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He did because he turned down chances to return to management.

Ability. Last season, our record showed this team cannot compete with the top end of the Championship. There are good players in this group but quality is needed to be added and that is what Robins admitted at the end of last season. We need better quality leaders because we’ve gone from having...

Names please. For someone so critical of Lampard you’d think you’d have had a clear preference on a few people you’d have preferred. Did any of these men you describe even apply for the job? Probably not. Lampard wasn’t a failed manager and only an armchair manager would make such a dumb...

We weren’t battering themthey had 60% possession and 21 shots compared to our 8. Yesterday, Norwich had 62% possession and 24 shots to our 6. Like yesterday, we nearly caught them on the counter at 1-0 up and missed a big chance that would’ve made 2-0.

Who was the best candidate then?

I agree, Sakamoto will be a role player going into 25/26 imo. However, if he was fit, he’d have been starting so it’s just another player we’re missing against a team that’s just better than us.

I’m liking the way we’re scoring goals at the far post and Lampard has been quite flexible to change things up. The games have come too thick and fast to embed the tactical changes or make material changes. Unlike you, I reserve judgement before writing off players and managers. Lampard is...

This is because we had Haji Wright who terrorised Sunderland’s defence. EMC was another player able to do that but without both of them, you’ve got a toothless attack. Yesterday, we were without Sakamoto, Wright and EMC. A draw was going to be bloody good result. Yesterday, despite the...

We’ve been without our best player the whole time he’s been in charge and then our best player under FL got injured. Going through the team yesterday, the whole starting 11 had scored 10 goals between them. You’d already made your mind up on Lampard so you will just plough through the basic...

Yes, but there’s obvious gaps in the team whether or not the coaches are elite or not. Without Haji or EMC in the team, you’d be mad not to give the benefit of the doubt because before EMC got injured, we looked a better team under FL than MR.

Our two top goal scorers are injured too in a team that misses lots of big chances and struggles to score. Over the Xmas and New Year period, we scored 7 goals which looks good but we loaded 4 of those goals v Plymouth. Lampard needs a transfer window or two to address the clear weaknesses we...

You just hate Lampard full stop…

Let’s just keep everything the same is your response to a lot of issues brought up on here. Are you sure you’re not a Tory ‘wet?’

Why don’t you start a petition among Labour voters to oust Keir Starmer? Perhaps a silly ‘meme’ suggestion on a football forum can snowball into the downfall of a Labour PM by membership vote! 😂 Heck, I’ll rejoin the Labour Party to sign the petition!

If Starmer’s polling got worse over the next few years, you don’t think anyone would challenge him at all? 😂 I like your optimism.

He’s another on an expiring contract so on principle, I’d cash in. There is a risk we’re cannibalising the CMs if we let him and potentially Sheaf go in one window. If there’s a lot of funds being made available and a plan to recruit replacements, fantastic!

An election truly is a non-starter. The membership probably would vote him out if there was a viable left wing candidate waiting in the wings. As you say, we’ve still got 4 years left so plenty of time for Starmer to become even more unpopular. I’m not saying Starmer is going to imminently...

The sooner we get those two in the line up and some big signings, It needs to be back to basics for Lampard. Back to 4-2-3-1 with solid back 4, perhaps Allen in midfield again ready to re-integrate Wright and EMC in the team. He needs to stick with one striker and that has to be Simms. At...

No, Parliamentary Labour Party which is shorthand for Labour MPs.

In isolation, you’re actually correct. However, how often does any sitting PMs approval recover from their peak after 1 year in office? It’s his personal popularity that should worry the PLP. On the Corbyn point, he was challenged for the leadership and the membership re-elected him. The PLP...