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2021/22 Frank Lampard

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Despite playing most of his career as an elite player at an elite club he grew up supporting West Ham.

I think he understands what fans of Clubs not currently looking like winning trophies want in terms of desire and playing style.

Hopefully he'll grow as a Manager as we grow back up to where we want to be at the top of the game.

With him if he doesn't it won't be for lack of trying.

Positive early days.
 
DanB90 said:
The Geordie crowd didn’t help us, but I noticed a visible difference in the players after 2 of our best went off injured early in the game. You could see there heads had fell off at that point.
Plus it gave the horse punchers more belief.

We were second to everything from that point on.
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Yeah, agree with all that. Bit of a perfect storm game - coupla injuries, big crowd response, them getting a goal back straight away.

Not to excuse the response from us, but you see why it happened.
 
Amw79 said:
Fair enough. Hence why I said about fans and manager pulling together and didn’t mention players.

Personally I think midweek, we experienced what Leeds did today. A loud, scary crowd, and our players couldn’t handle it. The Toon crowd were excellent midweek, and that’s tough to handle. We need that in all our home games now.
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Exactly what I thought today
 
davek said:
You can never let up on these cowards. A certain distance is required.

He looked furious in that press conference yesterday and I'd say he's had some harsh words with them.
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Yeah that’s the worry that some players will dine out on that performance for a few weeks.

That’s the level we need to reach week in week out, sometimes it might not be enough but it won’t be very often if the fans and players put that effort in.
 


NewRadical said:
Despite playing most of his career as an elite player at an elite club he grew up supporting West Ham.

I think he understands what fans of Clubs not currently looking like winning trophies want in terms of desire and playing style.

Hopefully he'll grow as a Manager as we grow back up to where we want to be at the top of the game.

With him if he doesn't it won't be for lack of trying.

Positive early days.
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Def. Buying into now. Truth is i wasnt sure about any of those being lined up as manager. Be a few games no doubt where we look exposed. But that performance today wasnt happening here a few weeks ago. A few weeks ago we'd have made leeds look world class.
Can at least see something building here.
A few weeks ago it was zero. Nothing. We were going down the sh!tter.
 
Saint Domingo said:
What I find annoying is that if you read my posts all the way back through Lampard, Benitez, Ancelotti, they’re of a similar theme

That the players are not good enough, they undermine managers, our injury record is not good enough, and our recruitment is poor. I’ve wanted continuity in all three managers (and I will with Lampard) to give someone time to sort these problems out.

So when i see posts making out that a home win has somehow sweeped away problems that Benitez ‘created’ it just reinforces this point, it’s just the cycle repeating itself. We’ll get lulled into the false sense of security, that these players are good enough, they’ll stay over the summer then when Lampard is struggling next season the same people will want a change in manager.

I’m pointing out that we won’t see real improvement unless a lot of players are moved out in the summer and we won’t know it’s stuck unless we see improvement beyond 12 months. Otherwise we’ll see the same pattern that occurred under Koeman, Allardyce, Silva, Ancelotti, and yes Benitez.

Pointing out these realities doesn’t mean I don’t want Lampard to do well or I’m trying to compare him to Benitez. I’m not. The people who wanted Benitez out denied the severity of the underlying issues at the club at the time and if they think one home win means this cycle won’t repeat as it has for the last five managers then they’re denying the severity of these issues again.

If we don’t turf the core of these players out in the summer, recruit well, and keep our best players fit next season. Then what has happened for the last five managers will just happen again.
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No one is denying that a couple of good results and everything in the garden is rosy. It certainly isn’t as we wouldn’t be in the position we are in. The squad is still unbalanced and lacks quality. But give Lampard credit, he has put positivity and hope back into the fanbase were a month ago there was none. Like every manager, he needs to build his own team with a vision has how they want to play. For instance a high pressing game led by the front players wouldn’t have Rondon near the squad let alone the team.
We are going to suffer blips along the way, but at least we can see a style of play emerging from within the side.
 

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