It's Lampard!

[jaberry2 550]

4 minutes ago, Google Bot said:

You need to a see specialist for help with that, the managerial appointment is least of your worries.

You either a) Sit in the camp which likes him as a name, regardless of his managerial background b) sit firmly in the belief in terms of managerial quality he is very much unproven and offers very little. I would of expected another more competent technical manager to come in.

Thanks for the note regarding seeing a specialist, however I am tied up with your mum at the moment. 🙂

Edited November 11, 2021 by jaberry2

[unique 435]

Can he organise a defence?

Is he a fan of zonal marking?

Is he anything but a downgrade on Farke?

Does Christine own anything yellow or green in her wardrobe?

Will Dad expect free tickets for the away game at Southampton?

[The Engineer 16]

Great appointment in my opinion. In terms of him vs Knutsen, I believe Frank's playing style a lot easier and quicker to implement than Knutsen's and therefore giving us a better chance to stay up. Will be interesting to see if he uses his generally more defensively sound 3-4-3 as his base formation which may be more suited than his 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 attack which has been very defensively frail and used when he is in charge of a team expected to be stronger than most opponenets.

If he uses the 3-4-3 then it'll be interesting to see what he's learnt from Tuchel given he's got a better song in that system from the same players. Gives way to a Normann-Gilmour double-six which could be a very good watch! With Tzolis and Todd as the inside forwards...

[yellow_belly 226]

1 minute ago, jaberry2 said:

You either a) have the camp which likes him as a name b) sit firmly in the belief in terms of managerial quality he is very much unproven and offers very little. I would of expected another more competent technical manager to come in.

Thanks for the note regarding seeing a specialist, however I am tied up with your mum at the moment. 🙂

[Google Bot 3,275]

3 minutes ago, jaberry2 said:

Thanks for the note regarding seeing a specialist, however I am tied up with your mum at the moment. 🙂

Lost my mum few years back to cancer, so suggests you definitely need help if you're doing that, let alone saying it.  What a very weak soul you are.

As for why I'd like to see a top upcoming British manager come in to our club and raise morale?  Mmmmm? Not a clue.

 

Edited November 11, 2021 by Google Bot

[......and Smith must score. 1,342]

Just now, unique said:

Does Christine own anything yellow or green in her wardrobe?

 

She's Irish so quite possibly

[Commonsense 621]

4 minutes ago, ......and Smith must score. said:

If it is Lampard at least he'll raise our profile.....it's been all b*oody Gerrard and Villa so far this week.

Seems unlikely he'll bring that thug Terry with him which would be a good thing but if he's to make a decent fist of keeping us up he'll have to break that ' great player = poor manager ' template. As will Gerrard at Villa.

It'll be a novelty having a manager richer than the owners too.

 

Wouldn’t want Gerrard at all, but to be fair to him I don’t think you can say he’s been a poor manager.

[yellow_belly 226]

Jaberry… very 1970s in your put down. Guess you are watching Roy Chubby Brown with Bot’s mum. Guess she is finding you a little grubby. 😂 
 

APOLOGIES: sorry Bot. Just read your comment above. I hope you are ok.

Edited November 11, 2021 by yellow_belly

[hogesar 9,658]

4 minutes ago, Dr Greenthumb said:

I don’t know, he hasn’t got many prem suitors though. I’d imagine he has applied for a few positions. The rumours couldn’t start quick enough for him.

I really, really hope I am wrong on this one. But this doesn’t seem a very good option for me.

Oh I agree, Frank was a long, long way from being my first choice. I'm just saying I don't think Webber could hide behind the owners on this.

[NR32-Yellow 7]

I'll cheer on Frank Lampard just as much as i have cheered on any other Norwich manager but I'll be very underwhelmed if this is true.

He was a fantastic footballer but his managerial record is nothing but average in my opinion.

He took over at Derby who finsihed 6th the season before.
He then spent over £12M on transfers, on players like Martyn Waghorn, Jack Marriott and Florian Jozefzoon.
All of them left the club on a free transfer this summer, a complete waste of money.
He also got Mason Mount, Fikayo Timori and Harry Wilson on loan. Three top players irrespective of age at the time.
Where did he guide them to in the league......6th position.
No improvement on the previous management despite having better tools to work with. 

