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As soon as someone came calling, he left just as Maresca did. There wasn’t a specific time frame listed in my post.

One step at a time! Getting us out of this league will be tough and you’d hope Lampard could utilise his contacts to get good recommendations on loans/transfer from his Chelsea/Man C days. If he got us promoted he’d deserve a shot at keeping us up but to be frank, I could see him doing a...

You’d assume no because he scored 13 goals last year. Our shot creation hasn’t been good enough this year. We build a lot of xG by using our possession to accumulate lots of shots. For example, 10 0.05 xG shots would equal 0.5 xG which would equal one ‘massive’ chance. Back to BTA, he’s not...

Hahaha I rate that! Was Chelsea’s team that season particularly good? I recall him blooding through a lot of youngsters (Mount, James, Hudson-Odoi and Tammy Abraham) and that season was a ‘free hit’ for Chelsea and they overperformed. The Championship is probably Lampard’s level so I don’t...

Keane has one season of success. If Lampard left Chelsea after one season he’d look like a Demi-God, finishing Top 4 in the Prem with a transfer embargo is a bigger achievement than any other coach we’re likely to hire. He has at least managed in the Championship too. If we were in L1 or...

If there’s a profile of job to restore Lampard’s reputation, it’s a club like ours. We’re underperforming and if he gets us up the table and even promoted, his stock will be sky high again. My belief is that he left Derby too early and was out of his depth at Chelsea because Top 4 in the Prem v...

I want to see their individual points tallies… my guess is that we won’t miss these NOPMers and they’ll be back on the bandwagon when the results pick up.

… That’s in the Premiership! The managers won’t be as good in the Championship is my hope! Unless there’s a curveball being thrown our way, Lampard is probably the best candidate in the field atm. Which is probably telling in of itself. Had we waiting a few weeks, Cooper could’ve been...

That sounds about right to me too, Stoke have gone through that many managers it could’ve been most years we’ve been back in the Championship! 😂

I heard he was seriously considering talking to Stoke when we were in the Championship - I can’t remember which season it was though.

He got a massive promotion to go and manage Chelsea so clearly he did something right. Lampard probably isn’t good enough to be an established Prem manager right now. In the Championship against weaker managers, maybe he could do a good job. It’s best to be open-minded and consider the...

Why? He’s only managed one season in the Israeli league…

Most of our goals this season have been gifts. The two goals we conceded against Derby was just amateurish. All the hallmarks of an inexperienced and naive team.

We also have an inexperienced team ourselves so if anything, we need to get a couple of older players in steady the ship.

When has the manager not taken the fall? How would getting rid of the recruitment team, Dr Roberts or the kit nan impact the product that’s actually on the field?

That’s a possibility because results have been bad this season and after PNE the decision to sack MR made the most “sense”. Whoever has watched our games this season can see we’ve gone backwards from last season. It’s not a POV I share, but could anyone blame King for looking at the last 30 or...

No, you weren’t. However, the post I responded to said that DK drove the recruitment. Most managers aren’t watching and picking players as they would have been in 1990-2010s. Everything is data driven and clubs signing players for the ‘head coaches’ (hired on their footballing philosophies) to...

If you set the agenda of who to sign, and have final say on a signing, that’s recruitment being driven by the manager and his team. Not Doug King. I could be wrong, but I’m confident that Dean Austin was brought in by Mark Robins and before Doug King became owner. Besides… Is this going to be...

It was obviously Robins. He set the profile of player we needed and the final sign off. The picking specific players and minutiae of negotiations was where Dean Austin and Doug King came in.

The fan base was still behind MR so this appointment is of absolute importance to DK. If he gets it wrong, things could unravel v quickly. Whoever comes in needs to hit the ground running to prove that the decision to sack a living legend was necessary.