Sean Dyche’s Dream Job: How Nottingham Forest’s Chaos Became His Perfect Opportunity
I’m sure Sean Dyche is shocked by his good fortune. There isn’t a more ideal backdrop for Dyche to create an anti-woke masterpiece than a modest but incredibly competent Forest team.
If Dyche were to enter a club and unleash his Brexitball, there would be two perfect situations.
A club that is fully conscious of its limitations, or one that pays the ultimate price for being completely ignorant of them.
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In a year when so many major teams were simply terrible, Nottingham Forest and their main character owner fooled themselves into thinking they had risen straight to the top with a single excellent season of playing precisely defined and well-trained counterattacking football.
In the event that the intense heat of the Barclays sun proved too great for their newly attached wings, they would have no serious repercussions and could now dare to dream large.
As they now know, it was not at all the case. The truth is, it was not good. You should only hire Ange Postecoglou because, given his recent Premier League record of losing games almost every time, relegation is not a possibility if you have deluded yourself.
The best illustration of the second type of Dyche club that we can think of is Forest. It is a very respectable appointment as a result.
The Forest that Dyche enters is more pliable than the one Nuno left only a few weeks before because it is smaller, calmer, and chastened. more receptive to the necessary actions.
What’s going to happen. Brexitball will be gruel-and-gravel, but you will love it. Or at least acknowledge and value its importance.
It should also work out wonderfully, which is even better for Dyche. It’s bollocks for Forest in the round.
Nuno is a superior manager over Dyche. He employs even less nuanced tactics. He is a step down from Forest’s manager at the beginning of the season, yet they are both from the same school.
A far better fit for the team profile he will inherit, as a result. Because, in all honesty, it is a really good squad that doesn’t need to be involved in any of the conflicts it is dealing with. With Ange, they were in a worse situation than they are now.
Although Dyche’s low-block-and-counter strategy may not be as successful this season as it was for Nuno last, it should be sufficient to swiftly pull Forest out of their self-inflicted Angeball-delusion relegation battle.
Dyche will restore Forest’s efficiency and organisation. He will give priority to their strengths, which we already know perfectly correspond with his desired skill set for his teams.
It worked repeatedly throughout the previous season, and it will continue to do so this time.
At the City Ground, we are very sure that Chris Wood goals in pass-boiling, xG-mocking draws and victories will soon return to normal.
Once again, Forest will not be the easiest or softest team to play against, but rather one of the hardest. And, we suspect, quite rapidly.
Even though this team has taken its medication and ought to profit, Dyche is the obvious victor in this match. The grin on his disc-bearded face will not go away.
He has all the things he could ever desire. A group of excellent players who are well-suited to playing his particular style of football at a very high level, but at a club where there won’t be any hastily expressed yearning for anything more after a few years of profound humility.
The scent of their own farts made this club feel euphoric, and now they’re choking. Clear, filtered air is not necessary for them to breathe. All they require is an alternative to their own farts.
A wonderful thing for all of us is that he gets to try his hand at Europe as well. Dyche will be in charge of Nottingham Forest when they play Porto in the Europa League on Thursday.
It’s a line that, twelve months ago, would have sounded completely ridiculous in every possible way. You can’t avoid Dyche, and football is fantastic.
