Better to have a lion to lead eleven sheep then a sheep to lead eleven lions.

If I were Lotito, the highest paid personal in a team is the coach, and then the players.

There was nothing about Mazzari in the summer that made  him (or makes him) any better an option than Ballardini. In fact, I heard more negative responses to the Mazzari option than I did the other options at the time.  Ballardini won his first 4-5 games too.....and now here we are!

 

I'm not defending anything to do with Lazio - though it's not anything I'd be ashamed to do. I'm taking issue with this constant logic that second guessing with the help of hindsight should somehow pass as analytical prescience. Mazzari is doing well and Balla is not, ergo, we should have got Mazzarri and ...well we know where this argument ends up (it's the same place they all do). And yes, there were plenty of people complaining about Mazzarri when he was suggested as a possible replacement - partly because in a very similar situation to Balla this year (three competitions, a game every three days etc.) Samp finished in what position?...oh yeah 13th.

None of this is a defense to Lazio per se but it is a defense of logic and honesty. Mazzarri is a good coach and I personally don't mind him. He seems to be doing well at the moment, but I don't recall the big protests in his favour when Ballardini was hired instead - here on this forum or elsewhere. 

I didn't protest to get Mazzari OR protested against getting Ballardini, but I can vouch for baggio10 who was adamant on getting Mazzari as coach during the whole coach hunt.

I didn't know too much of  ballardini as a coach to have a strong opinion but judging by his track record I didn't really have much of an impression but still was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt which is something i've learned with new acquisitions of players we get and give them a shot.

At this point it's pretty evident what needs to be done and we don't need to wait until january to remedy this problem. It's clear we have a shit coach who needs an early exit.

This is more like which came up first the egg or the chicken. Is it the coach or are players underperforming. I mean Sivigla and Criba won't become any better with any coach and there is our shitty mid .... can this things really change even if we get the world best coach ever.

True in the end the team is still half the problem and I do agree Napoli team is superior to ours and Mazzari or whichever coach came probably would have had it tough as well.

Ex players who are now coaches:

Sinisa, Mancini, Simeone, Signori

Right now I would take any of them over Ballardini.

No chance in hell DiCanio would have anything to do with this club again under lotito. 

If this team ever progresses again it will depend on how lotito spends his money come january and maybe we'll see this Lazio soar up the table respectably.

I don't know how much either will actually improve the squad in the end marginally better and we need a miracle worker to get anything from the current group.  Giampoalo was just fired from Siena so I don't know what he could possibly provide, Baretta seems like the lesser of two evils again. Your right though we probably won't get a coach like mancini but is it really that impossible, he has not found another squad yet, even livorno were able to get an ex NT coach in Donadoni and I know he was a poor NT coach but we should expect higher since this can have a major impact on the performance.