nunchuckas
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I agree, I think Lampard has improved our overall base level, and made us more consistent. But Robins always had us up and overperforming in the big games or games against better teams (on paper) Like the Wolves, Leeds, Leicester, Middlesbrough away playoff wins, and we all know what happened against Man Utd, even the Spurs defeat was an impressive raised performance. Other than the first half Vs Luton, Robins has pretty much had us up for, and mostly winning, pretty much every big game either as the plucky underdog, or the team who goes for it on the day.
Under Lampard, I'm yet to see us beat a better team or win a really big game, Middlesbrough at home to seal playoffs is about the only one, and we were favourites for that. I feel he just has us performing at a really good level, and it's either good enough on the day, or it's not, with little deviation from the mean. I hope I'm wrong, as the sample size is still small, and as we play more and more tough games under Lampard, we get results. But I feel he's more trying to make us take steps to make us be the better team (not a bad thing) and shift that mentality.
So we're probably more likely to become consistent enough to challenge top 2 under Lampard, but if end up in a tricky 1 off playoff or cup tie, we won't have the raised ceiling Robins used to find, we'll just go out and play our way/brand, and hope it's better than them.
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