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That was better than every pre season game we saw from Cooper last season. Credit to Kingy and the young lads who all showed up well today.

That’s because Dyche hasn’t managed us. 🥴

All giant, ice white, box fresh trainers with minimal sole flex should be retired (like when players numbered shirts are retired) to acknowledge 10 years since the legend left the club 🥰

The concern from the now deleted posts was that the fixes they had put in to remove the fungus hasn’t fixed the problem and now they aren’t sure what they’re dealing with. The fact the groundsman has admitted they’ve already got to the fingers crossed and hoping for the best stage doesn't fill me with confidence 😬

No and I don’t see the connection. For a start he Pearson never got us relegated and for me had more than enough credit in the bank if we had been relegated. He also didn’t play Dycheball. I lay a lot of credit for the premier league win to Nigel Pearson. He bought the players, he built the squad mentality, it was all his back room staff. So no i absolutely would not say Pearson is a bad manager. I’ve also not said Dyche is a bad manager, I’ve just said his style of play doesn’t suit our youth system development and that he always gets sacked (for footballing reasons) when he’s in the Premier League.

We all know how it will end for Dyche if he got the job, it ALWAYS ends with his sacking at the top level. He doesn’t get head hunted. A manager like Rohl, hasn’t been on that sacking cycle yet, there’s still hope with an appointment like him as the future is uncertain. His time with us might end like Enzo’s where his performance resulted in him being taken by a bigger team here or abroad. I’m fine with that as it will mean he’s done a good job like Enzo did. Ultimately let’s pick a manager that plays football aligned with how our youth teams are coached, particularly when it’s clear that that’s where clubs can earn the most profit to get back to where we want them to be. I can tell you with some certainty that our youth team players aren’t developed to play Dyche ball.

Who in our squad is built for Dyche’s physical non complicated long ball tactics then? It pretty much discounts all the promising young players we have. He prefers physical centre halves and defensive fullbacks, legs in central midfield rather than craft, a big lad upfront and direct getting the crosses in from traditional wingers.

As I’ve said previously on this thread, we haven’t got the players to play Dycheball. Everton did and they still struggled.

Definitely not true at Everton last season. Look what Moyes did with the same players!

With the squad we have and specifically the type of youth players we have and the whole style of play our youth are developed in from when they first join the club, Sean Dyche is absolutely not the perfect fit. A short term solution that will end in tears as it always has in his management career.

Seagrave today…

I guess there’s no risk with Dyche. He’s absolutely guaranteed to get the sack.

It’s time to bring the ginger Prince back. #MEGGO

Seagrave has played a massive positive part in the development of the best set of youth players we’ve ever had. It’s not the problem. Driving through the saff to a dated, cramped training facility wouldn’t have changed anything. Out failures are down to poor decisions at the top since the tragic death of Vichai, our downturn was because of this and the subsequent mismanagement that has resulted in overpaying wages and reducing player sale opportunities, buying too many poor players, selecting too many poor managers or keeping failed managers on for too long and not having any progression planning when we have had periods of success. Ultimately these failures have pushed us over a PSR threshold that has crippled us. The problem is not a fabulous training facility.

Why is Seagrave being blamed? Out downturn coinciding with the tragic loss of Vichai has everything to do with the management of the club Top down, nothing to do with state of the art training facilities.

other than the development of Monga, Evans, Nelson, Alves etc etc…….Anyone keen to see quality developing youth should be lauding Seagrave and the quality of young players being developed at all age groups.

Seagrave is state of the art, it has all the facilities to maximise the fitness of a player. If fitness is an issue then that’s down to player training and conditioning and is a management issue. Not sure there’s actual any evidence that shows LCFC players are not as fit as opponents. Players can be perfectly fit but demotivated by their own circumstances, their leader and the form of the team.

There’s absolutely no reason why a state of the art training ground should create injury and mentality issues. I’d argue that our major injuries have not occurred at Seagrave and are no worse in comparison than with other clubs, it just feels like it is because it’s our club. As for mentality, that’s everything to do with the transfer policy and the manager in charge. A good transfer policy analyses what a player is like off the pitch, a good people manager minimises issues and moves on those with the wrong mentality. Thats nothing to do with Seagrave. Seagrave is a fantastic facility that is bearing fruit with players like Monga, Evans and Alves.

A well managed club would thrive with a facility like that. Even in our state we’ve started producing top quality youth through it.

Absolutely not. Why would you want to give Notts Forest a facility like that? That would make me 🤮

Being professional is the basic requirement of any person employed to do a job tbf. Dyche wasn’t very effective in his last job at Everton. Moyes utilised the same squad job to be miles better than they were under Dyche.

With no big lump up front, no hard men at the back and with a squad and youth system built around a possession game and players that absolutely don’t fit Dyche’s system, it makes absolutely NO sense to give him the job…. ……So he’ll get the job 🥴

You’ve missed Cooper AND RVN’s fave winger BDCR. If Ruud is still here, he’ll be top of that list. 😢

Whilst I’ll certainly agree that Greenwood is a distinctly underwhelming potential signing, I’d still rather have him than Patson Daka.

Cooper didn’t trust Mavididi and he didn’t trust Fatawu. His preference for BDCR was a massive red flag alongside his treatment of Ricardo. The fact that RVN carried that on AND discarded Buonanotte would suggest that both managers didn’t have the ability to manage players that had a bit of flair and perhaps challenged their manager a bit more off the pitch?