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Another game, another 2 goals conceded.

I went to the Jets v Colts when I was in NY last week and it was such a good experience! A great game too! If anyone is going out to the states, I highly recommend getting a ticket to any game!

Exactly. I’m probably coming across as ‘pro-Lampard’ because I’m saying he’s objectively the best candidate. Some of the criticisms just don’t add up, Lampard isn’t ’just a name’. I’m ‘meh’ about it because I have my reservations but if people look at it from a level-headed approach, Lampard...

The fact he’s managed at that level and is in the running of managing us is impressive in of itself. Even so, who on the shortlist has finished in the Top 6 in the EFL, let alone the Championship bar Lampard? For all the people bleating about Lampard, they haven’t actually mentioned someone...

Lampard has finished in the Top 6 in the Championship, Top 4 of the Premiership, managed in the UCL and got to an FA Cup final. I’m sorry, but if you’re being objective, there isn’t a manager out there who wants the job with those achievements on its resumé. On Horneland, there’s no indication...

He’s not been hired, if the last interview was yesterday, the new manager wouldn’t be appointed today and take charge immediately. The players and coaches would be prepping for this game and Burnley already. Even if the new manager was hired this weekend, it’s probably best to have Rhys Carr...

100% if we’re being pragmatic. Of all the candidates actually in the running. Of course people like Moyes and Potter (plus other European managers) are better managers but they’re unlikely to be a) interested or b) affordable. None of the other managers in the running have even got a promotion...

100% - there’s certainly a section of fans that look at his record at Everton, his 2nd Chelsea spell and decided he’s not up to it. In reality, this is a ‘step down’ for Lampard because we’re in the Championship. Personally, I think this could be a mutually beneficial hire, he’s a young coach...

I wouldn’t trust Reeves to run a piss up in a brewery. It’d be a repeat of the yacht at Charlton away, promising the world, only to get shafted.

If you discount: McNulty Hyam Kelly Doyle Willis Shipley Bayliss JCH Bright Chaplin Godden McFadz Gyokeres Hamer Maatsen COH Liam Walsh Allen Rose McCallum Marosi Wilson BNC Dabo Sheaf Eccles Wright Simms MVE Sakamoto Then Robins weren’t that good in reality… 🙄

I think Lampard was out of his depth at Chelsea and frankly, even world class managers have struggled there. He did what was expected at Everton and Dyche doing a better job isn’t an indictment on him. Dyche is more experienced as a manager, especially teams at the bottom end of the table...

Agreed. It’s also academic because Lampard wouldn’t have had a lot of control over transfers in the first place. The only big flop on that list is Werner. They at least made money on Havertz who is now a key player at Arsenal now and Chilwell was a top Prem LB before he was plagued by injuries...

McKenna at least came from an elite club and was highly regarded. As for Bloomfield, he reminds more of Ainsworth than McKenna. He’s a club legend, doing well on a modest budget at a modest club. I have a good friend who does Wycombe home and away so whilst I’m glad to see them doing well, I’m...

Remind me, what’s Eustace and Bloomfield’s highest league position over a full season? Since we’ve beaten Blackburn in October, their record is 2-1-5. That’s worse than our record and come the end of the season, it wouldn’t shock me to see Blackburn fighting for survival. If you genuinely...

Nonsense. Who on the shortlist specifically would you prefer?

They’re only considered a ‘conveyor belt of top young talent’ because they’ve realised a lot of their potential. There is no shortage of ‘top talent’ that came to the Championship with high hopes to only flop. As for our own talent, it’s difficult to say. They may not be up to the standard...

Good managers who manage good players rely on individual brilliance. What nonsense is this? You and many others on these threads respond to someone’s achievements with ‘yeah but x, y and z’, it’s sad. Who is a better candidate?

We don’t know this because we’re not with the players day to day. Take a player like Kalvin Phillips, he wasn’t destined for great things until Bielsa saw something in him and developed him. Besides, it’s not just the academy, most of our squad is U25 so could do with being developed by top...

Does Lampard not deserve any credit then? Mason Mount is a great example of a player that probably wouldn’t have been given a chance to shine at Chelsea had they not had an embargo and hired a big name manager. It takes one thing to develop players like Tomori and Mount to be top Championship...

Live in the moment man… Things weren’t great before, hence Robins got sacked. Whoever the new manager is, it’s a fresh start and opportunity for new perspectives and approaches that hopefully drive us forward. Personally, I’d have given Robins the whole season but now a decision has been made...