Time to believe (2 Viewers)

15 Games in for Frank Lampard. Safe to say he’s doing okay.

shmmeee said:

No we were shit first half at Blackburn cos we were shit. Dovin just stopped us being shit turning into a 0-3 deficit.

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Ok... not sure what the point is here, he's our keeper, a part of our team and he's doing his bit well. Best keeper we've had in decades, means someone did their job well.
Can't win games by himself though can he?

chiefdave said:

Same shit, different season really. Every year go in to the season hyped up that we've put a squad together to challenge, then we have a slow start and everyone declares we're relegation candidates and the players are stealing a living.

Then there's something that happens, usually an injury to a key player, that forces a change and we go off on another run and end up challenging for play offs.

As people were posting last night even fans of other clubs are commenting that we're doing the same thing every year. If only we could work out a way to have half decent form in the first couple of months of the season.

Just wish we'd have taken the extra 4 points from very winnable games against Cardiff and Portsmouth. Keep thinking back to those 2 games a looking at where those points would have us sat now. So frustrating.

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Concentrating on 2 of the games where Lampard dropped points rather than Robins losing 4 games at home to mediocre/poor opposition. Incredible really...

TomRad85 said:

Concentrating on 2 of the games where Lampard dropped points rather than Robins losing 4 games at home to mediocre/poor opposition. Incredible really...

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I assume a few on here will be in the Stoke end next month

The next 2 home games are real banana skins, Preston history then Robins’ Stoke

PVA said:

Dovin has genuinely made the difference for me.

We've had some good spells and good performances recently but I don't think we're actually playing that much better than earlier in the season. We've just got a keeper that doesn't let everything in.

Collins or Wilson concedes at least one last night.

(and before anyone says, no this is not a pro Robins/anti Lampard post or anything like that).

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Exactly, I'm not trying to be as negative or anti Lampard as I sound either, just trying to be objective.

I do actually think we'll make the playoffs - how is that negative or anti Lampard?! Just not getting carried away that we're now suddenly a brilliant team under him.

Yes, we're getting results now - which is brilliant. Every season recently we've had a good run of results at some point (I think last year we had a sustained 2-3 month run of top 2 form?), and Lampard has mostly done it, so far, off the brilliance of Dovin and making us a bit tighter at the back. 2 Seasons ago Robins did it off the brilliance of Gyokeres and Hamer and making us more solid at the back. There's nothing wrong with either of those methods, and credit to Lampard for doing so, especially while we have our better players out. But I'm not suddenly claiming we have transformed into a fantastic team putting in unplayable performances (like we have at times previously), and maybe we will do that when we get EMC/Wright/Sheaf and Grimes firing on all cylinders and this is just a solid platform to build off?

I'll be delighted if we get promoted grinding out results against the midtable teams and below all season and shithousing the playoffs, with Dovin being the star. Just acknowledging it's just a different way to skin a cat, instead of harnessing periods of immense momentum and performances following runs of subpar/indifferent results/performances.

chiefdave said:

Same shit, different season really. Every year go in to the season hyped up that we've put a squad together to challenge, then we have a slow start and everyone declares we're relegation candidates and the players are stealing a living.

Then there's something that happens, usually an injury to a key player, that forces a change and we go off on another run and end up challenging for play offs.

As people were posting last night even fans of other clubs are commenting that we're doing the same thing every year. If only we could work out a way to have half decent form in the first couple of months of the season.

Just wish we'd have taken the extra 4 points from very winnable games against Cardiff and Portsmouth. Keep thinking back to those 2 games a looking at where those points would have us sat now. So frustrating.

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Every team who just misses out will have a Cardiff and a Portsmouth, its just the nature of that section of the league.
But, yeah, it's frustrating.

TomRad85 said:

Concentrating on 2 of the games where Lampard dropped points rather than Robins losing 4 games at home to mediocre/poor opposition. Incredible really...

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Well done on completely missing the point. As I said we always start the season slow, at this point our shit starts and subsequent surge up the table are so common its practically a meme.

So really you look to the Derby game which was absolute dogshit and cost Robins his job. If you turn that one into a win then Robins doesn't get sacked at that point and who knows where that leads us to.

If you really want to get into it what pisses me off is that from long before there was even whispers of Robins getting the axe there was talk that King wanted to bring Lampard in. We then spent weeks fucking around with a recruitment process that took far longer than other clubs to end up with the person who we all knew it was going to be.

Look at how things have improved after a month under Lampard and his coaching team, why wouldn't you want that to have started sooner? Do you really think the team in the sort of form we've been in after Lampard had a month of working with them would have been pumped 4-0 by Portsmouth because I don't.

For me given it was always going to be Lampard I'd have had him in after the Sunderland game at the very latest so he had the international break to work with the squad. Who knows where we'd be now if King had done that. Fuck all to do with Robins, or Lampard for that matter.

6th place is currently heading to 68 pts finish.

That is very achievable.

First target though should be to make sure we finish in the top half again. That would be 4 seasons in a row of being top half championship. Also our 8th top half finish in 10 years.

That sort of consistency is what builds a football club. It breeds a winning mentality. It gets bums on seats. Players want to come to us.

The loser mentality plagued us for decades. “We’re only Coventry, we should just be grateful to stay in whatever division we’re in”.

I’m so glad that mindset has been almost eliminated from the club and fans

Sky Blue Goblin said:

15 Games in for Frank Lampard. Safe to say he’s doing okay.

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Literally got us going at a similar rate to the teams people consider to be the 4 stand out teams, and that's obviously with time needed to get his ideas across. We'd be around Sunderland if he'd been here all season imo.