23-02-2017, 17:02
My last post sounds unnecessarily cruel. I apologise, but the point I’m making is that this is far too complex a picture for alternative facts to be allowed to cloud it even further.
Sean Dyche is now the man to know but his season at Watford saw him just short of a 35% win rate and an eleventh place finish ……
Eddie Howe, by contrast, immediately saved Bournemouth from relegation from Division 2 despite a 17-point handicap. He then took them up. He left with an astonishing win rate of 50% for Burnley where, in two seasons, he achieved only 39% and finished 8th and 13th. BUT Sean Dyche, eleventh at Watford, took them up.
Eddie returned to a Bournemouth side who, under an ad hoc partnership had finished 3rd in Division One and missed out to Huddersfield before spending a season in mid table, and he took them up and then astonishingly in only their second Championship season he did it again.
Watford themselves narrowly missed out on the Premier League in 2012-13 following Dyche’s departure upon the advent of new owners under Gianfranco Zola’s management (who currently can’t win a game for a Birmingham side that were promotion contenders under Gary Rowett). After a series of very short-lived unsuccessful appointments, one season under Jokanovic was enough to get them up.
So Howe is a genius at Bournemouth and ordinary-ish in Burnley.
Dyche shows a hint of promise at Watford but is a wow at Burnley.
Bournemouth produce one excellent season without Howe in Division One and then fade.
Watford without Dyche have an excellent season under Zola.
After Watford, Zola has been quickly sacked by both Cagliari and Al-Arabi and Birmingham is looking similar.
• Eddie Howe got the Bournemouth job after 2 defeats in 2 games as caretaker.
• If all this form involved racehorses you’d conclude Rowett would be a good outsider to consider and Jokanovic might be the business.
Sean Dyche is now the man to know but his season at Watford saw him just short of a 35% win rate and an eleventh place finish ……
Eddie Howe, by contrast, immediately saved Bournemouth from relegation from Division 2 despite a 17-point handicap. He then took them up. He left with an astonishing win rate of 50% for Burnley where, in two seasons, he achieved only 39% and finished 8th and 13th. BUT Sean Dyche, eleventh at Watford, took them up.
Eddie returned to a Bournemouth side who, under an ad hoc partnership had finished 3rd in Division One and missed out to Huddersfield before spending a season in mid table, and he took them up and then astonishingly in only their second Championship season he did it again.
Watford themselves narrowly missed out on the Premier League in 2012-13 following Dyche’s departure upon the advent of new owners under Gianfranco Zola’s management (who currently can’t win a game for a Birmingham side that were promotion contenders under Gary Rowett). After a series of very short-lived unsuccessful appointments, one season under Jokanovic was enough to get them up.
So Howe is a genius at Bournemouth and ordinary-ish in Burnley.
Dyche shows a hint of promise at Watford but is a wow at Burnley.
Bournemouth produce one excellent season without Howe in Division One and then fade.
Watford without Dyche have an excellent season under Zola.
After Watford, Zola has been quickly sacked by both Cagliari and Al-Arabi and Birmingham is looking similar.
• Eddie Howe got the Bournemouth job after 2 defeats in 2 games as caretaker.
• If all this form involved racehorses you’d conclude Rowett would be a good outsider to consider and Jokanovic might be the business.