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You can only work with what you've got. Our defence is just not good enough. 

I predict we get comfortably beaten with that team. We will be far too open. 

8 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

Also, if this is your view, watch @StriderHiryu channel on YouTube and see the tactical frustrations from other games that Cooper shows he's not a top level one. 

No thanks. I'd sooner watch the game than listen to some randomer on YouTube (of which their are millions). 

1 minute ago, whoareyaaa said:

I don't get this line we are no worse than 10 other teams in the league, that's why we have matched most teams in the games so far.

Our squad is one of the weakest in the league. What Cooper is doing though is to create a team that will fight for each other and as a collective, get results. 

Just now, JimJams said:

This sort of comment is no better than those that give no credit.  Absolutely ridiculous thing to say.

Criticism is not about wanting him to fail.  Have you ever had a review in your job or been critiqued in your line of work? Do you think that's because your employer wants you to fail?

 

The problem is that there are three parties here. There are those that will never give credit no matter what happens, and there are those that are never critical no matter what happens.  And with both he can either do no right or do no wrong. There's an excuse for any outcome that either is or isn't his fault whichever side of the fence you're on.  Neither are objective.

And then there's the third party who are open to changing their opinions based on what they see and are open to praising and detracting in equal measure, and do so accordingly.  And if you're one of these people you'll get the other two accusing you of constantly changing your mind as if in some bizarre way, that's a bad thing.

 

I'm not saying which camp you're in, you'll know yourself, but the idea that anyone who is critical of Cooper wants him to fail, whilst probably true in some cases, is ridiculous to me.

No, it's the tone and the vitriol towards Cooper that is the problem. It's like some people would sooner us lose and for him to be sacked, rather than for us to win.

1 minute ago, FrankieADZ said:

its the performances and some of his tactics/player selection 

look back at the majority of the games this season, we've been battered, hung on etc, the players have shown they are more than good enough to stay up imo tho

we could easily be on 2/3 points on another day if you look deeper at the games we've played so far, Spurs should have been out of sight, bournemouth should have got something, yesterday southampton shit themselves, fulham should have been out of sight but went on to win anyway, hammered at arsenal,  everton could have been out of sight too, oh we should have lost to Walsall too,

 

hes not learning from the games we've played or from his time out the game either

And this is where people are deluded. We are not the team we once were. We are a bottom end Premier league team and there will be plenty of games where we are hanging on this season. We were never going to come into this league and dominate teams. The fact that we have been in every game this season is huge credit to Cooper. 

He's the saviour!!!!!

Not.

He nowhere near an exit. Some of you are going to be incredibly disappointed. He's just about to add to his coaching team. 

7 hours ago, GingerrrFox said:

Someone mentioned it previously but the parallels between how Ranieri and Cooper ended up managing our club are very similar. A new leader coming into the club after a period of success. So we as fans have already seen this kind of situation play out before and we’ve seen how a new manager coming in and making subtle tweaks can build on the previous man’s foundations. That being said Cooper set himself up to fail from the outset for me.
 

Despite saying he wanted to build off last season, what we are seeing has no resemblance to how the team performed under Enzo. Enzo was meticulous in planning, he made sure that every player knew their role within the 11 man team if they were selected for a game and the team functioned as a cohesive unit pretty much from the start. I remember watching the first half hour of football against Liverpool in pre-season and thinking “this is impressive to have a new group of players performing like this so early on”.
 

The players were almost robotic in that they knew exactly where the ball should go when faced with different scenarios on the pitch and the patterns of play were rhythmic at best. Cooper has come in and taken that structure away, you can see it in the training videos, Enzo and his coaching staff would use the same training drills and repetition was key, Enzo essentially acted like a conductor for an orchestra, making sure players were all on the same page. Cooper and his staff have taken the opposite approach and are trying to get the players to be expressive and work out solutions themselves and the players clearly aren’t reacting to this, this is why we look so lost in games, you can’t go from an environment of heavily structured play to completely removing the structure, it has to be a process. 
 

He’s alienated the two vital cogs in the Enzo machine, Vestergaard and Ricardo and he’s made the roles they played null and void in his new setup. He’s also not getting the best out of Harry Winks, this new system we are playing does not play to his strengths and going back to a double pivot in midfield instead of a full back inverting will not work unless he plays a midfielder alongside Winks that can receive the ball under pressure, turn and get us up the field. Both Fulham and Everton focused solely on marking Winks out of the game and leaving Ndidi free in deep areas of the pitch because they knew we couldn’t play fluidly through the 3rds of the pitch when building from the back with Ndidi.  
 

Not to mention throughout the summer, Cooper would make it clear that he felt the team wasn’t good enough in attacking areas and needed reinforcements, it’s not a great message to a group of players that you’ve worked with for a matter of weeks and then imagine being a player from the squad last season and look at who your new leader has brought in;

 

BDCR - no better than what we already have and now preventing the development pathway of the likes of Alves, McAteer and Golding.

 

Ayew - no better than Mavididi, Fatawu, Vardy, Daka and albeit a better player than BDCR, does he really improve us at this stage of his career?

 

Buonanotte - clearly a good player and does improve us but won’t be here after this season

 

Bilal - jury’s out but based on his performance on Saturday he’s gonna need time and nurturing to get up to speed

 

Edouard - no better than Vardy or Daka and we spent the bulk of our transfer money on Skipp and Okoli in positions that we can’t say are of a real need in comparison to us screaming out for a proper striker who can start to take the mantle from the legend that is Jamie Vardy. 
 

He’s ****ed it because he’s not at the level of the previous manager and he’s thrown away pretty much everything Enzo built upon last season, despite what he may claim in the media. 

Give him time. FFS.

We are doing more than well enough against a Champions league side. 

5 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

The problem with playing such a defensive team, and this happened loads with Rodgers, is it just tells the squad straight away that you don't have confidence in them to win the game. 

 

Especially a team that spent last year playing progressive, dominant football. 

 

Just shit for confidence. 

 

I'm not asking him to be unrealistic but this isn't pragmatism, it's cowardice. 

Sorry, is it not possible to win the game with this team? 

Just now, fox_favourite said:

You love it really. Go on, admit it. 

Nope. It's like being back in the classroom. 

Just now, RyCleary said:

How dare any of us mortals question the genius of Steve Cooper

You've just ignored my point. Read it again. 

1 minute ago, Bilo said:

My brother in Christ, you are complaining about people sharing their opinions about football on a football forum.

Nope. It's the over reaction from certain people...

6 minutes ago, hejammy said:

It's true, everyone should keep there footballing opinions to themselves on a football forum designed to have conversations about.... Oh wait. 

No issue with opinions, it's the ridiculous calls for Cooper's head based upon a team selection that needs to stop. Some people think they are playing football manager. 

I feel privileged to be in the company of so many footballing experts on here. I can't wait to watch you all take charge in the premiership in the near future. 

He's not premier league level. End of.