Spijed wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 4:12 pm
The trouble with people saying they don't want pragmatic football should read the Rover's message board. They don't half regret the day they sacked Big Sam.
The dream is of course to win everything and play gorgeous Total Football.
This will always be beyond Burnley so I will take pragmatism any day.
The season we finished 7th was genuinely a delight to watch. Tactical and defensive masterclasses regularly. We've been some way of that for a while, the rest of the league has improved and we haven't for the most part.
I think if we go down, we have to stick with Dyche for the best part of a season in the Championship given his track record versus total unknowns/unprovens or gambles having to make a big step up. If results are grim around November time that's obviously a different scenario.
But if there's three things you can rely on with football fans it's
1- short memories
2- penchant for emotional/kneejerk reactions
3- easily satisfied by basic PR and superficial noises. See all the fluff about our current owners because they use Twitter, or how emulating Norwich "playing good football" despite being a constant yoyo club is the way to go.
I'd much rather make incremental gains slowly hanging on in the Premier League than play flashy but constantly bounce up and down. The incremental gains have stopped and reversed and that needs to change, but changing manager is meaningless if we don't see change in investment- and two continental signings don't change the reality that our net spend was negative this year, and the club's newfound debt makes playing investment almost impossible.