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Why would he come back? It doesn’t make too much sense and can’t see how we could afford him! It would be really cool if he came back and fired us to the Prem.

Why would he come back? It doesn’t make too much sense and can’t see how we could afford him! It would be really cool if he came back and fired us to the Prem.

Some good observations here and the way we attack suggests to me that Haji and EMC will be used as an inside forwards with Rudoni having free rein to operate on either flanks for the overloads or arriving late in the box as he has done a few times this season. Grimes and Sheaf keeping things...

Which is a given when you lose your top two goal scorers. What team wouldn’t suffer? Yet, we’ve somehow put in our best run. Haji Wright has missed the last 17 league games and is still our top scorer… In reality, it probably wasn’t even fair to judge Lampard until Haji came back and we had a...

Absolutely. The foundation of that team was a solid defence that kept clean sheets with a sprinkle of brilliance in Hamer and Vik. We definitely rode our luck and may not have even made the playoffs in 22/23 had it not been for Wilson’s goal at Blackburn away.

Frankly, I don’t think those managers would be averaging better than 1.8 points without our 3 best players. Robins, RVN and Bloomfield have won less games than Lampard combined. RVN is averaging 0.85 points a game and a 23% win rate is worse than Lampard at Everton, for reference and if we’re...

Decent job? We’re averaging 1.8 points a game without our top goal scorer, then the top scorer in his tenure and last season’s POTS and captain. These are mitigating factors for any manager and had it happened under Robins, I’d probably be arguing he shouldn’t be sacked for our form without...

It’s a bit of a cop out answer. The other runners and riders for the job have struggled in their current/new posts. Eustace, Bloomfield and RVN were preferred by quite a lot of posters, particularly @shmmeee who said ‘anyone but Lampard’. He wasn’t alone in having that opinion either. The only...

No, we’ve gone from being closer to the relegation zone than the playoffs and we’re now 3 points off. Shaved 7-8 points in the space of a month. Seriously, why don’t you just write a post and keep it in your drafts for when form drops like Grendel did regularly under Robins. Clownish takes...

Under Lampard, the games we haven’t been the better team on xG was Cardiff (A), Norwich and Leeds. It’s not just Dovin coming in that’s turned things around. That’s just plainly stupid take. In many games in the 22/23 we were just “ok” the football wasn’t particularly free flowing that season...

He should never have gone back, it was a poisoned chalice. Taking the job as an interim was terrible for his authority, Lampard touched on that on his podcast on Diary of a CEO. Why were the players going get behind a manager who was only going to be there for 12 games? Especially the players on...

Personally, I disagree and that argument has been done over and you’re right in saying it’s his record here that’s important… … my question is, can we all agree he was the best candidate for the job? RvN, Eustace and Bloomfield have massively struggled in their appointments since Lampard joined.

Only a crazy person would put money on that! 😂 I was quite happy with the result because Millwall’s GD was the same as our going into the game.

The statistics have Rudoni as outperforming Sakamoto too. Repeating the narrative that Sakamoto is our best RW doesn’t make it true unfortunately. https://fbref.com/en/players/4d395e2b/scout/365_m2/Jack-Rudoni-Scouting-Report

Even if that’s the case, is he starting ahead of Sakamoto or EMC? After all, your first line was ‘Sakamoto is so important for us’. Personally, I don’t think BTA was ever going to leave in January without a sufficient striker option coming in. The way Lampard has is set up, he wants direct and...

You wouldn’t know for sure because Haji and EMC have barely had a game there. I’m pretty sure Rudoni has more assists crossing from the right wing (open play) than Sakamoto. The last example being Watford at home. Players roles change all the time, look at Jamie Allen, he had rarely been asked...

Right now? Bidwell Sakamoto I’d have included Bassette a few weeks ago but the public opinion on him has changed quite a lot.

Just out of curiosity, why do you think we wanted to sign Matondo in the transfer window just gone? Lampard wants 2 speedy box crashers as you put them. In fact, it’s a job that Sakamoto has been asked to do. My view is that a lot of people’s perceptions of Sakamoto haven’t really moved past...

We’ll wait and see but Simms has done well in recent games offers something different to what we have. I could see Wright and EMC getting in each other’s way a bit because they both like to cut in onto their right foot. Again, Sakamoto’s performances just don’t warrant him being an automatic...

What have you done with the real @shmmeee? That’s far too level-headed.