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I thought he was bloody great today, best performance of the season from him!

Seems to have improved a fair bit since Moyes came in, much more like the Tarks of old!

Going to have to prove himself for the rest of the season because at the moment seems like he can only play Dycheball.

He’s a mutt of a footballer. Get rid and try and get a fee for him.

Disgrace that he is captain.

Even when he has good games he seems to make these mistakes. He's a decent centre half but his decision making at times is shocking. He's not the quickest either, i'd be more than happy to move him on in the summer.

Looked to me that they had a plan to shut off the pass from Pickford to Branthwaite, and left Tark intentionally open to receive the ball and then they pressed him like mad.

Looked like it worked.

Still don't understand that 2nd goal.

What's, he looking at, who's he seeing?

Madness.

He looked properly lost out there today, not sure what was going on with him but played like he'd banged his head in the changing rooms and had a severe concussion!

He's better than that, he might not be blessed as a player but fuck me there's no excuse for that level of performance.

So unacceptable i'd be tempted to drop him for Keane were it not the derby next up!

He's had a bit of an up and down season, today was a low point but he's had enough better games in his time here he gets some slack. Obviously long term given his age we'll be looking at options I imagine anyhow.

Perhaps we just tweak the tactics for now as having him be the guy to pass out from the back when Pickford is already generally good at it seems...pointless? We created our own problems there. So that's a bit on Moyes too if he keeps asking him to do it.

We know what his skillset is, asking him to do something he's not good at and it going wrong is arguably more on the management.

A bit of a knee jerk here.

Bluedylan1 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2025 5:53 pm Looked to me that they had a plan to shut off the pass from Pickford to Branthwaite, and left Tark intentionally open to receive the ball and then they pressed him like mad.

Looked like it worked.

I wouldn’t even say they pressed him like mad.

It felt more like they gave him time but took away all of his comfortable options and waited for him to walk or play himself into trouble.

I know he’s mostly a solid player.

Nobody’s perfect but there’s something especially infuriating to me when senior players lose their heads.

Then again, he’s played many years of his senior career under Dyche so I suppose you can’t fault him too much for not knowing what do when he has time on the ball and the only target for a hoof is Beto.

Ahhh he's alright

Had a bad day, will take it if it's the anomaly with normal service resumed for the derby.