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I'll be honest, he wasn't my first choice. However, I still back him. I really want it to click and for him to get us out of this mess and build again next season. I think the players aren't good enough as a collective. We need Mads, Ndidi and Ricardo back and that will give us a boost. Alas it sounds like that won't happen. Has anyone found out when Mads is likely to be back? All seems like smoke and mirrors with it.

So I have just seen him arriving at the luxury resort, sorry training ground. He's a defender, yet he wears glasses. Giving confidence already...

Exactly

I completely agree, the last bit was a general rant . But Cooper had more of a chance than Ruud with the summer transfers, he had the whole preseason to sort it. But the players he wanted didn't improve us. Most were on the bench yesterday. But I certainly agree with a defence that more or less took us down last time is still there, and that is criminal to allow that to happen.

So that's most of them then.

Problem is how can we replace them? All those players leave and with the transfer embargo we can't replace them. Goal keepers - Ward, Iversen and Mads go. Left with Jakub. Strikers - Cannon sold this window, Vards leaving, Edouard gone. Left with 1 striker in Daka. El Khannous, Winks, Ndidi, maybe Soumare gone, who plays in midfield. Kristiansen, Faes, Thomas, Okoli gone, we'll have no left back and no cover at CB. Is there potential of not able to put out a competitive squad out with a points deduction. I dont disagree with you, but it shows what a mess we are.

Pitch invader will probably get a lifetime ban from KP. At this point, he's lucky.

My god, has it got that bad that you want to watch EastEnders. Please @Wymsey, don't do it.

I love the guy. He will always be the goat, but this was one season too many with us. He scores tonight at 2 of those 4 or 5 years ago.

We are sinking like the titanic and dead as a dodo in this league and the next. Premier League football is dead. Broken rules, poor refs and favouritism to the 'big 6'. Should be rebranded super league....oh wait, we didn't want that. Meh, we you have a board just happily making mistakes again and again and again and again, you've got no hope.

Oh no I'm not blaming Skipp, it's the decision makers that put that money for Skipp when we could have got a good striker for that, or even less. But that isn't on Skipp, sorry if that wasn't clear.

Oh and to the "Cooper was better" he had a full coaching staff from the start of his choice. Ruud has brought in 2 and AFTER he signed. I since our new number 2 came in, it's helped massively. He looks very active in the dugout. Honestly people have short memories. RVN has my backing, it's the tools he's been given are made of paper to carve wood

Well said that man. I agree. My anger isn't at RVN, it's the board that let this happen in the summer. 12-15m isn't getting you the quality we lack. We should have competed Ipswich for some of the best championship player. And why didn't we get a striker in the summer! £25m with good scouting could have found that quality. But cooper went for Skipp. Honestly we're a basket case, and I don't see it improving.

I know we're all doom and gloom, but can we celebrate that he and Kristiansen passed the ball to each other more than twice...in the first half! Now that deserves a mention. The rest is not

Number 45 please welcome our new striker @Lako42!

Draw names out of a hat for each position. Make it interesting in some way

Poor guy

Don't care

I can. Blowing full time one second early.

Cooper stood a chance, he had the summer. RvN doesn't has hes got players not good enough to play his system and no money to change it. Anyone who thinks cooper was better need to watch the games again. We were awful tactically, awful setup and the players were frustrated with him.

Board of directors all accountable for this. Bad decision after bad decision and yet still they have a job.

We definitely will and it will be a record amount. My question would be how long can they transfer embargo last?

Transfer embargo, points deduction, fire sale. The club so messed up the summer, it's criminal. Wrong manager asking to recruit the wrong players with the wrong person leading it.

Now there's an idea....

Only if they get promoted, which is high risk. You have Leeds, Burnley, Sheffield United in the mix who are all good teams. Next year I'm almost certain we won't have have Vards, so we'll lose a lot of goals. If we go down, as I think we will, we'll have one striker. So it's whether we can replace him with someone better with the money now, as we won't be able to sign anyone next season with a transfer embargo, potentially Im torn on this one. Sell for PSR, loan and keep as we may need him next year.