Dancfc
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BIB:that was always a decision that was either going to be a stroke of genius or backfire spectacularly, unfortunately it's looking like the latter. The one thing I did think we were safe from with such a young modern coaching set up was dinosaur football, clearly not.From day dot i think majority of us were blinded by sentiment re. Frank being manager and gave him a free pass whatever he did. Especially last season with the ban, which was acceptable.
But to me he just looks bereft of ideas. Standing there with arms folded for 90mins just tells me he isnt sure what to do... it sometimes feels like a case of "Heres the 11, heres where you are playing, crack on; lets hope something happens." and he has favourites, which is not good really. It's like surely he has watched Werner, & Havertz in Germany and worked out their best positions from that, or more pointedly, worked out what style of play really accomodates them. I mention those 2 because according to the Athletic our board are not happy with how they are performing under Frank. He sometimes seems to shoehorn them into the team where there is a gap, in order so Abraham can play, or Mount.
A plan B seems missing. We rarely change formation, and i think the only real change has made tactically is throwing another striker on. But thats not a plan B IMO... Much as i hate to say it the job is too big for him, but i wish for him to stay and learn to get out of this rut. But we are a club with an owner who wont let you learn on the job, and he has a lot to learn. Lampard needs to drop down the ladder, cut his teeth for a few years and them make his way back up. Because at Derby he only had about 50 games.
My other gripe is he has no one on the touchline with experience of this kinda scenario to lean on and get ideas from of what to do. Jody Morris is our current assistant, he needs demoting and a wise head brought in. We have the least experienced coaching team in the league i'd bet, it baffles feck out of me how anyone can think that isnt an issue
One thing I will say though is whatever happens now I do think appointing him was the right move. With the circumstances we faced with the transfer ban and losing our game changer we needed a man who would commit to a rebuild and would put the club before himself, one who would finally make use of our unbelievably good academy side (something we still need to consider as we have even more talent still to come through) and he's done that, apart from at LW we're stronger in every single position now compared to the team he inherited and that's largely down to him. He sadly doesn't look like the man that's going to get us back to the top himself, but he'd have played his part in getting us there and I hope that doesn't get lost because of how things look to be ending.