Everton are a side revitalised this season, with newfound hope that a brighter future might be just around the corner.
And whilst it is unlikely to be radical overnight change, Sean Dyche cannot be faulted for his work in recapturing that positivity that has been absent around Goodison Park for so long.
We are not privy to the bulk of his methods, but their effectiveness is already evident in their run of form to end the season.
They are 14 points clear of the bottom three, despite having been dealt an eight-point deduction.
Now, two of his players have revealed one ritual he has employed with great success.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin reveals Sean Dyche’s punishment wheel
Speaking to Stadium Astro, both Dominic Calvert-Lewin and James Garner were quizzed about the current squad.
Before they would play a game of Teammates, the two would actually offer some key insight into the methods used by Sean Dyche to keep things fun and lighthearted whilst retaining control.
One such method has been mentioned in passing, but the former of these two Everton stars would provide a more in-depth description of what the interviewer described as the ‘Wheel of Fortune’.
Calvert-Lewin noted: ‘Yeah it was something that was new to me when the gaffer came in, he’d done it before. It was just a way of bringing the team together but also keeping the house in order.
‘If you’re late or you step out of line you get a spin, there’s numerous different punishments. Some of them are financial and others are doing… other stuff.’
Garner would expand: ‘It gets brought out the day before the game. If no one has stepped out of line or no one’s been late then he spins it anyway. He spins it for two people, so you could be good the whole week and you still manage to end up spinning.
‘The spins are singing or dancing, a little bit of money to charity.’
Dominic Calvert-Lewin has stepped it up when Everton needed
Calvert-Lewin remains an affable figure in every interview he conducts, and it is so refreshing to see a great role model for the club return to form on the pitch.
Having struggled throughout the campaign, even being outlined as the division’s most profligate player for a spell, his recent run has seen him score four and assist another in his last six Premier League games, having only scored three and assisted once in his last 25 previously.
In the crucial moment, when points were needed to guide them to safety, the 27-year-old has emerged from the mire to announce himself as a hero once again.
But even when he has not been scoring, his performances never waiver, as an industrious and hard-working striker who gives his all and competes for every header.
So, adding goals into the mix effectively makes him the perfect striker for Dyche’s system.
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