2021/22 Frank Lampard

[rochdaleblue]

In a reset scenario and hoping but not yet assuming we are safe, it will be interesting to see how his relationship with the fans continues to develop. He has quite some leverage there, and still more if he guides us over the line.

I don't expect any manager to be overtly critical of their employer but he of course will know the shambolic nature in which the club has been run.

I hope some lessons are learned but he needs to assert that football people run the football side if there are signs that still isn't going to be the case. No signings he doesn't want should be imposed on him whilst recognizing limitations on players that are going to be out of reach.

I think and hope he will own the teams performances and results. Hope he is savvy enough to be able to apply subtle pressure without passing the buck. It's down to him. With Koeman in particular it was always someone else's fault. Benitez was just starting to get going with that narrative.

I sense that Lampard very clearly actually gives one about the club. Can he now add to the bond with the fans and the enthusiasm and attempt to refashion the club with Thelwell in a methodical and strategic way?

Great post.

 

[tommye]

Death by Bong.

Where do I sign up for this?

 

[DanB90]

Should read the comments to Lineker's tweet yesterday...apparently the wins were all because of PL corruption due to them wanting us to stay in the league. I died. Crap club one second, too big to go down the next...Twit'teh

Just had a mooch at that then. Some proper tinfoil hat stuff going on there to rival even the most paranoid GOT’ers.

A couple of them actually appear to think that Lineker himself somehow had a hand in our win.

 

[matty1878]

No we are goin down. We won't get 43 points unfortunately

but enough to stay up?

 

[DanB90]

Ahh yes. We beat Leicester because BBC pundit Gary Linekar* once played for us.

 

[davek]

And why is it we are dancing on the trap door?

Because of you.

 

[windymiller]

Not at all. I'm hoping he gets to the 19 points + mark asap.
If he does better/we survive, I'll be the first to congratulate him on a sterling job.

Acting like 19 points is some sort of high watermark [shakes head], he's gone now, I know you're sad but it's time to move on. He was rubbish, he tried to ruin us, he still might, but it's looking less likely than it was last week.

 

[windymiller]

That was right too.

He looked defeated and was making excuses.

I said if we didn't beat United he had to go. He got the win and we've turned the corner since.

Let's get this right: there is no one greater than the club. If Lampard had overseen a defeat to United it was the duty of the club to twist again.

Anyway, we are where we are now and it all ended well.

Everyone gets a year though, right? Dave? Right?

 

[MikeH72]

Not when we're dancing on the trap door.

You wanted Benitez to stay when we were dancing on the trapdoor didn’t you?

 

[davek]

You wanted Benitez to stay when we were dancing on the trapdoor didn’t you?

Not dancing on the trap door---->

Dancing on the trap door-------->

 

[MikeH72]

Not dancing on the trap door----> View attachment 164946

We had won 1 game in about 3 months.

 

[windymiller]

We had won 1 game in about 3 months.

I prefer Dave in Nostradavus mode to Benitez's bagman mode, it's much funnier.

 

[davek]

We had won 1 game in about 3 months.

...and we won 2 out of the first 9 games under Lampard.

Look, it's great that Lampard has turned this with the help of the fans, but he's nothing - just like all the other managers and players. If Everton would have been beaten or even drew against United there'd have been a stampede to get him out...and rightly so. He looked finished after the Burnley loss.

Football throws up turning points, and thankfully for all of us including Lampard a turning point happened against United.

 

[NathDogg]

Pope @davek the worst and the cardinals of fatikeks city are still salty as I see, and continue to push the beatification of Benitez.

Sorry your hopelessness, you will not be able to canonise tapastits - saint francis of Romford will save you’re lost soul.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

People say this but if we lost the first two games next season there’d be lids questioning his position. In fact there’s one already who doesn’t want to give him the summer because he plays the wrong style. That’s large parts of the fanbase now, we’ve become as trigger happy as our owner.

Spot on. The usual supa bloo suspects with their Lampard foam fingers will be the first demanding his head when not *if* we go through a 1 win in 7 run next season.