Ineptitude or a deliberate policy to go down

[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 ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

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?

[blueheeler1]

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 ?

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.