24 Feb 2026 10:23:42
OK so doom and gloom is the order of the day, but its not the end of the world.
Jay Bothroyd pointed something out regarding the Liverpool winner - it shouldn't have been given because another player next to Van Dyke was offside! To bad now!
However, we have Brighton next, fingers crossed for something from that game.

Another big game coming up, Spurs away! IMO we'd suffer the same fate as the Leeds game with SD in charge, but with VP it could be very different.
Spurs to go down?

1.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 13:18:36
I don't understand why people think Dyche would not have kept us up. Who cares about the style of play when this is all at stake? Plus, it didn't look bad away at Liverpool; Brentford and Spurs did it. Suddenly, because of a couple of dodgy results and performances, and a few players moaning that he made them run too much (hello!), he's replaced by VP, who, to me, seems a totally bonkers choice.

I said this at the time, but I still don't understand why we played our first team in Turkey. No wonder we looked more tired late on against Liverpool. Anyway, hopefully we get the right results. But, without a striker of any note, we are properly in doo doo. Maybe we should have kept the guy with a better points per game than Nuno? Just a thought.

2.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 14:32:00
Good post, Agen. I don't want to go on about SD, but I can tell you that I have a mate who's a Hammers fan, and he's very pleased we got rid of Dyche. Another friend, (ok, he's a rugby man), went to see Palace when he lived in Sutton in Surrey, and he and his CP contacts are similarly relieved he's gone...

But we move on...

3.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 15:43:08
We do, but you obviously don't... Dyche was a terrible chap, you're beating a broken drum. The wins he failed to muster at home against Palace and Wolves will finish us. The bottlers didn't want to play for him, and became bottling dissenters (as outrageous as that is on their part), and that's a recipe for disaster.

I'm afraid he joins the list of failures such as Hughton and Megson.

4.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 17:00:32
Just replying to a reasonable and sensible post, Gold Stars. By the way, I thought in the circumstances a point against Palace was a bonus. As I've said before, Dyche didn't get himself sent off stupidly before half-time and give a penalty away. Nor did he contrive to miss 35 chances, mate. Just saying...

5.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 17:18:57
You cannot blame him for a draw at Palace. I don't get the point, 2GS... He had a better points per game than our other managers this season. Why get rid of him? We do need to move on, I get that, but the reality is that we are in this mess because of what appears like woeful, chaotic, regularly baffling decision making from our owner.

This season alone, there are so many missteps I cannot be bothered to type them out. I think Dyche would have kept us up, but, either way, nothing will change for any time, whatever league we are in, whilst things are done the way they are at board level. In my view.

6.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 17:26:34
Exactly Agen! Been saying that for ages, mate.

7.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 18:25:39
It was the bottlers who let the club down. If they had an issue with Dyche, then I'm sure there are proper channels they could have gone down, instead of jeopardising our position in the Premier League and letting down 27000 paying fans. The back-stabbing five are the ones who should have been held accountable.

8.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 19:00:38
Not sure why this keeps getting raked over. Slow news day! No-one will ever know for sure whether he would or not, so it doesn't really matter, does it?

9.) 24 Feb 2026
24 Feb 2026 19:15:06
No, it doesn't, and I agree with you - it's time to move on.