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[Albion] Lampard sacked...
- Thread starter vagabond
- Start date
Don't upset the owner! 
Insel affe
HellBilly
My son's favourite Xmas present was the Frank Lampard poster...
May I suggest some home made Hiny art is probably going to be called for....
Don't tell the West Ham fans that, they detest him! They wouldn't want him anywhere near the job.
He needs to start again lower than the Premier League and learn the job. He looked tactically lost in so many matches.
And the poster suggesting he's better than Potter has properly lost the plot.
Arkwright
Arkwright
Sadly this was always on the cards, Frank never had the experience for the job. He didn't do an exceptional job at Derby I was surprised he landed the Chelsea job but it was the home coming of a legend in the eyes of Chelsea fans.
Credit where it's due he did a fantastic job last season but that was with a young squad of players who both knew and were hungry to play for the club. Bringing in big money signings has ruined the balance of Frank's squad.
Oh well it's not really a news story "Chelsea Sack Manager".
Credit where it's due he did a fantastic job last season but that was with a young squad of players who both knew and were hungry to play for the club. Bringing in big money signings has ruined the balance of Frank's squad.
Oh well it's not really a news story "Chelsea Sack Manager".
neilbard
Hedging up
- Oct 8, 2013
- 6,280
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Amusing, the amount of stats I’ve heard this season to back Potter up expected goals, pass completion, possession, chances created, it’s the strikers fault or maybe the defensive play. The one stat that really matters is conveniently brushed under the carpet.
- Thread starter
- #128
How many points should a Brighton be at, at this stage of the season then? And what are you basing that on?
Baring in mind GP took us to a record points total last season.
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
6 more than we've got now.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
You are comparing apples to pears here
Think he was a stop gap for last year, he only got this year because they got into top 4.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
I prefer him in a coat thanks
- Thread starter
- #133
So with us not being in the bottom 3. you would sack a Brighton manager for being 6 points short?
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
I think that the very warped logic is that Potter hasn’t done as well as Lampard so “why hasn’t he been sacked yet?”
Sheebo
Well-known member
- Jul 13, 2003
- 29,319
I’m all for opinions especially - ones with facts to back them up - but you seriously think this stat has even a 1% meaning?!?! Really?!
Let’s compare Potter and then his eventual successor and Hughton and Dean Wilkins etc to Klopp and Peps stats whilst we’re at it shall we - to prove they were all shit managers too
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,630
Not quite sure where the idea that he did brilliantly at Derby comes from. They're a club who under various managers had made the play offs and failed to go up several times: he just did exactly the same thing as they did. He didn't improve them nor put any sort of long term structure in place (they had a lot of loan signings in the first team squad in Lampard's season with them). If they had managed to get promoted they would have been absolutely screwed as it was all built on sand, or at least on Mason Mount.
If he wasn't a Chelsea legend on the pitch, he wouldn't have got that job in a million years: no way would Chelsea have so much as cast a glance at a rookie manager with one play off season in the Championship under his belt. It was simply the old boys network kicking in yet again. The same reason so many absolutely mediocre managers keep getting jobs, no matter how many times they get the boot.
Still. I guess after spending ludicrous amounts of money, achieving nothing, and getting sacked, he'll at least be able to look Uncle 'Arry in the eye over Christmas dinner now.
If he wasn't a Chelsea legend on the pitch, he wouldn't have got that job in a million years: no way would Chelsea have so much as cast a glance at a rookie manager with one play off season in the Championship under his belt. It was simply the old boys network kicking in yet again. The same reason so many absolutely mediocre managers keep getting jobs, no matter how many times they get the boot.
Still. I guess after spending ludicrous amounts of money, achieving nothing, and getting sacked, he'll at least be able to look Uncle 'Arry in the eye over Christmas dinner now.
Would that be when the turkey's down to the bare bones?
neilbard
Hedging up
- Oct 8, 2013
- 6,280
I’m all for opinions especially - ones with facts to back them up - but you seriously think this stat has even a 1% meaning?!?! Really?!
Let’s compare Potter and then his eventual successor and Hughton and Dean Wilkins etc to Klopp and Peps stats whilst we’re at it shall we - to prove they were all shit managers too
dejavuatbtn
Well-known member
OK, Houghton wins 2 yawns to nil.
neilbard
Hedging up
- Oct 8, 2013
- 6,280
I’m all for opinions especially - ones with facts to back them up - but you seriously think this stat has even a 1% meaning?!?! Really?!
Let’s compare Potter and then his eventual successor and Hughton and Dean Wilkins etc to Klopp and Peps stats whilst we’re at it shall we - to prove they were all shit managers too
Light the blue touch paper and retire..