He then got the Chelsea position.
Chelsea had a transfer ban so they couldn't sign any players (Luckily no money wasted) and managed to qualify for the Champions in his first season, fair play Lampard.
He then spent over £200M on Chilwell, Havertz, Ziyech and Werner. You could argue that's even more money he has wasted as in my opinion only 3 of them have regularly played in the starting line up (Chilwell, Werner and Havertz). From them 3 Werner has been nothing short of a let down.
He then got the sack that after 19 games whilst they were in 9th place.
Tuchel then took over the same set of players and won the Champions League!

Lampard hasn't actually improved a clubs league standing yet in his managerial career.

If he didn't have such a fantastic playing career i don't believe he would get a Premier League opportunity based off of his manergerial record.

I will be singing his name as loud as the next man but i cant help but feel underwhelmed.
I would of preferred to of kept Farke.

Please prove me wrong Frank.


 

Edited November 11, 2021 by NR32-Yellow

[BroadstairsR 2,163]

8 minutes ago, jaberry2 said:

Poor decision if true. A variety of different candidates with solid managerial pedigree who could of built on the tactical side of the game.

Now I have to listen to Frank Lampards Norwich City with every single press release. *yawn

I think I prefer it to Delia Smith's Little Old Norwich City any day.

MotD here we fcuking come. If we're not first up on Saturday week I'll eat my hairpiece.

Oh! Hang on. Steven Gerrard's Aston Villa might be preferred.

Fascinating times. Do we get the full weight of the Lampard/Redknap dynasty behind the club?

Edited November 11, 2021 by BroadstairsR

[Robert N. LiM 4,338]

2 minutes ago, The Engineer said:

Will be interesting to see if he uses his generally more defensively sound 3-4-3 as his base formation

I think 343 is the best way of deploying our best players, so let's hope so.

I'm pretty underwhelmed, but your post has at least given me a reason to be cheerful, so thanks!

[......and Smith must score. 1,342]

Just now, Commonsense said:

Wouldn’t want Gerrard at all, but to be fair to him I don’t think you can say he’s been a poor manager.

To be fair if you manage Rangers or Celtic you'd have to pretty rank not to do reasonably well.

Villa is a better test

[PurpleCanary 5,557]

If true this is a mistake, and a surprising one.

[Well b back 3,203]

Lakey is going to throw his season ticket at him

[canarydan23 4,060]

Probably the most depressed I've been as a Norwich fan ever.

[Mr Apples 1,320]

Lombard out! 🤭

Apples

[yellow_belly 226]

3 minutes ago, NR32-Yellow said:

I'll cheer on Frank Lampard just as much as i have cheered on any other Norwich manager but I'll be very underwhelmed if this is true.

He was a fantastic footballer but his managerial record is nothing but average in my opinion.

He took over at Derby who finsihed 6th the season before.
He then spent over £12M on transfers, on players like Martyn Waghorn, Jack Marriott and Florian Jozefzoon.
All of them left the club on a free transfer this summer, a complete waste of money.
He also got Mason Mount, Fikayo Timori and Harry Wilson on loan. Three top players irrespective of age at the time.
Where did he guide them to in the league......6th position.
No improvement on the previous management despite having better tools to work with. 

He then got the Chelsea position.
Chelsea had a transfer ban so they couldn't sign any players (Luckily no money wasted) and managed to qualify for the Champions in his first season, fair play Lampard.
He then spent over £200M on Chilwell, Havertz, Ziyech and Werner. You could argue that's even more money he has wasted as in my opinion only 3 of them have regularly played in the starting line up (Chilwell, Werner and Havertz). From them 3 Werner has been nothing short of a let down.
He then got the sack that after 19 games whilst they were in 9th place.
Tuchel then took over the same set of players and won the Champions League!

Lampard hasn't actually improved a clubs league standing yet in his managerial career.

If he didn't have such a fantastic playing career i don't believe he would get a Premier League opportunity based off of his manergerial record.

I will be singing his name as loud as the next man but i cant help but feel underwhelmed.
I would of preferred to of kept Farke.

Please prove me wrong Frank.


