2021/22 Frank Lampard

[Eggs]

The players wouldn't have been as petrified as they were on the pitch, for one.

Supporters are there to support, not barrack the manager and the team he puts out.

The sense of entitlement is pathetic.

…yet you called the bloke who confronted Brands a hero because that suited your agenda, The vast majority of us who continually called for the Obnoxious One to go are pathetic because it didn’t suit your agenda. You idolised him and disliked Brands.

if the fans had not reacted like they did, your hero would still be here and we’d have likely been relegated. Poor Dave.

 

[blue61]

Head Lamps Blue Army

 

[Saint Domingo]

Let’s hope Lampard can keep it going like this. I do remember all of the below however:

Koeman’s first game, loads of comments after the match like: that’s the sort of aggression that was missing under Martinez, finally we have a coach with tactical discipline etc.

Fast forward that 18 months and it was probably the worst Everton team I’ve ever seen

Allardyce first few games: we’re hard to beat again, he’s doing the basics properly

By the end of that stretch we were shipping 5 to a rank Arsenal team and looked absolutely clueless

Silva’s first few games: finally a young progressive manager, Richarlison is the bests signing we’ve made in years, we’re pressing as a team again, we’re on the front foot dominating possession

18 months later and that same group couldn’t put a pass together.

Ancelotti is probably the biggest difference of the lot. How good did everyone feel after that Spurs game. Allan and Docuoure were the best midfielders ever after that. It was 433 and we were winning the league. A few months later it was 5311 and we were hoping for a set piece and not to concede first, we couldn’t win at home, and we threw europe away horribly.

Even after Benitez’s first few games the comments were all about how we finally had the fire power to come from behind, Doucoure has been rehabilitated in a two, we had pace and power upfront. We all know how it was by the end.

So yeah yesterday was good but sadly that doesn’t count for anything with these players. You cannot trust them to maintain performance. It was no surprise that they turned up yesterday. The only real benchmark for them is if in 12 months time they are still performing at a similar level or god forbid there’s actually been some improvement. We cannot be changing manager again in 12 months though.

As I’ve said many times. Get the points to get safe this season, then get this lot on the bonfire in the summer. If we can have a cup run as well that would be great.

 

[Zeitgeist]

What's quite mad also

Doucoure, Dele, VDB, DCL, Dobbin weren't even in the matchday squad

 

[BlueStevie35]

Ferguson, Unsworth, Ebbrell, Baines, Kelly etc might beg to differ. And will.

Baines has only been in a coaching role for 16 months, Kelly came in in the wake of Koeman getting bulleted in 2017, Ebbrell had been a scout under Moyes then returned in 2015 and Unsworth and Ferguson gained full time roles when Martinez was manager

 

[Carloblues]

Nonsense mate.

Signed Gray & Townie for £1.7 million.

Brought in Patterson/Mykolenko who hopefully are ones for the future.

Gave Anthony Gordon a regular run in the side after King Carlo binned him off.

Chased off Brands who's wasted £200 million on bang average players.

Chased off Donachie who's fitness regimes have overseen the worst injury crisis we've seen in decades.

Yes it ended badly but long term he'll have laid foundations for us to push on under someone like Lampard.

Lad he could have signed Messi and mbappe he was still awful, we won 1 game in 15 ffs how are you still defending him? Pathetic

 

[davek]

I didn’t, actually. I suggested you have a rational think about how mad your position was. He was sending us down.

You talk of “pathetic entitlement,” without realising how absurdly entitled you sound without even paying for a match ticket to make yourself a stakeholder.

It’s up to you how you embarrass yourself as an Evertonian on a message board, but the simple truth is you don’t change things with your endless ranting on here.

The lads that make their voices heard at the match change things.

lol lol lol

"Stake holder" buying a ticket.

Heaven preserve us from the nu-fan.

 

[davek]

Christ mate, people who spend all their time and money following the club up and down the country in whatever weather, who watch every game we play... But you know better, obviously.

In all the time I was doing that I hadn't realised it was my perfectly entitled right to scream blue murder at the Everton manager and Everton players.

What an oppoortunity lost.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

lol lol lol

"Stake holder" buying a ticket.

Heaven preserve us from the nu-fan.

Those nu-fans who go the game yeah. Internet folks obviously know better.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

In all the time I was doing that I hadn't realised it was my perfectly entitled right to scream blue murder at the Everton manager and Everton players.

What an oppoortunity lost.

Well at least you realised you can do it on the internet for free.

 

[blue to the bone]

Stop engaging with the wums. Will ye ever learn ffs

 

[davek]

Those nu-fans who go the game yeah. Internet folks obviously know better.

"I go the game...where's me bedsheet".

Not in my day.

 

[davek]

Well at least you realised you can do it on the internet for free.

Who did you used to post as Lobbo? ?

 

[Cow kecks]

Because our fans are narrow minded.

If Anthony Gordon becomes a star here who will be respected more King Carlo for binning him off or Big Bad Evil Benitez for giving the lad his chance / a regular run in the side?

None of them, it will be Anthony Gordon himself who gets the respect. By the way, Anchelotti blocked a move for Gordon to Germany at the start of last season.

 

[davek]

I like the idea of ex-players being around the club, but only if they've been successful, or have a track record, or have some potential, and there's no evidence of that with Ebbrell, Jeffers, Unsworth etc...on the other hand, Lee Carsley seems ok, Rooney might be ok a few years, or very good, same possibility with Arteta, so I wish we would be less about handing out jobs as charity to our ex players, and more about giving them opportunity to prove themselves before we hire them on lifelong contracts.

Lampard, Cole, Clement have been at successful clubs and know what professionalism looks like, and I hope they call out any amateurism and make improvements while they are here.
I guess the clique you're referring to in other posts is Kenwright -DBB-Unsworth-Big Dunc + the various ex players with no track record of success?

There must be something about the backroom staff you are with every day, the kitchen staff, masseuse, the physios, like if the basics are not there - punctuality, urgency, making use of the facilities, hard work etc - behind the scenes, you can't just turn it on on the pitch. Sometimes people who have been at the same place for a long time simply just stagnate or lose their drive, and it could be as simple as that - they're maybe not pushing themselves and so don't push people around them....

lot of work to do, but I hope Lampard is given space and authority to do things more than just with the First XI. Early signs are great, and it will be amazing if he's given a chance to change our club culture as well as the team. Excited and optimistic again! (I hate supporting us sometimes lol)

Spot on mate.

As for Carsley or Rooney: yes, I think they'd be up for making this club great again and not in it just to stuff money in their accounts.