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Say what you like about Lampard, he would at least have gravitas from Day 1. The players will respect him as a player and that he’s managed players better than them - he’s managed in the Prem and the UCL and that counts for something in the early days. If we hired Lampard, my prediction would be...

We’re not a basket case because the owner made one unpopular decision. The club is in a different place to where it was. Robins’ core of lieutenants is gone, his long term assistant is gone and apparently upset a lot of the newer players along the way. There was no guarantee that MR was going...

100% - I don’t like him but he’s won 2 Championship titles and will probably win a 3rd this season.

Exactly, which would be an acknowledgement that Robins himself thought the new structure had been a failure. Given the timing of this, it's likely that the club hierarchy had at least thought about MR's future at this point because our form was even worse back then. IIRC, at the time that some...

Who owns CCFC and all its debts? It's King. He's invested one way or the other if he's loaning the club money to sustain itself - the loans aren't guaranteed. A bad season this year could cost us a lot of money. We have Sheaf entering the final year of his contract, players like Wright, Simms...

Defence was Lawrence's speciality rather than being a specialist coach for defending, that's a slight difference. There wasn't enough coaches to stick to limited areas. You're quite right to point out that it's strange to see a GK coach working on defensive coaching. Again, if Robins hired these...

Unless Robins was lying on the press releases, he was also actively involved in the recruitment process for all the coaches we hired. There's no reason to believe it was forced on him - why would he allow it? If MR hired inexperienced coaches that needed to develop into the role, that was his...

I mean, SISU never had £45m invested in the team and in the Championship, our budget was solidly bottom 3 until King took over. If it was your money on the line, you'd probably be a bit about tetchy about us being 17th after 15 games.

Why is he an idiot? Everyone knows that our form for a long time has not been goods enough. Compare our record v top half teams in 2022/23 and 23/24, there's a massive drop off. This season, we can't even beat the teams we're supposed to - just look at the league positions of the teams we've...

If there’s levels involved then you won’t get a meaningful answer as both parties have an NDA. Dennis Lawrence leaving is no secret. He got a promotion, pay rise and moved closer to home. The definition of a no-brainer for him.

Which isn’t a bad thing if you finish par. As things stand, we’re well under-par. He’s the only manager on the bookmakers odds that have actually finished in the playoffs before. Lampard doesn’t inspire me, I’ve said this on other threads. He’s still got to a playoff final and finished in the...

I was gutted as you and many of us were when the news dropped. Personally, I refused to believe it and thought my mates were pissing about. Now the dust has settled, can anyone say that they’d have backed any other manager who’s been on the same run as Robins in 2024? My answer to that is no...

Hazard was a player of the season or thereabouts, right? The other teams around Chelsea would’ve strengthened their teams and Chelsea were under a transfer embargo. In any which case, finishing in the Top 4 is still a massive achievement. The top teams can be notoriously difficult to manage so...

Last season, our record against the top half teams were: 13 losses (out of 16) 5 draws 4 wins We were 9 points off playoffs. Our record against the top half teams cost us and I vividly remember us losing all our big games v Norwich, WBA and PNE in Feb/Mar. The manager needs to bear...

What if King is actually right? Perhaps it’s the fans naive belief in Robins that risk us taking a massive backward step this year.

A lot of those players really came to the fore under Lampard to be fair. I’m not so sure many people would’ve fancied Mount to emerge as a key player for a Top 4 team one season after playing in the Championship. It’s the problem looking at teams retrospectively, a lot of players have developed...

The end of last season have mitigating factors. However, when reviewing our performances from Feb to November this year, our record hasn’t been good enough. Our record against the top half teams was atrocious, even before Wolves game. This season, we’ve lost 7 games which is nearly half of last...

He hasn’t made the decision on a whim. Let’s be honest, if our form over the last 30 games was with any other manager, we’d have been calling for him to be sacked before he was. Doug King has made a decision, it’s not one I would’ve made but we have to be open to the possibility that it was for...

I notice Haji often has aerial duals v fullbacks rather than CBs so that could be why his % is disproportionately higher. Carlos Corberán, with respect to MR, is a much better coach and that was evident in both games v WBA last season. This season, we just look tactically all over the place...

No, he’s a club legend there and he’d have seen what happened to Ainsworth and give us a miss. He’s untouchable at Wycombe and if he gets promoted, his stock will be higher.