Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:08 am
I in no way think Dyche should go and think if he was to go it would spell the end for us in this division however you question isnt a simple one. How the hell should a supporter have any idea on who would be a good replacement.
Would anyone on here have suggested Dyche when Howe left? Would anyone have suggested Moyes as a good manager to replace Dyche two seasons ago?
Its fair to ask them how they would expect us to continue to stay in this division and even improve if we lose all the leadership qualities Dyche brings and the amazing togetherness and work ethic he instils.
In my opinion the "if you want rid of him then who youre gonna replace him with" attitude is a bit childlike and doesnt give much space for a good discussion on the subject
No I fully appreciate it's not a simple question, but a vocal minority seem to think it's simply a case of binning SD and all will be well with the world.
Hence why I posed the obvious question if SD was binned, who comes in to succeed him, and as this thread has shown there's no easy answers.
And clubs which have managerial upheavals rarely fare well, certainly in the short-term anyway, remember it took Coyle and Dyche 6 months before they started getting a decent sustained run of results.
This doesn't mean Sean Dyche and the coaching team are exempt from criticism, and rightly in my view Sean's reluctance to change formations and his lack of being pro-active with subs when it's evident the starting XI is flagging is being discussed, and given we now have genuine options for him to select from he does need to prove that he's the man who can continue to lead us under the Pace regime.
SD has an awful lot of credit in the bank, but that doesn't mean he has limitless time to turn our fortunes around, however 4 games into the new season is far too early to even be considering changing the guard.
I would fully expect Alan Pace will have at least an idea of the type of manager he'd want, if and when Sean Dyche's reign at Burnley finally comes to it's end, but I don't suspect he's anywhere close to the stage of contemplating firing our best manager in a generation, just because we've suffered a few early defeats, performances in all 4 games have been decent, and it's mainly individual errors at the back, and our lack of a killer touch in front of goal that's been the crucial difference.