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UltraVires
Player Valuation: £10m
I think Frank needs to improve on his substitutions tactically when we need it and that didn’t get tested today.
However, I think we need to give him real credit for coming in and creating a spirit at the end of last season and then building on that by bringing in real characters to harness that spirit.
For the first time in a long time I feel like I like our players and our team and for large parts, I trust they will give it their all and if they lose then that is either down to us not being good enough yet or because Frank is a young manager who will make mistakes but we just have to hope he learns from them in the longer term.
I said it in a thread I created the other day and I stand by it, Frank shouldn’t be judged on the 3 games that came before this one but he should be judged on our run now to the WC break as we are playing the sort of teams that are supposed to be in and around us.
However, I think we need to give him real credit for coming in and creating a spirit at the end of last season and then building on that by bringing in real characters to harness that spirit.
For the first time in a long time I feel like I like our players and our team and for large parts, I trust they will give it their all and if they lose then that is either down to us not being good enough yet or because Frank is a young manager who will make mistakes but we just have to hope he learns from them in the longer term.
I said it in a thread I created the other day and I stand by it, Frank shouldn’t be judged on the 3 games that came before this one but he should be judged on our run now to the WC break as we are playing the sort of teams that are supposed to be in and around us.
Think we can all be guilty at times at jumping the gun and second guessing frank as manager. I myself have done, but it’s also to note that frank himself as said we will have up and downs and have a run if games of poor results. He understands where we are what’s are limits right now. We need to steady the course, stick through the bad and hopefully reap the rewards in the future. No guarantee in football, but you look at arsenal they stuck with Mikel even when majority of the fans wanted him gone. They look totally different team now with him being their 3 years.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £70m
You couldn't enjoy a 3 nil win because we lost to 3 of the better teams in the league (2 of which away from home and one which a dodgy penalty changed the game)? Have you watched the goals?
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11.30 am in the good ole UK.
The Jaffa 8 must have just got up , frothing at the mouth is not a nice sight on a Sunday morning.
SUPER
SUPER FRANK
SUPER FRANKIE LAMPARD.
The Jaffa 8 must have just got up , frothing at the mouth is not a nice sight on a Sunday morning.
SUPER
SUPER FRANK
SUPER FRANKIE LAMPARD.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Binned:
Keane, Kenny, Gomes, Delph, Allan, Dele, VdB, Davies, Tosun
Kept faith with:
Mykolenko, Gordon, Iwobi, Patterson
He dropped the 5 at the back and the 433 when he needed to
Frank makes good decisions. It might be a week or two later than we’d all like but he fixes the problems. We’ll be miles better off in the future if we just let him keep going.
Keane, Kenny, Gomes, Delph, Allan, Dele, VdB, Davies, Tosun
Kept faith with:
Mykolenko, Gordon, Iwobi, Patterson
He dropped the 5 at the back and the 433 when he needed to
Frank makes good decisions. It might be a week or two later than we’d all like but he fixes the problems. We’ll be miles better off in the future if we just let him keep going.
tsubaki
Player Valuation: £90m
I don't think he has binned Davies off, and should standards in the middle drop (or someone gets injured) I expect both that Davies will get a chance and that he will take it.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I think he’s now 6th choice midfielder behind the starting three and Garner Doucoure. That’s a massive decline from before his injury where he was effectively first reserve and given the amount of injuries Allan and Doucoure would pick up he was playing most weeks and starting regularly.
I know the last three reuslts haven’t been great but we went away to Newcastle and Spurs and competed in the midfield. We no longer look like slow one paced players chasing after quicker opponents. Against Palace we were monstering them at times. Davies just can’t play this way, he’s just not quick enough.
It's a Russian i pad job, mate - can you offer your services as his interpreter lol
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
Fabulous win for Frank, yesterday. This was, arguably, the most exciting performance of his tenure to date and justifies the patience many of us are prepared - albeit, reluctantly - to grant him. Most critically, it goes a long way to buying him time to get to January and reinforce up top - because that's the glaring missing piece of the jigsaw now. As posted on here, I thought we'd win, but 3-0 was emphatic and exciting.
The table looks a lot more healthy right now - but make no mistake, like half the league, we are in a relegation battle until we are not. I said Frank needed a bare minimum of five to six points from 12 to hold on to his job. He's got the first three. Let's drive on now to earn eight or nine points from these games and put down some roots for the rest of the season. But let's not get carried away. Reverse the open-top bus back into the garage and start collecting some points on a consistent basis between now and Qatar and we can all - including Frank, who looks like a cat on a hot tin roof at times - breathe a big sigh of relief.
The table looks a lot more healthy right now - but make no mistake, like half the league, we are in a relegation battle until we are not. I said Frank needed a bare minimum of five to six points from 12 to hold on to his job. He's got the first three. Let's drive on now to earn eight or nine points from these games and put down some roots for the rest of the season. But let's not get carried away. Reverse the open-top bus back into the garage and start collecting some points on a consistent basis between now and Qatar and we can all - including Frank, who looks like a cat on a hot tin roof at times - breathe a big sigh of relief.
This state of mind needs to be gone
ToffeeScot
Player Valuation: £25m
Play like we did yesterday and more often than not we will beat the sides in the bottom half of the table. What I loved yesterday was we looked like a side with confidence which is even more impressive considering it was after 3 defeats. Last season there is absolutely no way we would have put in a performance like that. We would have been terribly negative and feeling sorry for ourselves. That's a massive improvement not only from last season but from the previous three games. We just have to back it up like we did against Southampton a few weeks ago with another win.
They're just fuming still over the Forest result.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
Indeed. And it will be - with points on the board.
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