It sounds like we’ve done a lot of work on fitness to be honest. Before Lampard was hired, King talked up the work Dr Roberts was doing with regards to S&C and so on… Lampard comes in and says he’s disappointed with the fitness levels last season and mentioned we’d work on it this summer.
In fairness to Lampard too, he’s tweak a lot of tactics to make us a much more tactically fluid team. There’s no prescriptive idealistic style of play, we a lot of things v well. We can dominate possession when the situation requires but also go route one or hit teams on the counter.
No disrespect to Robins intended here, but we didn’t have this level of tactical depth when he was our manager.
Remember when Lampard was called tactically naive by some on here because they didn't understand you can't just implement the perfect tactic from game 1?It sounds like we’ve done a lot of work on fitness to be honest. Before Lampard was hired, King talked up the work Dr Roberts was doing with regards to S&C and so on… Lampard comes in and says he’s disappointed with the fitness levels last season and mentioned we’d work on it this summer.
In fairness to Lampard too, he’s tweak a lot of tactics to make us a much more tactically fluid team. There’s no prescriptive idealistic style of play, we a lot of things v well. We can dominate possession when the situation requires but also go route one or hit teams on the counter.
No disrespect to Robins intended here, but we didn’t have this level of tactical depth when he was our manager.
This.We're incredibly efficient with the ball.
You look at a lot of the possession stats and we're pretty middle of the road. Then you look at things like touches in the penalty area, crosses, shots and we are top, often by a big margin. It's that ability to move the ball forward quickly and convert it into a crossing or shooting chance that is making us so successful.
You know what, fair play for your damascene conversion on Lampard.Frank put that dog in them
You know what, fair play for your damascene conversion on Lampard.
I’m hoping we don’t get periodic ‘Taxi for Lampard’ threads whenever we lose the odd game.
I don’t think we’ll Cardiff it up. I’ll be v shocked if we bottle automatic promotion and probably wouldn’t ever recover from those scars.Nah man he’s proven me massively wrong and fair play to him. Like with robins or any manager with credit in the bank he’s earned himself time even if we did Cardiff it up this season.
SameI don’t think we’ll Cardiff it up. I’ll be v shocked if we bottle automatic promotion and probably wouldn’t ever recover from those scars.
Remember when Lampard was called tactically naive by some on here because they didn't understand you can't just implement the perfect tactic from game 1?
I love his seriousness around the training and interviews and the match. The only time he seems to let it go is at the endI’ve referenced this before, but that first 30 mins vs Cardiff (Lampard’s first game in charge) showed how he wanted us to play. We just didn’t have the fitness to do it. I really feared he would dogmatically stick to this style but the fact he was pragmatic, adapted our style and clearly prioritised fitness over the summer is the most positive sign of his management for me.
Refs normally are very clear that if there’s an advantage to give they will look to give itTwo goals were from a subsequent passage of play where our players refused to go down after being fouled. To me the opposition players slow up cos they think the foul will make the Referee stop the game! Where in if a player struggles but stays on his feet they ignore it and wave play on.
My point being the effect of staying up on the feet no matter how much of a struggle the opposition players mindset has been adjusted and they cannot react again! The player on Torpe could not get back onto Torpe to stop him again, same applies to Kitchen the player who tried to trip him could not recover cos he stayed on his feet. It's a bout mindset and conditioned playersRefs normally are very clear that if there’s an advantage to give they will look to give it
It sounds like we’ve done a lot of work on fitness to be honest. Before Lampard was hired, King talked up the work Dr Roberts was doing with regards to S&C and so on… Lampard comes in and says he’s disappointed with the fitness levels last season and mentioned we’d work on it this summer.
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