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No thanks. Every future striker should be inspired to wear the number 9, Leicester based youngsters should dream of wearing ‘Vardy’s number’. What if we had retired it after Chandler or Rowley? Or the number 1 after Banks? I have never understood this retiring numbers thing.

Great result with Ipswich losing. You just can’t overstate the importance of Vardy. Some (most) of the players we have are truly dreadful at this level. You can see it’s going to be a struggle with some of them, especially at the back. Kristiansen is a pub player. What on earth were we thinking signing some of these. Ruud has to learn that Mavididi is far, far better than Ayew and McAteer, even with his inconsistencies. Other than that we have to accept that making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear is going to take some time.

Based on that we are down. Very tough job for Ruud.

Need a sub here, we’re offering nothing. Mavididi for Soumare.

And there’s a guy just running through the middle of the pitch towards the box when we apparently have two defensive midfielders.

Well he started badly with that back 5, it tails off a little with Ayew up front, and the less said about the midfield the better. To be fair, our bench is also largely shocking, can’t say many of them demand a start. But Christ, that back 5. If it’s 2 up front it might be refreshing, I guess.

Anyone going to the game; is there a particular pub everyone is going to?

People are entitled to be entitled, it’s the fans that care about this little game, not the millionaire managers and players. I really hope he does well, and expectations, let’s face it, will be reasonably low at this club considering the trophies we’ve won in the last decade. But we’ve had far too many managers who don’t realise the sport exists as entertainment for local people. If we’re committed to trying to score goals (which is the aim after all, surely) then people will be forgiving of mistakes. It’s not that much to ask.

‘pRemiEr leAguE exPErieNce’ In all seriousness I have no idea how he’s going to do, but there’s no way he’d have been hired if it wasn’t for his caretaker stint at Man Utd. So hopefully we get lucky and he’s actually good.

😆 ‘Look, we can’t afford any decent managers, we’re appointing someone crap, deal with it!’

According to finishing statistics, yes he is. That’s a fact. His conversion rate is notably better than other English strikers since he started playing in the Premier League. He’s been playing in, let’s face it, a pretty negative team for most of years here, one that hasn’t created loads of chances. Kane is a media darling because he’s played for a media darling club that regularly competed in the top 4. Switch the two round and sure, Kane is still respected, but Vardy is the all-time England top scorer and Kane had to make do with being an impact sub. Personally, I think it’s moronic they didn’t play up front together, but managers love trends and not common sense. It’s regularly suggested that teams do better without Kane in the team. That has never been aimed at Vards. Let me put it this way, winning the league title with Kane up front would have been impossible. Vardy’s role in that team and the style of play is still understated.

Sorry but I don’t agree with a lot of this. History has proven that former players don’t necessarily have good tactical understanding - most managers are rubbish (very few are consistently good over a long period) and most managers are ex-players. I think you can get as much tactical knowledge just by watching football and having some critical thinking and analytical skills. It’s not a complicated game and the most common flaw of managers is trying to make it look like it is without any broad principles to inform their decision making. Also, football players are often not even interested in football and it’s history. These days it attracts kids who may like playing but they aren’t necessarily football fans. A lot of our players won’t even remember watching Van Nistelrooy in his prime and even if they did, and even if for some reason that automatically led to them respecting him as a manager, he could still lose that very quickly if he doesn’t have the people skills. I agree that being a ‘winner’ is a bonus but you can still have this personality and have only played for an average club because you had no pace. In other words, I don’t think it matters a jot whether you were successful as a player or not. Fergie, Wenger and Klopp weren’t world class players. Football clubs should be vetting managers on how they explain and justify their tactical philosophy, and what sort of personality they have. When all the fuss has died down those are the only things that are going to matter. I don’t care if I’ve never heard of them but Top and co are only interested in people they have heard of and seemingly want to do as little scouting as possible.

I think it will be RVN. And I think he wouldn’t even be on the shortlist if he hadn’t been managing Man U for a few games very recently. Our board are genuinely that simple. The main reason they hire anyone is some sort of (usually recent) familiarity with the league or club, no matter how basic or unsuccessful. Most our managers have fit into that category.

Sad news. One of the best commentary voices ever, I can’t understand why someone like him wasn’t on mainstream telly or Sky. I’d love to be able to download some radio highlights from the 90s that he commentated on. There’s so many iconic moments from that time. I didn’t get to many games so most of my early Leicester memories were listening to him and John Sinclair in the car with my dad.

Whereas Rodger is the opposite - a reasonable appointment at first, but by far the most ruinous manager of the 10. Frankly, aside from Pearson, Claudio and Enzo they’ve done a poor job.

Agree with this. Basically, we have put ourselves in a situation (again) where we are scraping the barrel. Sure we’re not in the bottom 3 but anyone who’s watched us now knows we are in a relegation battle. There’s no chance of us being surprise packages. Moyes would be brought in to do the job of keeping us up but in the long term both he and Potter would be very underwhelming appointments. I say this every season but our manager scouting is sickening.

Inevitable, no idea what the club saw in him. Can’t say I have high expectations for the next appointment.

I don’t understand why everyone uses terms like ‘attractive’ as a synonym possession football anyway. It’s the same with all new stadiums being ‘magnificent’. There’s no reasoning behind it, it’s just popular to say this about modern things. Possession football is not attractive in itself, I don’t know why it’s got that reputation. Attractive football is based more on a combination of quality and speed with excitement (shots) at the end of it. i.e. when we won the league it was attractive despite low possession stats. As far as I’m concerned, football that ends in lots goals is attractive by default, and yes, Cooper doesn’t care about goals until we are desperate and have already lost.

I just don’t really get what the club expected from this guy. It’s obvious he’s going to be sacked within 2 seasons. Either because we are getting relegated this season or next. We aren’t going to pull clear to mid table under Cooper, he doesn’t have any potential. Surely being one of the relegation favourites it would have been less risky and potentially a higher reward to appoint some young manager with actual ideas, like certain clubs did when they hired relative no marks like De Zerbi, Pochettino and this wonder kid at Brighton.

Not really, tonight wasn’t down to them and even if it was, the players they replaced make plenty of errors.

• I thought the lineup was correct • 2 of the goals were due to terrible individual errors from regulars, not the players who came in. • We made poor decisions at both ends of the pitch. Suggests the players are either inexperienced or not very good. • Regardless of tonight, I think Cooper is a poor manager. • Why is our record so bad against Forest? Are we a club of bottlers?

We’re losing and he’s the manager. How is this result a ringing endorsement for him staying? Personally I think the lineup was correct - we’ve given them 2 shocking goals (which we regularly do with different lineups). Why are people so reactionary instead looking at things in a bit of depth. I think he’s generally a poor manager. The lineup was the best we have though.

It’s not the formation, it’s individual errors. Face it, the players aren’t very good. Faes has always had too many mistakes in him for this level.

Need a Vards goal tonight. I think he’s only scored once against them and that was 10 years ago. Last minute winner in his (potentially) last season would be right up there for iconic moments.

History tells us that most people are easily manipulated and poor judges of character, especially when it comes to leaders. I agree with bovril, we were brilliant for about 3 months, then the performances and tactics started to decline and eventually the results. Southampton away was during the lovebombing stage. Still proud of the result though. Amazing to have an away top flight record.