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Playing Fatawu and Ricardo. Our best attacks and worst defending came from the the right side, a side that Cooper is absolutely determined to ignore the problems on. Both of their goals came from Justin being turned inside out like he wasn't even there. Week after week it's the same mistakes, week after week we are chasing games because of these stubborn decisions that pretty much no other manager in this league would be making. Call me crazy but I cannot think of a single manager in the top flight or even the championship that would see Justin defensively this season and continue to play him over Ricardo.

Because we shouldn't have been 2-0 down, and we only started actually playing well when the most obvious sub in history was made. Nobody on this forum is a pro manager and all of us can see Fatawu should be on. You can't really credit a manager for bringing on a player who should never be on the bench. It's these same mistakes every week, the same mistakes that he will make next match too, not everyone is as awful as Southampton.

If Cooper kept playing the same way, but brought Fatawu and Ricardo in, most of this forum would be able to get fully behind the bloke, because we might actually go into half time drawing, or god forbid winning from time to time.

Back to back wins and he will make the same mistakes next week. Players have dragged Cooper out of the mess he created. I've seen no evidence he will learn. Take the gamble Top.

WHAT A RESULT!!!!! COOPER OUT!

Sadly King Power still have some credit in the bank for me even though I can't see them fixing any of the mess they have created, right now I'd take Red Bull providing there is an agreement NEVER to become RB Leicester. Let them have the stadium name, sponsorships, banners everywhere, no name change and i'd jump at the chance. King Power is stale.

Unfortunately it's credit for fixing a mess he creates every week.

His entire strategy seems to be to go into half time NOT 3-0 down, so to him it's working.

YESSSSS!! (Cooper saved )

I'm starting to feel my toxic trait kicking in now, that it's creeping in that feeling that we need to get hammered to make the decision for the board. These nicked 2-2 draws (if it comes) will not keep us up and will only delay relegation. Sometimes it's easier to bite the bullet and take a gamble, I don't want to wish us to lose, but if we are going to lose in a close 2-1 game i'd rather we ship 5 or 6 now and force it. With that said, we could probably lose by 10 and still not make a decision.

Currently 2-1 with 30 minutes to go including expected add on time, even if we win this game this is untenable. Lethargic, poor selections again, pretty much no idea going forward, no real identity or plan, even if we steal a draw or a win, we cannot keep doing this, but we know next week Cooper will make the same mistakes. Has to go, untenable. Take a gamble on someone exciting who want's to attack from the off.

Regardless of the result today, this is untenable. I don't care if we now go on to win 5-2, I think Cooper has to go.

Oh of course, I wouldn't want him starting, and I can't pretend to know what he's been like for anything other than that game as it's the only one I've seen, but his movement in that game was fantastic and he was playing largely on the shoulder of the defenders. I'd just rather have him here so we have options. I'd like to see us go to 2 strikers when chasing games and right now we don't have that option unless we bring a winger on upfront since Vardy can't last the 90 and we have been typically chasing the game around the time he's spent.

Edouard is more proven at this level but watching Cannons 4 goals recently his movement was fantastic. I’d love to have seen Cannon, Edouard and Vardy in rotation

Definitely needs confidence and an attacking squad. He looks like a front foot player and not someone who is going to create a moment of magic, rather be in a position to finish that moment of magic, based on our performances so far I'm holding judgement since whenever he's come on we've really lacked any sort of creative flair and have tended to be on the back foot. I'd prefer we start him and bring Vardy on late than the other way around. The weekend was a perfect example, Vardy ran about for a bit, wasted a massive chance, and benefitted from us somewhat having a go, by the time Edouard was brought on we had 15 mins left and were pinned in our own box. If we continue to use him this way, not much will change.

I think our squad is marginally better now than last season. Edouard has had a poor start but I think he is better than Daka if given a run, Buoanotte and El Khab fill a huge void we had last season, Skipp is better than Winks IMO, and it's really early to call, but the last 3-4 games I think Okoli might just be better than Vestergaard in this league, he's stronger, faster, more agile and his passing is really solid, maybe not at Vesty's level yet, but I'm comfortable with him at CB. Losing KDH after the season he had last year was obviously a blow, I still don't think he could do what he did last season in terms of his role at this level as he only has 1 foot, I'm not sure if he's been injured, but if he's not got a knock, he's already been dropped, someone can correct me on that. He's played 46 mins in the prem and has been dropped from the match day squad in 3 matches, I don't think him and Skipp are too far from each other in terms of ability.

Yep, an international break right in the middle of the 4 week F1 break, I might have to actually talk to people.

Even first half with both sides looking lacklustre in attack and cancelling each other out. 2nd half we reverted to type. Justin and Kristiansen are defensively fragile and almost cost us multiple times, and offensively they don't really overlap or cut in, they both just sort of get stuck in no mans land. Justin had a good return recently offensively with goals and assists, but I'd much prefer Ricardo there for both the defensive stability and the transition on the counterattack. Drop Kristiansen and play Justin on the left. In the 2nd half Skipp and Ndidi both played so deep they were almost CB's and every time we got the ball and drove it forward neither of them offered support, leading to us losing the ball and once again inviting pressure. 2nd half was not good at all from us, but overall I felt like small tweaks would have given us a lot more comfort rather than needing wholesale changes. Stonewall penalty not given, and Vardy struggled badly today, should have scored. Very frustrated by the lack of subs between 60-80 when many players looked completely out on their feet. Okoli, Mads and Faes were exceptional today, Ndidi made some really good tackles, and Buoanotte was fantastic. Today was one of those games where I'm not really sure how harsh to be on Cooper because he clearly put us at unnecessary risk with his lack of subs, and the fact he was happy to allow us to invite massive pressure and have 2 of our midfielders parked in our box whilst inviting Bournemouth back in over and over. Take the 3 points, but this really did feel like another game that delays the inevitable, especially with how simple some of the solutions appeared to me at least. We now go into 3 massive games on a high, and we have to play on the front foot.

Might sound like a strange thing to say right now, but if Cooper does go, I'd go all out for Iraola. He's one of the brightest young managers in Europe IMO.

I think Edouard is a striker who needs to be playing around the oppositions box, not something he is going to get here.

We really did decline in the 2nd half. Thankfully our CB's/Keeper have bailed us out.

Faes and Okoli have been fantastic, Hermansen made key saves, Ayew worked his socks off today.

He's really come good the last few games. He does have that odd moment where he takes a trampoline touch or makes a dodgy pass, but it's a huge step up in pace from Italy to the Prem, overall I think he's proven many of us wrong based on his performances relative to pre season, him and Faes have had a great game today.

I think we've been okay today, stone wall penalty disallowed, absolutely howling attempt by Vardy when 1vs1, could easily have 3 goals today. But again we just look like we want to throw it away by inviting pressure and not making subs that are desperately needed. Both our CMS are parked on our 18 yard line when we are out of possession, no wonder we can't get the ball out of our half, these subs needed to be made 15 mins ago.

From what I can see our main issues are Full backs and CM's, Kristiansen and Justin get consistently beat/lose their man in defence, and the midfield 2 of Skipp and Ndidi offer basically nothing on the counter because they are basically parked on our 18 yard line, so Facundo burst forward and has no option but to turn around or try to get a foul as he has no passing options around him. Ricardo NEEDS to play, Chuck Justin at LB, Drop Kristiansen and play Fatawu on the Right. One of either Skipp or Ndidi need to focus on dropping back to help the defence, and the other has to be a box to box player who can help Buoanotte out.