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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.

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…