2021/22 Frank Lampard

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I see the Iguana has his Mojo back and is on a mission once more. Almost as exciting as our relegation battle.

I've got nowt new to say about Lampard, but I'm admiring the back and forth.

 

[windymiller]

Who wants Lampard out? Anyone suggesting a managerial change this summer is ridiculous.

Look through this thread, there's plenty. I agree that it's mental, but there you go.

 

[windymiller]

Coolest woman who ever walked this earth.

 

[Death]

Beating Chelsea and United doesn't cut it. Chances created and possession is diabolical against them two. Not what I want in a relegation battle. Need to add more flare in our relegation battle otherwise what's the point? ?

 

[Thomasc]

I think someone could have done better. I think someone could do better.

Again I think this summer is a fresh start, Lampard or not, so wouldn't you employ the best manager you can find? Why are we chained to Frank?

So we were not getting results as we were playing too open and he was expecting this group of players to do things they are not capable of.

So he changes things around, locks it down and we become harder to score against and have given ourselves a chance of survival, but you want him out.

Looks like whatever he does wouldn’t meet your approval.

He’s also got more out of Iwobi who you rate, Mykolenko has started to look the part and others are starting to show a bit more solidity.

 

[Clarky cat]

My concern is that we seem to be better against teams who want to dominate the ball and we can sit in and fight. I think getting VDB fit could be key for the upcoming games where we need to unlock defences doing to us what we’ve done to other teams effectively in recent weeks.

Can’t be having loan players in the team/ squad who will want to protect themselves for when they go back to their old club/ new manager in a relegation scrap. we need players who will put their bodies on the line and work their socks off. Van de Beek hasnt done anything to warrant being in the starting 11 regardless and he has nowhere near the positional sense of Delph or Allan and doesn’t have the stamina/legs of Iwobi or Doucoure.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Anyone calling out Frank for how this squad plays is mad. No manager for 18 months has got them playing with anything like as much effort. Skill, that another thing, you cannot pep-talk skill, you can however pep-talk desire and that is what hehas done in spades. We will have to wait and see if he has the ability to get our team, with new players, playing with flare and desire combined.

 

[andy5000]

I dont know about anyone else, but the last month with FSW in charge was the most disconnected I've ever felt from this club. Frank has come in, changed the attitudes of the players, got the majority of the fans back onside, and looks like he may well save us from the drop. There's no doubt in my mind that if we stuck with Benitez we would be relegated already. Frank is absolutely the man to take us forward, posters suggesting otherwise have lost the plot.

 

[Walken]

Are the cardinals kicking off because we didn't dominate possession against the european champions IN A GAME WE WON

 

[MrGrumpy]

Got to say I’m baffled, we got no money and really struggling but finally hitting a bit of form and people want us to sack yet another manager and back room staff and what.. Get Bill, Moshiri, DBB and the DOF to do a xfactor type search for a manager

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Got to say I’m baffled, we got no money and really struggling but finally hitting a bit of form and people want us to sack yet another manager and back room staff and what.. Get Bill, Moshiri, DBB and the DOF to do a xfactor type search for a manager

It isn’t people, it’s a person who’s either on the wind up or utterly clueless about the situation we’ve been in this season.

 

[BlueToff]

Tbf I still think things would have been altogether different and we'd have played some really good stuff had we got that penalty, which was deserved, against Southampton

We take the lead in that game and I think we go on and score more because we absolutely hammered them for 20 minutes. Just needed that breakthrough. But what can you do.

Now we just need 9 points.

FWIW, the way we played against Chelsea is exactly how I'm fine with a more 'defensive' approach looking because we still created plenty of chances. The press was there, it wasn't that God awful set up under Benitez where there was no pressure on the ball so it was just a shape that was easy to play around, and it wasn't the reckless pressure we saw early on in some games under Lampard (but actually only Spurs away was where that really cost us).

 

[Death]

Are the cardinals kicking off because we didn't dominate possession against the european champions IN A GAME WE WON

They are indeed.

We may survive for another season but we ought to be ashamed of ourselves on how we went about it.

 

[NathDogg]

They are indeed.

We may survive for another season but we ought to be ashamed of ourselves on how we went about it.

From what I remember you were quite close to Benitez’s colon weren’t you….

 

[bcblue1878]

So we were not getting results as we were playing too open and he was expecting this group of players to do things they are not capable of.

So he changes things around, locks it down and we become harder to score against and have given ourselves a chance of survival, but you want him out.

Looks like whatever he does wouldn’t meet your approval.

He’s also got more out of Iwobi who you rate, Mykolenko has started to look the part and others are starting to show a bit more solidity.

Anyone calling out Frank for how this squad plays is mad. No manager for 18 months has got them playing with anything like as much effort. Skill, that another thing, you cannot pep-talk skill, you can however pep-talk desire and that is what hehas done in spades. We will have to wait and see if he has the ability to get our team, with new players, playing with flare and desire combined.

Got to say I’m baffled, we got no money and really struggling but finally hitting a bit of form and people want us to sack yet another manager and back room staff and what.. Get Bill, Moshiri, DBB and the DOF to do a xfactor type search for a manager

It was a bizarre hour or two even for the poster in question!
Started off by stating we are not creating chances - when clearly we are, just sadly missing too many of them at the moment!
The Klopp comparison was beyond belief, bringing up Klopp’s teams at Mainz, Dortmund and now across the park! He was at Mainz for more than five years, likewise Dortmund and now similiar at the pit! But Lampard needs to be looked at because he’s been in the job for four months and hasn’t got us playing and creating chances like them - utterly bizarre!
Then to top it all he threw in a comparison with Allardyce ???!