cityfanlee23

What a low quality game of football this has been from both sides. I stopped cleaning the kitchen for this.

WTF? ATTEMPTED MURDER Get up Mav you idiot.

Yep, I'm starting to embrace the dark thoughts of wanting games like this to be 6 or 7 to force it. We aren't building anything, time to roll the dice.

It's been a few season since we had a goal a game man though, shame about the end the goals are in though

Chelsea were there for the draw today. They've been relatively poor, all the possession and very little threat. Such a drab performance against this is the worst part.

Those dark thoughts are creeping in where i'm wondering if i'd prefer us to concede 7 more and push the needle on the board, or score a late equaliser and buy him another month. Edit: Ahh okay, 2-0, it's out of my hands now. 8-0 please

Honestly Chelsea are opening us up so easily, and producing very little. There is a draw to be nicked here if we wake up, they are very poor today. With how awful we are they should be 3-0 up comfortably.

It's sort of got to the point I think it might be advantageous to the club if we lose the next 3 (including this one) by massive hammering scorelines. 5-0 each. I'm really bored of Leicester employing managers who huge amounts of fans can see are taking us backwards, who offer up awful football for 4 games in a row, then buy themselves another month from a fluke 1-0 win over someone, only to find 3 months later we are up the creek without a paddle and all of the half decent managers won't touch us. IF we want an experienced manager in who could keep us up like Potter/Terzic/Moyes/Schmidt/Conceicao/Kovac or whoever, we need to ACT NOW. Not in 2 months, NOW. If it takes a couple of hammerings to get the board to make a move, then I'll accept that as a silver lining, I like Cooper, but he's not improving anything, we are regressing.

With what money? He's spent £230m at Chelsea when he already had the biggest squad in Europe and multiple signings have been a complete waste of money, just like Cannon just like Coady, just like KDH. We couldn't afford Enzo. He's better than Cooper for sure, but he's a luxury manager. £200m, signings rotting on the bench or not even in the squad, and he STILL wants more signings.

This, we look exhausted for much of the matches. I don't think it's physical exhaustion though, I think the players are just not behind it.

This. Pretty much my list atm, Fischer, Schmidt and Conceicao as my top 3. Add Ruud to that list, Would take Terzic but not a priority because I can't see him coming.

Ricardo Domingos Barbosa Pereira = CooperOut

I'm torn on this. I think we have enough to stay up, but I feel our chances will increase significantly if we bring in another manager, such as Roger Schmidt among a few others. I think keeping Cooper right now could very well bite us in the near future. Our next 8 games include United, Chelsea, Newcastle, Liverpool, Man City and Villa, we could very well be in big trouble by the new year if we don't improve our performances.

Hopefully cooper has realised he’s costing us a minimum of a goal a game and will be permanently dropped. Even with the stinker Ricardo offered up last weekend, I’m very confident once he shakes the rust off he won’t cost us as many goals as Justin has. I like JJ but I’m considering going back through every goal we’ve conceded this season and counting the number of mistakes he made or times he was easily beaten in the lead up.

Feels like every time we concede a goal it’s rarely been because of a classy opposition move, it’s 4-5 of our players falling asleep. How many times this season can an opponent be just outside or inside our box surrounded by 5 blue shirts in the box and still get a shot/cross away. what do these players need to happen to stay switched on?

Sadly this is the sort of appointment we need. I do actually like Moyes even if his football isn’t the best to watch, right now we need a new foundation and stability, something that can withstand the stupidity of our board. Pearson built that originally and that foundation lasted quite a while but eventually they chipped it away. I’d take Moyes today. I think we are also in a much stronger position to attract a manager now than we were in the summer. Potter would be another. I’d love to see us take somewhat of a gamble and go for someone like Roger Schmidt or Sergio Conceicao (who we were linked with a few years ago before he went to Porto and did quite well) Niko Kovac also an interesting name.

1 game is hardly enough evidence, tonight was an off game, but we didn't play badly because he started Ricarco and Fatawu, we have played poorly in the majority of the games they started on the bench too. Imagine Ranieri benched Vardy and Mahrez every week so he could bring them on with 10 to play.

And he was one of the players least to blame for those losses.

I really can't understand where fans are getting this idea from that playing a weakened side for 75 mins is somehow a better strategy than purposely not playing your best players then bringing them on late? We had a poor game all around, tonight was a write off, that doesn't make Cooper right over constantly playing Ayew over Fatawu, or playing Justin over Ricardo.

What? Ricardo was one of the last people most fans would blame for our demise in the premier league. He was by far one of our most consistent performers, and last season he was one of the best in the league by some distance. It's not a weird obsession with his omission, Justin has been getting absolutely traumatised week in week out. When your right back is getting picked apart every week, and you have a far better player rotting on the bench, it's only natural for people to want to see him play.

But it’s the strongest 11. playing a weakened 11 so you can bring on subs is just silly.

Ricardo was very rusty, but Fatawu has needed to start all season, both Kristiansen and Justin have been getting defensively smoked all season. I don’t see how switching JJ to the left was a bad choice. Even if we had Kristiansen and JJ as our 2 fullbacks, they still would have got destroyed today as they have been all season. The starting 11 was the strongest we have played this season, but this was a massive off day for everyone.

Of course individual errors are not on the manager, I'm talking about the general tactical play when i refer to the direction they move, we were gutless upfront, and often positioned poorly when being attacked, that is on cooper. The individual mistakes were not on him.

This. The effort of moving is on the players, the direction they move is mostly on the manager.

Yeah that's fair, I wasn't sure if it was in our corner or theirs.