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What difference did you expect? At this stage of the season you can only play the hand your dealt. MR is a top manager at this level, and clearly he was struggling with this "deck" Lampard isn't going to get any more from this bunch of players until he gets a "window" to put his mark on the...

Just because I mentioned those 2 doesn't mean I'm not giving respect to MR and his achievements. But MR can't be everywhere, it's DL and AV who were on the training pitches day in, day out. They were 66.66% of the holy trinity.

Dennis Lawrence and Adi Vivesh were key to our success. I'm becoming more and more convinced that they were pivitol in getting consistent form from players like Sheaf, MvE and Simms, who have all lost form since last season. We also had Kitching, Palmer and Wright playing, so we were...

Well he's too late then, we've already done that!

You'll have to ask Dery and Chelsea fans that, he's still held in high regard apparently. Even by Everton fans. Whatever anyone thinks, it's far too early to judge him here.

That's not the end of the business though, there's corporate, shirt sales match day tickets, on going sponsorship etc etc etc.

Harsh, he did well at Derby under the circumstances and well at Chelsea in his first stint.

He does, and if it goes wrong he goes the same way as MR.

Because he's a business man and wanted to sell season tickets, sponsorship and advertising. Doug King knows fuck all about football.

That's definitely a big problem, hopefully Frank can have his own way regarding recruitment, if he can't then he shouldn't of taken the job, I'd be suprised if he hasn't demanded final say at the very least.

For the record, I wanted to keep MR and give him the window. But with hindsight I think MR knew it was time to go. There's not much anyone could do with the limited quality we currently have. We have far too many league 1 quality players. Such as , Collins Wilson Dasilva Bidwell Kitching...

And we all bought into it, hook line and sinker. 23000 season tickets is mental for us, you can't say we weren't all on board with Doug's operation Premiership. I think MR knew it was BS, hence not recruiting a no2 and not stopping DK getting carried away with nonsence backroom appointments.

If your not going to.back him financially, why bother bringing him in? You can't expect him to some how, miraculously turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

The expectation of the fans is the problem. There's no way in hell that this is a top 6 deck. How many of today's team would get in Leeds team? Or Sheff utds, or Burnley's or even Sunderland's ffs?

he's probably pissed off that Gyokeres, Hamer and O'hare have gone, and the money gained pissed away on the likes of Kitching, Simms and BTA etc. I'm sure he knows we havn't a hope of a top 6 finish with this "deck" and he probably knows who he'll be playing for next season. Hence his lack...

Not brilliant, but those teams are fighting for their lives, and we have limited quality available. We have stopped shipping 2 goals a game, which is a good start, but the rest of the problems will take time and new faces. This "deck" is NOT top 6 quality, we need to accept that when...

Busy Christmas period is the clue, very limited time on the training ground to improve people, just time to recover and go again. But as I've already said, only 3 defeats in 11 since MR left. And 2 of those against top 6 sides. While we've lost our top scorer and an experienced keeper...

He's done exactly that, he's identified where we are weak, he's dropped Collins, Dasilva and Binks, and we've only conceded 1 goal in the last 3 games. I'd say the defence is looking much better. (Today's goal was down to a midfield error) People were calling for Simms to start, and he...

The very reason Frank is here is because we were crap! With no transfer window up to now, and key injuries, what did you expect him to realistically do by now???? We've lost 3 in 11 since MR was sacked and 2 of those defeats were against teams in the top 6, we've moved away from the...

Listening to people arguing over which manager is better/worse is pointless. The fact is this "deck" isn't anywhere near good enough, especially with no Wright/ EMC to give us ballance and a goal threat. MR had years to build a side capable of challenging, and did exceptionally well bar...