 

That’s the spirit

[Dean80 1]

24 minutes ago, sonyc said:

If it is Lamps, will he bring JT with him (or might he stay at Villa?).

he’s not at villa no more? mite be able to help sort out the defence 

[yellow_belly 226]

Just now, Mr Apples said:

Lombard out! 🤭

Apples

What the finance company?

[......and Smith must score. 1,342]

21 minutes ago, Capt. Pants said:

The FL/JT package would be pretty fab, but would cost the club and arm and a leg - Frank is going to want a fair old wedge that's for sure.

John Terry is the last person I'd want anywhere near Carrow Rd.

 

 

[Google Bot 3,275]

1 minute ago, canarydan23 said:

Probably the most depressed I've been as a Norwich fan ever.

At least it can only get better for you.  I'm on a high and my bubble could be dreadfully burst in the coming weeks!

[canarydan23 4,060]

1 minute ago, PurpleCanary said:

If true this is a mistake, and a surprising one.

It would have been surprising a few months ago, but it's quite clear that Webber has fallen off the rails big time. It's a lot to deal with at his relative young age and it's not that surprising that he started to believe his own hype. Sadly it's affected his ability in his job role, look at the scattergun approach to recruitment and his now twice massive failings in filling obvious squad gaps (CB last time we were promoted CDM this time). He has gone from "we won't be signing relegated players, they're damaged goods" to packing out our squad with relegated players this time around.

His head has gone. And this is the appointment of a man whose head has gone.

[shefcanary 2,402]

I think Frank can keep us up, but expect the team to run out of steam fairly quickly next season.  However Frank will probably already be on to his next role by then.  Interesting times.

[Yellow Fever 3,772]

Game On!

As I noted before - reminds of John Bond joining (we were in trouble then too - went down and straight back up).

No Little 'ol Norwich any more.

Media darlings - but all in all both the squad, Webber and now Lamps have something to prove. 

[TeemuVanBasten 3,327]

 

13 minutes ago, hogesar said:

I don't agree with this at all.

Of course there's context about going down.

If we go down without much of a fight still, with the signings made not looking good enough under Lampard too, then not only would we have reason to blame Webber for his signings in the summer, we'd then have reason to blame him for sacking one of our best managers for someone without significant experience who's delivered less than Farke (in context).

Your week long winge fest is getting boring now.

It won't be difficult for Lampard to improve on Farke's points per game ratio this season will it.

That you are even considering the possibility suggests a degree of wishful thinking on your part. 

Well I hope Lampard, Webber and the players succeed this season. 

[Hoolahoop14 124]

At the start of the week I was dead against him. However as the week has gone on I’ve certainly warmed to the idea of Lampard being our new manager, and am now beginning to think that he’s possibly the best fit out there.

 

Imagine being one of our players, who have almost all grown up watching Lampard week in week out. The respect that they’ll have for him will be huge. Day 1 of training, there’ll be no “oh let’s see what this Norwegian bloke I’ve never heard of is all about”, it’ll be “here’s one of the best English footballers of the last 20 years, I need to show him what I’m about”.

 

Lampard clearly wants another shot at Premier League management otherwise he would’ve taken the England U21’s job in the summer. He’ll be eager to prove himself after the manner of his Chelsea exit, and we could even see an element of rivalry between him and Gerrard.
 

My personal feelings about the man aside, I think Lampard is a good appointment. No idea whether it will work, but I’m excited to see what happens.

[It's Character Forming 1,160]

1 minute ago, canarydan23 said:

Probably the most depressed I've been as a Norwich fan ever.

 I'm underwhelmed and unconvinced it's the right appointment, if true, but I will see how it goes.

 

Personally,  losing 5-0 to the scum or getting relegated to L1 were much more depressing for me as a City fan.  But each to their own.

[Monty13 2,231]

4 minutes ago, PurpleCanary said:

If true this is a mistake, and a surprising one.

You are going to need to expand on that.

[Dr Greenthumb 749]

1 minute ago, hogesar said:

Oh I agree, Frank was a long, long way from being my first choice. I'm just saying I don't think Webber could hide behind the owners on this.

I really hope Webber knows something we don’t