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2022/23 Frank Lampard

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catcherintherye said:
But Thelwell doesn't coach the team. The team is well coached without the ball. What were you expecting?

Thelwell also signed Coady, who has been a fantastic signing. I can't see much sense in your suggestion this time mate. Some continuity is needed.
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I'm saying if part of why Lampard is good is identifying and signing players that is DOF work and he should be DOF.
 
MaupsGoat said:
Teams that arent coached dont go to an away ground and draw.

They get beat by lots of goals.
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We are well coached without the ball. The shape is good. Our issue is, with the ball we are poor, and if we try to be in any way expansive we get exposed.

However, life is about finding sweet spots. Playing as we have, with hopefully DCL getting fitter, Gordon getting more consistent and Gray having the odd goal flush he has is about as good as we can hope for.

What is absolutely not needed currently, is a move to go kamikaze and start trying to emulate a top 6 side. It won't work. We will get hammered, and we will get relegated.

Ancelotti, the optimal manager in the world currently recognised this, and developed a system with 4cb's on the pitch, or often using 3cb's. He realised quite early on there was no point having lofty dreams. Be hard to defeat, and don't concede set pieces. We have managed that now.
 

catcherintherye said:
We are well coached without the ball. The shape is good. Our issue is, with the ball we are poor, and if we try to be in any way expansive we get exposed.

However, life is about finding sweet spots. Playing as we have, with hopefully Dominic Calvert-Lewin getting fitter, Gordon getting more consistent and Gray having the odd goal flush he has is about as good as we can hope for.

What is absolutely not needed currently, is a move to go kamikaze and start trying to emulate a top 6 side. It won't work. We will get hammered, and we will get relegated.

Ancelotti, the optimal manager in the world currently recognised this, and developed a system with 4cb's on the pitch, or often using 3cb's. He realised quite early on there was no point having lofty dreams. Be hard to defeat, and don't concede set pieces. We have managed that now.
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We thought we had managed it under Carlo too and then we sunk like a stone because it isn't a sustainable practice.
 
TheBigIguana said:
That is a team without a coach drawing away from home.

Sorry to Dunc but that's just the facts.
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Duncan managed those 4 games well. He did have a lot better foundations to build upon. It wasn't pretty though was it? We scored a scrappy goal from a set piece and hung on. I love Duncan, but we shouldn't re-write history.
 

MaupsGoat said:
Yes mate, cos Duncan never coached the first team for 20 years or nothing.

Im out, its impossible when you default setting is GLOOM.
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The default setting is realistic. When the realistic outlook calls for sun there will be sun.

We had a chance to make it that Saturday and guess what happened? Frank's team went out after halftime of a tight game and barely got a sniff. So gloom for another couple of weeks until we once again try to play away from home like a real team.
 

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