Win, lose or draw on Saturday we will be a quarter way through the season and if we continued the points per game ratio across the season we are finishing on 40 plus points likely finishing around 13-15th going by last seasons table.
If you allow also the context of the bizarre lack of striker for the first games, and having some of the more difficult ties in this first portion of the season then I would say we are doing ok. Personally I think if you have said in the past you are willing to give this particular manager time then there’s not much happened of major concern to change that opinion.
On the negative side, I honestly am quite calm about the various issues being raised as for me they are all reasonable problems that can be expected from a team in transition and exactly the sort of stuff you want to see improved. However for me that’s improvement over a longer period of time than a desperately pressurised relegation battle and a quarter of a season with new players settling in.
Any of the concerns about the manager can for me be out under “let’s review it at the end of the season” so long as we continue on track for 40 plus points and at no point are actually adrift of other clubs in the bottom three. So yes, that includes dropping into the bottom three at some points when we hit the kind of poor run a lower half team like us are always going to hit.
We are 15th, we aren’t consistent, we have very few players you can rely upon to shine each week and we clearly lack attacking support at full back and another striker of reasonable quality. Big surprise we aren’t up to much yet.
And no, I don’t give him extra leeway for being English or “getting” the club. He is just another manager and is lucky to have come along at a particularly low point as expectations couldn’t be lower. Just keep us safe whilst the squad is freshened up and we make it to the stadium. Hopefully we might look a better prospect to whatever managerial talent is out there when the moment comes, assuming as I do that Lampard won’t do anything special and we will for once calmly replace a manager with another one we have lined up end of next season.
Not very exciting like, but I’ll take a couple seasons of dullness if it might mean a springboard to attempt a more coherent plan to rise up the table to better times than the one we have seen since Moshiri came in.
If you allow also the context of the bizarre lack of striker for the first games, and having some of the more difficult ties in this first portion of the season then I would say we are doing ok. Personally I think if you have said in the past you are willing to give this particular manager time then there’s not much happened of major concern to change that opinion.
On the negative side, I honestly am quite calm about the various issues being raised as for me they are all reasonable problems that can be expected from a team in transition and exactly the sort of stuff you want to see improved. However for me that’s improvement over a longer period of time than a desperately pressurised relegation battle and a quarter of a season with new players settling in.
Any of the concerns about the manager can for me be out under “let’s review it at the end of the season” so long as we continue on track for 40 plus points and at no point are actually adrift of other clubs in the bottom three. So yes, that includes dropping into the bottom three at some points when we hit the kind of poor run a lower half team like us are always going to hit.
We are 15th, we aren’t consistent, we have very few players you can rely upon to shine each week and we clearly lack attacking support at full back and another striker of reasonable quality. Big surprise we aren’t up to much yet.
And no, I don’t give him extra leeway for being English or “getting” the club. He is just another manager and is lucky to have come along at a particularly low point as expectations couldn’t be lower. Just keep us safe whilst the squad is freshened up and we make it to the stadium. Hopefully we might look a better prospect to whatever managerial talent is out there when the moment comes, assuming as I do that Lampard won’t do anything special and we will for once calmly replace a manager with another one we have lined up end of next season.
Not very exciting like, but I’ll take a couple seasons of dullness if it might mean a springboard to attempt a more coherent plan to rise up the table to better times than the one we have seen since Moshiri came in.
