2022/23 Frank Lampard

[skumar55]

Why haven't we sacked him? We should've done it during the 6 weeks break last year. Typical Everton this.

 

[Egil Olsen]

Possibly but I really don’t know what system you could play that would make a difference. You can rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic, it’s still going to sink.

To me, at the start of the season I couldn’t really see how we were going to win a game with the players we had. If we stayed up it would be by the skin of our teeth and by being the lowest scorers in the league- basically staying in games and nicking the odd undeserved 1-0 win. Start of the season looked like we might be able to do that but it’s zero margin for error football and it’s tailed off.

His record is terrible but it’s not unexpected, to me at least. People can gnash their teeth and demand better but it’s not going to magically happen with the players we have.

I think you have rather low expectations. Basically, we could just save ourselves from hiring an expensive manager and an expensive team around him, and instead hire a couple of grassroots coaches. Because the result will be the same anyway, and we would save a lot of money.

But yes, the situation has no magical solution, but a rather obvious solution: We need decision-makers who are competent, we need a concept that makes sense based on where Everton is currently in the football hierarchy, and not least we need a competent manager. Right now we have neither.

 

[trueblue84]

Why haven't we sacked him? We should've done it during the 6 weeks break last year. Typical Everton this.

I actually take no enjoyment in seeing lampard go. A likeable, but ultimately limited manager.

The board are the problem and while they continue in their roles, we will keep circling the plughole.

 

[Moomin]

That's been the case since Big Sam came in though.

Personally think I've seen glimpses of a team that's solid enough but his inexperience shines through. Key point is that our forward line needs some firepower...but yet instead of compensating our lack of goals he still thinks we can play football, create, and score with players that just can't.

There's nothing wrong with being ultra defensive if you're getting results.

Ultra defensive but have faced the most shots in the premier league.

Thankfully Pickford has made the most saves.

It's been luck which has stopped us from having more defeats this season.

 

[ProZ]

Get him sacked you silly bastards why is he still here

 

[jerseytoffee]

Feel so s*** just want Carlo back

 

[PhilEFC]

It’s too broad brush and extreme to say that the ‘whole board’ are a ‘disgrace’

Firstly, the club is trying to do something very difficult in compete in the premier league

Secondly, the fans are a major part of the problem and not really held accountable

If there’s a key change to make here it is surely that the club needs a new owner and probably Chairman

There was talk of buyers a few months ago but that seems to have cooled. We might be in a position where that won’t happen this season

Yeah the whole board are a disgrace. Who in the board is earning their money and making a positive difference? The club is ran by amateurs.

What have the fans done that they need to be accountable? Do they get paid to run the club?

 

[blue to the bone]

It was Rosenior that was meant to be the brains/hands on coach behind him at Derby.

Yet he was sacked by Derby a few months after Rooney left

 

[Egil Olsen]

Im not disagreeing with that. Even Ancelotti did it. Even the most successful manager in Europe knew we were sh!t.
Thats why i said fair enough. If thats where we constantly are so be it.
Its just so grim that one player in our midfield last night cost more than the entire brighton midfield by almost double and yet they can press, hold the ball. Pass it. Score.

Everton are the most depressing team in England.

Ancelotti is a pragmatic manager, and in the right context he is excellent. But he was never the right man for a club like Everton. What Everton needed was a manager who built for the future. I said it at the time, it's gambling, if we didn't succeed with the short-term (expensive) investments it would bite us in the ass in the future.

 

[dannyboy]

I think everyone is unanimous in liking Lampard but it's now becoming clear he got the job because the board are utterly clueless. Worryingly they will be even more clueless now as they prepare for yet another managerial search.

Something to watch out for over the next couple of weeks is Lampard throwing people under the bus. Towards the back end of his Chelsea stint this became a common theme. See the same happening here.

 

[TimHowardsBeardJuice]

I get the idea of sticking with him thru poor results, because he needs time and we can’t keep burning through managers.

But it’s not the result that terrifies. It’s that there is no sign of a plan.

 

[Legend Barry Horne]

Yeah the whole board are a disgrace. Who in the board is earning their money and making a positive difference? The club is ran by amateurs.

What have the fans done that they need to be accountable? Do they get paid to run the club?

I think the key problem is the ownership and I’d focus on that rather than the likes of Graeme Sharp - I don’t think he’s a key part of the problem. Or Grant Ingles

Some fans don’t seem to have any resilience or perspective - football is so much about confidence and the fans help create fear at times in the players and staff, when actually support would help their confidence more. Some fans don’t seem to have the resilience to remain positive through difficult runs

 

[Lobster Johnson]

I think the key problem is the ownership and I’d focus on that rather than the likes of Graeme Sharp - I don’t think he’s a key part of the problem

Some fans don’t seem to have any resilience or perspective - football is so much about confidence and the fans help create fear at times in the players and staff, when actually support would help their confidence more. Some fans don’t seem to have the resilience to remain positive through difficult runs

If they can't be arsed, why should I?

 

[Thomasc]

I think everyone is unanimous in liking Lampard but it's now becoming clear he got the job because the board are utterly clueless. Worryingly they will be even more clueless now as they prepare for yet another managerial search.

Something to watch out for over the next couple of weeks is Lampard throwing people under the bus. Towards the back end of his Chelsea stint this became a common theme. See the same happening here.

When you have been a world class midfielder like he has, it just be hard to not comment on players who just aren’t up to it at the levels he was. Which in truth probably makes him not suitable for management unless he can curtail that.

But at the same time, when the players are cheating the fans and not even putting the effort in like last night, then they fully deserve calling out.

 

[Legend Barry Horne]

If they can't be arsed, why should I?

I think clearly they can and the gulf in focus and application between those on the pitch and sitting round it is light years in scale

This is helping highlight the problem - lack of understanding and empathy, unnecessary negativity etc