Ineptitude or a deliberate policy to go down

All posts of despair-- which are now accelerating--express incredulity at management's tactical ineptitude.

It is quite hard to imagine that SD is incapable of making tactical decisions of the type that are so well stated on this Board.

If non-professionals can see what needs to be done how come someone who has been a professional footballer and manager and who is being paid can not?

You either have to accept that SD is now caught in the headlights and is frozen into not making a rationale tactical decision or is it something else?

Are we resigned to losing Prem status from the Board all the way down to Management?

If not, why is SD still with us?

Both from his perspective and ours?

You have to make changes when things are going so horribly wrong.

9 goals leaked in two games without making tactical changes is unfathomable.

Wood for Vokes being SD's first substitution? WTF?

We are spiraling down without a care in the world.

This has to be deliberate because nothing else makes any sense at all.

I came off the Turf yesterday and I was genuinely shell shocked. The tactics make no sense at all, we were being overrun in midfield, Hendrick totally inept, Vokes must have won thirty headers and Hendrick was nowhere near him.

Defour and Brady both looked like they wanted to be back on the treatment table and who could possibly blame them?

Men and boys Bt again,
Let’s be honest we didn’t expect to win, what I did expect was commitment.
Personally I thought Defour did well in a midfield that couldn’t compete, I’ve said this before many times we physically are not big enough, add that to the fact that most of the time we are a man down in there you can see why we are losing.
Our problems are not defensively, it’s what’s in front of them imo.

It's nowhere near good enough is it army? I thought we gave it a go until Hendrick cocked it up, then it was going downhill fast!

We need to shuffle the pack:
I suggest - 4-2-3-1 and let's start drawing, instead of getting hammered!
Hart,
Lowton, Long, Mee, Taylor,
Tarkowski, Cork,
Gudmundsson, Defour, Brady,
Vokes.

Let Tarkowski, Gudmundsson, Defour and Brady play football, they are good enough for God's sake!

I'm trying to be rational and reasonable about the situation, but I'm ending up more concerned than ever. I'm taking it as a given that Dyche and his coaching team are not stupid, they know football, and they know what they're doing. They have all week on the training pitch to try out various tactical formations and team selections. Having tried out the various possibilities they come up with what's worked best during their many hours down Gawthorpe, and go with those players, tactics and formations in the next game.

Those players, tactics and formations are the best our coaches can come up with after many hours on the training pitch, but in a match situation it's nowhere near good enough, nowhere near. But every other option they thought of and tried during the week must have been worse. So where does that leave us ?

Stubborn and rigid, no flexibility, no Plan B, no interest in changing formations during a game, one for one substitutions and always like for like. Sound familiar?

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Originally Posted by sinkov

I'm trying to be rational and reasonable about the situation, but I'm ending up more concerned than ever. I'm taking it as a given that Dyche and his coaching team are not stupid, they know football, and they know what they're doing. They have all week on the training pitch to try out various tactical formations and team selections. Having tried out the various possibilities they come up with what's worked best during their many hours down Gawthorpe, and go with those players, tactics and formations in the next game.

Those players, tactics and formations are the best our coaches can come up with after many hours on the training pitch, but in a match situation it's nowhere near good enough, nowhere near. But every other option they thought of and tried during the week must have been worse. So where does that leave us ?

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My concern is that our only focus is to set out our stall in a manner that has worked well in the past and to sit with that no matter what.

I can not accept that we have tried different tactics and different formations at training.

If we have been adventurous and failed it says as much about the coaching team and its methodology as it does the players.

I'm certain we could go down with others taking the helm but at least trying something different.

Going down without trying any of the development squad or any other tactics is just plain inept and denying the truth.

We are very, very poor right now and looking demoralized.

And that's a management issue fair and square.

The bottom line is the fans deserve better than this.

Losing has never been the issue.

But at the very least lets have a go for more than the first 10 mins.