Roker Pierre
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Depends if he goes or not and if he does who takes over.
Frank Lampard
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Pepe
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Fair enough. Plenty room in the thick as fuck farm. Single or Double?
I was trying to be polite to the thick fuckers.
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vinegar hill
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Lampard did ok at Derby, no more no less.
It doesn’t mean to say that he won’t be a success though as a manager.
He has huge experience was a top class player and played for top class managers.
You would assume he’d be backed financially at Chelsea and have top class players at his disposal.
He has every chance, I hope he succeeds, he seems a good lad.
It doesn’t mean to say that he won’t be a success though as a manager.
He has huge experience was a top class player and played for top class managers.
You would assume he’d be backed financially at Chelsea and have top class players at his disposal.
He has every chance, I hope he succeeds, he seems a good lad.
BucketBiff
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Like Gerrard both him and Lampard could easily have plonked arse in the Studio. I hope both are a success. It’s usually some foreign manager who gets a top job in England. Like to see more take a punt on young English managers.
myleftfoot1978
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Both he and gerrard start very high up, poor sol had to drop to league 2, no wonder he asks the questions about his colour holding him back, it’s not that he is a fruit loop
Derby had to slash the wage bill and he got the age of the squad right down
He did really well
TravellingMackem
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Difference is that Lampard started crap and got better, whereas Ross went the other way
riffraff
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Chelsea have a transfer ban iirc.
mart
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A lot of Derby’s higher earners and older players were out of contract anyway so the age of the squad and wage bill decreased naturally without them losing too much from the squad. He took over with them in a very strong situation and they still spent a fair amount of money and benefitted from a fair few loans due to his name. He came into a situation a thousand times healthier than Ross.
bedlington mackem
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Thats true....but times have also changed since in the 10 years Campbell stopped playing. It is right that he finally got his chance and good luck to him but Lampard and Gerrard were always going to get a good opportunity very quickly. If Henderson chooses to go into management after playing he also will get a good job not just because of his experience but simply because he has been a model professional
mart
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Their longest winning streak during the season was 4. It ended on the first of September.
TravellingMackem
Winger
Because that’s the only metric for success ever?
Ashley In!!
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Lampard seems way more likeable than Gerrard.
mart
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You claimed Lampard/Derby had started off crap and gotten better. The fact their best run of form came in August suggests otherwise. They were fairly steady throughout the season and failed to get any sort of run going which is why they were nowhere near automatic promotion.
vinegar hill
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Good point mate.
His job just became harder!
TravellingMackem
Winger
On a game by game basis they did get considerably better, performance wise. And general results got better, contrary to your poor metric designed to suit your agenda. Is WWWDWWW worse than WWWWLLL for instance?
Whereas we got progressively worse as the season progressed
mart
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That might have worked if that’s how Derby’s season went, it isn’t. They got fewer points in the 2nd half of the season than they did in the first. It’s nothing to do with an agenda. I like Lampard but he still has a lot to prove as a manager. The praise he is getting is way over the top and the criticism Ross is getting is way over the top which was my original point.
At the half way point they were 5th with 39 points.
They finished 6th with 74 points.
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