I have voted for Sean Dyche , something I didn't think I would ever do and even as recently as twelve months ago when Lampard was appointed I didn't consider Dyche then.
However, in the last number of weeks since we have found ourselves back in the same situation as last year I have started to reassess my description of Everton Football Club..
We have this notion that we still are a big club( and in many ways we are) but realistically we have done nothing to show that on the field we are anything other than average and in more recent times worse than average.
We dream of appointing top managers and signing top players when the reality is we are not attractive to either. We can't afford either and our attempt to do both has landed us in the manure from a playing and financial point of view..
I think we need to find ourselves as a club again, go back to basics, build a team of hard workers who are difficult to beat rather than filling our team with players who believe they are top six players but play like bottom six or worse.
We need a manager who knows how to build a team not to lose first of all and then take it from there. Instead we are talking about taking on the better teams when we can't even beat those around us or below us.
I laughed at the idea of appointing Eddie Howe , but no more.
I think the manager to replace Frank Lampard, if that is to happen, must be a manager capable of leading a team threatened with relegation , capable of building a solid team, reestablishing the club as a Premiership regular rather than a manager talking about Championships and Europe while leading us to relegation.