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There's not one aspect of his management which is good, no redeeming qualities at all. Disastrous appointment.

Still no shots on target - incredible.

Get Big Micky Golding on

There was something on the bench that night, Cooper's so shite, Ricardo

Australian bowling has been so erratic I'm starting to think they're throwing this game to make the series more interesting

Thank god for that - they've got the numbers wrong on flashscore

A cowardly, negative twerp with the kind of football opinions you hear from the biggest idiot in your block. Utterly grim. Have I just seen that Michael Golding has the #10 shirt for us this season

Cooper Out

Thank god he wants to win this one, makes a welcome change.

Oh yeah don't get me wrong, the blokes dog muck and miles off it. I'm just trying to persuade the 39%.

What we have to remember is that we now have to outthink and outfight teams this season. We'll have to be clearly on top and win games outright. As we've seen, referees are able to do enough to affect results to mean we aren't going to be able to nick cagey games, which is basically the best we can hope for under Cooper - in fact it's probably his ideal gameplan. But this won't be allowed to happen enough times to keep us up after we've mugged off the PL. We need a better manager if we're going to stay up.

Have you asked them all? How do you know?

If we can't win at home to the team bottom of the league where are we getting 10/11 wins from?

Get him out tonight

Genuine worst ever manager potential

Really have to win this.

Exactly this - disgusting behaviour

It really is tedious how everything has to be some kind of conspiracy now.

Yeah and the ones who need it will still get it. They're means-testing it, not removing it entirely.

Why? They're all getting nearly 500 quid extra next year anyway. Someone had to draw a line somewhere and I'm glad they've done it. Pensioners are the wealthiest they've ever been as a cohort and we're now all paying sky high taxes to pay for a period where young people had to make big sacrifices in the interests of protecting them (and to pay for their pensions to boot).

As ever no judgement until both teams have batted on it

Running up almost from the boundary and only bowling 83 mph average what's the point

Not really. I know it's stupid bringing up 15/16 to make any kind of general or long-term point but plenty of people laughed Ranieri out of town over the summer when he was given the job, then everyone was completely in thrall by October. And that was after he'd reverted to a theoretically more defensive setup. As ever results is the currency. I should have added earlier that I actually couldn't care less if he played 3 DMs at home and benched Pereira if we won. Even now If he keeps doing it but starts winning that's fine by me, in my eyes the ends justifies the means in football. Big if though.

Let's hope you're right.

We've still got a bargain basement manager who plays 3 DMs in a 4-3-3 at home and doesn't think Ricardo Pereira is in our best team, so far from out of the woods yet.