You lost that love-in, Phelan Whoa, that love-in, Phelan You lost that love-in, Phelan Now it's gone, gone, gone, woh
I've just watched MOTD. Phelan looks completely shot. Blank stare not knowing what to say or do. Sad.
Feel he just as much a victim in this cluster f""k, that said have to agree , he looks like he's out of his depth at this level.
1. Its not out of its depth. They arent being used properly. 2 We expect him to show some tactical nous. 3. We expect him to identify problems the opposition are causing us and rectify them. So at ten past 3 i posted: Clucas is getting roasted. We need to sort that." We didnt we left Sam all on his own against him all game. Even the ****tard patty posted at the same time Amrabat is a tidy player. If he'd deployed Meyler as a defensive left midfield we could have at least cut out the supply and given Sam some help. If we'd done that we may have snatched a point.
Phelan's ****, Meyler's great , click, Phelan's ****, Meyler's great, click, Phelan's ****, Meyler's great, click .........
A Sunday roast and a bottle of wine and we have come to the conclusion Bruce didn't have a Plan B and Phelan doesn't have a Plan A..
Phelan looks inept at this level! There seems to be no tactics, team instructions, formation, tactical nous, logical team selection. It all just seems half arsed, careless and thoughtless. I also don't understand the Allams letting their investment become less and less and valuable every week. Phelan is struggling to get a tune of these guys. I can't stand managers like Pulis or Warnock but right now that is the type of manager we need to see out the season. I am envious of teams smaller or the same size as us been ran in such a admirable way.
Phelan is doing a good job with the losing hand he has been dealt. No other reputable manager would touch it with a barge pole. Dyche's Burnley got an unlikely point at Old Trafford yesterday and he's a great manager, even though Man Utd had double figures shots on target and thirty shots on target. Phelan's City concede an 82nd minute fluke own goal and he's a **** manager, even though Watford had no shots on target. Fine margins and poodle-itis. The Allams to blame I'm afraid - pointless picking faults with what happens on the pitch. Like carping about about the placing of the deckchairs on the Titanic.
They also got unlikely points 3 of them against Liverpool and Everton and nearly took another unlikely point off Arsenal other than conceding in injury time. Oh and 3 comfortable points against who was it now..... Watford..
Their luck will run out at some stage. Injuries and loss of form, other clubs probing/discovering their weaknesses etc...gravity will kick in.
1. Dyche is a very good manager. Who has worked miracles in his entirety at Burnley. Don't just judge him on that point they got at Man Utd. People may not like him but Dyche is exactly the kind of manager we need at the moment. A manager who can get every last drop out of his players. At this point we would be lucky to have a manager like Dyche who can organise a team in the way he can. Burnley have done better than us over the years with much leaner funds. Your comparison to Phelan and Dyche based on their results yesterday is embarrassing. Dyche has been proving his worth for years with Burnley. He has built his reputation. Phelan is and was struggling before yesterdays game. 2. The stuff happening with the Allams is awful and makes things tricky. But this is a too much of a cop out and scapegoat. 3. I have no problem losing. It's the manner in which we are losing. That has nothing to do with the Allams. The amount of goals we have conceded, the constant team tinkering, the bewildering team selections and failure to make changes at key points - indicate to me that Phelan is out of his depth. Great caretaker and did well with the Swansea and Leicester games but I don't feel he has the long term ability to do a job at this level.
What's embarrassing is people praising Douche for a extremely fortunate 0-0 at Man Utd but rubbishing Phelan because of a fluke own goal when our opponents did not have a single shot on target.
What's embarrassing is people who don't have a clue or any perspective of the bigger picture. The fact he has been able to get Burnley promoted to the Premier League itself is an amazing achievement and he's done it twice. Both by automatic promotion. With very little funds whatsoever and has managed to develop some decent players on the way who either have or will go on to bigger clubs. When Dyche leaves Burnley, Burnley will fall apart. Who cares how fortunate he was. It is the result that matters and his side got a point. They rode their luck but nobody will care about that at the end of the season. Not to mention the results they have gotten at Everton, Watford, Liverpool. Burnley have somewhat mirrored us over the years but they have done it on much less funds and in a much more stable way. Dyche's only problem is his thin-skinned paranoia about people thinking he's a dinosaur in footballing terms.
