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McKenna at least came from an elite club and was highly regarded. As for Bloomfield, he reminds more of Ainsworth than McKenna. He’s a club legend, doing well on a modest budget at a modest club. I have a good friend who does Wycombe home and away so whilst I’m glad to see them doing well, I’m...

Remind me, what’s Eustace and Bloomfield’s highest league position over a full season? Since we’ve beaten Blackburn in October, their record is 2-1-5. That’s worse than our record and come the end of the season, it wouldn’t shock me to see Blackburn fighting for survival. If you genuinely...

Nonsense. Who on the shortlist specifically would you prefer?

They’re only considered a ‘conveyor belt of top young talent’ because they’ve realised a lot of their potential. There is no shortage of ‘top talent’ that came to the Championship with high hopes to only flop. As for our own talent, it’s difficult to say. They may not be up to the standard...

Good managers who manage good players rely on individual brilliance. What nonsense is this? You and many others on these threads respond to someone’s achievements with ‘yeah but x, y and z’, it’s sad. Who is a better candidate?

We don’t know this because we’re not with the players day to day. Take a player like Kalvin Phillips, he wasn’t destined for great things until Bielsa saw something in him and developed him. Besides, it’s not just the academy, most of our squad is U25 so could do with being developed by top...

Does Lampard not deserve any credit then? Mason Mount is a great example of a player that probably wouldn’t have been given a chance to shine at Chelsea had they not had an embargo and hired a big name manager. It takes one thing to develop players like Tomori and Mount to be top Championship...

Live in the moment man… Things weren’t great before, hence Robins got sacked. Whoever the new manager is, it’s a fresh start and opportunity for new perspectives and approaches that hopefully drive us forward. Personally, I’d have given Robins the whole season but now a decision has been made...

Yes, but he was ‘lucky’ at Derby, Chelsea and then Everton. The common denominator is that Lampard, for all his perceived and real faults, is at least good at developing talent. We’ve got bags of it in our team and a few additions I believe we’ll have a great team. I wouldn’t turn round and say...

I also think these things take more time than they realise. For example, people need to be available for interviews, they need time to get their people in and bringing them in at a point that’s ideal for the players too. If we weren’t going to get a manager announced before tomorrow, then we’re...

Right, so you’re using ‘x’ stats to justify this. Fair enough, these are only KPIs and whilst they have their uses, the actual stats for each category were: 6th in points 6th in GF = 6th in GA 6th in GD Based on all of this, they deservedly finished in the playoffs. Derby’s points total was 74...

Lampard’s Derby team was not stronger than Villa or Leeds. On what metrics was his time in the Championship ‘woeful?’ I don’t think you’re being fair to say Lampard didn’t develop Mount (or anyone else). He came to Derby as an Eredivisie player, became a top Championship player and the season...

Tomori and Wilson had one good half season at Hull and Mount had played in the Eredivisie before joining Derby. Lampard developed others at Chelsea and at Everton he gave Gordon his big break through. Credit is given where it’s due. The point here is that a) it wasn’t that well known these...

People make these statements with hindsight. Robins and his staff got the most of the players on this list and likewise, Derby under Lampard developed a lot of great talent. Mason Mount is the best example, he went from Championship playoff standard to Top 4 and England international in the...

No. people don’t want to consider on the merits of Lampard. He developed Mount, Tomori, Abraham, Gordon, Wilson and a few others. His track record in developing young players is impressive.

Top 6 in the playoffs with an impressive 2 leg win over Bielsa’s Leeds. He kept Everton up in his next job and that role is a poisoned chalice. Dyche is doing a better job but that’s not a blot of Lampard’s career. Dyche has established himself as one of the best managers for upper...

Disagree. This is the kind of project Lampard needs at this point in his career. He went down the fast track route at Derby and then Chelsea and that didn’t end well. A good 2-4 season with us, a promotion and maybe keeping us up would do his reputation a world of good. His spells at Everton...

Agreed. For a lot of coaches, there’s an element of luck in being the right manager for the right club. Like what we had with Robins or Luton with Nathan Jones. The club seems to be in a better place to provide the conditions and the environment that will make managers and playing staff alike...

Literally all the candidates linked with the job. Including people like; Keane, Rowett, Skubala, Eustace, Bloomfield, Rosenior. Take your pick from the names off of this list. https://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/coventry/next-permanent-manager

I don’t think they would, the only people ‘laughing’ at us are Prem/top end Championship clubs who are, frankly, above our level. A lot of neutral pundits look at what Robins has achieved for us as a whole (rightly so) but ignore where we want to be i.e. the Prem. Our form over 30-odd games and...