2022/23 Frank Lampard

[Drico]

Unlike previous sacked managers who nearly everyone wanted rid of , this guy has support.

The Evertonian Death Wish is strong this year.

 

[GrandOldSte117]

So bad managers exist don't they? The wolves guy before this one was worse than the current one right?

 

[billyblue80]

 

[Stuartisitc1878]

I thought, baring a couple of moments in either half, we were poor again. I really like Lampard and I want him to succeed but what do we do in training? Our midfield can’t complete a simple pass to each other. Gray aside there was no movement or inventiveness up front and defensively we tie ourselves up in knots when we don’t need too. I know we don’t have the most talented group of players but I don’t for one second think they’re doing that if there own accord.
My major concerns are we’ve seen spirited performances against better teams this season. The draw against City, against the RS and even Chelsea at the start of the season which despite losing was very close. This team has no issue upping its game when there is zero expectation on them. It’s the other games where they have consistently crumbled, and on more than one occasion this season that’s been exacerbated by the manager changing a success team or formation.
I don’t want to sack another manager but I equally don’t want to go down. Frank is learning on the job and sadly we can’t afford him the time to learn with us. That’s my opinion

 

[LeeCarsley]

And people still back this absolute clown because “we only lost 3-1 and showed a bit of fight” against United? There are fan sites on Twitter (Everton extra being a prime example) who were crying out after the Brighton demolition “Lampard has to go TONIGHT”, they’ve been repeating it every day since that game. Then after last nights performance in which we lost 3-1 and got dumped out of the cup don’t forget, they’re now going with “that was a lot better, we need to give him time and back him”.

Are people just incredibly fickle, or just really really thick?

Wolves manager had them besting Liverpool having been there only three weeks, we could easily have appointed him or any other foreign manager and yet we persist with this "nice guy" it's such a shame, the standards are non-existent

 

[Blueclouds]

Its not rocket science, we need better quality players but we can't do that so it's the easy choice for the board to replace the manager to see if he can do any better with the crap squad.

 

[billyblue80]

Wolves manager had them besting Liverpool having been there only three weeks, we could easily have appointed him or any other foreign manager and yet we persist with this "nice guy" it's such a shame, the standards are non-existent

Our esteemed board wouldn't even know who he is

 

[allen]

That chart doesn’t tell the story the Tweeter thinks it does.

That only says we’ve been crap since Benitez’s early success evaporated. Before that it’s indeterminate. It’s not one direction.

 

[samcdavies94]

Wolves with the same crap squad now look really good in a month or so with a new manager

Yeah... but not sure how true the bit in bold is. Their squad is miles better than ours.

We might need a new manager, but let's not entertain the idea that this squad of ours is anything less than among the worst three of four in the league.

 

[Bazlar]

High and mighty buddy?

I just don't know how you can defend the man. Seems to me me a lot of arse licking here. Ban on the way???

 

[Goat]

That chart doesn’t tell the story the Tweeter thinks it does.

That only says we’ve been crap since Benitez’s early success evaporated. Before that it’s indeterminate. It’s not one direction.

And the gap between xg for and against in Sams time shows you what an utterly useless stat xG is in general.

 

[billyblue80]

That chart doesn’t tell the story the Tweeter thinks it does.

That only says we’ve been crap since Benitez’s early success evaporated. Before that it’s indeterminate. It’s not one direction.

Maybe I don't fully buy into xg but it does show a bad trend. But results speak louder

 

[allen]

And the gap between xg for and against in Sams time shows you what an utterly useless stat xG is in general.

Absolutely. It’s a handy stat for people who don’t understand the game.

A simple way of attempting to quantify who ‘deserves’ to win a game, without actually having to asses who played well with your own understanding of football.

 

[allen]

Maybe I don't fully buy into xg but it does show a bad trend. But results speak louder

But the argument is ‘this is the climax of years of rot and incompetence’ - which it is - but that’s not what the graph describes.

 

[Tilling]

I take your point on the pressing and Dyche deploying that to good effect. Are our players conditioned enough for it though?

I see half our players flagging later in games with hardly doing any pressing at all.

One thing we need to get back to is the Moyes' pre-season boot camps.

100% spot on - the pre-season this year was awful, so many clubs back playing games before us. I do still think our players are conditioned enough for it though, they do seem to be giving everything on the pitch at the moment - there just isnt any structure! A good, experienced manager fixes that problem.