2021/22 Frank Lampard

[Drico]

It’s all ifs buts and maybes if my auntie had you know what

Yes he stated quite poorly away, but the last 2 when he’s basically had one midfielder to chose from weve gone to a team
In the mix for champions league and arguably been the better team. But a mistake,
Some bad luck and crazy challenge ended our hopes in 5 minutes.

And last night we should have won,
Will a new manager cut out them mistakes? . The players are crap and been rocked of confidence. I really don’t see anyone making a difference. Interesting who you’d actually try and get.

Getting another Manager now, we may as well change our name to Watford

Watford? A side who, quite frankly, no pun intended, are as likely to stay up as we are? A club with a better manager than us? We're in no position to condescend to them.

You can blame players for making repeated mistakes - but who's picking them? Any idiot knows you cannot rely on the Holgates, Iwobis, and Godfreys. You might be forced to play one of them - or two at a stretch - but Frank plays all of them and adds in the likes of Kenny and Keane at a regular rate.

He can't organise a defence - and his strikers can't score. He has no midfield to speak of. He signed a Care in the Community case in Ali and the invisible man from Man United. These were his marquee signings. I see no improvement under Frank. And zero hope.

ANYBODY but Lampard improves our chances, remote as they are.

 

[Colonel Getafe]

If I had the chance, I would print off the Dyche diatribe and stick it on the locker of every player. Team talk done.
If that didn't galvanise them and truly anger them and shame them, then I don't know what would.

Probably a good idea to be fair. Dyche wasn't at all wrong it what he said: our away form is the worst of anyone. That being said, I highly doubt any of the players would be that ar$ed by it; not 3/4s of the way through the season, not when the outcome has always been the same.

 

[Drico]

The only way they’ll be finished is if Lampard is allowed to clear them out in the summer, if Lampard goes then there’s zero chance any of them go save for Richarlison, DCL and Pickford as they’re the only ones with any value

We won't be able to afford to keep any of them as we plummet through the divisions. These players are finished. We now need somebody to coax three or four performances out of them instead of telling them to find their balls in public - a few short weeks after exhorting them to "enjoy the football". A PR man.

 

[Joey66]

I blame the people turning on Ancelotti still.

That guy was tapped up for his present job he holds now last December......hence we never made Europe.....

 

[Littlesue]

Would be the total wrong move to sack him. Achieves nothing.

This. With 9 matches to go think players would totally loose it as its obvious a lot like him and unless someone lined up a few more matches would pass before a new one came in, way too late to make any significance

 

[BlueStevie35]

We won't be able to afford to keep any of them as we plummet through the divisions. These players are finished. We now need somebody to coax three or four performances out of them instead of telling them to find their balls in public - a few short weeks after exhorting them to "enjoy the football". A PR man.

He rightfully called them out on character because no one else had the balls to, and they’ve proved him right

They won’t be finished if the manager goes before them, the worst of them will be given a stay of execution

 

[Fansince1988]

Stick with Frank and we are doomed, anyone else agree? Change may not work but at least it would give us some hope

 

[PhilM]

Our biggest problem is creating chances. Digne does/did that. If nothing changed with the current team but Digne was still here I think we're "comfortably" safe.

While Digne wasn't perfect and had been below par, he is defensively better than Mykolenko, with far more experience; offensively, he offers a lot more too.

I'm not going to say we're comfortably safe due to him alone, but I do suspect we'd likely be in a more comfortable position,

I'm sure some would probably feel it, to some small degree, but overall, no most of them wouldn't be that bothered - certainly not for more than a few days; and would they be. We can talk about 'professional pride' but in reality they're not hardcore blues, we're just their current employer in a job they work at.

The simple reality is, if we get relegated a few of the lads will be transferring to other Prem teams, meaning a few more millions in their pockets and others may go to lesser teams, but still for good salary. They'll move on, just like any person leaving one job to go to another, because that's all it is to them.

I appreciate your point, however you can have professional pride and not be a fan or too emotionally connected - they're not mutually exclusive.

Back to the Saturday league analogy - it was a team I played for to stay fit and a bit of fun. Yet, the humiliation of going down was very uncomfortable.

Away from sport, if I do a bad job in my line of work, I feel it; it's pride of achieving; it's the mentality of doing the best we can.

It may merely be their job, but they've done a rubbish job at it.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Stick with Frank and we are doomed, anyone else agree? Change may not work but at least it would give us some hope

Sack him and we’ve basically given up because this shower of clowns will win again

 

[Fansince1988]

This. With 9 matches to go think players would totally loose it as its obvious a lot like him and unless someone lined up a few more matches would pass before a new one came in, way too late to make any significance

Well I reckon it’s nailed on we go down if we stick with him, I just can’t see the mess improving. New manager would give me a slight bit of hope.

 

[Del-boy]

I’m all for Lampard staying even if we go down. However he hasn’t helped himself with selections the last few games. Continually playing JJK even at left back is criminal.

 

[Fansince1988]

Sack him and we’ve basically given up because this shower of clowns will win again

Well they are taking us down anyway, so not a lot to lose.

 

[Fansince1988]

I’m all for Lampard staying even if we go down. However he hasn’t helped himself with selections the last few games. Continually playing JJK even at left back is criminal.

He hasn’t had much choice though, Holgate has been playing in midfield that’s how thread bare we are.

 

[Drico]

He rightfully called them out on character because no one else had the balls to, and they’ve proved him right

They won’t be finished if the manager goes before them, the worst of them will be given a stay of execution

Call them out in private - not public. Private is where you get the real work done. Public is for PR.

That's what Frank was doing: pretending he was managing with an iron fist. Alex Ferguson defended the indefensible in public, but hairdryered the lot of them in private. Sean Dyche had a go at our players in public last night. Frank can't take umbrage. He did the same.

 

[Drico]

Sack him and we’ve basically given up because this shower of clowns will win again

On the contrary. Keeping Frank - and ludicrously talking of giving him next season as well if we go down - is giving up. Because under Frank there is no hope. The only hope now is to wield the axe.