good game or 3, but mostly have more off days than is natural for a "Work in Progress" (Another spin of words from BFC) team who are trying to hold their own in the PL.
I said a couple of games ago that we are losing the ball by just hoofing it, and by not being able to do simple 10 yard passes, and guess what, on Saturday I learned (even though I don't like stats) that we are at the top of the list in the PL for playing hoof ball, and we also have a medal for being the worst in the PL at passing the ball.
Sinkov got browned off with our displays a few seasons ago and stopped being a season ticket holder, Norder used to be a regular on the games thread, but he also seems to have had enough of the dire performances we are serving up, I also would beg steal or borrow to view a Burnley game, but recently after missing a couple of games around the Sunderland defeat it bothered me, but not as much as it used to as I don't call it Football for one second, and if it continues there will be more joining Sinkov and Norder doing better things in their lives than watching dull displays.