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That's bloody selective to give the owner and his ego a free pass. "He acted quickly with Ange, so that's okay". Also forgetting the dross the owner put us through before SSC got us promotion (despite the owner, however the club might spin it - Cooper took over after the August transfer window with the club bottom, the January transfer window he only added Keinan, then SSC managed to keep us up despite the owner just throwing players at him and expecting him to make it work)

Warburton was in charge when Maranakis took over in May 2017. Sacked in December.
Karanka - clashed with the owner. Lasted a year, gone January 2019.
O'Neill - turned a corner, lasted six months, sacked as the owner listened to players
Lamouchi - end-of-season collapse, gone October 2020, lasted 15 months
Hughton - disaster, lasted 11 months.
The owner wanted Cooper (Dane Murphy's appointment) gone for a long time before he did (miffed by the fans' love for SSC and not himself).
The only major decision the owner has got right was appointing Nuno. And even then the relationship broke down inside two years, with the owner listening to the wrong people over transfers.

Dyche hasn't just got us to midtable in the form table he's got us to midtable in the form table when we were rock bottom in the form table at the point he took over and getting worse. Without giving the rest of the division a head start and if he ever gets the chance, I believe he is good enough to get us into the top 10. That we are currently inconsistent and capable of being very poor, is just not his fault. We have recruited appallingly, we have had a lot of injuries, and we have had the unity and spirit that was the platform for our success torn out of us by backroom fallings-out and chaos. Nuno picked Zak Abbot at right back in the FA Cup semi against City. Playing him against Leeds last night when the only alternative was a player signed 3 days before who has trained once with the squad and who by all the accounts I have seen was a below average left back in the Bundesleiga who is not known for good defending is not a crazy decision. Last night was a crushing loss and a six-pointer, but we have done well enough against Porto, Ferencavros, Arsenal, City, Brentford, Palace, Liverpool, West Ham and Wolves (with a schedule which we don't have the quality or fitness of squad to cope with) to suggest we can and should still get out of this. The odds of that may be reduced if our fans remain consumed by corrosive negativity.

He is not a flashy manager, but he is a competent manager and if you look across the span of games he is not tactically inflexible or someone who is set on playing negative football. At his best, he's retrieved the Nuno counter-attack and added a bit of press. Sometimes it has worked, sometimes it hasn't but overall he has delivered progress on where we were following the damage done by the Nuno-Edu-Postecoglou farce.

He was right to sack Warburton.
Karanka falls out with everyone, it’s not unique to Maranakis.
O’Neill was fucking dreadful.
Lamouchi did well but should have been fired at the end of that season.
Hughton was a disaster but most thought was good appointment.
Cooper wasn’t treated as well as he should have been, but could easily have been fired earlier.
From reading all the accounts of the Nuno breakdown, that seemed more of a Nuno problem than Maranakis. Again someone with a track record of falling out with people.
Ange was a disaster and Dyche a panicked appointment to try and sort things. Which he isn’t doing great at.

Off field improvements have been massive under the Greek after decades of neglect.

He’s far from perfect but I’m more than happy for him to be here.

Steve Cook is sad.

Cookie was a brilliant addition.

Final piece in the jigsaw, I think.

Just to play Devil's advocate with some of this list:
Porto - needed 2 penalties
Arsenal - defensively solid, but zero shots on target
Brentford - won - after scoring first - but it was horrible and the 2nd half was an absolute mugging.
Palace - the popular narrative seems to be 'we wudda smashed em 2nd half had Neco let the header go in'. Possibly, but we were wide open all 1st half and incredibly sloppy after taking the lead. What HT adjustments would Dyche have made to turn 1-1 with eleven into a win rather than defending 1-1 with 10 into a point?
West Ham - scraped a win with a penalty after surviving a fag paper offside preventing us going 2-0 down, after which we would certainly have lost and now been 3 behind them.
Wolves - fucking horrible. Won late with about our only effort on target.

TLDR - we've won some games, we've lost some games. Who knows how much of each is down to the players or the manager. Or the signings. Or the match threads.
Rest assured I cannot wait for the Wolves match thread...

No, this lot draw you a picture of an even bigger telly and call you in for a meeting.

And Sam Surridge.

Barring Warburton and Cooper, they are all the owner's appointments, so if they don't work out, surely that's on him.

The TLDR pre-Dyche is we lost nearly every game, and didn't win any games at all, apart from Brentford on the first day.

The main thing we've done wrong this season and in preparation for this season is create a club characterised by chaos, turmoil and division. In that context it's surprising that people genuinely seem to think it would be a good plan to create more of that by sacking the guy who walked into that mess, and stabilised us by picking up wins, getting us out of the relegation zone, and getting us through the first phase of the Europa league. For me, it's as simple as that.

Such a shame that this weirdo is back. Huge paragraphs of text that I don't bother even reading now.

But he’s right

Not many people are calling for Dyche to be sacked now. Most seem to be wanting it to end in the summer

Agreed. Sadly it would appear, on this subject, East Bridgford Prince is on the money.