Tactics and Excuses

[ClaretinBudapest]

Just more tedious moaning, whingeing and nit-picking. This has been building over the last half dozen barren transfer windows, we are where we are because of a lack of investment in the squad over a long period of time. If anyone thinks there is any other reason we are in the bottom three, like we have an incompetent manager for instance, then they must have spent the last three years with a paper bag over their head. This situation has been predicted by numerous posters on this msgboard, it was always going to happen, we could see it coming a mile off, and it's got sfa to do with team selection or tactics. Why is anyone surprised ?

I am not surprised Sinkov.The writing was on the wall last season.However the mantra of "I am very pleased with the performances and we just have to take care of the finer details" is starting to wear thin.I have not seen any performances that were pleasing.Huffing and puffing with lots of hoof and hope in between was what I witnessed.

[sinkov]

I am not surprised Sinkov.The writing was on the wall last season.However the mantra of "I am very pleased with the performances and we just have to take care of the finer details" is starting to wear thin.I have not seen any performances that were pleasing.Huffing and puffing with lots of hoof and hope in between was what I witnessed.

And what you have witnessed is no more than I was expecting CiB, given that the owners have refused to finance any investment in the playing squad for the last half dozen transfer windows. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, we can all see things we would do differently during the course of a game if we were manager, I am, like everyone else, bemused by Sean's reluctance to use Vydra more for instance, I just disagree that any of the stuff that he gets criticised for on here makes a blind bit of difference.

I'm fed up with us losing, I'm fed up with us having another relegation battle to endure this season, I'm also fed up with the moaning on here about Dyche, but that's something I can live with, people have the right to moan about Dyche if they so wish, as I have the right to moan about the moaners. And I moan about them because I think they are barking up the wrong tree, we are not in the bottom three because Dyche gets his team selections, tactics and substitutions wrong, although he no doubt does get some of that wrong, we're bottom three because we have neglected to strengthen the squad over a long period of time, not because our manager is incompetent.

[Swissclaret]

And what you have witnessed is no more than I was expecting CiB, given that the owners have refused to finance any investment in the playing squad for the last half dozen transfer windows. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, we can all see things we would do differently during the course of a game if we were manager, I am, like everyone else, bemused by Sean's reluctance to use Vydra more for instance, I just disagree that any of the stuff that he gets criticised for on here makes a blind bit of difference.

I'm fed up with us losing, I'm fed up with us having another relegation battle to endure this season, I'm also fed up with the moaning on here about Dyche, but that's something I can live with, people have the right to moan about Dyche if they so wish, as I have the right to moan about the moaners. And I moan about them because I think they are barking up the wrong tree, we are not in the bottom three because Dyche gets his team selections, tactics and substitutions wrong, although he no doubt does get some of that wrong, we're bottom three because we have neglected to strengthen the squad over a long period of time, not because our manager is incompetent.

No one can deny the brilliant transformation that SD has brought about since he arrived. He will certainly go down in the annals of BFC as one of the best. Deservedly so. Everyone is painfully aware of how his hands have been tied by the lack of financial support that he has been given year on year.

It would be wrong and unfair to suggest that he is incompetent.

As you acknowledge, some of his team selections and tactics are difficult to understand. How on earth he can keep picking Barnes and leaving Vydra on the bench escapes me. He brought Vydra and Cornet on against The Arse and we immediately looked a real threat and troubled their defence.

Surely he must have seen that and have taken note! If he starts with Wood and Barnes against Leicester, I will call it a day, I think.

[sinkov]

No one can deny the brilliant transformation that SD has brought about since he arrived. He will certainly go down in the annals of BFC as one of the best. Deservedly so. Everyone is painfully aware of how his hands have been tied by the lack of financial support that he has been given year on year.

It would be wrong and unfair to suggest that he is incompetent.

As you acknowledge, some of his team selections and tactics are difficult to understand. How on earth he can keep picking Barnes and leaving Vydra on the bench escapes me. He brought Vydra and Cornet on against The Arse and we immediately looked a real threat and troubled their defence.

Surely he must have seen that and have taken note! If he starts with Wood and Barnes against Leicester, I will call it a day, I think.

Please excuse my little rant Swiss, I was depressed after another close season with not much recruiting done, I was depressed after another start to the season with no wins, and I find it depressing then to read the constant criticism of Dyche on here after every game, but that's fair enough, everyone has their own opinion and is entitled to speak it, indeed that's what this forum is for, so I can live with it, even if I don't agree with some of it.

Then this thread fires up with yet more moaning about Dyche, this time imported from somewhere else, like I said, criticism from fellow posters on here is fair enough, but seeing it imported from elsewhere as well set me off on one.

Sorry.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Please excuse my little rant Swiss, I was depressed after another close season with not much recruiting done, I was depressed after another start to the season with no wins, and I find it depressing then to read the constant criticism of Dyche on here after every game, but that's fair enough, everyone has their own opinion and is entitled to speak it, indeed that's what this forum is for, so I can live with it, even if I don't agree with some of it.

Then this thread fires up with yet more moaning about Dyche, this time imported from somewhere else, like I said, criticism from fellow posters on here is fair enough, but seeing it imported from elsewhere as well set me off on one.

Sorry.

I can't help but believe SD will pull off another one of his miracles, there are three teams worse than us.

Moan away mon ami, I love it when you get cross!

[sinkov]

I can't help but believe SD will pull off another one of his miracles, there are three teams worse than us.

Moan away mon ami, I love it when you get cross!

I've got money on us to go down again BT, but I'm not convinced I'll collect, as you say there may well be three teams worse than us again, and despite only one point so far we've been in those games, we could, indeed should have had more. We're competitive, we're not getting blown away, 17th is well within our capabilities again.