daddylonglegs

Not sure our PPG can get much worse within reason.

Rudkin looking at these crucial fixtures like

It's already very bad! The players don't look like they have any belief in themselves & the manager has got a massive complex about not getting humiliated. They should've seen enough. I'd like to think that handsomely paid board members have got more humility than this, but the only thing keeping Cooper in the job is the fact they don't want to admit they've ****ed up. Again.

I wonder how bad it'll be before they act. Rudkin & Top are so useless that you could see us picking up 2 or 3 points from the next four (Which are all winnable), and then extending their patience with Cooper because he'll fluke a point at Old Trafford in November. We're completely sleepwalking into a situation at Christmas where we've got 10-15 points on the board & need a new manager. What are we waiting for?

Apologies if it’s already been said, but I think his chant is the worst I can remember in 15 years of going to games

We set up to not lose against Everton so god knows how we’re setting up tomorrow. Would be astonished to see more than one recognise forward on the pitch.

I think we can all agree that any good manager would now repay Ward with 27 consecutive premier league starts.

Ward Justin Vestegaard Faes Thomas Choudhury Ndidi Winks Skipp Ayew Vardy

I'm desperate for Cooper to do well but he is shooting himself in the foot in so many areas, none more so than with Ricardo. Play him at RB, LB, CDM, CAM or RW and he immediately improves the team, and yet he chooses not to. Bizarre.

It would perfectly encapsulate the KP if Youri gets booed.

You've got to say he was phenomenal for us in all the big games in the fa cup (1/4 final - bench, semi - bench, final - bench). People's memories are clouded by how dreadful he was in the end of 22/23 just as much as they're clouded by him showing up on the showreels against the utter shite in the league when it simply didn't matter. We got a great fee for him. The idea he deserves a standing ovation after the West Ham Covid debacle, the southampton tweet, the Everton/Bmouth disasters... no. Didn't deserve booing but this fanbase is so soft its ridiculous.

Some people giving Maddison a sodding standing ovation by the way. Game is as gone as it ever has been.

I thought this. I am inclined to think Cooper is a good guy & a decent man manager, but that was totally unnecessary.

They finished 5th in the league last year. They've added £150m worth of talent to their squad. We were a championship side last year who have spent 10% of that (prior to yesterday). Manager's first game in an extremely anxious and unsettled environment. We had no tactical idea in the first half yesterday but I felt a few individuals showed some real quality (Mads, Buenonette). Cooper then had the humility to a) change it at half time and b) acknowledge he got it wrong in the post match interview - something neither of his immediate 2 permanent predecessors would've done. There are countless Leicester teams down the years who would've given up after that first 10 mins but we hung in there. And regarding 'get absolutely battered, rescued by your keeper, etc'... buckle up because with the quality we have, that is all we can realistically do against a lot of the top teams.

Might bring my Rudkin In bedsheet.

fantastic irony in the one exciting signing being ruined by tax.

Would it be more or less pathetic than his tweet after Southampton? Or his penalty against Everton? Or, on the whole, his performances when it genuinely mattered for us? He let us down badly in the second half of last season. He wasn't the only player to blame by any stretch of the imagination, but I would suggest it's more than fair for a lot of the fanbase to feel a sense of apathy towards him, and fair enough if they still associate him with how pathetic that team was in 2023.

Lets be real here, this fanbase is completely mental when it comes to attitude towards ex players. There was one season they booed Kante and Mahrez and applauded Demarai Gray. Totally backwards.

I get your point in the first half of the post but the piece I've bolded is just fundamentally not true.

Difficult one isn't it. There's a lot that are very unappreciative of the work Enzo did. It's easy to forget how much of a shambles it was when he came in. We also won the league under him. You can't take that away from him. But I do understand the negativity towards last year, because football to a lot of people (myself included) is about how it makes you feel over the course of a game. Honestly, I didn't enjoy a lot of last season. I very rarely felt excited watching us or even worse by the prospect of watching us. I basically was just waiting for Fatawu to be given the ball or hoping for a feeling of nostalgia by seeing Vardy score. Given how good our squad was comparatively to the rest of the league, I wanted to enjoy the football a lot more. That may be a 'me' problem, but I'd suggest a good % of the naysayers probably feel a similar way. So the news that maybe we will play a different style of football this year is actually good news to me. Not sure it should be reflected by essentially mocking the previous manager, who did a lot of good. But last year was such a conflicting season for the fanbase that I can understand why fans are particularly excited at the prospect of seeing something new this year.

I agree that our fanbase has its fair share of dinosaurs but for every one of these clips, there are 15 examples of us boring the stadium to death last season.

Admittedly I've not watched us kick a ball in pre season, but if we try and play like last year AND we don't make at least 3 signings, we'll get a Sheffield United from last year amount of points. However, play on the counter attack & get a few more bodies in and I think we can be competitive in a mini league with the other two promoted clubs, Forest, Wolves, Brentford & Everton.

If it's not Rudkin's responsibility to lead the search for a new manager, genuinely what are his responsibilities? What does he spend his time doing?

I agree with the principle of this, and it's a Premier League club and all, but... It cannot be exaggerated just how much of a shit show the club is at the minute. The manager is going to have his hands tied from the moment he walks in by transfer limitations, a poor squad & a likely points deduction. We don't have any of the right people in place in the boardroom to be able to convince him that they can turn the tide. He'll be on his own from the get-go & he may not want the potential risk to his reputation that a bad campaign with us could have.