Iwobi on Lampard: Stick by him

It all comes down to results.

Wolves, City, Brighton, United, Southampton. You'd think we'll need at least 6/7 points from that lot to stay out of relegation zone. If we don't manage that then I wouldn't be surprised to yet again see a new face in the dugout.

Hard work alone won't make you successful. Ability without hard work won't either.

I hope Frank's attitude that helped him achieve things rubs off on our players who are good enough.

But he still needs better ones. Some are just not good enough or don't work hard enough. But he seems to be gradually changing it.

Let's go and pick up some points. Hopefully the pause has done them good and they have reset.

I fear that if Pickford plays a blinder this weekend and makes more Jordan the Cat saves in front of World Cameras, he could be toast as an Everton player in either January or the Summer.

I'm sure the management staff won't want to sell him, but if the Main Stand get a sniff, we know what happens in those scenarios.

Talk is cheap. Fulham onwards the level of football has been totally unacceptable. To keep Frank in the job it's down to the likes of Alex and other first teamers to start producing the goods on the pitch and getting the manager some results.

'Embracing the Everton culture was a bit difficult for me, but now I feel like I am one of them and I'm at home now.'

Embracing the Everton culture? Tell us more. What culture? It hardly sounds like a positive thing if a talented player brought up on the culture of Arsene Wenger's Arsenal found it so difficult. Is it still like that? Do others find it equally difficult? Is this what holds us back? We need to know more.

Maybe he meant the crime culture with Dunc, Unsy, Jeffers, Baxter.

If he can carry Frank through what is obviously a tough stretch he will be repaid with a system that revolves around him. If he steps into that leadership role we may have something serious to build on. I like it.

Hard Work needs to be combined with a game plan to fit. If lacking in too class forwards, which we are, then a game plan must be developed to suit.

We need to sign players, and probably will, but that won't automatically make us better as we aren't able to sign top class game changers.

Frank rode a wave of enthusiasm and an 'all on it together' feeling around the club, but that was a one off, it won't happen again. He needs to show he has ability to build a side that can get results, grind out wins in code games, and draws when we wouldn't expect to lose.

There is not a lot to be confident about at the moment unfortunately and thoroughly enjoying the break from the Premier League.

Agreed, the break has been very welcome. Among the many things which concerned me in the last three defeats was the lack of a viable alternative tactical approach.

Just now, watching the Dutch fight back against Argentina, it was interesting to see them using quite rudimentary tactics with a target man up front and high crosses into the area, some of those of the ‘Hail Mary' variety.

We must strengthen with at least one forward offering sufficient physical presence to be the focal point of the attack, create possession in the final third and score a few goals along the way. It won't and doesn't have to be a marquee signing; just someone who will do a basic job and stay fit.

Coming fixtures are challenging but every game is a challenge for us.

I agree with John Raftery that we have to mix things up if we can. Alas, I'm not convinced that we'll get the forward presence we need in January.

I'm sorry to be gloomy but those last games before the break were appalling and very Evertonian.

Two or three more defeats and Moshiri would have sacked Frank. Then it would a short list of Vitor Pereira, Sean Dyche, Alan Pardew and Fabio Cannavaro.

Interviews for the job would probably be done live on Talk Sports, with Jim White and Simon Jordan as the panel.

I would have expected the club to be atleast announcing by now one player coming in on 1st January but yet again being proactive is not in there nature.

Really down to the Everton players, and replacing those that are not good enough.

If that goes tits up though, would Simeone come to us and should we want him? I would say "yes" to both.

To annoy the vast majority on here, he would bring what Allardyce and Benitez could have brought had they not been dismissed, before they started, by Kenwright and the many useful idiot fans.

Being in sell to survive mode as a result of the BMD millstone I don't see any managerial change making a bit of difference. The players may not be great but they haven't downed tools on him.

The die is cast the Moshiri mismanagement of throwing millions down the shute on managers and sub-standard players has delivered it's inevitable result - we're in shit street.

We can only hope our astounding luck in always having 3 teams worse than us saves us. Till some other mug buys us.

Well, I think that if we keep on with this magic, not-so-merry-go-round, we're going to sink into the old First Division. We escaped it last season as supporters, the manager and the players, were as one.

If us, the supporters, give up on them, then we're (I was going to swear there!) going to be extremely lucky to avoid the drop.

Lampard's choice of players has been appalling. If you buy second-rate players, you end up with a second-rate team and we're worse than that.

I could buy a better team from the Argentinian third division for a fraction of what a succession of crap managers have wasted, yet it's a market that we ignore.