Reading Swansea forums it seems they see him as someone who wants a project and perhaps is not a man for immediate results. Some of them seemed to suggest he was happier to work within a budget than Potter, which might also appeal to the board, plus he's used to having American owners. His experience at youth levels would tie in with our aims of bringing more youth players through and it seems he does have a lot of contacts in the game. If he had an experienced coach alongside him I guess maybe it could work? It would be very much a risk though. Lampard has no experience of what it's like to manage a PL club at our level and if he hadn't been such a good footballer at England and at Chelsea I doubt anyone would be seriously considering him.

The bookies still had Howe as the favourite this morning and given Parish tried to get him before he went to Burnley all those years ago it does seem like the most obvious choice. The big question there is whether he is a genuine contender for the Celtic job, which may not pay as well but would certainly be more glamorous than us. Dyche probably guarantees you PL football, but would he really improve the performances? I couldn't see Eze and Zaha working well under him either.

Thomas Frank is a good young manager but you also have to take into account the very good scouting/analytical team Brentford have. Same can be said of Barnsley, previous unknown manager recruited from Austria was headhunted and now Valerian Ismael, also recruited from Austria doing a very good job

Dwight McNeil hasn’t done to badly playing for Dyche

I cleared the loft out with the wife the other day, horrible, dirty and smelly.......but she’s good with the kids

I did not know that, you learn something new every day. Thank you.

His name is not too dissimilar to an ex manager of ours, so I'm game.

My equalibrium unbalanced me. Paul Draper Brighton 19/2/2018